Tabla de contenidos para April 14, 2025 en TIME Magazine

Alcohol has long been synonymous with relaxation. Historically, if you wanted to unwind after a rough day at work—or kick back on the couch, at a baseball game, or in the pool—there’s a good chance you’d have a drink in hand. Now, the tides are turning. In early January, then U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a report warning that even small amounts of alcohol can cause cancer. Drinking just one alcoholic beverage a day increases the risk of liver cirrhosis, esophageal cancer, oral cancer, and various injuries, a federal analysis suggests. According to a recent survey, nearly half of Americans are trying to cut back on their alcohol consumption in 2025—a 44% increase since 2023. As the science around alcohol’s health risks crystallizes, a new question is brewing:…

What a difference mere weeks have made in Canada. As the New Year came and went, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ruling Liberals, after a decade in power, were trailing the Conservatives by 25 points—and facing electoral oblivion. An election was due by fall. It was looking as if it might come earlier. The opposition parties in the House were working to bring down the government. Today, Canada is in the midst of that early election, but the circumstances are night and day. Trudeau is gone, replaced by former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney. And it was Carney himself who called a snap election for April 28. Most surprising of all, the Liberals are back up in the polls—and now favored to win.…

Representative Jake Auchincloss’s Massachusetts district is so safe, he didn’t even face a Republican opponent in 2024. So while some Democrats are focused on the careful messaging needed to appease swing voters, Auchincloss, 37, is fixated on the broader question facing his party. What went wrong for Democrats? It’s encapsulated in the school closures. Those are elementary-school kids who didn’t learn reading and writing because it was on Zoom. That’s high school kids who missed out on baseball practice. And what defined those school closures was a condescension, it was an inflexibility, and it was a resistance to feedback about the effects of our government’s decisions. It’s not enough to say we were wrong on this. We also have to have a plan for how we’re gonna remediate it.…

NEARLY SIX YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, yet he still cringes at all the polished brass and chandeliers that crowd his office. The place does seem rather gaudy, like a room plucked straight from Mar-a-Lago, and Zelensky can’t seem to stop apologizing for it as he shows me around one evening in March. He would rather scrap the furniture, he says, rip down the pilasters, and use white paint to hide the gold leaf on the ceiling. “But, you know, we haven’t had much time for renovations, especially these last few years,” he says, referring to the war. Only in the back of his chambers, behind Ukraine’s version of the Resolute Desk, is there a space that feels like home to Zelensky—a small…

Michael Bloomberg tends to avoid the press. The New York City mayor turned climate advocate is not a regular guest on cable news. But having helped close more than 300 coal-fired power plants in the U.S., cut New York City’s emissions by nearly 20%, and contributed more than $1 billion to climate action, he has a story to tell. In 1981, Bloomberg launched what would become a media empire by providing data that informs financial decision making. During his three terms as New York City mayor, from 2002 to 2013, he applied that same data-driven approach to advance pragmatic solutions on a wide range of issues, from crime to public health—even if, at times, that approach put him out of step with politics. Since leaving office, he has brought…

You don’t need to have fought in a war to make a great war movie: though neither Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, nor Stanley Kubrick did, the movies they made about the horrors of combat endure. But you could argue that the stakes are higher when a filmmaker who’s been to hell and back sets out to express the truth of his experience as, say, Sam Fuller did, using his own World War II diaries as the basis for his great, grim 1951 Korean War–set film The Steel Helmet. Members of the armed services who have seen combat and lived to tell about it often don’t tell about it. Which makes the accounts of those who do mean that much more. Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza has teamed with…

Watch a video interview with cover subject Catherine Coleman Flowers, who, after sounding the alarm about poor sewage systems in her native Lowndes County, Alabama, now is fighting for clean sanitation systems for all Americans. With climate change, “sanitation issues are becoming more prevalent in communities that have never experienced them before,” she tells TIME. time.com/earth-awards-2025 Laugh track On TIME.com, film critic Stephanie Zacharek picks the 15 best dumb comedies, from Duck Soup to Dumb and Dumber, below—movies that make people “say, ‘Really?’ when I profess my love for them.” time.com/dumb-comedies TIME at the United Nations On March 18, TIME CEO Jessica Sibley moderated a panel on women’s leadership at the U.N. From left, U.N. Partnership’s Annemarie Hwa Hou, Iceland President Halla Tomasdottir, Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, Sibley,…

The longest eight days Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ever spent lasted more than nine months. On June 5, 2024, the two NASA astronauts boarded the maiden mission of Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft for what was supposed to be a short shakedown cruise to the International Space Station (ISS), before turning around and heading home after just over a week. But that was not to be. Mechanical problems aboard Starliner led NASA to conclude that the spacecraft was not fit to carry the astronauts home. Instead the ship left the station and splashed down uncrewed, leaving Wilmore and Williams to join the station rotation, living and working aboard the ISS until a fresh SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived and they could come home. They splashed down on March 18,…

On the night of March 15, three planes touched down in El Salvador from the U.S., carrying Venezuelans the Trump Administration had designated as gang members and deported without due process. I was there to document their arrival. The transfer from the plane to the buses that would carry the detainees to prison was rapid. Soldiers and police lined the route to the prison. As we entered the intake yard, the head of prisons was giving orders to an assembly of guards: Show them they are not in control. The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” Trustees descended on the men with electric shavers, stripping heads of…

Once again, Turkey faces political turmoil. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was detained on March 19 and then formally arrested on March 23. He stands accused of a host of poorly evidenced charges: “establishing and managing a criminal organization, taking bribes, extortion, unlawfully recording personal data and rigging a tender.” Imamoglu, who called the charges a “black stain on our democracy,” has also been suspended from his position as mayor. If convicted, as is expected, he will not be allowed to run for President. Despite this, the CHP, which says the arrest is politically motivated, held its previously scheduled primary and named Imamoglu as its presidential candidate for the 2028 election. Meanwhile, protests continue to rock Turkey. Police have moved quickly to…

The press conference starts like any other: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is grilled on everything from affordable housing and war in the Middle East to his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump. Then, Lana, 11, picks up the microphone. “Do you think social media has an impact on kids?” asks the suburban Canberra primary-school student. Of all the burning issues of the day, it’s the one that Albanese feels on surest ground to answer. It also goes to the heart of his government’s most eye-catching policy—one that directly affects Lana and the other student reporters invited to interrogate Australia’s top politician for Behind the News, a long-running kids’ current-affairs show. “It certainly does, and that’s why we’re going to ban social media for under-16s,” Albanese replies resolutely. “I…

The first thing Molly, the protagonist of the new FX dramedy Dying for Sex, does after learning she has incurable cancer is run to the bodega for a green plastic two-liter of generic diet soda. Then she lights up a menthol cigarette. Across the street, her husband Steve, who nursed Molly through her first fight with breast cancer a few years earlier, sits bewildered in the office of their couples therapist. When Molly’s oncologist called with the awful news, they had been arguing about her longing for sex and his refusal to touch her. Molly, played with impish vivacity and quiet resolve by Michelle Williams, bears little resemblance to the Hollywood archetype of the beautiful young woman dying of cancer. Neither a doomed dream girl like Ali MacGraw in…

DIED George Foreman Thriller and griller George Foreman, the heavyweight boxing champion who died on March 21 at age 76, transformed himself from brooding American sports destroyer into beloved avuncular everyman like no other athlete on the planet. A former teenage petty thief who turned to boxing for salvation, Foreman won a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1968 Olympics, and in 1973 he took the heavyweight championship away from “Smokin’” Joe Frazier, on the strength of a right uppercut that was so ferocious that announcer Howard Cosell exclaimed three times, for the ages: “Down goes Frazier!” Muhammad Ali took that belt back a year later, at the “Rumble in the Jungle” in the Congo—then known as Zaire—by employing a “rope-a-dope” strategy in which Ali took punches that…

In the six years since I published Maid, almost every person who’s interviewed me has asked me the same question: Do I, a person who became kind of famous for writing about cleaning people’s houses, have a house cleaner myself? The simple answer was no. But it was not because my house was already spotless. Far from it. The truth was, I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. When I worked as a house cleaner, I spent hours dusting rooms with objects valuable enough to pay for a week’s worth of groceries I desperately needed. Everything I polished carried an invisible price tag with an obscene amount of money that had been spent. Receipts left on countertops for dry cleaning listed totals that were more than what I…

To Tennessee republican William Frist, who began his career not in politics but in medicine, taking on the climate crisis was a natural next move after stepping down from the U.S. Senate in 2007. “It comes back to the same thing: improving the well-being of people by focusing on their health,” says Frist, who was first elected in 1994 and served as majority leader from 2003 to 2007. It was only logical, then, that last year he partnered with the Nature Conservatory to establish the Senator Bill and Tracy Frist Initiative for Planetary and Human Health, which aims to bridge public-health solutions and the climate crisis. Frist says focusing on communicating the health impacts of climate change—which range from an increase in mental-health crises to heightened risk of respiratory…

When money gets tight, as it is in Hollywood now, industries default to dependable formulas. Hence the many new shows set in emergency rooms. Reuniting producers of ur-ER drama ER with one of its stars, Noah Wyle, Max’s The Pitt, whose debut season unfolds over a single shift, is the best and buzziest of the bunch. NBC sitcom St. Denis Medical gives emergency medicine the mockumentary treatment. Apple has a dry, German-language take in Berlin ER. Each of these series puts a novel spin on the format. The same cannot be said of Netflix’s first English-language medical procedural, Pulse. Set at a hectic Level 1 trauma center in Miami, the soapy drama opens as a hurricane rolls in. The staff is at a distinct disadvantage because its popular chief…

Bringing children into the world and raising them is generally considered one of life’s great joys. But for some hopeful parents-to-be, just “letting things happen” isn’t an option. Gay couples may choose to adopt, or figure out some kind of family arrangement outside the longstanding one-mommy, one-daddy equation. And same-sex couples often face fertility challenges, just as hetero couples do. Add the expectations of would-be grandparents into the mix, and it’s a wonder any child ever gets born at all. The Wedding Banquet, Andrew Ahn’s updated rendering of Ang Lee’s 1993 comedy-drama of the same name, uses those complex dreams and dashed hopes as a starting point to talk about everything that unites rather than divides us in modern America, a place where being gay is wholly accepted, unless…