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Taylor Swift—and her cat—made headlines worldwide with their Person of the Year cover shoot. Here are a few celebrity reactions to the choice:

Last month, I had the chance to interview Sam Altman, the OpenAI leader whom we named the 2023 CEO of the Year, onstage at our “A Year in TIME” event in New York City. In part thanks to the drama surrounding his removal from—and speedy reappointment

Frida—a documentary about the legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, co-produced by TIME Studios, Ron Howard, and Brian Grazer for Imagine—is set to premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival (Jan. 18–28). Directed by Carla Gutiérrez (who worked as

Tom Richey, a teacher in Anderson, S.C., is hesitant to call the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol an insurrection when he’s in his classroom. “If a teacher were to come into a mostly Republican community talking about the January 6 insurrecti

A Palestinian barber cuts a client’s hair on New Year’s Day amid the rubble of a barbershop damaged by Israeli attacks in Rafah, at the western edge of the Gaza Strip, where more than a million people are homeless. Palestinian officials said Israel’s

When Walt Disney first released the cartoon short film Steamboat Willie in November 1928, it was groundbreaking. One of the first cartoons to use synchronized sound, it would go on to become among the most critically acclaimed and popular cartoon fil

Elections are no guarantee of democracy. That much we know from who holds them. Even full-blown tyrants crave the legitimacy that, in the modern era, can be provided only by the ballot box—margins of victory doubling as one more tool of intimidation.

A résumé peppered with elite universities and big-name consulting firms doesn’t guarantee success. But the inverse, at least, appears to be true: many leaders at the top of U.S. society attended elite schools, and worked at big-name consulting firms.

People view a road outside the town of Noto on Jan. 2 after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake devastated Japan’s western coast on New Year’s Day. At least 62 people died when a series of quakes toppled buildings, started fires, and crumbled roadways in the

Whether you feel totally reborn—or even just a little bit reset—at the start of a new year, consider making your mental health a priority in 2024. Why? “Because that’s the gateway to everything else,” says Guy Winch, a clinical psychologist, author o

Each year, this Risk Report forecast predicts what the world should watch out for in the coming months. In 2023, the big stories centered on wars in Europe and the Middle East, and those conflicts will expand in 2024. But it’s a third “war”—the U.S.

Over the past several decades, there have been many supporting studies of the health-promoting effects of an optimistic personality. Newer research demonstrates that high levels of hope have been found to be related to lower levels of pain, psycholog

The start of the 2020s—marked by the pandemic and its aftermath—changed how we eat. Early lockdowns made kitchens, gardens, and pantries the new centers of culinary culture, and the rise of TikTok democratized recipe creation, turning home cooks into

Thirty years after tomatoes became the first genetically modified produce sold in the U.S., lots of people remain skeptical of science-ified foods. In a 2020 Pew Research Center survey, just 27% of Americans said they felt genetically modified foods

The science is clear: from a health perspective, the less you drink, the better. But alcohol is a cornerstone of nearly every personal and professional gathering, so you may not always want to abstain. Nor do you always have to. Most people can make

After 10 long months of campaigning, it was a 30-second video that suggested Nikki Haley was finally getting somewhere. The December television ad, paid for by Donald Trump’s allies and aired in New Hampshire, accused the Republican presidential cand

Volodymyr Zelensky was already a celebrity when his first child was born in 2004. Back then, he and his wife Olena Zelenska often lived apart. He spent his days touring and promoting his comedy troupe in Kyiv, while she often stayed with her parents

After 40 years fighting global hunger, Columbia University Professor Glenn Denning thinks he may have found a way to save the planet and feed everyone. But it’s not simple. By 2050, 10 billion humans will need to be fed in a way that preserves the pl

Ajay Banga’s approach to solving economic instability in the Global South is a unique one: using not just the financial resources of the World Bank, which he leads, to address global poverty, but also the knowledge of member countries to facilitate c

Last year the World Bank reported that at least 1 in 5 Africans goes to bed hungry and an estimated 140 million people in Africa face acute food insecurity. That is 20% of the African population who require urgent and critical interventions to transf

Just before ChatGPT was placed before the public in November 2022, OpenAI’s head of sales was informed that the company would be quietly releasing a “low-key research preview,” which wouldn’t affect sales. Over 180 million users later, it’s fair to s

There is a special sort of disdain reserved for celebrities’ charitable activities. Often scorned as vanity projects, long on intentions and PR and short on delivery, foundations are widely regarded as a phase in the VIP life cycle, coming somewhere

Roberta Metsola has plenty of superlatives to her name. She is the youngest ever President of the European Parliament; the first from Malta, the bloc’s smallest country; and the first woman in two decades. But there’s one thing that landed her in the

So often, articles and essays such as this begin with a gathering of unnerving statistics. Most of us don’t need those anymore: changes brought about by the climate crisis are becoming more tangible with the passing of each year. We smell it in the s

David Chase is feeling thankful. Twenty-five years after the premiere of the series that cemented his legacy, the Sopranos creator is filled with gratitude that he got to work with actors like James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, and Lorraine Bracco and a w

Colombian American singer Kali Uchis follows up her lush, feathery 2023 album Red Moon in Venus with her second all-Spanish-language project. (Jan. 12) Jodie Foster returns to her roots as an investigator (see: The Silence of the Lambs) in the fourth

Your performance as Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs paved the way for a new generation of on-screen female detectives. How has that role evolved in pop culture? I didn’t realize I was doing anything special at the time. I just wanted to go o