ON FRIDAY, MARCH 19, MY WIFE AND I GOT IN OUR CARS TO drive an hour south of our home in Franklin, Tenn., a prosperous suburb of Nashville. The purpose of our trip was simple—to drive where it was easier and faster to schedule a COVID vaccination. In

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IN JANUARY, WHEN NETFLIX LAUNCHED ITS wildly popular French TV series Lupin, Omar Sy went into the Metro station under the Louvre in Paris. In the show, Sy plays a thief who takes a job as a night cleaner at the museum in order to plot a spectacular

A win in the fight against white supremacy IT TOOK DECADES. TENNESSEE’S BLACK RESIDENTS HAVE long demanded the removal of a statue and the remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a Confederate general, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan leader—from a city park

THE GREAT REOPENING “What we have learned during the pandemic is that the workplace as we know it is broken,” author Joanne Lipman said in a CNBC interview about her cover story for the June 7/June 14 issue of TIME. “It’s really, really outdated.” Ma

Despite being shot en route, U.S. Army Signal Corps carrier pigeon Cher Ami delivered a message that saved nearly 200 American troops’ lives in France during World War I. Cher Ami was later awarded the French Croix de Guerre medal for “extraordinary

IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT BEING OBSCENELY, outrageously rich. I know you’ve done it before. You probably have a list of priorities: college for the kids, new car, paid-off debts. Forget that list. That list is puny. You’re so rich that you can do everythi

Public-health officials have long sought a vaccine against malaria, which infects up to 600 million people a year and kills 400,000, mostly children. This year, there was dramatic progress toward that goal. In a study of 450 children in Burkina Faso,

YOU DON’T WANT TO BE A VIRUS IN DR. DAVID HO’S lab. Pretty much every day since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Ho and his team have done nothing but find ways to stress SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease. His goal: pressure the virus relentl

If you ask Black people born and raised on the island, Juneteenth marks the day Black soldiers in blue uniforms came with their guns to Galveston. That is the story they have told for generations, about the moment some of their ancestors knew freedom

Ben Crump is on the phone. No. Ben Crump, 51, is on the phone—while also reading email, looking at texts and intermittently contributing to a hushed conversation happening in the room above the sanctuary at Minneapolis’ Greater Friendship Missionary

The accused Kremlin agent was not hard to find. It took only a few days of pestering him for a meeting in early April before his answer arrived via encrypted message, beneath a profile picture of a lion showing its fangs. “I tried very hard and found

You both prefer writing longhand. Is it fair to assume you didn’t write The President’s Daughter in a shared Google Doc? CLINTON: The first thing we do is we agree on an outline. Then Jim says, O.K., your job is to make sure it’s authentic. PATTERSON

FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, ONE OF THE FIRST SIGNS OF THE COVID-19 pandemic to come was a tragedy at a nursing home near Seattle. On Feb. 29, 2020, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State announced t

THE PANDEMIC HAS, TO understate it dramatically, changed a lot of lives. A childless white collar worker who spent a year at home obviously had a different pandemic experience than a doctor working ICU shifts, or a grocery clerk desperate for adequat

VLADIMIR PUTIN IS PUMPING some last-minute iron and putting finishing touches on his trademark smirk as Joe Biden preps for his first face-to-face with the Russian President since taking office, in Geneva on June 16. For Putin, this meeting is a big

More than 12 million U.S. households have gotten a pet since March 2020, according to the American Pet Products Association. But though shelters and rescues have gained popularity in recent years, their history in America is more than 150 years old.

DESPITE RECENT GAINS made by countries like the U.S. and the U.K. in stymieing the COVID-19 pandemic, it continues to ravage much of the world. It also continues to revolutionize global health care in ways that could have lasting benefits. For exampl

SHANAYA POKHARNA, AGE 12 Memphis Unimaginable, unfathomable, unforgettable is how I describe 2020. My mother was sick in an isolated room for 20 days. My father, an infectious-disease physician, tirelessly cared for COVID patients, navigating the lac

IN HINDSIGHT, WE COULD HAVE PREPARED MORE SERIOUSLY, reacted more quickly, communicated more effectively, protected one another more actively and so on. But the next time there’s a public-health threat, we will do better. Right? Not necessarily. Know

AFTER MICHAEL PHELPS HEARD ON MAY 31 THAT NAOMI Osaka had pulled out of the French Open and he read her Instagram message explaining why—Osaka cited “feeling vulnerable and anxious” in Paris, and revealed that she has suffered from “long bouts of dep

BEFORE LAST YEAR, MARTÍ CUSÓ didn’t like to linger in the streets of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, the neighborhood where he has lived all his life. It was impossible to sit on a bench or play with his kids outside without being engulfed by tourists. S

FOR YEARS, TELETHERAPY HAS BEEN PITCHED AS THE NEXT frontier in mental-health care. Unlike medical disciplines requiring a more hands-on approach—say, physical therapy or surgery—talk therapy has long seemed a natural and effective fit for telehealth

EMPLOYEES AT A GARMENT FACTORY IN LESOTHO, A TINY country in southern Africa, say they have lived in fear for years. Each day at 7 a.m., as their sewing machines whirred, a familiar panic rose in many of them: it’s not safe here. At least 38 current

VLADIMIR PUTIN SPENT MUCH OF 2020 orchestrating a brazen influence campaign to stop Joe Biden from becoming the 46th President of the United States. Failing at that, the Russian autocrat spent the first five months of Biden’s term presiding over a se

This year, the warmest months bring more than sun: crowds are back. And surrounded by people, the solitude of reading feels somehow richer. But whether you’re staying in or venturing out, the best new books arriving in June, July and August offer som