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Reality TV stops being polite

The Challenge speaks to a trend toward cruelty

My kid deserved what we couldn't afford

SEVEN YEARS OUT FROM NEEDING to use food stamps, and it's interesting what still triggers that feeling of humiliation that consumed my life back then. Yet I always feel it when I use a self-checkout station at the grocery store.

HOBBES THE OPTIMIST

When Thomas Hobbes described life in a state of nature as \"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,\" he penned one of the most celebrated sentences in the English language. The 17th-century philosopher asserted that without \"a common power to keep them all in awe,\" human beings fall into a state of nature-a condition of anarchical warfare and lawless predation.

The delicate balance facing William Lai, Taiwan's presidential front runner

MORE THAN ONCE WHEN WILLIAM LAI WAS A small boy, a passing typhoon tore the roof of his home clean away. It's a recollection that brings a wry smile to Taiwan's Vice President, who grew up in the small coal-mining hamlet of Wanli perched on the island's far north.

Sam Bankman-Fried - Disgraced crypto mogul

IT TOOK ONE YEAR FOR SAM BANKMAN-Fried to transform from beloved billionaire entrepreneur to convicted felon.

How war in the Middle East got the British Home Secretary fired

SUELLA BRAVERMAN, THE CONTROversial Home Secretary in British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, was fired after making divisive comments about pro-Palestinian protesters. She will be replaced by James Cleverly, who had been Foreign Secretary, and former Prime Minister David Cameron will replace him.

NIKKI HALEY'S MOMENT

The former South Carolina governor finds momentum in a GOP primary that remains Trump’s to lose

TIME 100 CLIMATE

The most influential leaders driving business climate action in their own words

The Questions That Most Need Asking

“Reconstruction,” by Frederick Douglass, appeared in the December 1866 issue of this magazine. It was the most important article that The Atlantic published in the immediate postwar era. It was also, for its time, unusually concise, coming in at a mere 2,703 words.

The Annotated Frederick Douglass

In 1866, the famous abolitionist laid out his vision for radically reshaping America in the pages of The Atlantic.

The Atlantic and Reconstruction

What we got wrong in 1901

The Revolution Never Ended

The federal government abandoned Reconstruction in 1877, but Black people didn't give up on the moment's promise.

The Archive of Emancipation

In the papers of the Freedmen's Bureau, I found the hopes and disappointments of a people on the cusp of freedom-including my own family's.

A Traitor to the Traitors

The Confederate general James Longstreet became a champion of Reconstruction. Why?

The Men Who Started the War

John Brown and the Secret Six-the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferryconfronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

The Years of Jubilee

In 1871, the choir of the struggling Fisk University engaged in a gambit to save the school: It decided to go on a singing tour of America. The choir achieved more than its members could have imagined.

My Life According to AI

My 12-year-old son is a great kid, except for one thing he doesn't exist

Innovations That Could Help Save the Planet

Breakthrough green tech ideas can take a long time to become reality. Here are five that will be ready soon

WORLD'S MOST TRUSTWORTHY COMPANIES

TRUST IS AT THE CORE OF SO MANY DECISIONS that we make every day.

DISASTER AT THE BORDER

Israel's STUNNING failure to repel the invasion along its Gaza border has grave IMPLICATIONS for U.S. military security.

Bethenny Frankel

WHEN YOU THINK OF BETHENNY FRANKEL, THE FIRST THING THAT PROBably comes to mind is Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City.

U.S. law firms face the future

Is the U.S. in a lawyer labor shortage? A new study from Statista and TIME shows that the majority of surveyed lawyers are finding it difficult to find and hire competent recruits.

Managing your text chain

Important family conversations used to happen around the dinner table. Now they're often relegated to our phones. Here are rules for dealing with your family text thread.

THE END OF REAGAN'S GOP

\"MAGA is ascendant, crowed Representative Matt Gaetz on Oct. 25. He had reason to be happy. After weeks of chaos, House Republicans had settled on Mike Johnson as Speaker. Johnson is thoroughly in line with nationalist-populist Republicans who engineered Kevin McCarthy's fall, and the episode was another sign that the GOP is no longer Ronald Reagan's party. It is Donald Trump's.

INSIDE GAZA'S HOSPITALS

Struggling to care for the 2 million civilians caught in the Israel-Hamas War

Matthew Perry

Friends comic and recovery advocate

Creating record of history

What was your mom's childhood like? How did your aunt meet your uncle? Recording conversations with loved ones is a way to preserve a family's history and collect stories to pass down to future generations.

Caster Semenya The South African gold medalist on her new memoir, the indignities of gender verification, and her future as an Olympic runner

Why write The Race to Be Myself now? You want to tell a story when you're in a good state of mind, when you're at peace. I thought it's about time I support those who need me. It's a reminder to those out there who feel rejected that they belong. The most important thing that you can do for yourself is just to accept yourself for who you are.

The enduring love of my chosen family

Family is essential. It's also challenging. Here, tips and reflections on navigating it all

HOW BARBRA MADE IT TO BROADWAY

In an excerpt from her new memoir, Barbra Streisand recalls the audition that led to her debut