Celebrity Life
Inside One Combat Vet’s Journey From Defending His Country to Storming the Capitol
The crackle of handheld radios broke the morning stillness. Sound carries in the country, and on the rural outskirts of Arab, Ala., curious neighbors stepped onto their porches, craning their necks to see what was going on. Some thought the police had found an escaped inmate who had been a leading story on the local…
My Old Social Media Posts Are Painfully Embarrassing—But I Wish I Hadn’t Deleted So Many of Them
Every morning as I drink my coffee, I check Timehop, an app that tells me what I posted to social media on this day one, two, ten years ago. I have checked Timehop every morning for the last 1,286 days—more than three years straight—and nearly every one of those 1,286 days, I have found something…
48 Athletes to Watch at the Tokyo Olympics
Learn more about the extraordinary athletes to watch during the Tokyo Olympics
How to Write a Romance Novel in 2021
Lingering touches and stolen glances, jaw-dropping revelations and long-awaited reunions—the pleasures of romance novels abound. Yet for so long, one of the most popular (and lucrative) genres in publishing has centered stories by, for and about a homogeneous set of women, bolstering the stereotype of straight white women as the romantic ideal and cementing the…
The Olympic Refugee Team Was Created to Offer Hope. Some Athletes Are Running Away From It
'We cannot talk about money. We are not supposed to talk, because we are just a refugee'
Meet 6 Heroes Who Helped Battle COVID-19 Before Competing in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics
'What we’ve been through has made me realize even more: health is the most important thing, both for the individual and the collective'
Tokyo’s Plan to Avoid Pandemic Disaster During the Olympics
New cases of COVID-19 could forever tarnish this year's Olympics as an exercise in folly amid a global pandemic
‘Unapologetic and Unafraid.’ Sue Bird Stares Down Olympic Glory in Tokyo and Equity Off the Court
The last Olympics of the basketball star's storied career comes as the larger world has finally begun to appreciate her greatness
Motherhood Could Have Cost Olympian Allyson Felix. She Wouldn’t Let It
Allyson Felix can still hear the screams. In late 2018, the six-time Olympic gold medalist was sitting in the neonatal intensive-care unit of a hospital outside Detroit, watching her weeks-old daughter fight for her life. Camryn, born premature at 32 weeks, was hooked up to monitors; an alarm would go off when doctors needed to…
Naomi Osaka: ‘It’s O.K. Not to Be O.K.’
'I felt under a great amount of pressure to disclose my symptoms because the press and the tournament did not believe me'
Japan Failed to Improve LGBTQ Rights Ahead of the Olympics. Japanese Athletes Are Coming Out Anyway
Many LGBTQ people in Japan hoped that the 2020 Olympics would force changes. Instead, they are asking whether Japan has missed the best opportunity in a generation to improve equality.
Why COVID-19’s Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. If you were anything like my family over the July 4 holiday, there were bowls of potato salad, casseroles of baked beans and platters of hotdogs, hamburgers and chicken…