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After a Terrible Year for Women in the Economy, These Places Are Working Toward a Feminist Recovery From COVID-19
“Without all the work that women did this year, there’d be no economy to rebuild.”
The Case for Abandoning ‘Corporate Responsibility’ When We Judge Company Practices
In an earlier era, green referred to grass and trees and jealous eyes. But over the past half-century, green has taken on a life of its own. The Green movement deals with the collisions and contagions of the contemporary world—how to view them, and how to cure them. The book from which this essay is…
Chelsea Handler: Marijuana Criminalization Has Always Hurt People of Color the Most. The Time for Reform Is Now
On his final day in office Donald Trump, who I never agreed with, did something I completely agree with: he commuted the sentence of a man who was serving a life sentence for possessing marijuana. Ferrell Scott had been in prison in Texas since 2008 for marijuana possession and intent to distribute, and because of…
Exclusive: Inside the Facilities Making the World’s Most Prevalent COVID-19 Vaccine
Behind the scenes at the German facilities making COVID-19 vaccines for the world
The Climate Real Estate Bubble: Is the U.S. on the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?
1171 Shoreham looks much like it did when Anna Zimmerman lived there: modest but presentable. A good starter home for Zimmerman and her husband when they bought it in 2005, for a while it provided an idyllic existence in suburban Charleston, S.C., a community of friendly neighbors for their young child, a quaint backyard and even…
Why the New Sanctions Against Russia Are Really About 2016
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 Kremlin chief liked what he saw. Here was a candidate he could work with: a man campaigning as an American who pledged to withdraw U.S. forces from Europe,…
QAnon Candidates Are Winning Local Elections. Can They Be Stopped?
Conspiracy theorists are winning local elections. Communities are struggling to fight back
The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education
Universities are incorporating climate education into their curriculum to prepare students for future work in a world of climate breakdown
Why Joe Biden Is Ditching a Policing Commission
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 facts aren’t in dispute. America has a policing crisis. Police are more likely to search a Black driver’s car than a white person’s vehicle, even though illicit materials…
States Must Help Schools Tackle the Climate Crisis—Beyond What’s On the Curriculum
Climate change is affecting every facet of our society, and its impacts will only become more dire. In 2020, there were 22 different billion-dollar climate disasters in the United States totaling $95 billion in damages. Costs associated with unabated climate change are projected to increase an estimated $257 billion annually for every 1 degree of…
The Pandemic Remade Every Corner of Society. Now It’s the Climate’s Turn
The intertwining of the economy and climate change promises to alter the shape of global politics and society for the foreseeable future
How Joe Biden’s Pessimism on Afghanistan Won the Day
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. Back in 2009, Joe Biden didn’t get his way when then-President Barack Obama spent much of that year listening to a team packed around the table in a White…