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The snow had just melted on the streets of Kyiv when Shawn Fuller, a U.S. Navy veteran, arrived in the early spring of 2018, his roller suitcase clattering over the pavestones of the Ukrainian capital. On the western edge of town, he found the address that his recruiter had sent him via Facebook, a flophouse…

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. There was no doubt that the dark red smear left on the first-floor bust of Zachary Taylor was blood. Nor was there doubt that rioters had ransacked the second-floor…

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. Around this time in January 1993, the last incumbent President to lose his re-election bid flew to West Point, N.Y., to stand before a sea of cadets in their…

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. You’re probably still getting used to writing 2021 on your checks, but if you are closely watching Congress this week, it feels an awful lot like the start of…

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 want to know what the next two years in Washington will be like, watch the next two days in Georgia. Tomorrow, voters in Georgia will decide if…

'This isn't about ice packs and Band-Aids.'

In the 2020 elections, 334 openly LGBTQ candidates won office; the highest ever in any election year

This year, voters across the country faced a myriad of barriers to casting their vote — a global pandemic, a concerted disinformation campaign waged by the President and his allies and amplified by foreign adversaries, shifting deadlines, hours-long wait times to vote, confusing new rules, voter purges, intimidation, discrimination and more. Despite these obstacles, Americans…

Plucky soccer team Wuhan Zall has been an inspiration to residents of COVID-19's ground zero

A group of Brooklyn students are on the vanguard of change in the once-staid world of competitive oratory—even if not everyone wants to hear what they have to say

Between the glitzy parties, secret backstories and climactic murder in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby, there’s a tiny detail that readers may have missed: right before he gets in a car with antagonist Tom Buchanan—the ride that kicks off the novel’s tragic end—narrator Nick Carraway realizes he’s forgotten his own birthday. It’s…

A range of artists throughout the U.S. and Latin America have redesigned the classic Mexican Lotería, which is now more than a century old.