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4 | Conversation
6 | For the Record
The Brief
News from the U.S.
and around the world
7 | Trump’s ad hoc
foreign policy
9 | The fight over
deforestation
11 | Milestones:
counterculture
star Peter Fonda
12 | When
policing goes
wrong
14 | TIME with...
tennis phenom
Coco Gauff
16 | Massacre at a
Kabul wedding
The View
Ideas, opinion,
innovations
19 | James
Stavridis on why
more troops won’t
solve the southern
border crisis
21 | Ian Bremmer
on the dangers
of politically
induced
economic
trouble
21 | New
questions about
fluoride in your
water
Time Off
What to watch, read,
see and do
89 | On the set
of Donna Tartt’s
The Goldfinch
92 | Reviews:
the next Game
of Thrones;
Kirsten Dunst in
Central Florida;
Sundance hit
Jawline
94 | Books:
Salman Rushdie’s
Quichotte;
Edwidge
Danticat’s
Everything
Inside; Christy
Lefteri’s The
Beekeeper of
Aleppo
96 | 9 Questions
for poet laureate
Joy Harjo
Features
Living on Tips
What it’s like to scrape by on $2.13 an hour
By Alana Semuels and Malcolm Burnley 22
Lost at Sea
Finding family with DNA technology
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson 32
Mississippi Rising
Guarding against the Big Flood
By Boyce Upholt 38
Farming Controversy
Should humans grow octopus?
By Tik Root 44
Cleveland’s Comeback
New hope for the Browns, and their
hometown By Sean Gregory 50
Brand JoJo
JoJo Siwa’s persona is not for sale
By Jamie Lauren Keiles 54
World’s Greatest Places
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In the kitchen
at the Broad
Street Diner in
Philadelphia,
waitress
Christina
Munce keeps
her daughter’s
photo next to her
pad for taking
orders
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Sasha Arutyunova
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