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MORE THAN 90 YEARS AGO, TIME’S EDITORS REALIZED THAT THEY HAD SOMEHOW MADE IT all the way through 1927, the year the aviator Charles Lindbergh made his historic solo flight over the Atlantic, without putting him on the cover. And so they invented a n

TIME100 The release of TIME’s annual list of the world’s most influential people in the Sept. 27/Oct. 4 issue sparked impassioned conversations. Highlighting icons and innovators, pioneers and titans, artists and leaders, “this year’s list could hard

The proposed age range for Instagram for Kids, which Facebook put on hold on Sept. 27 after public backlash The annual amount that the U.S. will commit to foreign aid to combat climate change by 2024, President Joe Biden announced on Sept. 21 at the

IN THE PAST 11 YEARS ALONE, HAITIANS HAVE SUFFERED natural disasters, rising gang violence, outbreaks of cholera and COVID-19, and political instability, including the recent assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The crises left many in the hemis

The country’s 2003 constitution set a 30% quota as a baseline for women in elected positions—and in 2008, Rwanda became the first country in the world to elect a majority-women Parliament. Midterm elections in Mexico this past June brought gender par

Blaxploitation pioneer THERE WERE MANY WHO HATED—OR even feared—Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song upon its 1971 release. The X-rated film followed a Black outlaw on the lam after beating up two crooked white cops, and included exp

A MONTH INTO NEW YORK GOVERNOR KATHY Hochul’s term, Andrew Cuomo has become a ghost. Almost nobody in the governor’s office mentions his name. In a recent hour-long interview, Hochul called him only “this past governor,” when she referred to him at a

Lava flows creep across residential neighborhoods and farmlands on La Palma, in Spain’s Canary Islands, on Sept. 23, four days after an eruption of the small island’s Cumbre Vieja volcano. Hundreds of homes and buildings were destroyed and thousands

On Sept. 1, Texas enacted an extreme law that effectively ended abortion care in the state. Since then, clinics in states on the western and northern borders have seen a dramatic increase in patient visits and calls from abortion funds. But here in t

If you’re feeling more fatigued than usual—not sad or depressed necessarily, just exhausted—you’re not alone. Google searches for “Why am I tired all the time?” have been at historic highs lately. There are obvious drivers like the pandemic, but I th

GERMANY’S ELECTION on Sept. 26 ended without a clear winner, but one thing at least is certain: Angela Merkel will soon exit the political stage she has occupied for the past 16 years, kick-starting much debate about her legacy for Germany, and for t

LOOKING BACK, MAYBE I SHOULDN’T HAVE USED THE phrase when this is over quite so often when talking about the pandemic with my kids. It wasn’t that I thought everything would return to the status quo, or that the status quo was anything to be content

IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR II, when Jane Goodall was around 6 years old, she was often woken from her sleep by the blare of air-raid sirens. The sound warned that Nazi planes were flying over Bournemouth, the English seaside town where Goodall’s

IN A REMOTE CORNER OF EASTERN AFRICA, BEHIND tiers of razor wire and concrete blast walls, it’s possible to get a glimpse of America’s unending war on terrorism. Camp Lemonnier, a 550-acre military base, houses U.S. special-operations teams tasked wi

In idle moments, Mamtaj Begum finds herself thinking of how her husband was snatched away from her in the middle of the night. It had been a mundane day until then. Her husband Mahuruddin returned to their home in the northeast Indian state of Assam

ON A BREEZY AFTERNOON LAST SPRING, the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman took me on a tour of a public park near the center of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, along with a team of aides, architects, historians and artists. They had spent several year

IN 2016, MY DOCTOR, KELLY BAEK, A NO-NONSENSE REPRODUCTIVE endocrinologist in L.A., gave it to me straight: “Your best chance for a healthy baby would be surrogacy.” I had been through an adenomyosis diagnosis and more miscarriages than I could confi

FOR THE SPECTATOR, THE theater is magic, not work: every show is a feat of illusion, designed to allow an audience to slip into another world for a few hours. But the creation of any illusion involves labor, and that’s especially true on Broadway. Ev

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We need a reset. We know we have racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and additional forms of bias and discrimination built into our workplaces, our schools, our medical care and all our institutions. We know it is systemic and harmful. In the tech i

ON THE NORTHWEST COAST OF TAIWAN, NESTLED BETWEEN mudflats teeming with fiddler crabs and sweet-scented persimmon orchards, sits the world’s most important company that you’ve probably never heard of. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC,

WHEN SILICON VALLEY VETERAN EILEEN BURBIDGE moved to London in 2004, it was only meant to be temporary. With more than a decade of experience at tech stalwarts including Apple, Sun Microsystems and Verizon Wireless, the Chicago native felt a stint in

ONE EVENING IN EARLY JUNE, LEO AND HIS FAMILY were able to enjoy a treat they hadn’t experienced in months: a sit-down meal at a restaurant. At a fried-chicken chain in a Compton, Calif., strip mall, four of them splurged on a few plates of fried ric

JAIME MACIAS COULD HARDLY HAVE OPENED HIS BAR and restaurant, Jaime’s Place, at a worse time. In the weeks before his scheduled grand opening in October 2020, COVID-19 ran rampant through San Antonio. Restrictions had shuttered the doors of bars and

AMOR TOWLES HAD NEVER ACTUALLY been beneath the vaulted ceiling of an Adirondack lake house when he described the one in his 2011 debut, the best-selling Rules of Civility. He could only imagine the appeal of such an exalted communal space—“this grea

THE POWER OF FAMILY IS UNIVERSAL. IT TRANSCENDS TIME and borders, and connects people of every race, gender and sexuality. Yet throughout the world, certain families are granted more respect—while others are placed under direct threat. In HBO’s new t

The retrospectives of your work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are called “Mind/Mirror.” For you, is art more a way of representing thought, or a way of representing what you see? I don’t kno

I SIGNED MY FIRST BOOK CONTRACT WITHOUT paying much attention to what it said. I didn’t know at the time that the book would be a best seller or that it would one day inspire a Netflix series. I just needed the money. I was a single mom with a 2-year