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RE “JOHN LEWIS: CONscience of a Nation” [Aug. 3–10]: It was never our imagined perfection that defined America’s greatness. Our finest citizens have always included those who, through no fault of their own, were born into times of despicable imperfec

DONALD TRUMP’S BROKERING OF A LANDMARK deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could not have come at a better time for the President. With less than three months to go before Nov. 3, the agreement to normalize relations delivers Trump’s fla

WHEN THAILAND’S ABSENTEE SOVEREIGN, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, visited Bangkok in April, the hashtag #WhyDoWeNeedAKing exploded on Twitter. The sentiment has since leaped from social media and private conversations into an unprecedented realm for the

All-embracing artist LUCHITA HURTADO AND I MET IN EARLY 2017 AND SOON AFTER started to collaborate on an exhibition of her work for the Serpentine Galleries. My memories of her are ones of endless revelation. It was an incredibly intense dialogue. Ea

IN 1837, CHARLES DICKENS MOVED INTO A NARrow terraced house north of Central London. 48 Doughty Street was the novelist’s home for only 2½ years, but they were productive ones—he wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby there. Today, the building is

It was never going to be easy to get to kickoff, but America’s attempt to have a college football season, in the midst of a global pandemic, is looking more and more like a hopeless Hail Mary. Like so much else in America’s COVID-19 moment, the effor

ANOTHER GOVERNment friendly to Moscow is in trouble. As Belarus continues to be gripped by protests following rigged presidential elections on Aug. 9, many expect to see Russia’s Vladimir Putin intervene. Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’ President for

At a time when one recent poll shows two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. pandemic response is worse than that of other countries, a look back at the 1918 influenza pandemic reveals that a chaotic White House response to a public-health emergency

MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IDA B. WELLS WAS a suffragist. You probably have not heard her described this way before. She is most often honored for her journalism exposing lynchings in the South. To me, she is what great-grandmothers are to many: a teacher.

LAST YEAR, I PUBLISHED KNOW MY NAME, A MEMOIR ABOUT my experience being sexually assaulted on Stanford’s campus in 2015 and the trial that followed. For three years before the book’s release, I wrote while remaining anonymous, known to the public onl

THE ELECTION HADN’T GONE THE WAY SHE EXpected, so Kamala Harris needed a new plan. Late on the night of Nov. 8, 2016, the newly elected U.S. Senator gathered her campaign team in a drab gray room in the Los Angeles event venue where she was celebrati

AT HOME IN KENTUCKY IN mid-August, Mitch McConnell didn’t sound the slightest bit concerned. “The Postal Service is going to be just fine,” the Senate majority leader drawled, echoing the soothing talking points of other Republicans: the Trump Admini

For three decades, the most reliable feature of Lebanon’s government was its relentless decline. Here was a country so brazenly corrupt, the World Bank abandoned its usual diplomatic language in 2015, declaring it “increasingly governed by bribery an

THE TROUBLE BEGAN, AS TOO OFTEN IT DOES IN Chicago, with a gun. On a humid afternoon, on Aug. 9, a woman called 911 to report that a man in a red hat and shirt was starting a fight at Moran Park in Englewood, a predominantly Black neighborhood on Chi

It was before sunrise on Aug. 5, but there were already hundreds of others waiting with him under fluorescent lights at the main railway station in Pune, an industrial city not far from Mumbai, where they had just disembarked from a train. Each perso

ON THE EVENING OF FEB. 6, AS U.S. NEWS networks reported the death of a doctor in Wuhan, China, who had warned of a deadly new virus, thousands of Americans were tuning in to a different kind of show. “The good news is I heard actually that you can’t

KAYLA BRIM LAUGHED WHEN SHE learned it could take 10 days to get her COVID-19 test results back. “I thought, O.K., well, within 10 days I should be fine,” she remembers. That was on July 2. More than a month later, Brim is still far from fine. Before

I AM A MAGNET FOR KINDNESS. LIKE THE CENTER of a black hole, my body attracts every good deed from across the universe to the foot of my wheelchair. I move through parking lots and malls, farmers’ markets and airports, bookstores and buffets, and peo

Kenya Barris Jamaal Bowman Tyree Boyd-Pates Dr. Otis Brawley Douglas Brooks Geoffrey Canada Angela Davis Danielle Geathers Michael Harriot Imara Jones Janaya Future Khan Rep. Barbara Lee Naomi Osaka Yara Shahidi Nikkolas Smith 21 Savage Tyler, the Cr

ON APRIL 26, 1607, THREE SHIPS CARRYING 105 men and boys landed on the eastern shore of what would come to be called America. They called themselves “adventurers.” But they had no interest in liberty or justice, and they were not seeking religious fr

GEOFFREY CANADA AND TYREE BOYD-PATES BOTH KNOW that American education is deeply flawed—and they’ve each spent their careers working to correct different facets of it. Canada, an elder statesman of education policy, is the longtime president of the H

ACTOR AND ACTIVIST YARA SHAHIDI WAS BORN IN 2000, THREE decades after Angela Davis began wielding her platform as a UCLA professor for radical activism. But their generational gap hasn’t stopped them from becoming friends or uniting in their efforts

WHEN JAMAAL BOWMAN WON HIS June primary to represent parts of the Bronx and Westchester County in Congress, he became the latest young progressive whose election shook up Washington, D.C. But that new wave—whose most prominent member is Alexandria Oc

I didn’t even know how to open a bank account until I became a rapper. When I was a kid, I knew there had to be a way to understand how to make and save money—but no one was teaching me that in my Atlanta schools. It wasn’t until I had access to reso

I was 12 years old when Trayvon Martin was murdered, and 13 when his murderer was acquitted. While my predominantly Black congregational church was wrought by grief and mourning, my predominantly white private school was oblivious to the murder, the

When I watched them kill Elijah McClain, I couldn’t make any art for days. It had been week after week after week of gut-wrenching stories of Black lives taken from this earth too early. I wasn’t sure if I could handle another one. After seeing the w

DOUGLAS BROOKS SERVED AS THE HEAD OF THE WHITE HOUSE Office of National AIDS Policy during the Obama Administration as the first openly gay, HIV-positive African American to hold the job. He focused on addressing the health needs of those at higher r

TYLER, THE CREATOR, AND KENYA BARRIS BOTH GREW up in the same suburban area of Los Angeles. As an independent rapper and hip-hop agitator, Tyler has spent a decade creating music that pushes boundaries and buttons. As a writer, director and producer

I used to think activism and organizing was something so specific. There’s this idea that you have to be noble or special to do this work. I definitely didn’t set out to become an activist. One day in 2010, I walked into a boxing club with no additio

NAOMI OSAKA IS ONE OF THE TOP TENNIS PLAYERS IN THE world, having won two Grand Slam titles in the past three years. Mikey Williams, a rising high school sophomore, is one of the top-ranked basketball prospects in the country and made waves recently

Trans people are not new. As long as there’s been recorded human history, we have always been here. The problem is that we have been erased from the human story, and that erasure leads to a society for Black trans women where everything is failing us

MISTAKES, IN ELENA FERRANTE’S new novel, are like prized family jewels, handed down from one generation to another. Both tend to cause strife and reveal weaknesses, but they’re also very hard to let go of. In The Lying Life of Adults, the latest work

SPACE: IT MAY BE THE FINAL FRONTIER, BUT IT’S NOT exactly terra incognita for television. The mother of all outer-space shows, Star Trek, emerged out of the same space-race-obsessed 1960s pop culture that nurtured Doctor Who, 2001: A Space Odyssey an

WHEN DAMY LI BOUGHT A TICKET TO ATTEND the first concert of Eric Chou’s 2020 How Have You Been tour in Taipei on Aug. 8, she knew she’d have to wear a mask upon entry. What she didn’t know was that she’d win a lottery that got her a second one—a pink