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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3/newsletters?i=0bacde29-2a45-4cca-a9dd-c036bad7c1bc&cr=time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3-v1) by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 17, 2015 10:47 AM UTC  Bernie Sanders, photographed on Sep. 15 Bernie Sanders, photographed on Sep. 15 Photograph by Stephen Voss for TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 17, 2015 10:47 AM UTC [**The Gospel of Bernie**](http://time.com/4038080/the-gospel-of-bernie/) **The man who brought fire back to the Democratic Party** [**Labour’s New Leader Shakes U.K. Politics**](http://time.com/4038083/labours-new-leader-shakes-u-k-politics/) [**Pope Francis and the New Roman Empire**](http://time.com/4038077/the-new-roman-empire/) **From Cuba to climate change, he has revitalized the Vatican’s role in global diplomacy. Now he’s bringing his activist agenda to the U.S.** [**Meet the Doctors Fighting to Grant Patients the Right to Die**](http://time.com/4038096/meet-the-doctors-fighting-to-grant-patients-the-right-to-die/) **Trained to preserve life, but seeking to allow some to end theirs on their own terms** [**Why Ambition Isn’t Working for Women**](http://time.com/4038107/why-ambition-isnt-working-for-women/) **It’s not that women are less driven. But the things they strive for aren’t helping them get to the top** [**Elena Ferrante May Be the Finest Author You’ve Never Heard Of**](http://time.com/4038085/elena-ferrante-may-be-the-finest-author-youve-never-heard-of/) **The anonymous Italian author is becoming an icon** [**How Johnny Depp Transformed Himself to Play Whitey Bulger**](http://time.com/4038093/johnny-depps-new-jaunt/) **The actor’s new jaunt in** **_Black Mass_** [**Review:** **_Everest’s_** **Peak Experience Underrates the Mountain**](http://time.com/4038105/everests-peak-experience-underrates-the-mountain/) **Jake Gyllenhaal stars in the new film** [**Tennis Balls and Trash Give Pablo Picasso Another Dimension**](http://time.com/4038097/tennis-balls-and-trash-enliven-a-lesser-known-dimension-of-pablo-picasso/) **The master’s sculptures arrive at MoMA** [**Review:** **_Holmes_** **Is Where the Heart Is**](http://time.com/4038111/holmes-is-where-his-heart-is/) **Kareem Abdul-Jabbar releases** **_Mycroft Holmes_** [**Quick Talk With Jewel**](http://time.com/4038106/quick-talk-with-jewel/) **The singer releases a new album and memoir** [**What the 2016 Candidates Are Selling on Their Websites**](http://time.com/4038098/what-the-2016-candidates-are-selling-on-their-websites/) **As the witty merch goes, so goes the nation** [**11 Questions With Aberash Bekele**](http://time.com/4038102/11-questions-with-aberash-bekele/) **The subject of Angelina Jolie’s new movie talks about her life as a child bride who killed her would-be husband** [**Is the 8-Year Auto Loan In Your Best Interest?**](http://time.com/4038084/the-8-year-auto-loan-is-here-but-is-it-in-your-best-interest/) **Crunching the numbers** [**Meet the Houston Texans’ Rising Superstar**](http://time.com/4038104/meet-the-houston-texans-rising-superstar/) **JJ Watt is among the best defensive ends in the NFL** [**Why Colleges Need Helicopter Parents**](http://time.com/4038109/why-colleges-need-helicopter-parents/) **Sometimes, backing off is not what a kid needs** [**Why It’s Tough to Survive a Year in Space**](http://time.com/4038101/why-its-tough-to-survive-a-year-in-space/) **The science behind the struggle** [**The Ultimate Air Purifier**](http://time.com/4038095/the-ultimate-air-purifier/) **Designer Daan Roosegaarde’s “smog vacuum cleaner” aims to reduce Rotterdam’s growing air pollution.** [**Chilled**](http://time.com/4038100/chilled/) [**The Migrant Crisis Is a Major Test for European Identity–and Unity**](http://time.com/4038079/the-migrant-crisis-is-a-major-test-for-european-identity-and-unity/) [**Assessing the Pope at High Altitude**](http://time.com/4038078/assessing-the-pope-at-high-altitude/) [**Global Warming’s Comeback**](http://time.com/4038110/global-warmings-comeback/) **It may not have always felt like it, but global warming slowed in the decade before 2010\. Temperatures rose just 0.09°F, down from 0.2°F average growth in each of the six previous decades. Now a new study by the U.K’s Met Office says the “hiatus” has ended and predicts the next two years will be the hottest on record.** [**Australia’s Game of Thrones**](http://time.com/4038086/australias-game-of-thrones/) [**Perfect Your Predictions**](http://time.com/4038112/perfect-your-predictions/) [**College Buyouts**](http://time.com/4038089/college-buyouts/) **Ex–University of Texas athletic director Steve Patterson, who resigned Sept. 15 amid furor over too-high ticket prices, could reportedly get a $5.6 million settlement, since his contract runs through 2019\. It wouldn’t be the first taxpayer-funded college payout to raise concerns.** [**Fast-Food Farms**](http://time.com/4038082/fast-food-farms/) [**Great 20th Century Migrations**](http://time.com/4038088/great-20th-century-migrations/) **With an estimated 1 in every 122 people on earth now displaced according to the U.N., there are currently more people fleeing violence or persecution than at any other time since World War II. Here’s how the world dealt with previous mass movements of people.** [**Good Leaders Don’t Have to Be ‘Good’**](http://time.com/4038091/good-leaders-dont-have-to-be-good/) [**Pop Chart**](http://time.com/4038099/pop-chart/) [**Milestones**](http://time.com/4038108/milestones/) [**Homo Naledi**](http://time.com/4038094/homo-naledi/) **A protohuman** [**Verbatim**](http://time.com/4038103/verbatim/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4038137/in-the-latest-issue-46/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4038137/in-the-latest-issue-46/"},"headline":"In The Latest Issue (17 Sep 2015)","datePublished":"2015-09-17T10:47:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T19:57:05.187Z","description":"The Gospel of Bernie The man who brought fire back to the Democratic Party Labour’s New Leader Shakes U.K. Politics Pope Francis and the New...","url":"https://time.com/4038137/in-the-latest-issue-46/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt66a563f737e643ab/698863f0e20a8746dda8d443/bernie-final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt66a563f737e643ab/698863f0e20a8746dda8d443/bernie-final.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bernie Sanders Time Magazine Cover 150928","caption":"Bernie Sanders Time Magazine Cover","creditText":"Photograph by Stephen Voss for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4038137/in-the-latest-issue-46/","name":"In The Latest Issue (17 Sep 2015)"}}]}] ```