--- title: January 18th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 1 | 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/5927326/january-18th-2021-vol-197-no-1-u-s/ og:title: January 18th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 1 | 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/5927326/january-18th-2021-vol-197-no-1-u-s/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a350d0dc9e4a8f0/698a15d6e76ad25727638787/TIM210118_Capital.CoverFINAL.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2363 og:image:height: 1329 og:image:alt: Democracy Under Attack Time Magazine cover 210118 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: January 18th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 1 | 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/blt4a350d0dc9e4a8f0/698a15d6e76ad25727638787/TIM210118_Capital.CoverFINAL.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Back to the vault # January 18, 2021 | Vol. 197 No. 1January 18, 2021 | Vol. 197 No. 1  Issue name January 18th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 1 | U.S. Issue date January 18, 2021 Location U.S., North America [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents HealthPoliticsWorld ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### mRNA Technology Gave Us the First COVID-19 Vaccines. It Could Also Upend the Drug Industry The remarkable scientific discoveries behind the new COVID-19 Vaccines [Health](/section/health/) ### The COVID-19 Virus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Vaccines? New variants of the COVID-19 virus raise concerns about whether they can escape vaccine protection ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### How Trump's Effort to Steal the Election Tore Apart the GOP—and the Country ### World [World](/section/world/) ### A Pro-Trump Mob Stormed the Halls of Congress. Photographs From Inside the Chaos at the Capitol [World](/section/world/) ### Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members [World](/section/world/) ### Seeding the Ocean: Inside a Michelin-Starred Chef's Revolutionary Quest to Harvest Rice From the Sea Chef Ángel León wants to change the way we feed the world [World](/section/world/) ### A Decade After the Arab Spring, These Activists Are Finding New Ways to Fight for Progress January 18th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 1 | 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":"January 18th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 1 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5927326/january-18th-2021-vol-197-no-1-u-s/"}]}]} ```