--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Deborah Blum ## Deborah Blum Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close ## Deborah Blum Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Sep 25, 2018 ### [How a Lawsuit Against Coca-Cola Convinced Americans to Love Caffeine](https://time.com/5405132/coca-cola-trial-caffeine-history/) The Coca-Cola trial of 1911 helped establish caffeine as America’s pick-me-up of choice—not that it ... [HISTORY](/section/history/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","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":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/deborah-blum/","name":"Deborah Blum"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/deborah-blum/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/deborah-blum/"},"name":"Deborah Blum","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/deborah-blum/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```