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 and Abby Vesoulis

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 and Haley Sweetland Edwards

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

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

'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

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

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

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

‘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 and Haley Sweetland Edwards

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

How Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony Changed America

How Christine Blasey Ford's testimony moved America

By Haley Sweetland Edwards

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump Has a Big Problem in Michael Cohen's Business Dealings

Millions went in, but for what?

By Brian Bennett and Haley Sweetland Edwards

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

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
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