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Finding Hope
NOT LONG AGO, I ASKED A TIME 100 honoree if he had enjoyed the TIME 100 gala. Jennifer Lopez had performed, and members of Congress mingled with Oscar winners, astronauts with activists, CEOs with artists. “I had a great time,” he said. “But you have
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For the Record
Increase in volume of Sprint MMS messaging over the month ending April 9, the company said, amid a broad increase in network traffic attributed to stay-at-home orders Age of the oldest known fossilized dinosaur embryos, which scientists were able to
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Eviction Stalks Struggling Renter
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE U.S. ARE under shelter-in-place orders requiring them to stay home when possible, but a growing number don’t have that luxury. Their landlords are kicking them out for not paying the rent, despite moratoriums on evictions in
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Conversation
100 WOMEN OF THE YEAR THIS INCREDIBLY IMPORtant issue recognizing influential women of the past century should be required reading for every teenage girl and boy [March 16–23]. Each commentary was wonderfully written and provided a unique perspective
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South Korea’s Coronavirus Election May Offer A Road Map For Protecting Voters
SOUTH KOREA’S ELECTIONS ON APRIL 15 marked the first nationwide vote in a country with a major coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began. South Korea has more than 10,500 confirmed COVID-19 cases, but officials have flattened the curve through ag
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News Ticker
Ukrainian authorities said April 14 that rainfall had helped 400 firefighters control wildfires that spread to the exclusion zone around Chernobyl, site of history’s worst nuclear disaster. The flames came within a few miles of the defunct nuclear re
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Why Is The USPS Caught In COVID-19’s Economic Fallout?
WITH THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE U.S. under stay-at-home orders, the ensuing surge in online purchases might seem like good news for the U.S. Postal Service. But the independent federal agency, like so many businesses, has in fact been rapidly losing mo
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Current Confections
A cake decorated in tribute to the 2019 Hong Kong protests was disqualified from a U.K. contest in November. Although the entrants called it political censorship, organizers said a decoration on the cake was too big. As the Yellow Vest protests raged
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Spies Are Targeting Americans On Video-chat Platforms, U.S. Intel Officials Say
AS MUCH OF THE WORLD WORKS FROM home amid COVID-19 lockdowns, an explosion of videoconference calls has provided a playground not just for Zoombombers, phishermen and cybercriminals but also for spies. Everyone from top business executives to governm
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Milestones
One of the overlooked STEPHEN GREGORY WAS BREATHING O.K. around 8 a.m. on April 9. A few days earlier, he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. He asked a nurse for water that morning; though he’d had an up-and-down fever, Stephen, my father
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The Search For The First COVID-19 Treatment
WITHIN WEEKS AFTER COVID-19 CASES SPIKED TO ALARMing levels in China, researchers at Gilead in Foster City, Calif., saw an opportunity. A drug the company had developed against Ebola, remdesivir, had shown glimmers of hope in controlling coronaviruse
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Journalist Mariane_Pearl Continues To Push Forward Her Husband’s Search For Truth
I HAVE KNOWN MARIANE PEARL FOR 15 YEARS, as a friend, mother, journalist, champion of the voices of women and an unconquerable spirit. We came together over a shared concern for displaced people, and in 2007, I had the privilege of being involved in
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The New Breadline
Before the pandemic, a busy day for the San Antonio Food Bank in Texas would have been about 400 families. Some 10,000 showed up on April 9 to claim a box of food as the impact of COVID-19 tore across the U.S. economy. Here, people wait in their cars
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Testing Is The Only Answer
The CDC just announced new guidelines for “critical” employees to return to work after possible COVID-19 exposure. Take your temperature often. Wear a mask. Stay 6 ft. away from others when possible. Go home if you feel sick. It is well-intentioned a
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A Trump Win For Petroleum States
ON APRIL 12, A COLlection of the world’s leading oil-producing countries agreed to production cuts that ended a brief but destructive oil-price war. And not a moment too soon, given the damage to a global economy already reeling from the impact of CO
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Rethinking Our Food System
How do we stop the next pandemic? By taking a long, hard look at our relationship with the natural world and particularly with the animals that sustain us. SARS-CoV-2, like the influenza virus and many other disease-causing microbes, initially infect
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FaceTiming With Our Baby’s First Ultrasound
I’M SITTING IN MY CAR IN THE PARKING LOT OF A HIP Mexican restaurant in Oakland, Calif., FaceTiming with the ultrasound. It’s a blob—it’s always a blob—but I’m missing something. The connection is fuzzy, the sound cuts out, and the sonogram circles f
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When The College Kids Come Home
WHEN MY COLLEGE KIDS RETURNED HOME AFTER THE University of Tennessee canceled live classes for the semester because of coronavirus, my wife and I laid down the law. “You’re in a functioning home now,” we said. “This isn’t a college dorm. We’ll go to
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My Beautiful Country, Laid Low
IT WASN’T LONG AFTER MY arrival at the hospital in Brescia that I smelled something I know too well. I have smelled it many times working as a photojournalist in conflict zones. I do not actually know if it is the smell of death or the smell of a ste
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Finding Hope Opener
The coronavirus changed our world in a matter of weeks, and possibly forever. In this special report, members of the TIME 100 community—including leading doctors, scientists, politicians, artists, athletes and entertainers—share insights into how to
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How To Conquer A Pandemic
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS I learned from fighting the Ebola outbreak in Liberia is that you have to prepare before an epidemic has reached your doorstep. You have less to lose if you make adequate preparations and don’t get hit than by waitin
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Now Is The Time For A National Paid Leave Policy
WHENEVER OUR NATION has faced a national crisis, Congress has put partisanship aside and come together to pass bold, transformative policy. Following the economic upheaval caused by the Great Depression, Congress passed the Social Security Act to pro
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Don’t Let The Virus Infect Democracy
ALL AROUND THE WORLD, LEADERS ARE GAINING MORE power. That’s what this pandemic demands: a coordinated whole-of-nation approach with a powerful conductor at its center. We have to be careful, though, that the measures we are taking to tackle this glo
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How Politicians Can Help Doctors
As a former heart-transplant surgeon and former U.S. Senator, I understand the frustrations many on the front lines of this pandemic are experiencing. Here are three things those doctors and nurses—dedicated but tired, anxious and feeling betrayed by
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Dear Parents: You Don’t Have To Be Perfect, Just Be Real
IF THERE’S A UNIVERSAL through line in every conversation I am having with parents of school-age kids right now, it is this: “I miss my children’s teachers so much. When do we get to see them again?” When I was in college, I didn’t know what I wanted
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Q+A: How To Spark Productivity
IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE MANY PEOPLE worldwide who are now practicing social distancing by spending all day, every day, at home, you might be noticing all the clutter you’d been ignoring. In her new book, Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life, t
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Taking Comfort
FOUNDER OF MARTHA STEWART LIVING OMNIMEDIA CHEF MUSICIAN ASTRONAUT U.S. REPRESENTATIVE (R., N.Y.) CEO OF SINOVATION VENTURES AUTHOR FASHION DESIGNER BALLET DANCER AUTHOR
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We Are Only As Strong As Our Domestic Workforce
HOW WE TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER WILL BE WHAT we remember from the coronavirus pandemic. The neighbor who checks in on the older person living alone in her building. The way my stepdaughter’s school community has banded together to support one another
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When This Is Over, The World Must Gather
DURING THE FIRST MONTHS of this year, we have seen once again how fragile is our global world, how great the danger of sliding into chaos. The COVID-19 pandemic is facing all countries with a common threat, and no country can cope with it alone. The
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Thoughts, Not Prayers
SOMETIMES FRIENDS ASK ME TO HELP with some problem in the world, using some “magical powers.” I always tell them that the Dalai Lama has no magical powers. If I did, I would not feel pain in my legs or a sore throat. We are all the same as human bein
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How COVID-19 Could Aid Global Relations
THERE IS NO PRECEDENT IN LIVING MEMORY FOR THE CHALlenge that COVID-19 now poses to world leaders. The disease stands poised to cause a far-reaching economic depression and a tragically high number of deaths. Its impact will be felt in every corner o
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Q+A: This Crisis Should Change U.S. Elections—for Good
FROM LOCAL RACES TO NOVEMBER’S presidential election, Americans will need to figure out how to cast votes in 2020 without risking their health. Former Attorney General Eric Holder is now the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee
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Putting Kids First
OF THE MANY WAYS THAT the pandemic is making us rethink our humanity, none is more important, or urgent, than the overall protection of children. They may not be as susceptible to the virus as other groups, but they are especially vulnerable to so ma
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Q+A: How To Save Local Restaurants
DAN BARBER, THE VANGUARD CHEF BEHIND Blue Hill at Stone Barns, earned two Michelin stars as he championed the farm-to-table movement in New York State. But the pandemic has hit the restaurant industry hard, and even as they respond to today’s emergen
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Ending Xenophobia
In her 2019 memoir, Know My Name, Miller described the experience of being sexually assaulted on the Stanford University campus in 2015, but also delved into her identity as a Chinese American and as an artist. Like many Asian Americans, Miller has f
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Practice For The Climate Crisis
OVER THE PAST YEAR, THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT has drawn unprecedented interest because of climate change itself. We’ve seen record-breaking fires and floods, from California to Siberia. Now we are faced with another crisis, but we cannot let the COVID-19
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Power Tools
AUTHOR U.S. REPRESENTATIVE (R., N.Y.) SHOWRUNNER, PRODUCER AND SCREENWRITER MUSICIAN COMEDIAN PLAYWRIGHT OLYMPIC SNOWBOARDER WRITER AND DIRECTOR LUMI LABS CO-FOUNDER CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF LAST MILE HEALTH
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Leaping The Moat
DO YOU THINK YOU REMEMBER A MOVIE IN WHICH a knight gallops toward a castle just as its drawbridge is going up, and his white horse jumps the moat in one glorious airborne leap? I could picture it too, but when I went looking for this image on the In
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Lessons from SARS
DR. JULIE GERBERDING, CHIEF PATIENT officer at Merck, led the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) during the last coronavirus outbreak of SARS in 2003. She explains what we learned from that epidemic, and what we should be doing to better prepare
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Q+A: What Tech Can Do
IN RECENT WEEKS, GOVernments and citizens alike have turned to Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, for help with the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, edited excerpts from TIME’s conversation with CEO Sundar Pichai about how he’s navigating th
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Take Economic Recovery Personally
ALL TOO OFTEN, POLICYMAKING IS A SLOW, ABSTRACT PROcess disconnected from the real-world concerns of our nation’s citizens. But in the middle of negotiating the $377 billion small-business-relief package, I learned an entire family—a family I have kn
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5 Strategies To Safeguard Your Mental Health
Allow yourself to feel. Don’t be frustrated with yourself if you feel trapped or stressed. This is a hard time for everyone, and you deserve patience from yourself. My emotions have been all over the place … some days I’m O.K., and others it’s scary.
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Live Up To This Moment
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS LAYING BARE some of the most glaring vulnerabilities of our societies. Millions of the people at greatest risk of contagion are those whose needs are often overlooked. To uphold their fundamental rights to life and health—and
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When In Doubt, Help
MARCH 6. THAT’S WHEN IT ALL BECAME very real. I had just played my first basketball game in months the night before, and conversations were swirling about what this virus might mean for the league. That night, I started to feel sick. The fever set in
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Self-care Strategies
PHILANTHROPIST AND FORMER DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MODEL AND MATERNAL-HEALTH ADVOCATE OLYMPIC GYMNAST BALLET DANCER FOUNDER AND CEO OF THRIVE GLOBAL
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Africa Is Next
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS A STARK reminder of just how interconnected the world is. The disease has cut a broad swath across the globe, from Europe to Asia, to North and South America, and to Africa. Infections continue to rise in developed and develo
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How To Prevent A Depression
A FEW MONTHS IN, IT IS STILL HARD TO GRASP THE scale and scope of COVID-19’s global impact. A third of the world population is estimated to be under some sort of lockdown. Nearly 200 countries are affected, and the numbers of new cases and deaths in
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Family First
COMEDIAN ACTOR AND DIRECTOR SCIENTIST AND WRITER CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF LAST MILE HEALTH PLAYWRIGHT
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A Tale Of Two Futures
COVID-19 WILL NOT BE THE last pandemic in our deeply interconnected world, and sadly it won’t be the worst. Two profoundly different possible futures are available to us: one in which we stick our heads in the sand as we have consistently done, and o
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Q+A: Heed This Inequality Wake-up Call
THE CORONAVIRUS IS disproportionately affecting African Americans, but health inequality plagued the U.S. long before the virus arrived. Democratic Congresswoman Lauren Underwood, who represents Illinois’s 14th District and is the youngest black woma
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What Taiwan Did Right
TAIWAN IS AN ISLAND OF RESILIENCE. CENturies of hardship have compelled our society to cope, adapt, and survive trying circumstances. We have found ways to persevere through difficult times together as a nation, and the COVID-19 pandemic is no differ
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The Dazzling Bamboozlers Of Bad Education
NO ONE LIKES GETTING OLDER, LEAST OF ALL ACTORS. BUT there are reasons actors often do their best work in their 40s, 50s and beyond: if they can free themselves from the desire to play likable characters, they can move into the far richer territory o
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Threats Are Ahead. National Security Can’t Look Backward
SPEAKING BEFORE THE U.N. in 1987, President Ronald Reagan said, “Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize [our] common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien
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A Quarantine Gift From Michael Jordan
ESPN HAS TAKEN NOBLE SWINGS AT PROGRAMming a sports network with no sports. But there are only so many airings of marbles races, old games and gabfests about the April 23–25 NFL draft—an event that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, feels as significant
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Mike DeWine
You were the first governor in the country to announce the entire state school system would close, starting on March 16. You’ve been a step ahead on other things. Did you know something other governors didn’t? I have spent 40 years in public office,
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The Show Must Go On
ON THE WEDNESDAY EVENING WE TAPED OUR LAST show in the studio, our executive producer came out and took a photo of the packed crowd. “I think it’s going to be a long time before there’s an audience in here again,” he said. I had never seen the news c
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Resilience Reads
How do we stay present when our visions of the future keep changing? It’s a question on everyone’s minds—including publishers, who have moved to postpone many spring releases. It also drives many books still set to arrive late this month. From debut

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