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Man In the Middle

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ABU DHABI'S CHIEF OIL EXEC IS TASKED WITH PHASING DOWN FOSSIL FUELS?

My kid deserved what we couldn't afford

SEVEN YEARS OUT FROM NEEDING to use food stamps, and it's interesting what still triggers that feeling of humiliation that consumed my life back then. Yet I always feel it when I use a self-checkout station at the grocery store.

HOBBES THE OPTIMIST

When Thomas Hobbes described life in a state of nature as \"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,\" he penned one of the most celebrated sentences in the English language. The 17th-century philosopher asserted that without \"a common power to keep them all in awe,\" human beings fall into a state of nature-a condition of anarchical warfare and lawless predation.

The delicate balance facing William Lai, Taiwan's presidential front runner

MORE THAN ONCE WHEN WILLIAM LAI WAS A small boy, a passing typhoon tore the roof of his home clean away. It's a recollection that brings a wry smile to Taiwan's Vice President, who grew up in the small coal-mining hamlet of Wanli perched on the island's far north.

5 ways to get better at saying no

THERE'S A COMMON Malfunction that occurs when well-intentioned people open their mouths to say no: the word yes tumbles out instead.

Sam Bankman-Fried - Disgraced crypto mogul

IT TOOK ONE YEAR FOR SAM BANKMAN-Fried to transform from beloved billionaire entrepreneur to convicted felon.

Israel's former PM: a two-state solution is the only solution

WITH A WAR RAGING BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS, it's hard to imagine a new dawn of peace. The violence threatens to paralyze the moral and political imaginations of Israelis and Palestinians alike, deepening the impression that accommodation will remain forever out of reach. But to hear one of Israel's elder statesmen tell it, now is precisely the moment to resurrect the goal of a peace process.

How war in the Middle East got the British Home Secretary fired

SUELLA BRAVERMAN, THE CONTROversial Home Secretary in British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, was fired after making divisive comments about pro-Palestinian protesters. She will be replaced by James Cleverly, who had been Foreign Secretary, and former Prime Minister David Cameron will replace him.

NIKKI HALEY'S MOMENT

The former South Carolina governor finds momentum in a GOP primary that remains Trump’s to lose

5 ways to cultivate hope when you don't have any

There's a sense, once a whisper, that's growing louder every day. Glaciers are melting, children are being slaughtered, hatred runs rampant. Sometimes it feels like the world's approaching a nadir. Or like you are.

Creating record of history

What was your mom's childhood like? How did your aunt meet your uncle? Recording conversations with loved ones is a way to preserve a family's history and collect stories to pass down to future generations.

Managing your text chain

Important family conversations used to happen around the dinner table. Now they're often relegated to our phones. Here are rules for dealing with your family text thread.

U.S. law firms face the future

Is the U.S. in a lawyer labor shortage? A new study from Statista and TIME shows that the majority of surveyed lawyers are finding it difficult to find and hire competent recruits.

Caster Semenya The South African gold medalist on her new memoir, the indignities of gender verification, and her future as an Olympic runner

Why write The Race to Be Myself now? You want to tell a story when you're in a good state of mind, when you're at peace. I thought it's about time I support those who need me. It's a reminder to those out there who feel rejected that they belong. The most important thing that you can do for yourself is just to accept yourself for who you are.

Only murders at the billionaire's retreat

A MURDER AT THE END OF THE World is a tricky title. It might refer to a murder in a remote location or a murder amid the literal end times. In the case of FX's smart, stylish new drama, it's a true double entendre. The plot works on multiple levels too. Set up as a classic cozy mystery, the detective story grounds an investigation of technology and enterprise in the age of climate apocalypse. Are the world's wealthiest innovators saving humanity or hastening our demise?

Nathan Fielder's Hitchcockian head trip

IN THE THIRD EPISODE OF SHOWTIME'S strange, riveting, and often hilarious new series The Curse, the married co-hosts of an in-development reality show watch a focus group respond to the pilot. \"I like the lady,\" says one woman. \"I do wish that he had a sense of humor or a personality.\" \"There's zero sexual tension,\" another participant complains. The final verdict: \"There was just something off about him. Like I said, either be hot or funny. He wasn't either to me.\"

HOW BARBRA MADE IT TO BROADWAY

In an excerpt from her new memoir, Barbra Streisand recalls the audition that led to her debut

EYES ΟΝ THE PRIZE

AS FORMULA ONE SOARS IN POPULARITY, THREE-TIME WORLD CHAMPION MAX VERSTAPPEN SHOWS NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN

HARD POWER

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken an authoritarian turn. Is it enough for the U.S. to abandon its support?

Should We End OBESITY?

THE WEIGHT-LOSS-DRUG EXPLOSION HAS FORCED A RECONSIDERATION OF WHAT \"HEALTHY\" MEANS

Crossroads

AMID CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS, WAVERING ALLIES, AND A NEW WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ZELENSKY STRUGGLES TO KEEP UKRAINE IN THE FIGHT

How we stayed whole after divorce

I'VE NEVER BEEN GOOD AT MATH. AFTER NEARLY failing algebra in high school, I chose to attend a liberal-arts college in part-in large part-because there was no general math requirement.

The enduring love of my chosen family

Family is essential. It's also challenging. Here, tips and reflections on navigating it all

Beyond the hockey stick

ON APRIL 22 (EARTH DAY) OF 1998, my co-authors and I published the now famous \"hockey stick\" curve. It was featured on the pages of the New York Times and other leading newspapers, helping it garner worldwide attention.

The Gaza invasion will not make Israel safer

THERE ARE many reasons why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a ground invasion of Gaza. He wants to ensure that Hamas can never again murder 1,400 Israelis.

THE END OF REAGAN'S GOP

\"MAGA is ascendant, crowed Representative Matt Gaetz on Oct. 25. He had reason to be happy. After weeks of chaos, House Republicans had settled on Mike Johnson as Speaker. Johnson is thoroughly in line with nationalist-populist Republicans who engineered Kevin McCarthy's fall, and the episode was another sign that the GOP is no longer Ronald Reagan's party. It is Donald Trump's.

Still seeking answers from Seoul's Halloween tragedy

ONE WORD TORE CHOI JOUNG-JOO'S WORLD APART.

Matthew Perry

Friends comic and recovery advocate

A push for stricter gun laws in Maine

A MASS SHOOTING THAT LEFT 18 people dead at a bar and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 25 is putting a spotlight on the state's legal laxity on gun safety. Specifically, Maine doesn't have some measures that have been shown to reduce gun deaths or homicides, such as laws that require gun permits which some research found was associated with a 60% reduced risk of mass shootings-or universal background checks for handgun sales.

INSIDE GAZA'S HOSPITALS

Struggling to care for the 2 million civilians caught in the Israel-Hamas War