Índex per September 13, 2021 a TIME Magazine

WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT … THE GOOD COP Molly Ball’s profile of D.C. police officer Michael Fanone in TIME’s Aug. 23/Aug. 30 issue—which recounted his role in confronting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and detailed the PTSD he now grapples with—inspired an outpouring of support. “We don’t expect to worry about our government being overthrown,” wrote Gretchen Leuenberger of Monticello, Ind., “yet on Jan. 6, we could have faced that reality if it weren’t for heroes like Mike Fanone.” Nadia El-Badry of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., described Ball’s piece as “the most visceral story I have ever read,” adding that she was “haunted by what [Fanone] and other officers lived through.” And Bill Vroom of Jackson, N.J., said he “truly believes that Mr. Fanone and all his fellow officers may…

ONLYFANS, THE SUBSCRIBER-BASED SOCIAL media platform, sparked outrage last month when it announced it would ban “sexually explicit” content starting Oct. 1. The platform, on which 2 million content creators charge subscribers for access to exclusive photos and videos, attributed the decision to pressure from banks and payment processors. OnlyFans’ popularity took off during the pandemic, as the site’s user base rose from fewer than 20 million to 130 million and transactions increased at least sevenfold, passing $2.3 billion. While the service was not originally designed for adult content, the user-friendly interface and subscriber model has made it an attractive destination for sex workers. So when OnlyFans announced the ban on Aug. 19, it threw the livelihoods of its core creator community into jeopardy. Many sex workers say they…

MY DAD WAS A SANITATION WORKER FOR NEW YORK CITY. HIS message to me and my brothers was, when you turn 18, take whatever civil service test is available. Lucky for me, it was the Fire Department’s. I didn’t yet know what I wanted to do for a career, but at Engine 55 in Lower Manhattan, I found something even better: a brotherhood. I laid low as a “probie,” but by the time my secret other life came out (I’d taken acting classes and dabbled in stand-up), I understood that busting balls is how firefighters express affection. When, after four years on the job, it became impossible to juggle my shifts with both a movie and a play, I took a leave of absence, figuring I’d be back. Seventeen years…

CHUCK SCHUMER’S FLIP PHONE HAS A TWO-TONE RING: BUZZ-BUZZ, BUZZ-BUZZ; two low tones, two high ones. The Senate majority leader almost always knows who’s calling, even though he doesn’t program the numbers in. “Elizabeth, I’ll call you back,” he says, flipping the phone open in the middle of a recent interview in his office off the floor of the chamber. “Where are you? You’re here? O.K., I’ll call you back.” He sees he’s missed a call from a restricted number. “I know who’s restricted—it’s probably Warner,” he says. He punches in the 10 digits for Virginia Senator Mark Warner, which he’s memorized along with all the others. “Did you just call me?” Sure enough, that’s who it was. It’s an old Schumer party trick. Montana Senator Jon Tester, he says,…

IFE DAMON Multisubject teacher | Staten Island, N.Y. Ife Damon wanted her high school students to become change agents—especially in a year when the world grappled with a pandemic, health disparities, police violence and systemic racism. So she adapted her lessons to meet the moment. Last school year, Damon taught ninth- and 10th-grade English at Curtis High School, which serves mostly Black and Latino students within a predominantly white borough of New York City. She instructed her students to make pandemic time capsules that focused not only on COVID-19 but also on the Black Lives Matter movement. Students interviewed a relative or community member about their perspective on the pandemic and created videos about their experience as teens during the past year. During a lesson on dystopias, Damon, 44, asked…

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE a millennial? Bards of the generation across disciplines have varied takes: Taylor Swift’s catalog proposes a shared identity defined by a fixation on teenage heartbreak. Michaela Coel’s TV shows posit a tension between inner trauma and outward behavior. And Sally Rooney’s fiction suggests a reliance on the Internet and a defining awareness of the ever nearer end of the world. These three artists belong to a larger wave of creators who have captured the zeitgeist of what being a millennial means, living at the intersection of preoccupations both existential and mundane. Their works, as well as the introspective albums of Frank Ocean, Issa Rae’s insightful Insecure, Lena Dunham’s controversial Girls and more cultural touchstones from the millennial set, reflect a range of experiences specific…

You’re still clearly burning to create after many years. How do you keep that fire stoked? When I am moved by a work of art, when I’m moved by a political situation, I immediately begin to think in my language: movement, space and time. So it is still helping me understand how to live. Not to mention that I have a company that must be fed. We’re still fighting for the importance of this art form in public life. One of the concerns of your new piece, Deep Blue Sea, is “the pursuit of an elusive we.” What does that mean? We the People, we shall overcome, we hold these truths. That is part of everyday parlance, and it’s quite irritating. I am a Black American who truly grew…

‘Britney Spears will not be bullied or extorted by her father.’MATHEW ROSENGART, Spears’ lawyer, in a statement on his Aug. 30 court filings demanding Spears’ father resign without payment as the conservator of his daughter’s estate $200 The monthly insurance surcharge Delta employees will be asked to pay if they are not vaccinated against COVID-19, the airline announced Aug. 25 ‘I HAVE THREE ALTERNATIVES FOR MY FUTURE: BEING ARRESTED, KILLED OR VICTORY.’JAIR BOLSONARO, Brazilian President, speaking Aug. 28 about next year’s election ‘They’re the 21st century, digital version of snake-oil salesmen.’DR. IRWIN REDLENER, founding director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, on the political group America’s Frontline Doctors, which a TIME investigation found was selling access to prescriptions for the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19, despite medical authorities’…

WHILE LEADERS AROUND THE WORLD talk about a post-pandemic “green recovery,” China has outlined plans to build 43 new coal-fired power plants, according to an Aug. 13 report from Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. The new projects, announced in the first half of 2021, would add 1.25% to China’s annual carbon-dioxide output—despite the country’s pledge to be carbon neutral by 2060. BURNING FOR GROWTH China, while not alone in its reliance on coal, built more than three times as much new coal-power capacity as all other countries in the world combined in 2020. The plans for new coal-power plants show that at least some Chinese officials are prioritizing economic growth over emissions reductions. “There is this desire in the Chinese political…

JOAN OF ARC A little over two decades after the French icon was burned at the stake in 1431—accused of witchcraft and heresy—a retrial led to her being declared innocent of the charges that had led to her death. OSCAR WILDE The Irish playwright and novelist, who was jailed for indecency in 1895, was among thousands of gay men pardoned by the U.K. government in 2017 of convictions for violating laws that banned same-sex relations. SUSAN B. ANTHONY The suffragist was arrested in 1872 for voting before women were allowed to do so. Former President Donald Trump pardoned her in 2020—though some historians argued that Anthony wouldn’t have wanted it.…

JANI, A 4-FT. PLUSH GIRAFFE, ARRIVED on my doorstep in mid-July, her brown eyes glassy as if she were still finding her bearings after a long journey at sea. What a journey it has been. It was August of last year that Viahart, the company that sells Jani on Amazon, ordered a container’s worth of plush toys, including her. This was around the time U.S. consumers started spending again after an initial dip at the beginning of the pandemic. And as demand for toys and TVs and couches rose, the ships and trains and trucks carrying them got overwhelmed. That made it much more expensive to get Jani to my doorstep. “Good Day, No rail schedule yet. Rail delays due to chassis shortage & port congestion. Please continue to monitor,”…

Educators and staff in the K-12 school system attend to children well beyond the bell, forming a safety net that’s both critical and fragile. When COVID-19 closed schools in 2020, time-tested systems fell apart. But educators swung into action, modeling resourcefulness and resilience for their students. In April, when we put out a call for educators and other school employees whose work made students’ pandemic learning experience better, we were optimistic that the chaotic academic year would be the last of its kind. But now, before some schools have even started, the coming year is in flux. This salute to educators starts with an essay by Dr. Jill Biden, a teacher for more than 30 years. Then we tell 29 stories of people who went to extraordinary lengths to keep…

WITH HURRICANE IDA THREATENING massive flooding, high winds and power outages on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, administrators at Marrero Healthcare Center, located in Lafourche Parish just northeast of where the Category 4 storm would soon make landfall, decided on Aug. 26 that it was time to leave. Two days of hurried packing later, at noon, dozens of residents from the nursing and rehabilitation center piled onto two school buses for a 4 hr. 40 min. ride inland; 21 who are bedbound were transported in a large emergency vehicle, in bunks stacked three high. Another bus transported medical supplies and equipment as well as food for the trip. For part of the caravan, the journey ultimately took up to seven hours as thousands of others likewise fled the southeastern coast, packing the…

Duterte plans to run for Vice President Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines, said on Aug. 24 that he would run for the country’s vice presidency after his six-year term ends in 2022. His critics see the move as a bid to maintain power—and to avoid prosecution for the thousands of extrajudicial killings that have marked his war on drugs. FBI reports increase in hate crimes With more than 7,700 incidents documented in 2020—an increase of 6% over the previous year—the FBI recorded a 12-year high for American hate crimes. The agency noted in a report released Aug. 30 that more than 50% of race-related hate crimes involved bias against Black people or African Americans. Haiti in need after deadly earthquake Two weeks after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti…

THE PROBLEM WITH TV THESE days, as everyone knows, is that there’s too much of it. By the time you clear out last month’s backlog of binges, another truckload of content has piled up at your doorstep. Streaming services and, to a lesser extent, traditional networks will maintain that wearying momentum throughout the fall, with a huge variety of new and old programming. In September alone, HBO reboots Ingmar Bergman, Showtime counters with a Rust Belt drama that sounds like Jeff Daniels of Easttown, Apple TV+ unveils an elaborate Isaac Asimov adaptation, and PBS has Ken Burns’ latest. Meanwhile, FX is front-loading a provocative B.J. Novak project, an ambitious reconsideration of a cult comic-book series and a long-awaited installment of American Crime Story that takes on the impeachment of Bill…