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ON THE COVER:

Photograph by

Mickalene Thomas

for TIME

4 | Conversation
6 | For the Record

The Brief
News from the U.S.
and around the world

9 | Consumers bear
the brunt of the
escalating U.S.-
China trade war

11 | Stateless in
India

12 | A Tennessee
school bans Harry
Potter

13 | The
authenticity of
Valerie Harper

14 | TIME with...
former U.N.
ambassador
Samantha Power

16 | Dorian’s
wrath

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

19 | Kate McQuade

on teaching

trauma literature

to the snowflake

generation

21 | Ian Bremmer

on China’s

confident patience

with Hong Kong

21 | No battle of

the sexes in space

Features

Big Tech’s Friendly Face

Microsoft’s Brad Smith has assumed the role of global

ambassador for the embattled tech industry

By Romesh Ratnesar 22

Battle Lines

The party that wins statehouses will determine the

shape of Congress for the next decade By Philip Elliott 28

The Perils of Parliament

U.K. lawmakers are debating Brexit in a palace that is

falling down around them By Billy Perrigo 32

Fall Arts Preview

Margaret Atwood returns to Gilead with The Testaments

By Lucy Feldman 38

Inside Ryan Murphy’s TV empire By Sam Lansky 42

Hollywood star Michael B. Jordan is building more than

a brand By Kara Brown 46

Plus: Fall’s most anticipated TV, movies and books

52 | 6 Questions for brain expert Gina Rippon

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VOL. 194, NO. 10 | 2019

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Britain’s iconic Houses

of Parliament need not

just a face-lift but a gut

renovation

Photograph by

Ben Quinton for TIME

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