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'We're Living a Nightmare - Day After Day'

Families of three Israeli hostages share their pain as they wait for their loved ones to be released, six months after they were abducted

Divine Intervention

POPE FRANCIS' PROGRESSIVE REPOSITIONING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS CREATED BATTLE LINES BETWEEN ITS 1.3 BILLION FOLLOWERS, NO MORE SO THAN IN THE UNITED STATES

Is It Time to Leave Syria?

The U.S. is reportedly considering withdrawing from the country, with pressure from Damascus amid deepening unrest in the region. Is this the right move? Two experts weigh in

No End Game in Sight

Benjamin Netanyahu is risking a pyrrhic victory in Gaza that damages the chances of long-term peace

Chris Perfetti

IF YOU'RE ONE OF THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS SINGING THE PRAISES of ABC's Abbott Elementary, fear not, they've heard you. \"We love to hear it,\" says Chris Perfetti, who plays Jacob Hill on the Emmy-winning sitcom about teachers at a Philadelphia public school.

Who Rules Gaza When the Fighting Stops?

With no clear leader coming to the fore, questions remain about how the devastated territory will be managed

SUSTAINABILITY DISRUPTOR OF THE YEAR

SUSTAINABILITY ISN'T JUST ABOUT BUYING an electric vehicle or driving in a way that saves fuel.

MARKETING DISRUPTOR OF THE YEAR

WHY GO TO A SHOWROOM WHEN A showroom can come to you? The traditional car sales model is dead.

Hiring: No Diploma, Need Not Apply

Working-class Americans are increasingly unable to qualify for good jobs, despite experience and skills

EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR

VOLVO CARS CEO JIM ROWAN ISN'T SHYING away from an auto industry that is in the midst of great change. In fact, he's embracing the disruption.

VISIONARY OF THE YEAR

CEO and CHAIRMAN of the BOARD of MERCEDES-BENZ

LEGACY OF DISUPTION

TOM DOLL CHANGED THE WAY SUBARU OPERATES. During a 40-year tenure at the automaker, he worked to develop some of the best-known vehicles and marketing campaigns in the automotive world.

Gillian Anderson

IF THERE'S ONE THING THAT'S TRUE ABOUT GILLIAN ANDERSON, IT'S THAT she isn't afraid of a challenge.

China's Baby Bust

Despite reversing its one-child policy, the nation is having to deal with an unprecedented decline in births

Alex Edelman

A JEW ACCIDENTALLY STUMBLES UPON A gathering of white nationalists. For most, this would be a cause for concern, but for Alex Edelman it's an opportunity for a hit one-man comedy show.

Operation Save Biden

The President's campaign is in trouble. Will the turnaround plan work?

William McRaven The retired admiral who took down Osama bin Laden on why U.S. leadership matters, the AI race, and what he's going to do with $50 million

You recently received the Bezos Courage and Civility Award, with $50 million to give to charities of your choice. How are you planning to use it? Almost all of this is going to be focused on veterans and their families the children who've lost fathers and mothers in combat. And the other area is mental health for servicemen. What don't the VA and the military health care system cover?

The five-minute quiz that helped catch Olivia Munn's cancer

Actor Olivia Munn recently shared in an Instagram post that a free risk-assessment tool her doctor used revealed that she had a higher chance of developing breast cancer. It led to testing and eventually treatment-that likely spared her from more serious outcomes.

How nature reacts to a total eclipse

OF ALL OF THE ANIMALS WORTH observing during a total solar eclipse, perhaps none are more intriguing than humans. They stop what they're doing; they stare skyward; they lower their voices to a hush.

THE POLITICS OF TIKTOK

How the Chinese platform's popularity, and self-interest, took Trump from ban to embrace

Happiness in the U.S.

A new low

America: Start here

IF THERE'S ONE THING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME, it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I have thousands and thousands of unread emails. I don't open mail because I assume it'll be bad news. I've never had a credit card. But it's also something that, as a filmmaker and a writer, deeply fascinates me-how sterile, faceless, and universally isolating it all can be.

A jumbled parable with a glowing core

EVEN WHEN A MOVIE IS FAR FROM PERFECT, YOU CAN tell when a director has poured his soul into it. Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man-he's also the movie's star-is trying too hard, and for too much. It wants to be a political allegory, a somber study of a man haunted by childhood trauma, a clarion blast of inspiration for downtrodden humans seeking to summon strength, and last but hardly least, a brutally exhilarating action entertainment.

The pacifist gospel of Civil War

OUTSIDE OF ATLANTA, A CREAKY WHITE VAN WEAVED down a highway lined with abandoned cars. A helicopter sat in the parking lot of a charred JCPenney. Armed guards in military fatigues patrolled checkpoints. A death squad dumped corpses into a mass grave. Artillery boomed in the offing.

The real Carmichael show

JERROD CARMICHAEL HAD BEEN a famous comedian for almost a decade when he dropped his average-dude persona and started being real. In his 2022 special, Rothaniel, he came out as gay, speaking with rueful humor about internalized homophobia and his fractured relationship with his devoutly Christian mother. It was a creative turning point as well as a personal one.

DESERT POWER

The United Arab Emirates-using oil wealth and its citizens' data-is betting on AI to project influence beyond its borders

Bolsonaro and Trump, apart yet together

A PRESIDENT FACING A TOUGH fight for re-election warns his followers that corrupt elites want to steal power from them. He loses the election and calls on his supporters to defend him. Unable to block the transfer of power, he retreats to Florida.

RAMADAN IN GAZA

Ramadan has a special place in every Muslim's heart. We wait for it all year. As a small child, I remember my excitement at hanging colorful lanterns on the house. My parents taught my siblings and me to abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk. But the holy month of Ramadan started early for Muslims in Gaza this year. In some sense, we've been fasting since October.

Fighting to free Russia's political prisoners

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY THIS MARCH was more of a coronation than an election. With the political system heavily skewed in his favor and all significant opponents disqualified, jailed, or dead, the vote was almost entirely pro forma.

TIME Earth AWARDS 2024

From the fashion runway to the rainforest, this year's honorees are using their influence to demonstrate leadership in shaping a more sustainable future.