COVER STORY This issue: In conservative Ohio, the pushback against data centers may propel Democrats in the midterms. Patty Spillman and Jen Belt drive through the outskirts of Grove City, Ohio, mapping the battle lines of a war they’ve waged for months. Pointing out the window of Belt’s blue Chrysler mini-van, Spillman notes the precise borders of a proposed 310-acre data-center campus. She singles out the electrical substation and towering power lines, and recounts the personal histories of neighbors who got offers to sell their land…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.
Life once followed a familiar pattern. Myanmar is poorer and more violent since its dictator seized power. Now he wants rapprochement with the West. First came the mirror. before Min Aung Hlaing enters the room for his first Western media interview since seizing power in a 2021 coup d’état, aides maneuver an ornate Rococo-revival looking glass into place for preening. Then come requests for his portrait: light him from the left, the better to disguise a thinning hairline no longer hidden beneath an olive cap…
Every room has a parallel conversation running beneath the surface—a pulse, a vibe, a temperature. This undercurrent of unspoken behavior delivers data instantly, but only if you can decipher it. Neuroscientists, psychologists, anthropologists, and linguists have studied how subtle behaviors create meaning. I’ve spent the past decade training people to spot those signals: who holds power, which relationship will influence a decision…
