--- title: December 24th, 2018 | Vol. 193, No. 26 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific, U.S. description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/magazine/us/5476609/december-24th-2018-vol-193-no-26-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific-u-s/ og:title: December 24th, 2018 | Vol. 193, No. 26 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific, U.S. og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/magazine/us/5476609/december-24th-2018-vol-193-no-26-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific-u-s/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt001dd8dd33533951/698941437cdbac17abd5ea82/poy-guardians-grid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2550 og:image:height: 1434 og:image:alt: poy-guardians-grid og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: December 24th, 2018 | Vol. 193, No. 26 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific, U.S. twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt001dd8dd33533951/698941437cdbac17abd5ea82/poy-guardians-grid.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Back to the vault # December 24, 2018 | Vol. 193 No. 26December 24, 2018 | Vol. 193 No. 26  Issue name December 24th, 2018 | Vol. 193, No. 26 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific, U.S. Issue date December 24, 2018 Location U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Asia, South Pacific Related categories [Influence](/vault/subject/influence/) [Person of the Year](/vault/subject/person-of-the-year/) [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents IdeasScienceWorld ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Why Americans Are Still Grappling With Christine Blasey Ford's Legacy Months after the whirlwind that surrounded her testimony, many are still coming to terms with its meaning [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### What Still Needs to Be Done to Break the Silence Surrounding Sexual Harassment A letter from 12 Silence Breakers, a year after being named TIME's Person of the Year [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### How Women Across Industries Are Finding Their Voice in the Fight Against Sexual Harassment And the lessons society should learn from the past year ### Science [Science](/section/science/) ### Apollo 8 Astronauts Reflect on Historic Moon Voyage 50 Years Later "I’m still trying to figure out who took that picture" ### World [World](/section/world/) ### TIME's 2018 Person of the Year: The Guardians [World](/section/world/) ### From Cave Divers to a Fearless Flier, Here Are the Heroes of 2018 “The most important lesson we learned is that nothing is impossible.” December 24th, 2018 | Vol. 193, No. 26 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific, U.S. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"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"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"December 24th, 2018 | Vol. 193, No. 26 | Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, South Pacific, U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/5476609/december-24th-2018-vol-193-no-26-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific-u-s/"}]}]} ```