Time - USA (2020-09-21)

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ON THE COVER:

Photograph by

Campbell Addy

for TIME

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

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

7 | Unpaid bills
could trigger
widespread
power cuts

11 | California’s
fire season sets a
record

12 | TIME with...
author and poet
Claudia Rankine

14 | Colleges
reopen but
without the social
bustle

18 | Wuhan,
desperate to banish
bad memories,
attempts normality

The View
Ideas, opinion,
innovations

19 | David French
on division and
unity in America

21 | Ian Bremmer
on a world without
Shinzo Abe
leading Japan

22 | Sean Gregory
on a new paradigm
for sports
activism

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

83 | Women

filmmakers nail

the horror of 2020

86 | Movies:

Antebellum is

Janelle Monáe’s

nightmare; Cuties

captures an impa-

tient awakening

88 | Television:

Back to Italy in We

Are Who We Are; a

comic Woke; a case

that never gets old

in A Wilderness of

Error

90 | Books: Sigrid

Nunez’s new novel,

September fiction

and Quick Talk

with Jane Fonda

92 | 10 Questions

for Netflix co-CEO

Reed Hastings

Features

The COVID Collapse

How the U.S. went from first

to worst By Alex Fitzpatrick

and Elijah Wolfson 24

Plus: The race for a vaccine

By Alice Park 30

Permanent Record

A protest arrest can

alter a life

By Melissa Chan 38

Reparations Paid

Is Florida’s compensation

for the Rosewood massacre

a model for the nation?

By Victor Luckerson 44

Alternate Reality

Conspiracy theories

are changing the fabric of

U.S. democracy

By Charlotte Alter 56

Keeping It Down

Trump’s false claims about

voting are having an effect

By Vera Bergengruen and

Lissandra Villa 60

Power Player

As Energy Secretary,

Rick Perry helped friends

and donors

By Simon Shuster and

Ilya Marritz 66

Freedom of

Expression

Why I let my child create

their own gender identity

By Kyl Myers 74

In Vogue

Editor Edward Enninful is

the face of inclusive fashion

By Diana Evans 78

VOL. 196, NOS. 11–12 | 2020

△

The Ismael

siblings in

Troy, Mich.,

lost both

parents to

COVID-

within weeks of

each other

Photograph

by Salwan

Georges—The

Washington

Post/Getty

Images

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