Posts by Sophie Clearwater
Donald Trump Has Appeared on the Cover of TIME More Than Anyone Else
The night before, Trump had been greeted at the helipad by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his wife Cami Clark, who joined the President for a late-night dinner. It was part of another whirlwind week that included a speech before the U.N. General Assembly and hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his delegation at the…
Read MoreThe President and the Press
The relationship between Presidents and the press is inherently adversarial. Since the emergence of a modern mass media and a professional White House press corps in the early 20th century, Presidents have sought to use journalists to disseminate their ideas, goals, and achievements—and have treated coverage that deviates from their spin as misleading, hostile, or…
Read MoreWhat Trump Has Built
Trump’s contribution to the debate about AI safeguards has been to announce the formation of an “AI Force,” which he now wants to rename the “SI Force”—part of his effort to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence.” Asked what the group will do, Trump responds: “It’s going to be super intelligent.” Pressed further, he explains…
Read MoreRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
President Donald Trump photographed at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 28, 2026. —Dan Winters for TIME President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on Sept. 28. Over the course of the interview, Trump discussed a wide range of issues, including the war with Iran, the…
Read MoreWhy the U.S. Must Simultaneously Compete—and Cooperate—With China on AI
We also need to tighten remaining gaps in our semiconductor manufacturing equipment controls so China can less capably obtain tools to manufacture powerful chips at scale and service their pre-existing equipment. That work has to happen with our Dutch, Japanese, and German allies and partners who manufacture and service this chipmaking equipment. Finally, the U.S.…
Read MoreJane Goodall Prepared Us for a World Without Her
What made that moment so powerful for us was the healing it brought to the grief we were then carrying: Jane and I had both just lost our mothers, the pillars of our lives, mere months apart. Jane often tried to soften that blow by saying, “They’re on a cloud together somewhere, Henry; they’re floating…
Read MoreThe Next Generation of Weight-Loss Drugs Is Almost Here
Zealand Pharmaceuticals, a Danish biotech company, also shared results from its study published Sept. 29 in the Lancet of its amylin-based compound petrelintide, an experimental weekly injectable. It helped people who were overweight or obese—but who didn’t have diabetes—lose on average 10% of their body weight. (People who took a placebo lost only 1.7% of…
Read MoreTech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students. “It used to be…
Read MoreCan Venture Capital Help Unlock Wealth and Equality for All?
More than 150 years after Emancipation, Black people are still underwriting the accumulation of white wealth. My head spun with this reality, though another part of me wasn’t the least bit surprised to discover yet another dimension of racial economic injustice and inequity. Right then and there, I knew I had to help ensure that…
Read MoreWhat Mamdani’s planned ‘troll-farm offensive’ reveals about the City Hall braintrust
It looks like City Hall still has some grownups; who else could’ve spilled the beans on the latest idiocy plotted by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s brainless trust — a troll-farm offensive against top city CEOs? Our news-side colleagues haven’t shared their sources on the plans for a major social-media campaign blasting biz leaders as the latest…
Read MoreUS sees Chinese invasion of Taiwan unlikely next year despite 2027 timeline
US officials believe a Chinese invasion of Taiwan before 2028 is increasingly unlikely despite Chinese President Xi Jinping’s instructions for his military to be ready by 2027 to take the democratically governed island by force, if needed, people familiar with US thinking said. The main reasons include delays in military readiness amid the Chinese Communist…
Read MoreYankees’ Giancarlo Stanton did not get call in series win over Red Sox
At various points across Tuesday and Wednesday night, Giancarlo Stanton stood in the Yankees dugout with a bat in hand, ready to take his shot. It just never came. After the veteran slugger missed five-plus months with three different calf strains, the Yankees carried Stanton on their roster for the AL wild-card series to potentially…
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