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Sharing Personal Stories Won't Move the Needle on Paid Family Leave. Talking About Money Might
By Katherine Goldstein
Don Cheadle, Kristalina Georgieva and 6 More Global Leaders Share the Most Powerful Collaborations in Their Lives
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Voting Rights Isn’t Just a Black Issue
Ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, President Biden visited the grave of Dr. King in Atlanta and gave the angriest speech of his presidency, insisting that the Senate has a moral obligation to...
By William J. Barber II
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The Right to Vote Is More Important Than the Filibuster
When I was Governor of Maine, I used to have a standing bet with my fellow Independent Governor, Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, about which of our states would have higher voter turnout. As we saw...
By Angus King
January 14, 2022
U.S. Food Prices Are Up. How Monopoly Power Makes this Worse
2021 was a bad year for grocery bills. Shoppers paid 6.4% more for groceries in November 2021 compared to November 2020, according to the consumer price index. All food prices were up a bit more...
By Claire Kelloway
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I Searched for Answers About My Enslaved Ancestor
'Did slavery make home always somewhere else?'
By Imani Perry
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How We Can Spot the Next COVID-19 Variant Even Faster
In Durban, South Africa, scientists led by Dr. Tulio de Oliveira, director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University, were conducting routine genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 from different regions when...
By Rick Bright
January 13, 2022
Why You Shouldn't Exercise to Lose Weight
Many of us are lacing up our sneakers and starting (or restarting) exercise regimens in hopes of shedding unwanted pounds. Unquestionably, aiming to be more active is a good thing. But if the main reason...
By Robert J. Davis
January 12, 2022
How School Buses Can Be a Force for Climate Change Good
Transportation accounts for at least 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions, roughly eight billion tons of carbon per year. With Tesla rising, General Motors pledging to retire gasoline-powered lines by 2035, and other major car...
By John Doerr
January 12, 2022
Violent Crime in the U.S. Is Surging. But We Know What to Do About It
Just before Thanksgiving in Philadelphia, dozens of residents gathered on a basketball court in the city’s Lawncrest section to mourn the loss of Jessica Covington. Thirty-two years old and seven months pregnant, Covington had been...
By Thomas Abt, Eddie Bocanegra and Emada Tingirides
January 12, 2022
America Must Rebuild Our Communities Before the Next Pandemic
As the Omicron variant spreads across the globe, we are reminded again that a pandemic is a disease of populations, not of individuals, and population-level problems require collective solutions. This is why societies with high...
By Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
January 11, 2022
Don't Sell Your Fossil-Fuel Stock If You Want to Make a Climate-Change Difference in 2022
In 2022, investors who want to address climate change should focus on one simple but essential goal: active stock ownership. They should engage with companies on both sides of the energy transition–those heading in the...
By Chris James
January 11, 2022
What It Takes to Get Support for a Black Boy With Special Needs
After just one IEP meeting at Tophs’ new school, I understood why many parents loathe them. Sometimes you walk into a cold, sterile room and sit across from people who must have once loved something...
By Taylor Harris
January 11, 2022
We Must Come Together to Face Longterm Global Risks
As the world enters the third year of living through a pandemic, people are struggling. COVID-19 has caused a staggering 5.4 million deaths globally and led to an additional 53 million cases of major depression....
By Saadia Zahidi
January 11, 2022
The Danger of the Supreme Court Undercutting Biden’s Vaccination Rules
“There are three quarters of a million new [COVID] cases yesterday. . . [t]hat is 10 times as many as when OSHA put in this ruling. The hospitals are today, yesterday, full. . . ....
By Carmel Shachar
January 10, 2022
A Former Supreme Commander of NATO on What Putin's Up to in the Ukraine
For the past several months, Ukraine and its western partners have been watching Russia methodically build up a powerful force of over 100,000 soldiers on their shared border. While he claims not to intend an...
By James Stavridis
January 10, 2022
I'm a CEO at One of the World's Biggest Shipping and Logistics Companies. Here's How My Industry Can Go Green
In 2021, because of the pandemic, we saw unprecedented supply-chain disruptions but also took important steps toward a decarbonized and sustainable global supply chain. It was a truly industry-wide effort, with Maersk and X-Press Feeders...
By Vincent Clerc
January 9, 2022
What Norway Can Teach the World About Switching to Electric Vehicles
I live in a country far north, stretching way above the Arctic Circle, with long driving distances, rugged mountains and a very cold climate. Norway is not the most likely place to start a transportation...
By Christina Bu
January 7, 2022
What the History of the Word "Insurrection" Says About Jan. 6
Ever since a mostly white mob stormed the U.S. Capitol after attending a Trump-headlined “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, there has been an ongoing and heated debate over whether to call the...
By Hawa Allan
January 7, 2022
Massimo Bottura Wants You to Stop Wasting Your Food
Chef Massimo Bottura didn’t bring his chef’s jacket to the photo shoot. Which is just as well, considering that simple chef’s whites could never convey what this exuberant bon vivant has become since opening the...
By Aryn Baker
January 7, 2022
More January 6ths Are Inevitable. How We React Is Crucial
Shortly after 9 p.m., on February 27, 1933, the Berlin fire station received an alarm: the Reichstag, the center of German government, was on fire. This was four weeks after Adolf Hitler had assumed power...
By Elliot Ackerman
January 6, 2022
To Address Climate Change, Here Are the Goals We Need To Meet In 2022
The environmental crisis we’re facing can seem insurmountable. It’s true we’re falling behind in adapting to reality, and the window of opportunity is closing—but it’s also not too late. We just need to take concrete...
By TIME Staff
January 6, 2022
Rich Countries Need to Take Responsibility for Climate Change
Typically, much of the climate change discussion refers to it as a “threat.” But the reality is, for many on earth, the crisis is already here. Many small-island developing states have already suffered climate-related losses...
By Surangel S. Whipps Jr.
January 6, 2022
How the U.S. Can Avoid Another Civil War
An astonishing moment occurred at the apex of the horrifying violence that erupted on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Michael Fanone, a Washington D.C. police officer and military veteran, was...
By Peter T. Coleman
January 6, 2022
Merrick Garland Must Follow Through With His Commitment to Hold All January 6 Perpetrators Accountable
The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol has been tearing it up. They worked straight through the holidays, including on Christmas and New Year’s Day. They’ve interviewed 300-plus witnesses, pursuing those...
By Joyce White Vance
January 5, 2022
Why 2022 Is the Year We Learn to Live With COVID-19
Hopes of eliminating COVID-19 in the U.S. through vaccine-generated herd immunity are now dashed. Instead, with the rapid spread of the highly infectious Omicron variant, we need to focus on 2022 as the year that...
By Steven Phillips
January 5, 2022
Fossil Fuel Companies Say They Want to Help Fight Climate Change. Here's What They Should Do
The last year has been critical in the global fight against climate change. I attended COP26 and believe that the Glasgow Climate Pact, which enshrines the collective commitments that aim to limit global temperature increases...
By John Browne
January 4, 2022
One Lesson From the Theranos Scandal: We Need Age Diversity on Corporate Boards
A younger corporate board might've called out Theranos' problems before its founder was charged with fraud. Here's how investors can demand board diversity
By Jamaal Glenn
January 4, 2022
Why More Christian Nationalist Violence Is Likely After Jan. 6
A year after the horrifying violence at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, a simple partisan storyline crowds out a central driver behind the events. Most media are understandably tracking the January 6 Committee and...
By Samuel L. Perry
January 4, 2022
The Top Global Risks of 2022
A domestic focus for both the U.S. and Chinese governments lowers the odds of a big international conflict in 2022, but it leaves less potential leadership and coordination to respond to emerging crises. That’s bad...
By Ian Bremmer
January 3, 2022
The Lessons I Learned From Desmond Tutu
I know “the Reverend and the rock star” sounds like the start of a joke, not the description of a friendship. Improbable as it was, Desmond Tutu, who died on Dec. 26, and I did...
By Bono
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Watch: 4 Moments to Remember From 2021
From innovations that are shaping our future to a past that we're only just beginning to grapple with
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Why 2021 Was a Watershed Year for Press Freedoms
On May 23, a control tower radioed a Ryanair jetliner that it had a bomb on board. A fighter jet appeared off its wing, and Flight FR4978, en route from Greece to Lithuania, was compelled to...
By Karl Vick
December 30, 2021
It's Time to Go Back to the Joy of Social Drinking
One of the greatest foci of human ingenuity and concentrated effort over the past millennia has been the problem of how to get drunk. Even small-scale societies on the brink of starvation will set aside...
By Edward Slingerland
December 30, 2021
How the Pandemic Could Finally End the Mommy Wars
What does it mean to be a good mother? For most of my life, I’ve received conflicting answers to this question. Growing up, my parents revered mothers like mine, who walked away from a career...
By Stephanie H. Murray
December 29, 2021
Watch: TIME's Best Short Documentaries of 2021
This year, many of us turned to film to be transported outside the confines of our homes. These documentaries took viewers on journeys
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We Must Learn From the Failed Global Response to COVID-19
In the world of international affairs, non-traditional security threats are not new. Many of us have spent decades analyzing and conducting contingency planning for the sudden advent of developments like a pandemic. And yet, despite...
By Kevin Rudd
December 29, 2021
In 2021 America Looked Away From Racism
On Nov. 24, in the hour after Judge Timothy Walmsley read out the series of mostly guilty verdicts that could send three white men to prison for murdering Ahmaud Arbery, there was a lot happening...
By Janell Ross
December 29, 2021
The Great Video Interviews of 2021
As 2021 wraps, TIME looks back at some of this year's most fascinating video interviews
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December 28, 2021
Column: Desmond Tutu, a Beacon of Moral Justice
On the day Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February of 1990, he walked out of the gates of Victor Verster prison in Cape Town and was surprised by the crowds of people. After...
By Richard Stengel
December 26, 2021
Joan Didion Didn't Offer Us Answers
Cool is the word used most often to describe her: the Coca-Colas and the cigarettes each morning, the leotard and the typewriter, the scotch and the shawl. California. Writing for the movies to make a...
By Lynn Steger Strong
December 23, 2021
The Conservative Case For Prison Reform
Jeremy Cady and I first met on the plush green grass in front of the Missouri Capitol. It was the spring of 2009, and once a week or so a group of capitol staffers, reporters,...
By Tony Messenger
December 23, 2021
What Ancient Laws Can Teach Us About Holding Autocrats to Account Today
The rule of law, democracy and human rights: these are the achievements of the modern nation state, or so we generally believe. Previous generations laid the ground with the Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution, and...
By Fernanda Pirie
December 23, 2021
How the Christmas Stories Call the Church to a Different Vision
Two weeks ago I visited our old family church, in the far north of England. I was placing flowers by my parents’ gravestone, in front of memorials to my grandparents, great-grandparents and sundry uncles and...
By N.T. Wright
December 23, 2021
Rethinking COVID Restrictions For a World With Vaccines
The arrival of Omicron, the latest and most transmissible COVID-19 variant to date, underscores the tremendous need for updated COVID-19 policy in the U.S. We always knew it would be difficult to contain a highly transmissible respiratory virus...
By Monica Gandhi
December 22, 2021
Why I Stand Up for Freedom in America—And Around the World
In my first weeks as a U.S. citizen, I’ve experienced the full richness and contradictions of what it means to be an American. I changed my last name to Freedom, and then made the most...
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December 22, 2021
Why It’s Time to Shed Some Light on History’s ‘Dark Ages’
Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever the popular imagination wants. When people...
By Matthew Gabriele
December 22, 2021
How to Tell Your Family That You Are An Atheist
In a society that largely takes the existence of God for granted, it can be difficult for non-believers to express themselves to friends and family. But there are some methods that can make it easier...
By David G. McAfee
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