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# August 17, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 7 August 17, 2020 |  

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Vol. 196 No. 7

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Issue name

August 17th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 7 | U.S.

Issue date

August 17, 2020

Location

U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific, North America, South America

Related categories

[Politics](/vault/subject/politics/)

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## Table of Contents

BusinessHealthIdeasPoliticsU.S.

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### How TikTok Found Itself in the Middle of a U.S.-China Tech War

[Business](/section/business/)

### Drive-Ins Theaters, Once Fading, Are Becoming Community Centers During the Pandemic

[Business](/section/business/)

### Millions of Americans Have Lost Jobs in the Pandemic—And Robots and AI Are Replacing Them Faster Than Ever

In the pandemic economy, humans are being left behind

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### A Sleep Storyteller Reveals Her Secrets for Drifting Off Naturally

Inside the art of the bedtime story

[Health](/section/health/)

### ‘A Rinsing of the Brain.’ New Research Shows How Sleep Could Ward Off Alzheimer's Disease

New research on its physiology shows why we need to take slumber seriously

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The Story Behind TIME's 'Plague Election' Donald Trump Cover

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The Next Global Depression Is Coming and Optimism Won’t Slow It Down

Forget rapid recovery. COVID-19 will bring prolonged economic pain

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### America Has Been Failing Mothers for a Long Time. The Pandemic Made It Clear What Needs to Happen

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### I'm a Mom Who Came Out to Protest for Black Lives in Portland. I Was Shot by Federal Agents

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### How COVID-19 Changed Everything About the 2020 Election

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we campaign, how we vote and what we value. Here's why that matters

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### California Rep. Katie Porter Schools Congress With a White Board

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside the Democrats' Plan to Win Back the Internet

Inside Joe Biden&apos;s uphill battle to win the Internet

### U.S.

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### 'I'm Just Trying to Photograph Life as I See It.' Earlie Hudnall Jr. Has Spent More Than 40 Years Documenting Historically Black Neighborhoods in Houston

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### America's Policing System Is Broken. It's Time to Radically Rethink Public Safety

The police are a broken legacy of a racist system and tasked with work they are not trained to do


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