The cover of TIME has often been called the most important real estate in journalism—making some of the world’s best photographers and artists its architects ...

In her new book, Doing Valuable Time, philosopher Cheshire Calhoun focuses on time and meaning in life. Our time, which is our life, is limited. From birth to death we live only for several decades ...

ON AN OCTOBER night in 1989, a 4-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone ringing and then a scream. She crept out of her bedroom and tiptoed barefoot along the hallway’s clammy vinyl tile, ...