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4 |Conversation
9 |For the Record

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

11 |NBC’sMatt
Lauer’s fall from
grace

13 |India’sculture
wars

14 |Ian Bremmer
on why a distracted
Angela Merkel is
bad news for the
world

16 |Infographic:
The state oforgan
donation

18 |Dangerous new
phase ofYemen’s
civil war

The View
Ideas, opinion,
innovations

23 |Nancy Gibbs:
How Americans
became so partisan

28 |Smarter home-
securitycameras

30 |Cooks from
Martha Stewart to
Mark Bittman dish
on how to eat more
veggies

32 |Risks involved
in loading up
onstocks with
dividends

34 |Detroit Pistons
coachStan Van
Gundy defends
athletes’ protests

35 |The pros
and cons ofnet
neutrality

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

59 |The creator

ofGilmore Girls

is back with a

new dramedy,

The Marvelous

Mrs. Maisel

63 |Kit Harington

plays a real-life

ancestor in a new

HBO miniseries

65 |Films about

love: Guillermo

del Toro’sThe

Shape of Water;

Luca Guadagnino’s

Call Me by Your

Name

66 |Latest albums

byMigueland U

68 |10 Questions for

editorTina Brown

The Features

Trump’s Republican Critic

Following Arizona Senator Jeff Flake as he wages war with his own party

By Nash Jenkins 36

The New American Way of War

A growing reliance on U.S. Special Operationsforces around the world is taking

a toll on the country and its commandos

By W.J. Hennigan 44

Climate Change Peaks in the Alps

Skiing on Alpine snow will be a thing of the past. How businesses

and scientists are racing to make enough snow to replace it

By Jeffrey Kluger 52

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Senator Jeff

Flake at home in

Phoenix on Nov. 10

Photograph by

Michael Friberg

for TIME

ON THE COVER:

Photo-illustration

by Maria Antonietta

Mameli for TIME

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