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# July 5, 2021 | Vol. 198 No. 1July 5, 2021 |  

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Vol. 198 No. 1

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Issue name

July 5th, 2021 | Vol. 198, No. 1 | U.S.

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July 5, 2021

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U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific, North America, South America

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## Table of Contents

EntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.World

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### The K-Pop Episode of _Dave_ Is Cross-Cultural Collaboration Done Right

Featuring CL, the episode parodies how Western artists have scrambled to plunder K-pop for their own gain

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Pop Culture Is Finally Getting Over the Girlboss Heroine. What Comes Next?

Even if she harmed other women in the course of her quest for self-actualization, the girlboss’ triumphs were understood to be a credit to all of womankind.

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### The Delta Variant Could Soon Become the Dominant COVID-19 Strain. Here's What You Need to Know

The more infectious strain threatens to worsen the pandemic around the world

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### I'm Grateful for the Hugs I Can Now Share–and Haunted by the Ones I Can't

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Why France's Emmanuel Macron Should Be Worried About Next Year's Elections

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Joe Biden’s Presidency Has Highlighted the Rifts in the American Catholic Church

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Why the NCAA Should Be Terrified of Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh’s Concurrence

"The NCAA is not above the law."

### U.S.

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### 'Critical Race Theory Is Simply the Latest Bogeyman.' Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History

The national debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### South Korean President Moon Jae-in Makes One Last Attempt to Heal His Homeland

President Moon Jae-in must leave office after elections in March. He knows time is running out

[World](/section/world/)

### 'It's Possible to Do Things Differently.' The Arab Kingmaker Who Joined Israel's Far-Right to Oust Netanyahu

Mansour Abbas explains why an Islamist politician would agree to join Israel's new ruling coalition

[World](/section/world/)

### Dozens of Women Accused Famous Intellectual Andrés Roemer of Sexual Abuse. They Came Together to Make the World Listen


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