Table of contents for June 20, 2016 in TIME Magazine

When Muhammad Ali first appeared on the cover of TIME in 1963, he was still Cassius Clay. Although he had won an Olympic gold medal, there were few signs he would become, in many ways, a bigger legend outside of the ring. He was the subject of three more covers over the next four decades. Here is an excerpt from that 1963 cover story: Dreams came easy in Louisville's West End. "Why can't I be rich?" Cassius once asked his father. His father touched him on one pecan-colored hand and said, "Look there. That's why you can't be rich." But at 12, Cassius got his "wheel." It was a shiny $60 bicycle, and he proudly pedaled off to a fair at the Columbia Gym downtown. When the show was over,…

Another U.S. jobs report, another round of shock and disappointment. On June 4, the government reported that employers added a paltry 38,000 workers in May--far fewer than the 155,000 expected. While the unemployment rate dipped to 4.7%, the number of job hunters is at its lowest since 2007 because 458,000 people gave up on finding work last month alone. Lack of confidence in the recovery could have a near-term economic impact. Here's how: UNCERTAIN RECOVERY There's a chance May was just a statistical blip; the report has a margin of error of 100,000 jobs and classified 35,000 then striking Verizon workers as unemployed. Other indicators have been positive, such as rising gross domestic product and a bump in average hourly earnings. Even so, the monthly jobs gain was far below…

"I gave this speech yesterday in San Diego," Hillary Clinton started, but could not finish--the crowds in Garden Grove, and later in San Bernardino, Calif., were cheering, loudly and with a tremendous sense of relief. She had finally proved her worth as a candidate; she had trounced Donald Trump, brilliantly, with high-class mockery and disdain, on the most important aspect of the presidency: his fitness to serve as Commander in Chief--not just his ridiculous attempts to articulate a foreign policy but his flagrant ignorance of the world and his reduction of all issues to schoolyard bullying. House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Trump at about the same time as Clinton began speaking. But her remarks were so potent that Ryan's sad concession--a moment that will embarrass him in perpetuity--couldn't commandeer the…

For years, Ellen DeGeneres complained on her talk show that Pixar kept making sequels for movies other than Finding Nemo, the one she was in. "Like, of course they should make a sequel," DeGeneres tells me, revving up into one of her trademark rhapsodies. "It was more really of a joke--but it was incredible to me that there were all these sequels being made, and Nemo was such a great movie. It's still one of the highest rentals. Rental? Do people rent movies anymore? No. But they're still watching it over and over again, so, yeah, it was kind of amazing to me that it wasn't being made. And it was kind of a joke." That's the speech pattern--distraction plus frankness plus self-awareness plus cheeriness--that solved Nemo writer and director…

When I first met Muhammad Ali, he was performing magic tricks on Hollywood Boulevard. I was a freshman at UCLA walking along the street with two of my school buddies when we saw him strolling with a small entourage, doing sleight-of-hand illusions for fans who came up to him. This was 1966 and Ali, only five years older than me, had already made his mark as the youngest ever heavyweight champion. The next year, he would be stripped of his title after announcing he would not submit to being drafted into the Army because "I ain't got nothing against them Viet Cong" who "never called me nigger." Half the world would chant his name in praise; the other half would sharpen pitchforks and light torches. And here he was, casually…

Weeks of hunting for the flight data and voice recorders from EgyptAir Flight 804 have prompted renewed calls to update the way airplanes gather and transmit information. Advocates want to move past an aging black-box system that was introduced in the 1960s--decades before real-time data streaming became a ubiquitous part of life. Governments, airlines and pilots have all resisted changes. Airlines argue that it would cost too much, and pilots say streaming could be an invasion of their privacy. Since planes cross borders, aviation officials from around the world need to agree on new technology. But experts believe changes are years or even decades overdue and that recent crashes have made that painfully clear. The hunt for black boxes is a race against time, since batteries for their locator beacons…

On a trip to Santiago last year, I caught up with Sebastián Piñera, the ex-President of Chile. Piñera's center-right party had been defeated in 2013 by a leftist opposition that offered more social spending and higher corporate taxes. Chile's turn under the new President, Michelle Bachelet, reflected "the long history of Latin America," Piñera said, with a hint of frustration. "When times are good, countries turn to the left, and when times are bad, they turn to the right." It was not long after our conversation that Latin voters started to turn right, reversing the "pink tide" of the past decade that had seen socialists rise to power in a dozen Latin American countries, mainly on the back of powerful commodity exports that had supported high levels of social spending.…

I like to think the '60s began on Feb. 18, 1964, the day the Beatles and I met Cassius Clay. The Beatles were on their first American tour, and they had been taken to the Miami training camp of Sonny Liston, the heavyweight champion of the world, for a photo op. Liston took one look at the four mop-topped Brits in their matching white terry-cloth cabana jackets and refused to pose with "those little sissies." So the photographer scrambled for second best. Stuffing the lads back into the limo, he headed for Clay's training camp, the Fifth Street Gym. Because the New York Times' boxing writer didn't think the fight between Clay and Liston was worth his time, a kid reporter had been pulled off rewrite and sent instead. Everyone…

So much of great photography is being in the right spot at the right moment. And having luck. While sitting ringside on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine, Sports Illustrated photographer Neil Leifer shot what is considered to be the greatest sports picture of the 20th century. SI had sent Leifer to cover the rematch between 23-year-old heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali and 34-year-old Sonny Liston, from whom Ali had snatched the title 15 months prior. One minute and 44 seconds into the first round, Ali's right fist connected with Liston's chin and Liston went down. Leifer didn't see the punch. Yet he snapped the photo of the champ towering over his vanquished opponent, taunting him. "Get up and fight, sucker!" Ali cried. The picture barely resonated that week, Leifer…