Perched just inside Chad, Adré has become the passing point for more than 600,000 Sudanese refugees fleeing civil war and famine in the past 16 months. “I’ve seen a lot of things related to migration in many places, but this was the first time that I

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JESSICA WILSON IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE PUPUSAS FROM COSTCO. Not just because they’re tasty, but also because they’ve helped the California-based registered dietitian fight back against the mounting war on ultra-processed foods. It all started in the

As we were finishing this year’s TIME100 AI, I had two conversations, with two very different TIME100 AI honorees, that made clear the stakes of this technological transformation. Sundar Pichai, who joined Google in 2004 and became CEO of the world’s

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You don’t have to believe in the supernatural to feel the emotional pull of Lana Wilson’s intimate documentary Look Into My Eyes, a glimpse into the not-always-so-mystical world of New York City psychics. There’s the aspiring actor who realized he ha

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It’s one of those interview questions asked of confident, accomplished women time and again: What advice would you give your younger self? Megan Park’s My Old Ass riffs on that stock question, but with a smart, perceptive twist: instead of treating t

Donald Trump repeatedly mispronounces Vice President Kamala Harris’ first name. He’s said world leaders would treat her “like a play toy.” He stunned a roomful of Black journalists in late July when he claimed Harris, who is both Black and of South A

It was a very big deal on Sept. 14, 1966, when astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon flew their Gemini 11 spacecraft to a record altitude of 850 miles. It has remained a big deal for 58 years, while that benchmark for a crewed spacecraft in Earth or

For a work of literary nonfiction to thrill readers the way Lisa Taddeo’s 2019 best seller Three Women has done, it must offer more than just rich subject matter. There has to be chemistry between the author and the story; readers have to feel her in

On Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas, Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs approached the football, as many in the crowd of 62,000 at Allegiant Stadium held their phones aloft to capture the most anticipated moment of the NFL season: the beginning

It’s been over 35 years since Beetlejuice was released. Were you a fan of the original movie when it came out? I was absolutely a fan. It came out at a time when I wasn’t aware of what was a studio movie vs. an independent movie. But it definitely fe

Ray Kurzweil’s eerily prescient predictions about AI are underpinned by a simple line chart. The chart, tracking the amount of computing power you could buy for a dollar over time, has grown exponentially for the past 85 years. Kurzweil initially use

An allergy to over-the-counter pain medication changed Natasha Rothwell’s life. Soon after she moved to Los Angeles, in 2015, to write for Issa Rae’s era-defining HBO dramedy Insecure, she had some dental work done and found herself in so much pain t

Lisa Su is acutely aware that technology is all about making the right bets. In her 10 years at the helm of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), she has steered one of Silicon Valley’s greatest turnarounds by focusing on its strengths and strategi

Photographer Evan Jenkins documented the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, as Democrats nominated VP Kamala Harris. Whether he was capturing the crowd’s raucous reaction to President Joe Biden’s speech (right) or the best examples of swag (l

Death can both tear family members apart and bind them closer—often simultaneously. That’s the mysterious dynamic writer-director Azazel Jacobs mines in His Three Daughters, a story of three mismatched sisters who gather in their childhood home, a mo

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Amandeep Singh Gill sees this moment as the world’s narrow shot to avoid another Cold War–style arms race with AI. “In the mid-1950s—the London talks, when [Dwight] Eisenhower was the President and [Nikolai] Bulganin was the leader on the Soviet side

Before he became arguably the most popular head of state in the world, Nayib Bukele was an adman. The President of El Salvador has branded himself the “world’s coolest dictator” and a “philosopher king,” but he is, perhaps above all, a former publici

Among the key moments in Maria Branyas’ life—her birth in San Francisco in 1907; a move to Catalonia in 1915; her marriage to a Catalan doctor named Joan Moret; and having three children—one that took place in January 2023 stands out. That was when s

Chris Duffy isn’t going to sugarcoat it: making friends as an adult is hard. If you’ve ever tried to figure out exactly how to ask a potential platonic connection for their number—or word that first follow-up text—you know what he’s talking about. “I

Dementia is one of the scariest diagnoses in medicine, in part because it seems impossible to prevent. But recent research suggests that’s not the case. In fact, a new report based on an analysis of hundreds of studies says almost half of dementia ca

It was perhaps inevitable that the cast of Industry would find themselves on a yacht. The show, which follows a group of Gen Z bankers working in the City, London’s Wall Street, focuses as much on its characters taking designer drugs in Berlin clubs

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