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Why Joe Biden Should Stick to the May 1 Deadline to Bring Home Troops From Afghanistan
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s impromptu visit to Kabul over the weekend where he claimed the United States seeks a “responsible end” to the war followed Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s letter to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and a leaked U.S. peace plan. These moves have made one thing clear: Washington’s foreign-policy elite is once…
Non-Discrimination Protections Are Hugely Popular — Yet Far From Law
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. If you watched last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about an anti-discrimination bill to protect the rights of LGBTQ Americans, you’d have come away thinking the series of safeguards…
Sesame Workshop Is Talking More Explicitly About Race—and Welcoming Two Black Muppets
Bradley Freeman Jr. was doing some Christmas shopping at Target when he got the email. Glancing down at his phone, all he could see was a preview: “Hey Brad, thanks for taking the time to audition for us …” He immediately assumed he had been rejected. Then he read the rest. “I had to read…
My White Adoptive Parents Struggled to See Me as Korean. Would They Have Understood My Anger at the Rise in Anti-Asian Violence?
For the last year, and especially since the devastating Atlanta-area murders on March 16, many of my Asian American friends have been sharing deeply personal, painful stories of talking with their parents and elders, pleading with them to take care, being exhorted to be careful in turn. As an adoptee, I don’t really have Asian…
Sorry. D.C. Statehood Isn’t Likely
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 anyone who has been in Washington for more than a minute, the arguments for statehood are well-worn territory. Residents of Washington, D.C., pay the highest per capita tax…
The Democrats Must Work as Hard for Black Voters as We Worked for Them. Here’s What Needs to Be Done
Black communities have a long history of fighting to make America real. Daring to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., to secure our right to vote, taking to the streets to defend our lives from police violence, bringing our protest to the polls, Black communities boldly advance an equitable economy and just democracy.…
What an Expert on Evangelicals and Sex Says About the Atlanta Shooter’s Claim He Had a Sex Addiction
On March 16, a gunman shot nine people in three Asian spas in Georgia, and killed eight. The Atlanta Police Department said the shooter told them that he was a sex addict and was seeking to eliminate the temptation that he perceived these outlets represented. It’s not completely clear that sex work took place at…
‘You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Do the Right Thing.’ Colombia’s President Iván Duque on Welcoming Venezuelan Refugees
Why Colombia opened its arms to Venezuelan refugees
How Foster Families Are Stepping Up to House Unaccompanied Children Arriving at the U.S.-Mexico Border
The rise of unaccompanied migrant children at the border is a challenge for agencies having to rebuild gutted systems to shelter them
For Asians Living in the Shadow of the Atlanta Killings, Anger and ‘Just This Constant Fear’
For Asians in Atlanta, the shootings bring up long-hidden accounts of anti-Asian behavior
How Whitney Wolfe Herd Turned a Vision of a Better Internet Into a Billion-Dollar Brand
Whitney Wolfe Herd turned a vision of a better Internet into a billion-dollar brand
‘This Isn’t Just a Problem for North America.’ The Atlanta Shooting Highlights the Painful Reality of Rising Anti-Asian Violence Around the World
“It’s felt by the whole of the East and South East Asian community”