--- title: August 31st, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 9 | U.S. description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/magazine/us/5881573/august-31st-2020-vol-196-no-9-u-s/ og:title: August 31st, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 9 | U.S. 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/magazine/us/5881573/august-31st-2020-vol-196-no-9-u-s/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte28463209c3b030f/698a1182b21a9c10b1503f09/aug31cover-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3750 og:image:height: 2109 og:image:alt: aug31cover og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: August 31st, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 9 | U.S. 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/blte28463209c3b030f/698a1182b21a9c10b1503f09/aug31cover-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Back to the vault # August 31, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 9August 31, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 9  Issue name August 31st, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 9 | U.S. Issue date August 31, 2020 Location U.S. [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.World ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### 'The Photography, the Poetry, the Fashion.' Hans Ulrich Obrist Remembers the Multi-Dimensional Spirit of Artist Luchita Hurtado All-embracing artist [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### _Veep_ Creator Armando Iannucci Says These Times Call for Charles Dickens ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### I've Been Paralyzed Since I Was 3\. Here's Why Kindness Toward Disabled People Is More Complicated Than You Think Your efforts to help disabled people may not always have the intended effect ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### How Kamala Harris' Senate Record Reveals What Kind of National Leader She May Be Her time in the U.S. Senate reveals what kind of national leader the Democrats' VP pick may be [Politics](/section/politics/) ### How Far-Right Personalities and Conspiracy Theorists Are Cashing in on the Pandemic Online A global pandemic, a summer of protests and the 2020 election have led to a windfall for extremists and conspiracy theorists [Politics](/section/politics/) ### 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 ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### College Football May Not Happen at All This Year. And Maybe We Don't Deserve It ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### 'We Don’t Need More Cops; We Need Better Cops.' Why Chicagoans Are Skeptical of Federal Agents in the Fight Against Gun Violence In a city's fight against gun violence, do federal agents help or hurt? ### World [World](/section/world/) ### How the Pandemic Is Reshaping India [World](/section/world/) ### Why Putin Is Unlikely to Come to Belarusian President Lukashenko's Rescue August 31st, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 9 | 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 31st, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 9 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5881573/august-31st-2020-vol-196-no-9-u-s/"}]}]} ```