Innholdsfortegnelse for August 26, 2024 i Time Magazine International Edition

On TIME.com, read more about two of the most striking pictures to come out of the 2024 Games: above, James Lang’s photo of American Noah Lyles (lane 7) winning the 100-m final, and at right, Jerome Brouillet’s of Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina appearing to float while he gives the No. 1 sign. Find more of TIME’s Olympics photography in this issue. TIME Talks On Aug. 8, TIME hosted a dinner on Martha’s Vineyard on expanding racial equity. From left: editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs interviewed NFL executive Marissa Solis, W.K. Kellogg Foundation CEO La June Montgomery Tabron, and Arian Simone, Fearless Fund CEO. Read more at time.com/vineyard-talk On the covers Photo-illustration by Neil Jamieson for TIME Photograph by Paolo Pellegrin—Magnum Photos for TIME Photograph by Dina Litovsky for TIME TALK TO US…

RELEASED Prisoners of Putin Evan Gershkovich and 15 others, finally free Though President Joe Biden did the honors when it came time to announce the news, the historic Aug. 1 swap that resulted in the release of more than 20 Russian-held prisoners—including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other American citizens—relied on the cooperation of seven countries. At a time of deepening global tensions, the rare moment of collaboration was not just a cause for celebration among the prisoners and their families, but also a significant diplomatic achievement. For Biden, who has long pledged both to secure the release of imprisoned Americans and to support pro-democracy movements abroad, the sweeping exchange was a meaningful victory at a moment when, amid the drama of the presidential election, his capacity…

For the past 10 months, Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to apologize for leaving Israel vulnerable to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack. After the deaths of 1,200 people and the abduction of hundreds more, a traumatized Israeli public heard abject admissions of responsibility from the heads of the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet, the country’s domestic security service, but none from Netanyahu, who had been Prime Minister for almost a year when the attack happened, and had presided over a more than 10-year strategy of tacit acceptance of Hamas rule in Gaza. His only apology was for a social media post blaming his own security chiefs for failing to foil the assault. So, early in a 66-minute conversation with TIME on Aug. 4 in the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem,…

Six months after being ousted as the supervisor of Green Charter Township in rural western Michigan, Jim Chapman is sitting at the dining table in his son’s house, a haven from the dirty looks and death threats that continue even now. A self-described conservative Republican who was a police officer before entering local politics, Chapman says his downfall was negotiating to bring a $2.4 billion electric-vehicle-battery plant owned by a Chinese company to town, what he calls a once-in-a-generation opportunity to grow the local economy. The backlash was swift and withering. A Congressman launched an ad campaign ahead of his recall election, criticizing “local officials” for welcoming Gotion, the company building the plant. A recent caller left a voicemail threatening to target Chapman and “exercise my Second Amendment rights.” Another…

When Richard Nixon resigned, 50 years ago this August, he became the first and (so far) only U.S. President driven from the nation’s highest office. His departure was the result of the political establishment coming together in the wake of Watergate. The experience, Nixon’s successor asserted, had vindicated American democracy. “Our Constitution works,” President Gerald Ford declared. In the early 1970s, it seemed as if the nation’s leadership, Republicans and Democrats alike, had closed ranks to preserve widely held norms. Half a century later, the lessons of Watergate look very different. Instead of constraining the Executive Branch, Nixon’s ouster marked the beginning of a long-term effort to strengthen the presidency, which culminated with the July 1 presidential-immunity ruling from the Supreme Court. Today’s Americans live not in the reassuring afterglow…

The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert. The light-up bracelets evoked the Eras Tour. And the exuberant crowd—more than 14,000 strong, lining up in the rain—resembled the early days of Barack Obama. Inside a Philadelphia arena on Aug. 6, Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted with a kind of reception a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t gotten in years. Fans packed into overflow spaces, waving homemade signs made of glitter and glue as drumlines roared. When Harris introduced her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the cheering lasted more than a minute. If you’d predicted this scene a month ago to anyone following the race, they would never have believed you. But Harris has pulled off the swiftest vibe shift in modern political history. A contest that revolved around the cognitive…

At the height of his modeling career in the ’80s, Fabio Lanzoni, better known simply as Fabio, says he was shooting up to 10 romance-book covers a day. With his blond tresses flowing and his shirt unbuttoned or off altogether, his goal was to be readers’ “fantasy.” These days, romance-novel covers have a different look, but even as the visuals have evolved over time—from human models to suggestive portraits of fruit to more chaste, cartoonish illustrations—one thing has remained constant: with this genre, what you see is what you get. The cover of a romance novel sets the expectation of a love story with a happy ending. Here’s a look at major styles of romance-novel covers, and some of the genre’s most influential designs, through the decades. Early roots in…

Sheikh Hasina Wazed was proud of her house. When the Bangladeshi Prime Minister welcomed TIME to her Ganabhaban official residence in Dhaka last fall, she spent half an hour giving a personal tour of the manicured grounds, stippled with pomelo trees and swing sets for her grandchildren. But on Aug. 5, with furious protesters closing in, Hasina was forced to flee her palatial home in a helicopter. Jubilant crowds clambered onto the Ganabhaban’s roof and carried away spoils including furniture, pets, and Hasina’s own silk saris. In a televised address, the army chief, General Waker-uz-Zaman, confirmed that Hasina, 76, had resigned and that he would form an interim government. “I am taking full responsibility,” he said. PEOPLE’S UPRISING What was effectively a coup d’état had been driven by a popular…

Every morning when Libbey Castle wakes up, she strips her bed and chucks her sheets into the washing machine. It doesn’t matter if it’s a weekday or the weekend, if she has a light or a busy day ahead, if she slept well or tossed and turned all night. The sheets will be washed. “I let them do their thing, and I go make coffee feeling happy,” says Castle, 30, who lives in Washington, D.C. “Then I throw them into the dryer before I go work out. I come back, I grab a shower, and the sheets are done. I throw them on the bed, and then I start my day.” Knowing fresh sheets await her boosts her spirits straight through to bedtime. Health experts agree that Castle is onto…

In 2022, it was hard to walk around Washington without seeing Sam Bankman-Fried’s face. While the press often praised him for his humility, the founder and CEO of the crypto exchange FTX plastered ads of himself all over the city, and particularly in areas where congressional staffers might walk to work, like Union Station. Although Sam still lived in the Bahamas in order to avoid regulation, he was shuttling from Nassau to Washington, D.C., every week or two to meet with lawmakers and regulators, making a power play for the nation’s capital. After FTX’s crash, theories would fly about Sam’s larger designs on Washington. Some speculated that he had been angling to move FTX back to U.S. soil and carve out concessions to make it the top crypto company in…

Nick Cammarata has always been unusually happy. The 31-year-old AI safety researcher had a good childhood, but it wasn’t just that; situations that made others depressed seemed to roll off him. “I think I was probably happier than 99% of people. It’s just kind of unfair luck,” he says. “I figured maybe what I had was as good as it gets.” Then, in 2021, as part of an effort to investigate whether life could get even better, Cammarata discovered the jhanas. These eight advanced meditative states, characterized by deep concentration and blissful absorption, have been practiced for thousands of years but were long considered the domain of mystics and monks with decades of training. Cammarata, however, taught himself to enter these states after around 1,000 hours of solo meditation practice.…