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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  ## Karl Vick Vick is an editor at large at TIME. He has also served as TIME’s Jerusalem bureau chief. He has reported from 60 countries and in 2001 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the spread of AIDS in Africa.  ## Karl Vick Articles351Collections9 *  Mar 30, 2026 ### [Why Iran Thinks It's Winning](https://time.com/article/2026/03/30/iran-war-strait-hormuz/) Tehran views the impact it has had on global oil prices as validation of its doctrine of asymmetrica... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Mar 16, 2026 ### [Why There’s No Organized Opposition Inside Iran Waiting to Take Over](https://time.com/article/2026/03/16/why-no-opposition-inside-iran-to-take-over/) Decades of surveillance and assassinations have left Iran without a unified opposition ready to take... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Mar 13, 2026 ### ['It Was Just an Accident' Offers Iran a Different Future](https://time.com/article/2026/03/13/iran-oscar-it-was-just-an-accident/) The movie goes straight at the question looming over Iran’s future: Is it possible to show your oppr... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Mar 2, 2026 ### [Fears Rise for Political Prisoners Held in Iran](https://time.com/7382157/iran-political-prisoners-evin/) The office of Narges Mohammadi said it was “profoundly concerned” about the Nobel Peace Prize recipi... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Feb 28, 2026 ### [Iran’s Supreme Leader Killed in U.S.-Israeli Strikes](https://time.com/7381859/ali-khamenei-obituary-supreme-leader-iran-dead-86/) For 36 years he fused theology and force, empowering the Revolutionary Guards and steering Iran into... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Feb 28, 2026 ### [Trump Calls Khamenei's Death 'Justice for the People of Iran'](https://time.com/7381829/iran-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-dead/) Khamenei, who ruled Iran’s religious autocracy for more than three decades, was killed in the openin... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Feb 3, 2026 ### [Iran on the Edge: Inside the Uprising the Regime Tried to Crush](https://time.com/7362807/iran-protests-regime-uprising-series/) Five leading Iranian writers reckon with a shattered uprising, a despotic regime and a country edgin... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 29, 2026 ### [See the American Revolution in a New Light](https://time.com/7358596/on-this-day-1776-american-revolution/) Depending on how it’s told, a story a quarter of a millennium old can still feel fresh. [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jan 13, 2026 ### [What's Happening in Iran Right Now, Explained](https://time.com/7345555/iran-protests-deaths-us-trump-israel/) Here are the key questions about Iran’s protests, what sparked them, how the government is respondin... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jan 12, 2026 ### [Death Toll in Iran May Already Be in the Thousands](https://time.com/7345347/iran-protests-death-toll-estimate-thousands/) No precise toll can be ascertained, but a group estimates that protester deaths may have reached 6,0... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Dec 12, 2025 ### [Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi Arrested in Iran](https://time.com/7340476/narges-mohammadi-arrested-iran-memorial-service/) Mohammadi's relative tells TIME the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was "was dragged through the crowd an... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Nov 4, 2025 ### [Dick Cheney Was the Most Powerful—and Polarizing—VP in U.S. History](https://time.com/7330901/dick-cheney-obit-former-vice-president/) In the half century he navigated the heights of U.S. executive power, Cheney went from being univers... [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Oct 23, 2025 ### [Wife of Imprisoned Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Urges Trump to Approve His Release](https://time.com/7327932/trump-israel-hamas-gaza-deal-marwan-barghouti/) Trump’s comment that he would “make a decision” on Marwan Barghouti’s case has prompted calls for hi... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Oct 11, 2025 ### [Trump Wins Praise From the Unlikeliest of Places for Gaza Deal](https://time.com/7325169/trump-gaza-hamas-deal-israel/) Hamas credits the floridly pro-Israel U.S. President with coercing Benjamin Netanyahu into accepting... [POLITICS](/section/politics/) *  Aug 1, 2025 ### [The Tragedy Unfolding in Gaza](https://time.com/7306735/gaza-famine-un/) Plummeting access to food across the territory has left ordinary Gazans facing famine, U.N.-backed b... 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