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EARTH, INC. Justin Worland’s April 25/May 2 cover story on how the business sector is tackling climate change generated discussion on Twitter. “Very good, very worth reading,” posted Washington, D.C.–based climate strategist Brad Johnson. “Planet Earth’s future now rests in the hands of big business,” tweeted Paul Simpson, the London-based CEO of climate-research nonprofit CDP. “If we expect governments alone to solve the #climatecrisis they will also fail. Collaboration is key.” Sustainable-business expert Andrew Winston of Greenwich, Conn., replied, “So true. Like it or not, companies will have to take (or share) the lead.” Toronto-based urban planner Jennifer Keesmaat pointed out that businesses are increasingly seeing that climate change will hurt their bottom lines, tweeting, “Big Business now realizes its exposure to systemic risks because of climate change.” Enrique…

MORE THAN 130,000 PEOPLE GATHERED in downtown Pasig, a city just outside the Philippine capital of Manila, singing Ariana Grande’s “Break Free” in March as part of a political rally organized by presidential candidate and current Vice President Leni Robredo ahead of the May 9 presidential election. While the rally caught the attention of Grande, who shared a clip on her Instagram, it did little for Robredo’s election hopes, with polls showing her trailing front runner Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. STAR SEARCH Philippine elections have been heavy on the entertainment factor since the ouster of dictator Ferdinand Marcos—Bongbong’s father—in 1986. But the crossover between showbiz and politics has reached a new level. Currently five sitting Senators (out of 24) enjoy some sort of fame outside of politics, including onetime world…

DIED Wynn Bruce, 50, on April 23 after setting himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day in an apparent protest over climate change. RECORDED The hottest summer ever, in 2021, with temperatures 1.8°F above normal, the E.U.’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said April 22. CONVICTED Major General William T. Cooley, of abusive sexual conduct, a military court decided April 23—a first for an Air Force general. COMMUTED The sentences of 75 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, on April 26 by President Joe Biden, who pardoned three others. ARRESTED A Florida bride, 42, and her caterer on April 18, accused of serving marijuana-laced food to wedding reception guests on Feb. 19. THC was detected in the food, including lasagna. PASSED A bill to ask…

With vaccination rates hitting a wall and boosters plateauing in effectiveness, getting lifesaving pills to vulnerable people made ill by COVID-19 is the single most critical strategic step to allow society to return to a new normal. The goal is clearly articulated in President Biden’s Test to Treat plan. Now we need to make this plan work for all Americans by moving it to the homes of those who are sick. A federal Test to Treat initiative on the scale of our vaccination effort could achieve, we estimate, at least a 50% sustained decrease in both national mortality and hospitalizations. Ensuring availability of treatment for all high-risk people, by linking it to home tests, is our pandemic response get-out-of-jail card. However, too few people today know of or are able…

SCHOLAR DOROTHY ROBERTS HAS a record of writing about social problems in ways that researchers and laypeople alike recognize as real. Her new book, Torn Apart, applies her lens to the American child-protection system—which, as Roberts explains in this conversation with TIME, consistently fails to live up to its name. What brought you to this topic? I learned about the child-welfare system intimately when I was working on my book Killing the Black Body. I was doing research on prosecutions of Black women for being pregnant and using drugs. [I] discovered that Black children were grossly overrepresented in the [child-welfare] system. At every level of action these agencies take, there are racial disparities? One of the most striking findings in a recent study is that more than half of all…

THREE DAYS AFTER RUSSIA ORDERED troops into Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stood before the Bundestag, the federal Parliament in Berlin, and addressed the lawmakers in a special Sunday session. “Feb. 24, 2022, marks a watershed moment in the history of our continent,” he said, calling the Russian invasion a Zeitenwende, an epoch-changing event. Scholz, who had taken office only a couple of months earlier, met this historic moment with a response that would overturn decades of military policy—and with it, a crucial part of postwar German identity. He announced a €100 billion plan to boost the country’s notoriously depleted armed forces, promised to end reliance on Russian fossil fuels, and, for the first time since the Second World War, declared Germany would send weapons to a conflict zone. “The…

ANY RESEMBLANCE TO STEVE JOBS was unintentional, or so Stacy Spikes claims. Back in February, minutes before Spikes was set to take the stage at Lincoln Center in New York City to announce the resurrection of his old company, MoviePass, he realized he was sweating through his white button-up shirt and jacket. He changed into a more breathable black mock turtleneck, which, on his slim figure, paired with dark jeans, sneakers, and glasses, looked a lot like an homage to the Apple co-founder. “I didn’t want to be thinking, Are they going to see my sweaty pits?” Spikes, 54, says during an interview in a Manhattan office several weeks later. “When people said, ‘That’s very Steve Jobs,’ I was like, ‘Everybody in New York dresses in all black.’” Spikes will…

Former child actors Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen long ago transitioned from Hollywood starlets to fashion moguls and now run the Row, an extravagantly priced minimalist clothing line. A lesser-known fact: the twin sisters are also literary muses. “I was thinking about the Olsen twins,” author Janelle Brown admits when discussing her latest literary thriller, I’ll Be You. The mystery centers on a pair of former B-list child actors facing very adult problems: Sam is an addict who lives in a tiny Hollywood apartment and works as a barista, while Elli is a seemingly perfect suburban mom who runs a flower-arranging company and has become involved with a dodgy empowerment group. The novel, the author’s fifth, is her twistiest and tightest work yet. Told from both sisters’ points of view, I’ll…

What was the biggest surprise in writing your new book, The Palace Papers? How incredibly difficult it is to fit in that system. You know it’s a gilded cage; you know that there’s all these constrictions. But by the end of it, I just felt like I’d been trapped in a mothballed cupboard with people banging on the door trying to get out. You note that “even at her most bitter ebb with the royal family, [Diana] was always a monarchist.” How would she have performed as Queen? The irony was that at the very end of her life in the ’90s, she and Charles became on quite cordial terms. Today, in her 60s, she would have been in her prime. I believe she would have been an absolutely superb…

‘I’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 40 YEARS, AND THAT WAS A FIRST.’ Tim Manly, fire department chief in Brinnon, Wash., speaking to the Kitsap Sun on April 21 after rescuing a woman who had fallen into the hole of a public outhouse while trying to retrieve her phone 3 The number of critically endangered Sumatran tigers found dead in traps in Indonesia, authorities said on April 25 119 Age of Kane Tanaka of Japan at the time of her death on April 19; Tanaka was confirmed as the oldest living person in 2019, according to Guinness World Records ‘Starting from 13 years old, I would think about what would I do if my dad was killed.’ Daria Navalnaya, in a CNN documentary about her father Alexei Navalny ‘We believe that…

Israel shuts border with Gaza Israel closed its border with the Gaza Strip on April 24, preventing thousands of the territory’s residents from going to work, after several rocket attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants. Frequent violent escalations by Israeli police at the site of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque have raised fears of a new upsurge in conflict. North Korea parades weapons At a military parade in Pyongyang on April 25, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to “strengthen and develop” his country’s nuclear arsenal as fast as possible. The weapons displayed included a Hwasong-17 missile, theoretically capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. Kim said the arsenal’s first mission was “to deter war.” New Ebola outbreak in the DRC The Democratic Republic of Congo declared an Ebola outbreak on…

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GRADUATE student Garrett deGraffenreid expected the rent on his Manhattan apartment to rise, but he didn’t anticipate by how much. Last year’s lease averaged to $1,600 per month. On Feb. 11, he got a notice that a new lease would raise it to $2,750: a 69% surge. Double-digit rent spikes are hardly isolated to Manhattan. From 2021 to 2022, rents rose 26% in Henderson, Nev., and 39% in Miami, per Zumper, a rental platform. Nationwide, from March 2021 to March 2022, rent for a one bedroom rose an average of 12%. For millions, these hikes are existential. If you can’t afford your new lease, but you also can’t afford to pony up for moving expenses, what happens? This is not a short-term, pandemic-related problem, experts say. It’s…

IF YOU WERE WATCHING THE COACHELLA YouTube livestream on either of the festival’s Saturday nights in April, you might have done a double take as giant leafy trees and a Godzilla-size parrot slowly rose above the stage of the electronic artist Flume. Were they giant inflatables? Mirages on a 200-ft.-tall LED screen? Sheer hallucinations of the mind? None of the above. This year, Coachella partnered with Unreal Engine—Epic Games’ 3D software development tool—to create what organizers say is the first livestream to add augmented reality (AR) tech into a music festival performance. Unreal Engine worked with Flume’s artistic team and other technical collaborators to create massive psychedelic 3D images that blended in seamlessly with his stage design, floating around the artist and into the Indio, Calif., sky. But nobody at…

THE NIGHTS ARE THE HARDEST, when he lies there on his cot, the whine of the air-raid sirens in his ears and his phone still buzzing beside him. Its screen makes his face look like a ghost in the dark, his eyes scanning messages he didn’t have a chance to read during the day. Some from his wife and kids, many from his advisers, a few from his troops, surrounded in their bunkers, asking him again and again for more weapons to break the Russian siege. Inside his own bunker, the President has a habit of staring at his daily agenda even when the day is over. He lies awake and wonders whether he missed something, forgot someone. “It’s pointless,” Volodymyr Zelensky told me at the presidential compound in Kyiv,…

CAN YOU HEAR THE BILL MAHER FANS CLAPPING? The Real Time host, whose new HBO stand-up special #Adulting dropped in April, is a self-identified liberal who likes to complain about political correctness. And he has made a career out of what Seth Meyers has dubbed “clapter.” As described by Tina Fey, way back in 2008, clapter happens “when you do a political joke and people go, ‘Woo-hoo.’” Donald Glover later explained that the clapping means: “‘So true, yes, so, so true.’ But what you did isn’t funny; they’re just clapping and laughing to be on the right side of history.” Clapter comedy threatened to overtake stand-up during the Trump era, as audiences weary of unintentional black humor in the news turned to pop culture’s clear-eyed court jesters just to feel…

ON THE EVENING OF MAY 2, ANNA WINTOUR WILL TAKE her place at the top of the carpeted steps leading into New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wintour, now Condé Nast’s global chief content officer as well as the global editorial director of Vogue, has been hosting the Met Gala for nearly 30 years. She is always happy on this night—but it’s work. So every detail must be perfect. Former Met Gala planner Stephanie Winston Wolkoff describes Wintour as “militant” each year. “Where is everybody? It’s time,” Wintour says. “Can you tell me where they are?” The Vogue staff knows. Every guest has a prearranged arrival time, and Wintour’s people know what cars they’ll arrive in, if they’ve left the house, what they’ll be wearing, and if they’ve broken…

IN JANUARY, FLORIDA’S OSCEOLA COUNTY SCHOOL district canceled a workshop for teachers about the civil rights movement. The decision was made because administrators wanted to review the presentation “in light of the current conversations across our state and in our community about critical race theory”—even though, the Associated Press reported, the history professor who had been scheduled to lead the seminar said his presentation was not about critical race theory at all. This was months before Governor Ron DeSantis signed the legislation known as the Stop WOKE Act on April 22. But while backers of the law say it protects Floridians, some critics see the cancellation in Osceola as a harbinger for the whole of the Sunshine State. “I think that this bill is going to intimidate every teacher in…

MORE THAN 216,000 PEOPLE WITH pending cases before U.S. immigration courts have been placed in a federal government tracking program, according to federal data released April 14. Since President Joe Biden took office, the number of immigrants in the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program has more than doubled, reflecting the Administration’s embrace of new surveillance technology as a tool to limit reliance on government-funded detention centers. While immigrant advocates have long called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to reduce or end the use of immigrant detention centers, they say the ATD program raises a fresh set of concerns about immigrants’ privacy and civil rights. On April 14, three immigrant advocacy organizations—Just Futures Law, Mijente, and Community Justice Exchange—filed a lawsuit against ICE, calling on the agency to provide…

IN 2014, NADIA MURAD’S HOMETOWN of Kocho, Iraq, was captured by the Islamic State. Several members of her family were killed, and she, along with other women and girls from the town, were abducted and held as sex slaves. After months in captivity, Murad escaped and found refuge in Germany. She has since dedicated herself to raising awareness about the use of rape and sexual violence against women and children as a weapon of war, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts. She recently launched the Murad Code, which offers guidelines on how to sensitively collect evidence from survivors and witnesses during wartime. I spoke to her about recent reports of sexual violence being used against women and children during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A.J.: There is…

Here’s the thing about absolute denials: you can make them, but only once. So when House minority leader Kevin McCarthy released a statement on April 21 denying reporting that he confidentially told Republican colleagues in the wake of the Jan. 6 attempted insurrection he planned to tell then President Donald Trump to resign, Washington took notice. McCarthy called the book excerpt from two New York Times reporters “totally false and wrong.” It was a double-dog dare if ever there were one in political journalism, right up there with Gary Hart’s challenging reporters to prove his affair that ultimately ended his 1988 presidential bid. Nine hours after McCarthy lashed out, the journalists, Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, were on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show. And they had the receipts—in this case, the audio…

WHEN WORDS ARE SO CLOSELY controlled that it’s a crime to call a war a war, what drives someone to speak out? The Russian protesters seen here cite a variety of things. One is a sense of moral responsibility: to fight tyranny and to put an end to a conflict that is claiming the lives of Ukrainian civilians. For some, it’s anger—rage that such crimes are being carried out in the name of the Russian people, and that authorities have detained thousands of Russians for daring to protest. Undergirding all these feelings, however, is an enduring hope: a dream of a better, freer Russia, and an end to the violence in Ukraine. “Hope gives you the strength to act,” says Mary Gelman, the Russian photojournalist who made these portraits. “If…

IT’S A VERY GOOD THING CARLO ROVELLI DID NOT GET eaten by a bear in 1976—though even he admits it would have been his own fault. Camping alone in western Canada, he decided to save the money it would have cost him to pitch his tent in a designated area. No sooner had he prepared to settle in than the grizzly appeared. Fortunately for Rovelli, the bear was more interested in the easy pickings of the food supplies he had left out in the open than it was in human prey. “I packed super rapidly,” he says, “left the food, took my tent and backpack, ran to the campsite, and was happy to pay the $2 it cost to camp there.” That $2 ensured that Rovelli remained in the world,…