Every year, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s biggest death camp, where more than 1 million Jews were murdered or died there.
And yet, 79 years later, new information about what life in Auschwitz was really like is still coming out. The latest is Keren Blankfeld’s Lovers in Auschwitz: A True …
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As America heads into another election season, voters once again turn to pollsters for insights into how the results may turn out. After predictions that missed the mark during the 2016 and—to some extent—the 2020 presidential elections, peo…
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Ten years ago Colorado became the first state in the U.S. to fully legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Many other states followed, and several others already had sufficiently lax medical marijuana legislation, that now an estimated 40% of American adults can legally buy cannabis. Musicians, actors and sports stars have quickly jumped into the market with their own brands of weed, hoping …
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Over the last several weeks, a cache of internal Facebook documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen has revealed the company knew about—but did little to act on—a range of societal harms, from the destabilization of democracies around the world to its impact on teenagers’ mental health.
But the documents also paint a unique picture of the internal culture at Faceb…
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We Own This City, an HBO Max miniseries out April 25, about a Baltimore Police Department (BPD) task force unit that went rogue, highlights some of the biggest concerns with modern policing in America. Adapted from former Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton’s 2021 book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption, the show chronicles the rise and…
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For years, Korean dramas have successfully traversed borders to capture the hearts of international audiences. And there’s much more Korean television in store—in part thanks to Netflix’s public commitment to spend $2.5 billion on South Korean film and TV production in the next four years.
That investment is proportional to the demand: Netflix original The Glory, whic…
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When Tina Turner died on Wednesday after a half-century career full of legendary anthems, many remembered her as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” But the chart-topping hit for which she will perhaps be most remembered isn’t a rock song—and that fact almost got in the way of the song ever being released.
“What’s Love Got to Do With It,” wh…
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The most poignant moments of Netflix’s OxyContin docudrama Painkiller come at the very beginning of each episode. Instead of getting the standard disclaimer out of the way with onscreen text clarifying that some aspects of the show have been fictionalized, the creators recruited parents who lost children to opioids to read it. Then they tell their stories, of young adults cut down in…
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December heralds the annual arrival of cheesy holiday movies to Netflix (though there aren’t too many this year), as well as plenty of stories to get you through that slow last week of the year. On Dec. 1, May December arrives, a gripping awards vehicle for stars Charles Melton, Natalie Portman, and Julianne Moore. In Leave the World Behind, on Dec. 8, a family’s luxe geta…
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Few events bring together artists, activists, athletes and government officials to mingle and share ideas. That set the TIME100 Next Gala 2022 apart as it unfolded in New York City on Tuesday night. Actor Megan Fox, ob-gyn and abortion rights advocate Caitlin Bernard, comedian Joel Kim Booster, soccer star Trinity Rodman, author Casey McQuiston, and environmentalist Leah Thomas were among the m…
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