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Since TIME’s founding, by a pair of 20-somethings, we’ve known leadership has no age requirement One of my favorite stories from TIME’s history goes like this: As 1927 came to an end, the editors seized the chance to correct a serious oversight. They had failed to put Charles Lindbergh on the cover to recognize the 25-year-old’s remarkable solo flight over the Atlantic, which he’d completed that May. On what was otherwise a slow news week, they gave themselves a mulligan, and for the first issue of 1928 named Lindbergh “Man of the Year,” creating what became one of the most iconic franchises in journalism—what we know today as TIME Person of the Year. Lindbergh remained the youngest individual to receive the recognition until 2019, when 16-year-old Greta Thunberg was named Person of…

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Even a viral pandemic was not enough to unseat what U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy sees as “the defining public-health crisis of our time.” That designation, he says, belongs to concerns about the mental health and well-being of Americans—especially among young people. On May 23, Murthy published an advisory warning that we don’t know enough about how social media in particular is impacting children’s emotional states, brain development, and social growth. “I issued this advisory because this is an urgent crisis,” Murthy tells TIME. After analyzing existing studies on social media’s effects and consulting with experts, Murthy says there aren’t enough data yet to determine whether social media use is safe for children and adolescents. But with 95% of teens ages 13 to 17, and 40% of children ages 8 to…

The Recep Tayyip Erdogan era lives on after the longtime Turkish leader won the May 28 presidential runoff against opposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu. That Erdogan survived the biggest test to his leadership in 20 years is remarkable given the state of Turkey’s economy and lingering public anger over the government’s response to earthquakes in February that left at least 50,000 people dead. But he has retained his grip on a nation that can serve either as a bridge or an impediment. CLOSE TO HOME For Turkey’s 85 million people, Erdogan’s win means “a continuation of today,” says Galip Dalay, an associate fellow at the London-based Chatham House think tank. Since first winning as a pious heartland populist in 2003, Erdogan has consolidated power through constitutional changes, eroded the country’s democratic institutions,…

Revolutions do not happen only in the streets. Yet the outside world knows the uprising in Iran almost entirely through footage uploaded from camera phones—the thousands upon thousands chanting for the fall of the regime in cities and towns across the country, and the regime answering with batons and shotguns. There has been no window into the kitchens and courtyards where the country’s fate will be decided. “I did not think a country could change so much in three months,” says journalist Kay Armin Serjoie, reflecting on returning to Tehran last September after a summer in Germany. Serjoie, who has covered his native country for more than two decades, was not allowed to work as a reporter while he remained in Iran. But he remembered what he saw. And, since returning…

You might have thought that by mid-2023, with the pandemic officially over, people would be getting back to the office. But the share of workers in the office full time dropped to 42% in the second quarter of 2023, down from 49% in the first quarter, according to the Flex Report, which collects insights from more than 4,000 companies employing more than 100 million people globally. Meanwhile, the share of offices with hybrid work arrangements hit 30% in the quarter, up from 20% the previous quarter. “It certainly looks like hybrid is gaining share,” says Robert Sadow, the CEO and co-founder of Scoop Technologies, which puts out the Flex Report. Work is moving toward what Sadow calls “structured hybrid,” in which there are a set number of days that people are…