Table of contents for June 23, 2025 in TIME Magazine

TIME hosted a dinner May 22 to celebrate its inaugural list of 100 leaders in philanthropy, including (clockwise from top) Ayesha Curry, Stephen Curry, and David Beckham (pictured with Victoria Beckham); Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda; and Elizabeth Alexander of the Mellon Foundation. time.com/time100-philanthropy Reel Talk Grab the popcorn! TIME rounded up the 37 most anticipated summer movies. It’s a summer of sequels, from Freakier Friday to M3GAN 2.0 and 28 Years Later, plus another Jurassic Park movie, Jurassic World Rebirth, will roar into theaters. A Brad Pitt F1 movie (see the Time Off section) will likely drive ticket sales. And Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme includes stars like Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson. Find all the features at time.com/summer-2025 On the covers Photograph by Davide Monteleone for TIME…

Climate change is leading not only to droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather. It’s also leading to oxymorons—at least when it comes to what are known as 100-year storms, floods, and other events. Long-term weather forecasting is all about probabilities, factoring together not only current conditions and trends, but also the historical record. Environmental scientists have gotten so good at reading weather history that they can characterize some severe storms or floods as likely to occur in a given area only once in 100 years—or even 500 years or 1,000 years. That’s where the oxymoron comes in. As climate change leads to greater meteorological volatility, the events forecast to happen once in 100—or 500 or 1,000—years are occurring twice or three times or more in those windows. Since 1999, there…

“PAY ATTENTION TO THE NOISE,” SAYS BELARMINO GARCIA, THE WARDEN OF EL SALVADOR’S TERRORISM CONFINEMENT CENTER. He ushers a group of foreign visitors inside CECOT’s Module 8, a unit unlike others at the sprawling facility situated at the base of a volcano. This one holds 238 Venezuelan nationals who were shipped from the U.S. on March 15 to be held in one of the world’s most infamous prisons at the behest of President Donald J. Trump. The cacophony is overwhelming. Inmates climb out of their bunks, lean on the bars, and plead and whistle for attention. Module 8 is different from a typical CECOT unit in several ways, Garcia explains. The detainees are allowed blankets and pillows. They eat fast food. They are rambunctious and defiant. As the warden…

Troves of in-demand critical minerals sit untouched deep at the bottom of the ocean: nickel, cobalt, and copper, to name a few. With the stroke of a pen in April, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to catalyze a “gold rush” in pursuit of those deposits. The value of those minerals could total in the trillions, and the Trump Administration wants American companies to access them in a bid to bolster the economy. Pushback to the move has largely focused on the potential for ecological damage and the order’s flouting of international rules. There is also a good case to be made that the economic and financial math may not add up. For one, the outlook of different critical minerals is evolving. Cobalt demand projections, for example, have…

The ocean may be nature’s single greatest gift to humanity. It provides about half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions of people, supports countless jobs in every corner of the globe, and absorbs more carbon dioxide than anything else on earth. The ocean connects us all. But right now, the ocean is sounding an unmistakable alarm. Fishing boats around the world are returning emptier. Coastal zones are growing warmer and murkier, and they are becoming more polluted as millions of gallons of water laced with pharmaceuticals, forever chemicals, and sewage leak into the sea. Coral reefs are turning white. We come to these challenges with different experiences and perspectives. One of us lives in the Florida Keys and chairs the White House Environmental Advisory Task Force. The other…

Stories about the meaning of life tend to work at cross-purposes with the job of actually living it, particularly when they pedal hard to activate the tear ducts. Mike Flanagan’s science-fiction life affirmer The Life of Chuck—adapted from a Stephen King novella—is an ambitious little film that has already earned some laurels: it was an audience favorite at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, winning the People’s Choice Award. Thanks to a few key moments, and the strength of its actors, it’s easy to see why audiences would warm to the film. But if you’re immune to its charms, you won’t be alone. From its cute-fake soundstage-town setting to the authoritative yet chummy voice-over narration (courtesy of Nick Offerman), The Life of Chuck works doggedly to give you the…

DIED Sebastião Salgado Photographer and humanitarian Sebastião Salgado, 81, who died in Paris on May 23, took photographs that were too beautiful to look away from. This was key since his subjects were often those which people didn’t want to see: humans laboring in brutal conditions, families trying to find safe haven through hostile terrain, the decline of the environment. Born in Brazil in 1944, but exiled in 1969, Salgado was college-trained in economics and self-trained in photography. He shot photos in more than 120 countries, capturing events as varied as the 1980s Ethiopian famine, the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, and firefighters in Kuwait battling burning oil wells. He endured land mines, malaria, freezing temperatures, and thousands of miles of barely walkable roads to get the images…

The idea of a pop monoculture has not only ceased to exist but also resulted in the loss of shared cultural touchpoints that connect millions of Americans. A fragmented culture stands in its stead, thanks to the rise of the curated algorithm and social media feeds perfectly sculpted to fit our interests and experiences. Yes, this has made us more—or at least feel more—disconnected. But is that so bad? Perhaps, in the absence of the so called meritocracy that once dictated culture, this abundance of choice for people to connect with music and pop culture could be a good thing. Maybe that’s why the Song of the Summer feels like such a dinosaur. We’ve simply grown out of it. In 2010, when Billboard created the Songs of the Summer…

Look through the new Five-year outlook from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and you won’t see the U.N. atmospheric-science body use the words emergency or disaster. And yet it would be hard for anyone even semiliterate in the science of climate change to flip through it without a sense of urgency and alarm. The report finds that global temperatures will continue at or near record levels with a possibility that the temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution nears 2°C by 2030. Already, warming momentarily breached 1.5°C in 2024. It’s a big marker: decades ago policymakers settled on 2°C as an ideal cap of sorts. That’s because at some point between 1.5°C and 2°C, we might expect to begin seeing climate effects that are both dire and, perhaps more important,…

It’s around 10 a.m. each morning that Noemi Reyes’ heart fills with hope. That’s when her husband Marionito’s boat appears on the shimmering horizon of the Pacific. By the time his skiff has been hauled onto the shingle beach, it’s already clear whether his toil has been profitable. Today was not: just eight small sardines and mackerel from five hours casting handlines at sea. “Almost nothing,” laments their 11-year-old son, Cjay, as he clambers back up the slope to their shack. The catch is sufficient to provide the family a proper meal but won’t help rebuild their home, which was destroyed late last year when a record-breaking six consecutive storms battered the Philippines. Ever since November, the Reyes family has lived here, beneath tarpaulin and nipa palm, wedged between…

Dept. Q, a Netflix crime drama from The Queen’s Gambit writer-director Scott Frank, presents itself as a show about difficult people. Its antihero, Edinburgh police detective Carl Morck, has just come back to work after being shot in the line of duty—while berating a young cop who was killed before Carl could finish his rant. Body-cam footage of the shooting, along with an already irascible reputation, ensures his return is anything but triumphant. The premiere also introduces Merritt Lingard, a prickly prosecutor whose hostile cross-examination of a man she’s sure murdered his wife infuriates her colleagues. There’s great potential in the entwining of these “good guys” with bad personalities whose obsessive pursuit of justice has left them isolated and embittered. If only the show’s many plot twists didn’t restrain…

Muslims gather at the Kaaba in Mecca on June 1, three days before the start of hajj. This year, under a new rule imposed as an effort to reduce overcrowding, the expected 2 million pilgrims are barred from bringing children. Saudi officials also have tightened visa enforcement, deployed AI surveillance drones, and installed the world’s largest cooling system in the Grand Mosque complex. In 2024, more than 1,300 people died amid temperatures that reached 116°F (47°C). ▸ For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox Photograph by Hazem Bader—AFP/Getty Images…

South Korea’s presidential election delivered a resounding triumph for Lee Jae-myung, the veteran center-left leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DP). His victory on June 3 closes a tumultuous chapter in South Korea’s politics marked by former President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law, impeachment, and removal from office. It also ushers in a left-leaning administration with wide latitude to govern, and sets the stage for a dramatic reorientation of the country’s domestic and foreign policy. Lee takes office with a rare advantage in South Korea’s often fractious politics: a unified government. The DP holds a majority in the National Assembly until at least 2028, when legislative elections are due, giving Lee power to enact his agenda without the checks, and gridlock, that stymied his predecessor. Though…

The urgency of halting ocean degradation and unlocking a sustainable blue economy has never been greater. Yet, as the third U.N. Ocean Conference convened from June 9–13 in Nice, France, this mission came against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tension: great-power rivalries, trade disputes, and a fraying rules-based world order are steadily eroding the trust and institutions essential for collaboration. The U.S. Administration has declared that it “rejects and denounces” the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals—among them “Goal 14: Life Below Water,” which forms the bedrock of ocean-conservation efforts. But the stakes stretch far beyond marine ecosystems. What unfolds in the ocean will shape the future of life on land. The ocean is humanity’s greatest global commons. It is a single, interconnected body of water, as the saying often goes,…

The third episode of the new Apple TV+ golf comedy Stick is called “Daddy Issues,” but “Daddy Issues” might as well be the title of the show. Created by Ford v Ferrari screenwriter Jason Keller, it stars Owen Wilson as a former top golfer, Pryce Cahill, who was cast out of the sport after an extremely public flameout two decades ago. He’s been mired in the past ever since, from his job outfitting hobbyists at a sporting-goods store to his refusal to finalize his divorce after years of separation from his long-suffering wife (Judy Greer), move out of their old house, and accept that he is no longer a husband or a father or a pro athlete. When he spots a surly teen at the local driving range, Santiago…