Inhoudsopgave van October 11, 2021 - TIME Magazine

Repairing the world we inhabit MORE THAN 90 YEARS AGO, TIME’S EDITORS REALIZED THAT THEY HAD SOMEHOW MADE IT all the way through 1927, the year the aviator Charles Lindbergh made his historic solo flight over the Atlantic, without putting him on the cover. And so they invented a new franchise, then called Man of the Year, and selected Lindbergh in order to give him the credit he was clearly due. I thought of this story recently while corresponding with the legendary conservationist Jane Goodall, whose life’s work in support of “every living creature,” as the actor Leonardo DiCaprio put it in a tribute to her in these pages two years ago, has inspired millions. TIME has been covering Goodall for more than half a century, starting with her…

IN THE PAST 11 YEARS ALONE, HAITIANS HAVE SUFFERED natural disasters, rising gang violence, outbreaks of cholera and COVID-19, and political instability, including the recent assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The crises left many in the hemisphere’s poorest nation feeling they had no option but to leave—despite the difficulties they face in fleeing to other countries. In late September, Americans were confronted with the reality of those difficulties too. An estimated 15,000 people arrived in Del Rio, Texas, that month, below a bridge connecting the city to Mexico’s Ciudad Acuña. A majority were Haitian nationals, migrants and asylum seekers who ended up living in tents or under tarps, in conditions similar to those in other camps that have formed along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years. On Sept. 24, Department…

AFTER MONTHS OF ANTICIPATION, THE U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sept. 22 authorized the first booster shots of a COVID-19 vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech, for certain groups of people, at least six months after their last dose. Two days later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) followed up with its recommendations, which distinguished those who need boosters most urgently from those who will be allowed to decide for themselves if they should get an additional shot. The CDC recommends boosters for people who originally received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and are over age 65, or live in a long-term care facility, or are over age 50 with underlying medical conditions that may make them more vulnerable to COVID-19. The agency says anyone over age…

If you’re feeling more fatigued than usual—not sad or depressed necessarily, just exhausted—you’re not alone. Google searches for “Why am I tired all the time?” have been at historic highs lately. There are obvious drivers like the pandemic, but I think something else is going on too: there’s a lack of excitement in our lives, and we’re filling that void with anxiety. Many of us are going out less because going out feels stressful and risky. Instead, bored and sluggish, we check social media. We’re not doing this to learn anything specific. We just want a jolt, which often comes in the form of a horrific news story. Although this jolt can feel like excitement, it’s actually anxiety. And repeated bouts of anxiety lead to deep exhaustion. But it’s possible…

IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR II, when Jane Goodall was around 6 years old, she was often woken from her sleep by the blare of air-raid sirens. The sound warned that Nazi planes were flying over Bournemouth, the English seaside town where Goodall’s family had moved at the outbreak of the war. Her younger sister Judy would be up like a shot, bounding down the stairs to the bomb shelter. But Goodall refused to budge. “I did not want to leave my bed,” she says. “They had to take me down with all my bedclothes.” Eight decades later, Goodall, now 87, is standing in the living room of the same house, an imposing redbrick Victorian building with cavernous ceilings, thick carpets and heavy armchairs. The bomb shelter is…

‘It’s time for action, for each and every one of us to be an active participant in change.’ RETHINK OUR APPROACH TO INCLUSION We need a reset. We know we have racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and additional forms of bias and discrimination built into our workplaces, our schools, our medical care and all our institutions. We know it is systemic and harmful. In the tech industry, its products are harming our brains, our self-worth, our values, our pandemic response, our children and our society. Social media platforms are enabling and amplifying white supremacy and other forms of hate for profit. Workers are struggling to make a living wage while CEO billionaires work them harder, pay them less, create poor working environments and hoard ill-gotten profits. In politics, we are witnessing…

ONE EVENING IN EARLY JUNE, LEO AND HIS FAMILY were able to enjoy a treat they hadn’t experienced in months: a sit-down meal at a restaurant. At a fried-chicken chain in a Compton, Calif., strip mall, four of them splurged on a few plates of fried rice, which added up to about $60. Leo, 39, who works as a mechanic, said the dinner felt like a luxury. “It made me very happy,” he says in Spanish. The family was only able to afford a dinner out because Leo was recently selected to participate in a groundbreaking economic experiment called the Compton Pledge. Between late 2020 and the end of 2022, Leo and 799 other participants will receive, in regular intervals, a defined cash payment—between $300 and $600 monthly, depending on…

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 of such an exalted communal space—“this great room where the family gathers”—until, while shopping for a second home with the money from that book, he found himself touring a property an hour and a half north of Manhattan. “I was like, This is it!” says Towles, throwing his arms toward a 30-ft. ceiling that, like the glistening lake outside, now belongs entirely to him. “It was this weird thing where I was kind of buying the living room that I had written about,” he says. “Which, in a Stephen King novel, would end badly.” In…

WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT … TIME100 The release of TIME’s annual list of the world’s most influential people in the Sept. 27/Oct. 4 issue sparked impassioned conversations. Highlighting icons and innovators, pioneers and titans, artists and leaders, “this year’s list could hardly be more diverse,” wrote Oren Spiegler of Peters Township, Pa. Readers likewise praised the recognition of those who have worked to elevate diverse perspectives in the mainstream, like Minor Feelings author Cathy Park Hong. “When you mother a child version of yourself, say things to them that you wish you’d heard,” Esther Tseng tweeted of telling her daughter that, like Hong, she too could make an impact. Darlene Cox of Northfield, Minn., wrote to praise Palestinian twins Muna and Mohammed El-Kurd, whose activism has shone a light…

A COLD WAR–STYLE PRISONER EXCHANGE capped off an intense two weeks of Sino-U.S. wrangling. On Sept. 25, Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou, who had been under house arrest in Vancouver for three years, touched down in her homeland. Some 6,000 miles away, Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig were being welcomed at Calgary airport, after spending a similar length of time in Chinese jails on spying charges. Both Beijing and Washington deny that the release of the two men and the freeing of the Huawei CFO—who had been fighting extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges—was a swap. The timing speaks for itself. RISKY PRECEDENT The sudden decision of both U.S. and Canadian officials to broker such a deal has raised fears that Beijing may be tempted to detain…

‘MR. SPEARS HAS CROSSED UNFATHOMABLE LINES.’MATHEW ROSENGART, attorney for Britney Spears, in a Sept. 27 statement on a recent exposé by the New York Times alleging the pop star’s father had hired security to secretly spy on her ‘It really was uncomfortable for my results to be released publicly, before I even knew what was going on.’SUNNY HOSTIN, co-host of ABC’s The View, in a Sept. 27 statement discussing a recent episode of the show during which she was pulled off the air after testing positive for COVID-19, a result she says was a false positive 10–12 years The proposed age range for Instagram for Kids, which Facebook put on hold on Sept. 27 after public backlash ‘All leaders should be you, because you’re an epitome of excellence.’MONROVIA CITY COUNCIL,…

Ousted ‘Don’t Ask’ vets given benefits Thousands of LGBTQ veterans forced from the U.S. military under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) legislation—which from 1994 to 2011 banned openly gay service members—were given new access to full government benefits on Sept. 20, the 10th anniversary of the policy’s repeal. Indian farmers call for new strike Indian farmers, who have been camping close to New Delhi since November, blocked roads into the capital on Sept. 27 and called for a nationwide strike to mark one year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government passed laws the farmers say benefit corporations at their expense. R. Kelly found guilty of sexual abuse R&B artist R. Kelly was found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking on Sept. 27, after facing allegations of sexual abuse for…

In idle moments, Mamtaj Begum finds herself thinking of how her husband was snatched away from her in the middle of the night. It had been a mundane day until then. Her husband Mahuruddin returned to their home in the northeast Indian state of Assam after selling fruit in a nearby town. He washed up, and they ate their dinner of rice and potatoes on the floor, by the table on which the children’s schoolbooks were piled high. At 2 a.m., they awoke to a commotion outside. In the dark, Begum could see about seven police officers gathered outside, surrounding their tin-roofed one-room house. Four of them barged into the room carrying large batons, ready to take Mahuruddin into custody. His offense: being unable to prove, in the eyes of…

WHEN SILICON VALLEY VETERAN EILEEN BURBIDGE moved to London in 2004, it was only meant to be temporary. With more than a decade of experience at tech stalwarts including Apple, Sun Microsystems and Verizon Wireless, the Chicago native felt a stint in Europe might help advance her career back in the U.S. With no language barrier and an emerging software-development market, London was an obvious choice. She took on a job as product director for a newly launched startup named Skype. Nearly 20 years later, Burbidge is still there. Now co-founder and partner of early-stage venture-capital firm Passion Capital, she has established herself as an intrinsic part of London’s financial technology, or “fintech,” scene. Burbidge was the digital representative on former Prime Minister David Cameron’s business advisory panel and was…

The retrospectives of your work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are called “Mind/Mirror.” For you, is art more a way of representing thought, or a way of representing what you see? I don’t know about more or less. I think it is both, and a play between them. Do you miss anything about being young? Agility. What would constitute a perfect day for you? Few interruptions. You’ve had friends who were poets, and you’ve been interested in the overlap between poetry and art. Do you still read poetry? I do still read poetry, old and new. I read the Poetry Project’s newsletter when time allows. Friends sometimes email their poems or send copies of recently published books. One…