Time International - 02.03.2020

1

ON THE COVER:

Photograph

by Djeneba

Aduayom for

TIME

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

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

7 | How COVID-
could impact the
Tokyo Olympics

10 | Can a White
House envoy deliver
Afghan peace?

12 | TIME with...
physicist Brian
Greene

14 | Trump takes a
Daytona 500 lap

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

17 | Angelina Jolie

on the war in Syria

19 | Ian Bremmer

analyzes the end of

the era of Angela

Merkel

19 | The Houston

Astros spoil spring

training

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

85 | Art: How

Mexican muralists

influenced

American painters

88 | Books:

New novels

explore fraught

relationships,

unfulfilled

dreams and a

city’s complicated

characters

90 | 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 20

Equality Now

Nearly 60 years after the March on

Washington, black Americans are

still fighting an uphill battle

By Tressie McMillan Cottom 30

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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