Innholdsfortegnelse for March 11, 2024 i Time Magazine International Edition

Taraji P. Henson knows what it means to be undervalued—and she wants to fix that. In a December interview, the actor made headlines with an uncompromising critique of pay inequality in Hollywood, saying that after more than 20 years in the industry, she is still compensated with only a fraction of what her white and male counterparts are paid. Henson spoke out in the hopes of leveling the playing field for future generations: “If I can’t fight for them coming up behind me, then what the f-ck am I doing?” That sense of urgency thrums through this year’s edition of Women of the Year, TIME’s annual list of trailblazers who are breaking new ground and fighting for a more equitable future. The 12 women on our 2024 list are pivotal…

It’s not easy to swim 109 miles when you’re starving to death. It’s not easy either to try to survive when you’re shedding body weight at a rate of 2.2 lb. a day. And it might be the hardest—or at least most tragic—of all if you’re a nursing mom and your calorie intake has dropped so low that you can no longer produce the milk you need to care for your young. As a new paper in Nature Communications reveals, all of those challenges and more are facing the world’s polar bears, thanks to vanishing sea ice in our warming world, denying the animals a platform that they need to hunt for seals. If the trend isn’t reversed soon, the estimated 26,000 polar bears in the wild could start to…

The long-awaited counteroffensive last year failed. Russia has recaptured Avdiivka, its biggest war gain in nine months. President Volodymyr Zelensky has been forced to quietly acknowledge the new military reality. The Biden Administration’s strategy is now to sustain Ukrainian defense until after the U.S. presidential elections, in the hope of wearing down Russian forces in a long war of attrition. This strategy seems sensible enough, but contains one crucially important implication and one potentially disastrous flaw, which are not yet being seriously addressed in public debates in the West or Ukraine. The implication of Ukraine standing indefinitely on the defensive—even if it does so successfully—is that the territories currently occupied by Russia are lost. Russia will never agree at the negotiating table to surrender land that it has managed to…

Why won’t antisemitism die, or at least die down? In the months following Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents increased substantially. The Anti-Defamation League, which keeps track, says they tripled in the U.S. over the previous year, although its criteria also changed to include anti-Zionism. But from 2019 to 2022, the amount of people with highly antisemitic attitudes in the U.S. had nearly doubled, the ADL found. In Europe, Human Rights Watch warned in 2019 of an “alarming” rise in antisemitism, prompting the European Union to adopt a strategic plan for fighting it two years later. No one can say definitively why the pre–Gaza War surge happened when it did. The salience of groups like the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 probably played…

When Andra Day stepped onto the podium at Super Bowl LVIII, it was a moment she had waited years to experience—not because she was singing on the biggest television broadcast of the year, but because she was finally given the chance to perform the Black national anthem. For years, Day had been trying to pivot invitations to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” into an opportunity to perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” “I had always been denied,” she says. “I got to a point where I was like, OK, until I can do that anthem, I don’t really want to do it again.” Day, 39, burst onto the scene in 2015 with her song “Rise Up,” a rousing power ballad that earned a Grammy nomination and later became an anthem for…

It takes hubris to mess with one of the defining TV events of the 20th century. The original Shogun, a miniseries based on James Clavell’s best-selling 1975 doorstop, was a massive hit when it aired on NBC in 1980. Nearly a third of American households watched Richard Chamberlain and the iconic Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune retell the tale of an English navigator’s adventures in feudal Japan. Shogun broke broadcast barriers with its frank depictions of sex and violence, and racked up awards. Could there possibly be a point, beyond the entertainment industry’s thirst for familiar IP, to revisiting this story in 2024? The answer, remarkably, is yes. The new Shogun is not a remake so much as a radical reimagining. Adapted directly from Clavell’s novel, this sprawling, 10-part historical drama…

The TIME100 Impact Awards recognize leaders shaping the future of their industries and the world at large. The 2024 gala at Dubai’s Museum of the Future (sponsored by World Governments Summit, Museum of the Future, Northern Data Group, and AI71) recognized AI pioneers—like Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, pictured at bottom right with TIME CEO Jessica Sibley—and included, along with a robot dog, musical performances by Dana Hourani and Harry Yeff. Find full coverage of the event at time.com/impact Say hello to “Real Love,” TIME’s new dating and relationships column. The inaugural features boast exciting ideas for date nights and explore why Gen Z singles are ditching dating apps. Find all of the installments at time.com/ideas On the covers Photograph by Zoey Grossman for TIME Illustration by Getty Images…

People are tired. Like, really tired. As evidenced by recent trends such as “Quiet Quitting,” “Coffee Badging,” “Bare Minimum Mondays,” and most of all, “The Great Resignation”—when over 47 million Americans voluntarily resigned from their positions—people are feeling a strain on more than just their work calendars; they’re feeling it on their spirits. We’re now in the era of “The Great Exhaustion,” what writer and computer-science professor Cal Newport has called a time when people are looking to re-establish their relationship with work in order to reduce their pervasive sense of drain. People feel so fatigued that they are cutting out activities that used to be commonplace and low stress, like working out and going to the supermarket. Factor in recovering from the pandemic, inflation, and global stressors, and you’ve…

Palestinians clamor for food in Rafah on Feb. 16. Nearly two-thirds of families in Gaza eat only one meal a day, and in 95% of households, adults restrict their intake to make sure small children can eat, according to a Feb. 19 report by the Global Nutrition Group, an aid partnership led by UNICEF. Israel blocked food, water, and fuel to the enclave after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, and in February fighting cut the number of aid trucks by half. The World Food Programme halted deliveries to northern Gaza altogether because of unsafe conditions. For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox Photograph by Fatima Shbair—AP…

It’s been three years since Myanmar’s ruling junta clawed back power from an elected government, and its grip on power is becoming costlier for all concerned. Recent fights with well-armed ethnic groups have inflicted heavy casualties on the country’s military. The Defense Ministry admitted in March 2023 that 14,000 troops had deserted since the coup. The true number was surely higher then and is much higher now. Add the army’s broad unpopularity to public fears that troops have become cannon fodder, and recruiting isn’t going well either. That’s why the generals have announced that beginning in April, their government will conscript 50,000 to 60,000 citizens per year under the so-called People’s Military Service Law. This statute isn’t new. A previous military government put it on the books in 2010 but…

ON THE AFTERNOON OF SEPT. 27, A BALKANS EXPERT AT THE WHITE HOUSE GOT A DISTURBING CALL FROM A U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. Serbian forces were massing along the length of their country’s border with Kosovo, where NATO has kept an uneasy peace since a bloody war of secession in 1999. Three days earlier, more than two dozen armed Serbs had killed a Kosovar police officer in an attack. Now Serbia was deploying heavy weapons and troops. “We were very worried that Serbia could be preparing to launch a military invasion,” says one National Security Council (NSC) official. The question was what to do about it. Months of mounting tensions in a remote corner of southeastern Europe had not received much attention in the media. Diplomatic efforts by the U.K., Italy,…

Ada Limón is no stranger to good news. In 2022, she was appointed the 24th poet laureate of the U.S., a role previously held by the likes of Tracy K. Smith, Joy Harjo, and Rita Dove. Last spring, she was granted a two-year second term. And in October came the announcement that she’d won a MacArthur “genius” grant. These are the achievements most writers only dream of—but there was one invitation that even the most inventive of poets would not have imagined: NASA reached out. It wanted Limón to compose an original poem to be launched into space. “As soon as I hung up, I thought, Oh, no,” Limón, 47, says. The pressure was on. Her poem “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa” will be engraved inside the…

Nadia Murad dreamed of running her own beauty salon in Kojo, a small farming village in northern Iraq. “In my imagination, the salon was a safe space where women and girls could share ideas, learn things, and have something for themselves,” she says. That dream was torn away when Islamic State fighters invaded her village in 2014, intent on destroying a Yazidi community they called infidels. Her mother, siblings, relatives, and friends were killed. Murad, then 21, was one of nearly 6,000 Yazidi women and children held captive and subjected to rape for nearly three months. She eventually escaped and resettled in Germany in 2015. Today, the 30-year-old channels that trauma into advocacy for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. “When you survive a war and know so many people…

DIED Alexei Navalny Founding father of the future Russia BY MIKHAIL ZYGAR On Jan. 1, 2015, Alexei Navalny called me. “Well, you and us have no one else left but you and us. Let’s work together,” he said. It was indeed a hard time for both him and me. I was editor in chief of the Dozhd TV channel at the time, and we were cut off from all cable and satellite operators. But Navalny, who died at 47 on Feb. 16 in a Siberian prison, faced much worse: the criminal case invented to force him to stop his political activities. That time, Alexei was given a suspended sentence, but his brother was imprisoned. That year, I wrote a book called All the Kremlin’s Men. One chapter was about Alexei,…

None of the tidying clichés ever really clicked with KC Davis, a therapist in Houston and mom to two young kids. “I’ve always been a messy person,” she says. “I’ve never been able to ‘clean as I go.’” Davis knew there were plenty of people just like her: those who wanted a serene space but lacked the time and energy to get started. After finding bite-size strategies that worked for her, Davis wrote How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing. A messy house can feel overwhelming to tackle, and progress may seem incremental at first. But there’s good reason to work on building a healthier relationship with your home. Research suggests that clutter increases levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and that cleanliness is…

In January 2020, Luis was 21 and beginning the second semester of his junior year at a public university in New York City. He lived with family in Queens, and everyone pitched in to make ends meet. His father was retired. His mother collected disability insurance. His older sister, with whom he shared a bedroom, was a veterinary technician. Luis worked at a law firm. The apartment was crowded, loud, and sometimes crazy. But in New York City, what isn’t? Luis was usually out in the world, anyway, because when you’re in your 20s, the world is yours. When COVID-19 hit, Luis’ universe suddenly narrowed. No school. No job. No parties. No friends. Soon, his whole family had the virus. It was scary, because by then Queens was one of…

Kate Winslet is the queen of the HBO miniseries, collecting Emmys for Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown. She may win a third for her astute portrayal of the odd, fragile demagogue at the center of The Regime. Yet because it is a comedy, the funny, solidly made but thematically undercooked show represents a departure. A delusional right-wing kleptocrat, Winslet’s Chancellor Elena Vernham rules a fictional Central European nation from the grand hotel she’s appropriated as her own personal Versailles, growing paranoid as the economy falters. Showrunner Will Tracy (Succession, The Menu) has made a careful study of the 21st century authoritarian. Like Marine Le Pen, Elena is a daughter driven to triumph where her father failed. Like Putin, she’s a restless expansionist. Like Trump, she speaks of love but…

Once I became a celebrity, Miami was my biggest market. Flying in from New York City, I could perform in two clubs in one night. Back then, those gigs paid $10,000, or maybe $12,000. It was good, easy money, and they treated me like the star I had become. I flew first-class, stayed in the best hotels, ate at elegant restaurants. Having money to me was like having a tank full of gas—it didn’t mean much if you didn’t have an imagination. No matter how poor I’d been, I’d never felt as impoverished as the rich people I knew whose capacity for fun was stunted. And there was no one more fun than Georges. After a few years of traveling to Miami, we bought a condo overlooking the ocean. It…