Time Magazine International Edition

TIME’S CHOICE RE “PERSON OF THE YEAR” [Dec. 23–30]: Greta Thunberg richly deserves the honor. She has mobilized global opinion and attention on a key issue of our times. She and her family should be proud. The world needs more young leaders like her

THE LOOMING SENATE TRIAL OF PRESIDENT Donald Trump has claimed its first victim, and it’s not the besieged Commander in Chief, any of his closest aides or even a Republican. On Jan. 13, Senator Cory Booker ended his race for the Democrats’ White Hous

Segway’s new S-Pod is, essentially, a two-wheeled self-balancing stroller that can hit speeds of up to 24 m.p.h. You control the S-Pod, unlike other Segway products, with a joystick instead of your body, making for a more relaxing jaunt around town.

The Queen greenlights Megxit IN BRITAIN, THE ROYAL FAMILY IS NICKNAMED “THE FIRM,” AND on Jan. 13 its chief executive announced a “period of transition” ahead of a pending demerger. A week after Prince Harry and his wife Meghan shocked the public and

IF HE IS IN BED BY 9 P.M., STEVE INSKEEP CAN GET six hours of sleep before the alarm. He’s due at NPR’s Washington, D.C., headquarters at 4 a.m. for the live broadcast of Morning Edition that starts an hour later. It means the most intense part of hi

The man’s scraggly hair and white bushy beard hung from a wrinkled face as he stood with a shopping cart filled with clothes, shoes and empty cans. When Americans spot such a homeless person, the impulse is often to hurry past. That’s impossible when

2020 WILL PROVE a tipping point for the world. Developed-world countries are toxically polarized. Climate change matters as never before. China and the U.S. are breaking the 21st century economy in two. November elections will produce a result many w

THE FIRST TIME I SAW THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WAS 25 years ago, from a noisy ferry that brought me and hundreds of other eager tourists across New York Harbor. Back then I was a foreign student, in Manhattan for three days to attend an academic conferen

BEYOND ITS EFFECTS ON THE BODY, MEDICAL CARE CAN be a balm for the mind. Extensive treatment can feel like a promise that doctors have done everything possible. But that perceived security can come at a high price. As health costs soar, patients are

AUSTRALIA’S FIRES THIS SUMMER—UNPRECEDENTED IN the scale of their destruction—are the ferocious but inevitable reality of global warming. A hotter, drier climate means more and longer droughts and more and fiercer fires. So if Australia is on the fro

JARED KUSHNER’S WHITE HOUSE OFfice is a shrine to his own influence. Gold-framed accolades from his father-in-law hang on the walls, written in thick black Sharpie in President Donald Trump’s spiky hand. TO JARED, GREAT JOB ON MEXICO. THANKS DAD, rea

A PECULIAR THEME PARK IN THE HAGUE CELEBRATES THE HISTORY OF the Netherlands through a series of miniature models. The Madurodam features little canals, old-fashioned windmills, tiny tulips and, amid it all, an homage to Royal Dutch Shell, the oil gi

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, I WAKE UP FEELING warm. I open the window, pull my hair back into a ponytail and drink some water. Then I glance at my phone, delete a few things and see some spam. I hit unsubscribe and go back to bed. Then I lie there th

I USED TO LOVE THE GOLDEN GLOBES. THERE’S more riding on the Oscars, sure, and the Grammys have performances from the world’s most bankable singers. But for those of us who were never all that impressed by these institutions’ efforts to identify the

SQUEALS AND LAUGHTER RING OUT ACROSS THE SET OF SEX EDUCATION. It’s Gillian Anderson’s last day of filming for Season 2, and Ncuti Gatwa—who plays the show’s ebullient teen Eric Effiong—has just discovered Anderson has hired an ice cream truck as a p

YOUR NEW NOVEL, A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA, centers on a historical event: in 1939, the poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda chartered a boat to take 2,200 Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco’s dictatorship to Chile. How did you hear about this? When the ship