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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. Vol. 206 No. 3  Issue name July 28th, 2025 | Vol. 206, No. 3 | U.S. Issue date July 28, 2025 Location U.S. [Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents BusinessClimateEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsWorld ### Business [Business](/section/business/) ### Today’s AI Could Make Pandemics 5 Times More Likely, Experts Predict AI advances may make human-caused pandemics 5× more likely than last year, top experts warn in a study shared exclusively with TIME. [Business](/section/business/) ### Saab CEO Micael Johansson on the Future of Warfare and Why Europe Needs Its Own ‘Golden Dome’ ‘We've been too naive for decades,’ says Saab's CEO Micael Johansson, who believes Europe needs its own ‘golden dome.’ ### Climate [Climate](/section/climate/) ### What Made the Texas Floods So Devastating? Sloping terrain, the remnants of a tropical storm, and climate change can make for a dangerous combination. ### Entertainment [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Megan Stalter Is Reinventing the Rom-Com Heroine TIME interviews the 'Hacks' breakout about her star turn in Lena Dunham's Netflix series 'Too Much.' [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ### Ari Aster's _Eddington_ Is a Wigged-Out Modern Western Overstuffed With Ideas Ari Aster's film, set amid COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protests, is a cry of vexation over what our country has become. ### Health [Health](/section/health/) ### The Surprising Reason Rural Hospitals Are Closing It's not just Medicaid or Medicare: Private insurance payments lag in rural areas. [Health](/section/health/) ### The 9 Most Underrated Healthy Foods They don't often get the spotlight—but deserve to. [Health](/section/health/) ### Is Cheese Giving You Nightmares? A new study links diet—especially dairy—to bad dreams. ### Ideas [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Trump Should Have Never Ditched the Iran Nuclear Deal The JCPOA was working before the U.S. pulled out in 2018, and another accord is still the best way forward. [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ### Why Europe Can't Tame the Far Right The next few years could see various anti-migrant, Euroskeptic parties make major political gains. ### Politics [Politics](/section/politics/) ### The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Is Massively Unpopular and Democrats Plan to Keep It That Way The megabill extends the first-term Trump tax cuts and increases the national debt by trillions. [Politics](/section/politics/) ### Zohran Mamdani's Upset Is a Seismic Moment for the Left Mamdani is about to become shorthand for right-wing attacks. ### World [World](/section/world/) ### How We Chose the 2025 TIME100 Creators Behind the scenes of TIME's inaugural list of the most influential digital voices. [World](/section/world/) ### The Making of an American Pope How a kid from the Midwest became the leader of the Catholic Church [World](/section/world/) ### The Hidden War Over Ukraine’s Lost Children Russia took thousands of Ukrainian kids. Can peace talks bring them home? 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