Table of contents for February 13, 2023 in TIME Magazine

MLK in VR Two TIME Studios projects offer new ways to experience Martin Luther King’s March on Washington via Meta Quest. View the 1963 event through The March 360—adapted from the immersive 2020 exhibit “The March,” and again made possible by American Family Insurance. And MLK: Now Is The Time brings the issues King enumerated that day into the present. Learn more at nowisthetime.time.com Exclusively on TIME.com Nearly a year after the Russian invasion, TIME continues to cover the events of the war in Ukraine. Correspondent W.J. Hennigan was the first to report that a former American Navy SEAL who had gone AWOL in 2019 had been killed during Russia’s assault on eastern Ukraine while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces. Read what we know at time.com/ukraine-seal TALK TO US SEND…

Research shows that people who have a good relationship with their therapist get the most out of therapy. “I tell friends that they should like talking to their therapist and feel like their therapist likes talking to them, because a strong relationship will generally lead to better outcomes,” says Emily Maynard, a psychotherapist in California. But even after figuring out who’s affordable and available, finding a provider who’s the right fit for your personality and needs can take some work. Mental-health experts recommend casting a wide net, not getting discouraged, and taking advantage of the free 15-minute phone consultations that most practitioners offer to figure out if you’d like to work together. Here are five other things to reflect on when choosing a therapist. 1. Consider your background—and theirs…

Israel is no longer a liberal democracy. As Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government took office on Dec. 29, its illiberalism was evident. No longer a matter for debate or polite embarrassment, the contempt for liberal ideas brings disparate factions together: against the media and intellectuals and increasingly against the old Western-inspired Israeli political system and constitution. New Minister Bezalel Smotrich, for example, calls gay pride parades “worse than bestiality” and in 2017 published a political manifesto detailing how best to force Palestinians to “truly internalize the loss of national hope,” “killing those who need to be killed.” He was appointed Finance Minister in Netanyahu’s government. Yariv Levin, the new Justice Minister, proposed on Jan. 4 a set of sweeping changes to the powers of the High Court, limiting its ability to…

Early in the pandemic, experts projected that the world economy could shrink by almost 10% in 2020. Yet what played out was a contraction of 3.1%—still a huge loss of output, but not nearly as dire. To a large extent, this was due to international cooperation. Countries came together to diagnose the problem: a simultaneous shock to supply and demand. This meant that standard policy responses would not be sufficient. That’s why policymakers took extraordinary fiscal and monetary measures to support businesses and households. Without this coordinated response, we would have faced another Great Depression. And without the global collaboration of scientists and health authorities, we would not have had effective vaccines in record time. When crisis strikes, as it has so often in the past three years, international…

We find ourselves, as a nation, in a nauseating position. In the hours before Memphis police released video of the beating death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, cable-news anchors, filling some of their copious time, spoke of the police footage as “hours away from release,” “soon to come,” and with other terms typically reserved for sporting events, major political speeches, and moments of scandal. The city, newscasters said, was on edge. Memphis’s Black female police chief, Cerelyn Davis, and surrounding Shelby County’s District Attorney Steve Mulroy, a white man and Democrat, have been lauded for their comparatively swift, decisive action. Before footage of the beating was released, the five Black officers involved in Nichols’ Jan. 7 beating were fired and indicted on multiple charges including official misconduct and…

One of the secrets to building the world’s most powerful computer is probably perched by your bathroom sink. At IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State’s Westchester County, scientists always keep a box of dental floss—Reach is the preferred brand—close by in case they need to tinker with their oil-drum-size quantum computers, the latest of which can complete certain tasks millions of times as fast as your laptop. Inside the shimmering aluminum canister of IBM’s System One, which sits shielded by the same kind of protective glass as the Mona Lisa, are three cylinders of diminishing circumference, rather like a set of Russian dolls. Together, these encase a chandelier of looping silver wires that cascade through chunky gold plates to a quantum chip in the base. To…

RESIGNED Jacinda Ardern Compassionate trailblazer Nearly six years after being sworn in as New Zealand’s youngest ever Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation Jan. 19 amid declining Labor Party poll numbers and a divided political legacy. The 42-year-old had ruled out the prospect of seeking re-election in the fall, citing a sensation familiar to people the world over—burnout—after leading the nation of 5 million people through major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The liberal leader became a household name after her swift and compassionate response to the March 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, which left 51 people dead. That empathy was on display again in December of that year, when Ardern hugged first responders after a volcano erupted on Whakaari / White Island, killing 22 people. She also…

Sandhya Sriram is impatient. The stem-cell scientist wanted to put her knowledge to use developing cultivated seafood, but no one was doing that in Singapore. So four years ago, she set up a company to create lab-grown crustacean meat. Eagerly, she registered her company, Shiok Meats, at 3 a.m. in August 2018. “Nobody was doing crustaceans,” says Sriram, Shiok’s Group CEO and co-founder. “What do Asians eat the most? Seafood. It was a simple answer … And they’re so delicious.” A lifelong vegetarian, she had never tried real shrimp, but she sampled it the week she registered the company. Today, the results of her enthusiasm can be seen at Shiok Meats’ headquarters, in an industrial Singapore neighborhood. During a fall 2022 visit, a bespectacled bioprocess engineer clad in personal protective…

Somehow, Mira Murati can forthrightly discuss the dangers of AI while making you feel like it’s all going to be OK. Murati is chief technology officer at OpenAI, leading the teams behind DALL-E, which uses AI to create artwork based on prompts, and ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot that can answer complex questions with eerily humanlike skill. ChatGPT captured the public imagination upon its release in late November. While some schools are banning it, Microsoft announced a $10 billion investment in the company and Google issued a “code red,” fretting that the technology could disrupt its search business. “As with other revolutions that we’ve gone through, there will be new jobs and some jobs will be lost…” Murati told Trevor Noah last fall of the impact of AI, “but…

It’s the end of the world. Or is it? That’s the terrifying dilemma at the heart of the apocalyptic horror film Knock at the Cabin, in theaters Feb. 3. Based on Paul Tremblay’s award-winning 2018 novel The Cabin at the End of the World, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie challenges its characters and, in turn, viewers to consider the implications of an impossible choice: save your family or, as the movie’s tagline puts it, save humanity. At the center of the action is a tight-knit unit—married couple Eric (Jonathan Groff) and Andrew (Ben Aldridge) and their daughter Wen (Kristen Cui)—who, while vacationing at a remote cabin, find themselves at the mercy of four armed strangers demanding they willingly sacrifice one of their own to prevent the apocalypse. Only…

In the Apple TV+ drama Dear Edward, a jet falls out of the sky, killing everyone on board except 12-year-old Edward Adler. That he’s lucky to be alive is cold comfort; his parents and beloved brother are dead, he’s sent to live with a bitter aunt (Taylor Schilling), and posttraumatic stress abounds. “Sometimes,” says Edward (luminous newcomer Colin O’Brien), “I feel like the crash is still sitting on that field, and it’s never gonna stop burning.” It’s an apt metaphor for the series’ central theme: grief. Unlike plane-crash thrillers from Lost to Yellowjackets, Dear Edward is no puzzle box. Adapted by Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood) from the novel by Ann Napolitano, it’s a warmhearted but uneven ensemble drama grounded in a support group for the victims’ families.…

President Joe Biden announced on Jan. 25 that the U.S. will provide 31 American-made M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine after weeks of debate among Administration policymakers and their European counterparts. The tanks are part of a long-term plan to strengthen the Ukrainian army with advanced weaponry to fight invading Russian forces, which occupy much of eastern and southern Ukraine. The policy turnaround is the latest sign the White House expects the conflict in Ukraine to last for many months and is prepared to support Kyiv for its duration. BATTLE TANKS The $400 million package includes funding for the Abrams tanks, ammunition rounds, support vehicles, and other equipment. The Abrams tank (below) weighs more than 60 tons with a 120-mm cannon that can hit targets a mile away. At around…

When fellow skiers sent Amadeo Reale photos of churned mud and grassy slopes at their French and Swiss ski resorts in January, he shuddered in sympathy, but felt no sense of foreboding. As the president of Cortina d’Ampezzo’s historic Sci Club 18, he is confident that Italy’s premier ski resort in the Dolomites is pretty much immune to the no-snow-pocalypse that emptied out Europe’s prime ski destinations over the winter holidays. After all, most European resorts are 900 to 1,000 m (2,952 to 3,280 ft.) above sea level. Cortina d’Ampezzo starts at 1,600 m (5,249 ft.) and ascends to 2,362 m (7,749 ft.). Even if the lower slopes get a little slushy from above-average temperatures, as they did in mid-January, well, there is always manufactured snow—after five days of low…

Indigenous women pass security forces in Lima on Jan. 24, calling for President Dina Boluarte to step down. The country’s sixth President in seven years, Boularte at month’s end acceded to the protests, calling for legislators to move elections up to later this year. The protests were organized by supporters of the imprisoned last President, Pedro Castillo, who was impeached on Dec. 7. At least 46 people have been killed in the unrest. For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox Photograph by Martin Mejia—AP/Shutterstock…

The latest comedy to join ABC’s prime-time lineup tells what is, in many ways, a familiar story. Like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and both incarnations of One Day at a Time before it, Not Dead Yet follows a woman starting over after a big breakup. Journalist Nell Serrano, played by Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez, introduces herself by way of a headline: LOCAL WOMAN, 37, RUINS OWN LIFE. Fresh off a five-year stint in London that ended in a broken engagement, she’s back home in California, with a fussy roommate and a job writing obituaries for the local newspaper she left to chase romance. The twist? She meets the ghosts of her obit subjects. With its mix of time-honored TV tropes and quirky, attention-grabbing flourishes, Not Dead…