When Annlyse Retiveau leaned in to sniff my armpits, I held my own breath as she inhaled. I’ve spent a vast majority of my life using products to avoid this precise critique—another human intentionally evaluating my armpit aroma. Yet, whether we like it or not, humans do smell each other, and we can glean useful…
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. About halfway through the second act of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda reaches for George Washington’s farewell letter to script the Founding Father’s exit from the show’s plot. Theater kids—and their…
Forcing social media users to provide I.D. hurts people who genuinely need to stay anonymous, and won't help solve racism
A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newsletter. If you’d like sign up to receive this free once-a-week email, click here. It’s a high bar to clear, but this is one of the most depressing facts I’ve read as a climate journalist: the Amazon rainforest—a region known as “the lungs…
A record number of women run Fortune 500 companies. But they only make up 8.2% of the list.
Hungary's recent anti-LGBTQ law has sparked a furious reaction in the EU, including calls to cut off the nation’s funding
It is the largest annual decline since 1943, in the middle of World War II.
One of Trump’s close personal friends for decades, Barrack is the latest in a long line of the former president’s associates to face criminal charges.
Racism in the U.S. should not be at the center of global discussions on white supremacy
Advocates are urging the Social Security Administration to update its policies and issue guidance related to COVID-19 long-haul patients
An international media effort reports that governments tracked the phones of activists, politicians and journalists
