THE GOLDEN AGE OF GENETIC SEQUENCING

HOW GENES ARE MAPPING THE WAY TO CANCER CURES

'A Clarion Call to Service'

Former ambassador to China heralds Jimmy Carter's 'exceptional dedication to humanity and world peace'

Julia Stiles

“What’s funny is that I did everything as a director that I swore I would never do to my actors.”

OUR BURNING WORLD

L.A.'s devastating wildfires arrived against the backdrop of an ominous milestone for the planet

Bird flu could be the next big health risk. Where's the vaccine?

NOW THAT THE WORLD HAS ADJUSTED TO LIVING WITH COVID-19, a new infectious disease threat is looming—this time from wild birds. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1 bird flu, is spreading among dairy cattle that provide our milk and starting to cause serious disease in people. An elderly man with underlying health conditions became the first to develop severe disease in the U.S. and died in early January, and a 13-year-old girl with asthma in Canada became so sick with H5N1 in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator.

JIMMY CARTER 1924-2024: "To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.'

AFTER A PRESIDENCY BESET BY CRISIS, A SINGULAR LEADER BECAME AN ICON OF SERVICE

The colleges and companies shaping America's leaders

BUSINESS IS EVOLVING FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE, and companies are rethinking the path to the C-suite. Whereas in the past aspiring leaders might earn their stripes by rotating through another part of the business for a year or two, today more top firms are “constantly providing people with new opportunities,” says Stephan Meier, a professor of business strategy at Columbia Business School. To supercharge the pace of skill-building, workers now have to change jobs more frequently. The ability to not only rapidly learn new terrain but also guide teams in overcoming new challenges is becoming an indispensable leadership skill, Meier says.

Meta ends fact-checks, sparking concern about misinformation

META SAID ON JAN. 7 IT WOULD abandon its fact-checking program in favor of a crowdsourced model that emphasizes \"free expression.\"

With the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians ascend

FOR 54 YEARS, THE ASSAD FAMily ruled Syria, relying on the ruthlessness of internal security forces that imprisoned and killed more than 100,000 people, and turned peaceful 2011 protests of the Arab Spring into a bloody civil war.

RESIGNED: Justin Trudeau

Once favorite son

Q & A: Borge Brende

The World Economic Forum president talks with TIME editor Sam Jacobs

Ideas for change

WEF Young Global Leaders share their hopes for a better future

The D.C. Brief

IN THE END, THE THREAT OF A FARright revolt proved more menacing than most imagined, as Republican Mike Johnson initially came up short on Jan. 3 during the first balloting to keep him as Speaker.

Roy Wood Jr. The comedian on his new stand-up special, the importance of working in food service, and learning from Keanu Reeves

8 QUESTIONS WITH Roy Wood Jr.

The subtle art of dying

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING HIS CAREER from the start, the idea of Pedro Almodóvar's growing older—and using his films to reflect on illness and death—is a bitter pill. None of us relishes thinking about our own mortality. But sometimes it feels worse to think about losing an artist we love. One of his finest, most moving works, 2019's Pain and Glory, reckoned with the nuisances of aging and the trauma of being an artist in crisis. But his first English-language movie, The Room Next Door, delves further into these murky waters. Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star as Ingrid and Martha, old friends who have been out of touch for a long time. They reconnect when Ingrid learns that Martha is being treated for cancer, and their rekindled friendship veers into complicated territory.

The person behind the pain

IT'S A STRANGE SENSATION, TO END up loving a movie that makes you feel physically uncomfortable for nearly its whole runtime. In Hard Truths, from veteran filmmaker Mike Leigh, Mari-anne Jean-Baptiste plays a woman at war with the world, and herself. She practically vibrates with belligerence: she can't go to the grocery store without having a run-in with the cashier; her husband mostly avoids her; her grown son spends his time locked in his room—his only relief is to leave the house for long walks to escape his mother's angry force field. Why would you care about this woman's story? For much of the film you may be yearning to get away from her. I was.

IN AND OUT AND BACK AGAIN

The hit mystery series Severance ups the stakes of its workplace thriller in a new season following a long hiatus

Aligning profit with planet

Regenerative technologies could help forge a path forward

5 predictions for AI in 2025

New uses and policy questions come into focus

Opening the invisible hand

Bhutan's ambitious plan to boost its economy with a “mindfulness city”

Tech we can trust

Serving humanity's best interests must be at the center of progress

'These Were Courageous Leaders'

Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter Bernice tells Newsweek how her family aligned with the Carters in the fight for civil rights

An Iron Dome for America

Donald Trump has promised to build a missile defense system to protect the continental U.S. from a nuclear strike. A new report lays out how it might look

How the Other Half Live

Patricia Arquette returns for season 2 of Severance. Free from the corporation, she reveals her character's struggle with her newfound independence

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

\"I'm not too worried about her not being likable.\"

A call for global cooperation in the Intelligent Age

Cultivate wisdom along with innovation

It's time to stop fetishizing capitalism

An heiress advocates for a more democratic approach

The conflicts looming over 2025

WHEN DONALD TRUMP TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE AS President in January 2017, his first foreign policy priority was to get tough on China. The Trump 2.0 Administration will continue that work. But when he strides back into the Oval Office in January 2025, Trump will also become responsible for U.S. management of two dangerous wars, the kinds of hot foreign policy crises he was fortunate to avoid during his first term.

The digital labor revolution

OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, WE'VE WITNESSED advances in AI that have captured our imaginations with unprecedented capabilities in language and ingenuity. And yet, as impressive as these developments have been, they're only the opening act. We are now entering a new era of autonomous AI agents that take action on their own and augment the work of humans. This isn't just an evolution of technology. It's a revolution that will fundamentally redefine how humans work, live, and connect with one another from this point forward.

CULTIVATING A 'THIRD LIFE'

He was right to worry. These days, the role of coffee shops and bars, libraries and community centers, civic clubs and houses of worship, has faded as the creep of work and domestic obligation in American life has become all but inescapable. According to the 2021 Census Bureau's Time Use Survey, Americans were already spending significantly less time with friends before the pandemic rearranged life entirely. Our collective isolation has only metastasized since then. In 2024, a staggering 17% of Americans claimed to have zero friends, up from 1% in 1990 when Oldenburg was first urging caution.