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Why Jewish Women Rarely Get Cast in Jewish Hollywood Roles
By Sarah Seltzer
How Biden's UN General Assembly Speech Lines Up with Reality
By Ian Bremmer
Anne Lamott’s Advice Could Stop You From Drowning in Cynicism
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
Instagram Is Doing Grave Harm to Our Generation. We Need Help to Stop It
By Destinee Adams
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The Loss of Trees Has Had Devastating Consequences. Here's How We Can Still Create a Sustainable Planet
Viewed from outer space, Earth is a remarkable, vibrant planet—blue waters, majestic mountains, vast areas of green forests. It's an inspiring, stunning display of all the perfect elements to support the billions of diverse life-forms...
By Jane Goodall
September 21, 2021
My Father Was a Vocal Critic of Nicaragua's President. Now He's a Political Prisoner
My father, Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa, turned 77 this month. Normally, my entire family would gather somewhere in the States to celebrate his birthday with a late-summer cookout, a sheet cake and ice cream. This year, though,...
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
September 21, 2021
I Can't Do My Job as a Pastor With Abortion Laws Like Texas' S.B. 8 in Place
As a Baptist pastor from a midsize Southern city in a conservative red state, I know firsthand who suffers when politicians attempt to limit the right of every person to determine whether, when and how...
By Lauren Jones Mayfield
September 20, 2021
Democrats Must Pass Voting Rights Protections, But They Can't Codify a Lie
Back from their summer recess, Senate Democrats announced last week that they have united behind the "Freedom to Vote" Act, a compromise bill that would expand and protect the right to vote in important ways....
By William J. Barber II
September 20, 2021
How Joe Biden Can End Gender-Based Violence
In March 2019, I sat in a hotel room in Houston waiting for a conversation that was nearly 28 years in the making. The apology that in December 2017 Joe Biden told a journalist he...
By Anita Hill
September 20, 2021
The Quietly Rebellious Art of Iranian Women and What We Can Learn From Them
These artists take our worn stereotypes about femininity, religion, and war and push them out of context nudging us to see them differently.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
September 20, 2021
Melinda French Gates: Our Economy Is Powered by Caregivers. That’s Why It’s Time for National Paid Leave
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity,” a member of Congress told me earlier this summer. We were talking about the chance to pass a desperately needed, long overdue national paid family and medical leave law. After...
By Melinda French Gates
September 20, 2021
Why You Feel So Tired All the Time
A little over a month ago, I started feeling more fatigued than usual. Just about everything in my life—from getting out of bed to exercising to writing to coaching to reading—required a significant amount of...
By Brad Stulberg
September 20, 2021
Why Didn't We Leave Afghanistan Before Now? In a Word: Fear
The heart of the matter really comes down to terrorism and its domestic political implications
By Carter Malkasian
September 19, 2021
Why Older Couples Don't Need Marriage to Have Great Relationships
When Rochelle Ventura, a retired election consultant, married at age 22, she felt, she says, “like a domestic slave.” Now 83 and living with Phil Doppelt, 82, a retired software engineer, she says, “We’re equals....
By Francine Russo
September 19, 2021
My Child Was Vulnerable Long Before the Pandemic. But the Wait for a Vaccine Is Excruciating
Whenever my 9-year-old seizes, he’s coming out of sleep—as though his brain gets stuck in an elevator between the basement of REM and the lobby of consciousness. Around 5 a.m., always on a day I...
By Taylor Harris
September 18, 2021
Why Access to Birth Control Is No Substitute for Abortion Rights
Birth control is one more situation in which individual American women are asked to take responsibility for society-wide issues
By Krystale E. Littlejohn
September 17, 2021
The Story That Captures the Refugee Experience Like No Other
Sometimes the best take on current affairs is found not in the punditry of the cable shows but in great literature. Watching the horrific scenes in Kabul—the anguish of parents handing their babies to soldiers,...
By Suketu Mehta
September 16, 2021
How We Chose the 2021 TIME100
The year I started in journalism, 1992, was “the end of history” or so claimed a famous book by that title with a remarkably sunny view of human progress. Today—as I near my 30th year...
By Edward Felsenthal
September 15, 2021
How
Reservation Dogs
Is Opening Up a Crucial Conversation About Suicide in Indigenous Communities
Actor Devery Jacobs writes about how the comedy series takes on the issue in a way rarely seen in pop culture
By Devery Jacobs
September 14, 2021
How AI Will Completely Change the Way We Live in the Next 20 Years
Artificial intelligence could be the most transformative technology in the history of mankind, writes Kai-Fu Lee
By Kai-Fu Lee
September 14, 2021
I Didn't Want to Push My Aunt to Get the Vaccine. Now I Live With Regrets
In normal times, the ICU is a dreadful place. Sickness lingers like a fog. You can feel it, sense it, even hear it—the machinery pumping, the alarms ringing, the nurses scrambling. In pandemic times, the...
By Ross Dellenger
September 12, 2021
20 Years After 9/11, the West Can Still Salvage Its Standing in the World
When I deployed to Afghanistan in 2001 to help dismantle the al Qaeda network, I did so with a sense of hope. In the wake of history’s worst terrorist attacks, the United States had resolved...
By Ali Soufan
September 11, 2021
After 9/11: I Wasn't Prepared to Prepare My Kids For This New Reality
Learning to raise little kids in a world where planes can be bombs and the horizon can change in an instant
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
September 11, 2021
Norway's Fossil Fuel Reliance Is Going to the Ballot Box
Climate change is forcing Norway to consider giving up fossil fuel reliance in favor of its environmental ambitions
By Ian Bremmer
September 10, 2021
The U.S. Turned Away Jewish Refugees in 1939. We Must Not Repeat History With Afghans Fleeing the Taliban
In May 1939, more than 900 Jewish refugees boarded the MS St. Louis in Hamburg, hoping to flee Nazi Germany for the relative safety of Cuba. Due to the restrictive immigrant quota system in the...
By Frank Sobchak
September 10, 2021
Column: I Lost My Dad on 9/11—But I Never Asked for Revenge
I knew that as a “9/11 kid” I had an obligation to speak out against the injustices that stemmed from my loss
By Elizabeth Miller
September 10, 2021
Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure
In 2013 a Silicon Valley software engineer decided that food is an inconvenience—a pain point in a busy life. Buying food, preparing it, and cleaning up afterwards struck him as an inefficient way to feed...
By Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein
September 10, 2021
After America, It’s China’s Turn to Worry about Masculinity
Beijing's crackdown on "effeminate men" is typical empire-building behavior
By Debasish Roy Chowdhury
September 10, 2021
An Open Letter to Tim Cook
Silicon Valley investor and tech activist Roger McNamee is frustrated that Apple does not appear to recognize how vulnerable it is in a changing political landscape
By Roger McNamee
September 9, 2021
What the U.S. Owes to Afghanistan's People Has No Expiration Date
Everyone who is threatened by Taliban reprisals, revenge, and repression has the right to seek passage to safety. We mustn't forget them
By Brian Castner
September 9, 2021
Steve Buscemi: Everyone Said ‘Never Forget’ 9/11. Some Have No Choice
Actor and former firefighter Steve Buscemi discusses the enduring physical and mental toll of 9/11 on first responders 20 years later
By Steve Buscemi
September 9, 2021
Here's How to Learn the Practice of Patience
As a young geologist, Charles Darwin spent nearly five years on the HMS Beagle, a large ship circumnavigating the globe on a far-reaching scientific expedition. The ship set sail in 1831, but it wasn’t until...
By Brad Stulberg
September 8, 2021
Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change and Fiction
With the U.S. experiencing back-to-back record heat waves, the opening chapter of Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2020 Sci-Fi novel, The Ministry for the Future, is starting to feel eerily prescient. The book's story details the impact...
By Aryn Baker
September 8, 2021
I Survived Bill Cosby. And I Will Not Be Defeated by His Release
On the final day of Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing in 2018, as I had prepared to leave the court for the last time, Detective Jim Reape—a witness in the trial where Cosby was found guilty...
By Andrea Constand
September 7, 2021
The City That Endures
Those of us who stayed stuck around, through 9/11 or the COVID-19 pandemic, did so expressly to preserve the New York we knew
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 7, 2021
I Fled Hurricane Katrina When I Was 12 Years Old. We Can’t Forget the Kids of Louisiana Today
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, it’s hard to think of my childhood in New Orleans. I don’t remember doing anything without my close-knit family. We would meet on a random weekday to sing “Happy...
By Edward Buckles Jr.
September 3, 2021
It’s Time For Boys To Talk About Emotional Health
The first day my school moved to remote learning in March of 2020, my grandfather died. We had just heard about this new virus called COVID-19, and we thought we would be out for a...
By Zach Gottlieb
September 3, 2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Made Me Feel Seen Like No Other Hollywood Blockbuster Has
It wasn’t a profound scene in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings that made me feel instantly connected to the film—not the Mandarin narration that opened the movie or even the early references...
By Kat Moon
September 3, 2021
Why We New Orleanians Keep Coming Back After Every Storm
"New Orleans’ true name is Phoenix. The city will rise again and again as long as there are people who love it"
By Maurice Carlos Ruffin
September 2, 2021
What Is 'Tragic Optimism' and Can It Help Us Make Sense Of This Moment?
Learning to let happiness be a byproduct of the search for purpose.
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
September 2, 2021
The Afghanistan Withdrawal and America's Failure Since 9/11
The longest war in US history has come to a close with scenes of violent chaos from Afghanistan. The deaths of US Marines and fleeing Afghans will give the 20th anniversary of the September 11...
By Ian Bremmer
September 2, 2021
Let's Not Rush to Judgment About the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
As I listen to the commentators discuss the current situation in Afghanistan, the central question does not seem to be whether we should leave the country, but why it happened so fast and chaotically. The...
By Angus King
September 1, 2021
Christine Lagarde and Klaus Schwab Discuss How to Overcome the World's Greatest Challenges
The president of the ECB and the founder of the World Economic Forum discuss climate change, economic recovery and digital currencies
By TIME Staff
September 1, 2021
I Was Nervous About Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine While Pregnant. Here's What Convinced Me to Do It
In March, when President Biden announced that COVID-19 vaccines would soon be available to all Americans, my husband and I decided to press pause on the whole maybe-getting-pregnant-soon thing. We would get our vaccines first,...
By Charlotte Alter
September 1, 2021
Why Are Conservatives So Afraid of Critical Race Theory?
Republican legislators nationwide are waging a fierce battle to prevent educators from teaching critical race theory—and they’re being helped by conservative Christian leaders willing to intentionally misrepresent their faith for political gain. Take the Conservative...
By Serene Jones and Fred Davie
September 1, 2021
Afghanistan Withdrawal Exposes a Fault Line in Our Democracy
“The baby boomers’ turn is over,” said Marine Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller in a video this past Friday. “I demand accountability, at all levels. If we don’t get it, I’m bringing it.” His post, which...
By Elliot Ackerman
August 31, 2021
How to Become a Better Procrastinator
There must be few opinions more widely held, when it comes to the art of time management, than that procrastination is always and exclusively a bad thing. Naturally, history’s annoyingly over-productive types—the Benjamin Franklins of...
By Oliver Burkeman
August 31, 2021
We Don't Need a Cure for Autism. We Need to Make Living With It Easier
In 2006, Congress passed the Combating Autism Act. When President George W. Bush signed the bill into law, he said, “I am proud to sign this bill into law and confident that it will serve...
By Eric Garcia
August 27, 2021
Yes, We Can Grow 1 Trillion Trees to Help Fight Climate Change
We are in a planetary emergency. Horrific heat waves and fires blaze across North America, Turkey and Russia. Extreme floods wreak destruction and cause death from Europe to Africa to Asia. Ocean temperatures and the...
By Jad Daley
August 27, 2021
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