--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: January 18th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 1 | U.S. image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- 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/"}]}]} ```