Innholdsfortegnelse for September 5, 2016 i Time Magazine International Edition

Turkey strikes ISIS after bombing Turkey launched an offensive on a Syrian town held by ISIS on Aug. 24, days after a suicide bombing at a wedding in the Turkish city of Gaziantep killed 54. The operation on Jarabulus came after Turkish authorities said the wedding attack was staged by ISIS. Judge blocks bathroom order A federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction against a White House directive on bathroom rights, which orders schools to allow students to choose bathrooms and locker rooms by the gender with which they identify. New Earth-like planet discovered A potentially Earth-size planet with the potential to sustain life was discovered orbiting a nearby star. Proxima b is likely rocky and close enough to its star to have liquid water, but it would take…

Donald Trump has called NATO “obsolete,” threatening in July to renege on the U.S. commitment to protect allies under attack. Some leading figures in Europe also question the alliance’s value: JEREMY CORBYN The leader of the U.K.’s opposition Labour Party said on Aug. 18 he wouldn’t aid NATO allies under attack if elected Prime Minister. BEPPE GRILLO The founder of Italy’s antiestablishment Five Star Movement wrote in May that NATO pandered to Washington’s “strategic designs.” PABLO IGLESIAS The leader of Spain’s left-wing Podemos party has long called for a referendum on NATO membership. MARINE LE PEN The far-right National Front party leader wants France to withdraw from NATO and has called for a better relationship with Russia.…

Migrant surge on the U.S. border Nearly 26,000 unaccompanied children were stopped at the U.S. border in the first six months of 2016, UNICEF said, up from 18,500 over the same period last year. Most were fleeing Central American countries with high rates of crime and poverty, like El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Jihadist admits destroying relics An extremist from Mali pleaded guilty at the International Criminal Court on Aug. 22 to destroying religious monuments in Timbuktu. The trial of Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi was the court’s first for destruction of cultural monuments. Opioids found at Prince’s home Pills recovered from Prince’s Minnesota home were found to be laced with a powerful synthetic opioid. It is unclear how the singer, who died of an accidental overdose, obtained fentanyl, which is reportedly…

DIED Toots Thielemans, 94, Belgian jazz harmonica player who collaborated with music greats from Benny Goodman to Paul Simon. His playing was featured on the opening theme of Sesame Street and on the soundtracks for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and The Getaway (1972). Lou Pearlman, 62, former manager of boy bands like ’N Sync, Backstreet Boys and LFO. He died in jail, having spent his final years incarcerated for a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of an estimated $300 million. CLOSED The website Gawker, after its parent company was sold to Univision. The site was created in 2002 as a media gossip blog and became known for its mixture of salacious tittle-tattle and in-depth reporting. Its parent company, Gawker Media, declared bankruptcy in June after the site lost a $140 million…

IT’S NATURAL TO WANT TO BE HAPPY all the time. But it’s telling that most of what many consider to be our seven basic emotions—joy, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, contempt and disgust—reflect the dark side of the human experience. These emotions are still with us because they’ve helped us survive through several million years of evolution, and they are an integral part of what makes us human. It’s troubling, then, that so many of us try to avoid them. We use default behaviors that we hope can deflect or disguise them. We settle deeply into them, refusing to let them go. Or we attempt to ignore them entirely through cynicism, irony or gallows humor, refusing to admit anything in life is worth taking seriously. As Nietzsche once said, loosely translated,…

MOST OF US FEEL MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN EVER. BETWEEN wi-fi and mobile data, smartphones and apps that let us do everything from hail a ride to order groceries, we can get more done, in more places, more of the time—whether we want to or not. So why does the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) keep telling us that’s an illusion? Not only is productivity in America declining, but it’s been falling for over a decade. Even during the booming mid-2000s, according to the government’s statisticians, productivity began to flatten and fall. Since economic growth is the product of productivity and demographics, the BLS numbers are a big deal. With birthrates falling and immigration down, productivity needs to go up—or we’ll soon be worse off economically than our parents. The slowdown…

Immigrant experience Many parents of super-siblings were born abroad, hailing from Haiti, Israel, Poland, China and India. Educator parents Most of the families include a parent who had a background in education, from preschool painting to college physics. Political engagement Lots of the parents were involved in political activism, including two who participated in the civil rights movement. Fight club Siblings recall frequent, intense conflict among their brothers and sisters—but little conflict between their parents. Brush with death Many families have an awareness of mortality, from a severe illness to the death of a family member. Free to be Few of the siblings recall growing up with firm rules, and most said they enjoyed more freedom than their peers (and much more than 21st century kids).…

There have been more than 40 attempts to replace nonvital organs in the U.S. since 1999. Here’s a snapshot of the procedures to date: HAND First U.S. procedure: 1999 How many done in the U.S. so far: 17 Hand-transplant surgery can take 12 to 16 hours, compared with six to eight hours for a heart transplant. FACE First U.S. procedure: 2008 How many done in the U.S. so far: 11 Patrick Hardison (pictured right) has received the most complete facial transplant ever performed, which took 26 hours to complete. DOUBLE HAND First U.S. procedure: 2009 How many done in the U.S. so far: 11 In 2015, 8-year-old Zion Harvey, who had to have both his hands amputated after a severe infection, became the youngest person to receive a double hand…

AMY SCHUMER’S The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo covers a lot of territory. There are funny anecdotes—about sex, about shoplifting, about drinking—but the overall tone is bittersweet. While many celebrity memoirs read like raucous meditations on the performing life, Schumer’s tests the bounds of dark humor. She has struggled with her father’s physical deterioration from multiple sclerosis, abusive relationships and a hefty dose of sexism. Her parents influenced her worldview: her father was too honest, sometimes to the point of cruelty; her mother was so upbeat that she denied when things went amiss. Her mother had an affair with the father of Schumer’s best friend, which split up her parents. (Each married three times.) Later, Schumer endured an abusive relationship and a sexual encounter she describes as “nonconsensual.” Schumer’s…

 “AtlAntA IS A TROJAN HORSE,” SAYS DONALD GLOVER, THE creator and star of the dramedy, which premieres Sept. 6 on FX. The show is ostensibly about an Ivy League dropout and new dad (Glover) who helps his cousin launch a rap career. But in reality, it’s a bold exploration of race and class that feels like nothing else on television—partly because the writers are all black, as are the stars. “The thesis was: How do we make people feel black?” says Glover. “It turned into something more attainable than that, but that was the idea. I was like, ‘Let’s make something that shouldn’t be on the air, something controversial.’ If it’s canceled in 10 episodes, I’ll be happy with those episodes.” ‘The thesis was: How do we make people feel…

‘The Constitution is no more forbidding than baseball, but we have to get into it.’ How well do you think the average American understands the Constitution? Not at all, alas. It’s a shame because it was designed to be read. Here’s an analogy: I like baseball, but baseball’s a little boring unless you’re into it. The Constitution is no more forbidding than baseball, but we have to get into it. You wrote in 2008 that Hillary Clinton is to Bill Clinton as Hamilton was to Washington. Do you still think she’s like him? She’s like Alexander Hamilton and, believe it or not, Martin Van Buren. Both New Yorkers, both in effect handpicked successors of very popular two-term Presidents, both lowborn. So who’s Trump? I don’t think we’ve ever seen someone…

1,500 The number of rafters and boaters in the St. Clair River who were blown from Michigan into Canada by high winds on Aug. 21; Canadian police brought them back to the U.S. by bus 22 The number of months NASA had lost contact with the STEREO-B spacecraft, which is studying the sun; contact was restored on Aug. 21 ‘Maybe we’ll just ... decide to separate from the United Nations.’ RODRIGO DUTERTE, Philippine President, after the U.N. criticized his antidrug campaign as a human-rights violation; since Duterte took office on June 30, there have been more than 650 police killings and thousands of unexplained arrests ‘ALL OF US ARE HOLDING OUR BREATH AND CROSSING OUR FINGERS.’ CINDY LERNER, mayor of Pinecrest, Fla., speaking of concerns that Zika may spread from…

NIGERIA’S PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU Buhari relaunched a controversial “war against indiscipline” program on Aug. 15, a move seen as an attempt to reset his flagging presidency. Here’s why: STRIKE FORCE Buhari first tackled public conduct in 1984, when he ruled the country as a military dictator. The brutal campaign saw soldiers armed with whips beat offenders for minor infractions such as being late for work or failing to wait in line properly. BATTLE RESUMED Officials say this version will not be so punitive. The new scheme aims to reduce social ills like corruption and violence with 170,000 enforcers, mainly volunteers. But experts say the government-backed brigade could exacerbate discontent. MOUNTING TROUBLE The attempt comes as Buhari’s Cabinet is accused of failing to tackle corruption or reform an ailing economy and as…

BOGOTÁ Since 1976, Colombia’s capital has welcomed millions to walk or bike through 75 miles of car-free roads every Sunday (as shown above). The event, called Ciclovía, led cities in Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Ecuador to hold similar days. SAN FRANCISCO Inspired by Ciclovía, the City by the Bay has shut streets on select Sundays throughout the year since 2008 for cycling, yoga and other activities. It’s one of at least 65 U.S. cities to stage similar events. OSLO The Norwegian capital wants to take the Ciclovía concept to the next level: last year it unveiled plans to become the first European city to ban cars completely from its center by 2019.…

THAT A BOOK LOOKS AND WORKS AS it does is an easy thing to take for granted, but it took a thousand disruptions over the course of millennia to make those bound objects what they are. In his new history of the book, written in a moment when those analog objects have an uncertain future, author Keith Houston traces the evolutions of writing, illustrating and papermaking from the ancient world to today. The attendant tales in The Book— of warring Greeks, backstabbing Chinese courtesans, of religion, pride, domination, failure and ingenuity—prove that the book’s story is a reflection of human beings too. As Houston notes amid his explanation of how written language came to be: “The letters in this book are the offspring of ancient Egyptian writing, filtered through 4,000…

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week’s most talked-about studies: 1 BREADWINNING IS GOOD FOR WOMEN AND BAD FOR MEN A study from the University of Connecticut, which analyzed Bureau of Labor Statistics data, found that acting as the primary breadwinner in a family has a negative impact on the mental and physical health of men. For women, however, there was a positive psychological effect. 2 LOW EXPECTATIONS MAY AFFECT BREAST-CANCER TREATMENT A study in the journal Annals of Oncology found that women with low expectations during hormonal therapy for breast cancer experienced twice as many side effects from the treatment as those with less negative thoughts. 3 DOGS MAY PREFER PRAISE OVER FOOD In a study published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, researchers who analyzed…

HOW MANY PRESIDENTIAL first dates could actually make a watchable movie, let alone a fine one? Here you go: writer-director Richard Tanne’s beautifully wrought Southside With You is a vivid, imaginative portrayal of the first date between the woman then known as Michelle Robinson and her hardworking suitor, the young Barack Obama. Michelle (Tika Sumpter), a few years into her career as a lawyer at Chicago’s Sidley Austin, accepts an invitation from Barack (Parker Sawyers), a summer associate at the firm and her advisee, to attend a community meeting at a South Side church. She insists it isn’t a date. Barack has other ideas. Sawyers and Sumpter are both terrific: He captures both the easy, loping rhythms of our future 44th President’s speech and the long-stride elegance of his carriage.…

Friendship, for the Clintons, has always had a broad definition. The Democratic nominee often describes her family’s biggest lifetime donors as her closest friends THE CROWN PRINCE OF BAHRAIN IS not Hillary Clinton’s friend, at least not in the way most people use that word. Nor is he particularly friendly with Huma Abedin, a top Clinton deputy, or the co-founder of the Clinton Global Initiative Doug Band. And yet for some reason, in June 2009, Band wrote an email to Abe-din asking for a meeting between the Secretary of State and Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. “Good friend of ours,” Band said of the crown prince. Abedin, who would later work for Band’s consulting firm while still drawing a public salary at the State Department, promptly set up an…

SINCE 2014, INDIA HAS BEEN THE emerging-market world’s most positive story. That’s mainly because Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have cut red tape to make it easier to do business in this historically closed country. Modi’s government has lowered barriers to foreign investment and dramatically simplified the tax system. India’s economy has taken off, with growth forecast at 7.8% this year. Yet this is probably the last major piece of positive reform news we’ll hear from India for the next couple of years. There are two crucial proposals that aren’t going anywhere until after the next national elections, in 2019. First, change is needed to create a much more flexible labor force. Laws meant to protect workers make it extremely difficult to fire employees in…

‘DONALD TOLD ME HE WAS HAVING DIFFICULTIES ... THAT HE HAD SOME ILLEGAL POLISH EMPLOYEES.’—DANIEL SULLIVAN IN THE SUMMER OF 1980, Donald Trump faced a big problem. For six months, undocumented Polish laborers had been clearing the future site of Trump Tower, his signature real estate project on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, where he now lives, maintains his private offices and hosts his presidential campaign. The men were putting in 12-hour shifts with inadequate safety equipment at subpar wages that their contractor paid sporadically, if at all. A lawyer for many of the Poles demanded that the workers be paid or else he would serve Trump with a lien on the property. One Polish worker even went to Trump’s office to ask him for money in person, according to sworn testimony…

SIMMONS Rapper and reality star Rev Run, painter and philanthropist Danny, Def Jam co-founder and hip-hop mogul Russell ANTONOFF Grammy-winning musician Jack, fashion designer Rachel SRINIVASAN Yahoo’s fifth employee, Srinija, U.S. Court of Appeals judge Sri, interim deputy chief of the San Mateo County health system Srija DUNGEY Alias and Once Upon a Time actor Merrin, ABC Entertainment Group president Channing LIN Artist and Vietnam Veterans Memorial architect Maya, poet and author Tan (with their mother) RODRIGUEZ Physician and clinic director Rebecca, Jane the Virgin star Gina and private-equity partner Ivelisse GAY Civil engineer Michael Jr., best-selling author and New York Times writer Roxane, Energy Recovery CEO Joel EMANUEL University of Pennsylvania vice provost of global initiatives Zeke, mayor of Chicago Rahm, Hollywood superagent Ari…

The actor, 38, wrote and stars in her directorial debut, The Intervention, a dramedy about a group of friends who gather for a weekend to try to persuade two unhappily married pals to divorce. When did this story come to you? I was a person who thought I knew what was best for everyone else, but I had this epiphany where I realized the more I’m focusing on other people’s lives, the less I’m looking at myself. That led me on this journey of being a less harsh critic to the people around me. You’ve talked about the value of therapy. Did your own therapy influence the screenplay? Oh, 100%. I was going to therapy and reading so many books, trying to educate myself on what was going on with…

 IN The kinGdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe offers an analytical history of humankind’s struggle to understand the origins of what he calls its “superpower”: speech. In Wolfe’s telling, the often dry, esoteric realm of academia is rife with coups, Martians and disease. And the driving conflict is the power struggle over the legacies of Charles Darwin and MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, the intellectuals who claimed to best understand man’s special ability. ‘Man owns or controls ... every animal that exists, thanks to his superpower: speech.’TOM WOLFE, in his new book, The Kingdom of Speech Each one sought to answer how we came to possess speech. Darwin theorized that humans learned it from birdsong, while Chomsky believes we have a special organ, evidenced by the common structure of oral communication. The…

MOVIES The documentary Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (Aug. 26) weaves together art and interviews to spotlight the first African-American Disney animator, whose personal verve steals the show. TELEVISION Narcos returns to Netflix for a second season on Sept. 2, picking up with drug-enforcement agents’ frantic search for Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) after his escape from prison. BOOKS Nathan Hill’s debut novel, The Nix (Aug. 30), tells of a professor whose long-absent mother finds her way back into his life, seeking help after a headline-grabbing attack on a politician. MUSIC On her third album, My Woman (Sept. 2), Angel Olsen lends her self-assured vocals to dreamy synth-pop ballads and ’70s-inspired rock songs about the complexity of modern womanhood.…

HERE’S A NUMBER THAT MIGHT COME AS A SURPRISE: According to a Pew Research survey released in August, most American men—56%—think sexism is over and done with. More than half believe that “the obstacles that once made it harder for women than men to get ahead are now largely gone.” As in disappeared. Past tense. Ancient history. Of course, most women—63%—disagree. So might anyone who has been paying attention to the details emerging from the lawsuits and allegations from women currently and formerly at the Fox News network. One plaintiff described an environment run like a “sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion–like cult” under former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who resigned in July amid accusations of sexual harassment and suggestions that he fostered an atmosphere where women were judged by looks and pliability…