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TIME Magazine - June 09, 2025

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In this issue

Democrats Adrift
Rejected by voters, sidelined by progressives, and burdened by an aging leadership, the party searches for a way back.
By Charlotte Alter

China Rising
The country’s dominance of the global electric-vehicle market says a lot about why it brims with confidence in other fields.
By Charlie Campbell

TIME100 Philanthropy
The inaugural list of the world’s most influential innovators, titans, leaders, and trailblazers who are shaping the future of giving.

TRUMP'S LEARNING CURVE

Faced with the war's complexities, Trump backs away from Ukraine peacemaking

3 mins

Can states do what FEMA was set up to do?

PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRST POSED THE IDEA OF OVERHAUL-ing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) while visiting North Carolina in January in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

3 mins

George Wendt

Beloved barfly

1 mins

Obscuring the decline of a President

WHEN JOE BIDEN REVEALED HIS PROSTATE-CANCER diagnosis on May 18, the news entered a conversation Washington was already having.

4 mins

Treating prostate cancer

Prostate cancer can sit dormant for years. -DR. MAHA HUSSAIN, ONCOLOGIST

2 mins

5 signs memory issues may not be routine

IF THE NEUROLOGIST DR. DANIEL Lesley sees 10 patients a day, at least half ask him the same question: Are the brain lapses they’re experiencing a normal part of aging?

3 mins

HOW TO MAKE AI SAFE

I'm genuinely unsettled by the behavior unrestrained AI is already demonstrating. In one experiment, when an Al model learns it is scheduled to be replaced, it inserts its code into the computer where the new version is going to run, ensuring its own survival. In a separate study, when AI models realize they are going to lose at chess, they hack the computer in order to win.

3 mins

Germany's bold military push

FOR DECADES, SOME in Europe talked up the need for “collective European defense,” a policy to sharply reduce dependence on Washington for military protection.

2 mins

TIME CO2 Leadership Report

For the past year, the energy and climate narrative has been intimately intertwined with questions about AI's impact on energy demand.

1 mins

Living with grief that's old enough to vote

THE KNICKS WERE CLAWING THEIR WAY PAST THE CELTics in Game 1 of an NBA Playoffs match so intense, my two young sons morphed into courtside commentators operating at decibel levels usually reserved for jet engines and Skittles-fueled birthday parties.

4 mins

DOWN AND OUT

After the 2024 fiasco, the Democrats are rethinking everything

10+ mins

THE SHIFT EAST

Once an auto underdog, China's electricvehicle boom now powers its tech rise

10+ mins

TIME 100 - Philanthropy

THESE ARE THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF GIVING

10+ mins

LIVING LEGEND

Gypsy star Audra McDonald is now the performer with the most Tony wins and nominations in history

10+ mins

THE MAN BEHIND THE BOW TIE

In a documentary filmed just before his death, Paul Reubens reflects on the life he led when the cameras weren't rolling

6 mins

Comedy's new generation finds its absurdist voice

THE CREATORS OF FX’S ADULTS MUST HAVE known comparisons between their show and Girls were inevitable, because they leaned way into them. Beyond the similar titles, both comedies follow 20-something friends in New York City.

3 mins

A new M:I won't save cinema, but it's fun to watch Tom Cruise try

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—THE FINAL Reckoning, the eighth film in the franchise and ostensibly its finale, looks, feels, and sounds like the sort of movie you need to see on the big screen.

2 mins

Wes Anderson returns with a muted Scheme

WES ANDERSON, WHO SPECIALIZES in designing fancifully invented societies, probably doesn’t strike anyone as an angry person.

2 mins

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TIME Magazine Description:

Publisher: Time-Magazine-HK-Limited

Category: News

Language: English

Frequency: Fortnightly

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