Innholdsfortegnelse for 19-Dec-2016 i Time Magazine International Edition

JANUARY “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” DONALD TRUMP, nine days before America’s first state presidential contest FEBRUARY “This would be bad for America.” TIM COOK, Apple CEO, refusing an FBI request to unlock the iPhone of a San Bernardino, Calif., shooter “Ms. Eisenstein, one question.” CLARENCE THOMAS, Supreme Court Justice, breaking a decade-long stretch of not speaking during oral arguments MARCH “What we feared has happened.” CHARLES MICHEL, Belgian Prime Minister, after three coordinated suicide bombings “[This] is a story of government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction and environmental injustice.” FLINT WATER ADVISORY TASK FORCE, in its report on the lead crisis APRIL “Nobody is above the law.” BARACK OBAMA, vowing that political considerations will not affect…

FIRSTS JAN 7 Campbell’s Soup First major U.S. food company to announce it will label the genetically modified ingredients in its products JAN 11 Arlene Foster First woman elected First Minister of Northern Ireland APR 4 California First U.S. state to raise the hourly minimum wage to $15 MAY 2 Leicester City First British soccer club to win a Premier League title by beating 5,000-to-1 odds MAY 2 The Adonia First cruise ship to travel between the U.S. and Cuba in nearly 40 years JUNE 19 Cleveland Cavaliers First Cleveland team to win an NBA title, thanks in large part to Finals MVP LeBron James JULY 26 Solar Impulse 2 First solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world SEPT 14 Baylor University…

Donald Trump vs. Megyn Kelly The President-elect repeatedly slammed the Fox News anchor after she asked him about his misogynistic comments during the first GOP primary debate, at one point suggesting there was “blood coming out of her wherever.” Kelly hit back, then later persuaded Trump to sit for an interview on her first prime-time TV special. WINNER: DRAW Taylor Swift vs. Calvin Harris After reports surfaced that Swift had co-written Harris’ hit song “This Is What You Came For,” the DJ slammed his ex-girlfriend on Twitter, suggesting she had leaked the news in an effort to “bury” him. Swift later covered the song during a concert, and Harris said he felt “blessed” to have worked with her. WINNER: SWIFT Mike Pence vs. Hamilton The Vice President–elect was booed while…

not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes up short again and again . . . who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”…

IT WAS DUSK ON MONDAY, SEPT. 3, 1827, WHEN THE party from South Carolina drew up at the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s plantation near Nashville. One of the travelers, a young woman named Julia Ann Conner, left a diary account of her surprise at finding that Jackson, whom she had expected to be a wild backwoodsman with a dictatorial bent that led his opponents to call him an American Bonaparte, was in fact nothing of the sort. He was, she recorded, a “venerable, dignified, fine-looking man, perfectly easy in manner.” The Hermitage was filled with history. A brace of pistols that the Marquis de Lafayette had given to George Washington were on the mantelpiece, a gift to Jackson from the Washington family. “They are preserved with almost sacred veneration,” as was…

BUSINESS Hacks cost the global economy $400 billion annually. In 2016, several of the biggest data thefts came to light. Here’s how many accounts or records were stolen from each firm: MYSPACE*  427,000,000 MINECRAFT  7,000,000 MOSSACK FONSECA 11,500,000 Terabytes of leaked data from the Panama-based law firm showed how celebrities, billionaires and criminals avoid paying taxes. WEEBLY  43,000,000 YAHOO  500,000,000 The firm revealed that a 2014 hack of user accounts was much larger than previously thought, making it the biggest breach in history. MAIL.RU  25,000,000 BANNER HEALTH  3,700,000 TELEGRAM  15,000,000 CLIXSENSE  6,600,000 FRIENDFINDER NETWORKS  412,000,000 User names, emails and passwords to the network of adult sites were stolen and offered for sale online. GOVERNMENT DEMOCRATS The party was hacked by Russian spies to “influence” the election, the U.S. government concluded.…

MUSHROOMS Scientists used CRISPR to disable genes that lead mushrooms to brown. Because the edits don’t involve nonmushroom DNA, the USDA won’t regulate them. MOSQUITOES Since only females bite, some researchers have rewritten the species’ genome to produce more males; others have edited the DNA so the bugs are resistant to malaria. HIV Once HIV infects a cell, it’s hard to reverse the disease process. But CRISPR makes it possible to splice out HIV from the genomes of cells, rendering them HIV-free again. POTATOES When cooked at high heat, potatoes can produce cancer-causing acrylamide. Scientists are editing out the gene responsible, making them healthier when browned. EMBRYOS There’s still a lot that’s unknown about how human embryos develop. CRISPR can delete genes in studies to see which ones may effect…

SHE CHOSE BLACKNESS EVEN AS MANY AMERICANS REJECTED IT, TAKING SIDES AND NEVER WAVERING HAVING PROBLEMS IS THE HUMAN CONDITION. BUT there is a particular complication that comes with being black in America. “Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. “How does it feel to be a problem?” In 2016, Beyoncé, a pop star, chose to be a problem. This could not have been a light decision. An artist who rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of the teen girl group Destiny’s Child, she has since rocketed to the sort of first-name-only global superstardom that theoretically relieves her of the heaviest burdens of being a problem. Her brand seemed…

1. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, FX This majestic dramatization of O.J. Simpson’s 1995 murder trial made complex arguments about gender, race, class and celebrity with unparalleled confidence. The 10-episode miniseries was fair to its characters: all of them, from Simpson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) to widely mocked defender Johnnie Cochran (Courtney B. Vance) to hated prosecutor Marcia Clark (Sarah Paulson), get their humanity back. But it’s relentless in showing their complicity in a system that, on many levels, failed to deliver justice. It’s hard not to wish that, like the trial itself, this series could have gone on for months more. But the cohesive style throughout—complete with an ending rightly adopting the tones of Greek tragedy—makes a compelling case for the miniseries as…

1. March: Book Three By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell Congressman Lewis concludes his trilogy of graphic memoir with this volume about his civil rights activism. The comic book, which won the National Book Award for young people’s literature (though it’s for adults as well), covers everything from the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing to the emotional Inauguration of Barack Obama, conveying tragedies and setbacks with raw pain and dramatizing the behind-the-scenes work that made the Voting Rights Act possible. The powerful combination of words and images serves as a monument to the men and women who risked their lives to make the country a better place for all Americans. 2. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J.D.…

LYING USED TO BE DANGEROUS. YOUR NOSE MIGHT GROW, your trousers could combust or a wolf might eat you. But this year, lying proved profitable, even for those who got caught. After a deluge of fake news stories, concocted debate facts and ads at the bottom of Internet articles for stories about how I will not believe what 1990s celebrities look like now when they actually look just like I thought they would—a lot of people are saying that 2016 was the Year of the Lie. If lying had been this acceptable in 1789, George Washington would have had the President’s residence constructed entirely of free cherrywood. OXFORD DICTIONARIES CHOSE posT-TruTh as the word of the year. Is that true? Is there even an “Oxford Dictionaries”? Facts…

JANUARY #OSCARSSOWHITE Popularized (again) to protest the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which for the second year in a row nominated only white actors in major categories MARCH #IKWILHELPEN Used by people in Brussels to find and offer housing and car rides after three deadly terrorist attacks APRIL #THISFLAG Started by a Zimbabwean pastor to share frustrations with his country’s leadership; thousands followed suit JUNE #ISTANDWITHHATESPEECH Popularized to slam Facebook, Twitter and other sites for censoring comments flagged as hateful JUNE #NOWOMANEVER Popularized by women all over the world, who used sarcasm and wit to condemn street harassment JUNE #LOVEISLOVE Shared by millions to uplift the LGBT community after the shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub AUGUST #ILLWALKWITHYOU Took off as people offered to walk alongside Muslims to and…

1 Pepe the Frog The fringe comic character, created by artist Matt Furie in 2005, was already a popular Internet meme. But this year Pepe became ubiquitous as the mascot of the alt right movement, which used him in racist, profane social-media posts. In September, the Anti-Defamation League officially declared Pepe a “hate symbol.” 2 Barbie The 57-year-old doll, long identified by her impossibly lithe physique, reinvented herself in 2016, when Mattel introduced several new body types (including curvy and petite) in an effort to boost sales—and to set a more inclusive beauty standard for Barbie’s millions of young female fans. 3 Deadpool Ryan Reynolds’ obscene superhero brought flair, irony and rudeness to the corny, earnest world of comic-book movies, breathing new life into a tired genre. Audiences were clearly…

DONALD TRUMP MET WITH HIS FIRST FOREIGN ally just a few days after winning the U.S. presidency. But it wasn’t one of the world’s leading statesmen who got the invitation to Trump Tower. It was Nigel Farage, a man once considered a footnote in British politics—but who, in 2016, found himself on the snug inside of one of history’s hairpin turns. As the face of the United Kingdom Independence Party, a right-wing group on the fringe of British politics, Farage campaigned for 17 years for the U.K. to leave the European Union, styling himself as a “middle-class boy from Kent” who was not afraid to tell hard truths about the failures of the European project, from out-of-control immigration to the coddling of radical Islamism. On June 23, British balloters finally…

EVEN IF THE 2016 ELECTION WASN’T ULTIMATELY ABOUT GENDER, HER LEGACY SURELY WILL BE WINNERS GET TO WRITE HISTORY. LOSERS, IF THEY are lucky, get a ballad. Hillary Clinton made history for three decades as an advocate, a First Lady, a Senator, and a Secretary of State, but she will now be remembered as much for what she didn’t do as what she did. A female candidate in an election that didn’t hinge on gender after all, she became a symbol in a fight that was about much more than symbolism. She’s the woman who was almost President, she is what might have been and what will yet be. In the autopsy of the doomed Clinton campaign, there is no shortage of fatal causes. Expectations certainly missed their target: the…

THE PRESIDENT HAD EMERGED FROM HIS NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE STRONGER THAN EVER WHEN A ROGUE FACTION OF TURKEY’S MILITARY moved to seize control of the country on the night of July 15, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on vacation in the Mediterranean city of Marmaris. Alerted to the coup attempt, he escaped his hotel just ahead of commandos sent to capture or possibly kill him, clinging to power by a thread. Yet in response he flew not to the capital, Ankara, where warplanes were bombing the parliament building, but to Istanbul, where he had come of age and begun his career in politics, and is still remembered as the mayor who brought running water to the city’s slums. The capital was slightly closer and contained the levers of power that the…

MICROBIOLOGIST EMMANUELLE CHARPENTIER Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were the first scientists to demonstrate the use of CRISPR to edit out pieces of raw DNA. The bacterial-genetics expert is now the director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGIST JENNIFER DOUDNA Doudna and Charpentier are the original CRISPR pioneers, bringing to the world a landmark new technique in gene editing that can be applied to practically any DNA. She is a professor of chemistry and cell biology at University of California, Berkeley. IMMUNOLOGIST CARL JUNE June, working out of a cancer lab at the University of Pennsylvania, is preparing to begin the first-ever CRISPR-based treatment in humans. His trial will attempt to arm human immune cells with the qualities they need to successfully fight…

1. Moonlight A love story, a mother-and-son story, a story about being closed off from the world until you realize there’s no way forward unless you join it. Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight engages on multiple levels, but it’s also a work of astonishing delicacy, a picture that sweeps you up like a wave and drops you, gently, in a place you never expected to be. Three marvelous actors play a single character, Chiron, at various stages in his life—from his youth in Miami to his adulthood as a street-toughened drug dealer—but the picture boasts an off-the-charts number of superb supporting performances too, from the likes of André Holland, Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali and Janelle Monáe. Every small, enveloping detail counts in this rapturous picture. 2. Paterson Adam…

1. Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed It was submerged by the Hamilton tidal wave, but in any other season George C. Wolfe’s splashy, talent-packed re-creation of a landmark black musical of the 1920s (and the story of its creation and troubled aftermath) might have been the toast of Broadway. Part revival, part theater history, part backstage drama, the show was not only a tribute to the African-American contribution to the Broadway musical but also—thanks to an all-star team of performers like Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Billy Porter, as well as Savion Glover and his exuberant tap-dancing choreography—a showcase for the contemporary fruits of that grand tradition. Sadly, when a pregnant McDonald had to leave the cast…

1. Frank Ocean, Blonde Frank Ocean has become pop music’s leading ascetic, a less-is-more devotee who’d rather let his melodies do all the talking. Released after four years of increasingly interminable when-will-it-drop hype, Blonde finds Ocean leaving behind the rich arrangements and narratives of 2012’s Channel Orange in favor of radical simplicity: little percussion, unobtrusive guest stars, lyrics that are both stunning and opaque. “Nights” is a multipart suite—like Ocean’s previous “Pyramids”—given an acid bath and stripped to spare parts. “Solo” and “Godspeed” are breathtaking modern hymns. (They’re queer too, and so deeply felt that they make a song like Channel Orange’s “Forrest Gump” sound cloying.) If that album made Ocean a star, Blonde confirms that he’s a singular one. 2. Solange, A Seat at the…

Album Beyoncé’s chart-topping Lemonade Spacecraft Japan’s lost Hitomi satellite Script J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Bauble Kim Kardashian West’s stolen diamond ring Emoji The long-awaited “face palm” Costume Heidi Klum’s “clones” Dessert Manila Social Club’s $100 Golden Cristal Ube Donut Snack-tastrophe Kellogg Co.’s hot-dog-flavored Pringles Relic The 3.5-mm headphone jack (for iPhones, at least) Barrier A U.S. border wall, as evangelized by Trump Bills India’s banned 500- and 1,000-rupee notes Drug Mylan’s price-hiked EpiPen Vehicle James Corden’s karaoke-friendly Range Rover Shoe Nike’s self-tying HyperAdapt 1.0 Drink Alcosynth, the (allegedly) hangover-free alcohol Accessory Lady Gaga’s pink cowboy hat…

1 Harambe In 2016, everything was contentious. Even a Cincinnati Zoo worker’s decision to shoot a gorilla who had grabbed an intrepid and athletically gifted toddler who scaled a wall and entered its enclosure. When some questioned whether killing Harambe was necessary, others mocked their grief by using hashtags like #DicksOutForHarambe. Weirdly, this was not discussed at any presidential debate. 2 Anthony Weiner Man, this dude loves to sext. Like, given the options of having his dream job, staying married, electing a President from his party and being able to appear in public or sexting, he would still choose sexting. In September, he got caught allegedly sexting with a 15-year-old, effectively making the documentary about his prior sexting scandals—released in May—totally outdated. As is, most likely, this paragraph. 3 Becky…

IT ISN’T EASY TO BESTOW AWARDS FOR POLITICAL COURAGE in an election year—and it’s near impossible after a campaign like the one we’ve just experienced, which set a sad new standard for ugliness and mendacity. But as an eternal optimist, I proceed with my annual chore and will even say something nice about Donald Trump, who ran the most disgraceful presidential campaign that I can remember—but, in the course of which, took several positions athwart the traditions of the Republican Party. He supported gay rights and admitted that the war in Iraq was a mistake. Granted, these were positions that had long been obvious to a majority of Americans, but not to the GOP. He defied evangelicals on the gay-rights issue (and also in his support for Planned Parenthood) and…

ITALY BEPPE GRILLO The leader of the Five Star Movement helped secure defeat of Italy’s constitutional referendum on Dec. 4, winning support from both left and right. ICELAND BIRGITTA JONSDOTTIR The former WikiLeaks activist leads the Pirate Party, which won a mandate to form the country’s ruling coalition on a platform of direct democracy. SPAIN PABLO IGLESIAS The head of Podemos, a far-left party that attracted Spaniards frustrated by the economic crisis, is opposed to austerity measures and big corporations. THE NETHERLANDS GEERT WILDERS He leads the far-right Party for Freedom and is known for his hostility toward Islam. He wants to ban the Quran and was accused of inciting racial hatred. FRANCE MARINE LE PEN The National Front leader aims to distance the party from its neofascist roots, gaining…

THERE ARE THE GOOD, THE BAD AND EVERY MORALLY AMBIGUOUS SHADE IN BETWEEN HACKERS HAVE A BAD NAME EVERYWHERE, IT seems, except in Silicon Valley, founded as it was on the virtues of creatively overcoming technical limits by any means. This tradition produced the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak and Mark Zuckerberg, who, on the eve of Facebook’s initial public offering four years ago, lamented the “unfairly negative connotation” of the word. Hacking, he wrote, “just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done. Like most things, it can be used for good or bad.” This year will be remembered for the bad. Hardly a week passed without news of some kind of digital breach, somewhere in the world, often establishing some kind of…

DR. CARL JUNE’S LAB AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNsylvania looks like any other biology research hub. There are tidy rows of black-topped workbenches flanked by shelves bearing boxes of pipettes and test tubes. There’s ad hoc signage marking the different workstations. And there are postdocs buzzing around, calibrating scales, checking incubators and smearing solutions and samples onto small glass slides. Appearances aside, what June is attempting to do here, on the eighth floor of the glass-encased Smilow Center for Translational Research in Philadelphia, is anything but ordinary. He’s built a career trying to improve the odds for people with intractable end-stage disease, and now, in the university’s brand-new cell-processing lab, he’s preparing to launch his most ambitious study yet: he’s going to try to treat 18 people with stubborn cancers,…

1. Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight It’s cheating, sure, to wedge three actors into one “best” slot. But in Moonlight, the performances of Hibbert, Sanders and Rhodes—all playing one character at different stages of life—are so spiritually intertwined that they practically merge into one soul. Hibbert’s Little is a spring green leaf of self-sufficiency and resilience. Sanders’ Chiron, as narrow and watchful as a whippet, perches cautiously between self-protection and tenderness. And Rhodes’ Black, the bulked-up grownup, hides behind layers of muscle. The slow burn of his smile, when he finally cracks one, hits like the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth—the thing you’d waited for without knowing you were waiting. 2. Ruth Negga, Loving As Mildred Loving—who with her husband Richard fought for…

1. The Underground Railroad By Colson Whitehead In this reimagining of American history, the Underground Railroad is a literal one. After Cora, a slave on a Georgia plantation, is beaten and raped by her master, she flees north, encountering more peril along the way. Although the setting is surreal, the characters are grounded in the harsh reality of African-American history, toiling ever harder for survival even as the promise of freedom looms around the bend. Whitehead’s novel has earned well-deserved praise across the board, from being selected for Oprah’s Book Club to winning the National Book Award for fiction; as America’s first black President leaves office, its narrative power will continue to reverberate in the new year. 2. Another Brooklyn By Jacqueline Woodson Four young women…

1. Beyoncé, ‘Formation’ Where do you start with “Formation”? It’s an unapologetic, specific document of black womanhood for a nation struggling with systemic racism. It’s the perfect epilogue for Lemonade, the “visual album” that mined Beyoncé’s personal life for high drama and reinforced her complete command of her medium. It was the foundation for a world tour and the centerpiece of the most entertaining Super Bowl halftime show since—well, since the last time she graced that stage. So maybe you start here: it’s the boldest, most subversive song she’s ever made, a banger sturdy enough to bear all that cultural weight. 2. The 1975, ‘The Sound’ The 1975 approach rock stardom like a gang of freshman philosophy majors—they’re pretentious and proud. “The Sound” is their best song yet, gleaming pop-disco…