Simon Shuster

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Credit - Graeme Sloan—The Washington Post/Getty Images The meteoric rise of Elon Musk has been punctuated by bouts of frenetic energy, which usually come over him when he takes on a new challenge. Musk’s biographer, former TIME editor Walter Isaacson, has described these periods as “demon mode,” and they have led Musk to some of his greatest conquests, like his reinvention of electric cars at Tesla, his takeover of Twitter, or his push into the cosmos with SpaceX, his rocket company.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Simon Shuster

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in his presidential office on March 21, 2025. Credit - Sasha Maslov for TIMEPresident Volodymyr Zelensky has not talked much about his meeting at the White House since it ended in acrimony on Feb. 28. He never expected to find himself arguing with Donald Trump on television that day, and he knew the dangers of making the situation worse by discussing it openly afterward.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Simon Shuster

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in his presidential office on Mar. 21, 2025. Credit - Sasha Maslov for TIMENearly six years have passed since Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president of Ukraine, yet he still cringes at all the polished brass and chandeliers that crowd his office. The place does seem rather gaudy, like a room plucked straight from Mar-a-Lago, and Zelensky can’t seem to stop apologizing for it as he shows me around one evening in March.

1 month ago | time.com | Simon Shuster

Nearly six years have passed since Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president of Ukraine, yet he still cringes at all the polished brass and chandeliers that crowd his office. The place does seem rather gaudy, like a room plucked straight from Mar-a-Lago, and Zelensky can’t seem to stop apologizing for it as he shows me around one evening in March. He would rather scrap the furniture, he says, rip down the pilasters, and use white paint to hide the gold leaf on the ceiling.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Simon Shuster

The U.S. decision to suspend the flow of military intelligence to Ukraine this week has aided the Russian advance along a critical part of the front, weakening the negotiating position of President Volodymyr Zelensky and killing many Ukrainian soldiers in recent days, according to five senior Western and Ukrainian officials and military officers familiar with the situation.