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2 Time December 2–9, 2019

THIS PAGE:

Learned hand: a new
prosthetic uses sensors
and AI to intuit
movement

Photograph by
Joe Lingeman for TIME

4 | Conversation
6 | For the Record

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

11 | A violent new
phase in Hong Kong

13 | Iran shuts down
the Internet to quell
protests

15 | A belated apology
from Bloomberg

20 | TIME with... the
head of the WHO

22 | High floods in
Venice

The View
Ideas, opinion, innovations

25 | David French on
the stakes in Ukraine

29 | Elliot Ackerman
on pardons that defile
the military

35 | Angelina Jolie on
children’s rights

36 | Teaching kids
about Thanksgiving;
celebrating without
turkey

VOL. 194, NOS. 24–25 | 2019

ON THE COVER:

Art by Delcan &
Company for TIME;
photographed by
Jamie Chung

THE 100 BEST

TIME’s annual guide includes a heated razor, recyclable sneakers,

a hearing aid that talks and a robot that rolls pg 66

THE 16 DEFINING

The end of elitism, ailing unicorns, eco-anxiety, and other

debates and trends that shaped 2019 pg 40

THE 100 MUST-READ

This year’s most riveting fiction, stirring memoirs

and more pg 105

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