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Sep 11, 2020
The Meaning of My Sept. 11 Birthday
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by Arvin Ahmadi
Sep 10, 2020
The Story Behind TIME's Issue Marking Nearly 200,000 U.S. Deaths—and Why Its Border Is Black For the Second Time in History
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by Edward Felsenthal
Sep 10, 2020
What Reparations for Black Americans Could Look Like
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by Victor Luckerson
Sep 8, 2020
What Happens Next After Abe's Resignation
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by Ian Bremmer
Sep 4, 2020
The Next Stimulus Bill Must Be Race-Conscious
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by Anne Price and Jim Pugh
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Sep 3, 2020
I Let My Kid Create Their Own Gender Identity
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by Kyl Myers
Sep 3, 2020
Erdogan’s Worrying Love for Ottoman Empire
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by Alan Mikhail
Sep 2, 2020
What Is The State of Free Speech Today? 'It's Under Profound Threat,' Says the Head of PEN America
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by Alejandro de la Garza
Sep 1, 2020
The Violence Against People Behind Bars That We Don't See
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by Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Sep 1, 2020
I Miss My Black Barbershop
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by Mychal Denzel Smith
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Aug 31, 2020
Bremmer: What Happens Next in Mali After the Coup
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by Ian Bremmer
Aug 28, 2020
Inhumane and Unsustainable, Megacities Are Not the Future
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by Chandran Nair
Aug 27, 2020
Why the Election Is a Test of Faith
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by Al Sharpton and Doug Pagitt
Aug 27, 2020
Economic Model of High Ed Was Already Broken
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by Zachary Karabell
Aug 27, 2020
Planting 1 Trillion Trees Can Save the Planet
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by Jane Goodall and Marc Benioff