COVER STORY this issue: Young trailblazers who are reshaping music, health care, sports, comedy, politics and more. France – Kylian Mbappe, Soccer’s shooting star. In the waning days of summer in Paris, Kylian Mbappe sits high above a stadium, trying to find the words to describe how drastic a turn… To understand the world we live in, read TIME.
Meet Jair Bolsonaro. He stands for law and order, traditional family values and nostalgia for an era when a murderous authoritarian regime ran Brazil. In October, voters might make him President. How did Brazil come to this? On the wall of Jair Bolsonaro’s office in a modernist annex of Brazil’s Congress hang five faded black-and-white portraits. They are memoirs of a time many Brazillians would prefer to forget, when military generals ruled the country from 1964 until 1985 and the cost of insurrection was kidnap, …
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…
