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NIH budget cuts are causing chaos
THE U.S. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) IS THE largest funder of biomedical research in the world, and its grants create the foundation of basic science knowledge on which major health advances are built.
Zero Day's uncannily apolitical Washington
IN AN EARLY SCENE OF THE NETFLIX THRILLER ZERO DAY, a former U.S. President is visiting the site of a deadly Manhattan subway crash when an onlooker starts shouting about crisis actors.
For the love of voice notes
SOMEWHERE IN THE BLUR OF 2020, AS I SLIPPED OUTside with a mask and running shoes in the early morning to walk around the block, the lilting drawl of a friend's \"Hiiiiii\" nearly stopped me in my tracks.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.As the U.S. Health Secretary
THE SENATE CONFIRMED ROBERT F. Kennedy Jr., one of country's most notorious vaccine skeptics, to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Feb. 13, sparking outrage among public-health experts who worry that Kennedy will harm public health and further erode trust in science and medicine.
THE RISE OF GERMANY'S FAR RIGHT
Alice Weidel's AfD party is making gainswith a boost from the Trump Administration
Net Zero Is Not Enough
AUSTRALIAN MINING BILLIONAIRE ANDREW FORREST'S GREEN CRUSADE
How will your new company, Respin, help women in menopause?
Halle Berry The Oscar-winning actor says there’sa desperate need to inform women about menopause. Her new company aims to fill that education and empathy gap
How we talk about the Holocaust now
VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE ARRIVED AT THE DACHAU concentration camp under low, gray clouds.
South Korea's political drama will produce waves overseas
SOUTH KOREA'S political crisis continues. After President Yoon Suk-yeol was impeached and arrested following his aborted imposition of martial law last December, the country's Constitutional Court will now decide his future. Legal experts say Yoon will soon be removed from office and sent to prison.
WOMEN of the YEAR
13 extraordinary leaders fighting for a more equal future
The end of the penny Deemed "wasteful"
\"For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents.
FACING THE ABYSS
Michelle Zauner's new album with Japanese Breakfast explores the many ways in which sadness pervades modern womanhood
Capturing the humanity that war threatens to destroy
WAR HAS A WAY OF ATTRACTING STORY tellers, different kinds at different phases of the story.
5 ways to shorten your wait for a doctor's appointment
IF YOU'VE TRIED TO SCHEDULE a doctor's appointment recently, you might have had to flip your calendar to a different season.
AMERICAN BROLIGARCHY
As Elon Musk, the world's richest person and President Donald Trump's top campaign donor, rampages through the federal government, shutting down agencies and firing workers seemingly without any regard for his own conflicts of interest, the danger of concentrated private interests capturing our political system has never been more apparent.
AMERICA'S AGING WORKFORCE
WHY THE PROMISE OF RETIREMENT IS SLIPPING OUT OF REACH
CAVALCADE OF COMEDY
As Saturday Night Live celebrates its 50th season, alumni look back on the people, moments, and humor that shaped their time at an American institution
The Summer of Scam that never ended
EARLY IN THE NEW NETFLIX SERIES APPLE CIDER VINEgar, its star, Kaitlyn Dever, breaks the fourth wall.
The Italian 'Trump whisperer'
ITALIAN PRIME MINister Giorgia Meloni's political fortunes are far brighter than any other G-7 leader's.
The (real) problem with fake plants
WHEN THE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER IMMANUEL KANT puzzled over why nature looks beautiful to us, he considered the case of replicas.
Insecurity is the new inequality
DONALD TRUMP'S SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM HAS already been accompanied by a cascade of unnerving political and natural events-from the U.S.'s leaving the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Accords, to the nighttime firings of inspectors general and pardons of the Jan. 6 rioters, to the raids targeting immigrants in a number of cities and the wildfires roaring through swaths of Los Angeles.
TIME the Closers
25 BLACK LEADERS WORKING TO END RACIAL INEQUALITY
THE PAW PATROL PRINCIPLE
How a toy company built a children's-television juggernaut
Mindy Kaling The writer, producer, and showrunner on the status of Legally Blonde 3, cooking with Meghan Markle, and her new Netflix comedy, Running Point
The family in Running Point has shades of Succession. Was that show on your mind?
A THOUSAND CUTS
THE STANDOFF AT 1300 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE was not much of a spectacle.
DeepSeek's hidden warning for AI safety
THE RELEASE OF DEEPSEEK R1 STUNNED WALL STREET and Silicon Valley in January, spooking investors and impressing tech leaders.
Building for disaster resilience
ON JAN. 7, ARCHITECT GREG CHASEN RUSHED TO HIS childhood home in Pacific Palisades, a well-off Los Angeles neighborhood tucked between the mountains and the Pacific Ocean, to remove any flammables and turn on the sprinklers.
More young adults are getting cancer.Researchers are racing to understand why
Dr. Frank Frizelle has operated on countless patients in his career as a colorectal surgeon. But there’s one case that stayed with him.
Health Matters
THE FLU IS ALWAYS A NASTY FOEand it's particularly vicious this year.
MAKING IT WORSE
On his first day back in office, President Trump ordered a 90-day freeze on almost all U.S. foreign aid.