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Inside Frances Haugenās Decision to Take on Facebook
Blowing the whistle against a multibillion-dollar tech company is no small feat
The Day I Passed for White
As a light-skinned Black woman, I have purposefully passed for white only once in my life. Which is not to say I havenāt passed unintentionally many timesāespecially as a young adult, away from home for the first time. When white folks around me vented their subterranean racism (āBlack kids only get into college because ofā¦
Marjorie Taylor Greene Isnāt a FlukeāShe Might Be the Future
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Itās mighty tempting to treat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as an aberration in Washington, someone so far out of the American political mainstream that she can and should beā¦
The Story of the Jonestown Massacre Is About Much More Than Jim Jones. Weāve Been Fighting to Tell It for Decades
Forty-three years ago, on November 18, 1978, 918 Americans died in a remote jungle in Guyana, South America. One was a U.S. Congressman, three were journalists and 914 were residents of the Peoples Temple agricultural mission known as Jonestown. About 80 members of Peoples Temple who were living in Guyana survived that day. Hundreds ofā¦
In the Standoff Between Belarus and Europe, Migrants Are Being Used as Human Weapons
With thousands of lives at stake, can Brussels de-escalate the situation on the Polish border?
How Joe Bidenās Poor Polling Threatens His Major Social Spending Bill
Joe Biden stood in front of an aging bridge in Woodstock, New Hampshire on Tuesday as some of the first winter snowflakes began to fall, and touted the $550 billion in new infrastructure spending he had just signed into law. But that bipartisan infrastructure law, which will fix bridges and roads and expand Internet accessā¦
In Washington, āBipartisanā Can Mean a Lot of Things
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Lest you missed the rollout of the infrastructure package President Joe Biden signed into law yesterday, he used the word ābipartisanā five times in an unusually efficient 11 minutesā¦
How Early Voting Helped Glenn YoungkināAnd What It Means for Republicans in the Midterms
āāFormer President Donald Trump lost Virginia in 2020 by 10 points after discouraging his own supporters nationwide from trusting the integrity of early voting. But Glenn Youngkin won the stateās governorās race last week in part by telling Virginians to vote early. Now, his victory has created a blueprint for other Republican candidates struggling withā¦
Biden Isnāt Making Things Easy for Two of His Potential Successors
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Thirteen years ago, Barack Obama deployed some of his cold-eyed analysis when it came time to pick a running mate. He wanted to find a partner who was partā¦
How Ryan Kaji Became the Most Popular 10-Year-Old in the World
In human years, Ryan Kaji is 10. In YouTube views, heās 48,597,844,873. If, in our digital age, a personās life can be measured by their online footprint, Ryanās is the size of a brachiosaurās, which, as a lot of Ryanās fans know, is gargantuan. Another way of putting it is that even if every oneā¦
A Spike in Calls to the Veteran Crisis Line Could Signal Trouble for Biden
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, a top adviser to then-candidate Barack Obama and later his White House chief of staff, knows Washington well enough to know that Veterans Dayā¦