COVER STORY this issue: Inside the President’s re-election gamble. My whole life is a bet, the President of the United States says, resting his forearms on the edge of the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. It’s a steamy evening in mid-June, and Trump is facing a set of high-stakes tests around the world. Tensions rising with Iran. Tariffs imposed by India. Protesters flooding the streets of Hong Kong. But Trump is confident, ready to joust. He has invited a group of TIME journalists for an interview, blown past the allotted time and settled in for a wide-ranging discussion…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

Anti-Semitism rises across the Continent and the fight to resist it. The note jammed onto a windshield in Sweden in March last year was designed to terrify. “We are watching you, you jewish swine”, read the message to a retired professor, written on paper with the logo of the Nordic Resistance Movement, a Swedish neo-Nazi organization. In the bucolic university town of Lund, with its cobblestone streets and medieval buildings, the threat seemed jarringly out of place. More notes followed. “I was really scared”, says the professor, a small woman of 70 who is too fearful of a further attack to reveal her name in print…

An ongoing Ebola outbreak has already caused 1,400 deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo–and across the border, Ugandan authorities are bracing for their own possible outbreak of the deadly virus. Through the World Health Organization (WHO) decided on June 14 not to classify the outbreak as an international emergency, two people died of Ebola after returning to Uganda from a trip to the Congo in early June, and health workers fear the porous border between the countries could allow the disease to spread…