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I'd always been told I was gay, made fun of for it. I felt comfortable in environments with queer women. But something in me knew that I was transgender. It was something I had always known but didn't have the words for, wouldn't permit myself to embrace. \"I was nevera girl. I'll never be a woman. What am I going to do?\" I used to say. Have always said.

5 ways to get better at small talk

FORGET THE \"DON'T TALK TO strangers\" maxim you learned as a kid: brief, pleasant exchanges with people you don't know well (or at all) can enhance your happiness, mood, energy, and overall well-being.

Tina Turner - Indelible voice

WHEN TINA TURNER DIED May 24 at 83, many remembered her as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll. But the chart-topping hit for which she will perhaps be most remembered isn't a rock song.

Is everyone going back to the office yet?

YOU MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT THAT BY MID-2023, WITH THE pandemic officially over, people would be getting back to the office. But the share of workers in the office full time dropped to 42% in the second quarter of 2023, down from 49% in the first quarter, according to the Flex Report, which collects insights from more than 4,000 companies employing more than 100 million people globally. Meanwhile, the share of offices with hybrid work arrangements hit 30% in the quarter, up from 20% the previous quarter.

How everyday Iranians backed the revolt

Revolutions do not happen only in the streets. Yet the outside world knows the uprising in Iran almost entirely through footage uploaded from camera phones-the thousands upon thousands chanting for the fall of the regime in cities and towns across the country, and the regime answering with batons and shotguns. There has been no window into the kitchens and courtyards where the country's fate will be decided.

What Erdogan's victory means for Turkey and the world

THE RECEP TAYYIP ERDOgan era lives on after the longtime Turkish leader won the May 28 presidential runoff against opposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

IS SOCIAL MEDIA SAFE?

The U.S. Surgeon General is calling social media use an \"urgent crisis\" for kids' mental health

The AI détente

THE WORLD MUST FIGURE OUT A WAY TO DEAL WITH THE THREAT FROM AI

The Triumph of King Charles

After decades of waiting, the new monarch meets his moment

A documentary not about illness, but about life

If it were up to us to choose the fates of the performers we care about, millions of people would want to wish Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's away

Powerful stories of frontline communities' climate solutions can change the world

When you're trying to persuade people to do something important, you can present statistics, policy statements, graphs, and spreadsheets. But without a story that paints a picture of what's at stake, touches the heartstrings, and sparks the imagination to envision possibilities, it's hard to move people to take action. One formula for accelerating transformational change is to amplify the right message from the right messenger at the right moment in time.

She was Tucker Carlson's 'office mom.' Now she's suing

AT FIRST, ABBY GROSSBERG THOUGHT FOX NEWS WOULD be her big break

Stacey Abrams: The two-time gubernatorial candidate on data leaks, electoral shenanigans, writing suspense novels, and her future in politics

I wrote my first attempt at a novel when I was 12. It was called The Diary of Angst. I was a very, very obnoxious 12-year-old who was just assailed by all the travails of the world

RACHEL CARGLE'S RADICAL ΤΟΥ

Discovering the value of pleasure in the pursuit of a better world with the author of A Renaissance of Our Own

Facing Ghosts

PRIME MINISTER FUMIO KISHIDA IS GIVING JAPAN A MORE ASSERTIVE ROLE ON THE GLOBAL STAGE

TEXAS COULD BE THE WORLD'S CLEAN-ENERGY CAPITAL. DOES IT WANT TO BE?

There’s just one problem: politics. While many cities, states, and even countries are fighting for the trillions of dollars in public and private green investments that are transforming the energy industry, many Texas leaders, including a powerful segment of the state’s political leadership, are opposing the new opportunities

Teach citizenship the way the founders intended

NEW DATA RELEASED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION— known as the Nation’s Report Card and widely regarded as the best assessment of how well we are educating our future citizens—paints a stark and worrying picture

The D.C. Brief

DIANNE FEINSTEIN HAD ALREADY made history back in 1978, when she became the first woman elected to lead the San Francisco board of supervisors, effectively setting the agenda for the legislative arm of the country's eighth largest economy at the time

Erdogan may face both an election and a decision

FOR MORE THAN 20 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has remade and dominated Turkey's politics

OUR COVID-19 LESSONS

More than three years into the COVID-19 pandemic and with America's public-health emergency expiring on May 11, it is clear that this moment is an opportunity not only to reflect on successes but also to grapple with the setbacks, pitfalls, and failures that defined our response. The responsibility to improve our response to future health crises lies in correcting our failures in this one

As police forces shrink, private security takes over

ANDRE BOYER ENTERS THE GAS STATION LIKE A SOLDIER— back straight, boots shined, AR-15 pointed toward the floor

Playing Magic: The Gathering with Senate hopeful Lucas Kunce

WHEN MISSOURI SENATE CANDIDATE LUCAS KUNCE logs on to Zoom for our game of Magic: The Gathering, he isn’t messing around

France is cracking down on the influencer industry

GLOBALLY, INFLUENCING WILL BE a $70 billion industry by 2029, according to Data Bridge Market Research

DIGITAL BLIND SPOT

The U.S. government's security-clearance process is struggling to keep up online

The Burnout Reset

Experts say employees can't eliminate burnout on their own. I set out to prove them wrong

Can Imran Khan Make a Comeback?

Pakistan's most popular politician is under attack-and vying for power once more

TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - ARTISTS

TIME 100 The most influential people in the world - ARTISTS

Why aren't there any houses to buy?

Mortgage rates are rising, and the housing market appears to be softening nationwide. But in many U.S. markets, would-be buyers are facing a big problem: there's just nothing to buy.

Saving The Seine

Inside the radical effort to clean up the world's most romantic river

America's life - expectancy map

THE AVERAGE U.S. LIFE EXPECTANCY HAS HIT ITS worst decline in 100 years, and America's standing is dismal among peer nations. But the average obscures a more complex story. The U.S. is facing the greatest divide in life expectancy across regions in the past 40 years. Research from American Inequality found that Americans born in certain areas of Mississippi and Florida may die 20 years younger than their peers born in parts of Colorado and California.