On March 16, a gunman shot nine people in three Asian spas in Georgia, and killed eight. The Atlanta Police Department said the shooter told them that he was a sex addict and was seeking to eliminate the temptation that he perceived these outlets represented. It's not completely clear that sex work took place at the establishments he targeted: Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had suggested it didn't, but neighbors called the area in Atlanta where the spas were located "a red light district.

Anti-Asian hate crimes are on the rise in the United States. The most recent March 16 shootings in Atlanta, Ga., left eight people dead, many of them Asian women. As Asian Americans process a gunman opening fire on three Asian-owned spas, many will turn to leaders in their communities.

TIME spoke with Asian American religious leaders to reflect on Tuesday’s shootings.

As our nation comes to grip with the horrific events of January 6 and watches the Republican Party descend further into Trumpism as it pushes hundreds of restrictive voting laws across the country, the obvious question is how does American democracy come back from all this?

There is a path forward: The super-majority of Americans across the political spectrum who reject the extremism need to come together. This includes the pro-democracy right.

Pointless films have their place in the world: Not every movie has to clue us in to some murky corner of human nature, or teach us about worlds different from our own, or make us see our own lives in a fresh light. But even within that context, it’s hard to know what purpose Another Round, a half-comedy from the generally very serious Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, is supposed to serve.

For Mai-Anh Peterson, hearing the news from Atlanta, Ga., that eight people, six of them Asian-American women, were killed at three spas on March 16 was the latest painful incident in an unrelenting timeline of global anti-Asian violence. “We’re all feeling a collective trauma,” says Peterson, who is a co-founder of besea.n, Britain’s East and South East Asian Network.

Not even a once-in-a-century pandemic could prevent white supremacist groups from deluging American cities with extremist propaganda in 2020. Banners were hung from freeway overpasses. Stickers were slapped onto street signs. Fliers were dropped onto the windshields of parked cars.

On Sept. 26, Germany's year of political change will culminate with the election of a new Chancellor, an event that will close the remarkable 16-year tenure of Angela Merkel. For Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the election year is off to a rough start.

Early March saw the first two of six regional elections in 2021.

In March 2019, 50 people, including actors Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, were charged in the biggest college admissions scheme the Department of Justice has ever prosecuted. Parents spent anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of dollars to guarantee their children’s acceptance into colleges across the country. The $25 million scam was a media sensation, in large part due to its clear underlying message—that the wealthy operate according to a different rulebook in the U.S.

In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, streaming March 19 on Disney+, Captain America is gone. Or, at least the Steve Rogers who appeared in nearly a dozen Marvel movies, is anyway. The man who answered to the name "Cap" for over a century has retired, and the question of who will carry his shield looms large over the show.

The most obvious candidate is Sam Wilson, who goes by Falcon (played by Anthony Mackie).

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