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TIME100 NEXT The 2021 edition of TIME100 Next in the March 1/March 8 issue drove much conversation on social media, with pundits and commenters hailing the honorees in politics, health, tech and other fields. On Twitter, Tom Steyer, 2020 presidential

Crayola launched its Colors of the World crayon box set in May 2020, releasing new colors meant to reflect over 40 skin tones from around the world. The line has since expanded to pencils and markers. Mattel, the maker of Barbie, launched its first l

TUCKED IN THE SHADOW OF THE TETONS, THE TOWN OF Jackson, Wyo., and surrounding Teton County is home to fewer than 25,000 full-time residents, but annually hosts more than 2.5 million visitors. The valley’s natural beauty attracts an influx of tourist

A man in Yangon, Myanmar, is treated after police fired tear gas at protesters on Feb. 28, a day the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says saw at least 18 people killed by security forces. The military has escalated its crackdown

More than five years ago, before my daughter Evie Newman transitioned, she came to her parents one day upset. She had been experiencing anxiety and deep depression but was unable to identify the cause of her pain. Out of complete frustration and at j

WHEN TUI TUILETA LEFT HONOLULU FOR COLLEGE in 2016, he was renowned for his skills in volleyball, not baking. But these days, the 6-ft.-2-in. former U.S. national volleyball team member, who has since returned home, is best known around his native Oa

RUTH BADER GINSBURG WAS AN AMERICAN icon. The late Justice, who died on Sept. 18 at the age of 87, was only the second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, a trailblazing feminist who, over a long career, enshrined equal protections for women into

JUST DAYS AFTER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN WAS SWORN IN TO OFFICE, HIS NATIONAL-SECURITY TEAM URGENTLY REACHED OUT TO THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOR HELP. The new Commander in Chief was launching a government-wide effort to combat far-right extremism and wa

IT TAKES ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES TO try and save a life. Or at least that’s how long it takes a volunteer with a tablet, standing in the parking lot at the T.R. Hoover community development center in South Dallas on a bitterly cold February morning. Duri

ON MARCH 28, 2020, JANIE MARSHALL LOST HER footing and stumbled near another woman while both were being treated for non-COVID-19 ailments at a Brooklyn hospital. With the pandemic raging, an encounter that days earlier might have ended in a friendly

WHEN LAUREN MARTINEZ ARRIVED home after work to find her teenage daughter feverish and vomiting, she knew her pandemic plans were about to fall apart. It was May 2020 and her day care had closed, so Martinez, an assistant office manager at a dentist’

XIOMARA WAS ALREADY HAVING LABOR PAINS WHEN SHE presented herself to U.S. Border Patrol officials to make a claim for asylum. She had fled gang violence in El Salvador six months earlier, working under the table in Mexico to afford bus tickets for he

THE MESSAGE TO WOMEN WAS CLEAR: Go back home. Since November, hundreds of thousands of farmers had gathered at different sites on the outskirts of the Indian capital to demand the repeal of three agricultural laws that they say would destroy their li

THE YEAR IS 2021, AND THE MOST-TALKED-ABOUT pop star in the world is Britney Spears. Yes, that’s the same Britney Spears who hasn’t released a new studio album since 2016 and who, two years ago, announced an “indefinite work hiatus.” But one way of e

THE BEST NEW BOOKS ARRIVING THIS MONTH ARE written by authors both established and emerging. March brings with it much-anticipated new fiction from Viet Thanh Nguyen and Kazuo Ishiguro, as well as buzzy debuts from Alexandra Andrews and Gabriela Garc

LIKE MANY OTHERS IN THE U.S., RON GUMUCIO AND HIS wife stopped going to the gym in 2020 as a precaution against COVID-19. To fill the void, Gumucio’s wife eventually purchased a stationary bike, joining the club of people who have splurged on pricey

IT’S ONE THING TO TEST A VACCINE IN A controlled study, and another to see it in action in the real world. Since the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved at the end of 2020, more than 250 million people around the world have been vaccinated, and pub

FOR MOST TEXANS, THE LIGHTS ARE BACK ON AND THE water pressure has returned. But if the most acute effects of February’s weather crisis are fading into the rearview mirror, the battle to address the reality it revealed—America’s crumbling infrastruct

Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, Klara and the Sun, centers on artificial intelligence. The eponymous narrator is unlike any of Ishiguro’s previous narrators in that she is not human but an AF or “artificial friend,” a robotic being resembling a human chi

KIM NG TOOK HER SEAT ON THE CHARtered jet. As assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, she was joining the team on a road trip in 2008. Soon the Dodgers players started filing onto the plane, and a flight attendant began taking drink ord

Ceyenne Doroshow founded Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society, or G.L.I.T.S., in 2015 to help trans and sex-worker communities with issues like housing and health care. These needs became increasingly urgent after the onset of the pandem

OVER THE PAST 18 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has consolidated more power than any other leader since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. He has transformed Turkey’s politics, faced down a military coup and rewritten the constitution

JUST BEFORE 3 P.M. ON A WARM WEDNESDAY IN FEBRUARY, 30-year-old Jammella Anderson—donning heart-shaped glasses, a Black Lives Matter tee and 2-in. platform boots—strolls up to a small bicycle-repair shop just north of Albany, N.Y. She’s here to persu

IF YOU SUBSCRIBE TO NETFLIX OR ANY OTHER STREAMING service, you know—or you’re at least made to feel—that even if you’re not yet ready to return to theaters, you’ll never run out of things to watch. That should be exciting. So why isn’t it? The unend

AS NASTYA WAITS FOR HER HUSBAND KIRILL TO COME HOME from work, thoughts run through her head. She smooths the creases from the tablecloth and lays the table in the dimly lit kitchen of their apartment in Moscow, careful to place the knife and fork pe

ON A HOT SUMMER DAY LAST AUGUST, SVETLANA Tikhanovskaya was pacing up and down her empty apartment in Minsk, the capital of Belarus in Central Europe, her life—and her country—in turmoil. With her husband in jail, she had sent her two small children

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS IN my mid-20s, after suffering from major depressive disorder and anxiety for most of my life, I found myself at the emergency room during an episode of substance-induced psychosis. My father and stepmother found me, at

Last of the Bohemians IN EVERYTHING LAWRENCE Ferlinghetti wrote, he wanted folks to wake up. A poet and publisher, Ferlinghetti, who died on Feb. 22 at 101, was a perceptive writer renowned for his progressive politics and a thoughtful observer of th

Distance two men descended on Feb. 21 when they skied and rappelled from the summit of Yosemite’s Half Dome, becoming the first people known to have done so Weight in pounds of fleece shorn from a ram recently found in rural Australia, a farm sanctua