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Japan's ruling party burns through another leader

IT'S NOT EASY BEING JAPAN'S Prime Minister. Though the center-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated the country's politics for nearly seven decades, the top job has frequently changed hands. Fumio Kishida is just the third leader in the past quarter-century to last at least two years. Yet once again, change is coming.

DEMONIZING RURAL AMERICA

By the time I was 7 or 8 years old, I was keenly aware of my father's drug use. He didn't snort pills in front of me yet―he saved that for my teen years—but he talked about pills freely, and I knew he took them. And by the time I became an adult, everyone in my nuclear family-and plenty in my extended family-was struggling to cope with the impacts of violence, incarceration, and addiction.

5 tricks to calm your fear of flying

GINA MOFFA'S FEAR OF FLYING took off early. When she was 10, her mother-overwhelmed by bad turbulence on a flight to Italy clambered to the emergency exit and tried to get out of the plane. A fellow passenger offered her Valium, and a nun onboard prayed the rosary with her. \"And then she was OK,\" Moffa says. \"But it taught me there was something to be afraid of.\"

In a Northern Ireland steeped in its past, Michelle O'Neill has a vision for the future

MICHELLE O'NEILL WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO be here. When the Northern Ireland Assembly was established following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended 30 years of sectarian bloodshed known as the Troubles, it established a delicate system of power sharing.

Call her Mother: how a term with queer origins entered the internet lexicon

Just because \"mother\" is an idea that babies can understand doesn't mean it's simple. The word is also a slang term that has been bestowed upon the biggest names in show business, from Beyoncé to Zendaya.

Marking 20 years of marriage-and marriage equality

BY THE TIME HEIDI NORTON married Gina Smith on May 17, 2004, their two sons had already been born with the nameNortonsmith-they adopted after tying the knot. It was the first day same-sex couples could be legally wed in Massachusetts, thanks to the success of their hardwon lawsuit. \"You came out as Nortonsmith,\" Gina told the boys that day. \"We had to earn it.\"

Thai artifacts

From the Met

What's going on with storms on the sun?

IT HAS BEEN A SEASON OF SKY PAGEANTS. MARCH 24 and 25 saw a lunar eclipse across the Americas, Europe, and North and East Asia. April 8 featured the total solar eclipse in North America.

MIDEAST LEADERSHIP CRISIS

Iran searched for a lost President hours before war-crime charges were sought against heads of Israel and Hamas

Your Toxic Life

An independent lab has made a business of exposing what’s really inside everyday products

A Man in Full, adapted and redacted

Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full is a massive book, in more ways than one. The 742-page social novel about a swaggering Atlanta real estate mogul, which took Wolfe over a decade to write, sold a jaw-dropping 1.4 million hardcover copies after its publication in 1998. The book's themes-money, power, race, masculinity--are just as grand.

Exhibition showcases ancient splendor

A captivating exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco offers a clue to the vibrant Bronze Age cultures that flourished along the Yangtze River more than 2,000 years ago.

Flights of kites

An ancient folk craft tradition floats across time and still soars to new heights in modern times

What does a biopic owe its subject?

AMY WINEHOUSE WROTE SONGS THAT CUT TO THE CORE of heartbreak and sang them in a voice as supple and sturdy as raw silk.

On the road again with Mad Max's mastermind

GEORGE MILLER HAS SPENT MORE THAN 40 YEARS swerving in and out of the post apocalyptic world of Mad Max.

TV'S ENDLESS HOLOCAUST

A surge of World War II dramas fails to connect with the present

NEXT GENERATION LEADERS

11 trailblazers who are challenging the status quo, leading with empathy, and forging solutions for a brighter future

Uranium dreams

The promise of clean nuclear power brings the West to Mongolia

Why the Westminster Dog Show made me appreciate mutts

I SPENT THREE YEARS AMONG DOGS WITH BLOODLINES like British royalty.

CO₂ Leadership Brief

ON MAY 1, FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIR Jerome Powell offered a two-part message to eager interest- rate watchers.

HOW TO WIN COLD WAR II

Both President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping strongly reject the current U.S.China competition as a new Cold War.

Kate Cox wanted to be a mom of three. Instead, she's a reluctant abortion advocate

IN THE TIDY BACKYARD OF KATE COX’S DALLAS-AREA home, there are two child-size lawn chairs alongside two toddler bicycles.

If He Wins

In exclusive interviews with TIME, Donald Trump lays out a second-term agenda that would reshape America and its role in the world

A Marriage of Food and Fiction

In the kitchen with Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is reimagining the Olympics

When Paris kicks off the Olympic Games on July 26, it will be with athletes floating on an armada of boats down the Seine River, rather than marching in a stadium as it has always been.

TIME 100 HEALTH-TITANS

Last May, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory about the profound consequences of loneliness and isolation-a departure from the type of standard medical conditions his predecessors prioritized.

TIME 100 HEALTH-CATALYSTS

It's been a long time since there was good news about Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative condition that affects more than 8 million people worldwide.

TIME 100 HEALTH-LEADERS

'Catastrophic.' -BASHAR MURAD ON THE HEALTH SITUATION IN GAZA

TIME 100 HEALTH-PIONEERS

In the wake of the pandemic, a new era emerges-marked by fresh discoveries, novel treatments, and global victories over disease. These are the most influential people in health in 2024

The golden age of Ryan Gosling is upon us

IN DEREK CIANFRANCE'S 2010 LOVE-ON-THErocks heartbreaker Blue Valentine, Ryan Gosling plays a husband and father, Dean, who appears to be nothing but an annoyance to his wife, Michelle Williams' Cindy, a harried nurse.