COVER STORY this issue: A few years back, members of Christchurch’s Linwood mosque suggested installing security camera outside. Anwar Alisaisy thought they were being ridiculous. Since immigrating to New Zealand from the Kurdish region of Iran in 2002, he’d seen no sign of trouble – not at the hairdresser’s where he worked nor at the mosque directly across the street where he prayed every Friday. “I said, “Nobody steals from the mosque. There’s no extremists.” says Alisaisy. “New Zealand is the safest place.”…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

A nation searches for a way out of catastrophe. Two men claim to be the President of Venezuela, which has the largest oil reserves on the planet and so little food that in a single year the average citizen lost 24 lb. One, Nicolás Maduro, secured a second term in a 2018 election widely regarded as a sham. The other, Juan Guaidó, took an oath of office on Jan. 23, in a maneuver that was equal parts…

When Tom Shicowich’s Toe started feeling numb, in 2010, he brushed it off as a temporary ache. At the time, he didn’t have health insurance, so he put off going to the doctor. The toe became infected, and he got so sick that he stayed in bed for two days with what he assumed was the flu. When he finally saw a doctor, the physician immediately sent Shicowich to the emergency room.  Several days later, surgeons amputated his toe, and…