9 | The drug war
after El Chapo
12 | The Virginia
governor and the
new bar for political
scandal
14 | The first
statehouse with a
female majority
18 | TIME with . . .
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cancer crusader
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20 | The New
England Patriots
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23 | Nancy Gibbs on
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and our waning
attention span
25 | Ian Bremmer
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the U.S. leaving
a Cold War
arms treaty
25 | Where Black
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tributes fall short
26 | Ralph Nader
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and third-party
candidates
28 | Small countries
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empowered opposition, President
Donald Trump is at a defining
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Venezuela’s Opening
A young leader offers a way out of the
country’s catastrophe
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China’s Time Bomb
The nation’s biggest economic crisis
may be its aging population
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To the Rescue
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The Optimists
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greatest hope in art, including these
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Prize winner
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106 | Daniel
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