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MY GRANDFATHER’S LIFE, LIKE THOSE OF SO many of his generation, was shaped by war. He was 11 when World War I broke out in his native Germany and often recounted the lasting effects of that period on his future, beginning with the disruption in his s

WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FIRED State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on May 15, it wasn’t the first time he had taken aim at a government watchdog in recent weeks. It wasn’t even the second. Since April, Trump has fired or replaced four

IN “TURNING THE CORNER” [May 11], you failed to mention an ideal country for comparison: Australia. Australia is similar to the U.S. in many ways. However, it will have suffered much less than the U.S. during this pandemic. Why? The big difference is

A statue of two clasped hands was removed from its position straddling a path in Salisbury, England, in February 2016 because people kept bumping into it while looking down at their cell phones, according to the sculptor. In Paris, overcrowding in th

Singular satirist FRED WILLARD, WHO DIED ON MAY 15 AT 86, WAS A BRILLIANT satirist, and he did what I think is the best kind of satire; it’s very close to the bone. You didn’t know if it was supposed to be funny or if he was telling you an honest tru

FOR YEARS, JENNELL LÉVÊQUE HAS BEEN GETTING UP EARLY and swiping through her phone in the hope that Amazon Flex would drop some delivery shifts and she’d be quick enough to nab one. But since the COVID-19 pandemic, even with six apps open for various

EVERY THREE MONTHS, PUBLICLY TRADED companies report both their actual financial earnings and their expected prospects over the near future. Investors closely watch these reports for signs of promise or trouble, in a ritual not unlike reading tea lea

IN A NEAR EMPTY ARENA IN JACKSONVILLE, FLA., ON MAY 9, Ultimate Fighting Championship held its first event in the U.S. since COVID-19 dealt American pro sports a knockout blow. One of the two dozen fighters on the card—and two of his cornermen—had be

LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS HAS NEVER BEEN more important nor more urgently tested. To help understand what leadership in today’s economy requires, TIME is starting the Leadership Brief, a new weekly interview series with the world’s most influential CEOs

An additional 2.98 million people filed for unemployment in the beginning of May, bringing the total lost jobs to at least 36 million by official tallies, and likely significantly more once discouraged and gig workers are factored in. Until this Marc

Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, on how the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization is adapting: Can you tell us about the reality on the ground? Around the U.S., we’ve seen precipitous increases in demand. Some of our

MEXICO FACES MORE than its share of threats these days. The human and economic toll of the country’s coronavirus crisis is rising. Low oil prices have cut deeply into its oil exports, a crucial source of government revenue. Criminal gangs continue th

I MISS SMILING. I DON’T MISS IT IN THE INSPIRATIONAL poster “the whole world smiles with me” way. I don’t miss it, as another poster says, because I can no longer “intimidate those who wish to destroy me.” I don’t miss it because “happiness looks gor

WITH NO END IN SIGHT TO THE COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. seems to be faced with an unappealing choice: If we prioritize saving lives, we court economic ruin. If we opt for economic recovery, we lose friends, colleagues and loved ones. The available op

THIS MORNING I ROSE FROM MY SLEEPLESS BED, MY BARE feet padding along the wooden floors to arrive at my bathroom sink. There, I brushed the nighttime off my teeth, took my temperature and ran a comb through my hair. More gray crept from my center par

Beier, a photography major in the Drexel University Class of 2020, has been virtually photographing her classmates in quarantine. She directed this series of portraits over FaceTime. THEY CALL IT COMMENCEMENT BECAUSE IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE A NEW BEGINNI

Dhruv, 17, lives in Allentown, Pa., and plans to attend the University of Virginia this fall WE WERE ON SPRING BREAK when the corona hype hit the U.S. At first we were like, “Oh, this is cool, we get another couple days.” But those days turned into m

IF YOU CLOSELY FOLLOW THE TWISTS AND TURNS IN MANY of the most recent high-profile shootings of black men, you’ll notice a pattern. First, only the slightest and smallest level of alleged misconduct or “suspicious” behavior is used to justify the kil

ON MAY 9, BRAZIL’S DEATH TOLL FROM the coronavirus topped 10,000. Instead of marking the grim milestone with an address or a sign of respect for the victims, President Jair Bolsonaro took a spin on a jet ski. Video footage widely circulated on social

IN MAY, I EXPERIENCED WHAT FELT LIKE A personal concert by two of my favorite performers. Really, I was sitting in my living room, and 700,000 other people were watching too. It was the latest “Verzuz” battle—in which two artists perform from their h

Dr. George Diaz was at home in Edmonds, Wash., on Jan. 20 at 8:30 p.m., when his phone rang with news that he was both anticipating and dreading. On the line was his hospital’s infection-prevention manager, who had just received a call from the U.S.

MUCH OF NEW YORK CITY HAS BEEN IDLE SINCE the coronavirus lockdown was declared two months ago, but not the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, an 88-acre shipping and distribution hub built in the 1960s on the east side of the city’s inner harbor, oppos

IN THE AGE OF QUARANTINE, URBAN parks are magnets for controversy. Which park activities constitute appropriate social-distancing behavior? Should they be open at all? If you’ve never lived in a densely populated city, the intensity of these debates

ON A RECENT EVENING, OUT OF A COMBINATION of professional obligation and morbid curiosity, I sat down on my couch and turned on my TV to watch celebrities … sit on their own couches to watch TV. That is literally all that happens on Celebrity Watch P

DESPITE THEIR SEEMING LIGHTNESS, OR MAYBE because of it, screwball comedies are complicated to make. It’s much easier for Hollywood to throw pots of money at an action picture than to find two actors with great chemistry who can sustain a hamster-whe

“WRITERS AND POLITICIANS ARE NATURAL rivals,” Salman Rushdie wrote in his 1982 essay “Imaginary Homelands.” “Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. And the novel is one way of denying the official, p

The tone of your new book, The City We Became, is more lighthearted than much of your previous work, but the novel still addresses serious issues, including the perils of gentrification. Why did you want to tell this story? I’ve always thought of my