Time Magazine International Edition

TWO YEARS AGO, JUST BEFORE WE MOVED into TIME’s new headquarters in midtown Manhattan, we invited our team to suggest names for a large conference room near the entrance—the first thing you see on the way into our offices and the last on the way out.

THE ENDURING HOPE OF JANE GOODALL In response to Ciara Nugent’s Oct. 11/Oct. 18 cover story, readers shared both awe and appreciation for all the 87-year-old naturalist has accomplished. “She has been for decades a world treasure,” wrote Tim Ackert o

AS SENATE MINORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONnell mulled blocking Democrats from raising the nation’s debt ceiling, he faced two scenarios. Neither was good. In the first, the U.S. could default on its debt, triggering a global recession and costing American

After TIME named you a Person of the Year in 2018, as a Guardian in the War on Truth, you talked about the practical effect the international recognition had in protecting you and your work from the government of President Rodrigo Duterte. It was a s

Astronauts stroll in the Ramon Crater in Israel’s Negev desert on Oct. 10 during a Mars training mission. The monthlong simulation, run by the Austrian Space Forum in partnership with the Israel Space Agency, is meant to help prepare for future explo

ON THE LAST MORNING OF SEPTEMBER, dozens of Afghan children cheered on their older brothers as they played a lively game of soccer with U.S. soldiers on a military base in rural Wisconsin. The kids ran up the pitch dressed in a mix of traditional tun

ONE MESSAGE INCLUDED A RACIST TROPE ABOUT NFL PLAYERS Association executive director DeMaurice Smith, another an antigay slur directed at NFL commissioner Roger Goodell: recent reports from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have document

Amount Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., lost during former President Trump’s presidency, per congressional documents released Oct. 8 Number of accounts that tuned in to the South Korean series Squid Game, Netflix announced Oct. 12, maki

ON A WARM EVENING IN LATE SEPTEMBER, TWO FORMER mayors met in a law office in Locri, in Italy’s southern region of Calabria. One of them was Domenico “Mimmo” Lucano, the former mayor of Riace, a small town that has been celebrated worldwide for creat

STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL’S ONLY CHILD SAM used to be in a punk-rock band. Two, actually: the Welfare Babies and the Lucky Scars. They played the circuit a bit back in the early 2000s, when McChrystal was doing his own kind of tour. He was climbing the r

Beachgoers mingle with workers in protective suits cleaning the shoreline in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Oct. 11 after the shoreline was contaminated by a rupture in an underwater pipeline from an offshore oil platform. City and state beaches reopen

Brooklyn Nets star point guard Kyrie Irving has put Nike, his primary sponsor, in an awkward position. Irving, one of the most dazzling players on the globe, has declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The Nets have said Irving won’t be able to join

On Oct. 6, the World Health Organization announced it was recommending a malaria vaccine, the first ever such shot for the mosquito-borne infectious disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. It’s a huge development in the effort

EUROPE’S YOUNGest democracies are facing serious political turmoil. An unresolved election in the Czech Republic, a controversial court ruling in Poland, political stalemate in Bulgaria and a Hungarian government gearing up for a fight are all creati

FACEBOOK’S CIVIC-INTEGRITY TEAM WAS always different from the other teams that the social media company employed to combat misinformation and hate speech. For starters, its leader expected team members to subscribe to an informal oath vowing to “serv

WHEN FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT TOLD HIS ECONOMIC ADVISERS HE was about to take the U.S. off the gold standard, they freaked out. The President was leading the country into “uncontrolled inflation and complete chaos,” one of them said. Another said it was “t

ON SEPT. 13, MONICA RIZZOLLI SAT IN HER ROOM IN SÃO PAULO and watched her net worth grow by $5.4 million in 48 minutes. Rizzolli is not a day trader or a gambler. She’s an artist whose work consists of sun-kissed petals and wind-whipped blizzards, al

WHEN ROMAN MARTÍNEZ WAS GROWING UP IN EL ZONTE, A small coastal village in El Salvador, the American Dream loomed large. Beyond the local fishing industry, which Martínez’s parents worked in, there weren’t a lot of opportunities at home. “Young peopl

AT THE BLACK BLOCKCHAIN SUMMIT, THERE IS ALMOST NO conversation about making money that does not carry with it the possibility of liberation. This is not simply a gathering for those who would like to ride whatever bumps and shocks, gains and losses

When you get high enough into the mountains of Idaho, the fish are in the trees. For the past million years or so, sockeye and Chinook salmon have migrated 840 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean, climbing 6,400 ft. into the Rockies and burning cal

So much of what is ugly and unhinged about America can be seen in the eyes of a mother whose 8-year-old is dead. But on a Tuesday in August at Atlanta’s downtown courthouse, that’s where Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, i

RECEIVING EVEN THE most basic of services can be difficult for Park Edhi, a South Korean woman living in the capital, Seoul. Because official documents do not reflect the fact that Park is transgender, her identity is questioned at every turn. To app

TRENDSETTERS and TRAILBLAZERS who are guiding the way to a BRIGHTER future TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET AND I ARE ON the run, chasing down Sixth Avenue on a bright September day in search of a place to talk. The restaurant in Greenwich Village where we had plan

He may have made it to the NBA a decade ago, but Bismack Biyombo’s heart never left home. Biyombo hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nation rich in natural resources like cobalt and copper, but still plagued by extreme poverty. More than

Talking to Erika Hilton is like attending your own private rally. Hilton, who last November became the first trans woman elected to the city council in São Paulo, speaks loudly and rhythmically, the words tumbling out so quickly that you think she mi

SINCE 2018, SARA WAHEDI HAS MADE IT her business to help keep fellow Afghans safe. Her mobile app, Ehtesab, crowd-sources verified reports of bombings, shootings, roadblocks and city-service issues—giving residents of Kabul clarity in moments of chao

Last April, Michaela Goade moved from Juneau to Sitka, Alaska. Though she’d never lived there before, moving to the land where her tribe is from felt like a homecoming for Goade, an award-winning illustrator who has always found inspiration in the na

CHIKA STACY ORIUWA WAS ON A CLINIcal rotation in the emergency department one day in 2018, wearing her scrubs and stethoscope when she felt a tug on her shirt. It was a patient, who said: “Excuse me. You forgot to clean the vomit off the floor.” Oriu

BUDDHIST MONKS ARE TYPICALLY trained to live austerely, wearing plain robes and few accessories. Kodo Nishimura does anything but. He tends to his family’s temple in Tokyo while working as a makeup artist and LGBTQ activist. “I am both ancient and tr

RINA SAWAYAMA CALLS HER FAVORITE songs her “problem childs.” They’re the Japanese British singer-songwriter’s deeply personal tracks that record labels are wont to reject. Take 2019’s “STFU!,” which rages against the racism Sawayama often faces as a

Plenty of people complain about bad weather forecasts. For Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a member of the nomadic Mbororo people of Chad, it’s a question of survival. “Our Indigenous way of living, our culture, our identity, is dependent on the ecosystem. T

RAYNER LOI KEEPS A NOTE ON HIS iPhone with details of the fruit and vegetables that go bad every week at his home in Singapore. That way, when he goes to the supermarket, he has a better idea of how many apples or bananas he actually eats in a week,

SUCCESSION IS BACK, AND WITH IT THE COMPLIcated pleasures of watching an obscenely rich, morally odious family scream and scheme and feud its way through some of the most exclusive spaces on earth. While 2019’s Season 2 finale found the show’s fracti

CHEF DAVID CHANG TEAMED UP WITH food journalist and Indian-ish author Priya Krishna to create a cookbook with a major twist: it has no traditional recipes. Instead, Cooking at Home includes essays, interviews with food scientists, and tips for how to

More than 100 Black cultural figures celebrate food and community in this book curated by chef and editor Bryant Terry. Chef Angela Dimayuga explores her love of Filipino food and shares stories about her family’s home cooking. Zoe Adjonyoh’s U.S. de

SOME OF US HAVE MEMORIES OF THINGS THAT DIDN’T even happen in our lifetimes. Why are we sometimes drawn to music and movies and clothing that speak to the people we might have been had we been born 10, 50 or 100 years earlier? Is there a word for the

If looking cool were enough to make a movie great, the gritty-stylish revenge western The Harder They Fall would be the best movie of the year. Everybody looks cool in this thing: Jonathan Majors strides along in a fawn-gold leather jacket as supple

YOUR NEW BOOK OH WILLIAM! RETURNS TO THE WORLD OF LUCY BARTON. WHY DID YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO THAT STORY? Laura Linney played her in the stage adaptation of My Name Is Lucy Barton, a one-woman show on Broadway and in London. I was in rehearsal with h

FEW FILMMAKERS ARE AS IN LOVE with olden times as Wes Anderson is. That’s both a thing to admire about him and a source of deep exasperation. As we barrel so cluelessly and ruthlessly through the present and into the future, it’s true that the past n