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# May 9, 2022 | Vol. 199 No. 17May 9, 2022 |  

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsScienceU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### Twitter Employees Have Spent Years Trying to Make the Platform Safer. Elon Musk Could Undermine All That

Twitter employees told TIME that the billionaire's record bodes poorly for the company's anti-harassment efforts

[Business](/section/business/)

### The Economy is Great. The Middle Class is Mad

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### MoviePass Co-Founder Stacy Spikes Is Trying to Stage a Comeback–and Save Movie Theaters in the Process

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### How Janelle Brown Wrote a Twisty Thriller Inspired by the Olsen Twins and NXIVM

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### There's an Ingenious Method in _Shining Girls_' Mind-Bending Madness

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### How Anna Wintour Wields Her Power

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### Why the Rise of Rapid Tests Makes COVID-19 Case Counts Hard to Trust

Countless cases are being missed

[Health](/section/health/)

### The New Science of Forgetting

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### What Elon Musk Really Believes

In trying to read his motivations, both left and right seem to be getting Musk wrong

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### The Key Policy We Need to End the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Being Ignored

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### Tina Brown Breaks Down the Biggest Royal Family Revelations From Her New Book

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### Why Double Digit Rent Hikes Are Here to Stay

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### To Slow an Anti-Satellite Arms Race, White House Bans U.S. Tests of Space Weapons

Russia, China and India have tested satellite killing missiles, leaving debris fields that threaten military, civilian mainstays in space

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### U.S. Officials Deploy Technology to Track More Than 200,000 Immigrants, Triggering a New Privacy Lawsuit

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### History-Making Trans State Legislator Danica Roem's Roadmap for Protecting LGBTQ Kids

### Science

[Science](/section/science/)

### The Age of the Private Space Station Is Upon Us

With the International Space Station (ISS) set to be retired in 2030, as many as four new private stations may take to the skies.

### U.S.

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

### Florida’s Governor Just Signed the 'Stop Woke Act.’ Here’s What It Means for Schools and Businesses

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

### One in Ten Black Children in America Are Separated From Their Parents by the Child-Welfare System. A New Book Argues That’s No Accident

"By blaming the parents you're diverting attention away from the structural reasons"

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Inside Zelensky's World

Two weeks in the presidential compound show how the Ukrainian leader has changed

[World](/section/world/)

### How Ukraine Is Crowdsourcing Digital Evidence of War Crimes

[World](/section/world/)

### 'Someone Has to Say What Happened to Us.' Angelina Jolie Talks to Activist Nadia Murad About Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War

[World](/section/world/)

### 'Hope Gives You the Strength to Act.' Portraits of Russians Risking Everything to Support Ukraine

These protesters have endured beatings, jail, and losing their livelihoods, to speak out about the conflict in Ukraine

[World](/section/world/)

### Tens of Thousands of Boys in Bangladesh Were Forced into Work During the Pandemic. Now School Is Resuming Without Them

Getting Bangladeshi children out of the workplace and back into schools will take more than the outlawing their labor


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