Time Magazine International Edition

THE YEAR I STARTED IN JOURNALISM, 1992, was “the end of history” or so claimed a famous book by that title with a remarkably sunny view of human progress. Today—as I near my 30th year in this business, and as the many crises of 2020 hurtle toward 202

In “Behind the Wall” (Sept. 13/Sept. 20) we misstated the last name of journalist Keri Blakinger. In the same issue, in “The City That Endures,” we misstated the first name of photographer Daniel Arnold. On Sept. 20 at 10 p.m. E.T., celebrate this ye

THERE IS A SENSE OF DÉJÀ VU IN THE U.S. MEDICAL community right now, a year and a half after COVID-19 first slammed into the health care system and knocked it down like a feather. Hospital beds are filling up, and most alarmingly, space in intensive-

Serving notice at the U.S. Open SERVING FOR MATCH POINT IN WHAT COULD BE THE MOST unlikely Grand Slam victory in tennis history, at the U.S. Open on Sept. 11, Emma Raducanu fired a 108-m.p.h. ace wide past Leylah Fernandez before falling to the groun

IN A SIGN OF HOW FAR ITS LEADERS HAVE DRIFTED FROM their revolutionary roots, the biggest shock currently gripping China is that the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might be socialist after all. That’s because the mantra “common prosperity,” fir

Taliban fighters walk inside an empty cell at Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul on Sept. 13. (After the Taliban’s takeover of the capital on Aug. 15, the prison’s former guards fled.) Pul-e-Charkhi—which has a long history of abuse, torture and overcrowd

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