Time USA – September 02, 2019

2 Time Sept. 2–9, 2019

ON THE COVER:

Nicole Grimes,

a waitress at the

Broad Street

Diner, cleans a

table during her

night shift on

July 22

ON THE COVER

AND ABOVE:

Photographs by

Sasha Arutyunova

for TIME

5 | Conversation
8 | For the Record

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

11 | Trump’s
ad hoc foreign
policy

13 | The fight over
deforestation

15 | Milestones:
counterculture
star Peter Fonda

16 | When
policing goes
wrong

22 | TIME with...
tennis phenom
Coco Gauff

24 | Massacre at a
Kabul wedding

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

29 | James

Stavridis on why

more troops won’t

solve the southern

border crisis

31 | Ian Bremmer

on the dangers

of politically

induced

economic

trouble

31 | New

questions about

fluoride in your

water

32 | Vote for

her—and her, and

her, and her

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

109 | On the set

of Donna Tartt’s

The Goldfinch

112 | Reviews:

the next Game

of Thrones;

Kirsten Dunst in

Central Florida;

Sundance hit

Jawline

114 | Books:

Salman Rushdie’s

Quichotte;

Edwidge

Danticat’s

Everything

Inside; Christy

Lefteri’s The

Beekeeper of

Aleppo

116 | 9 Questions

for poet laureate

Joy Harjo

Features

Living on Tips

What it’s like to scrape by on $2.13 an hour

By Alana Semuels and Malcolm Burnley 40

Lost at Sea

Finding family with DNA technology

By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson 50

Mississippi Rising

Guarding against the Big Flood

By Boyce Upholt 56

Farming Controversy

Should humans grow octopus?

By Tik Root 62

Cleveland’s Comeback

New hope for the Browns, and their

hometown By Sean Gregory 68

Brand JoJo

JoJo Siwa’s persona is not for sale

By Jamie Lauren Keiles 74

World’s Greatest Places

TIME’s annual list 81

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VOL. 194, NOS. 8–9 | 2019

△

In the kitchen

at the Broad

Street Diner in

Philadelphia,

waitress

Christina

Munce keeps

her daughter’s

photo next to her

pad for taking

orders

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