Innholdsfortegnelse for 12/07/2018 i Newsweek International

A Central American migrant rests under a bridge near the El Chaparral port of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border on November 23. The first members of the caravan began arriving in mid-November and, as of press time, numbered about 7,400 in the cities of Tijuana and Mexicali. The processing of asylum claims by U.S. authorities has gone slowly, and on November 25 a small group of migrants clashed with Customs and Border Protection officers, who fired tear gas at the crowd and temporarily closed the border.…

HANNS SCHARFF WAS ALREADY a legend when Allied forces captured him at the end of World War II. A businessman conscripted into the Nazi war machine in 1939 and assigned to interrogate captured Allied pilots, Scharff quickly earned a reputation in the Luftwaffe for his uncanny ability to elicit valuable intelligence from his subjects—without laying a hand on them. “He could get a confession of infidelity from a nun,” one of his former prisoners later quipped. Like Wernher von Braun, the Nazi rocket scientist who got a second chance with the Pentagon’s ballistic missile program, Scharff had expertise that was recognized after the war’s end by the U.S. Air Force, which in 1948 invited him to lecture on his techniques and adopted many of his methods for its interrogation school…

THE GUAM BROADBILL, A SMALL, IRIDESCENT black flycatcher with a brown chest and a fluffy head, once flourished in the secluded limestone ravines on the Pacific island of Guam, a territory that belongs to the United States. By 1973, development had destroyed two-thirds of its habitat and introduced a snake that preyed on the bird’s young. That same year, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law. The act, which sets restrictions on the destruction of specific animal species and their habitat, seemed purpose-built for Guam’s broadbill. But conservation rarely moves at the speed of destruction. It took Guam’s governor six years to petition to have the bird protected. Studies took another five. By the time the broadbill made the endangered species list, in the summer of…

Supporters of presidential candidate Martin Fayulu celebrate as they wait for him to speak at the launch of his campaign on November 21. Election season comes after two years of setbacks, broken promises and delays. President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled since his father’s assassination in 2001, remained in power after his second term ended in 2016 and had resisted efforts to force him to step down. Voters are now set to go to the polls on December 23 in what will be the first democratic transfer of power for a nation gripped by armed conflict and an Ebola outbreak.…

A female riot police officer comes face to face with women’s rights activists as they try to march to Taksim Square on November 25. Hundreds had gathered to mark the U.N. International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Activists said the government—which has restricted public demonstrations for years—was more concerned with protests than stopping male violence in a country where reportedly 337 women were killed by domestic abuse in the past year.…

With roughly 2.3 million incarcerated people (a 500 percent increase over the past 40 years), the U.S. now leads the world in prison population—and African-Americans and Hispanics make up 56 percent of those behind bars. That disturbing reality inspired The Writing on the Wall, a collaboration between artist Hank Willis Thomas and Baz Dreisinger (pictured, right). Dreisinger, an author who also teaches writing in prisons around the world, collected essays, poems, letters, stories, diagrams and notes to create the installation with Thomas, a conceptual artist and co-founder of the 50-state art collaboration project For Freedoms. The words of the incarcerated—handwritten and typed—are a moving testament to the often ignored humanity of those in prison. The installation, which debuted at the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami in…

Protesters demonstrate against rising fuel prices and living costs near the Arc de Triomphe on November 24. In what has been dubbed the “yellow vest” movement for its attire, more than 100,000 took to the streets across France that day. The price of diesel has risen by about 23 percent over the past year—its highest price since the early 2000s—partially because of new levies on gas, part of President Emmanuel Macron’s campaign for renewable energy.…

THE CUPBOARDS OF JO ELGARF’S LONDON home are bursting with provisions. Dried foods, tinned meat, coffee, powdered milk, even detergent. “Anything that has a long shelf life,” she says. The hoarding began a few months ago as British negotiators struggled to settle on the terms of the country’s impending divorce from the European Union. Tabloids blared the prospect of a “no-deal Brexit,” and doomsday scenarios quickly followed: gridlocked border crossings, strangled supply lines, grounded flights. The pound, analysts predicted, would likely tumble while food and medicine stocks thinned and Brits faced a host of new immigration restrictions. Elgarf, a 42-year-old mother of two, found herself stockpiling nonperishable goods and imported products. And she’s far from alone. Elgarf moderates a Facebook group called 48% Preppers—a reference to the proportion of voters…

Every monument at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice has a duplicate, and the mission of the Equal Justice Initiative is to get all of the 801 counties implicated in racial terror to claim their monument, placing it where a lynching occurred. So far, close to 300 counties have expressed interest in doing so. “It’s been surprising and encouraging,” says Bryan Stevenson, director of EJI. “We’re very energized by that.” EJI is insisting on a process to make the event as meaningful as possible. “Everybody wanted to just come grab their monument and say, ‘We did that,’” he says. Instead, counties are asked to first erect historical markers for each lynching. “The idea is to build up a consciousness, to truly understand the legacy of lynching before you claim…

“Abe is a bit of a control freak, but he doesn’t really have control over anything.” HE KEPT A TIGHT LID ON HIS EMOTIONS AS THE OBSESSIVE DETECTIVE ON the USA comedy Monk (a role that earned him three Emmys), and again when playing an Egyptian conductor in the Broadway musical The Band’s Visit (for which he won a 2018 Tony for best actor in a musical—a fourth nomination). But finally, as Abe Weissman on Amazon’s hit series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tony Shalhoub gets to let it all hang out. The first season, which takes place in 1958, stars Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan as aspiring stand-up comedian Miriam “Midge” Maisel. She’s a hard act to top, but as her tightly wound math professor father, Shalhoub delivered some showstopping meltdowns.…