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WOMEN AND THE PANDEMIC The March 15/March 22 special report on the challenges women face amid the COVID-19 pandemic was eye-opening for many readers. “Women have come far but #Covid has been the great magnifier,” @LauraDistin360 wrote on Twitter. “[I

AFTER ONE OF THE ROCKIEST TRANSITIONS IN U.S. history, Joe Biden’s term has gotten off to a brisk start. In his first 50 days, the President has muscled a massive relief bill through Congress, sending stimulus checks to millions of Americans and easi

“SHE WAS JUST WALKING HOME.” THOSE five words trended widely on social media and appeared on many tributes at a vigil for Sarah Everard, 33, a marketing executive who disappeared from a London street on March 3. A week later, Everard’s body was found

Lawmaker of the land BORN IN WINSLOW, ARIZ., IN 1960, a time when there were still Native Americans who couldn’t vote in the U.S., former U.S. Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico was confirmed by the Senate on March 15 as the country’s first Nat

THERE ARE STORIES THAT WE TELL. AND THERE ARE stories that we keep, until we can’t. Keli Burns, 36, is a college administrator and married suburban Chicago mom. Online she posts about her son’s bowling skills and, for her daughter, reminders about Gi

In a move welcomed by many of the bloc’s beleaguered travel destinations, E.U. leadership is considering a digital health pass that would allow E.U. citizens who have received a COVID-19 vaccine to travel for work or tourism. (Some airlines are alrea

Number of “cold-stunned” sea turtles found off the coast of Texas during February’s record-breaking snowstorms, per NPR; more than 4,000 have been safely released back into the wild Total number of Grammys won by Beyoncé after she took home four at t

JOSE TEJEDA, A FORMER U.S. CUSTOMS AND Border Protection employee from Rio Grande City, Texas, faced a dilemma in November. He thought things had gone O.K. during Donald Trump’s presidency. He didn’t think Trump was fair on immigration, but thought h

AFTER COVID-19 FELLED LAST YEAR’S MARCH MADNESS, THE National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s basketball tournament is unfolding amid a pandemic that has killed more than 535,000 Americans. As many college teams have struggled to contain

NFT Art Goes Mainstream One CEO Bets Big on Bitcoin Digital Mining’s Environmental Toll ■

MICHAEL SAYLOR’S TRANSFORMATION INTO a corporate Bitcoin evangelical started prosaically enough. He’s the CEO of a publicly traded enterprise-software firm, MicroStrategy Inc., and with $482 million in 2020 revenues and business steady but expenses d

IT WAS HEARTBREAKING AND HORRIFYING—BUT TO MANY, IT WASN’T A SURPRISE. The news that eight people, six of them Asian-American women, were killed at businesses in the Atlanta area on March 16 came after a year of intense anti-Asian racism in the U.S.

I DIDN’T “GO” TO WORK ON THE morning of March 17, meaning I didn’t get up, brush my teeth and place myself at my desk in the living room. I stayed in bed, made a cave out of the covers and watched the text messages roll in. “Thinking of you.” “Sendin

ABOUT FOUR HOURS AFTER SHE BECAME the youngest woman ever to take a company public, two hours after Bumble’s soaring stock price made her a billionaire, and 45 minutes after cutting into a honeycomb-shaped cake and kicking off her yellow heels, Whitn

FOR YEARS, ROOSEVELT RODRIGUEZ and his dog Chanel had a routine. The Houston heating technician would get home from work, swing open his front door and greet his French bulldog, who’d spin and dance in excitement as he repeated her name over and over

ELLIOT PAGE DOESN’T REMEMBER EXACTLY HOW LONG HE HAD BEEN ASKING. But he does remember the acute feeling of triumph when, around age 9, he was finally allowed to cut his hair short. “I felt like a boy,” Page says. “I wanted to be a boy. I would ask m

BRADLEY FREEMAN JR. WAS DOING SOME CHRISTMAS SHOPping at Target when he got the email. Glancing down at his phone, all he could see was a preview: “Hey Brad, thanks for taking the time to audition for us …” He immediately assumed he had been rejected

Steven Yeun is the first Asian American nominated for Best Actor, for his role in Minari; British actor Riz Ahmed is the first Muslim to appear in the category, for his role in Sound of Metal, as well as the first person of Pakistani descent to be no

LAST MARCH, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS began stopping Emily Smith in her town outside of Waco, Texas, with questions about the coronavirus. An epidemiologist at Baylor University, Smith knows all too well how viruses are transmitted. But as the wife of a

“I AM A PRINCESS IN A FAIRY TALE,” ARETHA Franklin announces in the first episode of Genius: Aretha. It’s not a statement of fact so much as an act of magical thinking. Aretha (played with sparkling intelligence by Cynthia Erivo) is talking with the

DIRECTOR ZACK SNYDER’S CUT OF JUSTICE LEAGUE, out March 18 on HBO Max, is way better than the original version released in theaters in 2017. It had to be. The theatrical cut of the DC Comics superhero movie was a dissonant mishmash of two radically d

IN THE YOUTUBE DOCUMENTARY DEMI LOVATO: DANCING WITH THE DEVIL, the 28-year-old singer and actor speaks openly about her battles with eating disorders and drug addiction, focusing most acutely on the 2018 overdose that nearly killed her. But the most

A year into the pandemic, readers know more than ever: the act of picking up a book can be transformative. When lockdown orders swept the U.S. beginning in March 2020, many turned to books to help escape—or confront—the unknown. Some readers favored

JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, JAZMINE Boykins was posting her artwork online for free. The 20-year-old digital artist’s dreamy animations of Black life were drawing plenty of likes, comments and shares, but not much income, aside from money she made selling

A Buddhist monk prays at a beach in Iwaki, Japan, for victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami on the 10th anniversary of the disaster. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake, one of the strongest on record, caused a tsunami that slammed into Japa

WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SELL A SCRIPT, THE NAME Sherlock Holmes evidently helps. Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Ian McKellen and Jonny Lee Miller have all played versions of the character in the past decade, and last year’s Netflix hit Enola

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere. So say an increasing number of Wall Street professionals, who see the lofty prices of everything from equities to Bitcoin, new homes to the soaring value of newly public companies, as clear signs that the financial system

ON SEPT. 26, GERmany’s year of political change will culminate with the election of a new Chancellor, an event that will close the remarkable 16-year tenure of Angela Merkel. For Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the election year is off to

MY HUSBAND HAD BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL, CRITICALLY ILL, for weeks when I broke down in tears one day during a workout. Concerned gym buddies consoled me, and someone said, “You’ve got to stay positive!” “Do I, though?” I wanted to ask. I was urged to st

FOR THE FIRST FEW MILES, THE EMPTYING OF VENEZUELA IS A VISIBLE THING. Crossing the border from their benighted native land, refugees trudge uphill into the next country, Colombia, carrying what they have. “There are certain roads where you can see t

IT’S THE LAST THING PUBLIC-HEALTH officials want to see during a pandemic: more than two months after scientists from pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University released their COVID-19 vaccine, a growing number of countries are pausing it

Former TIME editor Walter Isaacson spoke with Alice Park about his new book, The Code Breaker, and the research behind vaccines as part of TIME100 Talks. Here is an excerpt. Do you think genetics will lead the way out of this pandemic? Absolutely. Al

It was a year ago that the COVID-19 pandemic seized control of our lives. While essential workers remained on the job, the rest of America, confined to quarters, tried to come to terms with a life on pause. Working, learning and passing the time almo

WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I FIRST MOVED TO NORTH CAROlina, we were invited to join an interracial couples’ group at our church. We were surprised, declined and then privately rolled our eyes at how we’d been misread. Although I am Black and my husband isn’