Time Magazine International Edition August 18, 2025

On July 10 TIME hosted a party in New York City to celebrate TIME100 Creators, our inaugural list of the most influential digital voices, presented by premier partner Ally, and featuring data and insights from #paid. Clockwise from top: Kyle Vieira and model Haley Kalil, right; from left, podcaster Paige DeSorbo, TikTok stars Remi Bader and Tefi Pessoa, podcaster and comedian Hannah Berner, a guest, and creator Cyrus Veyssi; writer Heidi Wong; fitness influencer Leana Deeb; from left, Pessoa, podcasters Natalie Joy Viall and Nick Viall, and Berner. Browse the full list at time.com/time100-creators On the covers Photograph by Greg Kahn for TIME Photograph by Paolo Pellegrin—Magnum Photos for TIME Photograph by Caroline Tompkins for TIME Photograph by Ali Jadallah—Anadolu/Getty Images Looking for a specific cover? Order your favorites at…

Donald Trump has openly flirted with nearly every major conspiracy theory of the past half-century, and championed one of the most reckless through his insistence without evidence that the 2020 election was stolen. But what’s dominated the summer of 2025 is an intrigue he spent much of the previous year promising to crack if he returned to office—the truth about how registered sex offender and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein lived and died. Like so much else that grew into a headache for Trump, this started with pursuit of a quick headline without thinking through how it might end. Now, the Epstein saga has become a snowball racing down Mount MAGA that the President has lost the capacity to stop. To recap, Epstein was at the center of a network of superrich…

The powdered Japanese green tea known as matcha has become such a cultural phenomenon in the West that its popularity has resulted in a global supply problem. Though Western consumers have thirsted for the drink and its perceived health benefits in recent years, the trend was boosted by social media—particularly TikTok. Meanwhile, Japan experienced a rise in tourism since the COVID-19 pandemic, welcoming a record-breaking 36.9 million international visitors last year, and also boosting demand for matcha. SHORTAGES In October, two wellknown matcha companies—Ippodo and Marukyu Koyamaen—limited or stopped selling certain kinds of matcha, citing short supplies. On July 18, Ippodo said that in the face of unprecedented demand, “supply constraints are likely to continue.” UNIQUE PRODUCT Matcha originates from China but has become closely associated and rooted in Japanese…

Aisha Adkins’ mother Rosetta was adamant that she wanted to age at home. So when Rosetta’s dementia started worsening at age 59, Aisha started looking around for options. She quickly found that round-the-clock at-home care was extremely costly, and that her mother didn’t qualify for government assistance because of her father’s income. Stuck in the middle, Aisha, who was 29 at the time, ended up quitting her job to take care of her mother herself until Rosetta qualified for Medicaid through a complicated process called spousal impoverishment protection, which allowed her father to keep some assets. “It was really a struggle,” says Adkins. She cared for her mother for a decade until Rosetta’s death in 2023. As the U.S. population ages, more families are facing the same challenges. Longterm care,…

DIED Malcolm-Jamal Warner Beloved sitcom actor BY MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH The Loss of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died on July 20 at 54 in a drowning accident while vacationing with his family in Costa Rica, has been widely felt. The cultural impact of The Cosby Show, on which he played the family’s only son, Theo Huxtable, can’t be overstated. And Warner was an integral part of it; the show possibly doesn’t even work without him. For everything it sought to do in presenting a Black family that was not mired in trauma, its heart could be found in Warner’s portrayal of Theo trying his best to navigate the lofty expectations that come with such freedom, while also wanting simply to be a teenager. For eight seasons in the 1980s and early…

On July 14, 48 students walked through the doors of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Ark., to become its inaugural class. Some came from neighboring cities, others from urban centers in Michigan and New York. Almost all had a choice in where they could become doctors but took a chance on the new school because of its unique approach to rethinking medical education. Named after its founder—the world’s richest woman and an heir to the Walmart fortune—the school will train students over the next four years in a radically different way from the method most traditional medical schools use. Instead of drilling young physicians to chase symptom after symptom and perform test after test, Walton wants her school’s graduates to keep patients healthy by practicing something…