FLIGHT RISK

Drowning, Not Waving

New York—A woman who traveled to Manhattan on November 8

The Next Wave

Qayara, Iraq— A woman and child walk past a checkpoint

Pushback

Hong Kong—Thousands took to the streets on November 6 to

Killing the Black Snake

Cannon Ball, North Dakota—For months, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

HOW’S THAT GRAB YOU?

Donald Trump didn’t just smash Hillary Clinton; he also blew up the Republican Party. He turned anger into power, but now what?

Escape Catch

HUNDREDS OF TUNISIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR ISIS ARE FLEEING THE JIHADIST GROUP’S RANKS IN IRA?, SYRIA AND LIBYA. WILL THEY BRING WAR BACK WITH THEM?

BLACK POWER OUTAGE

Could an economic crisis and a new government undo the progress made by Brazil’s black activists?

GRAB’EM BY THE BALLOTS

SEX AND SEX SCANDALS HAVE LONG BEEN A SORDID (YET RIVETING) PART OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS, BUT THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TOOK THAT FASCINATION FROM SIDE- SHOW TO MAIN ATTRACTION AND SPLIT OPEN A GENDER GAP THAT COULD ROIL AMERICAN POLITICS FOR A GENERATION. THE GOP IS NOW DOMINATED BY DONALD TRUMP’S BASE OF ANGRY WHITE MEN, WHILE WOMEN LINED UP FOR HILLARY CLINTON. HOW LONG CAN A HOUSE (AND SENATE) DIVIDED BY GENDER STAND?

THE ALMOST AMERICANS

FORMER RUSSIAN SPIES JAN AND VICTORYA NEUMANN HELPED THE FBI NAB DIAMOND SMUGGLERS, ART THIEVES AND EUROPEAN MOBSTERS. SO WHY ARE THEY STILL STRANDED IN PORTLAND, OREGON, WITHOUT A COUNTRY TO CALL THEIR OWN? BORN IDENTITY: The man now known as Jan Neumann was once an officer in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)

TINY DANCER

A newly discovered inch-long millipede has four penises and more legs than the Rockettes

FOLLOWING YOUR GUT

The food giants are hustling to feed the millions tortured by irritable bowel syndrome

DEAD BIRD FLYING

Saved from extinction once, whooping cranes are still struggling to survive because of trigger-happy goons

A BLACK CAR PROBLEM

African-American riders of UberX and Lyft face longer waits and more cancellations

DOOM WITH A VIEW

T.C. Boyle may be the most cheerful pessimist in modern American fiction

MULTIPLICATION TABLES

Want to beat London’s astronomical wine prices? Here’s how

Still Magic

Thirty years after forming, Pixies hit the road again

DEEPER SPACE

Aliens are landing. Time for some unfathomable philosophizing

To- the -Do List

The award-winning Viceroy in Bali has just added “best hotel