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# July 19, 2021 | Vol. 198 No. 3 July 19, 2021 |  

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Vol. 198 No. 3

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Issue name

July 19th, 2021 | Vol. 198, No. 3 | U.S.

Issue date

July 19, 2021

Location

U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific, North America, South America

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## Table of Contents

HealthIdeasPoliticsSportsWorld

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Tokyo's Plan to Avoid Pandemic Disaster During the Olympics

New cases of COVID-19 could forever tarnish this year's Olympics as an exercise in folly amid a global pandemic

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Naomi Osaka: 'It's O.K. Not to Be O.K.'

'I felt under a great amount of pressure to disclose my symptoms because the press and the tournament did not believe me'

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside One Combat Vet's Journey From Defending His Country to Storming the Capitol

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Breakfast with J.D. Vance, Anti-Trump Author Turned Pro-Trump Candidate

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Motherhood Could Have Cost Olympian Allyson Felix. She Wouldn't Let It

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### 'Unapologetic and Unafraid.' Sue Bird Stares Down Olympic Glory in Tokyo and Equity Off the Court

The last Olympics of the basketball star's storied career comes as the larger world has finally begun to appreciate her greatness

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Meet 6 Heroes Who Helped Battle COVID-19 Before Competing in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics

'What we’ve been through has made me realize even more: health is the most important thing, both for the individual and the collective'

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### The Olympic Refugee Team Was Created to Offer Hope. Some Athletes Are Running Away From It

'We cannot talk about money. We are not supposed to talk, because we are just a refugee'

[World](/section/world/)

### A Controversial Ban on Commercial Surrogacy Could Leave Women in India With Even Fewer Choices

“They have a need. We also have a need. So what is wrong with this work?”

[World](/section/world/)

### How Beijing Is Redefining What It Means to Be Chinese, from Xinjiang to Inner Mongolia

Freedom of religion, long suppressed in China, is now being squeezed to the limit


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