Time - USA (2020-05-18)

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2 | Conversation
4 | For the Record

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

5 | Politics prevents
clear answers on
the origins of
COVID-

7 | ISIS sees
a chance for a
comeback

8 | The weak link
in the food supply
chain

9 | Bollywood loses
Rishi Kapoor

10 | TIME with...
Top Chef host
Padma Lakshmi

12 | Disneyland
without the crowds

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

15 | Health care

workers can be

heroes without

being compared to

soldiers

17 | Ian Bremmer

on America’s

advantages

post-coronavirus

17 | Pandemic email

etiquette

18 | Belinda

Luscombe on not

going it alone

19 | Colum McCann

on how the virus

could teach us to

change

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

45 | Podcasts

to help close the

distance

48 | Television:

Mark Ruffalo as

twins in I Know

This Much Is True;

cool jazz in The

Eddy; legal saga in

the docuseries Trial

by Media

50 | Books: A new

memoir from

Bill Buford,

a novel from Anna

Solomon and

poetry by Jenny

Zhang

52 | 8 Questions for

likely third-party

candidate Justin

Amash

Features

Without a Net

How COVID-19 triggered an

economic collapse that has put

millions on the edge of ruin

By Alana Semuels 20

Plus: Faces of the crisis 23

Viewpoint: This pandemic

should be a pivot point

By Rutger Bregman 34

Criminal Obsession

Locked-down viewers are

devouring true crime. The families

of victims are not enjoying the show

By Melissa Chan 36

Bee Attitudes

Learning from Slovenia,

where beekeepers are deemed

essential workers

By Mélissa Godin 40

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VOL. 195, NO. 18 | 2020

△

Workers at Iron

Gate, a soup

kitchen and

grocery pantry

in Tulsa, Okla.,

which has served

more than 1,

households since

March 15—an

increase of roughly

40% from the same

time last year

Photograph by

September Dawn

Bottoms for TIME

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