Time Magazine International Edition

D.W. will tell you that creativity comes from working within limits Much has changed since 2001, when creative director D.W. Pine produced his first cover for TIME. (That cover, for a story about online privacy, rendered a desktop computer as a heavy-duty lock.) In 2010, Steve Jobs showed up at Time Inc. to show off the iPad; the cover would be designed for the tablet, and TIME would become the first newsweekly to launch on the Apple device. In 2014, as social media became the place millions of people came to consume all kinds of news, TIME launched its first moving cover image. Across all that change, one thing has not: week after week, D.W. has overseen the creation of our cover. On March 24, we published his 1,000th (right),…

Watch a video interview with cover subject Catherine Coleman Flowers, who, after sounding the alarm about poor sewage systems in her native Lowndes County, Alabama, now is fighting for clean sanitation systems for all Americans. With climate change, “sanitation issues are becoming more prevalent in communities that have never experienced them before,” she tells TIME. time.com/earth-awards-2025 Laugh track On TIME.com, film critic Stephanie Zacharek picks the 15 best dumb comedies, from Duck Soup to Dumb and Dumber, below—movies that make people “say, ‘Really?’ when I profess my love for them.” time.com/dumb-comedies TIME at the United Nations On March 18, TIME CEO Jessica Sibley moderated a panel on women’s leadership at the U.N. From left, U.N. Partnership’s Annemarie Hwa Hou, Iceland President Halla Tomasdottir, Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, Sibley, and…

Long before FBI agents raided the Florida retreat to retrieve classified documents in August 2022, Mar-a-Lago had become a focus of spies from around the world. Early in his first term, Donald Trump and the Japanese Prime Minister plotted their response to a North Korean missile launch on the club’s open-air patio, photos of which ended up on Facebook. Three months later, the new President shared Israeli-passed intelligence with Russia’s Foreign Minister, horrifying security leaders in Tel Aviv. (A U.S. spy inside Vladimir Putin’s regime was later extracted amid fears the disclosures could put the spook at risk.) Trump also boasted to his Filipino counterpart that he had two nuclear submarines off the coast of North Korea. In 2019, he tweeted spy-satellite images taken over Iranian airspace. The Commander in…

Abortion-rights advocates are closely monitoring what they call a growing and alarming trend: lawmakers in at least 10 states have introduced bills that would allow authorities to bring homicide charges against people who obtain abortions. Bills have been introduced in Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. THE LEGISLATION Most of the states considering these measures have banned abortion in nearly all circumstances or after six weeks of pregnancy. The bills refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn child” or “preborn child.” They assert that an embryo or fetus can be a homicide victim, opening the door for authorities to charge and prosecute people who terminate pregnancies. Some also propose removing clauses from existing state…

The longest eight days Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ever spent lasted more than nine months. On June 5, 2024, the two NASA astronauts boarded the maiden mission of Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft for what was supposed to be a short shakedown cruise to the International Space Station (ISS), before turning around and heading home after just over a week. But that was not to be. Mechanical problems aboard Starliner led NASA to conclude that the spacecraft was not fit to carry the astronauts home. Instead the ship left the station and splashed down uncrewed, leaving Wilmore and Williams to join the station rotation, living and working aboard the ISS until a fresh SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived and they could come home. They splashed down on March 18, a…

DIED George Foreman Thriller and griller George Foreman, the heavyweight boxing champion who died on March 21 at age 76, transformed himself from brooding American sports destroyer into beloved avuncular everyman like no other athlete on the planet. A former teenage petty thief who turned to boxing for salvation, Foreman won a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1968 Olympics, and in 1973 he took the heavyweight championship away from “Smokin’” Joe Frazier, on the strength of a right uppercut that was so ferocious that announcer Howard Cosell exclaimed three times, for the ages: “Down goes Frazier!” Muhammad Ali took that belt back a year later, at the “Rumble in the Jungle” in the Congo—then known as Zaire—by employing a “rope-a-dope” strategy in which Ali took punches that tired…