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THERE ARE POLITICAL SCANDALS, THERE are odd political scandals, and then there’s whatever is happening in South Korea. The controversy centers on the murky relationship between President Park Geun-hye and an old friend named Choi Soon-sil. Park is accused of providing Choi with access to classified information. Choi is accused of using her personal connection to Park to embezzle large amounts of money. Park has publicly apologized for sharing sensitive documents with Choi, who has so far denied wrongdoing. But it’s the family history behind the controversy that makes this story so strange. President Park is the daughter of Park Chunghee, the military strongman who essentially created modern South Korea in the 1960s and ’70s. During his presidency, Choi Tae-min, a controversial cult leader, became a spiritual adviser to the…

‘Frankly, I just want to live in a world where plus-size women are not afraid of their own bodies.’ LIKE MOST EXERCISE, YOGA LOOKS BETTER ONLINE THAN in real life. On Instagram, for example, yoga is a patchwork of pink sunrises, green smoothies and thin, bendy, barely-clad beings standing beatifically on their heads. Not pictured: the sweaty, awkward struggle to get into a pose. Missing, too, are other types of bodies that love yoga. Thirty-six million people practice yoga in the U.S., and Jessamyn Stanley knows they cannot all be size 2. For years, the 29-year-old big-bodied woman has posted photos of herself doing challenging yoga poses paired with an equally challenging message: larger women can practice yoga while, at the same time, loving their bodies. Like her skinnier yoga…

The Senate Democrats need a net gain of four seats to win a Senate majority if Hillary Clinton becomes President. If Donald Trump prevails, they need five. Polls show they are a near lock to pick up one seat in Illinois and favored to win another in Wisconsin. Senate control will hinge on these seven contests: Currently the Senate has ... 34 of the 100 seats are up for election 10 are held by Democrats, and 24 are held by Republicans *BOTH INDEPENDENTS CAUCUS WITH DEMOCRATS PENNSYLVANIA Toomey is trying to tiptoe around a big issue in battleground Pennsylvania: he refuses to say whether he supports Trump. The first-term fiscal conservative has played up his pursuit of a bipartisan compromise on gun safety as he takes on McGinty, a former…

WITH THREE MINOR HITS IN A 50-YEAR CAREER, Iggy Pop was never really a rock star, yet he has become one of rock’s most beloved figures. It’s not just because he’s an arresting front man, having invented the stage dive and the dubious tactic of rolling in broken glass. Nor is it just because he and the Stooges are credited with distilling hard rock into a primitive sound that presaged the punk aesthetic by nearly a decade, or because Iggy (born James Osterberg) is the lone survivor of rock’s coolest three-way bromance, with David Bowie and Lou Reed. It’s mostly because he’s hilarious, reliably retelling maniacal stories with raspy, dry mirth. So when Jim Jarmusch, the indie director whose career was catalyzed by years in the milieu of New York…

Like many of his novels, Spanish author Javier Marías’ new book, Thus Bad Begins, isn’t exactly a mystery, though it is mysterious. Here, the 65-year-old perennial Nobel favorite tells the story of Juan de Vere, a young man working for a film director, Eduardo Muriel. The older man assigns his apprentice the task of finding out a secret about a longtime friend. Meanwhile, de Vere is intrigued by the cold relationship between Muriel and his depressed wife Beatriz—at some point in their past, she did something unforgivable, also a secret, and de Vere wants to find out what. Marías (The Infatuations, A Heart So White) makes hypnotic use of discursive prose, punctuating almost every action and piece of dialogue with a long, philosophical interrogation that somehow never detracts from the…

The lipstick you love contains palm oil. Don’t love lipstick? How about crisps? Ice cream? Soap? About half the products in the supermarket contain this versatile oil. Soon it may even power your car. But palm oil often comes at the expense of tropical forests and the wildlife that lives in them. Rather than asking consumers to ditch these useful products, WWF is working to make them more environmentally friendly. Manufacturers, retailers and consumers should insist on certified sustainable palm oil. Help us look after the world where you live at panda.org…

Russian warships off Syria’s coast Eight Russian warships approached the eastern Mediterranean on Nov. 2, raising fears that Russia and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime are planning a large-scale, final assault on rebel-held parts of Aleppo. Pipeline blast sends gas prices soaring Gas prices briefly spiked in the U.S. after a pipeline that supplies much of the Southeast with gasoline exploded on Oct. 31. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley declared a state of emergency amid fears of widespread gas shortages. Male birth control highly effective Hormonal birth control injections for men are 96% effective in preventing pregnancy, according to a new study. But research was cut short after test subjects complained of muscle pain, mood disorders and acne. ‘Green-eyed girl’ held in Pakistan An Afghan refugee whose iconic portrait was on…

Iowa cops shot dead in ‘ambush’ Two Iowa police officers were fatally shot as they sat in their patrol cars on Nov. 2 in what authorities described as unprovoked, “ambush-style attacks.” A 46-year-old local man, Scott Michael Greene, was taken into custody. Grisly death sparks Morocco protests Antigovernment protests erupted in Morocco after a fish vendor was fatally crushed by a garbage-truck compactor while trying to retrieve his merchandise, which had been thrown away by police. Authorities in Morocco, where organized dissent is rare, arrested 11 people in connection with the incident. CNN axes strategist over debate leak Democratic leader Donna Brazile left her post as an analyst at CNN after hacked emails showed she had given Hillary Clinton’s campaign a heads-up that there would be a question about the…

DECLARED By Swedish authorities, the death of World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with helping thousands of Hungarian Jews flee Nazi-controlled Germany during the Holocaust. Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, mysteriously vanished 71 years ago. Authorities officially pronounced him dead on Oct. 26 after receiving a request from his family to do so. SETTLED A lawsuit between McDonald’s and franchise workers, for the first time ever. McDonald’s has agreed to pay $3.75 million to settle a 2014 lawsuit filed in federal court that alleges hundreds of McDonald’s franchise employees in California were duped out of wages and overtime pay. GROWN The U.S. economy, by the fastest rate in two years. The 2.9% rate of growth in the third quarter of 2016 could make it more likely that the…

IF SILICON VALLEY HAD ITS WAY, ALL humans would have abandoned analog products by now. We’d be consuming music from the cloud (instead of on tapes or discs), reading stories online (instead of in books) and sketching notes and designs on battery-powered devices (instead of in notepads). And indeed, many of us do. And yet, apparently, we’ve also started an analog revolution. Sales of objects like vinyl records, paper notebooks and even board games have consistently grown over the past decade, as has their cultural relevance. Meanwhile, big brands in e-commerce, including Warby Parker and Amazon, are rushing to open the very brick-and-mortar stores they promised to supplant. What’s driving this switch? Many assume it’s nostalgia, led by the wistful romance of aging Luddites. But in fact, many of analog’s…

“IT IS THE JOB OF EDITORIAL WRITERS,” THE LATE, GREAT Murray Kempton once observed, “to come down from the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.” I’ve been thinking about that as publication after publication has come forward to endorse Hillary Clinton for President—including some that have never made an endorsement before and others that have never endorsed a Democrat. Well, sure: Donald Trump is unendorsable. There hasn’t been a major-party candidate less fit for the presidency in American history. I’ve never actually endorsed a candidate. It’s not my job. Endorsements are official. They are the prerogative of ownership. But I want to be clear in this crucial year: I will be voting for Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8. NOT HAPPILY, even though I’ve known her for…

BIG-NAME BOOK RELEASES ARE typically greeted with fanfare and enthusiasm. Midnight Harry Potter release parties? Sure. International book tours that keep authors on the road for months? Yep. The dual publication of Elena Ferrante’s Frantumaglia, her new collected writings, and The Beach at Night, her edgy children’s book, is remarkable not only for volume of events but for star power: 64 independent bookstores will host coordinated events across the U.S. Some will feature American authors, like Garth Risk Hallberg (in Jersey City, N.J.) and Bethanne Patrick (in Washington, D.C.). Some will feature celebrities, like John Turturro (in Brooklyn). Some will have panels; some will have group discussions; some, like Brazos Bookstore in Houston, will have prosecco. But none will have the author. The Italian novelist has been known only by…

IN MOST ANIMATED DISNEY MOVIES, THERE IS A SONG THAT introduces viewers to the world the characters inhabit. In Beauty and the Beast, “Belle” tells of a poor provincial town with smelly fish and stale baguettes. In The Little Mermaid, “Under the Sea” describes an aquatic haven where crustaceans and carp are “devotin’ full time to floatin.” True to form, Moana, Disney’s new animated tale, in theaters Nov. 23, features a scene-setting tune, but somehow the stakes feel higher. “Know Who You Are” takes the audience on a tour of Motunui, a fictional South Pacific island drawn from several ancient Polynesian cultures. The villagers sing of their facility in basket weaving and fishing, offer warnings not to trip on taro roots and count their abundant uses for a coconut. But…

LOVE IT Fifteen days after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bob Dylan finally broke his silence: ‘It’s hard to believe ... amazing, incredible. Who ever dreams about something like that?’ Lady Gaga’s latest album, Joanne, debuted atop the Billboard 200, making her the first and only woman to log four No. 1 albums in the 2010s. A gem dealer in India has pledged to give away 1,260 cars and 400 homes to his staff as a Diwali holiday bonus. New York City’s Museum of Modern Art is adding all 176 original emojis to its permanent collection. They were released in 1999 by Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo. A Burger King in New York City decided to get in the Halloween spirit by dressing itself up as a “ghost” of McDonald’s.…

How did we get to a point where the white working class feels so disconnected from the rest of the country? If you’re white working class, it’s very easy to caricature the elites, and if you’re elite, it’s very easy to caricature the white working class. The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pretty monolithic views of different classes of people, and because of that, we’ve lost a certain amount of cultural cohesion. How has this election laid bare some of these fractures? The white working class is really frustrated with Republican elites, not just Democratic elites. So one of [Donald] Trump’s real sources of strength is not just that he took the fight to the elites in an abstract way, but…

‘THE LAST WORD IS CLEAR.’ POPE FRANCIS, reiterating on Nov. 1 that women will never become priests (the Pontiff has held this position for years but created a commission in August to discuss whether women would serve as deacons, leading to speculation); “Women can do many other things better than men,” Francis added, citing the Virgin Mary ‘There are no towns left. Everything came down.’ ALEANDRO PETRUCCI, mayor of Arquata del Tronto, one of the towns in central Italy hit by a 6.6-magnitude earthquake on Oct. 30; it destroyed architecture and art dating back to the 14th century and left an estimated 15,000 homeless in an area still reeling from an August quake that killed nearly 300 GOOD WEEK Pirates Iceland’s antiestablishment Pirate Party made big gains in its election…

THERESA MAY British model Teresa May had to clarify that she was not the country’s new Prime Minister after getting congratulatory messages earlier this year. “Shows how ignorant” people are, she tweeted. TIM KAINE Tim Kane, who once ran for Canadian office, has received messages meant for the U.S. vice-presidential contender. “Remember ... there is no I in Kane,” he replied. PETER DUTTON After the Australian Immigration Minister warned of “illiterate refugees” taking jobs, a New Yorker who shares his name got bombarded with virtual hate. “I’m still not Australian ...,” he tweeted.…

MODERN INVENTION IS OFTEN conveyed as a march toward progress, led by diligent workers trying to make the world a better place. But in his new book, Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, Steven Johnson argues that many of society’s greatest advancements started as jokes and games. Consider the mechanical flutes and peacock-shaped soap dispensers that scholars say were popular in the Middle Ages; the gadgets were trivial, but the mechanical processes invented to power them would later be used to make robots, steam engines and more. Similarly, the technology behind automatons like dancing dolls, popular around the turn of the 19th century, inspired Charles Babbage to invent the Analytical Engine, widely considered to be the first programmable computer. Looking for a glimpse of the future today? More often…

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week’s most talked-about studies: 1 EPIDURALS MAY REDUCE RISK OF POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION A new study presented at the American Society for Anesthesiologists’ annual meeting found that the more pain relief a woman experienced during birth, the more likely she was to rank lower on the depression scale six weeks postpartum. 2 AMERICANS ARE EATING MORE SEAFOOD They ate an average of 15.5 lb. of seafood in 2015, nearly 1 lb. more than in 2014, according to a new government report. The amount is still shy of the 8 oz. or more per week—which amounts to 26 lb. per year—that the government recommends. 3 DENTAL CHECKUPS COULD HELP PREVENT PNEUMONIA People who never go to the dentist had an 86% greater risk…

DEATH PENALTY Three states have capital punishment on the ballot. In Oklahoma, which temporarily halted executions in 2015 after a series of botched lethal injections, a measure would enshrine the penalty in the state constitution and establish that it does not qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. Nebraska voters will have the chance to uphold or overturn the state legislature’s repeal of the death penalty. And California voters will weigh in on two competing measures: one to speed up the execution process by limiting inmates’ appeals and another to get rid of the practice entirely. MINIMUM WAGE With the federal hourly wage floor stuck at $7.25, where it’s been since 2009, four states are putting increases on the ballot. Measures in Arizona, Colorado and Maine would incrementally raise the minimum…

BOOKS In her first book, Scrappy Little Nobody (Nov. 15), Oscar-nominated actor Anna Kendrick writes essays about her life in the witty, self-deprecating voice that’s made her a must-follow on Twitter. MUSIC Sting returns to a rock-centric sound on his contemplative 12th solo album, 57th and 9th (Nov. 11), which the former Police front man recorded at that New York City intersection. TELEVISION For the fifth season of truTV’s Billy on the Street (Nov. 15), Billy Eichner returns to quiz unsuspecting New Yorkers on pop-culture trivia, alongside guest stars like Aziz Ansari and Jon Hamm. MOVIES In the Netflix documentary The Ivory Game (Nov. 4), executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio explores the ivory-tusk trade in China and Africa.…

WHEN I MOVED TO LOS ANGELES 11 YEARS AGO, I KNEW I’D have certain responsibilities: hiking, smiling, pretending medical advice doesn’t need to come from a doctor. I did not know, however, that in order to be able to pull the infinite levers in the voting booth, I’d have to build my forearm muscles. This, I believe, is why L.A. created the porn industry. My mailbox was hard to open the day this year’s California voter’s guide arrived. It is a record 224 pages, not including my separate 96-page L.A. guide. In California, we elect our insurance commissioner, superintendent of public construction and the board of equalization, which is a board that is in charge of equalizing things. We are voting on whether porn actors have to use condoms, for…