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How a New Deal for Global Taxation Might Save Democracy
Every year, multinational corporations divert some $1.38 trillion in profits away from the countries where they were made to places with much lower, or even zero, corporate tax rates. And while much of this is strictly legal, that doesn’t make it right. Lower tax rates can encourage innovation and investment. But the combination of complex…
‘We Know How to Bounce Back.’ Sadiq Khan Has a Plan to Build a Greener, Fairer London Post-Pandemic
"For anybody who thinks they’ve got us on the ropes, the history of London is Muhammad Ali, knocking people out"
How China’s Digital Currency Could Challenge the Almighty Dollar
Every morning, Mei Yi waves goodbye to his wife and 3-year-old son and sets off for his finance job in central Beijing, riding into town by public bike share. Like most urban Chinese, the 37-year-old has long abandoned cash and instead pays for his commute—and a lunchtime bite from a convenience store in his office…
Both Asia and the West Need Stakeholder Capitalism
It hasn’t always been easy to discern from a Western vantage point, but the rise of China and Asia has been the most important economic development of the past four decades. In 1979, many Chinese people had an average income of less than a dollar a day. Today, Shenzhen, China’s tech capital, has a per…
Four Civilian Astronauts. Three Days in Orbit. One Giant Leap. Meet the Inspiration4 Crew
TIME Studios is producing the Netflix documentary series Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space, starting Sept. 6. Jared Isaacman is not likely to forget the day he almost died at 10,000 ft., back in 2011. He was flying closely alongside three others, all in F-14 Tomcats, tearing along at 460 m.p.h. over the desert southwest…
Meet the All-Civilian Crew of Inspiration4, From a St. Jude’s Physician Assistant to a Lockheed Martin Engineer
From a childhood cancer survivor to an aerospace engineer
St. Jude’s Fundraising Chief on Space Missions, ‘Pushing Boundaries’ and a Record-Setting Year
St. Jude has always been about pushing boundaries and taking what seems like impossible and making it possible.'
What Mike Fanone Can’t Forget
D.C. police officer Michael Fanone defended American democracy on January 6. Now, he's defending the history of that day
How the U.S. Is Spearheading Efforts to Thwart Chinese Cybercrime
The clear message from all this is that the U.S.-China rivalry is escalating
“We’ve Found the Enemy, and It’s Not Each Other.” Heather McGhee’s Quest to End America’s Zero-sum Thinking on Race
Heather McGhee was cooking dinner in her Brooklyn apartment in January as she opened a YouTube link to watch Joe Biden deliver his first speech on race as the President. As she bustled around the kitchen, Biden recited a line that seemed so familiar that she nearly dropped her wineglass. “We’ve bought the view that…
‘Not a Victim.’ Asian American Elders Stand Resilient in the Wake of Hateful Violence
In families that experienced firsthand the surge in attacks on Asian American elders, the strength of their loved ones is clear
Tommy Dorfman Would Like to Clarify
Hollywood began to take notice soon after I published my debut novel Detransition, Baby—which follows a trans woman, a cis woman and a trans woman who has detransitioned as they try to form an unconventional family—in early 2021. One of the calls was from the actor Tommy Dorfman. I figured Tommy would ask about a…