Time Magazine International Edition October 10, 2022

TIME is a study in leadership, telling the history of our time through the people who make it WHAT MAKES A LEADER? TIME HAS BEEN many things across its nearly 100 years—a news digest, a journal of ideas, an arbiter of influence, a chronicler of what matters across virtually every discipline. But there is a constant across the decades: TIME is a study in leadership, telling the history of our time through the people who make it. Often, the leaders through whom we tell the world’s stories are household names, from the Speaker of the House on the cover of our first issue in 1923 to Queen Elizabeth II on the most recent. What is striking to me throughout this new issue is the extraordinary array of leaders featured who…

THE QUEEN Margit Alm of Eltham, Australia, hailed Cecil Beaton’s 1968 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II—who died Sept. 8 at the age of 96—on the cover of the Sept. 26/Oct. 3 issue as “beautiful” and “elegant.” Lebanese Twitter user @harmardir likened reading Larry Sutton and Steve Dougherty’s obituary to “entering a time machine” and traveling through 70 years of world history. The news of the Queen’s death drew tributes from her admirers worldwide. “She was the world’s vision of an ideal female leader and grandmother,” John A. Gover of Rio Rancho, N.M., wrote in an email. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. of Bellerose, N.Y., called Queen Elizabeth II “a great leader who had such a profound love for people around the globe.” Facebook user Mary McMartin described the Queen as “a…

5% Additional water in the earth’s atmosphere after a volcanic eruption near Tonga in January, according to a Sept. 22 study in Science. Researchers say the added vapor could cause further global warming ‘If he is the nominee, I won’t be a Republican.’ REPRESENTATIVE LIZ CHENEY, referring to former President Donald Trump, to the Texas Tribune on Sept. 24 ‘I WANT PEOPLE OUT THERE TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE CITIZENS IN JAPAN WHO ARE OPPOSING THIS EVENT.’ SHINSAKU NOHIRA, one of thousands of protesters at the Sept. 27 state funeral of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to CNN ‘It’s a disgrace that a week after this storm … we still don’t fully have water.’ HEVEL VÉLEZ LUCIANO, who was among the more than 1 million Puerto Ricans left without…

NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO, DONALD TRUMP learned the legal strategy that would repeatedly get him out of tight legal jams. It was 1973, and the Justice Department had just filed a civil rights lawsuit against Trump and his father Fred Trump. The complaint alleged that the Trumps and their company, which managed some 14,000 apartments in Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, had violated the Fair Housing Act by systematically flagging the applications of Black renters and steering them away from available units. To push back, the Trumps hired the famously combative Roy Cohn—Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the 1950s Red Scare hearings—and sued the Justice Department for $100 million, claiming defamation. The case naming the Trumps was settled two years later. That early entanglement with the Justice Department drove…

Student-loan forgiveness challenged A California libertarian group, the Pacific Legal Foundation, challenged President Biden’s student-debt forgiveness plan with a lawsuit on Sept. 27. The group argued that Biden does not have the authority to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student debt per borrower, and asked a judge to halt the plan. Chess champ accuses rival of cheating World chess champion Magnus Carlsen accused a rival who won a surprise victory over him of cheating. In a Sept. 26 statement, Carlsen alleged that Hans Niemann cheated during in-person chess games; Niemann had admitted to cheating in online matches years ago, but has denied any wrongdoing during in-person matches. McConnell backs election-law change Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell will “proudly support” legislation to overhaul the rules for certifying presidential elections in…

NEAR-EARTH SPACE IS SWARMING WITH asteroids—nearly 30,000 of them—and the largest ones pose a risk to our planet, threatening us with a cosmic collision like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But we’re not dinosaurs, and we can do something about space rocks, deflecting them before they do us any harm. On Sept. 26, NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid 7 million miles away in a proof-of-concept mission to show deflection technology works. LOCKED AND LOADED DART stands for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, and the 1,260-lb., 8.5-ft. craft was aimed at the 530-ft. asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits the larger, 2,560-ft. asteroid Didymos. Dimorphos makes one circuit around Didymos every 11 hr. 55 min. The goal of DART: smash into Dimorphos and see if it’s…