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How a $1,200 Check Brought Together an Unlikely Pair: Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders
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’s a reason that Washington is weary right now. The American death toll from COVID-19 hit the grim marker of 300,000 as the week began. Congress needs to figure…
How Black Brazilians Are Looking to a Slavery-Era Form of Resistance to Fight Racial Injustice Today
A dozen people are dancing around a bonfire in a yard between two large warehouses in São Paulo. It’s early November and members of Quilombaque—a Black community hub in Perus, a poor neighborhood on the city’s northern fringes—are celebrating. They’ve raised 50% of the funds they need to buy the space they’ve occupied for the…
President-elect Joe Biden Tells Republicans That He’s Done With Their Games
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. Dropping much of the let’s-all-come-together comity from recent weeks, President-elect Joe Biden showed just how out-of-patience he has become with his predecessor and his allies. Where Biden initially treated…
A Racial Justice Campaign Brought New Attention to Indonesia’s Poorest Region. Will It Translate to Support for Independence?
"Papuan Lives Matter" made Indonesians consider the struggle in West Papua in the context of racism
Joe Biden Says He Opposes the Death Penalty. He Can Help End It With the Stroke of a Pen
Fifty-two. That’s how many people await execution—people who are being legally tortured by a federal government and a broken criminal-legal system that shouldn’t have the power to force death on any human being. There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society. On December 10, at 9:27 p.m., Brandon Bernard became…
Why State-Run Vaccine Delivery Could Be Bumpy
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. We are about to take Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis’ assertion from 1932 that states are the laboratories of democracy to its extreme interpretation. States are now simply the…
How Jill Biden Went From Kamala Harris Skeptic to #KHive Member
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. The cookies were plated, but the welcome mat was performative. At least at first. To understand the dynamics of the incoming White House, it’s worth stopping for a minute…
Alex Wheatle on the Life Story That Inspired Steve McQueen’s Latest Small Axe Film
The fourth installment in Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe' anthology portrays the teenage years of novelist Alex Wheatle, and his participation in the 1981 Brixton Uprising
Hunter Biden Is Under Investigation. Why Liberals Should Take Comfort
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. The news had finally started to leak. CNN this week had contacted Joe Biden’s transition team for comment on a forthcoming report that federal prosecutors in Delaware were pursuing…
Congress Gives Itself Another Week to Chase Pandemic Relief
That seismic shake in Washington last night was Pelosi and Schumer slamming the door on the White House’s latest COVID-19 relief offer
Rescue Animals Are TIME’s 2020 Pet of the Year
"In the end, I've got antibodies and a dog named Fauci"
Why Joe Biden Can’t Seem to Make Anyone Happy With His Cabinet Picks
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. When Vice President-elect Joe Biden introduces his health team today, he’ll be bringing back to the fore the former Surgeon General from the Barack Obama era, along with the…