THE TOP RISKS OF 2024

Each year, this Risk Report forecast predicts what the world should watch out for in the coming months. In 2023, the big stories centered on wars in Europe and the Middle East, and those conflicts will expand in 2024. But it's a third \"war\"-the U.S. vs. itself-that poses the greatest global risk. And as always, there will be new stories that deserve more attention than they're getting.

The colleges and companies shaping America's leaders

A RÉSUMÉ PEPPERED WITH ELITE universities and big-name consulting firms doesn't guarantee success.

A decisive year for democracy worldwide

ELECTIONS ARE NO GUARANTEE OF DEMOCRACY.

Life and work-in Gaza

A Palestinian barber cuts a client's hair on New Year's Day amid the rubble of a barbershop damaged by Israeli attacks in Rafah, at the western edge of the Gaza Strip, where more than a million people are homeless. Palestinian officials said Israel's war in Gaza had killed nearly 22,000 people as of Jan. 2, nearly three months after the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7.

LEARNING TO TEACH JAN. 6

Educators move gingerly around the lessons of a history too recent for comfort

2023: The Year in Medicine

Drugs for obesity, Alzheimer's, and infectious diseases herald a new era of innovation in the pharma business

Time - Person of the Year: Taylor Swift

Since 1927, Time has chosen a Person of the Year, the editors' assessment of the individual who most shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse.

2023: the Year in Relationships

Plumbing the mystery of why some fan-favorite famous couples called it quits after decades

ALEX NEWELL

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR

BEST of CULTURE

THE ART THAT ENTERTAINED, MOVED, & INSPIRED US IN 2023

THE NATION BUILDERS

ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS WHO STEPPED UP AFTER THЕ ОСТ. 7 АТТACK

ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: LIONEL MESSI

MESSI WON THE BALLON D'OR AS THE WORLD'S BEST PLAYER FOR THE EIGHTH TIME IN OCTOBER

CEO OF THE YEAR: SAM ALTMAN

'IT IS, FOR MANY PEOPLE, THE YEAR THAT THEY STARTED TAKING AI SERIOUSLY.'

2023: THE YEAR IN CLIMATE

For the young plaintiffs in a landmark environmental case, victory was \"a great first step\"

2023: THE YEAR IN POLITICS

The GOP front runner kept his eyes on the Oval Office, even as the court cases mounted| The White House struggled with public opinion even in its moments of success

6 questions - Narges Mohammadi

Narges Mohammadi The Nobel Peace Prize winner tells Angelina Jolie about life in an Iranian prison, the roots of the protest movement, and what gives her hope

A hit man who's strong to the finish

If you've been watching movies for a while, David Fincher's The Killer-which arrives Nov. 10 on Netflix-might be your 100th movie about a contract killer, or even your 500th. It's a genre that springs eternal, yet modern directors often think they need to make these stories elaborate and convoluted to keep an audience engaged, when maybe the opposite is true.

Fargo's fifth season is a darkly hilarious return to form

MINNESOTA HOMEMAKER Dot Lyon (Juno Temple) has a nice, quiet life. Her husband (David Rysdahl) worships her...

Reality TV stops being polite

The Challenge speaks to a trend toward cruelty

THE MOVIE WIVES ARE SPEAKING

The wives of famous men, often relegated to the sidelines, reclaim space in a crop of new films

REBEL WITH A CAUSE

Tadashi Yanai grew Uniqlo into a global force. Now he's out to fix his country By Charlie Campbell

TIME 100 CLIMATE

The most influential leaders driving business climate action in their own words

Man In the Middle

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ABU DHABI'S CHIEF OIL EXEC IS TASKED WITH PHASING DOWN FOSSIL FUELS?

My kid deserved what we couldn't afford

SEVEN YEARS OUT FROM NEEDING to use food stamps, and it's interesting what still triggers that feeling of humiliation that consumed my life back then. Yet I always feel it when I use a self-checkout station at the grocery store.

HOBBES THE OPTIMIST

When Thomas Hobbes described life in a state of nature as \"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short,\" he penned one of the most celebrated sentences in the English language. The 17th-century philosopher asserted that without \"a common power to keep them all in awe,\" human beings fall into a state of nature-a condition of anarchical warfare and lawless predation.

The delicate balance facing William Lai, Taiwan's presidential front runner

MORE THAN ONCE WHEN WILLIAM LAI WAS A small boy, a passing typhoon tore the roof of his home clean away. It's a recollection that brings a wry smile to Taiwan's Vice President, who grew up in the small coal-mining hamlet of Wanli perched on the island's far north.

5 ways to get better at saying no

THERE'S A COMMON Malfunction that occurs when well-intentioned people open their mouths to say no: the word yes tumbles out instead.

Sam Bankman-Fried - Disgraced crypto mogul

IT TOOK ONE YEAR FOR SAM BANKMAN-Fried to transform from beloved billionaire entrepreneur to convicted felon.

Israel's former PM: a two-state solution is the only solution

WITH A WAR RAGING BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS, it's hard to imagine a new dawn of peace. The violence threatens to paralyze the moral and political imaginations of Israelis and Palestinians alike, deepening the impression that accommodation will remain forever out of reach. But to hear one of Israel's elder statesmen tell it, now is precisely the moment to resurrect the goal of a peace process.

How war in the Middle East got the British Home Secretary fired

SUELLA BRAVERMAN, THE CONTROversial Home Secretary in British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, was fired after making divisive comments about pro-Palestinian protesters. She will be replaced by James Cleverly, who had been Foreign Secretary, and former Prime Minister David Cameron will replace him.