Trump's rough week raises a question: Why does everything suddenly seem different?

It's been a week of fits and starts: Donald Trump's campaign took a tumble, while the Olympics made an elaborate launch in Rio.

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Trump's Slump Donald Trump might be in real trouble this time Time and time again, the freewheeling businessman has flouted convention, always seemingly coming away unscathed. But his gusher of miscues and offenses this week feels different — and it's coming at precisely the wrong time. Breaking down the post-convention skids Beyond The Textbook A curious history of the world, as told in Olympic medals We'd begun researching medal counts just to give you some context going into the Rio games. But we stumbled on something fascinating: These tallies actually tell the story of a whole century — from wars won and lost to countries born and broken down, and so much of history in between. A history told in gold ... and silver and bronze A New Frontier Part-human, part-animal embryos may now be on the horizon Call them "chimeras" — embryos that are only partly human. For instance, think sheep and pigs with human organs, which could then be used for transplants. The National Institutes of Health plans to lift the ban on chimera research, though ethical concerns persist. 'Science fiction writers might have imagined worlds like this' Scold Case Overworked and underfunded, this public defender office assigned a case — to the governor The director of the Missouri public defender system says they've been dealing for years with too many cases, too few attorneys, too little funding. He's frustrated. And he's got a lawyer in mind for a new case. That lawyer is Gov. Jay Nixon James Baldwin's Heirs 'Man, this really feels like a moment where we're burning' That's what author Jesmyn Ward told our own Audie Cornish. That's also why she cobbled together a list of luminaries to reflect on race in America today. "Yes," Ward says, "you will get tired, but that doesn't mean that you can give up the fight." The full conversation

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