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How a Manufactured Migrant Crisis Showed That Europe’s Last Dictator Can Rattle the E.U.
Perhaps the greatest success the sclerotic dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko has racked up this week has been seeing a host of Western news reports refer to grim scenes at the Belarusian-Polish border as a “migration crisis,” the implication being that it’s happened organically, as it did seven years ago—the tragic byproduct of war, poverty and…
How to Celebrate Holidays Safely in 2021 Amid COVID-19
Last year, the predominant public health advice before Thanksgiving and other holiday gatherings was simple: don’t go, but if you must, be really, really careful. This year, now that all American adults, along with children over age 5, are eligible to receive at least one of an arsenal of highly effective vaccines, many infectious disease…
Why TIME Is Launching a New Newsletter on the Metaverse
I’d like to define the metaverse, for the purposes of this newsletter, as the ways in which our physical and digital selves are becoming increasingly blurred
Our Leaders Failed Us at COP26. To Succeed at COP27, They’ll Need to Put Self-Interest Aside
“How late it was, how late.” Twenty-seven years ago, the Glaswegian author James Kelman stunned the literary world when his novel of that name won the prestigious Booker Prize. Although his raw depiction of poverty and discrimination in decaying Glasgow tenements is a world away from the conference halls on the redeveloped banks of the…
TIME and Galaxy Digital Partner to Demystify the Next Immersive Digital Frontier, the Metaverse, Through a First-of-its-Kind Partnership
Partnership commences with launch of weekly newsletter ‘Into the Metaverse’ and the newly created TIME 100 Companies category: Metaverse Transaction conducted in ETH with TIME to hold ETH on balance sheet, marking a first for a major media company NEW YORK, November [18], 2021 – TIME announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd.…
If You Like Sex Education, You’ll Love Mindy Kaling’s The Sex Lives of College Girls
Like so many young women in real life but so few in current pop culture, when they get hurt, they get right back up again.
Environmental Concerns Have Cast Doubt on NFTs—But That’s Changing
As NFTs climb in popularity, some companies are working to minimize their ecological impact
The U.N.’s Afghanistan Envoy Says the Country Is on the Brink of ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’
Deborah Lyons said the United Nations predicts that 60% of Afghanistan’s 38 million people face crisis levels of hunger
Space Junk Is Spreading, Creating the Risk of No-Go Zones for Satellites
“Dramatic increases in space collisions" are expected in a few years, a former NASA administrator told U.S. lawmakers
The Duterte Family’s Plan for the Next Election Highlights the Problem of Political Dynasties in the Philippines
The president's family looks to bolster its position in a country already notorious for political dynasties
Here Are the Winners for the 2021 National Book Awards
Winners in the competitive categories Wednesday night each received $10,000, and two honorary prizes were also presented
Catholic Bishops Just Sidestepped a Confrontation with Joe Biden Over Communion
Hundreds of the country’s Catholic bishops, their names on tags hanging from green lanyards around their necks, sat at long tables inside a conference room in Baltimore on Wednesday to vote on pressing issues facing the American Catholic Church. First, the bishops tested their electronic keypads by voting whether to have ice cream at the…