We are nearing a century of Person of the Year, the franchise TIME’s editors launched as a make-good at the end of 1927, after realizing they had failed to mark Charles Lindbergh’s history-making transatlantic flight on the cover. It is our privilege

Moo Deng. It’s a name millions around the world have come to know. She’s the most obsessed-over, least controversial celebrity. Her dewy skin, enviable lifestyle of frolicking and feasting, and eminently meme-able face have made her an icon of the in

More than 630 days after Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour kicked off on March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Ariz., the global concert phenomenon came to an end with three final shows in Vancouver on Dec. 6–8. In the nearly two years since Eras began, Swift’s accomp

If you read only the synopsis of Babygirl before seeing it, you might imagine it’s an erotic age-gap thriller about the workplace power dynamic between men and women. That’s part of it, sure. But Halina Reijn’s exuberant third feature goes deeper tha

Lisa Su apologizes if she seems tired. It’s the day after the U.S. presidential election, and like much of the nation she was awake until the early hours, transfixed as the results came in, only tearing herself away once it became clear that Donald T

In 2024, both cutting-edge technology and the companies controlling it grew increasingly powerful, provoking euphoric wonderment and existential dread. Companies like Nvidia and Alphabet soared in value, fueled by expectations that artificial intelli

Percival Everett’s reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which won a National Book Award, is a sweeping story centering on Jim, the enslaved sidekick in Mark Twain’s classic adventure tale. Everett sends both Huck Finn and his friend, reintr

Progress in addressing mental health is notoriously slow and mostly incremental. Breakthrough treatments tend to be rare, and trained professionals too few to meet the demand for services, which is increasing. But 2024 was a pivotal year—thanks to th

Elton John has no address. Visitors to his home are given three names: the name of a house, the name of a hill, and the name of a town, which is near Windsor, as in Windsor Castle, where King Charles III lives. Admission is granted via a big iron gat

The night before the 2024 Person of the Year was announced, TIME hosted a star-studded dinner in New York City, coinciding with the rollout of this issue. The Dec. 11 event featured conversations with 2024 CEO of the Year Lisa Su (right), moderated b

Framed magazines with him on the cover hung by the front door. On a table near the fireplace sat a cast-bronze eagle awarded him by the singer Lee Greenwood. In the men’s lavatory, a picture of him with Arnold Palmer hung near the urinals. Adorning a

Few jobs require less physical exertion than rebounding for Caitlin Clark. On an early-November morning in downtown Indianapolis, Clark sprints along the three-point line at the Fever practice gym, trying to bang as many shots as possible over a six-

The most engrossing podcast Dan Taberski has produced since Missing Richard Simmons, Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spread among high school girls in Le Roy, N.Y., beginning in 2011, in what is believed to be the largest case of ma

Singer Beth Gibbons hasn’t released much music in the 30 years since her iconic band Portishead stormed out of the gate with seminal trip-hop record Dummy. Nor has she spoken to the press much, gaining a reputation for intense privacy. But she’s not

By early November, it was virtually certain that 2024 would be the hottest year on record. The evidence was being felt around the world—from flooding that killed hundreds in Spain to drought in 48 of America’s 50 states. Insurance giants dropped cove

As a dating coach and the Director of Relationship science at Hinge, I often hear from people who feel like there’s something big they need to disclose on early dates—chronic illness, mental-health struggles, college debt, family estrangement, lack o

The Jennings Creek wildfire burns in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., on Nov. 10. The Northeast has faced unusually dry weather conditions this fall; New York City didn’t record any significant rainfall in all of October. Drought conditions have fueled hundreds

Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a political survivor. For more than 20 years, first as Turkey’s Prime Minister and then as its President, he has weaved his way through the kinds of crises that end the careers of even the most resourceful and resilient of lea

It might be time to change your texting habits. According to a recent study, people don’t like when you use abbreviations, such as turning really into rly or firing off a wyd (what are you doing?). These types of abbreviations register as insincere t

A person wades through floodwater on Nov. 12 after Typhoon Toraji brought heavy rainfall to the northern Philippine city of Ilagan. The Philippines has been reeling from six major back-to-back storms that have hit the country in a matter of weeks. To

Inside Donald Trump’s orbit, it’s become a given that the former and future President can bypass Congress to magically fill his Cabinet with the loyalists of his choosing. That might have been so, if only he didn’t want Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth as

Screens are part of modern teenage life—but there are almost no guardrails around what they see. While online videos can educate and connect young people, some content harms their emotional and psychological development. Now, for the first time, expe

Would you spend $40 on a meal? A workout class? A new T-shirt? To chat with a stranger about their life experience for half an hour? The last is the business model behind Fello, a new app that pays people to tell their life stories to others going th

Very rarely does the right movie arrive at precisely the right time, at a moment when compassion is in short supply and the collective human imagination has come to feel shrunken and desiccated. Jacques Audiard’s operatic musical Emilia Pérez is the

Muncie Daniels is just trying to make his voice heard over the cacophony that passes for public discourse. An ambitious CNN commentator, the protagonist of the conspiracy thriller series The Madness (now streaming on Netflix) has been neglecting his

The image onscreen appears just as it did in a 17-year-old Luca Guadagnino’s mind: as an infatuated man gazes at his object of desire, a translucent, almost ghostly version of his hand reaches out to stroke the face of his unwitting beloved. The word

When Kari Leibowitz moved to the Arctic in 2014, she braced herself for the impact of long, dark, cold winters. The temperature in Tromso, Norway, hovers around 20°F for eight months of the year, during which time it snows daily. Surely the wind woul