Time - USA (2020-08-17)

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ON THE COVER:

Illustration by

Tim O’Brien for

TIME

4 | Conversation
6 | For the Record

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

7 | The geopolitics of
TikTok

10 | Mars madness

14 | Finding
community at the
drive-in

19 | Lobsters
trapped in trade
tussle

20 | TIME with...
California
Congresswoman
Katie Porter

22 | Explosion in
Beirut

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

25 | Dr. Ashish K.

Jha on the COVID-

19 test we need

27 | Ellen Urbani

on being shot by

federal agents

28 | Lyz Lenz on a

new deal for moms

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

93 | Wellness takes

over for makeovers

on reality TV

96 | Movies: Seth

Rogen’s crisp An

American Pickle;

getting in on the

mystery of Martin

Margiela; anxiety

rules in She Dies

Tomorrow

98 | Books: Ariel

Sabar reveals the

truth about Jesus’

wife; Yun Ko-eun’s

The Disaster

Tourist; Charlotte

McConaghy’s novel

Migrations

100 | 6 Questions for

Bill Gates

Features

Plague Politics

Coronavirus remakes an election

By Molly Ball 30 Biden’s digital

challenge By Charlotte Alter 38

The Police Are Broken

Here’s how to fix public safety

By Josiah Bates and Karl Vick 44

Capturing Community

Earlie Hudnall Jr.’s Houston

By Paul Moakley 56

Make Way for Robots

Technology is gobbling jobs lost to

the pandemic By Alana Semuels 64

The COVID Depression

The economic fallout will be seismic

By Ian Bremmer 72

Special Report: Sleep

The business By Kelsey McKinney 78

The music By Andrew R. Chow 83

The science By Alice Park 84 The

balm By Jeffrey Kluger 87 Your

inner clock By Mandy Oaklander 88

A bedtime story By Phoebe Smith 90

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VOL. 196, NOS. 7–8 | 2020

△

Bouncing Boys

(1981). “The

yard becomes an

extension of the

house when it’s

hot,” says Hudnall.

“In the inner city,

people learn to

improvise to live

and survive.”

Photograph by

Earlie Hudnall Jr.

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