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Corporations Struggle to Back Voting Rights and Protect the Bottom Line
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEâs politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The task is inherently impossible. If anyone has figured out how to position a corporation as a socially conscious neighbor who still chases profit while keeping useful lawmakers closeâŚ
Does Birth Order Really Determine Personality? Hereâs What the Research Says
One Friday afternoon at a party, Iâm sitting next to a mother of two. Her baby is only a couple of weeks old. Theyâd taken a long time, she tells me, to come up with a name for their second child. After all, theyâd already used their favorite name: it had gone to their first.âŚ
Why Joe Biden Holds Out Hope For Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEâs politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. When the White House back in January said it would prefer a bipartisan COVID-19 relief package, 10 Republican Senators sat down and drew up their outline. It was smallerâŚ
Blue States Are Failing Their Students by Not Reopening Schools. Hereâs How They Got It So Wrong
More than a year into the pandemic, the majority of K-12 students in blue states are still not attending school in person full-time. The failure to resume the normal rhythm of schooling in historically progressive states amounts to the most significant failure of public policy in a generation. What began as needed and understandable cautionâŚ
âHaunted Countries Deserve Haunted Stories.â How Americaâs History of Racial Housing Discrimination Inspired Amazonâs New Horror Series THEM
The first season of the horror anthology series offers a haunting look at the history of racially restrictive covenants
Why a Weakened NRA May Still Block Joe Bidenâs Moves on Guns
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEâs politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Matthew Lacombe literally wrote the book on the NRAâs political power. Well, at least its most recent version, published last month from Princeton University Press. He also teaches anâŚ
The Wheels Seem to be Coming Off Democratsâ Infrastructure Plans
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEâs politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The week began filled with optimism for Democratsâ ambitions. The Senate rules maven said unexpectedly that Democrats could use the procedural equivalent of a quadruple jump in Olympic iceâŚ
How a New Kung Fu TV Series Is Reclaiming Much More Than Just the Martial Arts
Part of Kung Fu's authenticity is how the series centers a Chinese American family that just âexists,â according to the star of the new CW show
Higher Education Has a Tax Problem and Itâs Hurting Local Communities
On March 30, 2020, toward the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic, New Haven citizens stormed the cityâs Zoom budget meeting to vent their outrage at Yale Universityâs continued strain on city finances. Residents specifically pointed to Yaleâs vast and tax-exempt property holdings compared to the deficit-ridden New Haven public schools hungry for property-tax dollars.âŚ
Mitch McConnell Tries to Have it Both Ways on Corporate Cash
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEâs politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. I thought Twitter had to have it wrong. It wouldnât be the first time the partisan corners of social media had taken something out of context or intentionally leftâŚ
Marc Elias Fought Trumpâs 2020 Election Lawsuits. Can He Win The Battle Over Voting Rights?
The pandemic relegated Democratic power lawyer Marc Elias to fighting election lawsuits on an iPad from his home in Northern Virginia. He traded his suit and tie for a sweatshirt, and he argued cases with his two dogs lying next to him on the couch. Thatâs where he worked last fall as Donald Trumpâs campaignâŚ