--- --- Back to the vault # August 3, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 5August 3, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 5  Issue name August 3rd, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 5 | U.S. Issue date August 3, 2020 Location U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific, North America, South America Related categories [Civil Rights](/vault/subject/civil-rights/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents EntertainmentHealthHistoryIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S. ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### America's Travel Guru Rick Steves Talks About Staying in One Place, What America Is Getting Wrong, and Dreaming of Escargots [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### ''Racism' Did Not Seem Sufficient.' Author Isabel Wilkerson on the American Caste System Author Isabel Wilkerson reframes systemic inequality in the U.S. ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### As Coronavirus Continues to Spread in the U.S., the Clinical Trials Cancer Patients Rely on Are Disappearing Since the start of the pandemic, the National Cancer Institute says enrollment in trials has dropped by about 10% each month [Health](/section/health/) ### Inside the Global Quest to Trace the Origins of COVID-19—and Predict Where It Will Go Next Scientists are tracing where the pandemic came from—and predicting where it will go next. Here's an inside look at their work [Health](/section/health/) ### The Coronavirus Seems to Spare Most Kids From Illness, but Its Effect on Their Mental Health Is Deepening Children are paying a mental-health price as the pandemic grinds on ### History [History](/section/history/) ### 'It's a Picture of Someone Who Knows Who He Is.' The Story Behind TIME's Commemorative John Lewis Cover Photographer Steve Schapiro met John Lewis just weeks before the March on Washington [History](/section/history/) ### The Uncertain Future of Places That Preserve America’s Past [History](/section/history/) ### Remembering the Life's Work and Legacy of Civil Rights Pioneer C.T. Vivian Civil rights stalwart ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### The Misinformation Age Has Exacerbated—And Been Exacerbated By—the Coronavirus Pandemic [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Protests Over the Arrest of Governor Sergei Furgal Show Populism Is Alive in Russia—and May Create Real Problems for Putin ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Revenge of the Never Trumpers: Meet the Republican Dissidents Fighting to Push Donald Trump Out of Office Meet the Republican dissidents fighting to push Donald Trump out of office—and reclaim their party [Politics](/section/politics/) ### America Really Does Have a Space Force. We Went Inside to See What It Does Less than eight months after its launch, Space Force is already trying to justify its existence ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### Bubba Wallace Talks Confederate-Flag Ban, the President’s Twitter Attack and Winning Races The NASCAR driver on his sport's Confederate-flag ban, the President's Twitter attack and how unity gets done ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### As the School Year Approaches, Education May Become the Pandemic’s Latest Casualty [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Constance Woodson Worked Hard All Her Life. How Did She End Up Homeless During a Pandemic? Constance Woodson worked hard all her life. How did she end up homeless in the middle of a pandemic? [U.S.](/section/us/) ### 30 Years After a Landmark Disability Law, the Fight for Access and Equality Continues August 3rd, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 5 | U.S. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"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"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"August 3rd, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 5 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5870450/august-3rd-2020-vol-196-no-5-u-s/"}]}]} ```