‘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,...
The U.S. Has Turned its Back on LGBTQ Asylum Seekers
In 1980, Cuban police detained Fidel Armando Toboso-Alfonso without charge, encouraged co-workers to publicly shame him, and warned he faced...
Trump’s Anti-Woke AI Policy Puts Patients’ Lives at Risk
On July 23, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order titled “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government Act.”...
Goodbye, Penny: What the End of the Coin’s Production Means for Customers and Businesses
The penny has died. At the age of 232, the iconic coin’s final batch was minted in Philadelphia on Wednesday....
The History Behind Last Samurai Standing
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Last Samurai Standing In the breathless opening one-er of Last Samurai Standing, samurai protagonist Shujiro Saga...
Ecuador’s Constitution Was the First to Protect the Rights of Nature. Now That’s at Risk
Nearly two decades ago Ecuador became the first country to legally enshrine the rights of nature in its constitution. This...
Are Flights Still Being Disrupted Now That the Shutdown Is Over? What Travelers Should Know
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history came to an end on Wednesday night, but flight disruptions are expected to...
Breaking Down the Chilling Ending of Netflix’s Cat-and-Mouse Thriller The Beast in Me
Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Beast in Me. Five years after the finale of Homeland, Claire Danes has...
Now That the Government Has Reopened, When Can SNAP Recipients Expect to Get Paid?
Funding for federal food assistance programs has been restored with the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history,...
