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Myanmar’s Military Didn’t Just Overthrow Aung San Suu Kyi’s Government. It’s Cracking Down on All Forms of Dissent
The arrest of activists and writers is a sign that the coup is an attempt to crush the fragile political liberalization
Biden Wants to Reopen Schools Within 100 Days. Here’s Why That Might Not Happen
The debate over how or whether to reopen schools is more heated than ever as teacher unions demand safety assurances and vaccines
Trump Created So Much Tension in Washington, Even Sledding at the Capitol Is Barred
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 snowed in Washington yesterday. With two inches on the ground, it was the most winter weather we’ve seen in two years, and more could be on the way…
Rebranding America Is Very On-Brand
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. Ping-pong diplomacy broke the Cold War fever. In the United States, ping-pong policy followed, and more or less has set the course of what the nation stands for ever…
We Can End Hunger in America—If We’re Willing to Make Significant Changes to Our Food System
Throughout the pandemic we’ve heard the same rallying cry – let’s not return to what we did before but use this as a moment for thoughtful, strategic change. The food system must be approached in the same way. With the public health crisis making Americans increasingly aware of where their food comes from, business as…
Why Republicans Can’t Win on QAnon-Supporting Marjorie Taylor Greene
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. In Washington, there’s a pretty set playbook for when politicians or their aides find themselves with an onslaught of negative headlines filling the inbox and hostility knocking at the…
Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Not a Sign of Progress. It’s a Sign of Disrespect
The Biden Administration announced its plan to return to an Obama-era initiative to put Harriet Tubman’s face on the U.S. $20 bill. Her image would replace Andrew Jackson, the notoriously racist President, known both for owning hundreds of slaves and for his brutal and genocidal policy of Indian removal. Based on current designs, a statue…
How One Writer Uncovered the Lost Histories of 999 Women and Girls Who Were Sent to Auschwitz
“Intellectual men have owned Holocaust literature. I truly believe it is misogyny, and I also think it’s classist"
A Crime Epidemic Has Cost Americans Billions. Why Aren’t More People Paying Attention?
On Monday, the state of California made a startling announcement: Last year, the state lost more than $11 billion as a result of unemployment benefits fraud—“billion” with a “b”—and another $20 billion is under investigation. The Associated Press attributed this to “sophisticated hackers, identity thieves and overseas criminal rings,” and though the news was surely…
What Rand Paul’s Procedural Failure Says About Donald Trump’s Survival
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. Sen. Rand Paul lost the very first procedural vote of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. But you’d never know it from the way he crowed afterward. “The…
In Less Than a Minute, Biden Changes U.S.-Russian Dynamics
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 a busy week in Washington. President Joe Biden yesterday reversed his predecessor’s ban on transgender individuals from serving in uniform, boosted a Buy American program for manufacturing…
Why You Don’t Feel as Fulfilled From Your Job as You Think You Should
Work Won’t Love You Back is a provocative title for book coming out at a time when many Americans are logging extra hours during the pandemic. But author Sarah Jaffe, whose book hits shelves on Jan. 26, argues that the “love your work” mantra is a myth of capitalism. For most of human history workers…