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‘We Must Have a Third Reconstruction.’ Read the Full Text of the Rev. William J. Barber II’s Sermon at the Inaugural Prayer Service
The Rev. William J. Barber II delivered the homily at the inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, January 21. His sermon is below. Lord, please help, hold and harness us for Your purposes and for Your glory. Amen. Our text this morning comes from the prophet Isaiah, chapter 58. It begins, “This…
Inside Joe Biden’s Agenda for His First 100 Days
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in as President on March 4, 1933, a quarter of Americans were unemployed and multitudes were living in shanty-towns. By the end of his first 100 days in office, he had pushed 15 bills through Congress, revamped the financial and agricultural systems, expanded unemployment relief and laid the foundation…
The U.S. Fumbled Its Early Vaccine Rollout. Will the Biden Administration Put America Back on Track?
Inside the failures of the U.S. vaccine rollout--and how it can be fixed
How President Biden Handles a Divided America Will Define His Legacy
The quest for unity will be President Joe Biden's defining test
Republicans Are Split Over Trump’s Second Impeachment—and the Party’s Future
“What are you afraid of?” Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican congresswoman from Washington state, demanded of her colleagues as they considered the second impeachment of Donald Trump. “I’m not afraid of losing my job,” Herrera Beutler said. “But I am afraid that my country will fail.” There is more than fear swirling around the GOP…
Joe Biden Was My Best Man. Now He’s My President
I met Joe Biden in the early 1960s. He was 19. I was 14. I was raised in a poor, poor Black family. At home, I had no food at the table sometimes. In those days especially, most folks were afraid to come to a neighborhood like mine. But Joe was not. He was a…
Donald Trump Is on His Way Out of the White House, But Not Our Lives
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. Donald Trump now has fewer than 24 hours to wield presidential power. By this time tomorrow, he will be in Florida — stripped of his unchecked right to issue…
A Photographer’s Diary of 12 Turbulent Months in Trump’s America
It would be too much to say that if you’ve seen one Trump rally you’ve seen them all. But “they all follow a predictable pattern,” says Peter van Agtmael, who has been attending them since 2016. As a news photographer, “You have a lot of nice conversations, and maybe one or two people aren’t very…
Joe Biden’s Pick to Lead the Pentagon Was on Shaky Ground. Then the Insurrectionists Came
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. Almost everything about the deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week will make President-elect Joe Biden’s hard job harder when he takes office next week. But there is one…
GOP Leaders Seem to Want a Trump Divorce. But They Can’t Bring Themselves to Sign the Papers
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 were having flashbacks to a school playground yesterday with echoes of “Psych!” ringing in your ears, there was a good chance you were watching Congress impeach President…
How One Atlanta Church Impacted Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement and Incoming Sen. Raphael Warnock
King, like Warnock, was a pastor at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church.
White American Christianity Needs to Be Honest About Its History of White Supremacy
In the past few days, I’ve seen all kinds of statements from Christian leaders trying to distance themselves from the violent mob at the Capitol. Christian writers known for their thoughtfulness lament that “somehow” white supremacy has crept into our churches, and the faculty of a major evangelical institution put out a manifesto saying that…