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This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. This is not something I ever imagined writing. That’s something I’ve thought way too frequently over the last few years, but this is the first time in a long…

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris take office at a time when the stakes are historically high for America’s democracy, requiring them to balance holding themselves accountable to their pledge to move America forward with holding Trump, the Republican Party and all who participated in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol accountable…

With a couple swipes of the pen within hours after taking office, President Joe Biden put the U.S. on track to return to its pre-Trump position on climate change. Biden rescinded the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, directed agencies to seek to undo Trump’s rollbacks of many environmental regulations and recommitted the U.S. to…

To be a responsible member of today’s increasingly digital society requires a new set of “cyber citizenship” skills. This goes far beyond the need to protect oneself from on-line scams or the theft of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Such skills should go to the very heart of what it means to be a U.S. citizen.…

You don’t need us to tell you that 2020 was a rollercoaster of intense emotions, from frustration to boredom to sadness to anger. You also don’t need us to tell you that memes helped many cope with this long, long year. Memes were a force in 2020. A force to vent, a force to call…

The Rev. William J. Barber II delivered the homily at the inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, January 21. His sermon is below. Lord, please help, hold and harness us for Your purposes and for Your glory. Amen. Our text this morning comes from the prophet Isaiah, chapter 58. It begins, “This…

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in as President on March 4, 1933, a quarter of Americans were unemployed and multitudes were living in shanty-towns. By the end of his first 100 days in office, he had pushed 15 bills through Congress, revamped the financial and agricultural systems, expanded unemployment relief and laid the foundation…

Dr. Jacqueline Parchem, a maternal-fetal medicine physician at UTHealth in Houston, considers herself a private person. Even still, she logged on to Twitter on Dec. 22 and began drafting a series of posts. “Pregnant and unsure about the #COVID19 vaccine?” she wrote in a tweet that has now been liked more than 3,000 times. “You’re…

Inside the failures of the U.S. vaccine rollout--and how it can be fixed

Like our pandemic response, the U.S. Capitol riot is the latest cataclysm to be blamed on a failure of imagination. Who could imagine a virus that crashes the entire global operating system, or an attack that narrowly fails to decapitate the U.S. government? And the obvious answer? Anyone who was paying attention. Just as epidemiologists…

Stacey Pavesi Debré’s young daughters had a habit when they saw President Donald Trump on TV in their Paris apartment. They’d hold their noses and boo. That is, until Stacey’s mother Lonnie Pavesi came to visit for a week, to help take care of her grandchildren. After she left, the elder Debré child, who was…

The quest for unity will be President Joe Biden's defining test

Exhaustion has set in among some of the workers since a Jan. 10 explosion ripped through the mine in Shandong province

Harris has ancestral roots in the southern Indian village of Thulasendrapuram

In place of the “American carnage” that was so jarringly invoked in 2017, Biden offered his own inaugural theme: “America United”

Harris opened her speech with a nod to the historic moment: "It is my honor to be here, to stand on the shoulders of those who came before, to speak tonight as your Vice President"

The premier of the oil-rich Canadian province of Alberta called the move an “insult” and called for sanctions if it is not reversed.

World leaders expressed hope Wednesday that Biden would right the world’s largest democracy

President Biden sent an immigration bill to Congress that includes fixing the root causes of migration, particularly from Central America.

The reverend could hardly recognize the streets of Washington, DC, as he drove into town on Monday night, a draft of his Inaugural prayer tucked into a three-ring binder. The city looked more like a militarized zone than a free nation’s capital, the streets deserted except for Humvees and checkpoints, police and soldiers, many thousands…

“At this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.” -President Joe Biden, January 20, 2021 Yes, it has, but just barely. If it weren’t for the pandemic and his woefully inadequate response to it, Donald Trump would likely have won the 2020 election. Imagine how he might have used a second term to degrade the legitimacy…

I met Joe Biden in the early 1960s. He was 19. I was 14. I was raised in a poor, poor Black family. At home, I had no food at the table sometimes. In those days especially, most folks were afraid to come to a neighborhood like mine. But Joe was not. He was a…

When Emily Rapp Black was 4, she had much of her left leg amputated, after a congenital birth defect meant it didn’t develop. When she was 6, she became the poster child for the March of Dimes. And when her son Ronan was nine months old, he was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, and she was…