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Lisa Taddeo Is Exposing the Raw Reality of Women’s Sexual Desires and Traumas
I meet Lisa Taddeo at the Central Park Zoo. The location is a rather ham-fisted allusion to the title of her new novel Animal, though the book has little to do with actual animals and everything to do with women and trauma and the animalistic responses trauma might trigger. But it serves as a cheery…
A Woman Has Never Run New York City. Can Kathryn Garcia Change That?
Kathryn Garcia knows her shit. On a blustery spring morning, she’s standing at the waterfront in Long Island City and squinting at a boat on the East River, roughly a hundred yards away. “That’s a sludge boat,” she says. “Riding high.” One of her volunteers muses aloud that the vessel must be carrying trash. “No,”…
The Pandemic Revealed How Much We Hate Our Jobs. Now We Have a Chance to Reinvent Work
The workplace doesn't work. Now's our chance to reinvent it
How Distrust of Donald Trump Muddled the COVID-19 ‘Lab Leak’ Debate
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. Around this time a year ago, then-President Donald Trump and his administration started to pivot away from their early defense of China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. They abandoned…
‘Black Girls Fall in Love All the Time.’ Nicola Yoon on Her New Book Instructions for Dancing and the Importance of Diverse Love Stories
The bestselling author of "Everything, Everything" and "The Sun Is Also a Star" is back with a new young-adult romance
Casey McQuiston Is Writing the Queer Rom-Coms She’s Always Wanted to Read
Three words came to Casey McQuiston while she was taking a bath: magic subway lesbians. The author has always been drawn to romances that seem a little impossible—ones that show that the power of love can transcend anything, even time and space. “I know that sounds very corny,” McQuiston says, gazing at the Manhattan skyline…
On Anniversary of George Floyd’s Death, Biden Misses a Self-Imposed Deadline
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. President Joe Biden had two dates circled on his calendar this week: today, the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, and Memorial Day, which arrives on Monday. Both are…
Travel Is Coming Back, and Artificial Intelligence May Be Planning Your Next Flight
Alaska Airlines has trained its human flight planners to work with new artificial intelligence designed to make flights more fuel efficient and safer
MacKenzie Scott Gave Away $6 Billion Last Year. It’s Not As Easy As It Sounds
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, pay off debts. Forget that list. That list is puny. You’re so rich that you can do everything on it three times over. You could buy a small Massachusetts…
How Leena Nair, Unilever’s Head of HR, Sees the Future of Work in a Post-Pandemic World
The barrier-breaking exec talks to TIME about the future of work in the post-pandemic world, mental well-being, and how the stays grounded.
Calls for Justice in the U.S. Create a Dilemma for Pro-Israel Policies
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. The calls for social justice on the American Left have grown in volume and audience in recent years as allies have stood up to declare inequality is no longer…
We Have a Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity to Protect LGBTQ People From Discrimination. Will the Senate Take It?
It’s been just over 40 years since the assassination of Harvey Milk, the trailblazing gay activist who became one of the country’s first out LGBTQ public officials when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And on May 22 we mark the pioneer’s birthday with Harvey Milk Day. In the time since…