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Don't Let Turkish President Erdogan Bully NATO Like He Bullies Everyone Else
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School Shootings Confirm That Guns Are the Religion of the Right
Sometimes calls for America to return to God are couched in the language of consolation. Especially after a mass shooting. When 19 children were killed at school in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Lauren...
By Samuel L. Perry
May 25, 2022
America Needs to Examine Its Relationship to Black Suffering
Thirty years ago, all four Los Angeles Police Department officers involved in the beating of Rodney King were acquitted. Less than a year ago, the officer who killed George Floyd was convicted of second-degree murder,...
By Savala Nolan
May 25, 2022
Now is the Time to Address the Global Health Equity Gap
While the world has been preoccupied with COVID-19, deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to impact poor nations at an alarming rate. Each year around the world, more than 15 million people die from NCDs...
By Albert Bourla
May 25, 2022
In Ukraine, Fiction Has Lost Its Meaning
Thanks to the support of the democratic part of humanity, Ukraine has been fighting for its freedom for two and a half months against the Russian army, which is much larger, but, as it turned...
By Andrey Kurkov
May 24, 2022
9 Lessons for Making High Risk Decisions
Risk and decision-making under pressure are an inherent part of all our lives. Today we are watching two international figures representing their nations who are locked in mortal combat—Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. Both “risking...
By James Stavridis
May 24, 2022
The U.S. Failed Miserably on COVID-19. Canada Shows It Didn't Have to Be That Way
646,970 lives. This is the number of Americans who would be alive today if the United States had the same per capita death rate from COVID-19 as our northern neighbor, Canada. Reflect for a moment...
By Jerome Karabel
May 23, 2022
How White Violence Crushed the Progressive Change Won During Reconstruction
On Feb. 18, 1868, in Charleston, S.C., Radical Republican Solomon George Washington Dill, known as S.G.W. Dill, rose at South Carolina’s Second Constitutional Convention to offer a resolution that would protect sharecroppers and tenant farmers,...
By Clyde W. Ford
May 23, 2022
How We Chose the 2022 TIME100
"Our hope is that the TIME100 list is not simply a recognition of influence but a study in how influence can be wielded."
By Edward Felsenthal
May 23, 2022
It’s Time to Stop Giving Christianity a Pass on White Supremacy and Violence
In the wake of the massacre in Buffalo, we have all, naturally, tried to understand what could have caused someone to commit such a horrific act of violence. This young white man linked his motivations...
By Robert P. Jones
May 23, 2022
Biden's Focus on 'Shared Values' May Be a Blunder in Asia
Biden's focus on common political values to build a coalition may be a costly blunder as it limits the number of potential security partners
By Denny Roy
May 23, 2022
How I Lost Myself to Motherhood
It’s impossible to gauge the depth of a hole you’re in until you begin to climb out. I’ve felt this way in the most challenging times of my life, usually when suffering loss: death, divorce....
By Katie Gutierrez
May 21, 2022
How the CIA's Hunt for a Russian Mole Blinded It To Putin's Rise
War, by nature, tends to have winners and losers. The war in Ukraine, a universal disaster, seems to have more losers than winners, though. But before this conflict, few might have expected one of its...
By Robert Baer
May 21, 2022
Putin May Just Be Winning the Information War Outside of the U.S. and Europe
Is Vladimir Putin losing the information war with Ukraine? Well, it depends on who you ask. It’s never easy to measure such things, but here are a few numbers. While 141 countries in the UN...
By Richard Stengel
May 20, 2022
Treat Your Kids Like the Little Philosophers They Are
The world is a dark place right now, and kids have big questions about it. During the 2020 protests over police violence, our younger son, Hank (then seven), wanted help understanding why “good guys” sometimes...
By Scott Hershovitz
May 20, 2022
Where ‘Woke’ CEOs Are Falling Short
Can CEOs run the world? And will the world allow them to? That has become a central question of our times, as leaders of big business step up to address some of society’s most pressing...
By Alan Murray
May 19, 2022
Three Factors Drive Rightwing Violence. We Can't Solve the Problem Without Addressing All of Them
By some counts, the horrific attack at a Buffalo supermarket was the second terrorist attack, and the 202nd mass shooting, that happened in the United States this year. Given Americans’ easy access to weapons, growing...
By Jessica Stern and Megan K McBride
May 19, 2022
I Thought I Had to Breastfeed My Babies. Then I Lost My Breasts
I clutched the swaddled newborn in the crook of my arm. Only a few hours old, she was asleep, for which I was thankful. I knew when she woke, she would want to feed. A...
By Sara Herchenroether
May 18, 2022
Finland and Sweden Joining NATO Is the Latest Example of Putin Miscalculating the Ukraine War
That distant boom you heard last week was Vladimir Putin’s head exploding as he heard the news of a formal request from both Finland and Sweden to join NATO. These are two highly capable and...
By James Stavridis
May 18, 2022
What We Get Wrong About Life Before Modern Baby Formula
As families around the United States grapple with the infant formula shortage, some social media commentators have been asking: why don’t people just breastfeed? Isn’t that what everyone did before infant formula? As a historian...
By Carla Cevasco
May 17, 2022
Don’t Use Racial Equality to Justify Stripping Women of Their Right to Choose
Sixty-eight years ago today, the Supreme Court issued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, which overturned prior precedent and outlawed segregation in public schools. The ruling catalyzed racial progress across the nation, dismantling...
By Vangela M. Wade
May 17, 2022
White Supremacy Is Deadly. Guns Make It Deadlier
Here we are again. A white man radicalized by racist rhetoric carrying an assault rifle just massacred Black people going about their daily lives, causing lifelong trauma and suffering. And, once again, so-called pro-life pundits...
By Shannon Watts and Angela Ferrell-Zabala
May 17, 2022
The Roe Leak Shows the Supreme Court's Ongoing Effort to Overturn Established Rights
The leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade was a shock, but the content of the draft should not have been a surprise. Overruling Roe has been a stated goal of...
By Kermit Roosevelt III
May 16, 2022
Ukraine Is in Worse Shape than You Think
It has been said that, given how massively Ukrainian troops were believed be outmatched early in Russia’s invasion, not losing the war is itself a form of victory for Ukraine. The difference between expectations and...
By Suriya Jayanti
May 14, 2022
Inflation May Already Have Peaked. Overreacting Brings Its Own Risks
Whether you are an “average” American, a central banker, a CEO or a parking attendant, inflation is now the primary economic concern for most Americans. Polling bears that out: for the first time in decades,...
By Zachary Karabell
May 13, 2022
These Three Global Crises Will Transform Our World
Where is the peace that the United Nations was created to guarantee?” That’s the pointed question Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the U.N. Security Council during a video speech on April 5 in response to Russia’s war...
By Ian Bremmer
May 13, 2022
Israel's Troubling Response to Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing
The Israeli state PR machine went straight to work to choose its deflection strategy
By Orly Halpern/Jerusalem
May 13, 2022
Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Is Part of the State's Long, Shameful History
Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education Bill” has made the sunshine state ground zero in America’s culture wars. Signed into law last month by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the bill prohibits discussion of sexual orientation and...
By Omar G. Encarnación
May 12, 2022
How the West Can Divide China and Russia
“War is the realm of chance,” said Carl von Clausewitz, who knew more about the matter than most of us. “No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with it.” Even with...
By Ian Morris
May 12, 2022
How TIME Chose Its 2022 Next Generation Leaders
At TIME, our eyes are on the rising stars poised to shape the future. We first joined forces with Rolex in 2014 to launch Next Generation Leaders, our series elevating young people from across fields...
By Edward Felsenthal
May 12, 2022
The Modern World Can't Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels
Modern societies would be impossible without mass-scale production of many man-made materials. We could have an affluent civilization that provides plenty of food, material comforts, and access to good education and health care without any...
By Vaclav Smil
May 12, 2022
Voting Won't Save Abortion Rights
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion declaring their decision to overrule Roe v. Wade and allow states to recriminalize abortion, Americans have turned to their pro-choice elected officials looking for a...
By Renee Bracey Sherman
May 11, 2022
America's Traffic Laws Give Police Way Too Much Power
In my role as a Police Commissioner for San Francisco, I've introduced a new regulation to limit it
By Max Carter-Oberstone
May 11, 2022
I’m Still Wearing My N95 Mask Because I Care About Society’s Most Vulnerable
We have ignored the fact that we are all still in this together
By Monica R. McLemore
May 11, 2022
Europe Is Saving Democracy From Big Tech
When Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism was published in 2019, public unease with the power of Big Tech found its Rosetta Stone, an opus that simultaneously described, confirmed and named the transformation of...
By Karl Vick
May 11, 2022
Why the World Should Be Concerned by the Marcos Victory
Authoritarians around the world have watched the Philippine election with interest and been given a powerful lesson
By Jonathan Corpus Ong
May 10, 2022
On Being Black and Asian in America
Checking the Box First grade. I am 6 years old, taking my first standardized test at Shepherd Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Next to “Race,” I check “Black.” At 6, I already know what they...
By Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence
May 10, 2022
I Had an Unplanned Pregnancy, and a Choice
First, some caveats. As every woman who writes something on the internet knows, I must insert the appropriate number of “I love my kids!” “My kids are my life!” in anything that may be construed...
By Lindsay Hunter
May 9, 2022
We Asked Hundreds of Americans About Abortion. Their Feelings Were Complicated
Headlines broadcasting the pending Supreme Court ruling on abortion commonly pit one “side” against another. “Pro-life” versus “pro-choice.” Abortion rights or abortion opposition. “Healthcare” or “Murder.” It’s seems there’s little room for ambivalence when the...
By Tricia C. Bruce
May 9, 2022
Ukraine Shows the Strength of a Free People
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a confrontation of a dictatorship against a free people. The free people are winning in no small part because they are free. Ukraine and Russia both emerged from the...
By Frederick W. Kagan
May 9, 2022
The Critical Role of Public Defenders in a Post-
Roe v. Wade
World
The debate over fetal rights is an old one, and at least 38 states already have some form of fetal-harm laws in place that make it a crime to hurt a fetus. Under Roe v....
By Emily Galvin-Almanza
May 7, 2022
On Losing a Mom, Then Becoming One
I was binging yet another of Netflix’s dime-a-dozen puzzle-box mystery shows recently when I felt a pang in my gut. One character was revealed to be a grown-up version of a seemingly distinct character, seeking...
By Eliza Berman
May 7, 2022
The Supreme Court Was Broken Long Before the Leak
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is responsible for winning some of the most important cases in the history of the United States—but one of the most impressive testaments to the organization’s strength...
By Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman
May 7, 2022
How One of Ireland's Leading Abortion Rights Activists Sees the Future of Roe
Like many people I was not surprised at the publication of a leaked document suggesting that a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court is on the brink of overturning Roe v. Wade. Although I think...
By Ailbhe Smyth
May 6, 2022
Our Nation Is Still Divided Along the Battle Lines of the Civil War
Worries about a new civil war in the United States are misplaced because the Civil War never fully ended. That is essential knowledge for understanding current political divisions, especially the recriminations surrounding the leaked draft...
By Jeremi Suri
May 6, 2022
Doing Puzzles Can Help Solve Your Other Problems, Too
Puzzles saved my sanity during the pandemic—and I believe they can save the world. Perhaps that sounds like a rationalization from a puzzle addict trying to justify the thousands of hours I’ve spent wrestling with...
By AJ Jacobs
May 5, 2022
Democracy Can Still End Big Tech's Dominance Over Our Lives
Just two decades ago barely 25% of the world’s information was digital. Today, nothing escapes this web. It is our shared fate and privilege to live at the dawn of information civilization. What kind of...
By Shoshana Zuboff
May 5, 2022
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