--- --- Back to the vault # August 17, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 7August 17, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 7  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/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## 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'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 August 17th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 7 | 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 17th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 7 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5876584/august-17th-2020-vol-196-no-7-u-s/"}]}]} ```