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WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT … THE GREAT REOPENING “What we have learned during the pandemic is that the workplace as we know it is broken,” author Joanne Lipman said in a CNBC interview about her cover story for the June 7/June 14 issue of TIME. “It’s really, really outdated.” Many readers agreed, commending Lipman’s feature on the future of work and professional success in a post-COVID-19 world. “Excellent and thought-provoking,” wrote Jamie Hooper of Junction City, Ore., while Bill Casselman of Dunnville, Ontario, called it “one of the best articles I have read in 40 years of perusing TIME.” ‘Business leaders … won’t have anything to re-open if we don’t fix childcare.’@HEIDIWMLEWIS, on Twitter A systemic reimagining of career paths and work-life balance presents “incredible opportunities,” tweeted @GavinWoltjer, “that will…

MORE THAN 100 YEARS AFTER DR. ALOIS Alzheimer first described the brain disorder that would be named after him, the world has its first treatment for the disease. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved aducanumab on June 7 after a contentious review that still has the Alzheimer’s community divided over how effective, and therefore how useful, the drug will be. Developed by U.S.-based biotech company Biogen and Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai, aducanumab is the first treatment to address one of the underlying causes of Alzheimer’s—the buildup of amyloid protein plaques in the brain. But while the data that Biogen submitted from two large clinical trials showed that the drug reduces amyloid levels among those getting the once-a-month IV infusions, the studies were less clear about how much…

IN JANUARY, WHEN NETFLIX LAUNCHED ITS wildly popular French TV series Lupin, Omar Sy went into the Metro station under the Louvre in Paris. In the show, Sy plays a thief who takes a job as a night cleaner at the museum in order to plot a spectacular heist under the noses of white curators who are barely aware of a Black janitor. In the Metro, in real life, Sy began pasting a giant poster advertising the show on a billboard space on the platform. Incredibly, the commuters took no notice of one of France’s biggest movie stars. Sy even asked one person for assistance, yet still no one recognized him. Sy says the experience, about which he posted on his Instagram feed, was illuminating. “There is a category of…

YOU DON’T WANT TO BE A VIRUS IN DR. DAVID HO’S lab. Pretty much every day since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Ho and his team have done nothing but find ways to stress SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease. His goal: pressure the virus relentlessly enough that it mutates to survive, to help drug developers understand how the virus might respond to new treatments. As a virologist with decades of experience learning about another obstinate virus, HIV, Ho knows just how to apply that mutation-generating stress, whether by starving the virus, bathing it in antibodies that disrupt its ability to infect cells, or bombarding it with enough promising antiviral drug candidates to make it blink. “We actually have more mutants [of SARS-CoV-2] selected in the lab than I suspect…

This year, the warmest months bring more than sun: crowds are back. And surrounded by people, the solitude of reading feels somehow richer. But whether you’re staying in or venturing out, the best new books arriving in June, July and August offer something for every reader, from piercing memoirs to powerful essay collections to gripping thrillers. The warmest months usher in the return of seasoned pros like Michael Pollan and Laura Lippman, and welcome debut authors like Ashley C. Ford and Anna Qu. Between the page-turners and rom-coms, family sagas and potent nonfiction, these books will provide entertainment, distraction and comfort—and will likely teach you something new about the world. Here, the 36 books to read this summer. —A.G. JUNE With Teeth Kristen Arnett Like her breakout debut, Mostly…

‘SHE IS MORE THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.’PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE, in a June 6 statement announcing the birth of their second child, Lilibet “Lili” Diana, two days earlier ‘I don’t know if we’ll ever see eye to eye on that day.’MIKE PENCE, former Vice President, in a June 3 speech discussing his and former President Donald Trump’s differing perceptions of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol ‘Because you represent the best of your generation, we wish to give you a fresh start.’ELFRED ANTHONY PINKARD, Wilberforce University president, announcing in a May 29 speech at the HBCU’s graduation ceremony that 2020 and 2021 graduates would have their student loans cleared 2 Number of years former U.S. President Donald Trump will remain suspended from Facebook (starting Jan.…

IRAN WILL VOTE ON ITS NEW PRESIDENT on June 18, although many Iranians are criticizing the election’s results as a foregone conclusion. A powerful unelected council has disqualified the majority of candidates from running, leaving conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi—the favored choice of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—as the clear front runner. ILLUSION OF CHOICE Raisi, 60, is the country’s chief judge and a close ally of Khamenei’s; both hail from the northeast city of Mashhad. He lost the 2017 election to Hassan Rouhani—who is not eligible to stand for re-election again because of term limits—and Iran’s power brokers are taking no chances this time around. Few reformist candidates were permitted to run, and Raisi’s six remaining rivals are far less well known. Turnout is expected to be minuscule, as…

Ben Crump is on the phone. No. Ben Crump, 51, is on the phone—while also reading email, looking at texts and intermittently contributing to a hushed conversation happening in the room above the sanctuary at Minneapolis’ Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. In the center of the room, men in dark suits and, in most cases, face masks with references to George Floyd, stand in a tight cluster: Floyd’s younger brother Philonise Floyd; the Rev. Al Sharpton; Crump’s white co-counsel, the Chicago-based lawyer Antonio “Tony” Romanucci. It’s a makeshift war room where, instead of a tabletop map and a wreath of smoke, there’s a collection of djembe drums and a cross above the door. It’s the night before the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with killing Floyd.…

IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT BEING OBSCENELY, outrageously rich. I know you’ve done it before. You probably have a list of priorities: college for the kids, new car, paid-off debts. Forget that list. That list is puny. You’re so rich that you can do everything on it three times. You could buy a small Massachusetts town and deliver the title deed to Harvard along with your kid’s application. You could get Jay Leno to autograph the mud flap of his 1994 McLaren F1 before selling it to you. You could eliminate the debt of Kentucky. This is the kind of rich where nothing except a second home on an exoplanet is out of your reach. That is the position in which MacKenzie Scott found herself in July 2019, when her divorce…

The other big vaccine news Public-health officials have long sought a vaccine against malaria, which infects up to 600 million people a year and kills 400,000, mostly children. This year, there was dramatic progress toward that goal. In a study of 450 children in Burkina Faso, published in the Lancet in April, researchers reported that a new malaria vaccine, called R21, is 77% effective—just clearing the World Health Organization’s 75% efficacy standard. However, the sample group was comparatively small, and while the subjects were followed for 12 months, malaria is active in Burkina Faso for only about six months out of the year, making it unclear if the disease’s half-year absence was partly responsible for the study’s promising results. Investigators working for a multicenter international team including the University of…

VLADIMIR PUTIN SPENT MUCH OF 2020 orchestrating a brazen influence campaign to stop Joe Biden from becoming the 46th President of the United States. Failing at that, the Russian autocrat spent the first five months of Biden’s term presiding over a series of attacks by criminal organizations and state-led agencies against America’s gas and food supplies at home, and its allies and values abroad. The unspoken question facing the U.S. President when he sits down with Putin on June 16 in a lakeside hotel in Geneva is this: What are you going to do about it? Taking a page from America’s successful decades-long strategy against the Soviet Union, Biden is planning to rally allies at the G-7 summit in the U.K. and at the NATO confab in Belgium to present…

Germany recognizes tribal genocide Germany has formally recognized colonial-era atrocities in Namibia, referring to the massacres of the Herero and Nama people in the early 20th century as genocide on May 28 and pledging financial aid worth more than $1.34 billion over the next 30 years. Harris tells migrants: ‘Do not come’ During a two-day trip to Guatemala and Mexico intended to address the root causes of Central American migration to the U.S., Vice President Kamala Harris said in a June 8 speech that Central American migrants should “not come” to the U.S.-Mexico border, drawing the ire of progressive immigration activists. 4 Muslims dead in Canada ‘hate’ crime A man has been accused of murdering four members of a Canadian Muslim family in Ontario by running them over with…

WHEN A FORMER DEMOCRATIC SECRETARY of the U.S. Treasury raises alarm bells about the potential harmful consequences of the current President’s economic policies, it raises home-team hackles. Larry Summers, who served as Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton and director of the National Economic Council under President Obama, has emerged as a leading cautionary voice about how heavy government spending can trigger damaging levels of inflation. “The Fed has had almost no success gently bringing down inflation once an economy has started to overheat,” Summers said in an interview on May 28, the day President Joe Biden unveiled a $6 trillion budget. Summers, who is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University and the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, joined…

AFTER MICHAEL PHELPS HEARD ON MAY 31 THAT NAOMI Osaka had pulled out of the French Open and he read her Instagram message explaining why—Osaka cited “feeling vulnerable and anxious” in Paris, and revealed that she has suffered from “long bouts of depression” since defeating Serena Williams at the 2018 U.S. Open—a bunch of thoughts rushed into his head. Phelps is the greatest swimmer of all time, winner of 23 Olympic gold medals. But no amount of winning staved off his depression and contemplation of suicide. Phelps, who has gone public with his struggles and emerged as one of the foremost mental-health advocates in sports, could sense that Osaka’s revelations—and her decision to forgo a shot at another Grand Slam title so she could take a mental-health break—were a big…

EMPLOYEES AT A GARMENT FACTORY IN LESOTHO, A TINY country in southern Africa, say they have lived in fear for years. Each day at 7 a.m., as their sewing machines whirred, a familiar panic rose in many of them: it’s not safe here. At least 38 current workers say abuse and harassment took place within the walls of Hippo Knitting, a Taiwanese company located in Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, an investigation by TIME and the Fuller Project found. All employees interviewed asked to remain anonymous out of safety concerns and fear of losing their jobs. The factory, which employs 1,000 garment workers, about 90% of whom are women, predominantly supplies one brand: Fabletics, a popular U.S. athletic-apparel line co-founded by actor Kate Hudson. Thirteen women interviewed say their underwear and vulvas…

AMERICANS ARE EMERGING FROM THE COVID-19 pandemic like survivors of a wildfire surveying an unfamiliar landscape. As we take stock of what’s left, we are forced to rebuild, but we need not simply restore what was taken in a hollow echo of what we knew before. We can make health care and the infrastructure that supports it better, stronger, more resilient. To do that, as we learned at great cost over the past 15 months, we must value all the stakeholders in the system: not just insurance executives and hospital CEOs, but patients, disabled people, older adults, low-income people, people of color who have faced historic health care discrimination, and health care workers and supporters, from home health aides to hospital registrars. NURSES REMINDED THE HEALTH CARE COMMUNITY THAT PATIENT…

You both prefer writing longhand. Is it fair to assume you didn’t write The President’s Daughter in a shared Google Doc? CLINTON: The first thing we do is we agree on an outline. Then Jim says, O.K., your job is to make sure it’s authentic. PATTERSON: We probably went back and forth on the outline half a dozen times. We always want to be fluid with where the story is going. Are there details about the presidency that President Clinton added that you found particularly surprising? PATTERSON: A lot about NATO, how NATO used to work and hopefully will work in the future. CLINTON: I wanted to make sure that people understand when you start killing people—whether you’ve got bullets up close or dropping bombs in the distance—there’s going…