--- --- Back to the vault # November 16, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 18November 16, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 18  Issue name November 16th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 18 | U.S. Issue date November 16, 2020 Location U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific, North America, South America [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents EntertainmentIdeasPoliticsWorld ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Ben Wilson's _Metropolis_ Makes the Case for Crowding Into Cities — Even During a Pandemic ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### America Had a Reckoning on Race This Year. The Election Showed How Little Has Changed The election revealed a stark divide in the fight for racial equality [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### If Donald Trump Wins a Second Term, Blame White People [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### It’s Clear That America Is Deeply Polarized. No Election Can Overcome That [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### America Is Too Divided to Reclaim Its Place on the Global Stage ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Even If Joe Biden Wins, He Will Govern in Donald Trump's America No matter the outcome of the presidential election, America’s rifts are only deepening [Politics](/section/politics/) ### How the Mail-In Versus In-Person Voting Divide Gave America Whiplash More Americans voted by mail in this election than any other in U.S. history [Politics](/section/politics/) ### The Court Battle Over Key Swing States Has Just Begun. And It's Not Likely to Be Over Soon The consequences of the coming legal battles may extend beyond who becomes the next President of the United States ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Hungary Is Sliding Toward Authoritarianism. Can the Mayor of Budapest Save It? Democracy is wilting in Hungary. Can Gergely Karacsony save it? November 16th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 18 | 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":"November 16th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 18 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5907721/november-16th-2020-vol-196-no-18-u-s/"}]}]} ```