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Photojournalist Forough Alaei traveled her native Iran documenting the women, like those seen here, whom she sees as “Iranian role models.” In a society that restricts women’s choices, Alaei spotlights some of the thousands who represent the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. See all the photos at time.com/women-iran On the covers Photo-illustration by TIME; Getty Images (2) Photograph by Evan Vucci—AP Illustration by Alessandro Gottardo for TIME COVERS ON TIME.COM On June 28, following the first debate of the U.S. general election, we published a digital-only cover story on Democrats’ panic. Read it at time.com/biden-panic. Another digital-only cover was released July 18, for the essay by Nancy Gibbs featured in this issue. TALK TO US SEND AN EMAIL: letters@time.com Please do not send attachments Letters should include the writer’s full…

I’ve spent my whole life happily walking in one direction: forward. It was, I believed, the only way to go, so I dutifully logged dozens of miles a month looking like every other person out for a morning stroll. No more. Thanks to TikTok, I discovered a new (to me, at least) spin on walking: backward walking, also known as retro-walking. Though it’s trending on social media platforms right now, physical therapists and fitness trainers have been touting its benefits for years. It’s a low-impact way to burn calories, strengthen your legs, test your coordination, become more flexible, and even reduce pain, experts say—all of which lured me onto my quiet rural street one afternoon to give it a whirl. After about 50 steps, I realized going in reverse…

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk has spent 30 years figuring out why people behave so strangely. His specialty is treating those who have endured traumas so horrific—war, carnage, incredible pain that they couldn’t stop—that their brains have not been able to fully process them, and their bodies have reacted to their brain’s precarious state in ways they could not explain or control. But many human behaviors still puzzle van der Kolk, 82. He doesn’t understand why the medical community doesn’t take childhood trauma more seriously. He doesn’t understand why leaders still send citizens to war without factoring in how it will deplete their capacity to live normally for decades. And he’s not quite sure why a woman recently came up to him on the street and kissed his feet.…

An hour after Donald Trump was shot at a Pennsylvania rally, he called his son Eric from his room at Butler Memorial Hospital and asked him to conference in other family members. When they all got on the phone, Trump was lighthearted about his brush with death, and the mood shifted from collective shock to hopeful levity. Eric and Don Jr. joked that their father, now missing a chunk of his ear thanks to one of the would-be assassin’s bullets, would have something in common with Evander Holyfield, the heavyweight boxing champion who lost part of his when Mike Tyson bit it off. “You always wanna be like the great ones,” the elder Trump quipped. Then he got down to business. He would fly back to his home in Bedminster, N.J.,…

One evening in December 2023, 43-year-old Sarah Rosenkranz collapsed in her home in Granbury, Texas, and was rushed to the emergency room. Her heart pounded 200 beats per minute; her blood pressure spiked into hypertensive crisis; her skull throbbed. “It felt like my head was in a pressure vise being crushed,” she says. “That pain was worse than childbirth.” Rosenkranz’s headache lasted for five days. Doctors gave her several rounds of IV medication and painkiller shots, but nothing seemed to knock down the pain, she says. This was odd, especially because local doctors were similarly vexed when Indigo, Rosenkranz’s 5-year-old daughter, was taken to urgent care earlier that year, screaming that she felt a “red beam behind her eardrums.” It didn’t occur to Sarah that these symptoms could be linked.…

Hours before India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Moscow on July 8, Russia fired missiles on Ukraine that killed at least 41 people, including four children at a children’s hospital in Kyiv. Condemnations were still arriving from around the globe as Modi smiled and posed for photos with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During Modi’s two-day visit to the Kremlin—his first trip to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022—the two leaders hugged each other outside Putin’s residence before holding informal talks. Putin told Modi he was “very happy” to see his “dear friend,” according to Russia’s TASS state news agency, while Modi called the visit a “wonderful opportunity to deepen ties” between the two countries in a post on the social media platform X. In response, Ukrainian…

Rescuers and medics sift through the ruins of a wing at the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv on July 8, after the Russian military fired more than 40 missiles into several Ukrainian cities. The daytime airstrikes were Russia’s heaviest assault on Ukraine in four months and killed at least 42 people, including five children; dozens more were injured. The hospital held 627 patients at the time of the attack, which, according to officials, interrupted procedures including cancer treatment and open-heart surgery. ▸ For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox Photograph by Roman Pilipey—AFP/Getty Images…

A country born by breaking with a king inherits dissent as a birthright. Generation after generation faces its test of conflict management: crafting the Constitution itself, with all its convictions and compromises; balancing local vs. federal power centers; a Civil War exposing fissures in democracy’s bedrock; and on and on, battles over rights and responsibilities, suffrage, prohibition, isolation vs. intervention, and then the serial upheavals over justice for multiple marginalized groups—Black, female, gay, trans. Each era is tasked with not only choosing its fights but also deciding how to fight them. Our current crisis of division, once again manifest as violence, feels shocking but not sudden; the dread has been deepening for years, a defining quality of this century that began with an election that ended in a tie.…

There is an art to laying down a newborn baby. Or, rather, a science. The American Academy of Pediatrics will tell you that babies need to sleep swaddled, on their backs, in an empty bassinet. But what if your infant abhors a crib? If you buy a newborn course offered by Cara Dumaplin, the former NICU and labor-and-delivery nurse who bills herself as a baby and toddler sleep expert, as I did when my daughter was 6 weeks old, you will get a video demonstration of how to make the dreaded chest-to-bassinet transfer. In it, a swaddled baby lies across Dumaplin’s forearm, head resting in her palm. Dumaplin’s thumb holds a pacifier in the child’s mouth. Dumaplin doesn’t rock the baby to sleep but rather moves her wrist to subtly…

In the annus horribilis of 2020, as COVID-19 ravaged the world, a generation that had yet to experience a cataclysm of precisely this scale turned to art for insight into how we might survive it. Contemporary speculative fiction about lethal pathogens, from Ling Ma’s novel Severance to Steven Soderbergh’s movie Contagion, surged in popularity. Readers also turned to tales of pestilence past: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera. But no dusty tome got a bigger boost than Giovanni Boccaccio’s early-Renaissance classic The Decameron. Virtual book clubs sprung up to dissect it. The New York Times commissioned stories from Margaret Atwood and Tommy Orange for its own Decameron Project. “Six Centuries Later, The Decameron Is Suddenly the Book of…

DIED Shelley Duvall Offbeat ingenue Shelley Duvall swept onto film screens of the ’70s and ’80s, having had no previous acting experience when director Robert Altman cast her in six consecutive movies. Best known for starring in The Shining opposite Jack Nicholson, Duvall died July 11 at 75. DIED Richard Simmons Mover and shaker Magnetic exercise revolutionary Richard Simmons died July 13 at 76. With his radically upbeat and accepting workout approach, Simmons aerobicized his way into viewers’ hearts during his show and beyond—tank top, shorts, and all. DIED Dr. Ruth Westheimer Beloved sex adviser On a first-name basis with the country, Dr. Ruth gave frank answers to intimacy questions, catapulting to fame and radio syndication as America’s sex therapist. Westheimer, who wrote 45 books about sexuality, died July 13…

Misogynoir is, of course, not unique to hip-hop. Universal systems of oppression are prevalent in the lives of Black women. But what is unique about the hip-hop industry is that its leaders feel the need to defend the genre that made them—to protect it and gate-keep it, even at the cost of sweeping violence under the rug. This has interwoven gender-based oppression into its DNA. Cassie Ventura is not the first survivor of hip-hop’s abuse, and unfortunately will not be the last. In the months since she filed a federal lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs for rape and abuse in November 2023, seven women and one male survivor have come out against the mogul with stories of alleged abuse and harm. In a July essay for the New York…

When my father arrived in America from Ethiopia in 1978, he was resettled, with the help of an immigration agency, to Peoria, Ill. He found a job working on the factory floor of a Caterpillar Inc. plant, and by the time my mother, sister, and I joined him two years later, he’d already found a two-bedroom apartment two blocks from the Catholic school my sister and I would attend. It was a startlingly American childhood, made more so by the fact that we spent our weekends at a Southern Baptist church on the other side of town. My parents, raised in the Ethiopian Orthodox church, had never heard of Southern Baptists before coming to America. But every Sunday, there we were, in the front pews, the first and only Black…

One night in January, 15 people trudged into an arts center in Nazareth, Pa., for a political focus group. Democrats and Republicans, grandmothers and high school teachers, they gathered in a room still decorated with Christmas lights to discuss their concerns about the democratic process with a group called Keep Our Republic, a nonpartisan civic organization that focuses on threats to the election system. Ari Mittleman, the organization’s executive director, has observed similar events across the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, so he expected the participants in Nazareth to express negative views about the 2024 elections, the candidates, and even the voting process itself. What Mittleman was not prepared for was a dark prediction that the panelists shared. “The one thing that unified Democrats and Republicans,” says Mittleman,…

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