--- title: Jess McHugh | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/author/jess-mchugh/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/jess-mchugh/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jess McHugh ## Jess McHugh ## Jess McHugh *  Apr 13, 2022 ### [Werner Spitz Is a 95-Year-Old ‘Medical Detective’](https://time.com/6164527/werner-spitz-forensic-pathologist/) Even if a murder goes unseen, the body bears witness. And the bodies that Spitz has examined have sh... [U.S.](/section/us/) *  Jun 9, 2021 ### [Why Do We Turn to the Word 'Surreal' During Disasters](https://time.com/6071418/surreal-definition-dictionary-history/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 25, 2019 ### ['The Beginning of a Conversation': What It Was Like to Be an LGBTQ Activist Before Stonewall](https://time.com/5600191/mattachine-society/) *  Nov 26, 2018 ### [How 343 Women Made French History by Talking About Their Abortions](https://time.com/5459995/manifesto-343-abortion-france/) “One million women have abortions each year in France,” they wrote in a manifesto published in the m... [HISTORY](/section/history/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/jess-mchugh/","name":"Jess McHugh"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/jess-mchugh/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/jess-mchugh/"},"name":"Jess McHugh","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jess-mchugh/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```