Oct 2, 2017 Vol 190 No 13

Will the Rohingya Exodus Be Aung San Suu Kyi’s Fall From Grace?

‘This Is All We Can Do’: How the Japanese Are Preparing for a North Korean Nuclear Attack
Many Japanese fear they, and not the South Koreans, would be the first victims of a war with Kim Jong Un.

Shots Fired
A growing surveillance network aims to fight crime by tracking gunshots

The Surprising Reason Americans Are Obsessed With Pumpkins
The array of pumpkin-flavored items seems to get more surprising by the year, but that flavor wasn’t always something to celebrate

Genetic Testing Is Providing New Hope for Babies Born with Mysterious Ailments
Newborns with maladies doctors can’t explain face bleak odds. Now genetic testing is providing answers--and hope

Divided Democratic Party Debates Its Future as 2020 Looms
A divided party debates its future

TIME’s Second Century

Trump Gives the U.N. His Vision of a World Governed by Self-Interest

How China Could Turn Water Into a Weapon

Hamas Takes a Step Away from Isolation

Republicans Launch a Last-Ditch Effort to Repeal Obamacare

Stanislav Petrov, the Russian Officer Who Averted a Nuclear War, Feared History Repeating Itself
“The slightest false move can lead to colossal consequences,” the late officer told TIME in 2015. “That hasn’t changed.”

Bonnie Angelo
Trailblazing journalist

We Need to Forgive the College-Bound Mother Who Killed Her Child
Harvard lost out by not admitting her

Emotion, the Great Manipulator

China’s ‘Mountain’ Skyscrapers

Can the New Nissan Leaf Transform Electric-Vehicle Market?

A Way Forward in the North Korea Crisis
There is nothing the US can do to North Korea that will lead to its renunciation of its nuclear weapons program.

In a Quantum Leap, Star Trek Becomes a Female Enterprise

Network TV’s Calorie-Free Take on American Patriotism

Battle of the Sexes Serves Up a Winning Portrait of Billie Jean King

A Child Survives the Khmer Rouge

Return of the Kingsman

Review: Grace and Gumption in Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour
The author’s new novel takes place in Irish Catholic Brooklyn in the early 20th century

Allow Darren Aronofsky to Explain mother!

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