Dec 28, 2015 Vol 186 No 27

Adele Is Music’s Past, Present and Future

The Absence of Global Leadership Will Shape a Tumultuous 2016
What to expect in the year ahead

Christine Lagarde and David Lipton on Global Finance in 2016
The refugee flow won’t stop in 2016-unless the world gets serious about fixing fragile states

David Miliband on Human Rights in 2016
The refugee flow won’t stop in 2016-unless the world gets serious about fixing fragile states

Kevin Rudd on China in 2016
Managing new challenges at home, while approaching a greater role in the global order

James Murdoch on Media in 2016
Storytelling-both fiction and nonfiction, for good and for ill-will continue to define the world

Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on Technology in 2016
Inventive artificial intelligence will make all of us better

Meet Silicon Valley’s Global Rivals
Startups around the world are coming after services pioneered in the U.S. Here are the names you’ll hear in 2016

Degrees of Global Warming
The Paris Agreement, struck by nearly 200 countries on Dec. 12, aims to limit global warming. But just how much warmer it will get depends on how deeply countries cut carbon emissions.

Homeland Security, ISIS and the Fight Against Fear
Jeh Johnson sees the war on terror come home

Hillary Clinton Is Strong on Fighting ISIS-but Democrats Don’t Seem to Care

The Young Gun Gets the Gavel
Paul Ryan’s big plans to fix the House and the GOP

7 Questions With Nancy Pelosi
The House Democratic leader talks about gun control, elections and Speaker Paul Ryan

A Financial Forecast for 2016
The world’s big economies are diverging

Stephen Curry and the Greatest Show on Earth
Why it’s only going to get better

8 Questions With Dave Roberts
The rookie manager and ex-Dodger takes over baseball’s most intriguing team

7 Questions with Jennifer Doudna
She co-developed a game-changing technique that allows scientists to edit any human gene. How the field just needs to agree on when it’s O.K. to use it

Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci on the Red Carpet, Instagram and the American Dream
How the Pied Piper of rebel chic keeps the house of Givenchy trending

Move Over, Millennials: Here Comes the Next Generation
Society is starting to obsess over the aughts kids that will define American culture

8 Questions With Gillian Anderson
The star of The X-Files on why she agreed to take on a new case

Predicting My 2016 Predictions
With methods from Superforecasting, I guess the future scientifically

Quiz: Predict 2016’s Biggest Events
Practice your punditry

The Ever Expanding Universe of Harry Potter
A movie and play are set to make J.K. Rowling’s world even more magical-and profitable-in 2016

Road to the Olympics

Turning the Page on Crime in 2016
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress believe they can pass federal reforms on criminal justice

Where Does the LGBT Movement Go Now?
Caution and concern among activists after a year of big wins

El Ni Spells Disaster
The climate phenomenon will bring heavy rain to California and extreme weather around the world

Satya Nadella Is Making Microsoft Cool. No, Seriously
2016 according to the CEO of the newly hot giant