Time
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.
3 min |
December 04, 2023
Time
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.
3 min |
December 04, 2023
Time
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.
4 min |
December 04, 2023
Time
Sam Bankman-Fried - Disgraced crypto mogul
IT TOOK ONE YEAR FOR SAM BANKMAN-Fried to transform from beloved billionaire entrepreneur to convicted felon.
1 min |
December 04, 2023
Time
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.
1 min |
December 04, 2023
Time
NIKKI HALEY'S MOMENT
The former South Carolina governor finds momentum in a GOP primary that remains Trump’s to lose
3 min |
December 04, 2023
Time
TIME 100 CLIMATE
The most influential leaders driving business climate action in their own words
8 min |
December 04, 2023
The Atlantic
The Questions That Most Need Asking
“Reconstruction,” by Frederick Douglass, appeared in the December 1866 issue of this magazine. It was the most important article that The Atlantic published in the immediate postwar era. It was also, for its time, unusually concise, coming in at a mere 2,703 words.
4 min |
December 2023
The Atlantic
The Annotated Frederick Douglass
In 1866, the famous abolitionist laid out his vision for radically reshaping America in the pages of The Atlantic.
10+ min |
December 2023
The Atlantic
The Atlantic and Reconstruction
What we got wrong in 1901
5 min |
December 2023
The Atlantic
The Revolution Never Ended
The federal government abandoned Reconstruction in 1877, but Black people didn't give up on the moment's promise.
10+ min |
December 2023
The Atlantic
The Archive of Emancipation
In the papers of the Freedmen's Bureau, I found the hopes and disappointments of a people on the cusp of freedom-including my own family's.
10+ min |
December 2023
The Atlantic
A Traitor to the Traitors
The Confederate general James Longstreet became a champion of Reconstruction. Why?
10+ min |
December 2023
The Atlantic
The Men Who Started the War
John Brown and the Secret Six-the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferryconfronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?
10+ min |
December 2023
The Atlantic
The Years of Jubilee
In 1871, the choir of the struggling Fisk University engaged in a gambit to save the school: It decided to go on a singing tour of America. The choir achieved more than its members could have imagined.
10+ min |
December 2023
Newsweek US
My Life According to AI
My 12-year-old son is a great kid, except for one thing he doesn't exist
3 min |
November 24, 2023
Newsweek US
Innovations That Could Help Save the Planet
Breakthrough green tech ideas can take a long time to become reality. Here are five that will be ready soon
7 min |
November 24, 2023
Newsweek US
WORLD'S MOST TRUSTWORTHY COMPANIES
TRUST IS AT THE CORE OF SO MANY DECISIONS that we make every day.
1 min |
November 24, 2023
Newsweek US
DISASTER AT THE BORDER
Israel's STUNNING failure to repel the invasion along its Gaza border has grave IMPLICATIONS for U.S. military security.
10+ min |
November 24, 2023
Newsweek US
Bethenny Frankel
WHEN YOU THINK OF BETHENNY FRANKEL, THE FIRST THING THAT PROBably comes to mind is Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City.
2 min |
November 24, 2023
Time
U.S. law firms face the future
Is the U.S. in a lawyer labor shortage? A new study from Statista and TIME shows that the majority of surveyed lawyers are finding it difficult to find and hire competent recruits.
1 min |
November 20, 2023
Time
Managing your text chain
Important family conversations used to happen around the dinner table. Now they're often relegated to our phones. Here are rules for dealing with your family text thread.
1 min |
November 20, 2023
Time
THE END OF REAGAN'S GOP
\"MAGA is ascendant, crowed Representative Matt Gaetz on Oct. 25. He had reason to be happy. After weeks of chaos, House Republicans had settled on Mike Johnson as Speaker. Johnson is thoroughly in line with nationalist-populist Republicans who engineered Kevin McCarthy's fall, and the episode was another sign that the GOP is no longer Ronald Reagan's party. It is Donald Trump's.
3 min |
November 20, 2023
Time
INSIDE GAZA'S HOSPITALS
Struggling to care for the 2 million civilians caught in the Israel-Hamas War
4 min |
November 20, 2023
Time
Matthew Perry
Friends comic and recovery advocate
2 min |
November 20, 2023
Time
Creating record of history
What was your mom's childhood like? How did your aunt meet your uncle? Recording conversations with loved ones is a way to preserve a family's history and collect stories to pass down to future generations.
1 min |
November 20, 2023
Time
Caster Semenya The South African gold medalist on her new memoir, the indignities of gender verification, and her future as an Olympic runner
Why write The Race to Be Myself now? You want to tell a story when you're in a good state of mind, when you're at peace. I thought it's about time I support those who need me. It's a reminder to those out there who feel rejected that they belong. The most important thing that you can do for yourself is just to accept yourself for who you are.
2 min |
November 20, 2023
Time
The enduring love of my chosen family
Family is essential. It's also challenging. Here, tips and reflections on navigating it all
5 min |
November 20, 2023
Time
HOW BARBRA MADE IT TO BROADWAY
In an excerpt from her new memoir, Barbra Streisand recalls the audition that led to her debut
6 min |
November 20, 2023
Time
How we stayed whole after divorce
I'VE NEVER BEEN GOOD AT MATH. AFTER NEARLY failing algebra in high school, I chose to attend a liberal-arts college in part-in large part-because there was no general math requirement.
3 min |