--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: December 14th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 22 | U.S. image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- Back to the vault # December 14, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 22December 14, 2020 | Vol. 196 No. 22  Issue name December 14th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 22 | U.S. Issue date December 14, 2020 Location U.S. Related categories [Influence](/vault/subject/influence/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S. ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### How Small Retailers Are Getting Creative to Survive a Pandemic Holiday Season ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020 The best podcasts this year responded to the unique moment, offering vital news, ways to stay healthy, and even a few means of escape [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The 10 Best Movies of 2020 From 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' to 'David Byrne's American Utopia' [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020 From the poignant final season of 'Bojack Horseman' to Michaela Coel's groundbreaking HBO series 'I May Destroy You.' [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The 10 Best Albums of 2020 From Fiona Apple to the Chicks to Chloe x Halle [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### The 10 Best Songs of 2020 From Mac Miller to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, Morgan Wallen to Christine and the Queens, these artists produced TIME's 10 best songs of the year ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### Yes, We Have COVID-19 Vaccines That Are 95% Effective. But That Doesn’t Mean the End of the Pandemic is Near Good news about two vaccines are reason to be hopeful, but it’s too early to let our guard down on COVID-19 [Health](/section/health/) ### Even the Pandemic Hasn’t Made Public-Health Icon Paul Farmer Lose Hope ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### What I Learned From Spending Almost 2 Months of the Pandemic Living With My Elderly Parents [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Iran's Hopes for New Nuclear Talks, and an Economic Boost, Rest on the Biden Administration [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### America's Past Has Shown the Power of 'We.' Here's How We Can Revive It ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### 'This Feels Like the Closest We’ve Ever Been.' Why Growing Demands for Student Debt Forgiveness Could Be Joe Biden's First Presidential Test [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Leaves Behind Destruction—and Opportunity—for Joe Biden How Trump's disruptions could be Biden's opportunity ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### 'Undoubtedly' the Greatest: Why the World Is Mourning Soccer Legend Diego Maradona The Argentine soccer legend fought demons off the field, but was an artist on the pitch. ### U.S. [U.S.](/section/us/) ### Meet TIME's First-Ever Kid of the Year [U.S.](/section/us/) ### How We Picked the 2020 Kid of the Year December 14th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 22 | 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":"December 14th, 2020 | Vol. 196, No. 22 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5917371/december-14th-2020-vol-196-no-22-u-s/"}]}]} ```