Charlotte Alter

Charlotte Alter is a national correspondent for TIME

Students walk along Ho Plaza at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. on March 11. Students received an email indicating the closure of dorms after March 28 and were asked to go home. Courses would be held online for the rest of the semester.

For College Students, Coronavirus Means Love Interrupted

It was the Monday of the last week of classes before break, and the first w...

It was the Monday of the last week of classes before break, and the first whiff of spring was in the air at Stony Brook University. That was the night that Sean started talking to...

Briana Danyele sews cloth face masks that say We Got This! in her mother's living room which will be sent to health care workers in Greer, S.C., on March 22, 2020

'It's Mass Confusion.' Small Manufacturers Look for Leadership as They Make Medical Supplies to Fight Coronavirus

Last Tuesday, everything changed for Abdul Rashid Dadabhoy. That day, Orang...

Last Tuesday, everything changed for Abdul Rashid Dadabhoy. That day, Orange County prohibited public gatherings and announced that all non-essential businesses should close to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. Dadabhoy turned on CNN...

Vice President Joe Biden, participates in a Democratic presidential primary debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on March 15, 2020, in Washington D.C.

Joe Biden Definitively Vows to Pick a Woman Vice President

Bernie Sanders says that "in all likelihood" he will also pick a woman VP

A student leaves a Seattle, Washington elementary school after the city's public school district was closed due to coronavirus concerns on March 11, 2020.

'You Must Act Now.' How States and Cities Have Responded to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Around the time on Friday that President Donald Trump was shaking hands wit...

Around the time on Friday that President Donald Trump was shaking hands with business leaders at the White House and denying responsibility for the spread of COVID-19, more than 100 mayors of America's largest cities...

Campaign staff and other gather inside the Huntington Convention Center after Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) canceled his campaign event due to concerns about the coronavirus in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 10, 2020.

Cancelled Rallies, Elbow Bumps: How Coronavirus Is Changing the Way Candidates Campaign

By Wednesday, both Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden ...

By Wednesday, both Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden had canceled multiple campaign events to stop the spread of the coronavirus. That means no chats with voters, no signatures and handshakes, no...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), with husband Bruce Mann, announces that she is dropping out of the presidential race during a media availability outside of her home in Cambridge, MA, on March 5, 2020.

Other Countries Have Elected Women Leaders for Decades. Why Can't America?

When a woman runs for President of the United States, it's like she wraps h...

When a woman runs for President of the United States, it's like she wraps herself in a giant roll of clear Scotch tape: everything sticks to her, and she can't move. In American politics, a...

Elizabeth Warren and Her Supporters Now Have Tremendous Power to Shape the Rest of the Primary

On a chilly Thursday afternoon, a well-prepared woman in a purple quilted j...

On a chilly Thursday afternoon, a well-prepared woman in a purple quilted jacket stood next to her husband, exhaled, and announced she was suspending her presidential campaign. Senator Elizabeth Warren declined to endorse either Senator...