Innholdsfortegnelse for 25/03/2016 - 01/04/2016 (Double issue) i Newsweek International

São Paulo—Protesters calling for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff surround an inflatable doll of her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during one of several protests across the nation on March 13. Crowds reached 1.4 million at the peak of the demonstration, according to São Paulo’s state security office. Opponents blame Rousseff for the worsening economic crisis and accuse her of involvement in a sweeping corruption scandal. Brazilian prosecutors are seeking Lula’s arrest after filing charges against him that include money laundering.…

Simi Valley, California—The Reverend Stuart Kenworthy, vicar at the Washington National Cathedral, leads a procession during the funeral for former first lady Nancy Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on March 11. One of the most politically active first ladies in U.S. history, she became known for her “just say no” anti-drug campaign, as she pushed for stronger law enforcement and expanded education during the nation’s crack-cocaine epidemic. In her later years, she became an advocate for finding a cure for Alzheimer’s, a disease her husband battled for years before his death in 2004.…

YOU MAY THINK YOU KNOW THE DESERT. “I wonder what society would think if a group of Natives went to a cemetery and starting digging up Civil War vets.” Sand and cacti, spread over an expanse of infinite flatness, baked by relentless sunlight. Roadrunners chased by wily coyotes. Rattlesnakes lurking under rocks. And meth labs, just as in Breaking Bad. Meth labs guarded by rattlesnakes. If this is your conception of the desert, you are clearly not familiar with the oeuvre of Death Valley Jim, an explorer, writer and activist who knows the California desert as well as anyone alive. His is a particular kind of knowledge: ghost towns, abandoned mines, the vestiges of Native American villages, the humble graves of unlucky prospectors. He knows about the desert tortoise, sure…

HOLMES NEEDED TO DO MORE NETWORKING. IN THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY, THAT CAN SOMETIMES MEAN GETTING VERY HIGH. BECAUSE HE’S a scientist, not a back-slapping venture capitalist, Mowgli Holmes loathes using the term networking to describe even the portion of his job that entails shaking hands in the cannabis industry. But it was networking that brought the chief scientific officer of Phylos Bioscience in Portland, Oregon, to Las Vegas in November 2014 to attend the Marijuana Business Conference and Expo—and to smoke a massive joint with one of the cannabis movement’s legends, Ohio lawyer Don Wirtshafter. Holmes had it on good information that Wirtshafter was sitting on a collection of hundreds of very old apothecary bottles filled with antique cannabis tinctures—relics from before marijuana prohibition came along in 1937, courtesy of…

“ONLY NOVAK MATTERED. ALL OF US—EVEN HIS OWN FAMILY AND HIS COACHES—WERE UNIMPORTANT.” NOVAK DJOKOVIC just lost a tennis match. And he has an eye infection. If you were Andy Murray or Roger Federer, the Serb’s main rivals in professional tennis, those two seemingly mundane facts might be reasons for optimism. After all, the last time either of them beat Djokovic in a Grand Slam tournament was when Murray did it over two years ago, in the 2013 Wimbledon final. But the father of the man dominating men’s tennis sees no cause for concern. Sitting in the Belgrade, Serbia, restaurant he owns and has named after his oldest son, he shrugs off this aberrant bit of bad news for his boy and throws Novak’s doubles partner under the double-decker. “Zimonjic…

Dayton, Ohio—U.S. Secret Service agents detain Thomas diMassimo, 22, who jumped a barricade trying to rush the stage at a rally for Republican front-runner Donald Trump at Dayton International Airport on March 12. Earlier that week, clashes between protesters and supporters forced Trump’s campaign to cancel an event in Chicago, and a supporter sucker-punched a protester in the face at a rally in North Carolina. Addressing the increasing violence at his events during a GOP debate on March 10, Trump said his supporters come with “tremendous passion and love for the country” and that some protesters are “bad dudes.”…

FOR THE PAST two years, while he was languishing in Tehran’s Evin Prison, the world seemed to forget Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani. But he returned to the headlines on March 6, when an Iranian court sentenced him to death. Zanjani’s story is that of a man who came from nowhere and amassed mind-boggling wealth providing illicit services to Iran’s government, in the biggest publicly known money-laundering scheme in the country’s memory. His demise was quick and brutal. Zanjani had a solution to one of Iran’s biggest problems. For years, he helped the government evade international sanctions against its nuclear program and sell oil on the global market. When the West imposed sanctions on him, his venture ended abruptly. After a change in government, he was arrested and accused of withholding…

“MY WIFE IS NOT A SPY; SHE IS NOT A THIEF. SHE IS A HARDWORKING BUSINESSWOMAN.” “YOU DON’T KNOW THIS COUNTRY AND HOW DANGEROUS IT IS.” SHE HAD BEEN in and out of China dozens of times over the years. She had led powerful business delegations from her hometown of Houston to Shenzhen, China’s Silicon Valley. So nothing seemed out of the ordinary on March 19, 2015, when Sandy Phan-Gillis wrapped up another successful business trip to China with a large group that included Houston’s mayor pro tem, Ed Gonzalez. Over dinner that night, the 55-year-old businesswoman excused herself to meet a friend. The next day, as she stood in line with her group waiting to cross the border into Macau, they suddenly noticed she was gone. They moved on…

THE BRISK morning air comes as a shock after the tourists have recently, regretfully unpacked themselves from their cozy alpaca wool blankets and climate-controlled buses. Watching them is Natividad Sonjo, who has been selling blankets, painted stones and carved bamboo instruments for 15 years on the eastern edge of Sacsayhuamán, an archaeological complex of enormous stone walls and wide lawns just north of Cusco, Peru, the seat of the great Inca empire. The diffuse sunlight of a cloudy morning in March high in the Andes softly illuminates the city. And then, all at once, the sun breaks through, bringing with it a wallop of heat. Soon, any memory of the cool air has evaporated along with the clouds, but Sonjo doesn’t remove the elaborately embroidered wool jacket she put on…

YOUNG JAPANESE HAVE FOUND NEW WAYS TO WEAR THE GARMENT, LIKE BACKWARD OR WITH SNEAKERS. IN FEBRUARY, inside the midtown New York City event space Skylight at Moynihan Station, Hiromi Asai’s New York Fashion Week show looked much like others happening across the city: the throb of “Uptown Funk” filled the room as lithe models strutted down the runway; camera shutters clicked; the chic front row appeared unmoved while the crowds behind craned their necks to watch the spectacle. But rather than wearing haute couture gowns or the latest in prêt-à-porter, the models were decked out in gorgeous, formal silk kimonos. Asai, a designer and stylist born in Tokyo and now living in the U.S., is on a mission to bring handmade kimonos to the world of high fashion. While…

Ankara, Turkey—Emergency workers examine the site of an explosion on March 13. At least 37 people were killed and 125 wounded in a car bombing in the Turkish capital, the second such attack in under a month. Though no group immediately claimed responsibility, Turkey quickly launched airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, blaming the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, for the attack. Security officials told Reuters one of two suspected attackers was a woman from the group, which has been fighting for Kurdish autonomy for three decades.…

“THE COMBINATION OF LIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY IS EXHAUSTED.” MARIAN KOTLEBA used to wear a uniform modeled on the militia of Slovakia’s wartime Nazi puppet state. He opposes Western democracy, the European Union and NATO. He rails against the Roma people and openly admires Jozef Tiso, the Catholic priest and wartime leader who permitted tens of thousands of Jews to be deported to Nazi death camps. In the post–World War II era, European politics have seen a long series of extremists, generally raging on the sidelines and creating a lot of noise while wielding limited power. But Kotleba, the leader of the extreme-right People’s Party-Our Slovakia, is no longer confined to the fringes. More than 200,000 people voted for his party in elections on March 5, including 23 percent of first-time…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Speaking to more than a million spectators, vowing to “make America great again” and declaring he’s a leader who is “a fantastic success, just like my amazing, amazing companies,” Donald J. Trump was sworn in Friday as the 45th president of the United States amid demonstrations against what protesters call his racist and anti-immigrant policies. “When was the last time we won at anything?” President Trump asked the cheering crowd, which was cordoned off from thousands of loud and angry demonstrators. “I’ve built a fantastic business, employed thousands of people, ran the best campaign, when you look at it, like, ever. Like, better than Lincoln. So the winning starts today.” As the new president spoke, former President Barack Obama, whose citizenship Trump questioned as recently as Friday morning at…

OF THE 143 IMPORTANT INVENTIONS PATENTED IN THE U.S. BY 1860, 93 PERCENT WERE FROM NORTHERN “FREE” STATES. A TECHNOLOGICAL revolution killed the Whig Party in 1850. A new one is blasting the GOP into splinters in 2016. None of the presidential candidates talk much about technology, yet our software-eats-the-world whirlwind drives everythingthat’s cleaving the country and throwing its politics into chaos. The parallels to the dynamics of the 1850s are a little scary. After all, the Whigs’ self-destruction was a prelude to the Civil War. Like today, the tech revolution in the mid-1800s ushered in a disruptive era of connectivity, and transportation was key. Before the 1800s, getting anywhere—or exchanging information over distance—involved horses, mud roads or boats. Movement was so hard that almost all business was local and…

ALARMINGLY LIFELIKE HUMAN LIMBS, CRESCENT MOONS AND ANIMAL HEADS DANGLE FROM THE CEILING. THE SUCCESSION of forest-clad crags disappearing into the distance marks the beginning of the Jura Mountains, the rocky spine that divides France and Switzerland. It is the sort of landscape that inspired the artists and poets of the Romantic era, and it is all too easy to see oneself as the small figure in the foreground of a Caspar David Friedrich painting gazing in wonder at these forbidding peaks. As well as foreboding, the Jura Mountains are cold. As you’re driving up the snaking succession of bends carved into the mountainside, it becomes colder with every hairpin turn of the road; the precipitation no longer falls as drops of water but in big fat flakes of snow.…