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When my uncle was elected President, I recognized what a highly privileged position I would be in. I would have some access to the White House. And as long as that was true, I wanted to make sure I used that access for something positive. I was eager to champion something my wife, Lisa, and I were deeply passionate about, something we lived every day: the challenges for individuals with intellectu

As President Joe Biden was going over his final notes with his inner circle and getting ready to debate Donald Trump on June 27 in Atlanta, his wife slipped into a nearby meeting of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors. The Biden Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee’s financial bigwigs had all assembled in the Ritz Carlton as part of a two-day political briefing that featured emotio

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Read our full cover story on President Joe Biden here. You can also read the full fact check here and buy a copy of the issue here. President Joe Biden sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on May 28. Over the course of the interview, Biden spoke at length about his foreign policy agenda, including his views on China, Taiwan, Ukraine and Israel, as well as concerns about his age a

The former President, at Mar-a-Lago on April 12, is rallying the right at home and seeking common cause with autocratic leaders abroad.Photograph by Philip Montgomery for TIME Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice. We’ve been talking for more than an hour on April 12 at his fever-dream palace in Palm Beach. Aides lurk around the perimeter of a gil

The COVID-19 pandemic has left a lingering imprint on 65 million people worldwide suffering persistent symptoms after their acute illness has resolved. Yale professor Akiko Iwasaki is a renowned immunologist whom I have known since her fellowship at the National Institutes of Health 25 years ago marked her as a rising star. Today, she is at the top of her game. Her deep appreciation of the regulat

Reverend Sun Myung Moon gestures dramatically as he speaks at New York's Madison Square Garden. His chief associate, Col. Bo Hi Park, right, translates from Korean to English.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images It was 11.29 a.m. beneath pewter skies in Japan’s southern city of Nara when Shinzo Abe was handed the microphone. The nation’s former prime minister, wearing a navy blue jacket and crisp white s

WorldUkraine‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight ‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight Volodymyr Zelensky was running late. The invitation to his speech at the National Archives in Washington had gone out to several hundred guests, including congressional

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After The Bomb Survivors of the Atomic Blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki share their stories Photographs by HARUKA SAKAGUCHI | Introduction By LILY ROTHMAN When the nuclear age began, there was no mistaking it. The decision by the United States to drop the world’s first atomic weapons on two Japanese cities—Hiroshima first, on Aug. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki three days later—was that rare historical mom

Pedestrians walk past a woman wearing a maternity badge on a street in Tokyo on March 3, 2016.Toru Yamanaka—AFP/Getty Images For the past five years, expectant mothers in a Japanese city have been receiving unsolicited advice from local authorities via a flyer telling them how to behave after giving birth—not for their own or their babies’ wellbeing, but to avoid annoying their husbands. The color

The G7 Ministerial Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment participants pose for a group photo in Nikko on June 25, 2023.Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images Representatives from each of the Group of Seven (G7) nations gathered in the Japanese city of Nikko, 70 miles north of Tokyo, this weekend for a two-day summit on gender equality and women’s empowerment, where they discussed everything from

Arfiya Eri knows she stands out in Japan’s government today. “Going in and out of Parliament now,” the 34-year-old tells TIME in an interview after her election last month, “there are very few people still in the system who look like me.” Eri’s hoping, however, that in the future that won’t be so—and that she will have played a part in the transformation. A relative political novice, Eri—who was b

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida inside the great hall at his official residence in Tokyo on April 28.Ko Tsuchiya for TIME The official residence of Japan’s Prime Minister is a spooky place. Inspired by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the stone and brick mansion in central Tokyo had been around for only three years when young naval officers charged in and assassinated Prime Minister Ts

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Nagoya has long been a pit stop on bullet trains between Tokyo and Kyoto as travelers bypass the country’s industrial hub, a contradictory landscape of factories and forest that includes Suntory’s shoreline Chita distillery, famed for its prized whiskey, and the much anticipated Ghibli Park, a homegrown theme park celebrating the films of legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki. It’s a big year for Japa

Read about the people who represent the Spirit of Ukraine in the second part of TIME’s Person of the Year coverage. The call from the President’s office came on a Saturday evening: Be ready to go the next day, an aide said, and pack a toothbrush. There were no details about the destination or how we would get there, but it wasn’t difficult to guess. Only two days earlier, on the 260th day of the i

Ian Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at TIME. He is the president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, and GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. He teaches applied geopolitics at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and his most recent book is The Power of Crisis. O

WorldJapanShinzo Abe Rewrote Japan’s Place in the World. And Remained a Power Broker Until the Very End Shinzo Abe Rewrote Japan’s Place in the World. And Remained a Power Broker Until the Very End When Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, stepped down in 2020, he hadn’t quite achieved what he’d set out to. He resigned due to poor health with dire approval ratings over his governmen

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky photographed in Kyiv on April 19Alexander Chekmenev for TIME 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 k