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# June 7, 2021 | Vol. 197 No. 21 June 7, 2021 |  

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Vol. 197 No. 21

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Issue name

June 7th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 21 | U.S.

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsWorld

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### The Pandemic Revealed How Much We Hate Our Jobs. Now We Have a Chance to Reinvent Work

The workplace doesn&apos;t work. Now&apos;s our chance to reinvent it

[Business](/section/business/)

### Airlines’ Emissions Halved During the Pandemic. Can the Industry Preserve Some of Those Gains as Travel Rebounds?

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### From Cruella to Maleficent to the Joker: Is It Time to Retire the Villain Origin Story?

Among our fictional bad guys, from Cruella to Joker to Maleficent, reasons behind their behavior have taken the place of the glorious, naked id

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Comedian Patti Harrison Has Her First Leading Role—But She’s Not Looking to Stop Goofing Around

The comedian talks to TIME about her new film, her first leading role, and her hopes for transgender characters in entertainment

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Have Come to the U.S. Will They Work?

They're intended as a population control tool, but some locals in the Florida Keys are furious over the project

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### I'm Tired of Trying to Educate White People About Anti-Asian Racism

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### I Visited My Grandkids After 16 Months and Realized How Much the Pandemic Had Changed Me

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### The 'Handmaiden of Trump': How Elise Stefanik Went From Moderate to MAGA

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### How a False Sense of Security, and a Little Secret Tea, Broke Down Taiwan's COVID-19 Defenses

A Lions Club meeting and tea houses in Taipei's red light district helped break down the world's most vaunted COVID-19 protections


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