Innholdsfortegnelse for June 15, 2020 i Time Magazine International Edition

For this week’s cover on the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, we turned to artist Titus Kaphar. He wrote the following piece in response to this moment. I cannot sell you this painting, 2020 Icannotsellyouthispainting. In her expression, I see the Black motherswho are unseen, and rendered helpless inthis fury against their babies. As I listlessly wade through another cycleof violence against Black people, I paint a Black mother …eyes closed,furrowed brow,holding the contour of her loss. Is this what it means for us?Are black and lossanalogous colors in America?If Malcolm could not fix it,if Martin could not fix it,if Michael,Sandra,Trayvon,Tamir,Breonna andNow George Floyd …can be murderedand nothing changes …wouldn’t it be foolish to remain hopeful?Must I accept that this is what it means tobe Black in America?…

MANY GOVERNMENTS RESISTED TOUGH social-distancing measures and then saw their countries’ COVID-19 cases explode. In Peru, it’s a different story. The nation entered a strict lockdown on March 15, when it had just 71 confirmed cases—earlier than some European countries. But now this nation of 32 million has one of the world’s highest per capita rates of new infections per day, with more than 4,500 reported daily in the week leading up to June 2. Experts say socioeconomic conditions undermined the quarantine. That’s a bad omen for the rest of Latin America, the new center of the pandemic. LOCKDOWN LIMITS Whatever quarantine rules say, it’s hard for many Peruvians to stay home. Roughly 70% work in the informal employment sector, with little job security and no sick pay. Nearly 44%…

DIED Larry Kramer Era-shaping activist LARRY KRAMER, WHO DIED AT 84 on May 27, transformed the relationship between activism and the scientific, regulatory and government communities. He realized early on in the AIDS crisis that the country as a whole, particularly in the form of the federal government, was not paying much attention to the emerging pandemic. He became very iconoclastic in the way he confronted authority, because he wanted to get that attention. Back then, I was the scientist leading the AIDS effort at the National Institutes of Health. He called me a murderer for being negligent about HIV. That shocked me, but it got me to think that I needed to know a little more about this guy. So I reached out—and over the years we went from…

The killing of George Floyd was shocking. But to be surprised by it is a privilege African Americans do not have. A black person is killed by a police officer in America at the rate of more than one every other day. Floyd’s death followed those of Breonna Taylor, an emergency medical technician shot at least eight times inside her Louisville, Ky., home by plainclothes police executing a no-knock warrant, and Ahmaud Arbery, killed in a confrontation with three white men as he jogged through their neighborhood in Brunswick, Ga. Even Floyd’s anguished gasps were familiar, the same words Eric Garner uttered on a Staten Island street corner in 2014: “I can’t breathe.” Yet the timing and cruelty of Floyd’s death, captured in a horrific video that shows the white…

BREONNA TAYLOR WAS AN ESSENTIAL worker. An EMT with aspirations to be a nurse, she was one of the people whose daily labor of keeping people safe we have come to value anew in the age of COVID-19. In March, Louisville, Ky., police officers killed her after their choice to serve a no-knock warrant in plain clothes after midnight was met with gunfire by her boyfriend, who was startled by the intruders. Investigations are ongoing, but no charges have been brought against the officers. In a country reeling from being involuntary witnesses to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Breonna Taylor’s death does not fit the spectacular forms of police killing that we have come to associate with America’s nefarious lynching past. As such, the Louisville protests on…

By passing the resolution to develop legislation to “safeguard national security,” Beijing has initiated “political mutual destruction” for itself and Hong Kong. Beijing’s plan to rein in Hong Kong—defying a worldwide outcry—is revenge on the democratic movement in Hong Kong that has been protesting since March 2019. It is also retaliation against the U.S. for passing the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019. On May 27, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement certifying that Hong Kong no longer warrants differential treatment under U.S. law. The U.S. response to the events over the past year signifies that it has shifted from an appeasing “change for trade” to an increasingly unyielding foreign policy toward China. Since the 1980s, the free world had been falsely hoping China…

Powerful cyclone hits near Mumbai Cyclone Nisarga made landfall on the coast of India on June 3, with 75 m.p.h. winds and heavy rains forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people to shelters. The cyclone’s eye narrowly missed Mumbai, India’s most densely populated city and home to 20 million people. EPA cuts state ability to block pipelines The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new rule on June 1 that will limit states’ ability to use the Clean Water Act to review and stop new fossil-fuel infrastructure projects. Oil and gas industry groups lauded the change, while environmental organizations said it illegally undermines the law it modifies. Rain-forest loss increases worldwide Satellite analysis released June 2 by the Global Forest Watch network showed that a soccer-field-size area of…

MANY OF US MAY NOT BE ABLE TO RELAX ON A beach or gather around a pool with friends anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still escape to somewhere far away—or comfortingly close to an old reality. The best new books coming this summer offer respite from our immediate troubles, yet still ask urgent questions about the world that surrounds us. From romantic diversions to page-turning thrills to thought-provoking nonfiction, here are 44 new books to read this summer. JUNE THE VANISHING HALF Brit Bennett After moving to New Orleans as teenagers, twin sisters who shared a traumatic childhood in the Jim Crow South split ways—Desiree lives as black, while Stella passes as white. As the novel follows the estranged duo’s journey as adults, Bennett creates a striking…

You started kneeling during the national anthem, in solidarity with former San Francisco 49ers teammate Colin Kaepernick, in 2016. You’ve continued to kneel since. After the death of George Floyd, did you feel a sense of “This is exactly why we did this”? My experience with Colin and the guys that knelt with me, we said from the very beginning, the reason we did this was to shine a light on injustice that was happening. Those who were supposed to protect and serve the community were perpetuating the injustice that they’re supposed to be protecting us from. Anytime anybody is murdered for any reason, this is unacceptable. But more so when somebody has taken an oath to protect people and then uses their badge as a way to kill somebody…

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT TILL IT’S gone. If you don’t believe that, consider the jubilation in Cape Canaveral at 3:22 p.m. E.T. on May 30, when an American rocket carrying an American crew lifted off from American soil for the first time since 2011, carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station (ISS). The last time there was this kind of U.S. hoopla for a mere flight to low Earth orbit might have been the first time, on Feb. 20, 1962, when John Glenn became the first American to orbit the planet. Orbital flight has become routine, but after the last space shuttle was retired in 2011, the U.S. was reduced to hitching rides on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft at a cool $80 million a…

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HAS driven some of the greatest public-health triumphs of the modern era, and throughout its 72-year history, the U.S. has been its biggest sponsor. During the WHO’s latest funding cycle, the U.S. contributed $893 million—15% of the entire budget and more than twice as much as any other country. That has been the norm for decades and put the U.S. at the center of the world’s most important public-health apparatus. Then came President Donald Trump and COVID-19. “I am instructing my Administration to halt funding of the WHO while a review is conducted to assess the WHO’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” Trump said on April 14. In a subsequent letter to WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Trump…

WHEN FRIENDS ASK HOW WE’RE DOING, I ANSWER LIKE everyone else who has both a job and their health: I say I’m lucky and so grateful. Then I joke about how at the start of the stay-at-home orders, my kids and I divided up our 1,100-sq.-ft. apartment into quadrants like Berlin after the war. They are back home for all the reasons everyone’s college-age children are home. And let’s just say young adults are not the only ones who regress in this situation. I now have the emotional maturity of a 15-year-old, and the gray roots and stretchy pants of a woman who is a lot older than she thought she was at the start of this thing. We have argued about who “borrowed,” broke, threw away, ate, didn’t wash,…

AS PROTESTS SPRING UP ACROSS the country and around the world in response to the video of George Floyd’s murder, there seems to be some confusion about why this moment, this death at the hands of police, has sparked so much outrage. And if it were an isolated incident, that would make sense. But Black death at the hands of the state is unfortunately at least as American as apple pie. Throughout our lives, Black Americans are dehumanized, treated as unequal, deemed less valuable by the systems that purport to be for all people. Black life is so utterly disregarded that many Americans seem to have normalized the idea that someone deserves to die for possibly using a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes. Or being asleep in their own…