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This past September, our editors and reporters gathered to debate who should be TIME’s Person of the Year. The annual staff conversation is both entertaining and contentious, as we argue about which one person or group of people, of the nearly 8 bill

Some former Presidents retreat to privacy after the pressures of the job. (Exhibit A: George Washington.) Others find a way to stay in the spotlight. (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter.) Then there’s Donald Trump, who remained the front runner for the Repub

It’s been a while since the pharmaceutical industry last saw a year like 2023, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a slew of groundbreaking and life-changing medications that represent a surge in innovation—and a potential boon

The conventional view of marriage holds that its satisfaction levels are U-shaped. There’s a hyped-up romantic part at the start, and then a decline as people come to terms with the fact that life with another person is only sometimes an escalator to

In 2020, 16 plaintiffs, ages 5 to 22, took the state of Montana to court for, they said, violating their right to a clean environment, which is enshrined in the state’s constitution. This year, after a protracted court fight, they won: on Aug. 14, in

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Since 1927, TIME has chosen a Person of the Year, the editors’ assessment of the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse. As a tradition, Person of the Year springs from the Great

Taylor Swift is telling me a story, and when Taylor Swift tells you a story, you listen, because you know it’s going to be good—not only because she’s had an extraordinary life, but because she’s an extraordinary storyteller. This one is about a time

It was a strange thanksgiving for sam Altman. Normally, the CEO of OpenAI flies home to St. Louis to visit family. But this time the holiday came after an existential struggle for control of a company that some believe holds the fate of humanity in i

That this moment unfolded, on July 21, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale still feels surreal. Lionel Messi, in his first game wearing a pink Inter Miami jersey, was awarded a free kick in the final seconds of his Major League Soccer (MLS) debut. Here was the

It was easy to miss, amid the horrors, what answered them. In the blood-soaked weeks that started on Oct. 7, the most consequential acts in Israel and in Gaza may also have been the least noticed, carried out not by those who claimed leadership but b

This was the rare year when two series brilliantly, in their own ways, fulfilled the potential of television. HBO’s Succession, an Emmy-winning drama that drove watercooler conversation, was the obvious choice. Creator Jesse Armstrong and his virtuos

About a year ago, Alex Newell had just returned to New York City after the pre-Broadway tryout of themusical Shucked in Salt Lake City. A Utah alt-weekly was already calling Newell’s number “Independently Owned,” sung from the perspective of the self

The Nov. 17 TIME100 Summit in Kigali, Rwanda—sponsored by Visit Rwanda, Kigali International Financial Centre, and RwandAir—was the first TIME100 event in the region A dinner presented by Nissan in L.A. on Nov. 29 brought together Latino leaders like