Time USA - 02.03.2020

1

ON THE COVER:

Portrait by

Hank Willis

Thomas and

Digital Domain

for TIME

2 | From the Editor
4 | Conversation
9 | For the Record

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

15 | How COVID-
could impact the
Tokyo Olympics

18 | Can a White
House envoy deliver
Afghan peace?

20 | Your brain
knows the meds
you need

22 | TIME with...
physicist Brian
Greene

24 | Trump takes a
Daytona 500 lap

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

27 | Angelina Jolie

on the war in Syria

29 | Ian Bremmer

analyzes the end of

the era of Angela

Merkel

29 | The Houston

Astros spoil spring

training

30 | Parenting while

working

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

97 | Art: How

Mexican muralists

influenced

American painters

100 | Books:

New novels

explore fraught

relationships,

unfulfilled

dreams and a

city’s complicated

characters

102 | Best video-

game releases of

2020

Features

Her Case for Compassion

New Zealand Prime Minister

Jacinda Ardern offers a new

leadership model

By Belinda Luscombe 32

Equality Now

Nearly 60 years after the March on

Washington, black Americans are

still fighting an uphill battle

By Tressie McMillan Cottom 42

PLUS:

Students fight to save a school,

water woes, the battle against voter

suppression, the costs of unequal

health care and unfair landlords

Viewpoints: Annette Gordon-Reed,

Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade,

Janet Mock, Ken Masugi, R. Eric

Thomas, John Lewis and more

Q&As: Bryan Stevenson, Kimberlé

Crenshaw and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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VOL. 195, NOS. 7–8 | 2020

△

Traci Burton

checks out a

cracked mirror at

Benton Harbor

High School on

Feb. 10

Photograph by

Adeline Lulo for

TIME

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