No arguments — or turkey — this Thanksgiving. Just a cocktail.This Thanksgiving, I’m going to make myself a French 75 and toast the end of a very bad, horrible, no-good year. I’ll be the only one in our family following Dr. Fauci’s advice to “bite the bullet” ... More »
Science has become a politically polarizing issue. A global report found Americans are three times more likely to trust scientists if they identify as left-wing, a political divide that makes the United States an outlier internationally.The survey by the Pew R... More »
Wenchang, China
Chinese technicians were making final preparations Monday for a mission to bring back material from the moon’s surface for the first time in more than four decades – an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moo... More »
Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry — instead, everyone played each other When her new boss started hitting on her, Ronnie* wondered if she might be able to take advantage of the situation. She was 23, and by now she’d f... More »
Unfeeling royals offer no respite from unfeeling Republicans.WASHINGTON — I’ve been riveted all week by the spectacle of the most famous blond phenom on the planet, a child isolated and miserable living inside a national landmark, lashing out and spiraling int... More »
Every year, TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun. (See last year’s list here.) To assemble our 2020 list, we solicited nominations both from our editors and correspondents around the world, and through an... More »
Cape Canaveral, Florida
SpaceX’s newly launched capsule arrived Monday at the International Space Station, where the four astronauts who were on board will live until spring. The Dragon capsule pulled up and docked late Monday night, following... More »
For 12 years as a columnist I wore my “heart out after the unattainable.”When I was a younger man, a quarter-century ago, I clambered into the armored Land Rover provided by this newspaper to cover the Bosnian war. It was, at the best of times, an unbalanced v... More »
Dolly Parton hopes this holiday season can bring some healing to the United States."I think we've just become so divided, 'cause people just seem to love to hate. You know? This is the Christmas season coming up. But we need to carry that Christmas spirit of p... More »
Trump wants to preserve, protect and defend only himself.The ruler broods, alone with his rage and shame, undone by rejection, his mind, like Macbeth’s, “full of scorpions,” plotting to overturn facts and destroy American democracy. His lackeys, and only they ... More »