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How a False Sense of Security, and a Little Secret Tea, Broke Down Taiwan’s COVID-19 Defenses
A Lions Club meeting and tea houses in Taipei's red light district helped break down the world's most vaunted COVID-19 protections
Our System Criminalizes Black Pregnancy. As a District Attorney, I Refuse to Prosecute These Cases
Reproductive health remains overly criminalized and stigmatized with little to no acknowledgement. There are more than 1,200 documented cases of women, disproportionately Black and working-class women, who have been arrested because of their pregnancy outcomes since 1973. We have neglected these women for far too long. It’s time to challenge how the criminal-justice system has…
Shelters From Reynosa to Tijuana Are at Capacity and Scrambling for Resources as the U.S. Continues to Expel Migrants
Shelters in Mexican border cities are at capacity and scrambling for resources as the U.S. continues to expel migrants under Trump-era rule.
Why Did Republicans Balk at a Jan. 6 Commission? Donald Trump
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. It’s been quite a week already for Rep. John Katko. On Monday, he joined the Leadership team of his fellow House Republicans, replacing his colleague Elise Stefanik who got…
A Progressive Window Closed Hard — And Perhaps Way Too Early
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. At one of the worst points in this pandemic, when the United States was averaging more than 60,000 new cases a day and unemployment stood at 8%, a solid…
I Visited My Grandkids After 16 Months and Realized How Much the Pandemic Had Changed Me
Eight days after I was fully vaccinated, I boarded my first flight in 16 months. What a moment. I settled into my seat and took a deep breath, sucking in my mask to give it that nice, sealed plastic-wrap feeling. Then I combed my fingers through my hair and ignited a fire on the right…
How Juul Got Vaporized
On June 7, North Carolina attorney general Josh Stein will enter a Durham courtroom with a mission: proving that the e-cigarette company Juul Labs purposely targeted teenagers with its nicotine-rich products. If Stein—who in 2019 became the first state attorney general in the U.S. to sue Juul—is successful, the vaping company may be in for…
Comedian Patti Harrison Has Her First Leading Role—But She’s Not Looking to Stop Goofing Around
The comedian talks to TIME about her new film, her first leading role, and her hopes for transgender characters in entertainment
The Left is Running Out of Patience with Biden’s Bipartisan Push on Infrastructure
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. Washington is a place of patterns. A new President takes office. He — and, this newsletter will note that it’s always a he, until it’s not — runs his…
If We Really Believe Farmworkers Are Essential, We Must Protect Their Mental Health
America faces a mental health crisis that predates the pandemic but has been significantly worsened by it. Employees have felt incredible stress, burnout, financial insecurity, increased strains on their mental health and a lack of supervisor support for more than a year now. This is especially true of essential workers. In an American Psychological Association…
Colson Whitehead and Margaret Atwood Discuss The Underground Railroad, The Handmaid’s Tale and the Challenges of Adaptation
As one show debuts and the other enters its fourth season, the acclaimed authors discuss the experience of having their novels adapted for the screen
Americans Have Learned to Talk About Racial Inequality. But They’ve Done Little to Solve It
Janell Ross reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t—one year after America’s so-called racial reckoning