4 | From the Editor6 | Conversation 8 | For the RecordThe BriefNews from the U.S. and around the world 9 | Mitch McConnell’s debt-ceiling dare14 | Afghan refugees alight in Wisconsin 15 | A global corporate minimum tax 16 | Prison for the Italian mayor who welcomed migrants 18 | TIME With ... retired U.S. Army general Stanley McChrystal20 | The consequences of California’s offshore oil leakThe ViewIdeas, opinion, innovations23 | Sean Gregory on Nike’s silence about Kyrie Irving’s vaccine hesitancy25 | Dr. Raj Panjabi on preparing for the next pandemic25 | Ian Bremmer on Central Europe’s fragile democracies Features Facebook Exposed The skewed priorities of the social media giant By Billy Perrigo 26Plus: The industry will not change on its own By Roger McNamee 31The Future of MoneyPast is prologue By Jacob Goldstein 34 The promise of the NFT world By Andrew R. Chow 38 El Salvador’s bet on crypto By Ciara Nugent 44 Black Bitcoin By Janell Ross 48Fish TaleVanishing salmon pit tribes against officials By Brian Bennett 54For the Prosecution Atlanta’s first Black female DA eyes Donald Trump By Janell Ross 64LGBTQ in KoreaA community rises against discrimination By Sungsub Billy Choo and Sangsuk Sylvia Kang 72Next Generation LeadersShowing the way forward 78Time OffWhat to watch, read, see and do 93 | Television’s vanishing middle class96 | Books: In the kitchen with David Chang and Priya Krishna; the fall’s best cookbooks97 | Movies: Last Night in Soho captures 1960s London; an overcrowded The Harder They Fall; Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch 104 | 8 Questions for author Elizabeth StroutMaynard “Bugs” Holt nets salmon in a traditional Nez Perce fishery in IdahoPhotograph by Kiliii Yüyan for TIME