This week in TIME Magazine's European edition:

TIME EUROPE Magazine

Issue Dated January 27th, 2020

The unusual power of Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner’s White House office is a shrine to his own influence. Gold-framed accolades from his father-in-law hang on the walls, written in thick black Sharpie in President Donald Trump’s spiky hand. To Jared, Great job on Mexico. Thanks DAD, reads one. A limestone replica of the plaque marking the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, which Kushner helped orchestrate, rests atop a bookcase.

There’s his medal representing the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest award given to foreigners by the Mexican government, with whom Kushner hammered out a trade deal. Above the door is a commemorative poster for the criminal-justice bill Kushner shepherded, signed by the rapper Kanye West. (To Jared from your friend Ye.) Near his desk sits a rack of folders with handwritten labels that nod to Kushner’s unrealistically broad policy portfolio: Health care, Lebanon, Border Infrastructure, Central America Econ Plan, POTUS Environment, DOJ [Department of Justice].

Also in this week's issue:

Inside Jared Kushner’s Unusual White House Role

Senators Have to Be in Washington During the Impeachment Trial. That's a Problem for the Ones Running for President

Why Iran's Regime Is Facing Renewed Protests After the Ukraine Airlines Plane Crash

NPR's Steve Inskeep Finds the American Present in the Past Through His Books

There Are Far Too Many 'Deaths of Despair' in the U.S. How Much Longer Will We Turn on Our Backs on This Crisis?

When It Comes to Some Medical Treatment, Researchers Find Less Is More

The Complicated Truth About What U.S. Citizenship Means Today

The Reason Fossil Fuel Companies Are Finally Reckoning with Climate Change

Award Shows Are Dying. Is That Such a Bad Thing?

'Brits Are Notoriously Prudish.' On Set With the Cast of Netflix's Sex Education

Awkwafina Takes the Asian-American Entertainment Renaissance to New Heights in Nora From Queens

Jeanine Cummins’ 'American Dirt' Is a Harrowing Tale of Immigration, Family and Memory

Zora Neale Hurston's Short Stories Finally Get Their Due in a New Posthumous Collection

'I've Seen Everything.' Author Isabel Allende on Why She Doesn't Fear Death and the Inspiration for Her New Novel