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What It Feels Like to Be a Muslim Woman Auctioned Online by India’s Right Wing
Ismat Ara woke on New Year's Day to find that she and others had been "auctioned" in India's latest outrage against Muslim women
Basically Everybody Under 40 Hates Washington
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 kids aren’t OK and they’re ready to vote. That should leave everyone in Washington worried. Millennial and Gen Z Americans—those in their early 40s and younger—already outnumber Baby…
America’s First Openly Trans City Council President Wants to Heal Minneapolis
Andrea Jenkins continues to make history. In 2017, with her election to Minneapolis’ city council, the transgender activist became the first Black openly trans woman ever elected to public office in the United States. Just three years later, she was thrust into the national spotlight as the council member representing the ward where George Floyd…
Russia Has Been Warning About Ukraine for Decades. The West Should Have Listened
When I was a journalist for The Times (London) in Moscow in December 1992, I saw a print-out of a speech by the then Russian foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev, warning that if the West continued to attack vital Russian interests and ignore Russian protests, there would one day be a dangerous backlash. A British journalist…
GM Will Invest $7B in Michigan Plants to Make Electric Vehicles and Batteries
LANSING, Mich. — General Motors is making the largest investment in company history in its home state of Michigan, announcing plans to spend nearly $7 billion to convert a factory to make electric pickup trucks and to build a new battery cell plant. The moves, announced Tuesday in the state capital of Lansing, will create…
As Atlanta DA’s Trump Election Probe Advances, She Explains Her Approach
With a judge having granted her request to seat a special grand jury in the 2020 election investigation, DA Fani Willis talks to TIME
Lena Dunham’s Sharp Stick Is Surprisingly Sweet and Searching—and a Marked Departure for the Director
The new movie is a good reminder not to write off a filmmaker who underwhelmed us in the past
5 Edith Wharton Books to Read After Watching The Gilded Age
From 'The Age of Innocence' to 'Custom of the Country'
China Faces a Host of Problems and the Olympics Haven’t Even Started
In summer 2008, the Beijing Olympics marked a big moment in China’s progress toward global power. With that spotlight came controversy; activists used the event to highlight the government’s human—rights abuses, but the event’s triumphalist pageantry illustrated the story of China’s rise toward prosperity and prestige for a world audience. Since then, China’s ambitions have…
Pfizer and BioNTech Start Studies of an Omicron-Specific Vaccine
The two companies are now testing a vaccine designed to target the Omicron variant
Chinese Streaming Service Changes the End of Fight Club so the Police Win
“Through the clue provided by Tyler, the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding,” the Tencent Video version tells viewers
Pramila Jayapal’s Bid to Change the Uneven Impact of Climate Change
The research showing how climate change-related events disproportionately affect vulnerable communities is staggering. From New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to New York City after Superstorm Sandy, extreme weather events tend to hit minority communities hardest. A 2019 study found that Black Americans living in communities hit by disasters over the study period lost nearly $20,000…