Innholdsfortegnelse for November 7, 2016 i Time Magazine International Edition

ICELAND’S PIRATE PARTY IS expected to win the largest share of the vote in the country’s Oct. 29 general election, less than four years after the fringe political group formed. Its rise is the latest, and perhaps most colorful, in a string of anti-Establishment insurgencies throughout Europe, from the far left to the far right. ANCHORS AWEIGH Led by former Wiki-Leaks activist and “poetician” Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Pirate Party formed in the wake of the collapse of Iceland’s hugely overleveraged banking industry following the 2008 financial crisis. After the Panama Papers revealed in early 2016 that former Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson held investments in offshore accounts, support for the movement surged to 43% in an April poll. AYE ON POWER The party says it wants to be the “Robin…

President Obama’s signature health-insurance plan is facing rising costs, which are likely to continue to grow if Congress and the next President do not agree to rewrite key parts of the law. Here are a few telling statistics. 25% Average increase in premiums for benchmark plan Americans shopping on the individual market will pay more as healthier people decline to join the system, raising rates $433 Average monthly cost of a midlevel plan before subsidies This could lead to sticker shock for Americans who earn too much to qualify for federal subsidies 73% Percentage of people on midlevel plans who will pay less than $100 a month The increased costs will be offset by increased federal subsidies for low-income Americans…

BEHIND EVERY GREAT AMERICAN President lies an even greater team of . . . dogs? So one could surmise from Maria Goodavage’s new book, Secret Service Dogs, which highlights the “completely nonpartisan” agents that serve in the highest levels of government. Among them: Emergency Response Team dogs (all Belgian Malinois), which are trained to take down bad guys—the canine equivalent of a SWAT team; Explosive Device Team dogs (also frequently Malinois), which check every vehicle that comes to the White House; and so-called friendly dogs (typically Labrador retrievers or springer spaniels), which subtly sniff White House visitors for suspicious scents. These canines are crucial parts of America’s national security, Goodavage writes. In 2014, for example, a Malinois named Hurricane helped take down a fence jumper on the White House lawn.…

1 TWITTER LOVES COFFEE A study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Public Health and Surveillance that analyzed Twitter activity found that coffee was the most tweeted-about food in America; runners-up included beer and pizza. 2 EXERCISE HELPS SLOW MEMORY LOSS A study of people with cognitive impairment published in the journal Neurology found that a group that walked three times a week (and gradually increased intensity for six months) performed significantly better on memory tests than a group that did not add exercise. 3 INFANTS SHOULD SLEEP IN THE ROOM, BUT NOT THE BED, WITH PARENTS New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) stipulate that infants should sleep in their parents’ bedrooms for at least six months and ideally a year. For safety reasons, they should…

THERE HAVEN’T BEEN MANY EXHILARATING MOMENTS in Hillary Clinton’s long slog to the presidency, but this may have been one of them: a gorgeous late-October afternoon in New Hampshire, an outdoor rally amid the falling leaves, a stage full of female candidates—two for Congress, one for the Senate, one for President plus Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, leaving only one lonely guy (the candidate for governor). The women wore interesting colors—a perfect firehouse red for Warren; a lush violet for New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan; a cool, crisp sky blue for Clinton. This was a perfect reversal of fortune from the days when five of the six speakers would be men in blue suits with red ties, joined by a lone woman—a candidate for state treasurer, perhaps—also dressed in a navy…

‘I want to be independent of them. I want them to be independent of us. I wouldn’t want to know if any of them had seen it.’PETER MORGAN, creator of The Crown, on the royal family’s reaction to the show THE ROYAL TREATMENT Netflix reportedly spent £100 million on The Crown IT’S NOT EASY BEING A QUEEN. NOR is it easy to play one. To re-create the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II for Netflix’s new series The Crown, premiering on Nov. 4, actor Claire Foy had to don a corset, five underskirts, a 5-lb. crown and a replica of the real dress the Queen wore on that historic day. The show borrowed the garment from an exhibition. “There was a lot to carry, costume-wise and crown-wise and scepter-wise,” Foy tells…

‘Inhabiting a novel can be transformative in a way that using a self-help book isn’t.’ELLA BERTHOUD, bibliotherapist at the School of Life IT’S WELL-ESTABLISHED SCIENCE THAT READING boosts vocabulary, sharpens reason and expands intellectual horizons. But the latest round of research on the benefits of literature focuses on how it improves not our IQ, but our EQ. Book lovers profess a deep emotional bond with books, and scientists are increasingly looking to explain just what it is about fiction that improves our mental health. Three years ago, researchers at the New School for Social Research found a link between what psychologists call “theory of mind”—basically, the ability to know what another person is thinking or feeling—and reading a passage of literary fiction (distinguished from popular fiction). Participants who read passages…

‘Nasty women vote.’ ELIZABETH WARREN, Massachusetts Senator, referencing Donald Trump’s admonishment of Hillary Clinton in the third presidential debate as “such a nasty woman”; the term has been claimed by women as a rallying cry $22,700 Amount of money raised to replace the vandalized sign marking where the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was found in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi in 1955 400 p.p.m. The average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, a threshold even pessimistic climate-change scientists believed Earth would not reach for decades, according to the World Meteorological Organization ‘I spent years of my life deployed, missed out on birthdays and deaths in the family, got blown up ... [and] they say I haven’t fulfilled my contract.’ CHRISTOPHER VAN METER, former Army captain, Purple Heart recipient and…

E.U.-Canada trade deal halted A key E.U. trade deal with Canada was stopped in its tracks on Oct. 14 when Belgium was unable to approve it because of opposition in French-speaking Wallonia, among other regions. The CETA trade deal requires approval by all 28 E.U. members. Jail sentence for ex-A.G. Kane Former Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane was sentenced to 10 to 23 months in jail after being convicted of charges including perjury. Kane, 50, had illegally leaked details from a grand jury investigation to discredit a political rival, then lied about it. African exodus from the ICC Gambia joined South Africa and Burundi in announcing plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. Each country has complained that the court is biased against Africans, and there are fears more…

COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT JUAN MANUEL SANTOS RECENTLY had one of the most dramatic versions of “good news, bad news” anyone could imagine in the world of international politics. On Oct. 7 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a historic peace agreement aimed at ending a 52-year virulent insurgency in his nation. But he won the Nobel just days after he saw that agreement narrowly defeated in a national referendum that he had called. According to polls, the peace accord had appeared to be cruising to a victory. This kind of turn of events is sadly typical of Colombia, a nation important to U.S. policy in South America. WHEN I SERVED as commander of U.S. Southern Command, which is responsible for U.S. military activities in Central and South America, a…

IN RECENT WEEKS, TWO THINGS HAVE become increasingly clear: Hillary Clinton is beating Donald Trump in the vast majority of scientific national polls, and the reliability of those polls has become more contested than ever before. Republican nominee Trump has led the way, of course, by charging that Democrats are pushing “phony polls” and that the press has refused to report on the truth. Neither is true. Throughout October, a range of independent public polls has consistently shown Clinton in the lead. But that doesn’t mean the polls show a certain victory for Clinton. There are many reasons for this uncertainty. Voters can still change their mind. Pollsters can mispredict turnout. The polls themselves have statistical margins of error. And recent technological changes have made polling both more challenging and…

1 Talk about the real stuff Sometimes conversations between parents and teens can be all about achievements, schedules and chores. Go beyond that. Find out what keeps them up at night, and ask, “What’s the best part of your day?” Become attuned to their emotional world so that you understand what their dreams are, what they struggle with and how their life is going. 2 Pay attention, but don’t smother them Give teens space to grow and separate from you, but also watch for changes in behavior. Are they giving up activities they used to enjoy? Are they staying up all night or eating differently? Is your outgoing kid now withdrawn? If you’re worried, say so. Show interest in their internal life without judgment. 3…

MUSIC On her sixth album, Here (Nov. 4), Alicia Keys sings her most confessional songs to date with a newfound self-awareness and her signature piano. BOOKS T.C. Boyle’s novel The Terranauts tells of eight scientists trying to survive in a self-contained compound designed as a refuge from climate change. TELEVISION Amazon’s Good Girls Revolt (Nov. 4) fictionalizes the 1969 uprising at Newsweek that began when its unsung female researchers sued for gender equality in the workplace. MOVIES Shot in the snowy Mongolian mountains, the documentary The Eagle Huntress (Nov. 2) spotlights a 13-year-old girl who demands to be included in an ancient male tradition.…

The American-British actor, 33, stars as conscientious objector Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge, out Nov. 4 (see review, left); next, on Dec. 23, he’ll appear alongside Liam Neeson and Adam Driver in Martin Scorsese’s Silence, about 17th century Jesuit priests. What drew you to the character of Desmond Doss? It was one of those stories that rang a bell inside me. I felt compelled enough that I knew my drive to do it would supersede any doubt I had about myself being able to do it. Desmond was in touch with his spirit, with his own deep inner self, with God. In that way it was very inspiring. How did you find working with Mel Gibson as a director? He’s incredibly instinctive and emotional—all blood and guts, nerve endings, viscera…

 SINGAPORE IS GLOBALIZATION’S CLEAREST success story. A trading hub for centuries, this tiny island city-state of close to 6 million people sits at the mouth of the Strait of Malacca, the passageway through which one-third of the world’s seaborne traffic passes every day. Singapore is part of 20 free-trade agreements and has 31 trade partners. Globalization has helped it become one of the world’s wealthiest countries per capita. ‘Maybe Americans feel they don’t need the rest of the world anymore.’ LEE HSIEN LOONG, Prime Minister of Singapore Singapore’s economic dynamism is built atop a foundation of political stability. Lee Hsien Loong is only the country’s third Prime Minister since independence in 1965. Like his predecessors—including his father Lee Kuan Yew—he’s a talented and farsighted defender of Singapore’s interests, and he…

Evan McMullin left his Republican staff job in the U.S. Congress in August to run as an independent, conservative candidate against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Now some polls have him ahead in Utah, meaning he could be the first third-party candidate to win a state since 1968. There’s also a very small chance his win could stop Clinton and Trump from reaching 270 electoral votes, meaning the U.S. House would pick the next President. Why are you putting yourself through this? We feared that if no one stood up for these principles, from the actual conservative side, that they might be forgotten. I knew that many would mock what we are doing here, but I didn’t think that was a good enough reason not to do it. What are…

IN OUR GLOBALIZED, TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN world, we have convinced ourselves that the route to excellence and progress lies in specialization. Consider entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s recent argument that workers should make a lifelong commitment to a single career objective. Or the fact that fewer than 7% of U.S. undergraduates choose a major from among the humanities, opting instead for market-focused majors such as petroleum engineering or pharmaceutical marketing. Superficially, this trend toward specialization makes sense. It does, after all, take sustained dedication to attain world-class expertise. (See New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule.) But the implication that everyone should become an expert in one thing is dangerous because there is untold value in knowing a little about a lot. University of Pennsylvania professor Philip Tetlock knows this well. His research has…

MAKE RANDOM CALLS Pollsters dial thousands of random phone numbers, often pulled from directories of likely voters. Robo-dialers call landlines, but cellphone numbers are dialed manually—a costly process. INTERVIEW RESPONDENTS Once the pollsters connect with someone who’s willing to talk (most are not), they read the survey questions and take down the responses. SOLICIT PARTICIPANTS Pollsters use web ads and other tactics to recruit millions of people to take online surveys. SEND THEM SURVEYS These participants are grouped into panels, or pools. Pollsters send surveys to a sample of the panel that is a proxy for the adult population. COMPUTE RESULTS Responses are adjusted based on Census data and past voter turnout to reflect the voter population.…

BEFORE CLARENCE AARON WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR charges related to crack cocaine, he was a 23-year-old linebacker at Southern University at Baton Rouge. Strapped for cash, he decided to make extra money by introducing two sets of friends who were both in the drug business. For this, Aaron was paid $1,500. He never got involved with weapons or violence, and he says he never handled the drugs himself. But each of his co-conspirators testified against him, pinning 24 kg—more than 50 lb.—of cocaine on the former Boy Scout. Federal sentencing guidelines for drugs were extremely harsh in the 1990s, and Aaron was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences, far more time than anyone else involved. “Prison is a very gloomy, bad place. In order for you to…

1 Financial support Concerns about lost wages and the cost of paying for treatment are a major stressor for cancer patients. Financial advice about payment options can help. 2 Social support Cancer patients with more support, whether from formal group therapy or from family, have lower rates of depression and anxiety and a better quality of life. 3 Diet, exercise and meditation Studies are starting to hint that adding education about these strategies can defuse anxiety and help people complete and cope with their cancer treatments. TUNNEL VISION CAN SET IN WITH A new cancer diagnosis. Everyone—the doctor, the patient, the patient’s loved ones—focuses almost exclusively on treatment: the chemotherapy, surgery and radiation that aim to keep a patient alive for as long as possible. But now some forward-thinking doctors…

CONSIDER THIS A SPOILER, BUT DOG LOVERS should know that Abbie, the clever, insanely captivating canine character in Ti West’s scraggy western In a Valley of Violence, does not make it through alive. West takes care not to manipulate emotions with her death, but he has a bigger issue. When the dog dies at the end of the film’s disreputably enjoyable first act, the movie’s spirit dies too, never to recover. Ethan Hawke brings sober, snaggletoothed grandeur to Paul, a former cavalryman ambling through the desert with Abbie, looking to atone for unnamed sins. When Paul stops in a small town, he runs afoul of local miscreants (led by James Ransone’s Gilly), and trouble follows even after the marshal (John Travolta) lets him off the hook. Hawke’s scenes with Abbie…

‘Hope and optimism are different. Hope has to do not with thinking everything’s going to be O.K., but seeing that it’s not and then you move anyway.’ How did coming from a family of educators shape your perspective on education? I grew up in Baltimore, a town that was just coming out of segregated schools. Education was about progress and community and love. My mother taught really poor kids. Even though we were all, at the time, Negroes, there was a clarity for me about my situation and the situation of the children she taught. In Notes From the Field, you tackle the so-called school-to-prison pipeline, through which many poor kids end up in the criminal-justice system instead of in school. Two hundred and fifty interviews…