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April 14, 2025

Working across the aisle requires talking about the human impacts of climate change

- SIMMONE SHAH

BILL FRIST

TO TENNESSEE REPUBLICAN WILLIAM FRIST, who began his career not in politics but in medicine, taking on the climate crisis was a natural next move after stepping down from the U.S. Senate in 2007. “It comes back to the same thing: improving the well-being of people by focusing on their health,” says Frist, who was first elected in 1994 and served as majority leader from 2003 to 2007.

It was only logical, then, that last year he partnered with the Nature Conservatory to establish the Senator Bill and Tracy Frist Initiative for Planetary and Human Health, which aims to bridge public-health solutions and the climate crisis. Frist says focusing on communicating the health impacts of climate change—which range from an increase in mental-health crises to heightened risk of respiratory and cardiovascular disease—is all about showing people that climate is not a partisan issue.

TIME: You have called for climate change to be recognized as a public-health crisis. Why is it important to reframe the way we look at climate change?

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CO₂ Leadership Report

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency's Feb. 12 repeal of its “endangerment finding”—which underpins all of its noteworthy climate rules—was framed by the Trump Administration as a big win for American industry.

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March 09, 2026

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Sentencing of Hong Kong publisher raises fears in Taiwan

WHEN A HONG KONG COURT HANDED media tycoon and pro-democracy leader Jimmy Lai a 20-year jail term on national-security grounds on Feb. 9, his son called it a “death sentence” given Lai’s age, 78, and deteriorating health. Others saw the same bleak implications for freedoms in Hong Kong—and a glimpse into what could be in store for others Beijing views as troublesome.

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March 09, 2026

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James Van Der Beek

James Van Der Beek, best known for playing Dawson Leery in the '90s teen drama Dawson's Creek, \"passed peacefully,\" his family said, on Feb. 11 at age 48, after a battle with colorectal cancer.

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March 09, 2026

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Love Story tries too hard to be The Crown for America

IF THE KENNEDYS ARE THE CLOSEST THING AMERICA has to a royal family, then Carolyn Bessette Kennedy was our Princess Diana. Like her British counterpart, she was an outsider—albeit a beautiful, stylish, blond, privileged one—to the palace intrigue that consumed the family she married into. She was stalked by paparazzi and alternately worshipped and vilified. And then she died, in her mid-30s, in a horrible accident, only to have her legacy dissected for decades to come. We never let either woman rest in peace.

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March 09, 2026

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VARIATIONS ON A THEME

A new Wuthering Heights adaptation joins a rich history of cinematic reimaginings

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March 09, 2026

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Why you should warm up your feet before bed

GETTING COLD FEET IS INCONVE-nient in many situations—including when you go to bed.

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March 09, 2026

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In the Loop

For 15 years, Dex Hunter-Torricke worked near the pinnacle of the tech industry.

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March 09, 2026

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The People VS. AI

THE GRASSROOTS BIPARTISAN MOVEMENT TO REIN IN AN INDUSTRY

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March 09, 2026

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16 LEADERS WORKING TOWARD A BETTER, MORE EQUITABLE WORLD

TEYANA TAYLOR IS BALANCING A WORKLOAD that borders on ridiculous.

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March 09, 2026

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Breezy Johnson The U.S. skier on winning Olympic gold, that mountain marriage proposal, and Lindsey Vonn's example

After your super-G race on Feb. 12, your boyfriend Connor Watkins proposed at the bottom of the slope.

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March 09, 2026

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