Innholdsfortegnelse for 03/09/2018 i Newsweek International

ON A RECENT NIGHT IN VENICE, HUNDREDS piled into the magnificent Palazzo Pisani Moretta for a masked ball, at 3,500 euros ($4,300) a head. Guests wore lavish outfits and drank champagne as acrobats and musicians pranced about. But in one corner, a couple of middle-aged Russian men—one dressed as a Venetian doge, the other as an 18th-century dandy—sounded glum. “It’s a witch hunt,” said the doge. “More anti-Russian hysteria,” agreed the dandy. “Suddenly, I don’t feel safe anymore.” The reason for their concerns? Sweeping new powers that U.K. lawmakers introduced earlier this year to crack down on the estimated £90 billion ($126 billion) currently being laundered through companies and luxury real estate in central London. Known as Unexplained Wealth Orders, the new investigative powers allow British law enforcement to demand…

EARLIER THIS YEAR, AFTER JOHN Hayden took over as the head of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the local paper advised him to “bring a broom.” Which was apt. The new chief inherits a department swept up in scandals over race, brutality and corruption. Meanwhile, the murder rate is frighteningly high. Last year, 205 people were killed, the most in 23 years, and the city is on its way to becoming the murder capital of America for the fourth year in a row. But Hayden, a well-liked, 30-year veteran of the force—and its fourth black police chief—has a plan to crack down on crime while trying to alleviate racial tensions. Among other things, his plan involves hiring external investigators to probe police shootings, to allay public fury over internal…

IT TOOK A WHILE FOR THE world to embrace a bomb thrower like Krysten Ritter. The actress began her career in the early 2000s, and for nearly a decade she played the funnier, smarter best-friend-with-no-last-name opposite more classically palatable heroines—she was Lucy on TV’s Gilmore Girls (2006), Suze in the film Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) and Patty in She’s Out of My League (2010). She’d deliver profane lines (“Are you a plane doctor? No? So shut the fuck up!”), give the leading lady some tough love and steal every scene. That began to change in 2009, with a recurring part on Season 2 of Breaking Bad. As recovering addict Jane Margolis, Ritter—a goth Juliet to Aaron Paul’s drug-dealing Romeo—revealed a range well beyond a killer riposte. That was followed…

Micius and the Monkey King, a Dragon and a Heavenly Palace—this legendary sounding group somewhat surprisingly has nothing to do with Chinese history or mythology, but everything to do with science. With more than 170 satellites orbiting in space and a submersible in the farthest depths of the ocean, scientists are asking questions of the sky and the sea, and from their replies they are unveiling the mystery of these unfamiliar worlds. Arcane particles Pan Jianwei has become a renowned figure over the past two years for his labors in quantum com- munication, a field that sounds as if it were straight from the pages of science fiction. The academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China is the…

Total U.S. dollars spent on sore throats due to strep infections is between $224 million and $539 million per year. DOES THE WORLD NEED A VACCINE FOR STREP throat? In a rare alignment, the pharmaceutical industry and global health advocates like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation see such a shot as a low priority. And for the many American families for whom strep is just a routine, if annoying, feature of winter, that perspective may seem correct. But two researchers on opposite sides of the globe disagree, and in light of a recent spike in deaths, rising antibiotic resistance and a litany of other issues caused by this seemingly manageable infection, they may just be right. The group A streptococcus bacterium, the microbe responsible for strep, causes 616 million…

GLORIA STEINEM EXPERIENCED her first round of fame in 1963, when she wrote a groundbreaking exposé on becoming a Playboy Bunny for Show magazine. In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine, the inaugural cover revealing a housewife “goddess” with eight arms—each holding a household item—a baby in her belly and tears streaming down her cheeks. She went on to found the Women’s Action Alliance, the National Women’s Political Caucus and the Women’s Media Center. More than 45 years after her efforts for women began, the indefatigable 83-year-old remains one of feminism’s most relevant, eloquent and persuasive voices. In advance of International Women’s Day (March 8), Newsweek spoke to Steinem about the rise of what is, in many ways, the culmination of her life’s work, the #MeToo movement, as well as how…

PEOPLE DON’T LIKE AUTHORITY FIGURES TELLING THEM THEY’RE WRONG, AND THEY DON’T LIKE BEING IGNORED. PEOPLE OFTEN MISTAKE KATE DORSCH FOR SOMEONE WHO studies aliens. But Dorsch actually studies something else. A doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, she’s been researching UFO reports collected by the U.S. government. The Air Force began compiling these accounts during the early stages of the Cold War as part of a program called Project Blue Book. In 1966, it hired the University of Colorado to further investigate stories of alien “encounters” by ordinary Americans. Project Blue Book ended three years later, and the American Philosophical Society eventually archived part of the project in Philadelphia. Three years ago, Dorsch, a historian, dug through the archives. She found bags of dirt from where flying saucers…

THE FX SERIES ATLANTA IS LABELED A COMEDY, but that’s a simplification. The show is actually undefinable—an indelible and engagingly weird universe that seemed to emerge fully formed from the minds of co-creators (and brothers) Donald and Stephen Glover. Its tone—laid-back and dry-witted, with occasional helpings of Lynchian eccentricity (like, for example, an invisible car)—manages to evoke both a physical place and a state of mind. Mostly, though, Atlanta is about black writers and actors telling their story their way. Season 2 began March 1, and the main characters—aspiring rap manager Earn Marks (Donald Glover); his cousin, rising rapper and drug dealer Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles (Brian Tyree Henry); and Paper Boi’s odd roommate, Darius (Lakeith Stanfield)—continue to navigate Atlanta, a city where violence erupts quickly, the gap between rich…