Time
How concerned are you about the current measles outbreak in the U.S.?
Dr. Peter Marks The longtime head of vaccine and drug approvals at the FDA on measles, missed opportunities, and resigning
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May 12, 2025
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Bearing Witness
THE ARTIST PERSPECTIVE ON PROGRESS
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May 12, 2025
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This pill could forever change how people lose weight
Potential delivery methods for orforglipron, photographed at Eli Lilly's Indianapolis headquarters on March 31. The ultimate form has yet to be finalized
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May 12, 2025
Time
THE SELFIE POPE AND MEME-ING THE FAITH
Pope Francis knew how to preach in the social media era.
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May 12, 2025
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POPE FRANCIS 1936-2025
An Argentine with a gift for empathy, a discomfort with opulence, and a profound love for the poor changed the face of the Catholic Church
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May 12, 2025
Time
A Life of Activism
A Q&A WITH BASKETBALL STARS MAYA MOORE AND CARMELO ANTHONY
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May 12, 2025
Time
THE RETURN OF THE DIRE WOLF
FOR THE FIRST TIME, SCIENTISTS SAY THEY'VE SUCCESSFULLY BROUGHT A SPECIES BACK FROM EXTINCTION. THAT HAS BIG IMPLICATIONS FOR ENDANGERED ANIMALS
10+ min |
May 12, 2025
Time
NEW LAB PARTNER
Why AI models could help prevent—or cause— the next pandemic
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May 12, 2025
Time
Art Is a Way: Struggle, Loss, And Black Living
LARCENIA FLOYD DIED IN 2018, TWO years before George. But when her son was being asphyxiated to death by Derek Chauvin, he screamed for her. It was the “Mama!” heard around the world, an anguished incantation that called millions into the streets to protest.
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May 12, 2025
Time
The Battle for Our Memory Is the Battle for Our Country
ON JUNE 7, 2020, REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LEWIS MADE HIS last public appearance at the Black Lives Matter mural, painted on the road adjacent to the White House.
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May 12, 2025
Time
Building a Moon Shot for Racial Justice
MY DISSERTATION ADVISER, A VETERAN OF SEGregated Chicago, liked to say that social science is not rocket science—it’s a lot harder. Social systems and social progress have a lot more variables than physical ones and behave much less predictably.
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May 12, 2025
Time
Fear of the 'other' in a nation of immigrants
THE U.S. HAS ALWAYS HAD A TRICKY RELATIONSHIP WITH immigrants and refugees, even if part of the American mythology is that we are a land of newcomers. In this mythology, they—migrants—are a part of us.
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May 12, 2025
Time
RADICAL MERCY
Pope Francis’ greatest achievement was pushing the church to prioritize compassion
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May 12, 2025
Time
5 questions you should always ask at doctor's appointments
When you go to the doctor, you’re probably the one answering most of the questions. Yet it’s essential to make sure you're asking plenty of your own. “We need to get someone to fund a bazillion-dollar PSA to tell people to be bolder when they talk to their doctors,” says Risa Arin, founder and CEO of XpertPatient, a patient-education platform. “I see this over and over again: people aren’t asking any questions, never mind the right ones.” We asked experts to share the questions you should ask your doctor to help you get well or stay that way.
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May 12, 2025
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A man who can't make friends, played for laughs
TIM ROBINSON, THE FORMER SATURDAY NIGHT Live writer and performer who now co-stars with Paul Rudd in the prickly cringe comedy Friendship, is probably a genius.
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May 12, 2025
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A FEY FOR ALL SEASONS
Tina Fey's new Netflix series The Four Seasons reveals a humanistic sensibility hiding in plain sight
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May 12, 2025
Time
Will a trade war with China bring back U.S. factory jobs?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS PROMISED HIS TARIFFS will usher in a “new golden age” for American workers, harking back to an industrial past that has been lost to decades of globalization.
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May 12, 2025
Time
The Trump, Taiwan, and China puzzle
SINCE THE INAUGU-rations of William Lai as Taiwan's President in May 2024 and Donald Trump as U.S. President in January, Beijing has been on edge.
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May 12, 2025
Time
A JUDGE'S WARNING
Excerpts from the April 17 opinion of J. Harvie Wilkinson III, chief judge of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, addressing the Trump Administration
3 min |
May 12, 2025
Time
The D.C. Brief
ELISSA SLOTKIN KNOWS SOMEthing about strategy. The Michigan Senator worked for George W. Bush’s National Security Council and Barack Obama’s Departments of State and Defense before winning a Michigan congressional seat in 2018.
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May 12, 2025
Mother Jones
THE BRUTAL AESTHETICS OF MAGA
Proximity to power might rely on a specific look.
8 min |
May/June 2025
Mother Jones
HOW TO DRIVE ELON MUSK DOWN
If you think mass protests can't combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
6 min |
May/June 2025
Mother Jones
GUARANTEED FAILURE
Cash transfer programs are gaining steam, but our current bureaucracy is obscuring their potential.
6 min |
May/June 2025
Mother Jones
SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER
How hybrid homeschools hoover up your state tax dollars
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May/June 2025
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GET CAUGHT FIGHTING
MAXWELL FROST IS LEARNING THE ROPES OF CONGRESS AND SHOWING HIS OLDER COLLEAGUES HOW TO PUNCH BACK IN THE AGE OF TRUMP.
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May/June 2025
Mother Jones
Immigrants on the Line
They fled Haiti only to endure brutal working conditions at a Colorado plant run by the world's biggest meatpacker. Now they face deportation.
10+ min |
May/June 2025
Mother Jones
ONE OF AMERICA'S BIGGEST FOR-PROFIT HOSPITAL OPERATORS IS BANKRUPT, BROKEN. AND RESPONSIBLE FOR COUNTLESS MISTREATED PATIENTS— THANKS TO ITS PRIVATE EQUITY OVERLORDS.
She'd never been one to take the easy route, and besides, she wanted to get things moving-and walking seemed the best way to do it.
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May/June 2025
Mother Jones
THE GREAT PRETENDER
A fake campaign loan could have ended Andy Ogles' push for MAGA fame. Then Trump won again.
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May/June 2025
Mother Jones
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Clearview Al's far-right founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their facial recognition dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
10+ min |
May/June 2025
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RAIN CHECK
The economic case for preserving America’s wetlands
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