--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: August 18th, 2025 | Vol. 206, No. 5 | South Pacific image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- Back to the vault # August 18, 2025 | Vol. 206 No. 5August 18, 2025 | Vol. 206 No. 5  Issue name August 18th, 2025 | Vol. 206, No. 5 | South Pacific Issue date August 18, 2025 Location South Pacific [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessClimateEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsSportsWorld ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### We Are Drinking So Much Matcha That Supplies Are Running Out As matcha demand grows—so do prices—and a hot and dry spring in Kyoto do not demonstrate that supply will grow anytime soon. [Business](/section/business/) ### Is 'Sweatshop Data' Really Over? A new essay argues that low-paid digital labor is becoming a thing of the past. Not so fast, TIME's tech correspondent writes. ### Climate [Climate](/section/climate/) ### The Rise of Green Wall Street Cities are racing to become the world's sustainable finance hub. ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Like Theo Huxtable, Malcolm-Jamal Warner Defied Expectations With Heart The actor, who died on July 20 at the age of 54, forged a career an actor that was all his own [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### ‘MAGA All the Way’: Tributes Pour In for Wrestling Icon and Outspoken Trump Supporter Hulk Hogan President Donald Trump, the WWE, and more offered tributes to the sports and entertainment icon who died at age 71. [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath Singer and Heavy Metal Icon, Dies at 76 Osbourne has been credited with helping “invent” heavy metal with Black Sabbath. He went on to star in hit reality tv show “The Osbournes.” [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### FX's _Alien: Earth_ Is the Best Thing to Happen to the Franchise Since _Aliens_ Noah Hawley's FX series is the best thing to happen to 'Alien' since 'Aliens' [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### How We Chose the 100 Best Podcasts of All Time From Serial to 2 Dope Queens to WTF With Marc Maron, there is something for everyone on this list of the 100 best podcasts ever made. [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### With _Highest 2 Lowest_, Spike Lee Gives Us Another Great New York Movie Spike Lee's reimagining of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 movie stars Denzel Washington as a music mogul facing an ethical dilemma. [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Benny Safdie on Playing the Villain in _Happy Gilmore 2_—And Christopher Nolan Telling Him to Get in Shape for _The Odyssey_ TIME spoke with Safdie about the long-awaited Adam Sandler sequel, buzz surrounding The Smashing Machine, and working with directing greats like Christopher Nolan. ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### Why So Many Seniors Can't Afford Long-Term Care A growing group of middle-income elderly people are too rich for government benefits but can't afford long-term care. [Health](/section/health/) ### The World's Richest Woman Has Opened a Medical School The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is trying a new approach to medical education. [Health](/section/health/) ### 7 Surprising Symptoms of Lyme Disease Up to 10% of people experience lingering, serious symptoms. [Health](/section/health/) ### COVID-19 Made Our Brains Age Faster A new study suggests that the pandemic took a toll on your brain even before you got infected. ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### The Tragedy Unfolding in Gaza Plummeting access to food across the territory has left ordinary Gazans facing famine, U.N.-backed body says. [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### I Used to Hate the Beach. Here’s What Changed My Mind David Litt shares his confessions of a beach convert who once loathed, and now loves, the beach. [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Why Trump's Threats Won't Alter Putin's Course in Ukraine Despite President Trump’s demands that Russia halt attacks on Ukraine soon, Putin still believes time is on his side, writes Ian Bremmer. [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Becoming a Bodybuilder at 50 Showed Me That Women Were Never Meant to be Thin "We’ve been taught to disappear, but our true power lies in taking up space," writes Anne Marie Chaker. [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### We Can Stop Gazans From Dying of Starvation Right Now. Here’s How We Do It "This famine is a man-made catastrophe," writes David Miliband. "It is not a consequence of natural scarcity, but of political choices." ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### How Mike Johnson Became Trump's Speaker Johnson has shepherded a series of wins for the White House—and turned the House into an instrument of Trump's agenda [Politics](/section/politics/) ### The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing and Trump Can't Seem to Stop It The fallout could reverberate into next year’s midterm election [Politics](/section/politics/) ### A Joe Rogan-Blessed Democrat? James Talarico Draws Eyes of a Party Desperate For New Leaders “James Talarico, you need to run for President,” Rogan said. ### Sports [Sports](/section/sports/) ### Erling Haaland Is Already Outscoring Soccer's Greats The Norwegian striker on his decision to play for Manchester City, the 2026 World Cup, and his signature bun. ### World [World](/section/world/) ### Where Giorgia Meloni Is Leading Europe The first female Prime Minister of Italy has confounded her critics while forging a new right-wing nationalism [World](/section/world/) ### The Malnutrition Crisis in Gaza Will Outlive the War, Experts Warn As limited aid reaches Gaza, experts warn that malnutrition and starvation is causing long-term, irreversible harm to civilians. 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