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From Cars to Toasters, America’s Semiconductor Shortage Is Wreaking Havoc on Our Lives. Can We Fix It?
Semiconductors drive the world, but America is running short on them. Can the country catch up?
How Dr. Becky Became the Millennial Parenting Whisperer
How Dr. Becky became an Instagram obsession for anxious millennials with kids
#FreeBritney Activists Were Dismissed for Years. The Star’s Explosive Testimony Changed Everything
‘No one can say that we're conspiracy theorists.'
This is the Queerest Congress Ever. Will It Advance LGBTQ Rights?
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. For many Americans, it’s all too easy to assume that the fight for LGBTQ rights has been won. After all, same-sex couples have enjoyed the same right to marriage…
How One Drag Performer’s Overlooked Activism Helped Lay the Groundwork for Today’s Fight for Transgender Rights
In the Los Angeles club scene of the 1960s, Sir Lady Java—a dancer, comedian and drag queen—was a two-shows-a-night fixture. “I loved the people that came to see me, it delighted me,” she says, flipping through a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the era, featuring her photographed in glamorous clothing, lying on luxurious feathered rugs.…
A’Ziah ‘Zola’ King on Making an Authentic Film Adaptation of Her Viral Story—and What Comes Next
'I'm just really glad that my authentic personality is the reason why this happened'
Minneapolis Police Were Cleared in the 2013 Killing of Terrance Franklin. A Video Complicates the Story—and Now the Case May Be Reopened
A long-overlooked video and its scratchy audio are key to demands that Terrance Franklin's shooting death by Minneapolis police in 2013 be re-examined
‘Someone’s Going to Be Left Holding the Bag.’ How Finance TikTok Is Navigating ‘Meme Stock’ Hype Among Young Investors
Popular finance TikTok creators say meme stock mania is fueling unrealistic expectations around investing
Why Must Women Wait for the Supreme Court to Decide What We Can Do With Our Bodies?
I knew what abortion was even before I knew how babies were made. As a child in the hot brick Baptist churches of Texas, I was told that there were women who threw babies in the trash. That there were women who were so selfish that they murdered. My mother showed me pictures of fetal…
Simone Biles Is Already the Best Gymnast Ever. She’ll Be Even Better for Tokyo
When you’ve won seven national championships, 19 world titles, five Olympic medals (four of them gold), and your leotards are already decorated with a rhinestone goat (a nod to Greatest of All Time status), is there anything left to prove? For most people, the answer is no. But Simone Biles is not like most people,…
‘Critical Race Theory Is Simply the Latest Bogeyman.’ Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America’s History
During the 15-minute observation period after receiving his COVID-19 shot this March, Terry Harris pulled out his phone. There in the Vashon High School gymnasium, during a vaccination drive for St. Louis–area teachers, the executive director of student services at the suburban Rockwood school district in Missouri noticed an email addressed to himself and district…
Stephen Breyer May Stay on the Supreme Court Just to Spite Politics
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The frustration in Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s voice during a Tuesday afternoon lecture at Harvard back in April was unmistakable. Speaking to his alma mater, the senior liberal…