Innholdsfortegnelse for 20/05/2016 i Newsweek International

Carmel, Indiana—Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop on May 2. Now that he’s the presumptive nominee, some Republicans have cautioned the real estate developer to tone down his rhetoric heading into the July convention. Speaker Paul Ryan urged Trump to get in line on key GOP political and ideological issues such as trade, the military, abortion and immigration, saying he was “not ready” to endorse Trump otherwise. Trump brushed off Ryan and said he would not rule out blocking the speaker from serving as convention chairman.…

ALMOST A YEAR into his surreal campaign for president, the American political class still doesn’t know what to make of Donald Trump. The billionaire mogul’s defiance of all the standard rules of American politics, not to mention the orthodoxy of his own party, has left pundits scrambling to explain his takeover of the Republican Party. They should look abroad. Ironically, a campaign built on “making America great again” bears a strong resemblance to right-wing movements overseas, past and present. Maybe the question, then, is not how Trump did it but why the United States hasn’t seen this kind of movement take off until now. Instead of underlining American exceptionalism, Trump is unleashing a political force that’s already prominent in other parts of the world. Even a Trump rally feels different…

LEVINSON HAD BEEN WORKING FOR A CIA ANALYTICAL UNIT THAT HAD NO BUSINESS RUNNING AMATEUR SPIES. WHEN CIA VETERANS complain that their old outfit needs to be less risk-averse, they probably don’t have Robert Levinson in mind. The retired FBI agent vanished nine years ago on Kish Island, a kind of Iranian Grand Cayman frequented by arms dealers, counterfeiters, smugglers and, of course, spies. Almost certainly, Iranian operatives kidnapped him. Years would pass before the truth emerged that Levinson had been working for a CIA analytical unit that had no business running amateur spies. All this—and much, much more about the Levinson affair—has been dug up and stitched together by the distinguished New York Times reporter Barry Meier in his troubling new book, Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished…

“I ALWAYS SAID THAT TO SELL THAT GUITAR WOULD TAKE AN ENORMOUS, STUPID AMOUNT OF MONEY AND THEN SOME.” IN JANUARY, 32 NFL franchise owners met in Houston to decide which of three teams would be moving to Los Angeles—a decision with the potential to massively change two of four metropolitan economies (the Rams won, St. Louis lost). During a break in the haggling, Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts, huddled with Paul Allen, owner of the Seattle Seahawks. Their chat turned from football to another shared passion. “Paul,” Irsay confided, “I’m just glad you weren’t in on Ringo’s drum kit.” The two are both major players in the world of high-stakes rock ’n’ roll memorabilia collecting. Just the month before, Irsay had been high bidder on an auction…

1 HEAD UPSTAIRS London department store Harvey Nichols has revamped its iconic fifth floor to include some new drinking and dining options. For an aperitif, pull up a stool at the new Grey Goose bar for a vodka cocktail and views over Knightsbridge. 2 LISTEN The Arena Opera Festival in Italy’s Verona runs June 24 to August 28. Watch performances (from $27 to $233) of Carmen, Aida, La Traviata, Turandot and Il Trovatore in a Roman amphitheater. 3 FASTEN Watchmaker Patek Philippe has unveiled its latest collection, with 28 new designs. One piece to look out for is the ladies’ white gold and diamond Calatrava ($41,041), Patek’s signature model. 4 BUTTON UP Hong Kong–based label Shanghai Tang has created a new line of Mongolian cashmere cardigans (from $914). They’re…

Konya, Turkey—Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and his wife, Sare, greet supporters on May 6, the day after he announced that he would step down, following weeks of tension with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Davutoglu had been reluctant to offer full support for Erdogan’s efforts to expand his executive powers. The outgoing prime minister was instrumental in brokering Turkey’s refugee deal with the European Union, which raises concerns about its implementation. With Davutoglu out, Erdogan is likely to push for even greater presidential power, to the dismay of critics who worry that human rights and freedom of speech are under threat.…

The number of Americans who self-identify as “environmentalists” has sharply declined over the past 25 years. In 1991, a large majority—78 percent—said they were environmentalists. In 2016, only 42 percent identified that way, according to Gallup polls. The reason for the shift seems to be the politicization of the term environmentalist. Today, the word carries negative connotations for some, particularly Republicans, says Dave Metz, a partner with the polling firm FM3. In 1991, the same percentage of Republicans and Democrats said they were environmentalists; now only 27 percent of the former do so, compared with 56 percent of the latter. One reason is climate change. In the 1990s, it was “a nonpartisan issue, but it has now become deeply partisan,” Metz says. In a December Quinnipiac University poll, 47 percent…

The four young women who make up the string quartet Bond hoisted their electrical instruments and threw themselves into a rendition of one of their hits. Looking on from their dinner tables in the ballroom of the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane on this mid-March evening were 500 of the most powerful figures in British politics, media and finance. They had come to celebrate the 70th birthday of billionaire philanthropist and former Conservative Party donor Lord Michael Ashcroft, a former deputy chairman of Britain’s ruling party. There was no sign, however, of the most powerful person in the party—British Prime Minister David Cameron. He and the host had fallen out. Also absent from the extravagant bash were most of the senior officials from the party Ashcroft had for…

“THERE COULD BE A POSSIBILITY WHERE 95 PERCENT OF PEOPLE WON’T BE ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORKFORCE.” WE’VE GOT TWO Americas now: Atoms America and Bits America. People used to worry about a digital divide. Well, that’s now looking more like the border between North Korea and South Korea—tense and bristling with pointed missiles, one nervous misunderstanding away from mayhem. This new dynamic is evident in everything from the transgender bathroom laws in the South to proposals from Silicon Valley to institute basic income for all the people technology is going to throw out of work. And while we’re at it, let’s include the 2016 presidential election, which is really all about Atoms vs. Bits. Twenty years ago, Nicholas Negroponte, then head of the MIT Media Lab, wrote about…

ONE NIGHT LAST summer, Jeffrey Tanenhaus did in Manhattan what people in New York do about 35,000 times each day: He unlocked a Citi Bike from a bike-share station. With more than 300 such kiosks sprinkled mostly around Manhattan and Brooklyn, Citi Bike had become New York’s newest mode of transportation, and one of its more fashionable, at least until the hoverboard came along. Tanenhaus had an annual membership, which allowed him to use a Citi Bike for 45 minutes at a time before having to dock it again. He was thrilled because the Citi Bike he had just selected was apparently new. “The spokes sparkled,” he would write on his blog. “The bell chime could summon angels.” The ability to call forth seraphim is, in fact, not a known…

Pyongyang, North Korea—A hostess adjusts the volume of a TV broadcast showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a restaurant at the Yanggakdo hotel on May 6. The secretive nation kicked off its first ruling-party congress in 36 years with state media lauding the isolated country’s “prestige” as a nuclear power, saying it will strengthen self-defensive nuclear weapons capability, a decision adopted in defiance of U.N. resolutions. North Korea invited numerous foreign journalists to visit during the meeting but blocked them from covering the proceedings and expelled a BBC crew for its coverage.…

“WAIT FOR A MIRACLE AND GET YOUR PRICE DOUBLED, OR START OBTAINING BITCOIN NOW!” THE FIRST WAVE of emotions, victims say, is a combination of panic and powerlessness. They click and reclick on files on their desktops—agendas for the Christian camp, payroll data for hundreds of teachers or medical information for veterans—to no avail. Someone, or something, has converted the files to foreign MP3 files or an encrypted RSA format. And next to these unopenable files the victims get a ransom note in a text file or HTML file: “Help_Decrypt_Your_Files.” “All your files are protected by a strong encryption with RSA-4096 [military-grade encryption],” reads one note shared with Newsweekby a victim. “So, there are two ways you can choose: wait for a miracle and get your price doubled, or start…

“People have actually gone back to saying the days of Mubarak were better.” THE DAY I arrived in Egypt in April, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi had just given two Red Sea islands, Tiran and Sanafir, to King Sal-man of Saudi Arabia, who was visiting Cairo to announce billions of dollars in aid and investment. The islands are in the Gulf of Aqaba, where both Israel and Jordan maintain ports, so the transfer of the land was strategically important. It was also a baffling and highly contentious gift that angered many Egyptians. “Do we have any idea why he gave them, what his motivation was?” I asked Mohammed Zaree of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. He replied, “Good question. No one knows.” The next day, President Sisi gave a two-hour…

“INFORMATION OBTAINED UNDER DURESS IS SUSPECT AND POLLUTED FROM THE START.” IN EARLY 2003, Glenn Carle, an interrogator with the CIA, arrived at a secret detention facility overseas to question a recently captured Al-Qaeda suspect. The jail, whose location remains classified, was cold and dark—so dark Carle could not see his own hands—and music blared loudly all around. Inside the cell, a man lay shivering under a flimsy blanket; Carle called to him, and he looked up slowly, weary and confused. When questioned, the man could manage only a rambling, incoherent reply. “He was a wreck,” Carle says. The man’s dilapidated state of mind was the result of a systematic program of torture inflicted on terrorism suspects by the CIA after 9/11. Nudity, temperature extremes, sleep and sensory deprivation, dietary…

CLOTHES ARE, EMERSON SUGGESTED, A CRUTCH FOR THE MAN WHO LACKS “FIRM NERVES AND HAS KEEN SENSIBILITY.” HAVING CLOTHES MADE is a powerful experience. I have been visiting a tailor for 30 years, and the magic of a well-made coat or pair of trousers continues to cast its spell over me. I am not alone; the power of good clothes has been documented by far loftier minds than mine. Ralph Waldo Emerson is often credited with the observation that “the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.” While those words do appear in his 1875 collection of essays, Letters and Social Aims, they appear in quotation, attributed to a “lady” to whom he listened “with admiring submission.” (And whatever that…