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THE LOST YEAR The education features in the April 12/April 19 issue prompted readers to share their own school stories—and their costs. Carl Spamer of Howell, Mich., proposed more financial guidance for parents saving for their children’s education—a

Approximate age of a “golden city” unearthed by archaeologists in Egypt, which experts on April 8 described as the most significant find since the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb Odds of a first-place finish by Minella Times and jockey Rachael Blackm

IT’S A SPRING EVENING IN ARKANSAS, AND JOANNA Brandt just closed down her boutique. She and her son Dylan, a 15-year-old with a thatch of floppy blond hair, are tired. It’s not the pandemic; Joanna has actually enjoyed remote-schooling her two kids.

“THEY WANT US TO BE AFRAID,” Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, says as his plane starts to descend, bringing him home from a trip to the war zone near his country’s border with Russia. He’s referring to the Russian troops who have massed

IT’S BECOME AN AMERICAN routine: a sudden death followed by public displays of grief and protest, and a sorting of two distant camps. Some will call the death an egregious, extrajudicial killing statistically unlikely to be redressed; to others, almo

The Queen’s man UNTIL HER FATHER’S HEALTH BEGAN deteriorating, the couple could have been mistaken for any other happy young husband and wife. She had been just 13 when they met. He was the striking, handsome 18-year-old guide who took her and her si

IN RECENT WEEKS, Molotov cocktails, bricks and bottles have met barricades and water cannons as towns and cities in Northern Ireland faced some of their worst rioting in years. Mobs made up mainly of teenagers from both loyalist and republican neighb

Amid the worst public-health crisis in our lifetime, President Biden has signed the largest investment in national service in decades. The American Rescue Plan includes $1 billion for national service. That is a significant step, but it isn’t enough

On an April day in Manhattan, Erin Fox emerged from the giant glass building where she had gotten her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The Javits Center, home to comic-book confabs and one highly dramatic presidential nonvictory, had become a key hu

FOR YEARS, WHENEVER OUR CHILDREN ASKED US IF WE could get a dog, my husband and I had some vague and only slightly encouraging go-to responses, such as, “Someday?” and “Maybe when you’re old enough to help.” Then came 2020, the year of our pandemic d

By Ma Jun THE GLOBALIZATION OF MANUFACturing has transformed some of the world’s poorest nations to unprecedented levels of economic prosperity. But the resulting increase in poorly controlled emissions and eco-degradation has caused unsustainable le

IF YOU’VE BEEN VACCINATED FOR COVID-19, chances are pretty high that you’re benefiting from a product made by BioNTech. The German biotech company, co-founded by a husband-and-wife team of scientists, developed the vaccine that became not only the fi

IN NOVEMBER, LUCAS HARTWELL, A HIGH SCHOOL senior in Grand Blanc, Mich., noticed something strange about his school district’s newest board member. Amy Facchinello’s Twitter feed was full of apocalyptic images and skulls made of smoke. There were cry

When Tyrese Davis got accepted into Lincoln University’s police academy, the first of its kind at a historically Black college or university, his instinct was to keep it a secret. Davis, 22, prides himself on being the first man in his family to go t

“I’M A TOUCHER AND FLIRTER, AND I DON’T CARE who you are,” says Maggie Duckworth. “I will talk to a log.” Before the arrival of COVID-19, Duckworth had a pretty sweet life. An events coordinator for a waste-management company in Chattanooga, Tenn., s

ON HER THIRD DAY AS THE Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Fudge phoned the White House. She had taken over an agency with a role to play addressing a range of crises as the lack of affordable housing in U.S. cities has left hundreds

When he was a child, James Owuor loved hearing the elders talk about the way life used to be. So it comes as something of a surprise that at 38, he is now the one tasked with the job of describing the Before Times in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Before Lake

However differently we register this pandemic we understand it as global; it brings home the fact that we are implicated in a shared world. The capacity of living human creatures to affect one another can be a matter of life or death. Because so many

IN 2018, SCOTT MCCAULAY had a “Wizard of Oz moment.” He was a final-year architecture student at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland when the U.N. published a report warning that the world had 12 years to transform society to avoid catastrophic

Forty years ago, as I was leaving my friend’s house to throw a baseball outside, his father stopped us for inspection. “Where are you going?” Peter’s father asked. “When will you be back?” And most pointedly: “Have you done your homework?” Peter had,

1171 SHOREHAM LOOKS much like it did when Anna Zimmerman lived there: modest but presentable. A good starter home for Zimmerman and her husband when they bought it in 2005, for a while it provided an idyllic existence in suburban Charleston, S.C., a

SHARON STONE WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT she’s a survivor. And it would be easy to assume that her new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, draws its title from its opening passage—which describes her 2001 hospitalization after suffering a brain hemorrhage

Civil rights activist Viola Desmond, arrested for refusing to leave the whites-only section of a Canada theater in 1946, was chosen for the country’s $10 bill in 2018—the first Canadian woman to appear on currency. After Saddam Hussein’s ouster in 20

YOU CAN PRETEND NOT TO CARE ABOUT THE Oscars, but even the most hardened souls secretly thrill to their glamour. The sometimes heartfelt, sometimes pretentious speeches; the occasional surprise underdog winner; and for sure the gowns—the tradition of

The climate crisis, like the pandemic, is amplifying existing racial and gender injustices in our society. TIME editors Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson moderated a conversation with two women working to create a more inclusive climate leadership spa

ON MARCH 22, MIDWAY THROUGH A SERIES OF GUEST-hosted shows, Jeopardy! fans revolted. Their target was Dr. Mehmet Oz, the latest celebrity to fill Alex Trebek’s venerable shoes. As viewers fumed on social media, Variety called his appearance a “black

WE HEARD ABOUT THE STORM A WEEK before the rains. Manny figured they wouldn’t be a problem. Jae disagreed. The news called it a minor inconvenience—a flash flood at most—but we’d learned not to lean too deep into forecasts. In the morning, Houston fe

In an earlier era, green referred to grass and trees and jealous eyes. But over the past half-century, green has taken on a life of its own. The Green movement deals with the collisions and contagions of the contemporary world—how to view them, and h