Time USA - 16.09.2019

2 Time September 16, 2019

ON THE COVERS:

Photographs by

Mickalene Thomas

for TIME

4 | Conversation
7 | For the Record

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

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

15 | Stateless in
India

16 | A Tennessee
school bans Harry
Potter

17 | The
authenticity of
Valerie Harper

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

24 | Dorian’s
wrath

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

29 | Kate McQuade

on teaching

trauma literature

to the snowflake

generation

31 | Ian Bremmer

on China’s

confident patience

with Hong Kong

31 | No battle of

the sexes in space

33 | Breakfast, the

new family meal

37 | Should

children drink

juice?

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 38

Battle Lines

The party that wins statehouses will determine the

shape of Congress for the next decade By Philip Elliott 44

The Perils of Parliament

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

falling down around them By Billy Perrigo 48

Fall Arts Preview

Margaret Atwood returns to Gilead with The Testaments

By Lucy Feldman 54

Inside Ryan Murphy’s TV empire By Sam Lansky 58

Hollywood star Michael B. Jordan is building more than

a brand By Kara Brown 62

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

68 | 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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