Inhoudsopgave van September 26, 2022 - TIME Magazine

We’re excited to announce the launch of a new division of our company aimed at helping get businesses to net zero FOR NEARLY A CENTURY, THE HEART OF TIME’s journalism has been a commitment to telling the stories of the people who shape, challenge, and inspire the world. This week, we build on that tradition with the introduction of the TIME100 Leadership Series, conversations with TIME100 honorees from across the decades and around the globe. While our annual TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people aims to capture the leaders of a particular year, this project allows us to take measure of their ongoing impact. The series is in partnership with Rolex, which has been supporting our work and our mission for more than 75 years. To kick…

ABOUT A WEEK AFTER THE CATASTROPHIC collapse of his city’s water system, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba gathers his advisers in a second-floor conference room at city hall. Mississippi’s Republican governor, Tate Reeves, had given a press conference the day before to announce that running water had been restored, though the city still remained under a boil-water order for the foreseeable future. Reeves also used the opportunity to offer pointed words about the city’s Democratic administration. Lumumba—who once pledged to make Jackson “the most radical city on the planet”—had allowed the water system to fall apart out of sheer incompetence, Reeves seemed to claim on Sept. 5. “The solutions to this problem are not radical,” Reeves said. “Prioritize basic services—water, sewer, trash. Hire the necessary people. Let them do their…

DIED Moon Landrieu Tribune of a New South By Walter Isaacson ON HIS FIRST WEEK AS A YOUNG LOUISIANA LEGISLATOR, TWO powerful old politicians cornered Moon Landrieu in an elevator, poked their fingers in his chest, and threatened that if he voted against their racial-segregation bills, they would destroy him. He did, and they didn’t. At a time when George Wallace and others were hijacking Southern populism and turning it racist, Landrieu forged coalitions that united Blacks and whites. Chomping on an unlit cigar while arm-twisting a local assessor at a neighborhood bar, Landrieu, who died of heart failure on Sept. 5 at age 92, could seem like an old-fashioned urban ethnic politician, which he was. But during his career as a legislator, councilman, and mayor of New Orleans…

IN UKRAINE, the tables have turned. In the province that surrounds Kharkiv, Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive and thousands of Russian soldiers retreated. As of Sept. 14, Ukraine has regained more territory than Russia has captured in months, and the mood of its political and military leaders has turned dramatically upbeat. Russian artillery attacks that knocked out power and water in much of the Kharkiv region have done little to dampen the mood. Just as Ukraine demonstrated in the war’s early weeks that Russian victory plans were pure delusion, its latest gains again make clear that Vladimir Putin’s war refuses to go to plan. Importantly, they show Ukraine’s backers in America and Europe that its war effort remains an investment that offers returns. Ukrainian fighters have used Western weapons—and…

AT FIRST, IT WAS THE STORY OF A BOY, his mother, and her art. Could she ever make him understand her work? Could he ever forgive her for loving something as much as or even more than she loved him? These are the types of intimate questions that have long driven Celeste Ng’s fiction. But in the case of her latest novel, which she began to write in the fall of 2016, they slowly gave way to broader, darker themes. As Donald Trump claimed victory in the presidential election and images circulated of families torn apart at the border, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe and anti-Asian racism raged across America and beyond, Ng’s story changed. The setting, grounded on Harvard University’s campus, became an alternate version of the…

As a Democrat, you won a crowded special election in August that included Sarah Palin. Many voters wrote you in as their second choice. What do you think this race revealed about the virtues of ranked-choice voting? I think that it reveals that there is an appetite for middle-of-the-road candidates. I think moving away from closed partisan primaries will help us elect fewer ideologues, who are less entrenched and more capable of compromising, reaching consensus, and building coalitions. I think it shows that such candidates are more palatable, even among those who may not have picked someone else as their first choice. That adds value as well. Alaskans were obviously very familiar with Palin. What were her vulnerabilities in this race? Although I like her, she can be a polarizing figure.…

THE GREATEST Sean Gregory’s Sept. 12/Sept. 19 cover story on Serena Williams’ retiring from tennis drew praise from fans. On Facebook, former Congresswoman and gun-control advocate Gabby Giffords wrote about the tennis player’s impact. “Williams changed the game for women in all aspects of their lives: sports, work, motherhood, and beyond,” Giffords wrote. “On and off the court, she will always be an inspiration.” Lenias Hwenda, founder of the organization Medicines for Africa in Johannesburg, called the story a “warm, compassionate and moving” tribute to “an athlete who has given so much to the world by living with such grit, grace.” New York–based journalist Gibson Johns tweeted about singer Kelly Rowland’s recollection in the story of watching Williams play, calling it “so special.” Felton Edward Kizer of New Orleans…

Armenia and Azerbaijan clash at border Around 100 soldiers were killed in fighting on the disputed border between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Sept. 13. Armenia’s Defense Ministry charged that Azerbaijani artillery barrages and drone attacks started the hostilities between countries that have fought two wars in the past three decades. Chileans reject new constitution Chile’s voters overwhelmingly rejected a new, progressive constitution that would have enshrined rights to free speech, abortion, clean air and water, and a publicly funded national health service. Critics said the proposal, which included 388 articles and was rejected Sept. 4 by 62% of voters, went too far and would be difficult to enforce. National abortion ban proposed Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina proposed a bill Sept. 13 that would create a federal ban…

BILLY EICHNER CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS happening. He really never thought this day would come. Even several years into co-writing, producing, starring in, and now promoting his film Bros, it’s still surreal that it exists. “I just look at the screen and I’m like, ‘That’s me?’” he says. Eichner, 43, isn’t being modest—for a long time, it really was unimaginable. Because Bros is a major studio romantic comedy, produced by Judd Apatow, in the tradition of Knocked Up and Trainwreck, with a revolutionary distinction: it’s not a boy-meets-girl story but a boy-meets-boy one. Bros is conventional in the sense that all the action is built around the connection of its romantic principals, Eichner’s museum director character Bobby and the more reserved Aaron, played by Luke Macfarlane. But Bros, which hits…

Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynthia “Cynt” Marshall is the first Black woman to head up an NBA team. In your book You’ve Been Chosen, you write that your father said you’d end up on the street. How much of your life haxs been driven by proving him wrong? I did prove him wrong. But I think it was more driven by a sense of purpose. There was a time when three things—him threatening me the night of my graduation, him coming through my window with a shotgun, and him coming up to us in a parking lot with a gun—would play in my mind all the time, back to back, to the point where I just had to pray. I don’t know when, but I realized I wasn’t thinking about…

QUEEN ELIZABETH II was the world's longest-serving head of state when she died at 96 on Sept. 8. She had led her subjects for more than seven decades—an extraordinary reign that began in 1952, and spanned 15 British Prime Ministers and 14 U.S. Presidents. She inherited the throne of a country almost broken by the legacy of war, and remained upon it through a time of epochal change for both the U.K. and the world. When Elizabeth took the throne, the U.K. was the seat of an empire that straddled the globe. Today, Britain is a smaller player on the world’s stage, but she remained the sovereign leader of 15 nations—including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand—and head of a Commonwealth of more than 50 nations. She traveled the globe as…

Margaret Atwood, the author of more than 60 books, graphic novels, and poetry collections, did not attend a full year of school until she was 12. Her father’s job as a forest entomologist meant the family spent the spring, summer, and fall seasons in the woods of northern Quebec. Today a devotion to nature inspired by that time is a key part of her dynamic storytelling. “That’s my whole experience, growing up amongst the biologists,” Atwood, now 82, said on a September afternoon in Toronto, the city she has called home for decades. “You cannot have the illusion that nature is separate from you.” Recognition of the environment’s fragility in the face of human intervention has been a theme of her books, most notably the MaddAddam trilogy, a best-selling series…

AS ALL EYES TURN TO KING CHARLES III, journalist and famed royal watcher TINA BROWN offers some insights on what kind of monarch the longtime heir apparent is likely to be. Brown’s latest book, The Palace Papers, pulls back the curtains on some of the inner workings of the royal family. How would you rate King Charles III’s response to his ascension to the throne, and his mother’s death? His royal training has completely kicked in—both his naval training as an officer, and his years and decades of attending big royal ceremonial occasions, has just schooled him in this impeccable conduct. Each one of his different speeches has been both potent and also human. Charles has been acclaimed with enormous love and affection by the British nation in the…

WHEN BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA returned to the White House on Sept. 7 for their first joint visit since leaving office in early 2017, official Washington revived the mythical contours of the congenial relationship the former President enjoyed with the current one. It was cute, for sure. But according to a new book from journalist Gabriel Debenedetti, such a shorthand misses the complicated and nuanced relationship between Barack Obama and Joe Biden, two political figures who might represent the closest pairing of a President and Vice President in history. Sure, it looked like a classic bromance from the outside, but no collaboration with so much at stake can be reduced to an easy sketch. Debenedetti’s new book—The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama—details a relationship…

WHEN RICHARD AND CARSON HARKRADER FIRST heard that 696 acres of North Carolina farmland had come up for sale, in 2016, one feature of the rolling landscape particularly caught their attention: the power lines that sliced across it as though someone had dog-eared its map. Hard up against the Virginia border, it was a pretty spot—pretty enough that a home builder would eventually take a quarter of the acres for a lakefront subdivision. But for the Harkraders, father-and-daughter operators of Carolina Solar Energy, an independent developer of solar-energy projects, the prettiest thing of all were those heavy-duty transmission lines that arced to the northwest, lacing into the PJM Interconnection, the giant electric grid that dominates the mid-Atlantic. “It was kind of a gold rush,” the elder Harkrader says one morning…

YOU’VE NEVER SEEN STEP RIGHT UP, but trust me, you know it all too well. It’s a Y2K-era sitcom about a couple co-parenting the wife’s son with her ex—who also lives with them. It’s Full House meets Step by Step, with a dash of Two and a Half Men. There’s slapstick and a laugh track. The characters are broad but lovable and eager to learn. The fact that the show doesn’t exist hasn’t stopped it from being revived in Reboot, a smart Hulu comedy that premieres on Sept. 20. Created by Steven Levitan (Modern Family), Reboot is meta to the max. It opens with 30-something indie filmmaker Hannah (Rachel Bloom) pitching, yes, Hulu executives on an edgy Step Right Up sequel starring original cast members played by Judy Greer…