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2 | Conversation
4 | For the Record

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

5 | Climate risk and
the Surfside condo
collapse

8 | The toll of the
Pacific Northwest
heat wave

10 | How the
Britney Spears
case could change
conservatorship

14 | Milestones:
former Defense
Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld

16 | TIME With ...
Ohio GOP Senate
hopeful J.D. Vance

18 | A memorial for
Indigenous children

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

21 | Angelina Jolie

on victims of an

overlooked war

23 | Weyerhaeuser

CEO Devin

Stockfish on

housing and the

timber surge

23 | Ian Bremmer on

the future of South

Africa

24 | Koritha Mitchell

on self-validation

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

99 | Books: romance

novelists on their

changing genre

102 | Movies: music

docs Summer of

Soul, The Sparks

Brothers and

McCartney 3,2,

105 | Television: fun

at The White Lotus,

a superfluous Gossip

Girl and the generic

Fear Street trilogy

108 | 7 Questions for

author Elie Honig

Features

Soldier at the Siege

A combat veteran’s journey to the Jan. 6 riot

By Vera Bergengruen and W.J. Hennigan 26

Life Lines

India prepares to ban commercial surrogacy

By Neha Thirani Bagri; photographs by Smita Sharma 3 4

China vs. Diversity

Minorities forced to learn what it means to be Chinese

By Charlie Campbell 44

Reclaiming Black Widow

Scarlett Johansson on a role that had to change

By Eliana Dockterman 50

Tokyo Olympics Special

The pandemic games

By Alice Park 58

Why I took a break

By Naomi Osaka 62

Profiles of Allyson Felix and Sue Bird

By Sean Gregory 64

Frontline athletes and stars to watch 84

Turmoil on the Refugee Olympic Team

By Vivienne Walt 88

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VOL. 198, NOS. 3–4 | 2021

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The Refugee

Olympic Team

trains on June 18

at the camp in

Ngong, Kenya

Photograph by

Brian Otieno

for TIME