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Past and present TIME100 honorees gathered on April 23 in New York City for the annual TIME100 Summit. Top, from left: TIME executive editor Nikhil Kumar and AI experts Demis Hassabis, Glenn Fogel, and Kate Crawford; actor Demi Moore with her dog Pilaf. Above, from left: actor Ryan Reynolds; TIME editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs, TIME CEO Jessica Sibley, Duke and Duchess of Sussex Meghan and Prince Harry; activist Yulia Navalnaya. time.com/summit-gala-2025 The Earth Awards Environmental leaders were celebrated at TIME’s Earth Awards on April 23 in New York City. From left: TIME chief climate officer Shyla Raghav, chef Selassie Atadika, former Washington governor Jay Inslee, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, actor Rainn Wilson, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley, former U.S. Senate majority leader Bill Frist, activist…

Mere hours after birth, most newborns are tested for two things: whether they have signs of hearing loss and whether they have a range of rare conditions that could severely affect their health and their lives. If they test positive for either, they qualify for a number of interventions that can dramatically improve their prospects over their lifetime. But both tests could undergo dramatic changes under the Trump Administration because of drastic cutbacks at federal health agencies that public-health advocates say imperil applicable programs. These cutbacks could mean that certain states will not test for and respond to conditions that currently set services into motion. “There are a lot of worthy causes that fall by the wayside when there isn’t some kind of centralized government support,” says Karl White,…

HE WAS A DEPARTURE. FRANCIS WAS THE FIRST POPE FROM THE AMERICAS. The first, in fact, from anywhere but Europe. There had been 265 before him, but no one had taken his name from St. Francis of Assisi, famous for ministering to the poor. Until his death on April 21, at age 88, the first Pope Francis was known for his willingness to hear out different views on controversial issues—marriage, sexuality, the priesthood—that predecessors had been unwilling to debate. Though the church’s corrosive, long-denied child-sex-abuse scandal had created a crisis of conscience, particularly among young Catholics, Francis exuded a level of empathy, humility, and mercy that people felt connected to in a way they said they had not with past Pontiffs. He served credibly as the world’s conscience. After…

Here is how we might make sense of that. VICTOR J. BLUE—THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX…

My dissertation adviser, a veteran of segregated Chicago, liked to say that social science is not rocket science—it’s a lot harder. Social systems and social progress have a lot more variables than physical ones and behave much less predictably. The five years following George Floyd’s lynching have demonstrated the wisdom of his words. In 2020, after the largest protests in U.S. history, there was no shortage of outrage. No lack of political will. No confusion about what people wanted—accountability, dignity, safety. Police unions and politicians who once claimed racism was “over” suddenly spoke publicly about the need to do something in response to such a grotesque event. For a moment, our nation had moral clarity, and it felt like we might finally be on the cusp of change that…

It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody there is nothing that can be done. The government asserts that [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or “mistakenly” deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, right? The Supreme Court’s decision…

On June 7, 2020, representative John Lewis made his last public appearance at the Black Lives Matter mural, painted on the road adjacent to the White House. He was so moved by the mural that he wanted to see it in person. Lewis noted, “The people in D.C. and around the world are sending a powerful message that we will get there.” The installation was commissioned by Mayor Muriel Bowser, who, at the time, recognized that “there are people who are craving to be heard and to be seen and to have their humanity recognized. We had the opportunity to send that message loud and clear on a very important street in our city.” From the vantage point of the summer of nationwide protests following the police killings of…

Romulus and Remus are doing what puppies do: chasing, tussling, nipping, nuzzling. But there’s something very un-puppylike about the snowy white 6-month-olds—their size, for starters. They already measure nearly 4 ft. long, tip the scales at 80 lb., and could grow to 6 ft. and 150 lb. Then there’s their behavior: the angelic exuberance puppies exhibit in the presence of humans—trotting up for belly rubs and kisses—is completely absent. They keep their distance, retreating if a person approaches. Even one of the handlers who raised them from birth can get only so close before Romulus and Remus flinch and retreat. This isn’t domestic canine behavior, this is wild lupine behavior: the pups are wolves. Not only that, they’re dire wolves—which means they have cause to be lonely. The dire…

Tim Robinson, the former Saturday Night Live writer and performer who now co-stars with Paul Rudd in the prickly cringe comedy Friendship, is probably a genius. Both here and in his popular Netflix sketch series I Think You Should Leave, he specializes in a kind of auteurist awkwardness, playing the zonked-out but subliminally angry guy who has precisely the wrong quip for every occasion, whose facial expressions never quite match the sentiments coming from his mouth, whose rubbery body language seems to follow rhythms beamed from another planet. I Think You Should Leave is theater of the absurd broken into small bites of aggro-humor: Robinson as a guy who gets caught looking at a “nude egg” on his work computer, as a witless nerd who asks his barber for…

President Donald Trump has promised his tariffs will usher in a “new golden age” for American workers, harking back to an industrial past that has been lost to decades of globalization. The logic goes that by raising the price of foreign goods, businesses and consumers will be discouraged from importing and instead invest in U.S.-based manufacturing and American-made goods. But the irony, economists say, is that the trade deficits that he seeks to reverse are a sign of the U.S. economy’s relative dominance, not weakness. “The U.S. is at a state of development where it has moved beyond manufacturing,” Jayant Menon, a research fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, tells TIME. “This is what manufacturing countries are trying to aspire to, and this guy is trying to go the…

Since the inaugurations of William Lai as Taiwan’s President in May 2024 and Donald Trump as U.S. President in January, Beijing has been on edge. Will Lai take provocative actions that demand a response? And what is Trump’s attitude toward Taiwan and its fight to remain outside China’s orbit? The answers have proved complicated. In the early days of his presidency, Lai carefully avoided riling Beijing unnecessarily. The strength of Taiwan’s economy last year appeared to relieve him of any political need to rally his nationalist base with fist-shaking actions or rhetoric toward the mainland. But his Democratic Progressive Party lacks a parliamentary majority, and he can’t be sure the Trump Administration has his back. Whatever his political intent, Lai has become more strident on cross–Taiwan Strait questions in…

The U.S. has always had a tricky relationship with immigrants and refugees, even if part of the American mythology is that we are a land of newcomers. In this mythology, they—migrants—are a part of us. At the same time, the U.S. has also gone through periodic spasms of intense anti-immigrant feeling. So it is now, with the Trump Administration promoting a moral panic about strangers coming to our shores. When these people, including those who are also Americans, become seen as a threat to the nation, they are no longer a part of us. Instead, they become the “other” to our collective self as a country. This is not new. In the late 1800s, many Americans believed that Chinese immigrants brought disease, crime, and vice, along with an inhuman…

In an hour-long meeting at Eli Lilly and Co.’s headquarters in Indianapolis on April 15, the pharmaceutical company’s top executives met, like they had dozens of times before, to hear the long-awaited results of a study involving a new drug. There’s always a lot riding on these presentations, called readouts. But this one, for Lilly’s first diabetes and weight-loss pill based on the GLP-1 hormone, was particularly fraught. Days before, rival pharma giant Pfizer had announced it was abandoning its oral weight-loss drug after worrying side effects involving liver problems were reported in one participant in the trial. It was the second drug in its class that had failed for Pfizer. So, David Ricks, Lilly’s CEO, was understandably cautious. It was the latest in a string of milestone moments…

The U.S. has a long history of police brutality against Black and brown people. But in the early 2010s, as camera phones and social media became more ubiquitous, images of this violence spread across the country and around the world. These visuals were essential in starting conversations and in launching the global Black Lives Matter movement. Crucially, they also highlighted the systemic abuse of Black bodies, which have all too often been reduced to symbols of crime, death, and hatred, further perpetuating harmful stereotypes. In the wake of the tragic losses of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown Jr., Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and others, artists have looked for ways to spotlight humanity that is frequently overlooked and to awaken compassion in society at large. Here, we present six carefully selected…