COVER STORY
28
WORLD: New Coke Kings
With Medellin’s drug dons behind bars, the scepter passes to the Cali cartel
ALSO: Could the African National Congress govern South Africa?
20
NATION: Rightward, Ho!
The Supreme Court conservatives are now calling the shots
50
BUSINESS: Credit Cards Go on a Spree
Consumers will benefit from a binge of fresh competition
INTERVIEW NASA’s chief says the space station has to fly 11
TECHNOLOGY Why weather forecasts are getting cloudier 58
SCIENCE Did a comet kill the dinosaurs? Here’s the smoking gun 60
ETHICS How discriminating can the Boy Scouts be? 65
A judge approves male bonding at V.M.I. 66
PRESS Doctored quotes are something a libel jury can ponder 68
BOOKS A picnic hamper full of summer novels 70
CINEMA Forget blockbusters. Here are the two most beguiling movies 75
VIDEO Star-powered storytelling comes to children’s video 76
MUSIC Who is making N.W.A. No. 1, and why 78
ESSAY Barbara Ehrenreich argues that flesh is for fun, not flaying 80
DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS 4
TRAVELER’S ADVISORY 14
GRAPEVINE 17
PEOPLE 63
MILESTONES 68
More Must-Reads from TIME
- Inside Elon Musk’s War on Washington
- Meet the 2025 Women of the Year
- The Harsh Truth About Disability Inclusion
- Why Do More Young Adults Have Cancer?
- Colman Domingo Leads With Radical Love
- How to Get Better at Doing Things Alone
- Cecily Strong on Goober the Clown
- Column: The Rise of America’s Broligarchy
Contact us at letters@time.com