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Biden Behind
Inside the embattled campaign of the incumbent—and why he’s still confident.
By Charlotte Alter, Brian Bennett, and Philip Elliott

Earth Awards 2024
Honoring the stewardship and activism of Jane Fonda, Robert D. Bullard, Gabriela Hearst, John Kerry, and Nemonte Nenquimo

William McRaven The retired admiral who took down Osama bin Laden on why U.S. leadership matters, the AI race, and what he's going to do with $50 million

You recently received the Bezos Courage and Civility Award, with $50 million to give to charities of your choice. How are you planning to use it? Almost all of this is going to be focused on veterans and their families the children who've lost fathers and mothers in combat. And the other area is mental health for servicemen. What don't the VA and the military health care system cover?

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The real Carmichael show

JERROD CARMICHAEL HAD BEEN a famous comedian for almost a decade when he dropped his average-dude persona and started being real. In his 2022 special, Rothaniel, he came out as gay, speaking with rueful humor about internalized homophobia and his fractured relationship with his devoutly Christian mother. It was a creative turning point as well as a personal one.

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A jumbled parable with a glowing core

EVEN WHEN A MOVIE IS FAR FROM PERFECT, YOU CAN tell when a director has poured his soul into it. Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man-he's also the movie's star-is trying too hard, and for too much. It wants to be a political allegory, a somber study of a man haunted by childhood trauma, a clarion blast of inspiration for downtrodden humans seeking to summon strength, and last but hardly least, a brutally exhilarating action entertainment.

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The pacifist gospel of Civil War

OUTSIDE OF ATLANTA, A CREAKY WHITE VAN WEAVED down a highway lined with abandoned cars. A helicopter sat in the parking lot of a charred JCPenney. Armed guards in military fatigues patrolled checkpoints. A death squad dumped corpses into a mass grave. Artillery boomed in the offing.

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THE FOG OF WAR

A TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer challenges long-held beliefs about the Vietnam War

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TIME Earth AWARDS 2024

From the fashion runway to the rainforest, this year's honorees are using their influence to demonstrate leadership in shaping a more sustainable future.

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DESERT POWER

The United Arab Emirates-using oil wealth and its citizens' data-is betting on AI to project influence beyond its borders

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Operation Save Biden

The President's campaign is in trouble. Will the turnaround plan work?

10+ mins

America: Start here

IF THERE'S ONE THING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME, it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I have thousands and thousands of unread emails. I don't open mail because I assume it'll be bad news. I've never had a credit card. But it's also something that, as a filmmaker and a writer, deeply fascinates me-how sterile, faceless, and universally isolating it all can be.

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Bolsonaro and Trump, apart yet together

A PRESIDENT FACING A TOUGH fight for re-election warns his followers that corrupt elites want to steal power from them. He loses the election and calls on his supporters to defend him. Unable to block the transfer of power, he retreats to Florida.

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RAMADAN IN GAZA

Ramadan has a special place in every Muslim's heart. We wait for it all year. As a small child, I remember my excitement at hanging colorful lanterns on the house. My parents taught my siblings and me to abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk. But the holy month of Ramadan started early for Muslims in Gaza this year. In some sense, we've been fasting since October.

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How nature reacts to a total eclipse

OF ALL OF THE ANIMALS WORTH observing during a total solar eclipse, perhaps none are more intriguing than humans. They stop what they're doing; they stare skyward; they lower their voices to a hush.

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The five-minute quiz that helped catch Olivia Munn's cancer

Actor Olivia Munn recently shared in an Instagram post that a free risk-assessment tool her doctor used revealed that she had a higher chance of developing breast cancer. It led to testing and eventually treatment-that likely spared her from more serious outcomes.

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Fighting to free Russia's political prisoners

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY THIS MARCH was more of a coronation than an election. With the political system heavily skewed in his favor and all significant opponents disqualified, jailed, or dead, the vote was almost entirely pro forma.

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Happiness in the U.S.

A new low

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Kate Middleton

Princess facing cancer fight

1 min

Are pigs the future of organ transplants?

ON MARCH 16, A TRANSPLANT-SURGERY TEAM AT MASSA-chusetts General Hospital successfully transplanted a modified pig kidney into a human: 62-year-old Richard Slayman.

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Why India's next election will last 44 days

INDIA'S ELECTIONS ARE THE LARGEST democratic exercise in the world, with nearly 970 million registered voters expected to cast ballots, including 18 million new voters.

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THE POLITICS OF TIKTOK

How the Chinese platform's popularity, and self-interest, took Trump from ban to embrace

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Why We Over Spend

The rise of frictionless payments makes it easy to keep buying-whether we can afford to or not

6 mins

Breaking New Ground

Sunny Choi is heading for Paris, where her sport-yes, sportwill make its olympic debut

9 mins

Company Man

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is getting down to business in a country that feels shortchanged by his election

10 mins

Letting Go of My Debt Shame

Getting out of debt is a group sport, not a solo mission.

4 mins

The Fight to Free Evan

On March 29, 2023, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on bogus espionage charges. He remains imprisoned in Moscow-a political hostage in his parents' homeland. Inside the struggle to bring him home

10+ mins

No recession? Thank women

REMOTE WORK ALLOWED ALYSON VELASQUEZ TO JUGGLE her demanding roles as a Wells Fargo talent recruiter and as a mother of two young children, including a son with special needs.

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The D.C. Brief

TO LIBERALS, MITCH MCCONNELL IS a master of the political dark arts, willing to do anything to serve his conservative aims. He enabled multiple GOP White Houses to play the long game.

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Pakistan's generals fail to fix an election

PAKISTAN'S WORSTkept secret is that its military dominates its government. Whether to safeguard the nation against chaos or to protect their own privileged access to power and wealth, its generals have manipulated the country's politics for decades. Pakistan's voters, like voters elsewhere, want change.

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Texas' scorched Panhandle

A million acres swept by fire

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The pains and paintings of Frida Kahlo, reanimated

FRIDA KAHLO'S EARLY 1940s self-portraits, in which monkeys hang from her neck, may seem playful. In reality, she painted them during a suffocating period when she was tangled in a messy divorce and desperate for work.

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A one-trick pony with many lives

IF YOU DIDN'T GROW UP WITH A WELL-WORN COPY OF Sounds of Silence, Bookends, or Bridge Over Troubled Water among the LPs stacked near the family hi-fi, your parents or grandparents probably did. From the mid- to late 1960s, the sounds of Simon & Garfunkel were so ubiquitous you couldn't escape them if you wanted to.

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