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![Museumgoers look at art inside the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2023-08/GettyImages-1228329276.jpg?h=ef074363)
2020 was a devastating year for art museums in the United States. But amid the chaos, opportunities exist to ensure the field’s long-term relevance to an increasingly diverse population.
![Asian American Ghosts](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-03/220309__Asian_American_Ghosts.jpg?h=6c8765b4)
Six decades after a landmark law brought millions of Asian Americans to the United States, the events of 2020 reaffirm how tenuous the status of that population is.
![The Real Pivot to Asia](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-03/220309_real_pivot_to_asia_2b.jpg?h=d5ce37f4)
How COVID-19 forced the world to see a key region in a new way.
![Teaching Truth to Power](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-03/220318_teaching_truth_to_power.jpg?h=c6980913)
A new approach to education is essential to address systemic racism.
![A Chinese propaganda poster from 1997 entitled "Enthusiastically Celebrate the Return of Hong Kong."](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-03/220314_waking_up_from_the_hong_kong_dream_magazine.jpg?h=531ca51f)
Did 2020 mark an end of 'one country, two systems'? A look back at the 1997 handover suggests the writing was already on the wall.
![Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (blue) infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. Phanie / Alamy](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-03/220321_coronavirus_micrograh_blue.jpg?h=41e8756d)
Survivor’s remorse is just one of the lingering aftereffects.
![Vibha Galhotra](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-01/IN....TIMES%281%29.jpg?h=86809ad4)
![Min Jin Lee](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-03/220321_min_jin_lee.jpg?h=52effa27)
An award-winning novelist grapples with the pandemic.
![The coming post-COVID-19 anarchy](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-01/yTTEcSDs.jpeg?h=10e26576)
The pandemic bodes ill for both American and Chinese power — and for the global order.
![The Shanghai skyline.](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-05/220505_shanghai_skyline.jpg?h=35f232b8)
Tom Nagorski on how the rise of Asia looks 20 years into the 21st century.
![Narendra Modi](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-03/PIB_Alamy%20.jpg?h=d16716e7)
In 2019, India's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party sailed to victory, with the biggest majority a party had seen in deades. With the ghosts of BJP's remarkable 2004 failure looming over the polls, what happened?
![A girl balancing a soccer ball on her body](/sites/default/files/styles/magazine_hero_sm/public/2022-03/GettyImages-997251580.jpg?h=c63721b7)
As tensions mount between the U.S. and China, a number of like-minded countries are pushing back on pressures to choose sides while working to maintain an open and stable environment for economic growth.