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TIME Magazine - December 08, 2025

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In this issue

The Fire Next Time
Eleven months after wildfi re devastated
Altadena, Calif., the recovery effort is a cautionary tale on climate disaster response
By Justin Worland

Playing Pandemic
It’s public-health experts who take notes when students simulate the response to a major virus outbreak
By Dominique Mosbergen

Best Photographs
Through the most evocative, noteworthy, and striking images of 2025, TIME’s photo department tells the story of the year that was

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Cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.,on March 27

THE EPSTEIN REVERSAL

In the file-release bill, Trump confronts losing his grip on the movement he started

3 mins

What would 50-year mortgages mean for buyers?

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS BEGUN PROMOTING the idea of 50-year mortgages as a way to make homes more affordable for buyers—a plan that has drawn criticism even from some of the President’s allies, and that experts warn could come with potentially major drawbacks. President Trump floated the idea of introducing 50-year mortgages in a Truth Social post on Nov. 8. Soon after, Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte wrote in a post on X: “Thanks to President Trump, we are indeed working on The 50 year Mortgage—a complete game changer.”

2 mins

Where top U.S. leaders earn their stripes

AS THE INDUSTRIES AND COMPANIES driving the American economy change, new generations of leaders are rotated in to take the helm.

3 mins

The food pyramid may be back on the menu

EARLY PUBLIC NUTRITION ADVICE CAME AS A WARNING. Wilbur O. Atwater, a chemist and renowned nutritionist, wrote in an 1902 edition of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) digest, Farmers' Bulletin, that “Unless care is exercised in selecting food, a diet may result which is one-sided or badly balanced—that is, one in which either protein or fuel ingredients (carbohydrate and fat) are provided in excess ...

2 mins

5 migraine symptoms that aren't headaches

NEARLY 40 MILLION people in the U.S. suffer from migraines, making the painful disorder one of the most common that neurologists treat. It's also among the most confusing. Because of the many ways it can show up, it can take more than a decade to receive an accurate diagnosis.

2 mins

LIVING IN PUBLIC

“The camera eats first.” A decade ago, that phrase was a joke about influencers and their avocado toast. Now it’s shorthand for how every corner of life—dinners, cleaning, milestones, even grief—can be packaged for public consumption. We live in a world where intimacy has become inventory, where the difference between living and posting is often just a matter of lighting.

3 mins

The Risk Report

THREE YEARS AND NINE MONTHS after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war grinds on. There's been plenty of news and noise of late. Yet as we approach the end of 2025, there's no sign of resolution on the horizon.

2 mins

The real reason we fail to feed those in need

FOOD IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH. Everyone knows this. But it’s also the difference between stability and instability, union and division, and peace and war. I have had a front-row seat to some of the worst recent humanitarian crises—from Yemen and Syria to Afghanistan and Gaza—and this has been true, time and time again.

5 mins

Distress Signal

WHAT THE L.A. FIRES REVEAL ABOUT AMERICA'S BLEAK CLIMATE FUTURE

10+ mins

A LOSING GAME

IN SIMULATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, STUDENTS ARE PROVING WE AREN'T READY FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC

9 mins

JON CHU'S AMERICAN DREAM

The Wicked: For Good director on trying to change the world, one blockbuster at a time

6 mins

Brothers in arms, and Shakespeare

THE NEW FILM HAMNET, BASED ON MAGGIE O'FARRELL'S award-winning 2020 novel, imagines how William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in a haze of grief over the death of his son. In a sly bit of casting, director Chloé Zhao, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Nomadland, chose brothers to play the doomed child and the actor portraying his onstage avatar.

4 mins

The journalist and the jinx in a suburban standoff

CLAIRE DANES GETS A LOT OF ATTENTION for her “cry face.” It is, indeed, a sight to behold. Engulfed by waves of sorrow, her chin vibrates, her eyes scrunch, the corners of her mouth turn down as though tugged by invisible weights.

4 mins

A seductive Dangerous Liaisons remix, with feminist intentions

There are no heroes in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel of end-stage French aristocratic decadence.

1 mins

Ken Burns

The filmmaker on his 12-hour documentary The American Revolution, the importance of undertow, and what's next

2 mins

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TIME Magazine Description:

Publisher: Time-Magazine-HK-Limited

Category: News

Language: English

Frequency: Fortnightly

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