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ON THE COVER:
Melissa Nesta,
a member of the
Drexel University
Class of 2020,
and Dan Mosley,
at home in
Philadelphia

Photograph by
Hannah Beier
for TIME

2 | From the Editor
3 | Conversation
4 | For the Record
The Brief
News from the U.S.
and around the world

7 | Trump’s purge of
federal watchdogs

9 | Update on a
COVID-19 vaccine

12 | The newly
unemployed swamp
the gig economy

14 | Placing bets
in an uncertain
market

16 | The possible
return of baseball

18 | TIME with ...
Peloton CEO John
Foley

The View
Ideas, opinion,
innovations

21 | Zachary
Karabell on the
tattered safety net

23 | Ian Bremmer
on Mexico’s risky
reopening

24 | Belinda
Luscombe on
masking emotions

25 | Sally Susman’s
touch of gray

26 | A road map to
recovery, backed by
research

28 | David French on
how unreasonable
fear turns deadly

Time Off
What to watch, read,
see and do

87 | Quarantine
viewing hastens
the demise of
traditional TV

90 | Television: civic
pride in Central
Park; a Charles and
a Diana in Quiz

92 | Books: a timely
novel on India;
new fiction from
Ivy Pochoda and
Stephanie Danler

94 | Movies: charm
abounds in The
Lovebirds; a finale
in The Trip to
Greece; Drew Dixon
On the Record

98 | 7 Questions for
author N.K. Jemisin

Features
The Class of 2020
The world-wary generation the
pandemic will define for life
By Charlotte Alter 30
Plus: Kids, teens, college students
and new grads on hope, fear and the
possibilities after the lockdown 42

The Next Best Hope
How the drug remdesivir moved
from back shelf to a key treatment
option for COVID By Alice Park 58

Bane of Brazil
The pandemic rages as a populist
President downplays the threat
By Ciara Nugent 66

Gathering Loss
The people who rise to the challenge
of collecting New York City’s dead
By W.J. Hennigan 72

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VOL. 195, NOS. 20–21 | 2020

△
Sisters Camilla
(Drexel University,
Class of 2020)
and Sophia Nappa
(NYU, Class of
2022, with guitar),
isolating at their
father’s home
in St. Louis on
April 30

Photograph by
Hannah Beier

COVER PHOTOGRAPH IN COLL ABORATION WITH MELISSA NESTA

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Time June 1–8, 2020

the financial crisis. For this issue, she explores
how the Class of 2020 is processing the indelible
experiences of this pandemic. “We stepped into
the world as it was starting to fall apart,” Simone
Williams, Florida A&M University ’20, tells
Charlotte. “It’s caused my generation to have a
vastly different perspective than the people just a
few years ahead of us or behind us.”

We also asked kids and young adults around

the world to share experiences of life at home

in their own words. “My dad
works in a hospital as a doctor,”
writes 5-year-old Adrian Garces of
Miami. “We can’t hug him when
he comes home until he takes a
shower.” Amika George, a student
at the University of Cambridge
in England, believes young
people globally, once dismissed
as “Generation Snowflake,” will
continue to seize on their collective
power, “daring to choose hope over
fear.” Louis Maes, 17, of Bordeaux,
France, writes about coming
to terms with the instability,

uncertainty and unrest: “I think it’s about learning
how to live within them.”

we are also beginning a special three-part se-
ries of TIME 100 Talks, our new live virtual event
that convenes leaders from around the world to
help find a path forward in this unprecedented
moment. The new series, made possible through
a partnership with P&G, will explore the conse-
quences of the pandemic for marginalized com-
munities and how we rebuild a society that is
more resilient and more just.

As Naomi Wadler, a seventh-grader in Wash-

ington, D.C., puts it in a moving essay in this issue,
“the black and brown people who work as hourly
essential workers have found both their jobs and
their health at risk.” Still, she adds, “that the sto-
ries of these people are being told is a small sign
of progress ... It gives me hope that each of us can
work toward a more equitable future.”

You can watch TIME 100 Talks, and find out
more, at time.com/time100talks.

I hope you’ll join us.

The next world

From the Editor

Edward Felsenthal,
ediTor-in-chief & ceo
@efelsenThal

my grandfaTher’s life, like Those of so
many of his generation, was shaped by war. He
was 11 when World War I broke out in his native
Germany and often recounted the lasting effects of
that period on his future, beginning with the dis-
ruption in his schooling. “Our young and energetic
teachers followed the call to the army,” he wrote in
a detailed account of his life. “Our
education naturally suffered, and I
went from an excellent student to a
borderline one.”

I’ve thought of him frequently

these past weeks, watching my own
kids—the oldest of them 11 and the
youngest named for him—adjust
to this strange new reality. The cri-
sis we find ourselves in is of course
quite different from the wars he
lived through (although I now re-
gret never asking him about the
1918 flu). But I don’t know a single
parent who isn’t worrying about
the effect of all this on their children—the fear
and loss, the peculiarities and wonders of virtual
schooling, the added responsibilities they will face
as the world recovers and recalibrates. For millions
of kids, the worries are even more immediate;
in the U.S. alone, roughly 1 in 5 households with
young children now faces uncertainty about where
they will find their next meal.

The impact of the pandemic on the next gen-

eration’s future is the focus of this special issue of
TIME. Our intent was to explore the crisis through
the lens of the young, so TIME director of pho-
tography Katherine Pomerantz and her team did
just that— reaching out to about two dozen col-
lege photography professors in search of the right
photo essay to feature. They found it— including
the cover image—in the work of Hannah Beier, a
member of the Class of ’20 at Drexel University in
Philadelphia. For the past five weeks, Hannah has
been art directing photographs, via FaceTime, of
friends and classmates scattered across the coun-
try in quarantine. Her goal, as she puts it, is “to
portray personal and authentic moments that con-
nect us beyond the commonality of living through
a pandemic.”

For the cover story, we turned to TIME

national correspondent Charlotte Alter, who has
spent much of the past few years reporting on
the rumblings and roars of generational change.
Her recent book on the subject, The Ones We’ve
Been Waiting For, describes how millennials
were powerfully shaped first as teens by 9/11
and its aftermath—and later as young adults by

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Beier, 23,

whose work

appears on the

cover of this issue,

at home in Fort
Washington, Pa.

WALTER BEIER

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Conversation

WHY AMERICA MAY EMERGE STRONGER
Ian Bremmer’s May 18 column got readers
thinking about the country’s global role dur-
ing and after the pandemic. Mark B. Leedom
of Nashville worried that a U.S.-centric ap-
proach could hinder cooperation in the fi ght

against COVID-19.
Casey Kirkhart of
Santa Cruz, Calif.,
thought Bremmer
should “rethink his
premise,” focusing
not on how the U.S.
can emerge stronger
but on how America
can help the whole
world emerge stron-
ger. And Twitter
user @CrumpetPete

argued that a leadership change would be
needed fi rst: “If we have a diff erent presi-
dent we will do ok.”

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