In this issue

Ukraine Arms Race
Inside the Pentagon’s scramble to produce the weapons for Kyiv’s spring counteroffensive.
By W.J. Hennigan

The 2023 Earth Awards
TIME and TIMECO2 recognize five leaders in the battle against climate change. Mark Ruffalo and Gloria Walton extol the power of stories. Lisa P. Jackson greens Apple. Vanessa Nakate takes questions. And António Guterres writes a descendant.

CLEARING THE FIELD

Why a President most voters say shouldn't run faces no real party challenge

3 mins

What's next for misoprostol, the other abortion pill?

THE ABORTION PILL MIFEPRISTONE HAS been on uncertain legal ground since a Texas judge ruled on April 7 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s approval more than two decades ago should be suspended. After the Department of Justice appealed the decision and requested that the Supreme Court step in, the high court decided that mifepristone should remain available while courts continue to decide its legal fate.

2 mins

Defending French Open champion Iga Swiatek plays for more than titles

WHEN IGA SWIATEK, THE WORLD'S TOPranked women's tennis player, travels to tournaments around the globe, her bag is filled with the usual accoutrements of superstars in her sport: racket, wardrobe, Legos. OK, Swiatek is likely the only three-time major winner toting around tiny plastic bricks. During the pandemic, Swiatek began toying with Legos; she finds the process of building the Disney World castle, or a Porsche, or the International Space Station relaxing.

4 mins

IT'S A MEAN, MEAN WORLD

As a plot driver, the traumatic home invasion has long been a staple of both film pulp-movies like Cape Fear, Death Wish, and John Wick-and artier projects like Michael Haneke's Funny Games and Ari Aster's anxious new Beau Is Afraid. All play into our collective fears of lawless hooligans invading our personal space. But a plot device, as every sane person knows, is simply a tool for the creation of fantasy

3 mins

How Jenny Jackson wrote a best-selling novel while her kids were in the bath

Two decades ago, Jenny Jackson put aside her own writing dreams to become a book editor-but now her debut novel, Pineapple Street, is a New York Times best seller and a Good Morning America book-club pick, and has already been optioned for TV. The wildest part? She wrote it in four months, while holding down her job and raising a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old. She also managed to talk to TIME as part of our series on how parenting shapes the people who shape the world; find more at time.com/parent-files

3 mins

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.

4 mins

ARSENAL of DEMOCRACY

The race to arm Ukraine

10+ mins

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.

8 mins

Can Imran Khan Make a Comeback?

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

10+ mins

The Burnout Reset

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

9 mins

WHAT LIES BENEATH

Grappling with how to approach great works of art by bad men in the book Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

6 mins

Pat & Candy & Allan & Betty

NOBODY WAS SUPPOSED TO GET hurt.

5 mins

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