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I Thought I Was Doing Pretty Well. Then Came the Pandemic

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How Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Seized the Moment While Her City Was Protesting

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How Jay Powell’s Coronavirus Response Is Changing the Fed Forever

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How the World Is Protesting Racism and Police Brutality

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The Story Behind TIME's George Floyd Protest Cover

Allen was at a protest on June 5th in Baltimore organized by demonstrators representing the city's black, transgender community. Though the protests were in response to the killing of George Floyd, who was killed in Minneapolis by a city police officer, chants of "Black Trans Lives Matter" were heard from the crowd. 

By Josiah Bates

Why George Floyd's Killing Sparked an Uprising

The killing of George Floyd was shocking. But to be surprised by it is a privilege African Americans do not have.

By Alex Altman

The Story Behind TIME's George Floyd Cover

For the June 15, 2020, cover on the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, we turned to prominent American artist Titus Kaphar.Kaphar’s 60″x60″ oil painting, titled Analogous Colors, features an African-American mother holding her...

By D.W. Pine

Column: There Is No Right Way to Fight for Your Life

As protests spring up across the country and around the world in response to the video of George Floyd’s murder, there seems to be some confusion about why this moment, this death at the hands...

By Mikki Kendall

Why Are Black Women and Girls Still an Afterthought in Our Outrage Over Police Violence?

Breonna Taylor was an essential worker. An EMT with aspirations to be a nurse, she was one of the people whose daily labor of keeping people safe we have come to value anew in the...

By Brittney Cooper

‘I’m a Contrarian.’ Chris Wallace on His Role at Fox News and His Latest Book

A video screen is of course just the place to meet up with Chris Wallace. That arched brow and knowing smile have existed as pixels since the 1970s, when he began a television news career...

By Karl Vick

Hong Kong Is Caught in the Middle of the Great U.S.-China Power Struggle

The protesters didn’t expect to be back on the streets so soon.Life in Hong Kong had only just started to resemble a new normal after the threat of the pandemic subsided. But there they were...

By Laignee Barron

'I Cannot Sell You This Painting.' Titus Kaphar on his George Floyd TIME Cover

Artist Titus Kaphar painted the portrait that appears on the cover of this week’s TIME. He has written the following piece to accompany the work.Ican notsellyouthispainting. In her expression, I see the Black mothers who are...

By Titus Kaphar

Photographers Share Their Experiences Covering Protests Across America

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, protests against racism and injustice spread, most peacefully, across America. As people gathered in more than 150 cities, so too did scores of local photographers who felt compelled...

By TIME Photo

Why President Trump’s Effort to Expand the G-7 Is Doomed to Fail

President Trump’s plans to host a summit of leaders of the G-7 group of industrialized nations this month was put to rest when German Chancellor Angela Merkel waved him off. Coronavirus concerns made it impossible...

By Ian Bremmer

Facebook Cannot Fix Itself. But Trump's Effort to Reform Section 230 Is Wrong

In a week that saw the official death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States surpass 100,000, when the number of applications for unemployment insurance exceeded 40 million and Americans were protesting in...

By Roger McNamee

It's Not Indulgent to Admit You've Been Struggling in Recent Months. It's Smart to Ask for Help

When friends ask how we’re doing, I answer like everyone else who has both a job and their health: I say I’m lucky and so grateful. Then I joke about how at the start of...

By Susanna Schrobsdorff

The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Some Predicting the End of Meat. Here's Why Americans Are Unlikely to Change Their Eating Habits

As the coronavirus has spread through America’s meatpacking plants amid a growing recognition that overcrowded factory farms are risk factors for other diseases, some people have wondered whether we’ve reached a tipping point. Might Americans...

By Alicia Kennedy

How Kids Are Feeling About the COVID-19 Pandemic, in Their Own Words

TIME for Kids received letters from students expressing their feelings during this crisis. Here's what they said

By TIME for Kids

How COVID-19 Will Shape the Class of 2020

They call it commencement because it’s supposed to be a new beginning.College graduation is one of life’s last clean transitions, a final passage from adolescence to adulthood that is predictable in ways other transitions rarely...

By Charlotte Alter

You Don’t Have to Be Hopeful to Fight for a Better Future

Many people expect climate activists like myself to have hope. Seeing thousands, even millions, of young people on the streets all over the world, and knowing that you are not alone in wanting to secure...

By Isabelle Axelsson
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