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On April 26, TIME hosted a special event at Manhattan’s Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrating the 2023 list of the world’s most influential people, featuring a performance by Doja Cat (top left) and Ke Huy Quan and Drew Barrymore presenting Steven Spiel

In November 2020, Jack Teixeira wrote a letter to the local police chief asking him to reconsider allowing him to own guns. The Dighton, Mass., police had denied the 18-year-old’s two previous requests for a firearms license, citing an incident when

Globally, influencing will be a $70 billion industry by 2029, according to Data Bridge Market Research. In France today, influencer marketing—which pays individuals to promote products to their followers—is worth an estimated hundreds of millions of

At first, Abby Grossberg thought Fox News would be her big break. When she got a job as the main producer of Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo in 2019, she was responsible for booking guests, meeting newsmakers, and even sitting in on phone

On May 9, a Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages after a two-week civil trial in which she testified that Trump sexually ass

When Missouri Senate candidate Lucas Kunce logs on to Zoom for our game of Magic: The Gathering, he isn’t messing around. He has what he calls his “streamer setup”— an extra computer monitor— and has opted for Standard, a dynamic version of the strat

Pickets outside Paramount Pictures in Hollywood were among 11,500 film and television writers who went on strike on May 2, citing diluted pay and changed working conditions in the streaming era. Except for extended COVID-19 lockdowns, it was the firs

Andre Boyer enters the gas station like a soldier—back straight, boots shined, AR-15 pointed toward the floor. He seems unaware of the flutter of anxiety spreading through the store, but if anyone asked, which they don’t, he’d assure them that he’s t

If you think your life is too boring to be funny, joke’s on you: humor is all around us. Cultivating more humor in your everyday life is “one of the fastest and most powerful ways to increase overall health and well-being,” says Steven M. Sultanoff,

More than three years into theCOVID-19 pandemic and with America’s public-health emergency expiring on May 11, it is clear that this moment is an opportunity not only to reflect on successes but also to grapple with the setbacks, pitfalls, and failur

For more than 20 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has remade and dominated Turkey’s politics. First as Prime Minister, then as President, he built a political foundation with support from voters outside the country’s powerhouse cities—Istanbul, Ankara, an

Researchers have long tracked the mental health of America’s teen girls. They’ve found that depression has become more common over the past decade, and in 2015, the suicide rate among teenage girls hit a 40-year high. More recently, data from the U.S

Dianne Feinstein had already made history back in 1978, when she became the first woman elected to lead the San Francisco board of supervisors, effectively setting the agenda for the legislative arm of the country’s eighth largest economy at the time

New data released by the Department of Education—known as the Nation’s Report Card and widely regarded as the best assessment of how well we are educating our future citizens—paints a stark and worrying picture. Eighth-graders scored worse on the his

As he stood in for his ailing 96-year-old mother at the opening of Parliament in May 2022, it was hard not to catch Prince Charles gazing mournfully at the Imperial Crown next to him on a velvet cushion. The irresistible thought bubble his expression

Deepika Padukone never set out to take India to the world. She wanted the world to come to India. As the most popular actress in the world’s most populous country, she’s often asked if she’s going to move to Hollywood. “My mission has always been to

Bobby Tudor made a fortune in fracking. The clean-cut financier opened shop in 2007 and spent the next 10 years backing large-scale projects in West Texas, supercharging one of history’s greatest oil and gas expansions. But over lunch in February, ev

The official residence of Japan’s Prime Minister is a spooky place. Inspired by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the stone and brick mansion in central Tokyo had been around for only three years when young naval officers charged in and assassin

The moment Rachel Cargle opens her Brooklyn apartment door, I see the signs of relaxed living. There is the time to greet me slowly on a Monday morning. There’s the letter board displaying not an overcrowded schedule but the affirming words “This Too

The annual TV calendar looks quite different from what preceded it in the 20th century—and even the rhythms it was settling into a few years ago. Spring used to be the season of finales, as shows wrapped for summer hiatus. Now, as you might’ve notice

If it were up to us to choose the fates of the performers we care about, millions of people would want to wish Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s away. Few actors of the 1980s and ’90s gave us as much pleasure: On TV’s Family Ties, his characterization of

Not since Stella Dallas has a mother made so many selfless sacrifices for her daughter. Not since Taken has a protective parent fended off so many rotten baddies. Mush those two genres together—the classic women’s picture and the pulpy, rage-driven a

By design, Writer-Director Paul Schrader’s three most recent films—First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and now Master Gardener—constitute a loose trilogy entwined around the idea of male guilt. In all three cases, troubled men are at leas

People who only know your political career may not know that you’ve written four best sellers, some of them legal thrillers and romantic suspense novels. You have so much to do. Why write? I wrote my first attempt at a novel when I was 12. It was cal