Time Magazine International Edition

On the cover of TIME, the year ended as it began. In January, our cover featured Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition leader and famous dissident, who warned, in a profile by TIME senior correspondent Simon Shuster, against appeasing Vla

Tom Brady plays his final NFL game before announcing his retirement Last game of Wordle before New York Times acquisition Beijing becomes the first city to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics when the 2022 Games begin Men’s basketball coa

Last year, Elon Musk seemed to have escaped the force of gravity. Stock prices for carmaker Tesla hit all-time highs, while SpaceX had landed a NASA contract to put astronauts on the moon. It was, as my colleagues and I wrote in the 2021 Person of th

SANNA MARIN, Finland’s Prime Minister, on Aug. 23, responding to criticism over images of her partying with friends RON DESANTIS, the state’s Republican governor, after winning re-election Nov. 8 A FOURTH-GRADE STUDENT in Uvalde, Texas, in a phone ca

BY CHARLOTTE ALTER In America’s battle against gun violence, 2022 was a time in which nothing seemed to change—and yet some things finally did. Another round of mass shootings seemed to echo earlier attacks in a morbid rhyme of senseless loss. But th

BY JUSTIN WORLAND Understanding climate change requires wrapping your head around some crazy financial figures. To transition the global economy away from fossil fuels—according to the International Energy Agency—governments, financiers, and business

BY ELIANA DOCKTERMAN Five years after TIME’s Silence Breakers cover story for the 2017 Person of the Year issue, survivors of sexual assault and harassment are still fighting to be heard. Spurred by #MeToo, which went viral that October, activists, p

Even a week before the invasion, with U.S. officials warning that Kyiv might fall in as little as 72 hours, the defense of Ukraine was not actually a lost cause. It was a defining one. The country’s T-shirted President would articulate the choice at

The call from the President’s office came on a Saturday evening: Be ready to go the next day, an aide said, and pack a toothbrush. There were no details about the destination or how we would get there, but it wasn’t difficult to guess. Only two days

Four years ago, Gregory Robinson wanted nothing to do with what might be the greatest spacecraft ever built. It didn’t, at the time, seem like it would ever actually become what it was promised to be: a machine that would take images from space, retu

In the winter of 2017, a young woman called Vida Movahed stood on top of a utility box on Revolution Street, a busy artery of central Tehran, and dangled her white headscarf on a stick. As an act of dissent, it was strikingly peaceful, giving the app

Cast your eyes to the floor and you’ll notice: though there are dozens of people here, engaged in as many conversations over afternoon cocktails, virtually all the shoes in the room are angled toward Michelle Yeoh. It’s mid-November in Los Angeles, w

When Aaron Judge stood in the Yankee Stadium batter’s box in late September, he couldn’t quite shake the silence. Some 45,000 voices hushed, as if they were at a basilica, not a ball field. As fans anticipated a landmark moment in sports—the breaking

The warehouse in Los Angeles is cold and drafty, transformed this November day into a photo-shoot dreamland for Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé, the four members of Blackpink. Cement floors sprout into a fairy-tale garden, and a glossy vintage station

One of TV’s most visually gorgeous, carefully plotted, emotionally involving sagas ended this year, with the finale of Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul. Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s lawyer show about the inevitable perversion of justice surp

STEVEN SPIELBERG has been making movies for more than 50 years, and there are autobiographical touches in many of them. But The Fabelmans is his most personal film to date, one that reckons with the bittersweet truth of how families endure even in th

GABRIELLE ZEVIN’s sweeping novel follows the decades-long friendship between two video-game designers who become household names before they turn 25. As the duo wrestle with their growing ambitions, Zevin unveils a devastating narrative about identit

‘If I need an inspiration or a way to articulate a feeling, I do one of three things—Watch a favorite Grey’s Anatomy episode, listen to a speech or a podcast with Shonda Rhimes or read a profile about her.’ JANIE OCTIA of New York CIty, on Judy Berma

This year, the country singer Mickey Guyton represented America on its biggest stages, belting out the national anthem at the Super Bowl and hosting PBS’s July 4 celebration from the Capitol Lawn. She also became the first Black nominee for Best Coun