China’s Imperiled Astronauts Illustrate the Dangers of Space Debris
No trip to space can be counted a success unless you make it safely back to Earth. That’s a lesson...
Gavin Newsom’s Climate Warning for American Companies
During the first days of the U.N. COP30 climate talks underway in the Amazon city of Belém, it felt almost...
How a Franchise About Magicians Became a Surprise Smash Hit
It’s one of those ideas that, once you hear it, you can’t believe it hasn’t been done a million times:...
The Director of a Controversial Horror Movie About Jesus Insists It’s ‘Not as Evil as People Are Assuming’
Making a horror movie about Jesus Christ was never going to be easy, though Lofty Nathan, the writer and director...
Breaking Down the Shocking Ending of Malice
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Malice Prime Video’s Malice, a six-episode psychological thriller starring David Duchovny and Jack Whitehall, out on...
The Life-Affirming Story of Cancer, Poetry, and Love Behind Come See Me in the Good Light
On its surface, Come See Me in the Good Light is a film about death. But it’s really a film...
The Rise, Fall, and Potential Return of the Food Pyramid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and man on a mission to “Make...
The Chaotic True Story That Inspired Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague, out Nov. 14 on Netflix, is a movie about the making of a movie, as director Richard Linklater...
‘You Will Lose’: Newsom’s Fighting Words as Trump Administration Sues California Over Redistricting
California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a warning to the Trump Administration after the Justice Department joined a Republican-led lawsuit on...
The Best Years of Your Life Are Probably Still Ahead
Laura Carstensen’s favorite lecture of the year is the one when she tells undergrads at Stanford University that—contrary to what...
DNA Reveals the Secret History of Dogs
More than 3,000 years ago, in what is now Kazakhstan, six dogs were laid carefully in the ground. Were they...
No, That AI-Generated Country Song Isn’t a No. 1 Hit
Welcome back to In the Loop, TIME’s new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. We’re publishing these editions both as stories on...
The GOP May Not Need a New Law to Make Judges More Compliant
President Donald Trump’s second term has been defined by repeated showdowns with federal judges, who have issued nationwide injunctions in...
The Seduction Puts a Steamy, Feminist Spin on Dangerous Liaisons
There are no heroes in Les Liaisons dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s epistolary novel of cold-blooded decadence in the same...
Why Humanitarian Efforts Keep Failing
Food is the difference between life and death. Everyone knows this. But it’s also the difference between stability and instability,...
