Time Magazine International Edition

PERSON OF THE YEAR STARTED ON A WHIM. AT the end of 1927, the editors realized they had made it through the year without putting the 25-year-old aviator Charles Lindbergh on the cover to commemorate his historic solo flight that May across the Atlant

ONE YEAR AGO, TIME NAMED besieged journalists the 2018 Person of the Year, gathered under the rubric THE GUARDIANS AND THE WAR ON TRUTH. Neither that war nor its consequences for democracy have abated in the intervening 12 months. For Crown Prince Mo

AS FLAMES LEAPED FROM the roof of Notre Dame cathedral on April 15, those who knew its innermost secrets ventured into the pitch darkness of the smoke-filled nave. Their aim: to rescue some of the most valuable treasures in all of Christianity. “Ther

IT BEGAN WITH A STORY LINE FAMILIAR TO EVERY PARENT of every generation in every corner of the globe: an indignant teenager and a sudden burst of rebellion. It became one of the most unlikely and surely one of the swiftest ascents to global influence

GRETA THUNBERG SITS IN SILENCE IN THE CABIN OF THE BOAT THAT WILL TAKE HER ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. Inside, there’s a cow skull hanging on the wall, a faded globe, a child’s yellow raincoat. Outside, it’s a tempest: rain pelts the boat, ice coats t

THERE ARE 363,000 FEDERAL WORKERS IN THE GREATER Washington, D.C., area. In the first week of September, history turned in the office of one of them. The intelligence analyst who blew the whistle on President Donald Trump had just gotten off the phon

IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN FIVE MONTHS SINCE THE U.S. WOMEN’S soccer team won the World Cup, and yet barely a day goes by that Megan Rapinoe doesn’t hear about it from strangers. A young girl at a soccer clinic. A middle-aged man at an airport. Parents th

NOT SINCE SOMEBODY FIGURED OUT THAT YOU COULD ATTACH two black plastic disks to a skull cap and make everyone look like Mickey Mouse has a pair of ears sent such a buzz through a media executive. The new set were green, wing-shaped and attached to a

SURELY, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2019, YOU KNOW WHO LIZZO is. I mean, even if you don’t think you know, girl—you know. Her song is in that Walmart commercial with the dancing cart people, and another one is in an ad for GrubHub, and I swear I was watc

Six leaders who shaped the world in 2019 ON OCT. 1, A PARADE OF TANKS, TROOPS AND NUCLEAR MISSILES rolled through Beijing to mark 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic. Standing before the Forbidden City, abode of emperors, China’s Xi

IN HIS THIRD YEAR AS PRESIDENT, DONALD J. TRUMP PHYSICALLY walked into North Korea. He declared a national emergency for the U.S. border with Mexico. He recognized the disputed Golan Heights as a sovereign part of Israel. For any previous residents o

THE TEMPERATURE IN WASHINGTON CHANGED ON JAN. 3 WHEN Nancy Pelosi picked up the gavel and became Speaker of the House for a second time. President Donald Trump has yet to recover. For two years, Trump had benefited from a subservient Republican Congr

FOR DECADES AFTER THE BRITISH DEPARTED THE INDIAN subcontinent, its history was one of painful cleavings. The 1947 Partition is a bland label for a division that produced two countries, 15 million refugees and at least a million deaths. When Pakistan

THE GESTURE WAS SIMPLE, BUT THE EFFECT WAS PROFOUND. LESS than 24 hours after a far-right extremist massacred 50 worshippers in two Christchurch mosques in March, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put on a black hijab to meet members of the M

WHEN EMMANUEL MACRON WAS ELECTED IN MAY 2017, HE strode into his victory celebration not to the sounds of “La Marseillaise” but to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” the anthem of the European Union. Now, halfway through his five-year term, the French Preside