Innholdsfortegnelse for May 27, 2024 i Time Magazine International Edition

We want our coverage of this campaign to help the world understand the candidates Interviewing political leaders has been a staple of TIME’s journalism for decades, as we report on the most influential people in the world and bring those insights to our readers. With six months to go until the U.S. presidential election, we want our coverage of this campaign to help the world and American voters understand what the candidates would do if elected. Today, Donald Trump is in a better position to win the White House than at any point in the previous two campaigns. TIME’s Eric Cortellessa, who covers the Trump campaign, interviewed the former President twice in April to hear from Trump himself what a second term would look like. Trump’s ongoing trial in Manhattan…

Compliments benefit both the giver and the receiver, but people tend to underestimate their impact. As a result, we don’t give as many as we should. “The compliment is one of these really powerful, small actions that brighten your day and brighten someone else’s day,” says Xuan Zhao, a behavioral scientist at Stanford University who’s the CEO and co-founder of the well-being startup Flourish Science. “And it costs nothing.” Why is a compliment so transformative? One of the most important things to humans is to feel valued and respected by others, and like we belong, says Vanessa Bohns, a social psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University, who has researched compliments. “We’re always attuned to any scraps of information we get about how we’re viewed by other people,”…

On May 1, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell offered a two-part message to eager interest-rate watchers. The Fed is unlikely to increase interest rates this year, but policymakers there are also not rushing to bring them below 5.25%–5.5%. “I don’t know how long it’ll take,” Powell said of when the Fed might cut rates. Interest rates shape markets, and that’s especially true with renewable energy. Clean-energy projects are cheaper to run than their fossil-fuel counterparts because they don’t require operators to continually purchase fuel. But they typically have high up-front costs. As a result, the price of clean energy is determined to a significant extent by the cost of the debt that developers take on when they first build projects. Energy experts sometimes refer to what they call the levelized…

Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice. We’ve been talking for more than an hour on April 12 at his fever-dream palace in Palm Beach. Aides lurk around the perimeter of a gilded dining room overlooking the manicured lawn. When one nudges me to wrap up the interview, I bring up the many former Cabinet officials who refuse to endorse Trump this time. Some have publicly warned that he poses a danger to the Republic. Why should voters trust you, I ask, when some of the people who observed you most closely do not? As always, Trump punches back, denigrating his former top advisers. But beneath the typical torrent of invective, there is a larger lesson he has taken away. “I…

Kenya BETH KOIGI Finding water for everyone, everywhere BY JUSTIN WORLAND The U.N. estimates that more than 1.8 billion people across the planet live in communities under drought conditions. The cost to the global economy measures in the tens of billions of dollars. But despite the global nature of the problem, Beth Koigi, 33, knows that tackling drought will require local solutions. In 2017, along with Canadian environmental scientist Anastasia Kaschenko and Oxford economist Clare Sewell, she founded the social-enterprise company Majik Water with the goal of making clean drinking water accessible in arid and semiarid regions across her native Kenya—where half the population lacks access to clean drinking water—and around the world. Instead of focusing on large infrastructure projects, Koigi’s organization gives local communities direct access to water in…

Australia LAURA AND JORDAN O’REILLY Tireless disability advocates BY JEFFREY KLUGER Laura O’Reilly of Sydney was none too pleased in 2008 when she found out her little brother Shane was literally being warehoused. Shane, then 18, suffered from quadriplegic cerebral palsy and spent his days in a care facility where he was ostensibly receiving occupational therapy. Laura, then 22, came to visit him to bring him a change of clothes at the address she’d been given and was stunned to find a whitewashed warehouse with a group of clients inside, all idling in wheelchairs. Separately, off to the side, the staff was busy with lunch. “I remember going up to [Shane] and saying, ‘Mate, what’s happening?’” Laura, now 38, recalls. “He said, ‘We’re just waiting. Then we’re gonna do art.’…

U.S. SIMONE MANUEL Champion for inclusion BY ALICE PARK Growing up, Simone Manuel was used to being the only Black swimmer on the pool deck. “There was a feeling of loneliness,” she says. When she beat the field in the 100-m freestyle at the 2016 Olympics, she became the first Black American swimmer to earn an individual Olympic gold. After making history, her swimming journey became challenging in a different way. She didn’t make the team in that event in 2021 because of overtraining syndrome, after repetitive, intense training brought her body to its breaking point. She was forced to reduce nearly all physical activity to recover. That experience put her trailblazing role into perspective. In 2023, she created the Simone Manuel Foundation to  increase water safety as well as…

When you think about the Holocaust, what images appear in your mind’s eye? I see Nazis marching into city squares. Jews crushed into airless cattle cars. An iron gate with the inscription ARBEIT MACHT FREI, and beyond it, rows of spartan dormitories housing skeletal inmates in filthy striped uniforms, subjected to all manner of dehumanization. There are smokestacks, barbed wire, mass graves. These awful tableaux are the products of a lifelong immersion in Holocaust narratives, from factual accounts in textbooks to visits to museums to documentaries screened at Hebrew school. But because I grew up in the era of Schindler’s List and Life Is Beautiful, my most indelible impressions come from pop culture. When I envision a concentration camp, I am seeing a collage of movie stills. The same imagery…

In Hacks, you play Ava Daniels, a writer who grudgingly goes to work for a fading comedy icon. It’s a very gay show. What do you think it offers queer viewers that isn’t often seen in the media? It’s by the queers for the queers. We’re in charge of the stories and we write them and we also perform them, so they feel authentic and true to life because they just are. No one’s guessing here at Hacks. We’re speaking from experience. You have some qualities in common with Ava, namely your bisexuality and your career in comedy. Do you ever worry that people conflate the two of you? We do have some pretty on-paper similarities. But I know her intimately, and I feel like the character was so fully formed…

Gaza MOSAB ABU TOHA A poet documenting war BY YASMEEN SERHAN The first time Mosab Abu Toha witnessed an Israeli airstrike, he was 7 years old. “I was decades younger than war,” he wrote years later in a poem, and “a few years older than bombs.” Now an acclaimed Palestinian poet and writer, he draws on his experiences growing up in Gaza in much of his work: In one poem, he describes escaping death at age 16 when a piece of shrapnel got lodged in his neck, narrowly missing his windpipe. In another, he tells of his first experience of war as a father and the fear his three children felt as bombs rained down. Since Oct. 7, Abu Toha, 31, has emerged as an evocative chronicler of the ongoing…

In the tidy backyard of Kate Cox’s Dallas-area home, there are two child-size lawn chairs alongside two toddler bicycles. There are two red-and-white stuffed horses in the playroom, and two sippy cups sitting in the sink. Everywhere you look, there are two of everything. The only problem is, there should be three. Last year, Cox and her husband Justin were thrilled to learn that she was pregnant again. They had always planned to have a large family—three, maybe even four kids. When Cox saw the positive pregnancy test in August, she ran into the playroom to tell Justin, who was wrestling on the floor with their 3-year-old daughter and 18-month-old son. Justin immediately started considering whether they would need a bigger car; Kate was just excited. But a few more…

As the E.U. moves toward parliamentary elections in June, Europe’s populist right is having a moment. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has defied predictions of a short tenure. In Spain, political attacks on Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his wife have created turmoil. The right has also made gains in the Netherlands and Portugal. But the biggest fear for those dreading a possible far-right surge across Europe has long been the arrival on France’s center stage of anti-immigrant icon Marine Le Pen and her National Rally (RN) party. The RN’s double-digit lead over President Emmanuel Macron’s Renew alliance in the June contest signals that inflation, years of unpopular reform plans, and general voter fatigue are upstaging Macron’s aggressive efforts to tie Le Pen’s party to Russia’s Vladimir Putin.…

The food we eat impacts every aspect of our lives and our bodies: our hormones, brain chemistry, immune system, microbiome; the list goes on. As consumers, we deserve the right to easily understand our foods’ nutritional value in order to make informed decisions about what we consume and how that will impact our health. This is especially important when it comes to ingredients that are detrimental when eaten in excess, like sugar. As researchers in functional medicine, longevity, AI, and nutrition, we have dedicated our professional lives to improving the health and well-being of millions everywhere. And while we applaud the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for taking important strides to pass mandatory front-of-package labeling for packaged foods in the U.S., this change can’t come soon enough. Everyone’s health depends…

U.K. NCUTI GATWA Mold-breaking actor BY NAINA BAJEKAL/LONDON When Ncuti Gatwa got the call that would change his life, he was walking into a London barbershop. The Rwandan-born Scottish actor froze as his agent shared the news: he had just been cast as the lead in the beloved British sci-fi series Doctor Who. This wasn’t just another job—it was something that would cement his place in British cultural history. He told his agent he’d call back. “I hung up and didn’t think about it for a week,” he recalls when we meet two years later on a cool spring day in East London. “I was like: I’ve got laundry to do, I’ve got the gym to go to, I can’t think about this life-changing thing you’ve just thrown at me.”…

Japan SHUNSAKU SAGAMI CEO for the future BY CHAD DE GUZMAN “I’m not quite sure how I feel about my wealth,” one of Japan’s youngest billionaires tells TIME from his office in Tokyo. “But I continue to work hard to create good businesses.” Shunsaku Sagami, 33, owes his fortune—Forbes recently estimated his net worth to be $1.9 billion—specifically to the business of helping other businesses. “From a young age,” he says, “I wanted to be a person who could solve problems in the world.” One problem Sagami saw in his own life was the challenge of corporate succession in a country where the old vastly outnumber the young. Sagami has spoken often of his late grandfather, who ran a real estate agency in his hometown of Osaka but was forced…

U.K. RAYE Openhearted songwriter BY MOISES MENDEZ II As a teenager, RAYE attended the BRIT School, a legendary South London performing-arts academy that has bred successful songwriters and recording artists like Jessie J, Adele, and Amy Winehouse. These days, RAYE is regularly compared to Winehouse, but back then she remembers walking through the hallways, looking at pictures of the alumni, and thinking, “That’s gonna be me one day.” At the 2024 BRIT Awards, she earned her place in those hallowed halls. RAYE, born Rachel Keen, made history at this year’s ceremony in March as the most nominated artist at the U.K.’s biggest music-awards show. She then went on to break the record for most wins in a single night by collecting six awards, including the evening’s biggest prize, Album of the…

U.S. MYCHAL THREETS Unquiet librarian BY OLIVIA B. WAXMAN Amid record-high attempts to ban books and a harsh reality of reduced funding and staffing, libraries have a great publicist. Meet Mychal Threets, 34, a librarian in Fairfield, Calif., who has amassed roughly 2 million followers across social platforms with his videos promoting the local institution as a friendly, underrated neighborhood hangout. Threets basically grew up in a library. For the homeschooled kid, the Solano County Library—where he would one day work—was a classroom. One of the first books he remembers reading with his mother is Maurice Sendak’s beloved Caldecott Medal winner Where the Wild Things Are. He loved it so much that he later got tattoos of its titular fanged creatures. “I’ve always found my mind wandering, almost like searching…

If you are newly suspicious about the safety of the products in your medicine cabinet, there’s a good chance you have Valisure, a tiny laboratory in New Haven, Conn., to thank. Or blame. Over the past five years, Valisure’s team of about a dozen scientists has detected potentially cancer-causing chemicals in widely used medications, hand sanitizers, sunscreens, antiperspirant body sprays, dry shampoos, and—most recently—acne treatments. When Valisure sounds the alarm about a new scary-sounding finding, a flood of headlines, lawsuits, and product recalls often follows. The company is shattering the illusion that some 80% of Americans still believe: that the products they buy have been through enough safety testing to be proved not harmful. “Most consumers assume that because it’s for sale, it must be safe,” says Teresa Murray, who…

George Miller has spent more than 40 years swerving in and out of the postapocalyptic world of Mad Max. It’s an unpleasant place: dry, barren, and violent, but Miller can’t seem to stay away. And he had a compelling reason to return after 2015’s hugely successful Mad Max: Fury Road. In preparing to bring that story to the big screen, Miller wrote not just one movie, but three. The first film was, of course, Fury Road. The film introduced a new protagonist, Furiosa, a one-armed road warrior played by Charlize Theron. She betrays the dictator she serves, a man obsessed with big muscles and bigger car engines, by smuggling his wives out of their prison. Furiosa ended up eclipsing the franchise’s titular hero, with Tom Hardy in the role made…