5 PLACES WORTH VISITING

It’s a Mad, Mad, Bad, Bad World

Every year has its share of war and bloodshed, chaos

WAR CLOUDS OVER CHINA

How Beijing reads Donald Trump’s swaggering remarks and flirtation with Taiwanese independence

THE MURDOCHS PLAY GAME OF THRONES

The purchase of Sky shows that James Murdoch is ready to seize control of his dad’s empire

REBEL HELL

People in the Democratic Republic of Congo are living in fear of a resurgent Ugandan militia— and their own government

DELUSIONAL DISORDER

The White House is warning Donald Trump that North Korea is America’s biggest foreign policy problem, which is absurd

THE BABY MAKERS

Scientists in Britain are using revolutionary gene-editing technology to alter the future of humanity

CUBA’S QUIET CONVERTS

ON THIS TINY, LARGELY CATHOLIC ISLAND, MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA THAT THOUSANDS OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS ARE MUSLIM

END OF THE LINE

Marine worms used for bait are a huge industry, but harvesting them threatens beaches, oceans and birds

TRUMP’S RIGHT!

Silicon Valley does need to create more jobs…but not in tech

KILLING POLIO

A global effort to eradicate the disease is nearing its goal, but a vaccine shortage is blocking further progress

BACK IN BLACK

Plague, the scourge of the Middle Ages, is now rare, but its potential as a bioterror weapon has led to a search for a vaccine

THE SPIDER WORE BLACK

The top new species of 2016 include purple parasites and tumbleweeds

A Big Year for... Christopher Nolan

THE FEVERED anticipation that surrounds the release of any new

FIVE SHOWS WORTH STREAMING

Many shows have been touted as “the next Game of

A Big Year for... Sherlock

SINCE IT began in 2010, Sherlock, Steven Moffat and Mark

A Big Year for… Koji

EVERY FEW DAYS, David Zilber, the fermentation sous chef at

A Big Year for... Fizzy-Drink Football

WHEN GERMAN football club RB Leipzig played away at Dynamo

A Big Year for... Botswana

THE WORLD WIDE Fund for Nature and the Zoological Society

5 MUSICIANS WORTH LISTENING TO

Frank Ocean’s album Blonde appeared on many best of 2016

A Big Year for... The Dessner Brothers

MUSIC FESTIVALS have changed considerably over the past decade. Once

5 BOOKS WORTH READING

A titan of U.S. fiction returns with his grandest, most

A Big Year for... Felicia Yap

HOW DO YOU solve a murder when you can only

A Big Year for... The British in Berlin

UNTIL RECENTLY, Neil MacGregor was the director of the British

A Big Year for... Pedro & Juana

IN 2018 Mexico City will become the first city in