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Haley Sweetland Edwards
Haley Sweetland Edwards is the Nation Editor at TIME.
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By Embroiling the Postal Service in Controversy and Shaking Americans’ Confidence in Mail Voting, Trump Wins
By embroiling the Postal Service in controversy and shaking Americans' confidence in mail voting, the President wins
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
August 20, 2020
Mnuchin Defends PPP Disclosure Limits
Steven Mnuchin defended the decision to only release a partial list of the Paycheck Protection Program’s loan recipients during Tuesday's TIME100 Talks
By Alana Abramson
June 23, 2020
There's a Right Way to Reopen. This Isn't It
Three out of four Americans say the U.S. should continue trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
May 14, 2020
Is There Time to Fix Trump's COVID-19 Response?
The Trump Administration’s testing program was averaging a couple dozen per day through the entire month of February
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
March 19, 2020
'I Have a Plan for That.' Elizabeth Warren Is Betting That Americans Are Ready for Her Big Ideas
Voters encountering Elizabeth Warren on the presidential campaign trail these days often seem surprised. After a packed gathering at an elementary school in Concord, N.H., in April, a 40-something woman told me she had expected...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
May 9, 2019
The Stories of Migrants Risking Everything for a Better Life
From where Violeta Monterroso stood, in a migrant encampment near one of Tijuana’s main border crossings, she could almost see San Diego, the shimmering American city just beyond the frontier fence. She could see American...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
January 24, 2019
The Stories of Migrants Risking Everything for a Better Life
From where Violeta Monterroso stood, in a migrant encampment near one of Tijuana’s main border crossings, she could almost see San Diego, the shimmering American city just beyond the frontier fence. She could see American...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
January 24, 2019
Why Americans Are Still Grappling With Christine Blasey Ford's Legacy
Months after the whirlwind that surrounded her testimony, many are still coming to terms with its meaning
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
December 11, 2018
‘The World Moves On And You Don’t.’ Parents Who Lost Children in School Shootings Find Comfort in a Group No One Wants to Join
Mitchell Dworet and Melissa Willey have never met and don’t have much in common. Dworet, whom everyone calls Mitch, is an outgoing real estate agent from a busy part of Florida; Willey is a reserved...
By Belinda Luscombe
November 29, 2018
Affordable Health Care Is Unifying Americans This Election
Anxiety over the rising cost of insurance has become a defining issue in the 2018 election
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
November 1, 2018
How Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony Changed America
How Christine Blasey Ford's testimony moved America
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
October 4, 2018
The Kavanaugh Hearing Showed Why the Myth of Nice Girls and Tough Guys Persists
Considering that the nation has been awash in a discussion about female empowerment and masculinity for the better part of the last year, the gender dynamics on display at the hearings Thursday — first during...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
September 28, 2018
Statute-of-Limitation Laws Can Leave Few Choices for Child Sex-Abuse Victims. That’s Why These People Are Trying to Change Them
Frank Finnegan was 7 years old when he was first molested by a local priest. As a child, he didn't know how to prevent the repeated assaults, which went on for almost two years, or...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
September 13, 2018
Washington Takes on the Threat of Big Tech
Once the fresh-faced darlings of D.C., Big Tech executives now receive a decidedly cooler reception on Capitol Hill. On Sept. 5, Twitter chief Jack Dorsey and second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg got a tongue lashing in Senate...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
September 6, 2018
How the First Amendment Became a Tool for Deregulation
Picking a Supreme Court nominee can be less a science than a kind of holy divination. It's an exercise not only in prophesizing a judge's future decisions based on past actions, but also predicting which...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
July 19, 2018
Parents Are Facing a Nightmare at the U.S. Border
Earlier this year, a young Honduran woman named Mirian gathered her 18-month-old son into her arms and walked across the bridge between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas, where she presented herself to U.S. border agents...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
June 14, 2018
School Shootings Are Becoming the New Normal
It has become a waking national nightmare, a recurring horror that we can't explain or defend but that we are condemned to repeat. We know it will happen again. We seem helpless to stop it....
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
May 22, 2018
Trump Has a Big Problem in Michael Cohen's Business Dealings
Millions went in, but for what?
By Brian Bennett
May 10, 2018
California Dishwasher Gets $250,000 Settlement in #MeToo Case
She was named one of TIME's 2017 Persons of the Year
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
May 8, 2018
You're Addicted to Your Smartphone. This Company Thinks It Can Change That
Silicon Valley knows how to program human behavior--for better or worse
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
April 12, 2018
Bye Dad, I Love You
America's immigration policy is splitting families and spreading fear
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
March 8, 2018
'No One Is Safe.' How Trump’s Immigration Policy Is Splitting Families Apart
Just before 7:30 one Friday morning last March, Alejandro said goodbye to his wife Maria and his two small daughters and headed off to work. He didn’t make it far. Four blocks from his home...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
March 8, 2018
Trump's 5 Biggest Policy Changes in 2017
From tax reform to environmental protections
By Alana Abramson
December 21, 2017
An 87-Year-Old Nun Said She Was Raped in Her Nursing Home. Here’s Why She Couldn't Sue
I. Sister Irene Morissette always locked her door at night. Maybe it was force of habit from her decades teaching at an isolated missionary school in Africa, or maybe it was, as she told a...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
November 16, 2017
Dignity, Death and America's Crisis In Elder Care
By late 2014, Chabela Lawrence wasn't doing well. She had mostly stopped cooking and cleaning for herself and began, every so often, to get lost on her way home from the neighborhood coffee shop--the one...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
November 16, 2017
George Papadapolous’ Guilty Plea Offers a Picture of Potential Collusion
Until Donald Trump named him among the top foreign policy advisers to his presidential campaign in March 2016, George Papadopoulos was a political nobody. Five years out of university, he'd traveled in Europe, worked for...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
November 2, 2017
'Oh God. Not This Again.' Lower Manhattan Reacts to Another Terror Attack
Less than half a hour after an armed man drove a Home Depot truck down a bike path three blocks from the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, killing at least eight people and...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
October 31, 2017
George Papadopolous Posted an Old Photo on Twitter and People Called Him Out
A week ago, on October 25, Donald Trump's former foreign policy advisor, George Papadopolous, appears to have posted a photo of himself on Twitter wearing a suit and standing the streets of London with the...
By Pratheek Rebala
October 31, 2017
The Short, Happy Political Career of George Papadopoulos
In the days after the terrorist attack in Paris in November 2015, every Republican presidential candidate began frantically scrambling to hire experts to bulk up their campaign's foreign policy credentials. The problem was, it was...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
October 30, 2017
Could You Get Your Student Loans Forgiven? Here's How to Find Out
It's supposed to be simple: If you work in the public interest — at a non-profit or for a government agency, say — and diligently pay off your student debt every month for ten years,...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
October 30, 2017
The Fight Over Gun Control Isn’t Really About Guns
Will the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history change the debate over gun rights?
By Charlotte Alter / Las Vegas
October 5, 2017
'The Worst Feeling in the World.' A Mother's Terror During the Las Vegas Shooting
She heard the shots. Her son was missing. This is her eyewitness account
By Haley Sweetland Edwards / Las Vegas
October 3, 2017
Victims Watched a Familiar Horror Unfold in Las Vegas
The sound of an assault-style semi-automatic rifle unloading from 32 floors up and four football fields away doesn’t sound like you’d imagine. It’s louder, crisper. A shattering pop-pa-pop-pop of unique explosions that blend into each...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards / Las Vegas
October 3, 2017
The Angels of Irma
A lot of smart people did a lot of things right to prevent a historic hurricane from doing historic damage
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 14, 2017
What It Was Like to Live Through Hurricane Irma
By the time the rain came, it almost felt like a relief
By Haley Sweetland Edwards / Miami
September 13, 2017
Hurricane Irma Starts Raking Miami
Waist-deep water flooded some Miami streets, including three to four feet in the city's financial district
By Haley Sweetland Edwards / Doral, Florida
September 10, 2017
A 'Life-Threatening Situation'
Meteorologists and hurricane experts had a dire message for Floridians Saturday: Hurricane Irma is strong enough to kill you
By Haley Sweetland Edwards/Miami
September 9, 2017
How Miami is Responding to Hurricane Irma
The emergency management center in Miami is prepping for one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic
By Haley Sweetland Edwards/Miami
September 8, 2017
'It's Like Locusts Came Through.' Miami Is Bracing for Hurricane Irma
The powerful storm has prompted mass evacuations
By Haley Sweetland Edwards / Miami
September 8, 2017
The GOP Faces a New Crossroads
Even the shrewdest tacticians sometimes misplay their hand. Mitch McConnell's error came to light in mid-July, when the Senate majority leader, having vowed to deliver on the Republican promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act,...
By Philip Elliott
July 20, 2017
The United Patients of America
As Republicans scramble to replace Obamacare, families with sick or disabled members are emerging as a powerful opposition force
By Charlotte Alter
July 13, 2017
The Drug Cascade
A boom in prescription painkillers drove the opioid crisis. Now there are pills to solve it
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
June 22, 2017
Who Loses Disability Benefits in President Trump's Budget
President Trump's budget slashes funding for a social program that goes disproportionately to counties that supported him
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
May 25, 2017
Why the Census Matters Now More Than Ever
As its director resigned, Congress cut its budget and the President questions facts
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
May 18, 2017
The Head of the Census Resigned. It Could Be as Serious as James Comey
In a week dominated by President Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey, you could be forgiven for missing the imminent departure of another, less prominent federal official. Yet the news this week that John...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
May 12, 2017
No One Knows Exactly How Trumpcare Would Work
After failing in March to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans will vote again on a new version Thursday afternoon. What, exactly, is in this revamped bill—how much it will cost U.S....
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
May 4, 2017
Alexa Takes the Stand: Listening Devices Raise Privacy Issues
When Victor Collins was found dead, floating faceup in his friend James Bates' hot tub in Bentonville, Ark., one chilly morning in November 2015, police were quick to suspect foul play. Broken glass littered the...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
May 4, 2017
Thousands Protest at the March for Science
"This isn't about politics. It's about facts," read one sign
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
April 22, 2017
Will the BAT Be the Tax That Changes Everything?
There are lots of reasons for California Representative Devin Nunes to be excited about his job these days. As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, he is leading a classified investigation into Russian interference in...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
March 16, 2017
President Trump Called for a 'Level Playing Field.' That Could Mean This New Tax
An innovative new tax aimed at imports and exports
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
February 28, 2017
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