Time USA - 26.08.2019

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ON THE COVER:

Photograph by

Kelia Anne for

TIME

4 | Conversation
6 | For the Record

The Brief
News from the U.S.
and around the world

9 | Momentary
momentum for gun
laws

11 | A Russian
atomic accident

12 | The link
between food and
climate change

13 | Rolling back
the Endangered
Species Act

14 | TIME with...
Democratic
presidential
candidate Beto
O’Rourke

16 | Simone Biles
flips into the record
books—again

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

23 | Joyce White

Vance on why the

Attorney General

must keep out of

the Jeffrey Epstein

investigation

25 | Ian Bremmer

on Italy’s populist

politics

25 | Don’t overdo

the H₂O

27 | A weight-loss

app for kids

32 | Angelina

Jolie on bringing

humanity to the

border crisis

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

61 | Téa Obreht talks

to ghosts and beasts

in Inland

64 | Books: Olga

Tokarczuk’s Drive

Your Plow Over the

Bones of the Dead

66 | Movies: Good

Boys raised right;

Blinded by the

Light of the Boss

68 | Television:

Diagnosis on

Netflix; The

Righteous

Gemstones on HBO

70 | Food: world

peas

72 | 8 Questions for

actor George Takei

Features

Battleground Hong Kong

After 10 weeks in the streets,

neither protesters nor mainland

China is backing down

By Feliz Solomon 34

Kremlin in Kentucky

A major investment in Appalachia

reveals the nature of Russia’s

influence

By Simon Shuster and

Vera Bergengruen 42

One Country

Country music reflects not just red

America but blue America too

By Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw 50

Riding with Lil Nas X

How the unknown 20-year-old

created the soundtrack of summer

By Andrew R. Chow 54

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VOL. 194, NO. 7 | 2019

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Antigovernment

protesters near

a police station

in Kowloon,

Hong Kong, on

Aug. 11

Photograph by

Adam Ferguson for

TIME

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