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must be met with humility about the limits
of my knowledge,” writes National Book
Award winner and Iraq veteran Phil Klay.
Columnist David French calls us to put “love
for the close neighbor” ahead of “loathing for
the distant partisan.” Harvard professor and
former TIME editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs
urges us all to the polls on Nov. 6, as “an act of
common commitment to the common good.”
Commentator Margaret Hoover writes about
growing up in a family with partisanship in
the genes, while Tommy Orange, author of the
thunderous novel There There, invokes the power
of empathy. And the brilliant Tayari Jones offers
the essential reminder that civility doesn’t, and
shouldn’t, mean meeting in the middle.
In the pages of this issue, and through an
interactive audio and video experience at
time.com/guns-in-America, you can hear the
stories of all of the 245 cover participants. In
the coming months, the mural will travel to TOP: JR, right,
museums across the country, and you can also reviews a sketch of
apply to host a projection of and discussion the mural with art
around the mural in your community. director Camille Pajot
My own favorite TIME cover, a copy of during a studio session
which hangs in my home, is Marc Chagall’s from in the Grand Hyatt
1965. Though Chagall originally wanted to paint Washington in D.C.
a view of Manhattan from our offices (“très Cha- on Sept. 5
gall,” he told the editors), he ultimately decided CENTER: TIME’s
on a self-portrait. “First a commandeur, then a Abigail Abrams, left,
TIME cover,” the artist, who had recently been and Melissa Chan, the
named a commander of the French Legion of lead reporters on the
Honor, said at the time. “You see what happens project, conducted
when you get old.” more than 400
JR is still young at 35, and one hopes there is interviews over
much more of his message to come for a world five months
that increasingly needs it. The participants in
this project “will always be part of the same BOTTOM: TIME
mural even if they don’t share the same ideas,” editors with JR at
says the artist. “I really hope they will actually his New York studio
following a June kickoff
listen to each other, and I hope that people will meeting; Mia Tramz
join this conversation.” and Eben Shapiro, far
right, led the project
for TIME

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