Innholdsfortegnelse for January 21, 2019 i Time Magazine International Edition

JUST AS STUDENTS RETURNED TO SCHOOL from their winter vacations, teachers in Los Angeles were ready to leave. Working in the second largest school district in the U.S., they were prepared to go on strike after failed negotiations in their quest for smaller class sizes, higher pay and increased funding for school counselors and nurses. The Los Angeles dispute can be seen as a sign that the issues behind last year’s wave of walkouts—education cuts and low teacher pay, among them—aren’t resolved. But the story of teacher strikes in the U.S. goes back much further than that. Some historians have seen recent events as a resurgence of teacher activism that has roots in the 1960s and ’70s. In the first half of the 20th century, the American Federation of Teachers…

AS THE CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF SOUTHWEST AIRLINES, HERB Kelleher—who died at 87 on Jan. 3—was my competitor, but he was also a nice guy. Since neither of us could see any point in being unpleasant, we developed a friendship during several years of growth for both Southwest and American Airlines. In fact, we used to do gags back and forth. At one point Herb painted one of his airplanes like a whale and called it Shamu. I called him up and said, ‘What are you gonna serve on this plane, whale-sh-t mousse?’ A couple of days later, the phone rang in my office and the receptionist told me that somebody from Southwest came by and left me something. It was a pie pan of chocolate pudding with a little…

THE GEOPOLITICAL environment is the most dangerous it’s been in decades, and yet the global economy is mostly doing well. What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing . . . yet. While the most serious risks, such as cyberwar with Russia or military confrontation with Iran, are more plausible than they’ve been, none are particularly likely to play out in 2019. But we are heading for serious longer-term trouble down the road. That’s the first of my Eurasia Group’s top 10 risks this year: 1. BAD SEEDS TAKE ROOT 2019 is the year “bad seeds” are being planted that will eventually threaten the entire global order. Examples? The transatlantic alliance, NATO, the European Union, the G-20, the World Trade Organization, U.S.-China, Russia and the West . . . none of these…

ON A WET DECEMBER MORNING IN A SOUTH FLORIDA weight room, the 21-year-old who stunned Serena Williams at the U.S. Open is hard at work preparing to show that the biggest moment of her life was more than a fluke. As an arrow flashes on an iPad in front of her, Naomi Osaka darts in the direction it signals, pauses, then pivots when it sends her the other way, without missing a step. Her coach, Sascha Bajin, joins the drill but leaps the wrong way and almost lands on Osaka’s ankle. Bajin feigns horror, prompting fellow pro tour player Monica Puig to suggest Osaka give her coach a hug. “She gives hugs like no other,” Bajin says, his sarcasm thicker than midsummer heat. “I only hug people I like,” Osaka…

AFTER SIX YEARS OF MARWAND’S LIVing in America, his homecoming to Afghanistan is not off to a great start. Nearly as soon as the 12-year-old boy returns with his family to their relatives’ compound in the rural province of Logar, the venerable yet vicious guard dog, Budabash, bites off the tip of Marwand’s index finger. “For the next few weeks,” Marwand tells us, “I called a jihad against Budabash. Until, of course, about 31 days later, when he got free.” With his young relatives Gul, Zia and Dawood in tow, Marwand sets off into the countryside to try to recover the dog before nightfall. The opening of Jamil Jan Kochai’s debut novel 99 Nights in Logar may feel like the beginning of a comfortably familiar story: a ragtag group of…

You perform to a room of mostly people of Asian descent in your stand-up special, You Complete Me, Ho. How did that affect the mood? The special actively captures the electricity in the room. To have a predominantly Asian crowd that night, that doesn’t always happen. There was a loose feel to it. I never have a set order, but I knew where to add certain bits or improvise. What I love about stand-up is that you can just roll with it like jazz and see where it takes you. The special has a lot of sincere moments, especially about your wife Tran Ho’s facing breast cancer. Is stand-up in a place where there’s room to get serious? Yes. I wanted to do something very different…

$41.7 billion Global movie box office sales in 2018, an all-time high ‘HE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A HERMIT. I VERY RARELY SAW HIM OUTSIDE OF HIS SHELL.’ DAVID SISCHO, a wildlife biologist with the Hawaii department of land and natural resources, describing George, a Hawaiian land snail that died on New Year’s Day in a lab in Kailua, Oahu, at age 14; George was the last of his species 612 Weight, in pounds, of a bluefin tuna that went for a record $3.1 million at a fish-market auction in Tokyo on Jan. 5 ‘When activists came marching and banging on the doors, I wanted to be on the other side to let them in.’ KAMALA HARRIS, U.S. Senator (D., Calif.), describing why she became a prosecutor in her…

Bolton adds condition to Syria plan U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Jan. 6 that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, announced abruptly by President Trump in December, is conditional on Turkey’s pledging not to attack Washington’s Kurdish allies there. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Bolton’s remarks a “serious mistake.” Saudi woman appeals for asylum Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, an 18-year-old Saudi woman who flew to Thailand to escape her family in Kuwait, was granted refugee status by the U.N. on Jan. 9. Qunun said she’d renounced Islam—a crime punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. Her asylum case has been referred to Australia. U.S. carbon emissions spiked in 2018 Carbon emissions in the U.S. rose by 3.4% last year, the biggest increase in eight years, according to…

The annual CES trade show in Las Vegas showcases thousands of products, some more useful than others. These three stood out to TIME tech columnist Patrick Lucas Austin: A ROLL-UP TV A huge TV is great for movie night but can be an eyesore the rest of the time. LG’s 65-in. Signature OLED TV R fixes that with an innovative trick: the 3-mm-thick screen rolls into the TV’s base when not in use. SMART WEIGHTS Almost everyone cheats a little when working out. Exercisers can keep themselves honest (and get better results) with JAXJOX’s KettlebellConnect, a kettlebell with motion sensors to track lifts and lunges. A FUTURE TOILET Kohler’s Numi 2.0 Intelligent Toilet packs everything expected of a high-end toilet, like a heated seat, and adds speakers and Amazon Alexa—so…

WHEN WE TALK ABOUT survivors of sexual violence, there’s a picture people tend to paint. They don’t think about young women like Cyntoia Brown, who was pulled into sex work as a child and, at 16, found herself in a position where she took the life of somebody else to save her own. Now 30, she has spent nearly half her life in prison. It sounds unbelievable that a child who was trafficked would receive essentially a life sentence. But when you see someone like Cyntoia as an adult and a criminal, not as a child and a victim, your orientation to the crime is different. If we’re going to address the issue of sexual violence, people have to understand what we’re dealing with. Talking about Cyntoia Brown opens up…

Scrublands begins one year after a young, respected priest has perpetrated a mass shooting against his own congregation in a small Australian town, taking five lives before losing his own. In veteran journalist Chris Hammer’s fiction debut, already a best seller in the author’s native Australia, reporter Martin Scarsden (likewise a seasoned pro) is sent to the sun-scorched outback town of Riversend on assignment. His task is to report on how the backwater is recovering from the horrific event, which made international news. But as he learns that the accepted motive for the killings—the priest was a pedophile soon to be exposed—might not be the truth, he finds himself dangerously entangled with the townspeople and their dark history. Hammer, the author of two nonfiction books on the lands and people…

THE ONGOING TRADE WAR BETWEEN THE U.S. and China may seem chaotic, with twists and turns to flummox even the most seasoned analysts. But in the year since President Trump announced his first tariffs, his Administration has really pursued only one central strategy: weaken China’s economy in order to force the country to change its trade practices. In some ways, the strategy has worked. China’s economy had already showed signs of slowing before the first tariffs hit, and the face-off with the U.S. has accelerated that trend. Economic growth in China sank in the third quarter of 2018 to its lowest level since 2009, and analysts say that situation could worsen if the trade tensions don’t end. “China is not doing well now,” Trump said on Jan. 4, an assessment…

Manafort accused of sharing data with Russians Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort gave 2016 polling data to a business associate with ties to Russian intelligence, according to a court document unsealed on Jan. 8—a filing that could prove key to the investigation into possible collusion between the campaign and Russia. Hungarians rally against ‘slave law’ At least 10,000 people marched in Budapest on Jan. 5 to protest a labor reform that allows companies to demand up to 400 hours of overtime from employees each year. Dubbed a “slave law” by critics, it has united trade unions and civic groups against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing government. Investigation after woman in coma gives birth The CEO of Hacienda HealthCare—an Arizona nursing home where a woman who has been in a…

REACHED The far side of the moon, by China, on Jan. 3, the country reported. The landing by the Chang’e-4 probe was a first for the moon’s far side. MISSED Supreme Court arguments, for the first time, by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Jan. 7. Her absence came after she underwent surgery for cancer in December. ABDICATED The Malaysian throne, by Sultan Muhammad V, on Jan. 6. He is the first monarch in the country’s history to give up his position. ANNOUNCED The resignation of World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, by the bank on Jan. 7. He will step down in February for a job at a private firm, more than three years before the end of his term. CAUGHT Two American citizens accused of fighting for the Islamic…

Highlights from stories on time.com/ideas When American troops leave Lina Khatib, of the think tank Chatham House, argues that U.S. soldiers’ quickly exiting Syria would undermine a Trump promise: to contain Iran’s influence. Khatib writes that the Administration may assume a U.S. withdrawal would weaken Russia and others’ ties with Iran—but would actually “give Iran time and space to consolidate its presence.” Freedom money People living under authoritarian regimes have started to recognize the potential of Bitcoin, writes the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein, pointing to groups in China and Venezuela that use the cryptocurrency to avoid tight financial controls. The upside of the moon TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger hopes that China’s putting a lander and rover on the dark side of the moon—a region that until then was…

SLUMPED LOW IN THE BACK SEAT OF AN SUV, the two women switch on their cell phones. They had turned them off to avoid tracking, but the friend taking them to their third safe house in three days says it’s safe to use them en route. It is the first time the women have been able to call home in more than a week—a week in which they have found themselves on the front line of a gender-equality battle raging in the southern Indian state of Kerala. At about 3 a.m. on Jan. 2, 40-year-old law professor Bindu Ammini and 39-year-old government supplies officer Kanakadurga Koylandi (both go by their first name) entered the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, Kerala. They became the first women to officially do so since…

WITHOUT MEANING TO, CHIGOZIE OBIOMA FELL in love with tragedies. As a child in Akure, Nigeria, he devoured Greek myths at the library; plucked Shakespeare plays from his father’s shelves; and absorbed cautionary folktales from the southeastern Igbo tribe, passed down by his mother. If there was a common thread, it was an obsession with fate—often the distinctly gloomy kind. “I must have internalized that,” he tells TIME over the phone from Lagos, where he is visiting family. “I’m always trying to figure out: Why do bad things happen to you when you don’t seem to deserve it?” It’s a question that haunts the protagonist of Obioma’s new novel, An Orchestra of Minorities. Chinonso, a poultry farmer in Umuahia, Nigeria, is desperate to impress his fiancée Ndali’s wealthy family. When…