Time Magazine International Edition

I DON’T OFTEN USE THIS SPACE TO DIRECT your attention to other publications, but I do recommend you check out an article Science published online on Sept. 24. Titled SINGING IN A SILENT SPRING, it adds a new entrant to the list of uplifting changes i

Prize money awarded Oct. 14 to 14-year-old Anika Chebrolu as part of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, for research that could lead to a potential treatment for COVID-19 Orbital speed of an old Chinese rocket booster and a defunct Soviet satellite th

LESS THAN TWO WEEKS FROM ELECTION DAY, Senate Republicans are caught in a political vise. More and more members of their party are realizing that President Donald Trump is hurting their chances for re-election—and very possibly for control of the cha

RE “WHEN WILL WE GET A Vaccine?” [Sept. 21–28]: I remember sitting in my third-year microbiology lecture toward the end of last year, listening to the professor warn us that the next pandemic will come and the world will not be ready. There was a sen

Researchers in Saudi Arabia developed a wireless data connection that works underwater using lasers, according to a June news release. They have used “Aqua-Fi” to send files and make Skype calls. French wireless-network company Sigfox took a cellular

Dust blankets the yard of a house hit by shelling in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, two weeks after Azerbaijan and Armenia resumed fighting over the disputed territory—Europe’s oldest “frozen war,” a conflict with roots dating from 1918 but that had

WHAT IMPACT WILL THE PANDEMIC HAVE ON human security and human rights? I put that question to Sir Alex Younger, who until September headed MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. From an undisclosed location, he spoke of a technological race thre

I STOOD, GARDENING GLOVES STILL COVERED IN dirt from digging out the last of the hole with my hands, and let out the breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding. My husband walked over and put his hand on the small of my back. “I guess that’s deep enoug

THE PRESIDENT’S VOICE STARTS OUT A LITTLE raspy, but before long he’s in full roar. “We’re going to have a big victory, and that will be the end of it,” Donald Trump says. “Because you know what? One more defeat and they’re going to accept it.” A mur

THE STORY STARTED WITH LITTLE MORE THAN A vague rumor. “They found six ballots in an office yesterday in a garbage can,” President Donald Trump told a Fox News radio show on Sept. 24. “They were Trump ballots. Eight ballots in an office yesterday in

THE OUTRAGE AND CONDEMNATION CAME FAST IN September when President Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to commit voter fraud. “Let them send [a mail-in ballot] in, and let them go vote,” Trump said in Wilmington, N.C., urging backers to test the m

IF YOU’VE EVER VOTED, YOU’VE PROBABLY SEEN A poll watcher: they’re the quiet, modestly dressed folks standing to one side, observing the orderly process of democracy unfold. It’s a service provided by your neighbors, Democrat and Republican alike, th

Q: WHAT SHOULD I DO IF SOMEONE TRIES TO STOP ME FROM VOTING? A: Report it. If you’re at a polling place, flag a poll worker or another official. If you’re elsewhere, notify your state or local election officials. Numbers and email addresses are usual

FAR FROM THE RALLIES, DEBATES AND ATTACK ADS of the 2020 election, a less visible but equally important fight is playing out in America’s courts. For months, armies of Republican and Democratic lawyers have flooded state and federal benches with hund

REPRESENTATIVE MARK POCAN SPENDS A LOT OF time lately trying to talk his constituents off the ledge. They’re terrified President Trump is somehow going to steal the election, says Pocan, a liberal Democrat from Madison, Wis. “Literally daily I get th

FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS, BRITTANY Schultz has been a kindergarten teacher in the Denver public school system. On May 28, she left, and on June 15, she opened Ms. Brittany’s Village day care in her home in Commerce City, Colo., with her three children

MARCH 27 WAS HANDS down the worst day of Cathleen Farrell’s professional life. COVID-19 had hit the country like a tsunami a couple weeks before, prompting childcare centers, including the three she owns and operates in Medfield, Mass., to close unti

THE YEAR IS 2023. THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS COME to an end, and the global economy is on the path to recovery. How did we get here? How did our economy and society evolve to overcome the greatest crisis of our age? Let’s begin in the summer of 2020,

IN FEBRUARY, CITI PRESIdent Jane Fraser, 53, will become the first female CEO not only of Citi but of any major Wall Street bank. She spoke with TIME to discuss building a diverse workforce, the changing responsibilities of corporations and expanding

ON OCT. 20, THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX hosted an episode of TIME100 Talks focusing on social media and our online lives. They spoke with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian; Tristan Harris, president of the Center for Humane Technology; and UCLA pro

IT’S WINTER IN THE SOUTH OF POLAND, BUT THE ground is clear of any snow, and the thick clouds don’t carry any precipitation. Instead, the skies have been darkened by a layer of smog. The culprit is coal, and if there was any doubt, it would be dispel

SINCE PROTESTS OVER THE killing of George Floyd erupted across the U.S., I’ve received numerous calls from corporate CEOs who want to know what they should do and where they can quickly donate $10 million to advance the cause of racial justice. The f

PERHAPS MORE THAN ANY other city, Tokyo bet big on 2020. Japan’s capital had earmarked $12.6 billion for hosting an Olympic Games that would rejuvenate run-down neighborhoods and turbocharge the country’s tourism industry. Then the COVID-19 pandemic

IN THE IMMEDIATE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED THE outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world as we knew it was turned upside down. Like most people, I was constrained to observing the situation from inside my home and the World Economic Forum’s empty offic

“THERE ARE DECADES where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Often attributed to Vladimir Lenin, this quote says a lot about the impact of the novel coronavirus in an already fast-changing world. There is no history-changing r

KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA, AN environmental economist by training, took office as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund in October 2019, intent on greening the financial system. A year on, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a whole new s

BJARKE INGELS CAN SOMETIMES SOUND LIKE A MAD scientist. “One thing I’ve learned a lot about over the past year is stone flour,” the 46-year-old Danish architect says over Zoom from his couch in Copenhagen. A mischievous smile spreads over Ingels’ tan

WHEN MARCOS GALPERIN founded Mercado Libre in 1999, less than 3% of the population of Latin America was online. But the Argentine’s e-commerce platform flourished as the region became more connected, and now claims to be the market leader in all its

IN APRIL, AS OFFICE WORKERS ACROSS THE WORLD stared down months of being stuck at home while juggling childcare, their jobs and general anxiety about a global pandemic, Lisa Kribs and Gavin Thomas, the co-founders of a marketing firm in Rochester, N.

Amid the catastrophic ruin left by the pandemic, I believe there are reasons to be positive. I have hope that the post-COVID world could yet be fairer and more equitable. The pandemic has brought into clearer focus the need to do things differently.

DOUG MCMILLON STARTED AT the nation’s largest retailer as a teenager, unloading trucks for an hourly wage. He explains how he has positioned Walmart during the pandemic to make sure the $500 billion–plus company thrives in the new landscape that emer

By N.K. Jemisin HE WORLD IS STORIES. Consider the “flat-earther” who constructs elaborate chains of causation and meaning from facts that have little to do with each other. Consider bigotry, which does the same—and yet we have built entire school cur