COVER STORY this issue: Mass migration, terrorism and economic woes are fueling authoritarians around the world.  NATO’s former Supreme Allied Commander on why government of, by and for the people will win again.  I spent much of my early adult life on American warships around the world defending democracy against one of its great 20th century enemies: global communism.  The Cold War represented a rare kind of conflict in the span of human civilization, one not between states or princes, but between ideologies … To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

As Israel gets its way with Washington, Gazans mobilize despair.  It is possible, in theory that the parallel events of May 14 might affect the sympathies of Americans watching them unfold on the split screens of cable news channels.  In Jerusalem, the ceremonial opening of the new U.S. Embassy proceeded at a stately pace, President Trump’s daughter Ivanka unveiling a plaque that announced not only the new address for U.S. representation in Israel but also a new, snugger alignment with the host nation.  A few miles away, cameras captured the chaos as Israeli soldiers methodically cut down some 2,700 Palestinians, 60 fatally, as they marched toward the fence …

Daniel Dudley, 28, is a busy man.  The medical resident at Valley Medical Center in Washington is an active hiker, an amateur chef—he’s currently learning how to cook Indian cuisine—and a proud “father” to two dwarf rabbits, whose antics he chronicles under the Instagram handle @bunnyzaddy.  He’s also at least partly responsible for the creation of a new male contraceptive.  Over the past five years, Dudley has volunteered for three separate clinical trials of three male contraceptive methods …