COVER STORY This issue: Jane Fonda. Every generation must join the fight. Jane Fonda, at 86, is small-boned and elegant, her eyes like soft blue-gray fannel. Yet it’s startling how much energy shoots through her via a simple handshake: if a woodland creature could shake your hand, it might feel like this, the will of an entire forest ecosystem pouring through one being. She’s physically strong, sitting up straight and tall for more than an hour on a backless ottoman, perched before a cozy sitting-room fireplace in her Los Angeles town house…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.
How Tech companies joined forces with Zelensky’s government to turn Ukraine’s battlefields into a testing ground for military AI. Early in the morning of June 1, 2022, Alex Karp, the CEO of the data-analytics firm Palantir Technologies, crossed the border between Poland and Ukraine on foot, with five colleagues in tow. A pair of beaten-up Toyota Land Cruisers awaited on the other side. Chauffeured by armed guards, they sped down empty high-ways toward Kyiv, past bombed-out buildings damaged by artillery, the remnants of burned trucks…
Americans have long been known for our industry and ambition, but until recently, we also recognized the value of rest. The Puritans had a famously strict work ethic, but they also took their Sundays very seriously. In 1842, Henry David Thoreau observed, “The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure”, a decade later he wrote, “A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book.”Post-Civil War captains of industry didn’t rise and grind, according to business journalist Bertie Charles Forbes…