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Shohei Ohtani Is What Baseball Needs

When Shohei Ohtani takes a seat on a shaded bench to await his turn in the batting cage at Los Angeles Angels spring training, the feeling is like a restaurant when a movie star is...

By Sean Gregory and Karl Vick/Tempe, Ariz. April 7, 2022

Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins on the Ukraine Information War

The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they're seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what's known as...

By Karl Vick March 9, 2022

Art Spiegelman On Why 'Maus' Got Cancelled

In the four decades since Art Spiegelman began Maus, the graphic novel has sold millions of copies, won a Pulitzer Prize, and secured a place in the Western canon. The book communicates the history of...

By Karl Vick February 11, 2022

How Wordle's Creator Feels About Selling His Viral Game

A couple of hours after the New York Times announced on Monday that it had acquired the online word game known as Wordle, its inventor was still looking for the right word—this time, for his...

By Karl Vick February 1, 2022

Why 2021 Was a Watershed Year for Press Freedoms

On May 23, a control tower radioed a Ryanair jetliner that it had a bomb on board. A fighter jet appeared off its wing, and Flight FR4978, en route from Greece to Lithuania, was compelled to...

By Karl Vick December 30, 2021

A Tribute to the People We Lost in 2021

A moving tribute from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to those we lost in 2021.

By Karl Vick December 20, 2021

Looking Back On the Year That Was 2021

It was a lurching, stammering year. But resilience was everywhere.

By Karl Vick December 20, 2021

Matt Black's Photos Capture 'American Geography' Left Behind

Moments come when we see clearly. Sometimes it’s the moment our eyes fall upon a photograph. In August of 2005, many people who lived outside the United States found themselves struggling to reconcile their image...

By Karl Vick November 4, 2021

'It Is a Battle for Facts.' What Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa Understands About Why She Was Chosen

If Maria Ressa long has been known to people who follow the news, she has become absolutely essential to anyone grappling with why the news has gotten harder and harder to follow. Born in Manila...

By Karl Vick October 8, 2021

Cops Involved in Fatal Minneapolis Shooting Hire Lawyers

As relatives of Terrance Franklin accuse police of lying about his death, officers involved in the shooting have been given separate lawyers, suggesting a shift in the case

By Karl Vick October 7, 2021

The Overlapping Worlds of Author Amor Towles

Amor Towles had never actually been beneath the vaulted ceiling of an Adirondack lake house when he described the one in his 2011 debut, the best-selling Rules of Civility. He could only imagine the appeal...

By Karl Vick/Garrison, N.Y. September 29, 2021

Efforts to Review a Killing by Minneapolis Police Hit Roadblock

A state agency has refused to reopen the controversial killing of Terrance Franklin by Minneapolis police, but it's not over yet

By Karl Vick July 28, 2021

Minnesota Attorney General 'Appalled' by 2013 Police Shooting

The prosecutors who won a conviction for the murder of George Floyd say they are focused anew on the case of a young Black man killed by Minneapolis police in 2013. Terrance Franklin was 22...

By Karl Vick/Minneapolis July 22, 2021

Old Video Sheds New Light on a Police Killing

A long-overlooked video and its scratchy audio are key to demands that Terrance Franklin's shooting death by Minneapolis police in 2013 be re-examined

By Josiah Bates and Karl Vick June 25, 2021

Michael Lewis Found the People Who Should Have Been in Charge During the Pandemic

In his new book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis does what Michael Lewis does better than anyone: He makes a problem of apparently ungodly complexity not only comprehensible but also a pleasure to...

By Karl Vick May 3, 2021

Colombian President Duque on Welcoming Venezuelan Refugees

Why Colombia opened its arms to Venezuelan refugees

By Karl Vick and Photographs by Fabiola Ferrero for TIME March 20, 2021

Islamist Terrorism Is Not Done With Us, Former al Qaeda Hostage Theo Padnos Warns

Remember ISIS? How about al Qaeda? It was not long ago (on the calendar, at least) that either name could summon, if not profound discomfort, at least a hint of the queasiness that swept over...

By Karl Vick February 25, 2021

A Photographer's Diary of 12 Months in Trump's America

It would be too much to say that if you’ve seen one Trump rally you’ve seen them all. But “they all follow a predictable pattern,” says Peter van Agtmael, who has been attending them since...

By Peter van Agtmael and Karl Vick January 19, 2021

CPJ: Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020

Twenty-one journalists were murdered because of their work—up from 10 the previous year, the Committee to Protect Journalists said

By Karl Vick December 22, 2020

U.S. Allies Among Place With Most Jailed Journalists

There were 274 journalists in jail on Dec. 1—the most since the Committee to Protect Journalists began its troubling annual census in 1992.

By Karl Vick December 15, 2020

One Thing Did Actually Work Out This Year

Not much has been going right this year. But look: In an atmosphere variously described as “great uncertainty” and a prelude to civil war, the people of the United States conducted an election. It went...

By Karl Vick December 3, 2020

Saeb Erekat's Dream of a Palestinian State Died Long Before He Did

He was the face of Palestinian side in a Mideast peace process that is long deceased

By Karl Vick November 11, 2020

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Weakening Democracy Around the World, Report Finds

Governments around the world are using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to restrict freedoms, punish independent news operations and attack minorities, according to a global survey by Freedom House, the U.S.-based nonprofit known for...

By Karl Vick October 2, 2020

After the Beirut Explosion, a Photographer Captures a Drive for Reform

Photographer Myriam Boulos captures the energy for change in Beirut after the devastating explosion

By Karl Vick August 15, 2020

Police Reform: Here's How America Should Rethink Safety

The police are a broken legacy of a racist system and tasked with work they are not trained to do

By Josiah Bates/Camden, N.J. and Karl Vick/Minneapolis August 6, 2020

How Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Seized the Moment While Her City Was Protesting

They say that in national politics, you get only one chance to introduce yourself to the country. For Keisha Lance Bottoms, that moment is kind of a blur. It came on the evening of May...

By Karl Vick June 11, 2020

‘I’m a Contrarian.’ Chris Wallace on His Role at Fox News and His Latest Book

A video screen is of course just the place to meet up with Chris Wallace. That arched brow and knowing smile have existed as pixels since the 1970s, when he began a television news career...

By Karl Vick June 4, 2020

After George Floyd's Death: Voices Behind Photos

'My job is just to document a visual diary,' a Minneapolis photographer tells TIME. 'Obviously, we are in need of a deep conversation about police reform because this keeps happening'

By Karl Vick May 30, 2020

Like Living in a War Zone Again

It’s bad, but it’s not all bad. To be confined in your home with the people you love most against an invisible plague may be, at times, uncomfortable. But it can also be like living...

By Karl Vick May 27, 2020

Louise Erdrich on 'The Night Watchman'

Louise Erdrich has been drawing from her heritage since Love Medicine announced her ascension to the top tier of American literature in 1984, when it won the National Book Critics Circle Award. "I'm a mixed...

By Karl Vick March 9, 2020

Bryan Stevenson: We’re Taking the Wrong Approach to Criminal Justice Reform

Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative

By Karl Vick February 20, 2020

NPR's Steve Inskeep Finds the American Present in the Past Through His Books

If he is in bed by 9 p.m., Steve Inskeep can get six hours of sleep before the alarm. He's due at NPR's Washington, D.C., headquarters at 4 a.m. for the live broadcast of Morning...

By Karl Vick January 16, 2020

Why the U.S. Is Braced for Iranian Retaliation

The Quds Force commander was the face of Iran's regional ambitions

By Karl Vick January 3, 2020

In the Year Since TIME Named Besieged Journalists the Person of the Year, the War Against Truth Has Continued Unabated

Governments worldwide have criminalized journalism

By Karl Vick December 12, 2019

The Story Behind TIME's 2019 Person of the Year Cover

Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva used art references to create a portrait of Greta Thunberg on a beach in Lisbon

By Karl Vick December 11, 2019

Sam Mendes on Taking World War I Out of the Trenches and Into the Theater in 1917

'I took a calculated gamble,' the Oscar-winning filmmaker says of his decision to make a movie that plays like one extended shot

By Karl Vick December 3, 2019

'No Friends But the Mountains.' What Life Looks Like for the Kurds of Syria, Now That the U.S. Has Pulled Back

The modern Middle East was formed exactly 100 years ago when, in the wake of World War I, the victors began creating new countries. Among the populations deemed deserving of nationhood — along with Armenians...

By Karl Vick November 14, 2019

'No Friends But the Mountains.' What Life Looks Like for the Kurds of Syria, Now That the U.S. Has Pulled Back

The modern Middle East was formed exactly 100 years ago when, in the wake of World War I, the victors began creating new countries. Among the populations deemed deserving of nationhood — along with Armenians...

By Karl Vick November 14, 2019

What the Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Says About the War That Killed Him

The death of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi may not change the world. Nevertheless, how it came about says a fair amount about the world he has departed. In the chain of events that led to the...

By W.J. Hennigan and Karl Vick October 31, 2019

Where Three Women's Journey from Cuba to America Left Them

On May 13, 2016, three women set off from Havana for the United States. On any map, their destination lay to the north. Yet they steered south. A migrant's route is determined as much by...

By Karl Vick October 18, 2019

How A.G. Sulzberger Is Leading the New York Times Into the Future

By embracing the future, a young publisher is helping save more than the family business

By Karl Vick October 10, 2019

The Strange Allure of State Fair Food

How long has it been since fairs felt a little dangerous? Since carnies lounged beside the greased sprockets of rickety rides, speaking their secret language so the rest of us--the "marks"--would not understand? Midways trafficked...

By Karl Vick July 11, 2019

Is Rwanda's Paul Kagame a Strongman, a Technocrat, or Something in Between?

Personal business is what's brought the President of Rwanda to Manhattan. Paul Kagame's daughter is graduating from Columbia University with a master's degree in international affairs. "I probably will have to come back in two...

By Karl Vick June 27, 2019

If Neither Trump Nor Iran Want War, What Do They Want Instead?

Now that both Iran and the United States have announced what they do not want--war--the search is on for what they do. That's always been easier to answer from Tehran's side. The Islamic Republic of...

By Karl Vick June 20, 2019

Mohamed Morsi: The Arab World's Lost Promise

The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 to bring Islam into modern politics. For decades the party existed largely underground, but it was ready and waiting when the uprisings known as the Arab Spring abruptly...

By Karl Vick June 20, 2019

‘It’s a Dark Period.’ The Stanford Expert Known as 'Mr. Democracy' on the Shrinking Free World

The Stanford scholar known as Mr. Democracy on the shrinking free world, the U.S.'s irreplaceable role in it and his book Ill Winds

By Karl Vick June 13, 2019

Jeff Daniels Plays a Hero on Broadway. He’s Still Waiting for One in the Real World

Nominated for a Tony for his performance of Atticus Finch, the actor talks 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in the age of Trump

By Karl Vick May 22, 2019

In Venezuela, Uncle Sam Roots From the Sidelines

In the predawn hours of April 30, the contest for control of Venezuela once again appeared to be coming to a head. Juan Guaidó, the young reformer who claims the mantle of President, announced from...

By Karl Vick May 2, 2019

Biographer Robert Caro Pauses as He Prepares His Final Lyndon B. Johnson Volume

The desk in Robert Caro's office has a rounded notch, a clean little half circle that lets him snug his wooden chair into his custom-made workstation. Instead of legs, the top rests on a pair...

By Karl Vick April 4, 2019

Venezuela's Crisis Reaches a Stalemate, but Time Is Running Out for the Opposition

A standoff at Venezuela's border reflects a crisis in stasis

By Karl Vick February 28, 2019

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Shohei Ohtani Is What Baseball Needs

When Shohei Ohtani takes a seat on a shaded bench to await his turn in the batting cage at Los Angeles Angels spring training, the feeling is like a restaurant when a movie star is...

Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins on the Ukraine Information War

The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they're seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what's known as...

Art Spiegelman On Why 'Maus' Got Cancelled

In the four decades since Art Spiegelman began Maus, the graphic novel has sold millions of copies, won a Pulitzer Prize, and secured a place in the Western canon. The book communicates the history of...

How Wordle's Creator Feels About Selling His Viral Game

A couple of hours after the New York Times announced on Monday that it had acquired the online word game known as Wordle, its inventor was still looking for the right word—this time, for his...

Why 2021 Was a Watershed Year for Press Freedoms

On May 23, a control tower radioed a Ryanair jetliner that it had a bomb on board. A fighter jet appeared off its wing, and Flight FR4978, en route from Greece to Lithuania, was compelled to...

A Tribute to the People We Lost in 2021

A moving tribute from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to those we lost in 2021.

Looking Back On the Year That Was 2021

It was a lurching, stammering year. But resilience was everywhere.

Matt Black's Photos Capture 'American Geography' Left Behind

Moments come when we see clearly. Sometimes it’s the moment our eyes fall upon a photograph. In August of 2005, many people who lived outside the United States found themselves struggling to reconcile their image...

'It Is a Battle for Facts.' What Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa Understands About Why She Was Chosen

If Maria Ressa long has been known to people who follow the news, she has become absolutely essential to anyone grappling with why the news has gotten harder and harder to follow. Born in Manila...

Cops Involved in Fatal Minneapolis Shooting Hire Lawyers

As relatives of Terrance Franklin accuse police of lying about his death, officers involved in the shooting have been given separate lawyers, suggesting a shift in the case

The Overlapping Worlds of Author Amor Towles

Amor Towles had never actually been beneath the vaulted ceiling of an Adirondack lake house when he described the one in his 2011 debut, the best-selling Rules of Civility. He could only imagine the appeal...

Efforts to Review a Killing by Minneapolis Police Hit Roadblock

A state agency has refused to reopen the controversial killing of Terrance Franklin by Minneapolis police, but it's not over yet

Minnesota Attorney General 'Appalled' by 2013 Police Shooting

The prosecutors who won a conviction for the murder of George Floyd say they are focused anew on the case of a young Black man killed by Minneapolis police in 2013. Terrance Franklin was 22...

Old Video Sheds New Light on a Police Killing

A long-overlooked video and its scratchy audio are key to demands that Terrance Franklin's shooting death by Minneapolis police in 2013 be re-examined

Michael Lewis Found the People Who Should Have Been in Charge During the Pandemic

In his new book, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis does what Michael Lewis does better than anyone: He makes a problem of apparently ungodly complexity not only comprehensible but also a pleasure to...

Colombian President Duque on Welcoming Venezuelan Refugees

Why Colombia opened its arms to Venezuelan refugees

Islamist Terrorism Is Not Done With Us, Former al Qaeda Hostage Theo Padnos Warns

Remember ISIS? How about al Qaeda? It was not long ago (on the calendar, at least) that either name could summon, if not profound discomfort, at least a hint of the queasiness that swept over...

A Photographer's Diary of 12 Months in Trump's America

It would be too much to say that if you’ve seen one Trump rally you’ve seen them all. But “they all follow a predictable pattern,” says Peter van Agtmael, who has been attending them since...

CPJ: Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020

Twenty-one journalists were murdered because of their work—up from 10 the previous year, the Committee to Protect Journalists said

U.S. Allies Among Place With Most Jailed Journalists

There were 274 journalists in jail on Dec. 1—the most since the Committee to Protect Journalists began its troubling annual census in 1992.

One Thing Did Actually Work Out This Year

Not much has been going right this year. But look: In an atmosphere variously described as “great uncertainty” and a prelude to civil war, the people of the United States conducted an election. It went...

Saeb Erekat's Dream of a Palestinian State Died Long Before He Did

He was the face of Palestinian side in a Mideast peace process that is long deceased

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Weakening Democracy Around the World, Report Finds

Governments around the world are using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to restrict freedoms, punish independent news operations and attack minorities, according to a global survey by Freedom House, the U.S.-based nonprofit known for...

After the Beirut Explosion, a Photographer Captures a Drive for Reform

Photographer Myriam Boulos captures the energy for change in Beirut after the devastating explosion

Police Reform: Here's How America Should Rethink Safety

The police are a broken legacy of a racist system and tasked with work they are not trained to do

How Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Seized the Moment While Her City Was Protesting

They say that in national politics, you get only one chance to introduce yourself to the country. For Keisha Lance Bottoms, that moment is kind of a blur. It came on the evening of May...

‘I’m a Contrarian.’ Chris Wallace on His Role at Fox News and His Latest Book

A video screen is of course just the place to meet up with Chris Wallace. That arched brow and knowing smile have existed as pixels since the 1970s, when he began a television news career...

After George Floyd's Death: Voices Behind Photos

'My job is just to document a visual diary,' a Minneapolis photographer tells TIME. 'Obviously, we are in need of a deep conversation about police reform because this keeps happening'

Like Living in a War Zone Again

It’s bad, but it’s not all bad. To be confined in your home with the people you love most against an invisible plague may be, at times, uncomfortable. But it can also be like living...

Louise Erdrich on 'The Night Watchman'

Louise Erdrich has been drawing from her heritage since Love Medicine announced her ascension to the top tier of American literature in 1984, when it won the National Book Critics Circle Award. "I'm a mixed...

Bryan Stevenson: We’re Taking the Wrong Approach to Criminal Justice Reform

Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative

NPR's Steve Inskeep Finds the American Present in the Past Through His Books

If he is in bed by 9 p.m., Steve Inskeep can get six hours of sleep before the alarm. He's due at NPR's Washington, D.C., headquarters at 4 a.m. for the live broadcast of Morning...

Why the U.S. Is Braced for Iranian Retaliation

The Quds Force commander was the face of Iran's regional ambitions

In the Year Since TIME Named Besieged Journalists the Person of the Year, the War Against Truth Has Continued Unabated

Governments worldwide have criminalized journalism

The Story Behind TIME's 2019 Person of the Year Cover

Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva used art references to create a portrait of Greta Thunberg on a beach in Lisbon

Sam Mendes on Taking World War I Out of the Trenches and Into the Theater in 1917

'I took a calculated gamble,' the Oscar-winning filmmaker says of his decision to make a movie that plays like one extended shot

'No Friends But the Mountains.' What Life Looks Like for the Kurds of Syria, Now That the U.S. Has Pulled Back

The modern Middle East was formed exactly 100 years ago when, in the wake of World War I, the victors began creating new countries. Among the populations deemed deserving of nationhood — along with Armenians...

'No Friends But the Mountains.' What Life Looks Like for the Kurds of Syria, Now That the U.S. Has Pulled Back

The modern Middle East was formed exactly 100 years ago when, in the wake of World War I, the victors began creating new countries. Among the populations deemed deserving of nationhood — along with Armenians...

What the Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Says About the War That Killed Him

The death of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi may not change the world. Nevertheless, how it came about says a fair amount about the world he has departed. In the chain of events that led to the...

Where Three Women's Journey from Cuba to America Left Them

On May 23, a control tower radioed a Ryanair jetliner that it had a bomb on board. A fighter jet appeared off its wing, and Flight FR4978, en route from Greece to Lithuania, was compelled to...