Time Magazine - December 09, 2024

In this issue

What Elon Musk Wants
His consequential alliance with President-elect Donald Trump has brought the selfproclaimed First Buddy a new level
of influence.

Shopping Around
How LTK co-founder Amber Benz Vox transformed online shopping by giving fashion influencers a platform to call
their own.

A Friend in Need
Amid a shortage of expert mental-health care, many are turning to their peers for help, in hopes that personal
experience can make up the difference.

THE CLIMATE VACUUM

A U.S. retreat won't stop global climate efforts, but even the leaders who met at COP29 don't know what's coming next

3 mins

Is it time for Americans to worry about bird flu?

H5N1 AVIAN INFLUENZA, MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 dairy-cattle herds across 15 states.

3 mins

New guidance for teens and screens

SCREENS ARE PART OF MODERN TEENage life but there are almost no guardrails around what they see.

1 min

Freshwater reserves

A troubling dip

1 min

Inside Capitol Hill's latest UFO hearings

AMERICANS HAD A PANDEMIC ON THEIR MINDS IN 2020 when then President Donald Trump signed a $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief bill.

3 mins

5 ways to embrace winter-even if you usually dread it

WHEN KARI LEIBOWITZ MOVED TO the Arctic in 2014, she braced herself for the impact of long, dark, cold winters.

3 mins

The race to reform a country at a crossroads

DHAKA LOOKS REBORN AFTER A FRESH LICK OF PAINT, but this is not your typical municipal spruce-up.

2 mins

MAKE ROOM AT YOUR TABLE

Thanksgiving is a time for celebration with our families and communities— but for the millions of Americans who are living with hunger, it can be an intensely difficult reminder of their daily challenges.

3 mins

Let's embrace vulnerability in dating

AS A DATING COACH AND THE DIRECTOR OF RELATIONship science at Hinge, I often hear from people who feel like there's something big they need to disclose on early dates-chronic illness, mental-health struggles, college debt, family estrangement, lack of romantic experience, or trauma.

3 mins

The D.C. Brief

INSIDE DONALD TRUMP'S ORBIT, it's become a given that the former and future President can bypass Congress to magically fill his Cabinet with the loyalists of his choosing.

1 min

Why maiden names matter in the age of AI and identity

IN THE DIGITAL AGE, A NAME IS MORE THAN JUST A label. It's tied to our professional history and social media presence.

2 mins

Turkey's Erdogan plots his next power grab

RECEP TAYYIP Erdogan is a political survivor.

2 mins

The Kingmaker

Elon Musk's partnership with the President-elect

10+ mins

Shopping under the influence

LTK CO-FOUNDER AMBER VENZ BOX SAW THE FUTURE OF RETAIL. IT TOOK YEARS FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD TO CATCH UP

10+ mins

The Power of the Peer

WITH MENTAL-HEALTH CARE IN SHORT SUPPLY, CAN REGULAR PEOPLE FILL THE GAP?

7 mins

QUEERING THE STORY

Luca Guadagnino directs Daniel Craig in an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 1985 novella Queer

6 mins

Broadcasting a crisis for the world to see

ON SEPT. 5, 1972, A 32-YEAR-OLD PRODUCER NAMED Geoffrey S. Mason was working in a control room for ABC Sports in Munich while 12 hostages, including several members of the Israeli Olympic delegation, were being held in a building nearby.

4 mins

An exuberant ode to human possibility

VERY RARELY DOES THE RIGHT MOVIE ARRIVE AT precisely the right time, at a moment when compassion is in short supply and the collective human imagination has come to feel shrunken and desiccated.

3 mins

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