Dec 12, 2016 Vol 188 No 24

Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies at 90

Huge Numbers Demand the Ouster of South Korea’s President in a Fifth Week of Protests
What began as a rally against South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has morphed into a general indictment of a nation’s social ills

How Castro Will Be Trump’s First Foreign Policy Test

Bringing a Hero Home: A Decade-Long Quest Ends With a Pilot’s Third Burial
A decadelong quest ends with a pilot’s third burial at Arlington

Quick Talk With Helen Mirren
The English actor, 71, stars in Collateral Beauty (Dec. 16), a drama about a grieving advertising executive (Will Smith) who is forced to confront his loss in an unusual way.

Style Over Substance: Why Fidel Castro’s Revolutionary Chic Was a Fraud

Why Michael Keaton Would Rather Be a Dog

The Crucial Difference Between Christmas and a Trip to the Store

Cuba Is a Litmus Test for Trump
’Let’s hope for a pragmatic approach’

Peru Is a Bright Spot on the Global Stage

8 Questions With Krista Tippett

The host of radio’s On Being talks about wisdom, debate, downright disagreement--and coming together when things fall apart

Can Trump Clean Up His Messy World of Conflicts?

Castro’s Cuba Is the Only Way of Life Many Have Known

Haters Shall Be Lovers In La La Land

Jackie Places the First Lady Under a Microscope

A Star-Studded Tribute to a Lovable Lensman

John Legend’s Light Shines Even Brighter

Hairspray Live! Promises Retro Fun With Little Risk

It’s a Mean, Sometimes Sad World-but Reading Can Help

Florence Henderson Was Television’s Archetypal Mom
Television’s archetypal mom

Florence Henderson Was A Wellspring of Comfort

Burma’s Oppressed Muslims at Crisis Point

A Strange Trumphoria Rules the U.S. Stock Market. For Now

France’s Man to Take on the Far Right

Why the Embattled ‘Death Tax’ May Not Be Long for This World

Artificial Intelligence Invades the Home … In Toys