Time - March 25, 2024

In this issue

Political Hostage
Inside the effort to free Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from the Moscow prison where he has been held for nearly a year.
By Charlotte Alter

Best-Selling Nonfriction
Money that you never actually see is so darn easy to spend.
By Alana Semuels
PLUS: Personal-fi nance tips

IT'S TRUMP'S PARTY

The MAGA movement's takeover of the GOP is now complete

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Spring won't bring Gaza relief

THE WAR IN GAZA IS ENTERING ITS sixth month and its third season. More than 30,000 people have been killed there since the Israeli offensive answering Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre, and some 1.9 million displaced people have endured homelessness in punishing winter weather, marked by heavy rain and low temperatures.

1 min

Texas' scorched Panhandle

A million acres swept by fire

1 min

Zyn triggers fears of a new teen nicotine craze

NOT SO LONG AGO, JUUL WAS SEEN AS THE NEW MARLboro.

5 mins

A NEW AGE OF NAVAL WARFARE

With the sinking of the Sergei Kotov in early March, a whopping one-third of Russia's Black Sea fleet has been disabled. The maritime theater of the war in Ukraine remains the most significant since the Falklands. But it is also part of a larger story about naval power—which has come back as a central feature of struggles from the Black Sea to the Red Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait.

3 mins

Pakistan's generals fail to fix an election

PAKISTAN'S WORSTkept secret is that its military dominates its government. Whether to safeguard the nation against chaos or to protect their own privileged access to power and wealth, its generals have manipulated the country's politics for decades. Pakistan's voters, like voters elsewhere, want change.

2 mins

The D.C. Brief

TO LIBERALS, MITCH MCCONNELL IS a master of the political dark arts, willing to do anything to serve his conservative aims. He enabled multiple GOP White Houses to play the long game.

3 mins

No recession? Thank women

REMOTE WORK ALLOWED ALYSON VELASQUEZ TO JUGGLE her demanding roles as a Wells Fargo talent recruiter and as a mother of two young children, including a son with special needs.

5 mins

The Fight to Free Evan

On March 29, 2023, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on bogus espionage charges. He remains imprisoned in Moscow-a political hostage in his parents' homeland. Inside the struggle to bring him home

10+ mins

Why We Over Spend

The rise of frictionless payments makes it easy to keep buying-whether we can afford to or not

6 mins

Letting Go of My Debt Shame

Getting out of debt is a group sport, not a solo mission.

4 mins

Company Man

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is getting down to business in a country that feels shortchanged by his election

10 mins

Breaking New Ground

Sunny Choi is heading for Paris, where her sport-yes, sportwill make its olympic debut

9 mins

THE BLACK COUNTRY LEGACY

Beyoncé becomes the spiritual heir to a lineage long ago erased by the mainstream

6 mins

How do you solve a Problem like the human race?

NETFLIX'S 3 BODY PROBLEM MIGHT BE THE BIGGEST TV series to hit Earth this year.

3 mins

Wiigging out in 1960s Palm Beach

VIETNAM. STONEWALL. CHARLES Manson. Woodstock.

1 min

A one-trick pony with many lives

IF YOU DIDN'T GROW UP WITH A WELL-WORN COPY OF Sounds of Silence, Bookends, or Bridge Over Troubled Water among the LPs stacked near the family hi-fi, your parents or grandparents probably did. From the mid- to late 1960s, the sounds of Simon & Garfunkel were so ubiquitous you couldn't escape them if you wanted to.

3 mins

The pains and paintings of Frida Kahlo, reanimated

FRIDA KAHLO'S EARLY 1940s self-portraits, in which monkeys hang from her neck, may seem playful. In reality, she painted them during a suffocating period when she was tangled in a messy divorce and desperate for work.

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