AMERICA'S Maternity HOSPITALS 2024

THE ARRIVAL OF A HEALTHY BABY BRINGS UNPARALLELED joy. It's no wonder that families welcoming their newest members are looking for high-quality health care to ensure a smooth delivery and reliable postpartum care.

Wildlife Crossings Are a Bear Necessity

Safe passages for animals under or over highways are reducing road collisions and could help them to adapt to climate change by seeking out new habitats

Five Ways to Keep Your Dog Healthy

We want our beloved dogs to live a long life, but also a healthy one not least to keep the bills down.

Trouble in Paradise

China's massive investment in Antigua potentially represents the greatest external challenge along America's 'third border' since the Cuban missile crisis

A Life of Crime: America's Migrant-Smuggling Teens

Money-motivated children as young as 14 are being targeted by cartels on social media to traffic people illegally into the US and it's just the start of their criminal journey

We're Struggling to Afford Our Furry Friends

The cost of caring for our four-legged companions has risen for nearly threequarters of Americans, leaving many owners concerned about financially supporting them

'I Don't Live My Life With the Cameras On'

Canada's first lady Sophie Grégoire Trudeau talks working through trauma, relationships in the public eye and her new book exploring mental health

TIME 100 HEALTH-LEADERS

'Catastrophic.' -BASHAR MURAD ON THE HEALTH SITUATION IN GAZA

A MARRIAGE OF FOOD AND FICTION

In the kitchen with Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans

HOLDING COURT

AT 20, DEFENDING U.S. OPEN CHAMPION COCO GAUFF IS MOVING INTO A NEW PHASE OF HER CAREER

5 tips to start foraging anywhere

THERE ARE MORE THAN 400,000 species of plants on earth, and at least half are suitable for human consumptionyet you'll find only a small portion at the grocery store.

MODI-FYING INDIA

In April, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Titled \"Forever in Our Hearts,\" it recounts his achievements while singing his praises. Such gushing reverence captures the essence of Modi's popularity at home and among Indians abroad. But it also points to some darker developments in the world's largest democracy, as its citizens head to the polls.

Red Cows, Gaza and the End of the World

As the Israel-Hamas war rages on, the Third Temple movement is ramping up its bid to reclaim a contested holy site in Jerusalem currently home to ancient Islamic shrines

JUDGING TRUMP

The jurist overseeing the former President's criminal trial is familiar with his history-in and out of court

TIME 100 HEALTH-TITANS

Last May, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory about the profound consequences of loneliness and isolation-a departure from the type of standard medical conditions his predecessors prioritized.

A Man in Full, adapted and redacted

TOM WOLFE'S A MAN IN FULL IS A MASSIVE BOOK, IN MORE ways than one. The 742-page social novel about a swaggering Atlanta real estate mogul, which took Wolfe over a decade to write, sold a jaw-dropping 1.4 million hardcover copies after its publication in 1998. The book's themes-money, power, race, masculinity--are just as grand.

Thrust into her new role as the face of Russian opposition, Yulia Navalnaya is ready for her revolution

IN RUSSIAN CUSTOM, THE SOUL OF THE DEAD is believed to remain on earth for 40 days, finishing its business among the living before it moves on to the afterlife. Surviving friends and relatives often spend this period in mourning and reflection. But the loved ones of Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading dissident, did not have much freedom to abide by this custom after he died in an Arctic prison camp on Feb. 16.

'WE ARE FACING THE MOST COMPLEX SECURITY ENVIRONMENT SINCE - WORLD WAR II'

Japan's prime minister on security, diplomacy and protecting the rule of law at home, in Asia and around the world

An Ecstatic Anniversary

Sarah McLachlan is touring this summer, 30 years after the release of ‘Fumbling Towards Ecstasy,' the album that made her a star

TIME 100 HEALTH-PIONEERS

In the wake of the pandemic, a new era emerges-marked by fresh discoveries, novel treatments, and global victories over disease. These are the most influential people in health in 2024

TIME 100 HEALTH-CATALYSTS

It's been a long time since there was good news about Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative condition that affects more than 8 million people worldwide.

JAPAN'S CALL TO ARMS

As the 'peace-loving nation' doubles its defense spending, Prime Minister FUMIO KISHIDA explains why it needs to take an assertive stance to counter China and North Korea

The golden age of Ryan Gosling is upon us

IN DEREK CIANFRANCE'S 2010 LOVE-ON-THErocks heartbreaker Blue Valentine, Ryan Gosling plays a husband and father, Dean, who appears to be nothing but an annoyance to his wife, Michelle Williams' Cindy, a harried nurse.

Lost and found in a Russian prison

PRISON IS MORE THAN A PLACE. IT'S ALSO A MINDSET. When I entered Corrective Colony No. 2-or IK-2, in Mordovia, a region more than 300 miles east of Moscow-I flipped a switch in my head. I'm an inmate now, I told myself.

Greek Revival

PRIME MINISTER KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS IS DETERMINED TO MAKE GREECE THE COMEBACK STORY OF THE DECADE

THE DEMOCRACY BOMB

A day ahead of the third anniversary of January 6, President Joe Biden traveled to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania-where George Washington encamped during the Revolutionary War-before delivering what he described as a \"deadly serious\" speech framing the stakes of the 2024 election.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT - CRIME OF THE CROP

Will GMOs harm my kids? Your pediatrician's response might not be grounded in science.

ECONUNDRUMS - CHATBOT QUACKS

AI was supposed to fix online health misinformation. Instead, it's making it worse.

Become Ungovernable

The spectacular implosion of the Libertarian Party

Spoiler Alert

Third-party candidates never win national elections, but they can still have serious consequences.