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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.
Why aren't companies held accountable for data breaches?
IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY COMMON TO RECEIVE an email or phone call informing you that your personal information was stolen in a data breach.
5 ways to stand up for yourself at doctor's visits
STEPH FOWLER CAN TICK OFF A LONG list of conditions that doctors initially chalked up to mental health: endometriosis, a stomach infection, insomnia, and more.
Album of the Year
Beyoncé's moment-finally
A new film confronts Brazil's dark past
WHEN CELEBRATED BRAZILIAN AUTHOR MARCELO PAIVA started writing his 2015 memoir Ainda Estou Aqui (I'm Still Here), he wanted to record his family history as his mother was losing her memory.
The problem with medical credit cards
DAVID ZHAO SIGNED UP FOR A MEDICAL CREDIT CARD while supine in a dentist's chair. In December 2018, the consumer lawyer from Los Angeles went for a routine appointment at Western Dental in San Mateo, in the suburbs of San Francisco. Zhao was told by the dentist that his gums were receding. He needed a special mouth guard or he'd have to have surgery, he recalls being told.
In the LAND of the LOTUS EATERS
On the scorching set of HBO's red-hot satire
CITIZENSHIP AT RISK
The fight over birthright citizenship has already begun
THE MYTH THAT BROKE AMERICA
How a national story about opportunity created a civic crisis
THE PRICE OF DISASTER
The insurance market in California sends warning signs nationally
ACTING FAST
A survey of some of Trump's first actions in office
Kate Middleton's cancer is in remission. What does that mean?
AFTER ANNOUNCING IN MARCH 2024 THAT SHE HAD been diagnosed with cancer, Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, has provided a positive update on her illness. “It is a relief now to be in remission and I remain focused on recovery,” Middleton announced on X on Jan. 14.
Iran's shaky regime
IT'S BEEN A DISASTROUS few months for Iran and its ability to threaten its regional rivals and enemies.
Cecile Richards - Lifelong activist
In 2014 I found myself sitting across from Cecile Richards at a D.C. eatery.
Not until they're home
MY ONLY SON, HERSH, WAS KIDnapped from a music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, after having his dominant forearm and hand blown off.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
On his new album, Bad Bunny eschews the trappings of pop in favor of the music, history, and struggles of Puerto Rico
THE DISRUPTER IN CHIEF IS BACK
Donald Trump and the Constitution meet again