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Make Way
MY 11-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER often asks me, tauntingly, what things were like “in the 20th century.” Things are moving her way. It’s a sign of just how quickly the globe’s generational shift is occurring that when Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin, 34,
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A Deadly New Virus Goes Global
LUNAR NEW YEAR IS A TIME FOR TRAVEL across China, as people make up to 450 million trips abroad for vacation or back to their hometowns for meals with family. But a deadly virus is also on the move, putting a damper on the celebrations, which fall ar
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News Ticker
Authorities in Angola are investigating Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s wealthiest woman and a daughter of a former Angolan President, after media outlets on Jan. 19 published 700,000 documents purporting to show that she misused state resources to get r
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Can A President Be Removed From Office If There Wasn’t A Crime?
BENEATH THE HEATED PARTISAN LANGUAGE surrounding President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial lies a constitutional question: Can a President be removed from office even if he hasn’t committed a crime? That’s the key question facing the Senate now that
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New Year, New Tax Rules
AS YET ANOTHER TAX-FILING DEAD line approaches, taxpayers who want to maximize their return (or minimize how much they owe Uncle Sam) would be wise to get familiar with a handful of key changes taking effect this year. The good news is the tax code d
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Establishment Hope Hakeem Jeffries Moves Onstage In The Democrats’ Fight To Impeach Trump
ON JAN. 15, WHEN SEVEN HOUSE DEMOCRATIC lawmakers marched under the ornate Capitol dome to deliver articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the U.S. Senate, Representative Hakeem Jeffries was the one in the third row, on the left. As
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A Solution to Child Poverty
Nearly 1 in 5 American children is officially poor. That’s roughly 15 million kids. But the number living with a significant deprivation—insufficient food, seriously overcrowded housing or a lack of access to medical care due to cost—is actually much
TIME3 min readInternational Relations
Iran Is Left With Few Strategic Options After Trump’s Bold Move
SCORING LEGITIMATE foreign-policy wins has not been easy for U.S. President Donald Trump, Twitter proclamations notwithstanding. But he’s just notched his biggest one yet against Iran. Since Trump decided to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan o
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Milestones
Monty Python’s eclectic mind WHEN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ADDED PYTHONESQUE to its pages, Terry Jones didn’t take it as a compliment. The mission of Monty Python, the influential comedy troupe of which Jones was a founding member, was to be “un
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Is It Unethical To Watch Football With My Son?
AS ANOTHER SUPER BOWL APPROACHES, I KEEP THINKING about a clear September afternoon at MetLife Stadium, home of the New York Giants, and wondering if I’m a crappy dad. For the second straight year, I was lucky enough to take my 13-year-old son Will t
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Children Of The Revolution
AT 15 YEARS OLD, YANNUS IS TOO YOUNG TO DRIVE a car, buy a beer or donate blood. But he says he is willing to give his life in the “final battle” for Hong Kong. “Maybe I will die for this movement,” he says, at the edge of one of the pitched battles
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Youthquake
LOVE ’EM or hate ’em, this much is true: one day soon, millennials will rule America. This is neither wish nor warning but fact, rooted in the physics of time and the biology of human cells. Millennials—born between 1981 and 1996—are already the larg
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The World We Leave Them
AN INTERGENERATIONAL crisis is—increasingly—under way. We have created a system that disproportionately rewards the happy few, underfunds social security and infrastructure, and puts at risk the health of the planet as a whole. Young people are right
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Global Youth in Revolt
IN HONG KONG, protesters called for “five demands, not one less.” School strikers around the world warned, “There is no Planet B.” Chileans proclaimed, “It wasn’t a depression, it was just capitalism.” Sudanese called for the downfall of the regime,
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Listen Up
As the new decade begins, TIME asked young activists to write open letters to their elders expressing their vision of a world where young people can survive and thrive. From gun violence to refugee rights, gender equality to climate change, their let
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Finn De Siècle
THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS trying to coax the Prime Minister of Finland into a three-quarter pose, with knees turned slightly to the side, hands demurely joined in her lap. But Sanna Marin isn’t having it. Just 11 days after taking office, she faces the cam
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I Defied the Odds and Challenges That Faced Me at Birth, and Now It’s Time to Defy Gravity.
THERE CAN BE irony in even the happiest of sentiments—a fact that is surely not lost on Eddie Ndopu. The son of a South African mother and a Namibian father, Ndopu was born in 1990, the year Namibia attained its independence from South Africa, and ju
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How to Save Capitalism
CAPITALISM MAY BE at a tipping point. For too long, policymakers, governments and business leaders have done a poor job of helping those who have been left behind, and lost sight of how capitalism can create more opportunity for all. It’s not hard to
TIME6 min readInternet & Web
The View From Here
Hindsight, as the saying goes, is 20/20. So, as well as soliciting letters from young people to their elders, TIME asked six global leaders to write to a young person or people of their own choosing. The authors have decades of experience in the fiel
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Feeding a Changing World
FARMERS HAVE GROWN food in roughly the same way for thousands of years: planting seeds and watching them grow; raising animals from birth to slaughter; hoping that nature provides them the right amounts of rain and sun. Now, entrepreneurs say they ha
TIME5 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Closing the Gender Data Gap
DID YOU HEAR the one about how aid workers rebuilt homes after a flood—and forgot to include kitchens? How about the entrepreneur whose product was dismissed by funders as too “niche”—but whose femtech company, Chiaro, is now on track for more than $
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Future Facts
A growing wardrobe of wearable health sensors—from pulse-monitoring earrings to skin-sensing tattoos—will monitor our vital functions around the clock. In the future, they could work with communicating apps that store our genetic profiles, helping do
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Forgotten Country
“SMELL THAT?” MY HUSBAND GAVE ME A LOOK AS WE waited by Sydney Airport’s luggage carousel. It was smoke, not unpleasant, like a distant neighbor’s wood fire, but persistent and odd in a place that’s usually redolent of coffee, duty-free perfume and b
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When Every Day is a Mental Health Day
MADALYN PARKER HAD been at her first job only a few months when the depression and anxiety set in. She had beaten back both in college, where she became so depressed that she stopped eating and going to classes. It nearly prevented her from graduatin
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Fighting the Good Fight
ICAN’T TELL you the exact moment I realized how many powerful people belonging to the previous generation were failing ours, but I will never forget the feeling. It animates me still today. It was the feeling of coming home from a war knowing politic
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The New Custody Battle
PAUL GIARRUSSO RARELY CRIES. BUT THE 59-YEAR-OLD FROM Rhode Island wept after his ex-wife decided that he could no longer see their two dogs, Marox and Winnie. “It tortured me,” he says. “In our whole divorce, that was the only thing that could hurt
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The Last Great Network Sitcom Heads For TV Heaven
THE GOOD PLACE ALWAYS SOUNDED like a match made in TV heaven: Beloved star Kristen Bell. Comedy veteran Ted Danson. And creator Mike Schur, a prolific writer and producer who’d made his name as a driving force behind acclaimed sitcoms The Office, Par
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Sugar And Stress On The Lowest Rung
MOVIES ABOUT JOBS AND THE TOLL they can take on the human psyche are a tough sell. How do you dramatize fatigue, anxiety and repressed ennui without boring an audience to bits? The best approach is to use an actor’s face to carry the burden, which is
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Chasing Cool In Pop’s New Era
WHILE 2019 MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AN EXPLOSIVE year in pop music, it teed up the personalities and story lines that could define the next decade in listening. A new generational gap opened up, one separating the veteran stars of the ’10s—think Beyoncé, Dr
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Land Mines Within
THE ORPHANED TEENAGERS AT THE CENTER OF Paul Yoon’s latest novel like to fantasize about traveling to far-off places at night. They go to Paris or the moon. One visits a “very large” ship. As their days dip into darkness, 17-year-olds Prany and Alisa
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William Gibson
In the same way Hunter S. Thompson and Pablo Picasso gave us gonzo journalism and Cubism, you’ve been credited with creating cyber punk and inventing the term cyberspace. How do you plead? I remember early in my career looking at a yellow legal on wh

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