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by Sean Freeman

and Eve Steben

for TIME

8 | Conversation

10 | For the Record

The Brief

News from the U.S.
and around the world

13 | Georgia at

the center of the

political universe

19 | The failure of

contact- tracing

apps in the U.S.

24 | Milestones:

SpaceX, and MLB’s

first female GM

26 | TIME with ...
underwater

filmmaker
Craig Foster

28 | Postcard from

reopened Hawaii

30 | Hunger in
America

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

35 | David French

on who can stop

conspiracy

theories

37 | Ian Bremmer on

Biden’s uncertain

world

37 | What’s missing

in the new Spider-

Man video game

38 | Nicole Chung

on grieving without

the help of ritual

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

109 | The 100 must-

read books of 2020

include Brit Bennett’s

The Vanishing Half,

Hilary Mantel’s

The Mirror &

the Light, Isabel

Wilkerson’s Caste,

Cathy Park Hong’s

Minor Feelings, and

The Dead Are Arising

by Les Payne and

Tamara Payne

118 | 6 Questions for

Riz Ahmed

Features

Be Clear on the

Present Danger

The third wave of COVID-19 is the

worst By Jamie Ducharme 40

Plus:

Doctor burnout By Tara Law 46

Vaccines explained By Alice Park 48

Rapid testing could stop the spread

by Christmas By Michael Mina 50

Lost in the Pandemic

A New York woman’s lonely journey

to an unmarked grave

By W.J. Hennigan 52

Pop-Star Populist

Bobi Wine’s risky campaign to oust

Uganda’s strongman

By Aryn Baker 62

Best Inventions 2020

A smarter beehive, a hydrogen

airplane and more 69

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VOL. 19 6, NOS. 20–21 | 2020

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Cars line up at a

Houston Food Bank

distribution at George

Bush Intercontinental

Airport on Nov. 17

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Meridith Kohut for

TIME

Photographs by

Jessica Pettway

for TIME

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