Inhaltsverzeichnis für April 8, 2024 in TIME Magazine

Grab the popcorn: two documentaries co-produced by TIME Studios can now be screened at home. Frida, available on Amazon Prime, is the first Frida Kahlo documentary to be told entirely in the artist’s own words, bringing her paintings to life along with innovative animations. The Lionheart (left), now playing on Max, follows Susie Wheldon, the widow of the late Indy 500 champ Dan Wheldon, as her two sons embark on racing careers of their own. See more TIME Studios projects at studios.time.com Everything you need to know about the eclipse TIME’s Science section is answering all your questions about the April 8 total solar eclipse, including where to watch the eclipse, where to find special glasses to do so, and how to protect your eyes. TIME editor-at-large Jeffrey Kluger…

On March 16, A transplant-surgery team at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully transplanted a modified pig kidney into a human: 62-year-old Richard Slayman. The groundbreaking, four-hour surgery was the culmination of years of work transplanting kidneys from a specially bred group of pigs—genetically modified to more closely resemble those of humans—into primates. Encouraged by those results, the team at Mass General Brigham was confident it was time to test the pig organs in the first patient. Slayman, a manager at the Massachusetts department of transportation, had received a human kidney transplant five years ago, but as is often the case with kidney disease, the organ began to fail and he continued to need dialysis. His health progressively worsened. “At one point, he literally said, I just cannot go on like…

Actor Olivia Munn recently shared in an Instagram post that a free risk-assessment tool her doctor used revealed that she had a higher chance of developing breast cancer. It led to testing—and eventually treatment—that likely spared her from more serious outcomes. The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool isn’t new. It’s been around since 1989 for women ages 35 to 74, and it doesn’t even require a doctor. The online questionnaire, available through the National Cancer Institute (NCI), asks about a woman’s age, her family history of breast cancer, when she began menstruating, how old she was when she had her first child (if applicable), and if she’s had any breast biopsies. It then estimates her risk of getting breast cancer in five years and over the course of her…

An immigrant who crossed the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass, Texas, encounters spiraling razor wire on March 17. The barriers were one of Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star migrant-deterrence initiatives, which also include arresting those suspected of crossing illegally. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January that Customs and Border Protection agents could remove the wire, but Abbott ordered officials to continue layering coils. ▶ For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox Photograph by John Moore—Getty Images…

Last June, Barack Obama slipped into the White House to deliver a warning to Joe Biden. The state of Biden’s re-election campaign was shaky, Obama told him over a private lunch, according to a Democrat briefed about the meeting. Defeating Donald Trump would be harder in 2024. The mood of the country was sour. Persuading unhappy voters was going to be difficult. Biden needed to move more aggressively to make the race a referendum on Trump, Obama advised. The former President left believing the current one had gotten the memo. But over the next six months, Obama saw few signs of improvement. In December, he returned to the White House at Biden’s invitation. This time, Obama’s message was more urgent. He expressed concern the re-election campaign was behind schedule in…

DIAGNOSED Kate Middleton Princess facing cancer fight When Kensington Palace announced on Jan. 17 that Catherine, the Princess of Wales, had undergone a “planned abdominal surgery” and would likely not participate in any public engagements until after Easter, speculation swirled. In the press and online, many wondered what was behind such a prolonged absence from royal duties. The question sparked both well-wishes and—especially after a Mother’s Day photo of the Princess and her children was revealed to have been manipulated—conspiracy theories. But when Kate Middleton herself announced in a video released March 22 that she had been diagnosed with cancer following that surgery and was undergoing “preventative chemotherapy,” the news was a sober reminder life is no less fragile for being lived in public. In the video, the Princess…

Ramadan has a special place in every Muslim’s heart. We wait for it all year. As a small child, I remember my excitement at hanging colorful lanterns on the house. My parents taught my siblings and me to abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk. But the holy month of Ramadan started early for Muslims in Gaza this year. In some sense, we’ve been fasting since October. The idea of fasting is to train yourself to be patient, to elevate your soul from mundane desires, to try to free your mind from evil impulses and do good deeds for people around you. Nothing could have prepared me for Ramadan this year. I wasn’t sure I would even survive until Ramadan—at least 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed…

At an AI research lab on the edges of Abu Dhabi last year, an international team of 25 computer scientists were putting the finishing touches on a deep learning algorithm before sending it to be trained on 4,000 powerful computer chips. The AI system, which cost several million dollars to train, was funded by an arm of the Abu Dhabi government called the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC). Despite the government’s substantial investment, ATRC secretary general Faisal Al Bannai decided to release the finished model online for free. If it was as good as the team believed, the boost to the United Arab Emirates’ reputation would be all the return the government needed on its investment, he reasoned. The plan worked. When the AI, named Falcon after the UAE’s national…

Even when a movie is far from perfect, you can tell when a director has poured his soul into it. Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man—he’s also the movie’s star—is trying too hard, and for too much. It wants to be a political allegory, a somber study of a man haunted by childhood trauma, a clarion blast of inspiration for downtrodden humans seeking to summon strength, and last but hardly least, a brutally exhilarating action entertainment. It succeeds at some of those things, some of the time. But Patel’s conviction, both as a fledgling director and an intensely likable actor, has a blurring effect on the movie’s flaws. Just when you realize you’re confused by the somewhat muddled story, or lost in its myriad references, his solemn warmth draws…

Vladimir Putin’s presidential victory this march was more of a coronation than an election. With the political system heavily skewed in his favor and all significant opponents disqualified, jailed, or dead, the vote was almost entirely pro forma. Still, the Russian opposition lives on—not just in would-be leaders behind bars like Vladimir Kara-Murza, who following the death of Alexei Navalny is now Russia’s most high-profile political prisoner, but also in the spouses who take up their advocacy when they’re no longer able to do it themselves. Ever since Vladimir’s arrest in April 2022 for criticizing the war in Ukraine, Evgenia Kara-Murza has spent most of her days traveling the world to meet with foreign dignitaries, testify before committees, and talk to journalists—all in a bid to bring her husband, and…

If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I’m utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don’t know my passwords to anything. I have thousands and thousands of unread emails. I don’t open mail because I assume it’ll be bad news. I’ve never had a credit card. But it’s also something that, as a filmmaker and a writer, deeply fascinates me—how sterile, faceless, and universally isolating it all can be. When I set out to make my movie Problemista, among the biggest things I wanted to explore was the relentless maze of American bureaucracy, particularly in the U.S. immigration system. It’s a terrain I’ve had to traverse as a young college student from El Salvador in the early 2010s and one that the protagonist of the movie, Alejandro,…

Sitting in a taxi in Munich in February, stuck in traffic, John Kerry wrestled with an idea. The U.S. climate envoy was in southern Germany to attend an annual security conference, spending his days pushing world leaders to work together to fight global warming. But in a few hours, the former Secretary of State would receive an award named in honor of a well-known Nazi resister, Ewald von Kleist. As he ruminated on his remarks, he worked to connect what he called the “echoes of the 1930s” in today’s geopolitics with the need for unity on climate action. By the time he took the stage to accept the award that night, Kerry had found the words to make the connection in a blunt speech lasting less than 15 minutes.…

Outside of Atlanta, a creaky white van weaved down a highway lined with abandoned cars. A helicopter sat in the parking lot of a charred JCPenney. Armed guards in military fatigues patrolled checkpoints. A death squad dumped corpses into a mass grave. Artillery boomed in the offing. It was all part of a movie set, but to the actors starring in Civil War, felt all too real. The new film, opening in theaters April 12, takes place in a near-future United States ravaged by conflict. California and Texas, which make up the so-called Western Forces, have seceded from the union in response to an authoritarian third-term President who has jettisoned the Constitution, disbanded the FBI, authorized airstrikes on his own citizens, and now aims to “eliminate the final pockets of…

Jerrod Carmichael had been a famous comedian for almost a decade when he dropped his average-dude persona and started being real. In his 2022 special, Rothaniel, he came out as gay, speaking with rueful humor about internalized homophobia and his fractured relationship with his devoutly Christian mother. It was a creative turning point as well as a personal one. Reality Show teems with awkward exchanges Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show continues his experiment in radical honesty. Framed by Carmichael’s onstage monologues, it’s disarmingly frank about not only his life, but also its own constructedness. We watch him coax family and friends to discuss hard topics on camera. Crew members swarm. By making us privy to these contrivances, he establishes authenticity within a notoriously artificial genre. Reality Show teems with awkward…