Innholdsfortegnelse for June 9, 2025 i Time Magazine International Edition

New leaders are eager to see impact—and see it now In May, Partners of the Gates Foundation gathered in Manhattan to announce that the organization would spend $200 billion over the next 20 years and then close its doors in 2045. Supporters, including Michael Bloomberg, were on hand to mark the occasion. The scene, staged at Carnegie Hall, a venue built by one of America’s great 19th century philanthropists, paid tribute to a long tradition of American giving, while pointing to new ways of thinking that are shaping the 21st century. For those reasons, we include Bloomberg, the U.S.’s single largest recorded donor in 2024, and Mark Suzman, set to lead the next chapter of the Gates Foundation, in our inaugural TIME100 Philanthropy list. We launched the annual TIME100 21…

Famine, which has loomed over the Gaza Strip for much of Israel’s 19-month war with Hamas, is now imminent, say international aid groups. They cite a complex formula known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, released May 12, which found that the whole of Gaza qualified as an “Emergency,” or at critical risk of famine, and 470,000 people (22% of the population of 2 million) had reached “Catastrophe,” defined as “starvation, death, destitution and extremely critical acute malnutrition levels.” SOARING PRICES Food prices tell the same story of scarcity. “No one can afford to buy,” says Reham Alkahlout, 33, a psychological counselor and mother of four working at a school housing the displaced. “Sometimes we are forced to purchase small amounts just to feed our children.” The cost of…

On May 20, The Federal Government announced a major shift in how it plans to review and recommend COVID-19 vaccines for Americans. Among the biggest changes: when manufacturers want to update the vaccine each year to target the latest variants, they will be required to conduct additional studies. Since 2023, federal health officials have recommended a yearly COVID-19 shot for most people, and vaccine makers have not needed to conduct additional tests on each year’s updated formula. (The flu shot is similarly tweaked each year to target circulating strains, without new studies to reaffirm its safety and effectiveness.) Such studies would not be required for vaccines given to anyone at high risk for COVID-19, such as seniors, immunocompromised people, and anyone with a broad set of risk factors ranging from…

Darren Walker DRIVING TRANSFORMATION In the early months of the pandemic, Ford Foundation president Darren Walker came up with a radical idea. With interest rates near zero and stocks tanking, he posited major philanthropies should issue 50-year bonds to raise money for COVID-19 relief. It would save them from having to sell assets at the low values of the time. “It was an arbitrage play, really,” he says. Ford’s “social bond,” the first in U.S. nonprofit history, raised $1 billion to buck up hundreds of nonprofit grantees during the unprecedented crisis. He lobbied 14 other large groups to also issue bonds, but only four joined in. “Too many operate from a culture of no as opposed to asking, How do I get to yes?” Walker says. “I believe philanthropy should…

IF YOU HAPPEN TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE STAGE DURING THE FIRST FEW MINUTES OF GYPSY ON BROADWAY, AND TURN INSTEAD TO THE AISLE, YOU’LL SEE A WOMAN STANDING ALONE IN THE DARK. She’s in a velvet coat, holding a small dog, her face contorted into a grimace of ambition so fierce it looks something like rage, her eyes focused on the children dancing onstage as her hands twitch to the beat of the music. At first, nobody notices her, even though she is Audra McDonald, arguably the greatest living stage actor, even though she is already in character as Mama Rose, the most famous and reviled stage mother in musical theater. Then, she calls out her first line (“Sing out, Louise!”) and every head turns in unison. She…

Since taking office, the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has managed to dramatically reduce Amazon deforestation. How have you done it? In 2023, when we took office, we had deforestation on an ascending curve that was out of control. We had to rebuild command-and-control organizations and increase public funding. Based on data and evidence, we began from the very beginning to apply policies that we projected would work. And the result is a 46% drop in the last two years compared to the baseline of 2022. Now we have greater complexity. You can initially reduce the highest rates of illegal deforestation. But from now on we need to have policies to stem legal deforestation. Environmentalists have expressed concern about potential oil exploration in the Amazon region. What…

In a statement from his personal office on May 18, former President Joe Biden revealed that he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, and that he and his family are “reviewing treatment options with his physicians.” Once it metastasizes, prostate cancer is generally not curable. But those options could give him a good chance of controlling the cancer, according to experts. Most prostate cancer is fueled by the male hormone testosterone, so the most effective strategies to control it starve the cancer by cutting off its supply. Historically, doctors have removed the testes—the main source of the hormone—but today, pills and injections can suppress testosterone not just in the testes but also in other organs that produce small amounts, like the adrenal glands.…

For decades, some in Europe talked up the need for “collective European defense,” a policy to sharply reduce dependence on Washington for military protection. The debate never got far because Britain and Germany saw no reason to jeopardize transatlantic ties with a drive for security independence. When Russia launched a full-on invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it quickly became clear that Europe’s dependence on America for military muscle was deeper than ever. Then Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, confronting European leaders with the reality that his commitment to Europe had become an open question—especially as war raged in Ukraine. Earlier this year, the center-right CDU/CSU won federal elections in Germany, elevating Friedrich Merz to Chancellor. Merz wasted no time in trumpeting a plan to dramatically boost Germany’s role…

David Beckham CHAMPION OF CHANGE BY SEAN GREGORY/FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. On the first Sunday night in April, drums are beating and horns are blaring in a boisterous Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates make a humdrum regular-season American soccer game a happening. Inter Miami and Toronto FC are tied 1-1 in the waning seconds of the contest when Messi drives a ball into the goal box, giving his team a golden chance to pull out the win. His pass lands on the foot of Inter Miami’s Fafà Picault, who pops what should be a surefire game winner over the net. A few seconds later, the referee blows the final whistle. David Beckham, co-owner of Inter Miami, sits still in his box, his…

On July 31, 2023, Matt Wolf received news that no documentarian wants to hear: the subject of his uncompleted film was dead. This was no mere talking head. It was a man who left an indelible mark on pop culture, whose manic persona, gray suit, and bow tie helped define the 1980s. On a personal note, says Wolf, it was someone who “changed who I was through his art.” The subject was Paul Reubens, the actor best known as Pee-wee Herman, who had been diagnosed with cancer six years prior. “Paul was very preoccupied with the film being finished before he died,” says Wolf, whose two-part HBO documentary, Pee-wee as Himself, premiered at Sundance to rapturous praise and is now streaming on Max. Though Reubens never said his death was…

Coming out of his Two-Hour call with Vladimir Putin on May 19, Donald Trump made an unusual concession: only Russia and Ukraine should be involved in talks to end the war between them, he wrote on social media, “because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of.” The admission of ignorance seemed out of character for a President who often claims to know more than anyone else about a great variety of subjects, and it may have set the peace process on a new and uncertain course. For Putin, the gaps in Trump’s knowledge about the war have always offered an advantage. One of the Russian leader’s favorite negotiating tactics is to overwhelm his interlocutors with a torrent of historical theories. Ukrainian officials and their…

DIED George Wendt Beloved barfly No matter who was slinging drinks, a happy hour at Cheers didn’t start until Norm Peterson crossed the bar’s threshold in pursuit of a hearty welcome and a frosty beer. As portrayed by a merrily cynical George Wendt in the iconic sitcom that dominated television for 11 seasons beginning in 1982, Norm was Cheers’ ideal regular, a barfly but not a drunk, who could shrug off work woes and marital tiffs as long as there were mugs to be drained, sports to be watched, trash to be talked. Sure, Sam and Diane’s roller-coaster romance drove the plot at first. But Cheers was really a show about community. And as its co-creator and director, James Burrows, reflected in his 2022 memoir, Norm “was the anchor for…

For the past year, the energy and climate narrative has been intimately intertwined with questions about AI’s impact on energy demand. As tech companies race to construct new data centers, they’ve turned the U.S. emissions-reduction story on its head. Brazil senses an opportunity. Brazilian officials want to persuade AI and other tech companies to set up shop there. They cite the nation’s strategic location as a central hub in South America and supportive policy environment. But the biggest selling point by far is Brazil’s electricity system: nearly 90% of its power comes from renewable energy, and the country already has good transmission infrastructure in place. “Our message to the world, on the basis of our plan, is that AI [power demand] is satiable with usage of renewable energy sources,” Luis…

When Kristian Gkolomeev woke up one morning in February, the last thing he expected to do was break a world record in the pool. The Greek swimmer and four-time Olympian, who finished fifth in the 50-m freestyle in Paris and Tokyo, had gone to Greensboro, N.C., to take part in a preview of something called the Enhanced Games, a new startup that plans to stage an Olympic-style competition permitting the use of most performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) currently banned in global sports. It was another athlete, however, who had come to make a splash that day. Retired Australian swimming star James Magnussen—a former world champion who won three Olympic medals—had said publicly in early 2024 that he’d “juice to the gills” and break the 50-m freestyle world record if the Enhanced…

The creators of FX’s Adults must have known comparisons between their show and Girls were inevitable, because they leaned way into them. Beyond the similar titles, both comedies follow 20-something friends in New York City. There’s an explicit callback in Adults’ premiere to Girls’ pilot, when Lena Dunham’s narcissistic aspiring writer informs her parents she might be “a voice of a generation.” Adults abbreviates this cliché as “V of our G,” and applies it to a media-savvy young man who becomes the envy of his peers after a workplace sexual-harassment scandal lands him a six-figure payout. Equal parts tribute and send-up, the moment cleverly heralds the arrival of a new generation anointing its own voices. Adults is the creation of Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, a couple and comedy team…