Innholdsfortegnelse for 03/30/2018 - 04/06/2018 i Newsweek International

IN EARLY MARCH, JÁNOS LÁZÁR, A SENIOR Hungarian minister, posted a video on Face-book complaining about the lack of “white Christians” in Vienna. Muslim migrants, he warned, were destroying the city—and if someone didn’t do something, they would transform Budapest, Hungary’s capital, in a similar way. “If we let them in…our cities,” Lazar told his followers, “the consequences will be crime, impoverishment, dirt, filth and impossible urban conditions.” Lázár is chief of staff to Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, and his post came roughly a month before the country goes to the polls in April. It was a classic move from Orbán, something his Alliance of Young Democrats (known as Fidesz) had done many times before: play to voters’ fears over Islam and immigration. Facebook removed the video, but…

IF YOU WERE BORN IN 1981, BRACE YOURSELF. And consider calling a lawyer. You’ve been libeled: The Pew Research Center says you’re a millennial. Welcome to the generation best known for its economic uncertainty, digital fluency, self-absorption and apparent affection for avocado toast. There are no membership dues, unless you count those student loan payments. If you were born in 1980, you’re included among Generation X—even though you’re too young to have seen Nirvana live or voted for Bill Clinton. Nor are you likely to have entered the workforce before the dot-com bubble burst. The Breakfast Club, the canonical teen movie of Xers, came out when you were still in preschool. Generational boundaries are often fuzzy. “Baby boomers really are the only generation that has a concrete, clear demographic start…

“HAIL TRUMP!” RICHARD SPENCER bellowed. “Hail our people! Hail victory!” It was November 2016, not long after Donald Trump’s presidential victory, and Spencer, perhaps America’s most well-known figure in the so-called alt-right, was speaking to a packed room of white nationalists in Washington, D.C. A clip of the speech, first published by The Atlantic, went viral and seemed to confirm the worst fears of many Trump critics: that the president-elect had empowered a fringe movement of racist, right-wing radicals—and launched it into the mainstream. But less than 18 months later, on March 5, 2018, Spencer spoke in front of another room of like-minded supporters, this time at Michigan State University. Only now, the audience was smaller than the one in D.C., and Spencer seemed far less triumphant. “We are going…

“CLOTHES HAVE A STRONG CONNOTATION HERE, LIKE A JOURNALIST WRITING AN ARTICLE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.” “THESE YOUNG CUBANS ARE NOT BURDENED BY THE PAST. THEY ARE REDEFINING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CUBAN. ” KAHN’S SUBJECTS “WORK WITHIN A GRAY AREA, DOING THINGS THAT ARE NOT ILLEGAL, BUT ALSO NOT QUITE LEGAL. ” TOURISTS ARE LURED TO HAVANA by the ruin porn: the capital’s decaying, pastel colonial architecture, its 1950s-era cars and the fading faces of its founding revolutionaries, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. But when photographer Greg Kahn was on assignment in the city in 2012, he stumbled on a scene that gave him a glimpse of a different Cuba: a plaza full of young Cubans partying as a DJ played contemporary electronic dance music. “They told…

TRY TO IMAGINE TELEVISION without The Office, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock or Parks and Recreation. If you can’t, blame Garry Shandling and the comedian’s groundbreaking meta-sitcom, The Larry Sanders Show. Set behind the scenes of a fictional late-night talk show and boasting a stellar cast—including Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, Rip Torn, Janeane Garofalo and, in a breakthrough role, Sarah Silverman—the show ran for six seasons on HBO, from 1992 to 1998, and fundamentally altered the way TV comedy works. Fly-on-the-wall camera work, acerbic but heartfelt writing and borderline-unlikable characters are de rigueur today, but they were novel when Shandling built Sanders. If that show was all he ever did, his place in the cultural pantheon would be secure. But that achievement came two years after the even more…

On March 4, President Xi Jinping, also General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, attended a joint panel discussion with political advisors from the China Democratic League and the China Zhi Gong Party, those without party affiliation and those from the sector of returned overseas Chinese, who gathered in Beijing to attend the First Session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China’s top political advisory body. During the discussion, Xi stressed that China must consolidate and improve the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC, and tap the unique potential of multiparty cooperation to provide practical advice and pool wisdom for advancing socialist democracy. Distinctive features After nearly 69 years of progress and…

ON MARCH 13, 76-YEAR-OLD STEPHEN HAWKING died of Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with which he had lived since being diagnosed at 21. Doctors predicted he wouldn’t live for more than a few years, but he survived, brilliantly, for nearly six more decades. In 1988, when Newsweek writer Jerry Adler visited Hawking at Cambridge University, where he held Sir Thomas Newton’s chair as the Lucasian professor of mathematics, the physicist had just published his first best-seller, A Brief History of Time, a survey of modern cosmology. In 1974, he had made the discovery of the astronomical phenomenon that bears his name, Hawking radiation (explaining how black holes lose their mass). Hawking, in other words, was well on his way to becom ing the second superstar of…