“Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.”

Nancy Gibbs is an American journalist and editor. She spent nearly three decades at *Time* magazine, rising to become its editor-in-chief from 2014 to 2020. Known for her sharp, insightful leadership and long-form journalism, she shaped the magazine’s focus on in-depth storytelling and cultural analysis.