Time

Time is an American weekly news magazine founded in 1923, one of the highest-circulation English-language publications in the world. It is best known for its Person of the Year franchise, its distinctive red-border cover, and long-form political reporting. Since 2018 it has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation for $190 million.

Within Lowdown's evidence base, Time functions primarily as a cited source rather than as an actor in the events it covers, most heavily across the Iran conflict but also spanning AI-jobs coverage, the 2026 World Cup and US midterms reporting. Its reporting has touched some of the war's hardest-to-verify humanitarian questions, including the slow identification of casualties from the Minab school strike, where only 58 of an initial 167 reported victims had been named after 18 days.

That pattern, a serious outlet whose value lies in being cited rather than in acting, is durable: Time's role in this evidence base is as a credibility anchor for facts that would otherwise rest on a single unverified source, not as a party with its own storyline.