Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/26/2018 - 11/02/2018 i Newsweek International

ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2014, police in the Mexican town of Iguala intercepted a group of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College, located in the Guerrero state, a region rife with drug-related violence. The students—also called normalistas—had been stopped for hijacking two buses to travel to Mexico City, where they intended to join the annual march that commemorates the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, a national scandal in which hundreds of students and civilians were killed by the military. In the subsequent clash, six students, all in their 20s, were killed and another 25 wounded. Forty-three simply vanished. The government’s official investigation found that authorities turned the normalistas over to the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel, which killed and then burned the missing students in a trash pit in Cocula. Mexicans rejected that…

Members of the Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls team dazzle a massive crowd at the 27th Concurs de Castells, or Human Towers, competition on October 7. Starting some two centuries ago near this port town, castells have drawn a huge following across Catalonia. At local festivals, teams construct the highest, most complex displays possible, usually with the stoutest participants at the base and a small boy at the top. In 2010, UNESCO anointed the castells as Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.…

IN MAY 2017, WHEN SEBASTIAN KURZ TOOK control of the center-right Austrian People’s Party (OVP), he remade it in his image. Lest the world underestimate the significance of this, the 32-year-old rebranded the OVP as the Sebastian Kurz List–New People’s Party. Seven months later the conservative populist became Austria’s youngest-ever chancellor, in addition to the world’s first millennial head of state and, according to some analysts, the future of Europe. Like other right-wing populists ascending to power in the European Union, the ambitious Kurz has pushed a hard-line immigration agenda in response to economic stagnation and the Syrian refugee crisis. But his youthful persona and political happenstance have elevated his status and his ideas far beyond Austria’s borders. His rise coincided with the transition of the EU presidency to Austria,…

IN 1993, SACHA GERVASI WAS IN THE NEWSROOM of Britain’s Daily Mail, surrounded by banks of TV sets. The freelance journalist, 26 at the time, was pitching ideas for stories to the paper’s Sunday magazine, You, when a familiar figure popped up on one of the screens: Hervé Villechaize, star of the kitschy ’70s TV series Fantasy Island. You know, Tattoo, the diminutive, white-suited sidekick to an identically dressed Ricardo Montalban. The one who shouted, “Da plane! Da plane!” What happened to that fucking guy? Gervasi thought. Is he even alive? Some digging revealed that yes, he was. A cache of articles detailed Villechaize’s rise (beginning with the 1974 James Bond film The Man With the Golden Gun, playing Nick Nack) and spectacular fall: drinking, drugs, self-destructive meltdowns, a messy…

IT’S NOT EASY TO GET IN TO SEE DIANE Ellis-Marseglia, one of three commissioners who run Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Security is tight at the Government Administration Building on 55 East Court Street in Doylestown, a three-story brick structure with no windows, where she has an office. It also happens to be where officials retreat on election night to tally the votes recorded on the county’s 900 or so voting machines. Guards at the door X-ray bags and scan each visitor with a wand. Unfortunately, Russian hackers won’t need to come calling on Election Day. Cyberexperts warn that they could use more sophisticated means of changing the outcomes of close races or sowing confusion in an effort to throw the U.S. elections into disrepute. The 2018 midterms offer a compelling target:…

WHEN HURRICANE FLORENCE STRUCK THE U.S. last month, rain and wind weren’t the only causes of damage. Rising seas contributed to storm surges that reached nearly 20 feet in some estuaries. In the past 20 years, sea levels have risen about 3 millimeters per year, which has had an effect on coastal flooding. How much more will the seas rise in coming decades? The North and South poles are a good place to look for an answer. Melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica is a big cause of rising seas; Greenland has enough ice to raise sea levels by 21 feet. Loss of ice at the North Pole could shut down the Gulf Stream, plunging Northern Europe and Scandinavia into a deep freeze—a scenario depicted in the 2004 sci-fi movie…

NOW THAT JILL SOLOWAY, THE creator of the groundbreaking Transparent and I Love Dick, has come out as gender non-binary (someone who identifies as neither man nor woman), the singular they pronoun has replaced she. “It’s fine if people use she or her,” Soloway tells Newsweek. But “when people use they, it makes my heart soar!” Before coming out, however, Solo-way had written a memoir, titled She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy (Crown Archetype). Would that prove too confusing? Ultimately, Soloway, a feminist, decided to leave it. “Even though I don’t identify as a she anymore, I love the power of She Wants It.” The memoir begins with the creation of Transparent, Amazon’s Emmy-winning series inspired by Soloway’s father coming out as a transgender woman. At that…