Innholdsfortegnelse for 01/18/2019 i Newsweek International

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO bring Americans home again. Seventeen years after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. troops are currently engaged in seven countries under outdated legislation, and the commander in chief has suggested that two of those open-ended wars may be closing. Ignoring officials’ advice, he declared victory over the undefeated Islamic State group (ISIS) last month and ordered the withdrawal of 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria. He also significantly cut American forces in Afghanistan by instructing the Pentagon to rotate home 7,000 service members in early 2019. Like George W. Bush declaring “Mission Accomplished,” Trump has asserted that American forces will come home under a banner of victory. He argued on Twitter that if his predecessors brought troops home and crippled militant extremists, they would have been hailed as…

Members of the 116th Congress welcome a triumphant Nancy Pelosi back to the speakership on January 3. After a blue wave in the midterm elections, Democrats returned to power in the House of Representatives. “Our nation is at a historic moment,” declared Pelosi, who became the first female speaker when she previously held the post from 2007 to 2011. “I pledge that this Congress will be transparent, bipartisan and unifying, that we will seek to reach across the aisle in this country and across divisions across our nation.” President Donald Trump kept the partisan flag flying, however, threatening that a partial shutdown of the federal government could last “years” if he did not get money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.…

ON A RAINY DAY IN THE SPRING OF 1976, FBI Special Agent Myron Fuller took the New York subway to Brooklyn to interview Donald Trump. The future tycoon, about 30, was just getting his real estate career off the ground, aided by secret payments from his father. Fuller found Trump working out of a temporary office in a double-wide trailer on a muddy construction site. “There were boards covering wet dirt, in lieu of cement walkways,” Fuller recalls to Newsweek. He knocked on the door and went in. “His secretary sat there by the entrance, and Trump was a door away from there.” Ushered in, he found Trump sitting behind his desk. The businessman did not get up to welcome the agent. “He never came around, and I do not…

ERNEST WITHERS WAS A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER when few African-Americans were. A talented hustler who could navigate a brutally segregated South, he had a canny eye for history in the making at a time when history was broiling, during the 1950s and ’60s. His work covering the civil rights movement appeared in newspapers across the country. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, he was there when Elvis Presley broke through, capturing him visiting the black singers in the Beale Street clubs that inspired his music (and his hips). He also produced powerful images of the Emmett Till murder trial in 1955; the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957; and the rise of the Black Power movement. One of his most famous photos captures Martin Luther King Jr.…

A migrant clings to a rope off the coast of Malta as rescuers pull him to safety on January 4. The man had jumped into the sea from aboard the Dutch-flagged Sea-Watch 3 in a failed attempt to swim to shore. Two weeks earlier, the vessel had rescued him and nearly three dozen others, but both Malta and Italy refused to let such boats dock at their ports in an effort to curb migration from Africa. Human rights activists have accused Europe of clinching a new “record of shame.”…

LAST MONTH, AMERICA LEARNED about something the millennials like to call “adulting.” The term started as a sort of quasi-joke—whenever a millennial would do something age-appropriate rather than radically immature, this was an act of “adulting.” Now, though, millennials apparently require training in being an adult. According to CBS News, Rachel Flehinger has co-founded an Adulting School, which includes online courses on simple sewing, conflict resolution and cooking. CBS suggests the cause for such classes: Many millennials “haven’t left childhood homes”—in America, 34 percent of adults aged 18 to 34 still lived with their parents as of 2015, up from 26 percent a decade before. There’s a good deal of truth to this. If you’re living at home, with Mom and Dad doing their best to spoil you, you’re less…

“IF WE CAN GROW MEAT WITHOUT the animal, why wouldn’t we?” This question wasn’t from a science fiction writer or the head of the Humane Society of the United States. Rather, this came from Tom Hayes toward the end of his tenure as the CEO of Tyson Foods, the largest producer of meat in the U.S. Why would the CEO of Tyson, whose brand has become synonymous with chicken, want to remove the animal from production? In part because meat production will be more efficient that way; by growing meat without bones, feathers or hair, we can get more of it with the same resources. United Nations scientists say that raising and killing animals for food is “one of the major causes of the world’s most pressing environmental problems, including…