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HOW LONG THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC will last is one of the biggest questions facing the world at present—and one of the major issues addressed at the TIME100 Health Summit that took place on July 15. At the summit, White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Ashish

$79 billion Value of the Colosseum in Rome, according to a July 25 report by Deloitte Auroralumina attenboroughii NAME OF THE OLDEST KNOWN ANIMAL PREDATOR, announced July 25 in honor of British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough ‘WE PUT OU

CALM DOWN, IT’S JUST A SUNNY DAY.” THAT was the refrain from a small but powerful section of the British establishment, as temperatures in the U.K.—where summer highs rarely reach 30°C (86°F)—topped 40°C (104°F) for the first time in recorded history

Pope Francis pauses in front of the site of the former Ermineskin Residential School in Maskwacis, Alberta, on July 25 as part of a “pilgrimage of penance.” The Pope is meeting with Indigenous communities during his tour of Canada to apologize for th

Musk is preparing for an October trial, Twitter having sued him for backing out of a $44 billion acquisition agreement An alleged affair between Musk and the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin ruptured the billionaires’ friendship, per the Wall St

BY BAZ LUHRMANN Shonka Dukureh was authentically spiritual. Her inner life was large—you could see it through her actions and hear it in her voice. She played the singer Big Mama Thornton in my recent film Elvis, and she was a beloved gospel singer a

EMILY OSTER DOES NOT OFFER PARENTING advice. She is rather insistent on this point. A Brown University economist who specializes in health data, Oster prefers to analyze numbers that help parents think through a decision. “When there isn’t any data,

INVESTING IN PROPERTY HAS BEEN A FOCUS OF RAMI Tabbara’s life since he was young. In Dubai, “our parents always tell us that as soon as you make money, you have to put it in property,” he says. At 23 years old, he bought what he could afford: a one-b

FOR AS LONG AS SHE COULD REMEMBER, TONJA MYLES had thoughts of suicide. After a childhood of sexual abuse, Myles turned to drugs and prostitution to “mask the pain,” she says, and twice she overdosed on prescription pills. After recovery, she worked

The fast-moving Oak Fire—pictured engulfing the dining room of a home in Mariposa County, California, on July 23—charred more than 18,000 acres near Yosemite National Park in just three days. Cal Fire officials warned that the unpredictable behavior

This summer, Iran will turn into a de facto “threshold nuclear” state—one with enough highly enriched uranium for one nuclear device and the technology to make it a weapon. The Iranians still need 18 to 24 months to polish their skills treating metal

ITALY IS BARRELING toward an uncertain political future. Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the former European Central Bank president who saved the euro zone almost exactly a decade ago by pledging publicly to do “whatever it takes” to steer Europe throug

WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT THE DARK JOKE BOUNCED AROUND the Capitol when Senator Joe Manchin announced on July 25 that he had tested positive for Covid-19 and was isolating: it was an excuse for the West Virginia Democrat to skip a second consecutive l

ON THE MORNING THE SUPREME COURT announced it had overturned Roe v. Wade, we had 21 patients in our lobby waiting to have an abortion. We cried as we were forced to turn them all away. They cried as they realized the very same medical procedure that

THE U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION REPORTS that in the first six months of 2022, the word metaverse appeared in regulatory filings more than 1,100 times. The entire previous year saw 260 mentions. The preceding two decades? Fewer than a doze

BRITTNEY GRINER SPEAKS TO THE world through pictures these days. In mid-May, nearly three months into her detention in Russia for carrying cannabis oil in her luggage at a Moscow airport, fans of the WNBA superstar saw a stark image of Griner in a co

SAMERSON ORIAS WAS WORKING AS A line cook last year in the rural Philippines when his friend told him he could make way more money playing a new video game. Orias was earning about 4,000 pesos a month (about $80, a little less than half the national

ON A STICKY-HOT NIGHT IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA CAPITAL, Representative Jim Clyburn takes the outdoor stage at his late-night afterparty. Clyburn—the 82-year-old House Democratic whip, maker of Presidents, and highest-ranking Black man in Congress—has a

The Vasquez brothers aren’t used to visitors. Their farm lies in the remote Puna, a vast plateau region high in the Andes Mountains. The terrain, in the Argentine province of Catamarca, is rough and largely empty; fluffy, big-eyed llamas wander a mil

ON NORTHERN VIETNAM’S RED RIVER Delta, the world’s most ambitious electric-vehicle (EV) upstart occupies a factory complex fringed with mango trees and palms. Outside VinFast’s plant by the port city of Haiphong, fishermen in conical hats still plumb

WHILE BRAINSTORMING FUNNY SCENES FOR the second season of his FX comedy series Reservation Dogs, Sterlin Harjo turned to the memory of his grandmother’s deathbed. It’s not that Harjo was callous about her death—far from it. He had sat by the ailing m

THE OPENING OF MOHSIN HAMID’S THE LAST White Man, arriving Aug. 2, invokes Franz Kafka’s Gregor Samsa—but with a metamorphosis fitting for the racially charged era in which we live. “One morning,” Hamid writes, “Anders, a white man, woke up to find h

PEOPLE HAVE MANY ISSUES WITH JOY BEHAR, BUT here is one that has gotten scandalously slight attention. Joy Behar is a bad driver. A person sitting in the back of her SUV to, say, drive a short distance on flat roads, will get nauseated, which will si

ONE OF THE OLDEST CRITICISMS OF the Sex and the City franchise is that it isn’t really about women. According to this theory, the four main characters are secretly avatars for gay men like creator Darren Star and executive producer Michael Patrick Ki

Hours before dawn on Nov. 1, 1988, four suburban middle-school girls venture out to deliver newspapers and dodge threats from teen bullies slinking home after a long night of Halloween mischief. In search of the boys who stole their walkie-talkie, th

EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW THE WORLD ISN’T SUDDENLY spinning faster, it’s hard to shake the feeling that time is speeding up on us. In early summer 2018, 12 boys and their assistant soccer coach were trapped for more than two weeks in the flooded Tham Luang

There was a time when we all seemed to know way too much about Lena Dunham. But even a big-time look-at-me personality can surprise you, and the writer-director’s second full-length feature, Sharp Stick, counts as a surprise. This is a tender picture

THERE’S SO MUCH TO SKEWER IN the expensive-sneaker-wearing, podcast-obsessed, swipe-left culture of the young urban modern citizen that it’s a wonder any writer-director knows where to begin. But B.J. Novak covers a surprisingly wide swath of territo

In R.F. Kuang’s work of dark academia, the author of The Poppy War chronicles a Chinese orphan studying at Oxford’s Royal Institute of Translation, known as Babel. But as he digs deeper, he realizes that serving Babel may mean forsaking his motherlan

Have the hearings damaged Donald Trump politically? And was that a goal of the committee? That wasn’t a goal. But I do think it’s damaged him. That doesn’t mean that he can’t be the Republican nominee in 2024—and it doesn’t mean that he can’t win. Th