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# October 25, 2021 | Vol. 198 No. 15 October 25, 2021 |  

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Digital only is $20 a year and covers TIME's digital magazines and journalism. Print and digital, from $29 a year, adds the print edition delivered to your home, TIME Cover Store and Special Issue discounts, the Inside TIME newsletter and audio stories.

#### Is TIME a reliable news source?

TIME is a general-interest news organization founded in 1923. Its journalism is reported and edited by a professional newsroom led by Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs, with named correspondents on politics, climate, health, technology and culture. It reaches 1 million US print subscribers and 1.15 million globally, plus more than 1.1 million newsletter readers.

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Vol. 198 No. 15

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Issue name

October 25th, 2021 | Vol. 198, No. 15 | U.S.

Issue date

October 25, 2021

Location

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

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### How Facebook Forced a Reckoning by Shutting Down the Team That Put People Ahead of Profits

Facebook's civic-integrity team, where whistle-blower Frances Haugen worked, pledged to put people ahead of profits. Facebook shut it down, but some former members are still honoring their promise.

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Suddenly, Everyone We See on TV Is Very Rich or Very Poor. What Happened?

There’s something ominous about the prospect of the vast majority of the population—everyone who lives above the poverty line but will never own an aircraft—disappearing from our screens. Where have TV’s middle classes gone?

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Stanley Tucci: How Julia Child Changed My Life

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Edgar Wright's 1960s Fever Dream _Last Night in Soho_ Is a Half-Brilliant Thriller

Edgar Wright's new thriller, which premiered at the 78th Venice Film Festival, starts off seductively before taking an unfortunate turn

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### _The Harder They Fall_ Fails to Make Enough Room for Each Star Among Its Stellar Cast

The rare all-Black Western looks stylish and boasts an incredible cast, but in working so hard to entertain, it can’t quite keep the story going

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Elizabeth Strout Knows We Can’t Escape the Past

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Facebook Will Not Fix Itself

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### McConnell’s Debt Ceiling Deal Just Kicks Democrats’ Problems Down the Road

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Inside a Wisconsin Army Base Where Nearly 13,000 Afghans Await an Uncertain Future

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### Why Nike Hasn't Weighed In on NBA Superstar Kyrie Irving's Vaccine Hesitancy

### U.S.

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### U.S. Fishermen Are Making Their Last Stand Against Offshore Wind

“They are, in some sense, mutually exclusive.”

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### Gen. Stanley McChrystal Would Have Done Things Differently in Afghanistan

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### Atlanta’s First Black Female District Attorney Is at the Center of America's Converging Crises

She's working under the spotlight of two cases that have drawn the nation’s eyes to her office

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### 'It Is a Battle for Facts.' What Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa Understands About Why She Was Chosen

[World](/section/world/)

### How an Italian Mayor Who Turned His Town into a Haven for Migrants Wound Up Facing 13 Years in Jail

The rise and fall of Domenico Lucano

[World](/section/world/)

### El Salvador Is Betting on Bitcoin to Rebrand the Country — and Strengthen the President's Grip

Will the country's adoption of the digital currency help its people, or just its president?

[World](/section/world/)

### Queer South Koreans Hope for an Anti-Discrimination Law to End Decades of Discrimination

South Korea could be about to pass anti-discrimination legislation, but for queer Koreans the fight is far from won.


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