Innholdsfortegnelse for Feb 20, 2017 i Time Magazine International Edition

‘Very helpful for understanding what is going on in this country.’DUANE C. ANDERSON, Sioux Falls, S.D. ‘The new resistance activists will become our future mayors, governors, Prime Ministers, members of Congress.’PAUL FEINER, Greenburgh, N.Y. STEVE BANNON Readers praised the reporting that went into David Von Drehle’s Feb. 13 cover story about the influence of President Donald Trump’s adviser. They were conflicted, however, about the cover, featuring a dramatic portrait by Nadav Kander. The image and wording were “trying to get people to think” of Bannon in a certain way, wrote L. Hoyt Miller of Cortez, Fla. Meanwhile, several professional architects objected to a teaser for the story in the table of contents, which called Bannon “the architect.” One of them, Danielle Fontaine of Greenville, S.C., said the characterization “saddened” her,…

Tornadoes tear through Louisiana At least three tornadoes struck Louisiana amid severe storms, injuring more than 20 people and leaving about 10,000 homes without electricity. Much of the worst damage was seen in eastern New Orleans, in areas that were heavily flooded by Hurricane Katrina. Judge sentences rapist to celibacy An Idaho judge made celibacy until marriage a condition of a 19-year-old’s probation after he pleaded guilty to raping a girl, 14. The fact that Cody Herrera had 34 previous sexual partners was said to be a factor in Judge Randy Stoker’s decision. Jackson estate fights tax bill Michael Jackson’s estate began a legal battle with the Internal Revenue Service that could see it pay back taxes and penalty payments of more than $700 million. The estate says Jackson’s name…

IS ANGELA MERKEL IN TROUBLE? SHE hopes to win a fourth term as Germany’s Chancellor this fall, but recent polls show her trailing Martin Schulz, candidate for the center-left Social Democratic Party. The news made headlines across Europe because Merkel has been the one European leader in recent years who projected coolheaded, mainly popular leadership through the Continent’s various crises. Yet she’s on the back foot for now. That’s hardly surprising given everything that’s gone wrong for her since TIME named her Person of the Year in 2015. Then, Merkel’s politically courageous decision to admit more than 1 million migrants, many of them from the Middle East, into Germany over the course of two years won her plaudits across the globe. In Germany, however, the policy has been bitterly divisive—and…

WITH THE STROKE OF A PEN, PRESIdent Trump has put the future of a controversial financial-planning rule in doubt. On Feb. 3, he signed an executive memo instructing the Department of Labor to review the fiduciary rule, which requires financial advisers to put their clients’ interests ahead of their own when giving retirement investment advice. If the department finds that the rule has hindered the public’s access to retirement-planning information, officials would need to publish a new rule to either rescind or revise it. The review is a victory for opponents of the rule, enacted by the Obama Administration in 2015. “This has been a big moment for Americans,” said Missouri Republican Representative Ann Wagner. She says the rule limits low- and middle-income Americans’ access to retirement advice and puts…

LET’S START WITH THE NUMBERS: FIVE. TEN. SIX HUNDRED. That’s five nuclear tests in the past decade; enough plutonium to make 10 nuclear warheads; and the ability to launch ballistic missiles at least 600 miles, and perhaps far longer. That’s the arsenal at the disposal of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Emphasis on un—untested, unlearned and unpredictable. He is also, at 32, relatively young, morbidly obese, possibly addicted to opioids and possessed of a really bad haircut. But he is not irrational, a mistake some observers make. He follows priorities learned from his father and grandfather—ruthlessly maintain internal power, cling to weapons of mass destruction and cast South Korea and the U.S. as villains. To say that he is prone to hyperbole does a disservice to the word. In addition…

KEHLANI PARRISH DOESN’T mince words. The Oakland, Calif.-based singer spends most of her debut LP, SweetSexySavage, laying down romantic ground rules in frank, flirty terms. Take the funky single “Distraction,” on which she eschews love and commitment in favor of a lower-stakes proposition: “I need you to not want to be mine/ Are you down to be a distraction?” This candor makes SweetSexySavage a welcome addition to R&B, a genre defined this decade by libidinous, manipulative bad boys like the Weeknd. Kehlani is a scholar, the kind of songwriter who worships at the altar of Swedish hitmaker Max Martin and chases genre-bending hooks, and SweetSexySavage owes plenty to the recent past—even its title is a tribute to TLC’s 1994 smash Crazy-SexyCool. But the album strikes a balance between the nostalgic…

‘I have no Russian clients. I have no Russian contacts. I have no Russian money. I have no Russian influences. I do like Russian vodka.’ What has struck you most about Trump’s first days in office? He has already made historic moves to reverse the policies of his predecessor. He may be the first person in history to be overruled by a federal judge only days after he took office. He has proven that he’s going to be an activist. He is not going to stop using the bully pulpit of his Twitter feed. And he is not going to be isolated by his handlers. Has he made any mistakes in your view? It’s his nature. His nature is not going to change. It’s not surprising to me that he’s…

‘THEY CAN SHUT ME UP, BUT THEY CAN’T CHANGE THE TRUTH.’ ELIZABETH WARREN, U.S. Senator, criticizing her Republican colleagues for using a Senate rule to prevent her from speaking during a debate about Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions ‘If there were 30 slippers, then we knew that 15 people had been executed.’ FORMER SYRIAN PRISONER, describing the “execution room” at Saydnaya prison, where up to 13,000 people were secretly hanged by President Bashar Assad’s regime over the past five years, according to a new report from Amnesty International GOOD WEEK Apple The tech company was set to release its much anticipated Beats X wireless earbuds BAD WEEK Oranges The U.S. citrus industry is struggling after its trees were struck by an incurable disease 200,000,000 Estimated number of years since the…

Although Silicon Valley has criticized many of the new President’s policies, especially the travel ban, the rest of the business world seems cautiously optimistic. Here, a sampling of statements from recent earnings calls. —Ryan Teague Beckwith ‘I was impressed. I was meeting with a CEO. It was obvious.’ RANDALL L. STEPHENSON, CEO of AT&T, after meeting with the President ‘A lot of us have built our business on the freer flow of cross-border trade, data and people. If that were to change over time, that would be a problem.’ AJAY BANGA, CEO of MasterCard ‘I’ve been very pleased with the agenda that the Trump Administration has.’ JOHN WATSON, CEO of Chevron ‘We never realized the full benefit from ACA that we expected, so we wouldn’t expect any significant near-term impact…

THERAPY A separate study published on Feb. 6 found that cognitive behavioral therapy helped reduce symptoms of patients with social phobia. The therapy increased brain activity in areas that regulate emotions. MONEY In a 2016 study, neuroscientists used reward therapy to help the human brain overcome phobias, by giving subjects money every time brain activity linked to a particular fear was detected. PILLS Arachnophobes given beta blockers—a heart medication also used to treat anxiety—after being exposed to spiders were able to overcome their fear better than control groups, according to a 2015 study.…

IN EARLY 1952, THE United Kingdom was still reeling from World War II and the once mighty British Empire was inching toward irrelevance, having recently lost India, the jewel in its crown. Elizabeth Windsor, then 25, was mourning the death of her father George VI while preparing to rule a country in flux and an empire in decline. Now 90, Queen Elizabeth II on Feb. 6 became the first British monarch to reach her Sapphire Jubilee. Yet the Queen did nothing in public to mark the occasion. Instead, she spent the anniversary of her transition from Princess to Queen at Sandringham, the country estate where her beloved “Papa” died. It was a fitting way to mark a reign steeped in the quiet act of duty. The world has changed since…

THE INTERNET IS SUPPOSEDLY A HIVE OF virality. When we see a Facebook post with 10,000 shares or a YouTube video with 5 million views, we assume this popularity is driven by zillions of intimate shares, like infected individuals passing along the flu. Do popular ideas and products really go “viral”? For a long time, nobody could be sure. It was hard to precisely track word-of-mouth buzz. But online, scientists can actually follow the journey of a piece of information as it pings around the Internet. In 2012, researchers from Yahoo studied the spread of messages on Twitter. Their conclusion: nothing really ever goes viral. More than 90% of the messages didn’t diffuse at all. The vast majority of the news that people see on Twitter—around 95%—comes directly from its…

Is the show trying to say something new about male friendship? We were just trying to show our friendship. In the show, if somebody tries to make a gay-panic joke, we’re like, “That’s real funny. Grow up!” Very purposefully, that’s not where the humor lies. What’s funny is these guys will make friendship bracelets for each other. As adults. How did you want to depict Detroit, where you both grew up? It was very important that we show a different side. The one you’re used to seeing is a place you go for a zombie apocalypse. I’m not saying Detroit isn’t a place where negative things exist. That would be irresponsible. But why doesn’t Detroit deserve to have a fun comedy? Why does it always have to be a bleak…

IN John Wick: chapter 2, Keanu Reeves’ John Wick—whom we first met as the ruthless yet tender avenger in the surprise 2014 hit that bears his name—does more walking than driving. In the movie’s dazzling opening sequence, he does take a car for a spin (and a crash and a bang). But Wick, the quintessential hit man longing for retirement, mostly gets around the old-fashioned way, as if willing himself to slow down. Fat chance. Forced to take one last job, Wick treks to a drowsy, decadent catacomb nightclub in Rome, where he tangles with a sultry mob princess (Claudia Gerini) and her butt-kicking bodyguard (played, wonderfully, by Common). The film has style to burn, and oh! what violence—terrible, bone-crunching, glorious violence, beautifully orchestrated by director and ex–stunt man Chad…

HOW DO YOU GET AN ARTIST LIKE TAYLOR Swift to write and record a song just for your movie? As the producers of Fifty Shades Darker learned, you start the conversation very early. “We bring artists in at the ground level,” says Tom Mackay, head of West Coast A&R for Republic Records, which will release the film’s soundtrack Feb. 10. “We show them scenes and talk about a musical direction. Now they’re riding shotgun with the filmmaker and studio throughout the whole process.” For musical artists and filmmakers, it can be a mutually beneficial arrangement. In an era of declining album sales, soundtracks for blockbusters like Twilight, The Hunger Games and now Shades have become a venue for established stars eager to stay relevant between album cycles, and for emerging…

‘The bomb concealed within Six Four ... had the potential to bring down not only the department but also the entire Prefectural HQ.’ HIDEO YOKOYAMA, Six Four TWO MYSTERIES ARE AT THE HEART of Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four: the 14-year-old cold case of a young girl’s murder and the recent disappearance of protagonist Yoshinobu Mikami’s teenage daughter. Yet most of the suspense in this thriller has to do with bureaucratic maneuvering. Mikami, 46, has spent most of his career in criminal investigations at a prefectural police headquarters, where he earned a reputation as a tough detective. But when the novel opens, he’s become press director, an administrative job he did not seek and one he finds exasperating. Between corralling unruly journalists and dealing with dissembling managers—“It’s surely easier to be…

‘And ... I’ll never come back.’—KRISTEN STEWART, joking that she’ll be barred from hosting Saturday Night Live again, after accidentally swearing during her opening monologue Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul was given a chance to redeem himself on The Price Is Right, 17 years after overbidding on a sports car in the Showcase. The Gap is relaunching its classic 1990s collection, featuring original model Naomi Campbell in the new ad campaign. Lady Gaga’s epic Super Bowl halftime show featured aerial acrobatics, drones—and a keytar. Leonardo DiCaprio dined on a meal prepared by Internet sensation Salt Bae, a Turkish chef famous for the flair with which he seasons meat. At New York Fashion Week, Japanese brand N.Hoolywood debuted a clothing line inspired by homelessness. A new dating app called Hater…

THE LEADER OF AL-QAEDA’S BRANCH in Yemen called for attacks on the U.S. after a Jan. 29 Special Forces raid in which several civilians were killed, as well as a U.S. Navy SEAL. In an audio message, Qassim al-Rimi, leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), scorned Donald Trump as the “new fool of the White House.” Here, how a powerful enemy has regrouped: THRIVING IN CHAOS AQAP has benefited from the security vacuum created by Yemen’s ongoing civil war. As military forces backed by a Saudi Arabia–led coalition battle the Houthi rebels who seized much of the country in 2014 and 2015, state institutions have collapsed. More than 10,000 people have died, and the country is on the brink of famine. SCALING UP AQAP also flourished as the…

DIED Actor Richard Hatch, 71, Battlestar Galactica’s Captain Apollo. Hatch also appeared in the TV series’ reboot from 2004 to 2009. ▷ Hans Rosling, 68, Swedish physician and statistician known for his public teachings on global development. ▷ Concert pianist Walter Hautzig, 95. Hautzig’s musical talent paved his path out of Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, when he was awarded a fellowship from the Jerusalem Conservatory. COMPLETED The world’s longest regularly scheduled airline flight, by Qatar Airways. The airline introduced the 17-hour, 9,032-mile flight from Auckland to Doha, Quatar, on Feb. 6. RECEIVED By U.S. colleges, a record $41 billion in donations, in fiscal year 2016. BOUGHT $17 billion in foreign alcoholic beverages in the U.S. in the first 11 months of 2016, a 6% increase that will likely be the…

FOR YEARS, MOST MILLENNIALS HAVE avoided running for public office. But contrary to popular stereotypes, it was not because the generation born between 1982 and 2002 didn’t care about changing the world; it was because they cared too much—or so argues Shauna L. Shames, a Rutgers political-science professor who surveyed dozens of students at places like the Kennedy School of Government for her new book, Out of the Running. Despite the election of President Obama, who drew heavy millennial support, most young people saw politics as all partisan infighting, no progress. As a result, they opted for careers in NGOs, community organizing or appointed office, where they felt they could get more done. But there are signs the tides are turning. Shames cites the rise of Bernie Sanders as proof…

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week’s most talked-about studies: 1 CAMPING MAY HELP YOU SLEEP BETTER A small study published in Current Biology found that people’s internal clocks shifted earlier to align with daylight after just a weekend of camping, which could be beneficial, since having delayed or inconsistent sleep cycles can lead to health problems. 2 FAST-FOOD WRAPPERS COULD BE TOXIC A report in Environmental Science & Technology Letters found that about half of roughly 400 wrappers from 27 fast-food chains tested contained fluorine, a marker for the grease-resistant PFAS chemicals. Previous studies have linked PFAS exposure to thyroid issues, fertility problems, increased risk of cancer, developmental delays and other health issues. 3 SPACE TRAVEL MAY CHANGE GENETIC MAKEUP Preliminary results from the NASA study…

Put Chuck Schumer and Donald Trump in a room together and you can’t miss the connection. They are the leaders of rival parties, sharp opponents on Twitter and in the press, but they live by the same words, as big and bold as the city that made them. “Beautiful!” they will say, though at different times and about different things. “Wonderful!” “Horrible!” “So, so great!” It is the vernacular of outer-borough kids who, in different ways, scraped their way to the big time. They are two local grandees who boast, yarn, insult and rib each other like they are still on the streets of New York City. It will take a while—like maybe never—for Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan or other GOP pooh-bahs to build up a store of Trump war…

BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s story of nuns on the edge of madness, Jack Cardiff’s fervid, dreamy lighting and emphatic camera angles evoke creeping hysteria. CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972) Sven Nykvist’s crimson-red color scheme is one of the distinguishing features of Ingmar Bergman’s intense family drama, but in places it is contrasted with a dreamy naturalism. BARRY LYNDON (1975) Stanley Kubrick and John Alcott used a special Zeiss camera lens, originally developed for NASA, to shoot the film’s warm, luminous candlelight scenes. THE LAST EMPEROR (1987) Bernardo Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro tell the story of Emperor Pu Yi through color: his childhood, for example, is a study in reds, oranges and yellows, hues warmed by memory. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) Robert Elswit’s stark, vital rendering…

THE SIXTH AND LAST SEASON OF HBO’S Girls PREMIERES ON FEB. 12. THOUGH ITS audience was relatively small over the years, the show had an outsize impact on popular culture as the millennial generation’s not-always-flattering TV avatar. Critics now reflexively compare shows written by and starring a young woman to Girls. Networks, based on the show’s hype, greenlighted a raft of programs examining feminism, youthful angst and awkward nudity. The show’s star and creator, Lena Dunham, became a controversial figure too, thanks to her political campaigns, celebrity friendships and newsletter featuring A-list writers. Here’s how far her influence reached:…

BOOKS In The Airbnb Story (Feb. 13), Fortune editor Leigh Gallagher profiles the company’s leaders to tell the story of the triumphs—and controversies—the peer-to-peer booking site has weathered as it evolved into a dominant travel company. TELEVISION British-born comedian John Oliver returns to dig into the week’s most baffling news on HBO’s Last Week Tonight (Feb. 12). Expect impassioned takedowns of President Donald Trump. PODCASTS Feminist writers Jill Gutowitz and Carmen Rios discuss topics like the Supreme Court and climate change on their new podcast for and by young women with an activist bent, The Bossy Show. MUSIC Tender-voiced Jesca Hoop shifts from dark to light themes on her solo alternative album Memories Are Now (Feb. 10), which features nine songs.…

LUCIDITY BY DAVID CARNOY A California cold case and a recent murder in New York both connect to a lucid-dreaming center. QUICKSAND BY MALIN PERSSON GIOLITO The latest Swedish crime sensation involves a mass shooting at a prep school. ILL WILL BY DAN CHAON A psychologist with a murderous brother becomes obsessed with a string of drowning deaths. THE FREEDOM BROKER BY K.J. HOWE An expert kidnapping negotiator works to free a special client: her father.…

WHEN I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO #DRESSLIKEAWOMAN, I call my friend Brenda, who is a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She is more than stylish—she’s a wardrobe artist. Her advice is to skip the usual black when you want to feel confident. “Wear white,” she says. “It’s an ‘I dare you’ color. It’s the color of courage.” This might be particularly true for those of us who spend half the day carrying around a cup of coffee, but she does have a point in general. After decades in which women tried to blend into a room of dark suits, a woman dressed all in white is making a statement. Consider Hillary Clinton. You can trace her rise and fall in white pantsuits. She…