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Why Older Couples Don't Need Marriage to Have Great Relationships
By Francine Russo
My Child Was Vulnerable Long Before the Pandemic. But the Wait for a Vaccine Is Excruciating
By Taylor Harris
Why Access to Birth Control Is No Substitute for Abortion Rights
By Krystale E. Littlejohn
The Story That Captures the Refugee Experience Like No Other
By Suketu Mehta
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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 15, 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 18, 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 11, 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 11, 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 14, 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 10, 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 10, 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 16, 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 17, 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 8, 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 10, 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 4, 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 6, 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 6, 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 5, 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 7, 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 15, 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 2, 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 3, 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
September 3, 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
September 4, 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 30, 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 29, 2021
Nicole Kidman, 'Expats,' and White Privilege
Sadly, Asians still see white privilege as the way the world works
By Chandran Nair
August 29, 2021
We Have No Idea What We're Fighting for Anymore
Once again, we are we seeing Americans being airlifted to safety amidst chaos and defeat, abandoning many of those who helped us. There will be much finger-pointing and political posturing about who is to blame....
By Karl Marlantes
August 28, 2021
Vermont Showed the U.S. How to for Reopen Schools Safely. Now It's Backtracking
Americans have reached consensus on a single goal: children must return to classrooms. Yet, as the Delta variant has surged, policymakers across the country have abandoned measures to protect unvaccinated children from COVID-19. Months after...
By Anne N. Sosin
August 27, 2021
New Documents Reveal the Origins of America's War On Drugs
Over fifty years ago on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared to the Washington press corps that America had a new enemy—narcotics. “America’s public enemy number one,” Nixon claimed, “is drug abuse.” To fight...
By Benjamin T. Smith
September 9, 2021
I'm a Councilman in the Least Affordable Region in the U.S. Here's How We Can Fix the Housing Market
Not long ago, I texted one of my constituents—someone who was deeply engaged in his community—to let him know about an upcoming debate for an issue on which he’d been a vocal leader. Sorry, he...
By Sergio Lopez
August 26, 2021
Parents Had Dreamed of a Smooth Return to School This Fall. This Is the Nightmare We're Facing Instead
Across the U.S. children are heading back to school, despite spiking COVID-19 cases. The emergence of the more contagious Delta variant as the most prominent virus strain in the country is causing concern for parents....
By Aubrey Hirsch
August 25, 2021
'The Chair' on Netflix Hits Home for Academia's Women of Color
I’ve been an English professor for nearly 20 years, but people still tell me I don’t look like one. Not because I’m young (I’m not), but because I’m Asian American. Whenever professors are depicted in...
By Beth Nguyen
August 26, 2021
Biden Must Keep U.S. Operatives in Afghanistan To Enable the Counterterrorism Mission
In his April 14 speech, President Joe Biden stated that despite withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, his administration will continue to do two things from over the horizon: First, it will “reorganize our counterterrorism...
By Bilal Y. Saab and Mick Mulroy
August 25, 2021
Superficial Empathy and Watching the Afghan Tragedy On the Little Screen
How our lizard brains muddle emotional reactions to what we see online
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
August 22, 2021
Afghans Deserve So Much Better Than This
Whatever your views on the war in Afghanistan, we probably agree on one thing: it should not have ended this way. Giving up the idea of a peace agreement between the Afghan government and the...
By Angelina Jolie
August 26, 2021
Leaving Afghanistan Was the Right Call, But May Haunt Biden
The last week saw the unceremonious end to the longest military adventure in American history. The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is the first major foreign policy crisis of the Biden administration and surely the largest...
By Ian Bremmer
August 24, 2021
What to Tell Your Kids About Happiness
When we ask parents what they want for their kids’ futures, most answer: “I want them to be happy.” But if you ask most kids what they think their parents want for their future, the...
By William Stixrud and Ned Johnson
August 22, 2021
I Returned to Afghanistan 20 Years Ago to Help My Country. I’m Not Leaving Now
All is not yet lost in Afghanistan, writes a veteran political activist
By Anonymous
August 23, 2021
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