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Merrick Garland Must Follow Through With His Commitment to Hold All January 6 Perpetrators Accountable

The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol has been tearing it up. They worked straight through the holidays, including on Christmas and New Year’s Day. They’ve interviewed 300-plus witnesses, pursuing those...

By Joyce White Vance January 5, 2022

Why 2022 Is the Year We Learn to Live With COVID-19

Hopes of eliminating COVID-19 in the U.S. through vaccine-generated herd immunity are now dashed. Instead, with the rapid spread of the highly infectious Omicron variant, we need to focus on 2022 as the year that...

By Steven Phillips January 5, 2022

Fossil Fuel Companies Say They Want to Help Fight Climate Change. Here's What They Should Do

The last year has been critical in the global fight against climate change. I attended COP26 and believe that the Glasgow Climate Pact, which enshrines the collective commitments that aim to limit global temperature increases...

By John Browne January 4, 2022

One Lesson From the Theranos Scandal: We Need Age Diversity on Corporate Boards

A few months after I graduated from Stanford’s business school in 2013, Theranos was generating buzz on campus—and not all of it was good. One evening, I found myself in a dinner party conversation with...

By Jamaal Glenn January 4, 2022

Why More Christian Nationalist Violence Is Likely After Jan. 6

A year after the horrifying violence at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, a simple partisan storyline crowds out a central driver behind the events. Most media are understandably tracking the January 6 Committee and...

By Samuel L. Perry January 4, 2022

The Top Global Risks of 2022

A domestic focus for both the U.S. and Chinese governments lowers the odds of a big international conflict in 2022, but it leaves less potential leadership and coordination to respond to emerging crises. That’s bad...

By Ian Bremmer January 3, 2022

The Lessons I Learned From Desmond Tutu

I know “the Reverend and the rock star” sounds like the start of a joke, not the description of a friendship. Improbable as it was, Desmond Tutu, who died on Dec. 26, and I did...

By Bono December 31, 2021

Watch: 4 Moments to Remember From 2021

From innovations that are shaping our future to a past that we're only just beginning to grapple with

By TIME Video December 30, 2021

Why 2021 Was a Watershed Year for Press Freedoms

On May 23, a control tower radioed a Ryanair jetliner that it had a bomb on board. A fighter jet appeared off its wing, and Flight FR4978, en route from Greece to Lithuania, was compelled to...

By Karl Vick December 30, 2021

It's Time to Go Back to the Joy of Social Drinking

One of the greatest foci of human ingenuity and concentrated effort over the past millennia has been the problem of how to get drunk. Even small-scale societies on the brink of starvation will set aside...

By Edward Slingerland December 30, 2021

How the Pandemic Could Finally End the Mommy Wars

What does it mean to be a good mother? For most of my life, I’ve received conflicting answers to this question. Growing up, my parents revered mothers like mine, who walked away from a career...

By Stephanie H. Murray December 29, 2021

Watch: TIME's Best Short Documentaries of 2021

This year, many of us turned to film to be transported outside the confines of our homes. These documentaries took viewers on journeys

By TIME Video December 29, 2021

We Must Learn From the Failed Global Response to COVID-19

In the world of international affairs, non-traditional security threats are not new. Many of us have spent decades analyzing and conducting contingency planning for the sudden advent of developments like a pandemic. And yet, despite...

By Kevin Rudd December 29, 2021

In 2021 America Looked Away From Racism

On Nov. 24, in the hour after Judge Timothy Walmsley read out the series of mostly guilty verdicts that could send three white men to prison for murdering Ahmaud Arbery, there was a lot happening...

By Janell Ross December 29, 2021

The Great Video Interviews of 2021

As 2021 wraps, TIME looks back at some of this year's most fascinating video interviews

By TIME Video December 28, 2021

Column: Desmond Tutu, a Beacon of Moral Justice

On the day Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February of 1990, he walked out of the gates of Victor Verster prison in Cape Town and was surprised by the crowds of people. After...

By Richard Stengel December 26, 2021

Joan Didion Didn't Offer Us Answers

Cool is the word used most often to describe her: the Coca-Colas and the cigarettes each morning, the leotard and the typewriter, the scotch and the shawl. California. Writing for the movies to make a...

By Lynn Steger Strong December 23, 2021

The Conservative Case For Prison Reform

Jeremy Cady and I first met on the plush green grass in front of the Missouri Capitol. It was the spring of 2009, and once a week or so a group of capitol staffers, reporters,...

By Tony Messenger December 23, 2021

What Ancient Laws Can Teach Us About Holding Autocrats to Account Today

The rule of law, democracy and human rights: these are the achievements of the modern nation state, or so we generally believe. Previous generations laid the ground with the Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution, and...

By Fernanda Pirie December 23, 2021

How the Christmas Stories Call the Church to a Different Vision

Two weeks ago I visited our old family church, in the far north of England. I was placing flowers by my parents’ gravestone, in front of memorials to my grandparents, great-grandparents and sundry uncles and...

By N.T. Wright December 23, 2021

Rethinking COVID Restrictions For a World With Vaccines

The arrival of Omicron, the latest and most transmissible COVID-19 variant to date, underscores the tremendous need for updated COVID-19 policy in the U.S. We always knew it would be difficult to contain a highly transmissible respiratory virus...

By Monica Gandhi December 22, 2021

Why I Stand Up for Freedom in America—And Around the World

In my first weeks as a U.S. citizen, I’ve experienced the full richness and contradictions of what it means to be an American. I changed my last name to Freedom, and then made the most...

By Enes Kanter Freedom December 22, 2021

Why It’s Time to Shed Some Light on History’s ‘Dark Ages’

Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever the popular imagination wants. When people...

By Matthew Gabriele December 22, 2021

How to Tell Your Family That You Are An Atheist

In a society that largely takes the existence of God for granted, it can be difficult for non-believers to express themselves to friends and family. But there are some methods that can make it easier...

By David G. McAfee December 22, 2021

How to Make COVID-19 Testing for Travel Far More Effective

After nearly 2 years of calling for rapid tests, the U.S. is finally catching up to the rest of the world with these crucial public health tools. There is no time better than now, as...

By Michael Mina December 21, 2021

If the Economy Is Doing So Well, Why Does It Feel Like a Disaster?

Want a quick summary of the daily news? Inflation. Labor shortages. Supply-chain issues. Omicron. Partisanship. Gridlock. Biden stalled. Trump ranting. Given that, it’s hardly surprising that many Americans are feeling not so good about the...

By Zachary Karabell December 21, 2021

My Kids Can't Get Vaccinated Yet, and I'm Barely Keeping It Together

In the hospital parking lot, I pulled a stiff painter’s mask over my nose and mouth. I took a selfie on Snapchat, sent it to my brother and sister. My brother responded: “Whoa. That’s apocalyptic.”...

By Katie Gutierrez December 20, 2021

How Trump Stole Christmas—And Why Evangelicals Rally to Their Savior

Before Donald Trump had spoken a word Sunday, Dec. 19, at First Baptist Dallas it would’ve been understandable if those in attendance had trouble remembering the “reason for the season.” Jesus was celebrated, yes. But...

By Samuel L. Perry December 20, 2021

What Low-Wage Workers Understand About the True Meaning of Christmas

The manger scenes that decorate homes and church yards this time of year remind us that first-century shepherds were the original witnesses to the good news of Jesus. The low-wage workers of their day, shepherds...

By William J. Barber II December 20, 2021

The New Year's Resolution to Make When Everything Feels Out of Your Control

The end of the year is traditionally a time for reflecting on lessons learned from the past 12 months and looking to the future with optimism. New Year’s resolutions offer us a chance to identify...

By Aubrey Hirsch December 20, 2021

Protests Reduce Police Killings, New Research Shows

George Floyd’s death in police custody brought a huge and a rapid increase in protests over police brutality—thousands of marches driven by the assumption that taking to the streets will bring change. Does it? Critics...

By Susan Olzak December 20, 2021

A 'Mississippi Compromise' on Abortion Would Threaten All Our Freedoms

The last 100-plus days of a ban on most abortions after six weeks in Texas have made painfully clear the future anti-abortion extremists want, not just in Texas, but across the country. And now a...

By Alexis McGill Johnson December 16, 2021

Why COVID-19 Case Counts Don't Mean What They Used To As Omicron Hits

America has begun the gradual process of accepting that COVID-19 is going to be endemic—meaning it will always be present in the population to some degree—due to inherent properties of the virus (animal reservoirs, high...

By Monica Gandhi December 16, 2021

bell hooks Wasn't Afraid to Burn It All Down and Begin Again

bell hooks was a radical feminist, a scholar and author who spent the ‘90s publishing about a book a year. She was a poet, a mentor, a professor and an icon whose influence is immeasurable....

By dream hampton December 15, 2021

Let's Not Be Fatalistic About Omicron. We Know How to Fight It

The new, heavily mutated variant of SARS-CoV-2, Omicron first detected by scientists in South Africa, has put the public health community worldwide on high alert and the public on edge. Since then, evidence has mounted...

By Gavin Yamey December 15, 2021

A Tornado Destroyed My Family's Hometown But It Had Already Been Lost

I’m reminded of Mayfield, Kentucky every day by a poster that hangs in my living room. I found it in my grandfather’s garage after he died and I had it framed. It depicts a young...

By Lee Cole December 14, 2021

Why Elon Musk Will Go Down in History

Elon Musk has already earned himself a spot in the pantheon of history’s great innovators, Walter Isaacson writes

By Walter Isaacson December 13, 2021

Behind the Scenes of TIME's 2021 Person of the Year Issue

2021 has been a year of building on the past to forge the future, writes Edward Felsenthal

By Edward Felsenthal December 13, 2021

Why You Eat the Same Thing For Breakfast Every Day

Every morning, I eat the same breakfast. Toast and almond butter, coffee, and an avocado, spinach, protein powder and banana smoothie. I’ve eaten this combination of breakfast foods for the past two years. Every evening,...

By Carey Morewedge December 13, 2021

Joe Biden’s Democracy Summit Is the Height of Hypocrisy

Far from defending freedom, the summit offers a legitimizing platform to some of democracy's worst offenders

By Debasish Roy Chowdhury December 10, 2021

I Spent 7 Months Studying Supreme Court Reform. We Need to Pack the Court Now

I spent the last seven months on President Biden’s Supreme Court commission, talking, listening, and sometimes arguing with experts from a variety of legal backgrounds—activists, professors, and former judges. I went into the process thinking...

By Kermit Roosevelt III December 10, 2021

Sialkot Lynching: Pakistan, India and the Trap of Extremism

A horrific killing poses a stark warning to both nations about the cyclical dangers of stoking religious hate

By Debasish Roy Chowdhury December 8, 2021

Nobel Winner Dmitry Muratov on the Free Press

Few institutions have sacrificed more for the cause of free expression than Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s last independent newspapers. Since President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, six of the paper’s reporters have...

By Simon Shuster December 8, 2021

What Actually Worries U.S. Doctors About Omicron

The latest COVID-19 variant, Omicron, is raising new fears—among policymakers, parents, educators, business owners and, well, just about everyone. And for good reason, as initial reports suggest that it is significantly more transmissible than prior...

By Megan L. Ranney December 7, 2021

What America Owes Black Veterans of World War II

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 1.2 million black servicemen and women were among the 16 million Americans who answered the call to defend our country and protect democracy abroad. The irony of fighting...

By Rep. Jim Clyburn December 7, 2021

Grief Is Universal. That Doesn't Make It Less Isolating

Happens every day. Someone is left behind. Someone is left weeping at the grave. Someone’s bed is cold. Someone sets the table for two before remembering there is only one. Someone forgets in sleep and...

By Barbara Lazear Ascher December 7, 2021

Ideas

More January 6ths Are Inevitable. How We React Is Crucial

To Address Climate Change, Here Are the Goals We Need To Meet In 2022

Rich Countries Need to Take Responsibility for Climate Change

How the U.S. Can Avoid Another Civil War

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Ideas

More January 6ths Are Inevitable. How We React Is Crucial

To Address Climate Change, Here Are the Goals We Need To Meet In 2022

Rich Countries Need to Take Responsibility for Climate Change

How the U.S. Can Avoid Another Civil War

Merrick Garland Must Follow Through With His Commitment to Hold All January 6 Perpetrators Accountable

The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol has been tearing it up. They worked straight through the holidays, including on Christmas and New Year’s Day. They’ve interviewed 300-plus witnesses, pursuing those...

Why 2022 Is the Year We Learn to Live With COVID-19

Hopes of eliminating COVID-19 in the U.S. through vaccine-generated herd immunity are now dashed. Instead, with the rapid spread of the highly infectious Omicron variant, we need to focus on 2022 as the year that...

Fossil Fuel Companies Say They Want to Help Fight Climate Change. Here's What They Should Do

The last year has been critical in the global fight against climate change. I attended COP26 and believe that the Glasgow Climate Pact, which enshrines the collective commitments that aim to limit global temperature increases...

One Lesson From the Theranos Scandal: We Need Age Diversity on Corporate Boards

A few months after I graduated from Stanford’s business school in 2013, Theranos was generating buzz on campus—and not all of it was good. One evening, I found myself in a dinner party conversation with...

Why More Christian Nationalist Violence Is Likely After Jan. 6

A year after the horrifying violence at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, a simple partisan storyline crowds out a central driver behind the events. Most media are understandably tracking the January 6 Committee and...

The Top Global Risks of 2022

A domestic focus for both the U.S. and Chinese governments lowers the odds of a big international conflict in 2022, but it leaves less potential leadership and coordination to respond to emerging crises. That’s bad...

The Lessons I Learned From Desmond Tutu

I know “the Reverend and the rock star” sounds like the start of a joke, not the description of a friendship. Improbable as it was, Desmond Tutu, who died on Dec. 26, and I did...

Watch: 4 Moments to Remember From 2021

From innovations that are shaping our future to a past that we're only just beginning to grapple with

Why 2021 Was a Watershed Year for Press Freedoms

On May 23, a control tower radioed a Ryanair jetliner that it had a bomb on board. A fighter jet appeared off its wing, and Flight FR4978, en route from Greece to Lithuania, was compelled to...

It's Time to Go Back to the Joy of Social Drinking

One of the greatest foci of human ingenuity and concentrated effort over the past millennia has been the problem of how to get drunk. Even small-scale societies on the brink of starvation will set aside...

How the Pandemic Could Finally End the Mommy Wars

What does it mean to be a good mother? For most of my life, I’ve received conflicting answers to this question. Growing up, my parents revered mothers like mine, who walked away from a career...

Watch: TIME's Best Short Documentaries of 2021

This year, many of us turned to film to be transported outside the confines of our homes. These documentaries took viewers on journeys

We Must Learn From the Failed Global Response to COVID-19

In the world of international affairs, non-traditional security threats are not new. Many of us have spent decades analyzing and conducting contingency planning for the sudden advent of developments like a pandemic. And yet, despite...

In 2021 America Looked Away From Racism

On Nov. 24, in the hour after Judge Timothy Walmsley read out the series of mostly guilty verdicts that could send three white men to prison for murdering Ahmaud Arbery, there was a lot happening...

The Great Video Interviews of 2021

As 2021 wraps, TIME looks back at some of this year's most fascinating video interviews

Column: Desmond Tutu, a Beacon of Moral Justice

On the day Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February of 1990, he walked out of the gates of Victor Verster prison in Cape Town and was surprised by the crowds of people. After...

Joan Didion Didn't Offer Us Answers

Cool is the word used most often to describe her: the Coca-Colas and the cigarettes each morning, the leotard and the typewriter, the scotch and the shawl. California. Writing for the movies to make a...

The Conservative Case For Prison Reform

Jeremy Cady and I first met on the plush green grass in front of the Missouri Capitol. It was the spring of 2009, and once a week or so a group of capitol staffers, reporters,...

What Ancient Laws Can Teach Us About Holding Autocrats to Account Today

The rule of law, democracy and human rights: these are the achievements of the modern nation state, or so we generally believe. Previous generations laid the ground with the Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution, and...

How the Christmas Stories Call the Church to a Different Vision

Two weeks ago I visited our old family church, in the far north of England. I was placing flowers by my parents’ gravestone, in front of memorials to my grandparents, great-grandparents and sundry uncles and...

Rethinking COVID Restrictions For a World With Vaccines

The arrival of Omicron, the latest and most transmissible COVID-19 variant to date, underscores the tremendous need for updated COVID-19 policy in the U.S. We always knew it would be difficult to contain a highly transmissible respiratory virus...

Why I Stand Up for Freedom in America—And Around the World

In my first weeks as a U.S. citizen, I’ve experienced the full richness and contradictions of what it means to be an American. I changed my last name to Freedom, and then made the most...

Why It’s Time to Shed Some Light on History’s ‘Dark Ages’

Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever the popular imagination wants. When people...

How to Tell Your Family That You Are An Atheist

In a society that largely takes the existence of God for granted, it can be difficult for non-believers to express themselves to friends and family. But there are some methods that can make it easier...

How to Make COVID-19 Testing for Travel Far More Effective

After nearly 2 years of calling for rapid tests, the U.S. is finally catching up to the rest of the world with these crucial public health tools. There is no time better than now, as...

If the Economy Is Doing So Well, Why Does It Feel Like a Disaster?

Want a quick summary of the daily news? Inflation. Labor shortages. Supply-chain issues. Omicron. Partisanship. Gridlock. Biden stalled. Trump ranting. Given that, it’s hardly surprising that many Americans are feeling not so good about the...

My Kids Can't Get Vaccinated Yet, and I'm Barely Keeping It Together

In the hospital parking lot, I pulled a stiff painter’s mask over my nose and mouth. I took a selfie on Snapchat, sent it to my brother and sister. My brother responded: “Whoa. That’s apocalyptic.”...

How Trump Stole Christmas—And Why Evangelicals Rally to Their Savior

Before Donald Trump had spoken a word Sunday, Dec. 19, at First Baptist Dallas it would’ve been understandable if those in attendance had trouble remembering the “reason for the season.” Jesus was celebrated, yes. But...

What Low-Wage Workers Understand About the True Meaning of Christmas

The manger scenes that decorate homes and church yards this time of year remind us that first-century shepherds were the original witnesses to the good news of Jesus. The low-wage workers of their day, shepherds...

The New Year's Resolution to Make When Everything Feels Out of Your Control

The end of the year is traditionally a time for reflecting on lessons learned from the past 12 months and looking to the future with optimism. New Year’s resolutions offer us a chance to identify...

Protests Reduce Police Killings, New Research Shows

George Floyd’s death in police custody brought a huge and a rapid increase in protests over police brutality—thousands of marches driven by the assumption that taking to the streets will bring change. Does it? Critics...

A 'Mississippi Compromise' on Abortion Would Threaten All Our Freedoms

The last 100-plus days of a ban on most abortions after six weeks in Texas have made painfully clear the future anti-abortion extremists want, not just in Texas, but across the country. And now a...

Why COVID-19 Case Counts Don't Mean What They Used To As Omicron Hits

America has begun the gradual process of accepting that COVID-19 is going to be endemic—meaning it will always be present in the population to some degree—due to inherent properties of the virus (animal reservoirs, high...

bell hooks Wasn't Afraid to Burn It All Down and Begin Again

bell hooks was a radical feminist, a scholar and author who spent the ‘90s publishing about a book a year. She was a poet, a mentor, a professor and an icon whose influence is immeasurable....

Let's Not Be Fatalistic About Omicron. We Know How to Fight It

The new, heavily mutated variant of SARS-CoV-2, Omicron first detected by scientists in South Africa, has put the public health community worldwide on high alert and the public on edge. Since then, evidence has mounted...

A Tornado Destroyed My Family's Hometown But It Had Already Been Lost

I’m reminded of Mayfield, Kentucky every day by a poster that hangs in my living room. I found it in my grandfather’s garage after he died and I had it framed. It depicts a young...

Why Elon Musk Will Go Down in History

Elon Musk has already earned himself a spot in the pantheon of history’s great innovators, Walter Isaacson writes

Behind the Scenes of TIME's 2021 Person of the Year Issue

On May 23, a control tower radioed a Ryanair jetliner that it had a bomb on board. A fighter jet appeared off its wing, and Flight FR4978, en route from Greece to Lithuania, was compelled to...

The arrival of Omicron, the latest and most transmissible COVID-19 variant to date, underscores the tremendous need for updated COVID-19 policy in the U.S. We always knew it would be difficult to contain a highly transmissible respiratory virus...