Aug 8, 2016 Vol 188 No 6

Let the 2016 Rio Games Begin

Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights

A New Beach Volleyball Partnership Faces its Toughest Test Yet

Justin Gatlin Has a Final Chance to Beat Bolt-and Win Redemption

Amid Crises, Rio Readies for its Olympics Closeup

Can the Games Get Clean?

What About Zika?

Another Season of Unrest Brings Darkness for Ordinary Kashmiris
As Kashmir deals with the worst outbreak of unrest in six years, hospital wards are filled with partially or fully blinded victims of pellet injuries, some under 10 years old

Meet the South African Politician Who’s Been Compared to Barack Obama-But Prefers Bill Clinton
’The ANC is no longer the party of Mandela’

Is Vladimir Putin Taking Sides in the Presidential Election?
The U.S. presidential campaign is a ripe target

Embracing His Rival, Bernie Sanders Gives Hillary Clinton the Boost She Needs

Low Gas Prices Are Stalling the Green-Car Revolution

Women’s ‘Empowerment’ Is Not Real Power

Putin Is on a Foreign-Policy Winning Streak

A Summer of Bloodshed Threatens Europe’s Union

A Kidnapping of the Heart on Netflix

Review: Vice Principals is a Political, Brilliantly Unfunny Comedy
Danny McBride’s new series fits into the Trump era

Meet Jill Stein, the Green Party Foe of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
Unapologetic opposition that could be pivotal on Election Day

Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff on Her Impeachment Trial, the Olympics and Zika
’I have the conviction that I can win’

Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Works Serious Magic on the West End Stage
The latest installment of Harry Potter’s story may be London’s answer to New York’s Hamilton

5 Ways to Weather Summer Heat Waves

When Governments Meddle With Nature
New Zealand wants to eradicate all rats, stoats and possums by 2050 to help conserve wildlife, as the nonnative predators kill 25 million indigenous birds annually. But history is filled with examples of ecosystems going awry because of mass exterminations ordered by governments.

Fireworks from the Floor In Philadelphia

This Just In
A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week’s most talked-about studies.

An Open-Air Hotel

The Rise of Chicken

Thais Vote on a New Constitution Under the Military’s Thumb

What You Said About ･･･

Milestones