COVER STORY this issue: The 41st President and father of the 43rd left a lasting legacy of service. He wanted to go as soon as he heard. On the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, George Herbert Walker Bush — known as “Poppy” to family and friends — was walking on the campus of Philips Academy in Andover, Mass., when word came of the Japanese attack on Peral Harbor. He was 17.5 years old. He longed to…  To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

President-elect Bolsonaro swept in from the far right. The din in Brazil’s lower House of Congress was so loud the seven-term Congressman running for Speaker could barely be heard. His collegaues paid little attention, many speaking over him. Unperturbed, Jair Meddias Bolsonaro forged on, waving a newspaper as he railed against his ineffective contemporaries. The former army captain, the 62, won just four of the 504 votes that day in February 2017, a result that seemed to confirm his irrelevance in Brazilian politics. Yet an aide was streaming his diatribe live on…

New discoveries are mobilizing the immune system in the fight against breast cancer. As a pharmacist, Kathy James considers herself well educated about the importance of getting regular cancer screenings. Even though the 55-year-old had no history of cancer in her family, she never skipped her regular mammograms, and she gave herself regular breast exams. So she was dumbfounded when, during one of those self-exams in May 2017, she felt a marble-size lump in her left breast. A visit to…