the present

If Tanton’s efforts had shaped the present — turning concerns about overpopulation and climate change into a proxy battle for defending a white majority on an imperiled continent — I hoped that Taylor might help me understand where this battle was headed.

Though the album’s sound recalls the hybrid that rocketed Yoakam to stardom, its lyrical storytelling invites the listener to experience his life in the present.

Jones found success in nearly every decade between the 1950s and the present day.

Embracing a food-waste-fighting fungus on kitchen tables and restaurant plates across the world is not the future of food, said Hill-Maini, but the present.

Rita’s dedication to looking her best in the present, whether at work in the munitions factory or going on a night out wearing a leopard-print coat, is inspired by photographic evidence.