Time_Asia-November_06_2017

TIME November 6, 2017

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ON THE COVER AND

ABOVE:Photographs

by Emanuele Satolli

for TIME

△

A man in the

stands of a stadium

that ISIS turned

into a jail, on

Oct. 20 in the now

liberated Syrian

city of Raqqa

3 |Conversation
4 |For the Record

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

5 |Mao toXi:China
enshrines “Xi
Jinping Thought” in
its constitution

6 |InNiger,the U.S.
works to root out
terrorist groups

7 |Czechs elect
Trump-like leader,
Andrej Babis

8 |How Japan’s
Shinzo Abe must
lead now

10 |A view of the
eight options for a
U.S.-Mexicoborder
wall

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

13 |Esther Perel’s

new book tries to

rethink infidelity

14 |Looking back at

the history ofpink

15 |Why an

underwatereatery

could help marine

science

15 |Origins of

trick-or-treating

15 |Laying out the

arguments for and

against disclosing

online-ad buyers

onFacebookand

Google

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

43 |Debut memoir

byJenna Bush

Hager and Barbara

Bush

46 |Upon the

release of her latest

anthology,Annie

Leibovitz reflects

on photographing

Stephen Hawking

49 |From Sweden:

Cannes winnerThe

Squarehits theaters

50 |Fun with soul:

Kelly Clarkson’s

Meaning of Life

52 |5 Questions

for writerWendell

Berry

The Features

The End of the Caliphate

The fall of Raqqa in Syria leaves

ISIS no longer in control

of a major city in Iraq or Syria

and closer to defeat as a

conventional military force

By Jared Malsin 16

Trump’s Demolition Crew

Forget the President’s feuds.

His Cabinet is busy rewriting

the rules of government

By Massimo Calabresi,

Justin Worland, Tessa Berenson

and Stuart Taylor Jr. 26

Put Down the Phone

Recent data on rising depression

rates makes a case for dialing

back kids’ smartphone use

By Markham Heid 36

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VOL. 190, NO. 19 | 2017