Innholdsfortegnelse for February 18, 2019 i Time Magazine International Edition

‘It’s a dangerous sport … I would have a hard time with it.’DONALD TRUMP, U.S. President, after CBS News asked whether he would let his 12-year-old son Barron play football, in an interview that aired on Super Bowl Sunday ‘There are lots of strange people who say the elderly people are to blame, but that is wrong. The problem is those who don’t have children.’TARO ASO, Japan’s 78-year-old Deputy Prime Minister, on the country’s aging population, at a Feb. 3 event; he later retracted the comment and apologized to “some” who were offended ‘I DARESAY THAT HUMANITY HASN’T MATURED.’POPE FRANCIS, on the “second-class” status of women around the world, having acknowledged for the first time, on Feb. 5, that sexual abuse of nuns by clergymen is a problem within the…

NEVADA’S NEW LEGISLATIVE SESSION ON FEB. 4 signaled more than the start of government as usual. It carried the weight of history. The session marked the first time in U.S. history that women have made up a majority of any state’s legislature. The occasion served as a reminder of the barriers women are breaking and of the work left to be done. The 2018 midterm elections saw a record number of women elected to Congress as well as to lower offices across the country. But even with those gains, less than 30% of state legislators nationwide are women, and women hold just 23.7% of the seats in Congress. Before 2019, just one chamber of one state legislature had ever been majority-women; now Nevada’s mix of state representatives and senators matches…

SANDRA LEE, THE CREATOR OF THE SEMI-HOMEMADE brand of cookbooks, magazines and TV shows and a person who leaves nothing to chance, is sitting in a high-ceilinged ballroom on Wall Street on a rainy evening the weekend after Thanksgiving, listening to a local official present her with a tribute. But, sincere as the speech is, it cannot be heard over the chatter of the members of the New York City independent-film community who have turned out for the IFP Gotham awards. This is not Lee’s usual audience. To New York’s indie-film elite, she is that woman who rose to fame on her ability to gussy up ready-made food into something that feels like a home-cooked dinner on the Food Network. Rachel Weisz, Glenn Close and Ethan Hawke are among the…

BY EVEN JUST TESTING THE WATERS FOR AN INDEPENDENT presidential run in 2020, billionaire former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has done us a favor. He has revealed the political bigotry inherent in the torrent of “spoiler” charges immediately leveled at him by Democratic Party partisans and scores of pundits—including supposed champions of the free-speech rights of very unpopular opinions—who claim he will swing the 2020 election to President Trump. Never mind Schultz’s right to free speech, petition and assembly. In my presidential campaigns, all the media wanted was my reaction to the spoiler charge. It didn’t matter that I worked on overdue reforms mostly supported by a majority of the public. It didn’t matter that these initiatives had been taken off the table by the two major parties. The label…

THE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH IS ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN POWER. REPLETE WITH PAGEANTRY, TENS OF MILLIONS OF TELEVISION VIEWERS, A CHAMBER CRAMMED WITH DIGNITARIES and Donald Trump at the center of the shot—is it any wonder the annual address is one of the few Washington rituals the President relishes? But there was a new face in the frame when Trump stepped onto the rostrum on Feb. 5. Just over his left shoulder sat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has outmaneuvered Trump since she retook the gavel in January. On the House floor in front of him sat dozens of female legislators dressed in white, a suffragist homage and a stark reminder of both the drubbing he took in the November midterms and the investigations…

FIRST IN THE HEART IS A DREAM When Addis Ababa–based photographer Muluneh was commissioned for TIME’s Optimists issue, she turned to Ethiopia’s political climate for inspiration. There, a new Prime Minister is bringing in reforms, including championing women in government. In this image, a woman is being pulled in different directions, but has keys near her heart. “Sometimes we forget we hold the keys to unlock things,” Muluneh says.” Moving forward with truth and love is what optimism is.” DJENEBA ADUAYOM ELIZABETH ALEXANDER CLAY BENSKIN FRANK BOWLING JOY BUOLAMWINI ERIN CHRISTOVALE JEFFREY CIRIO RHEA COMBS LAVERNE COX GUILLERMO DEL TORO LOUIS DELSARTE BILL GATES RUJEKO HOCKLEY JENNY HOLZER KINSALE HUESTON CHRIS JACKSON AURORA JAMES ROBIN COSTE LEWIS LISA LUCAS NELSON MAKAMO PREETI MISTRY JASON MORAN AIDA MULUNEH LISA NISHIMURA Q-TIP…

Jack Shainman Gallery director at Jack Shainman Gallery Even as a kid growing up in Williamstown, Mass., Jack Shainman was honing his eye for great art. The son of a music professor, he was a regular at nearby museums like the Clark Art Institute, and he cut his teeth on collecting by buying work from local art students. Now, 30 years into his career as a gallery owner, Shainman is responsible for helping to cultivate some of the most significant names in contemporary art today, from painter Kerry James Marshall to photographer and multimedia artist Carrie Mae Weems to Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui. Through the decades, one thing has remained constant: his passion for finding an audience for underseen visionaries. To be a good gallery owner, Shainman says, you have…

IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED Heaven Inc. and the earth. And the earth was a hot new innovation overseen by the angels at God’s celestial startup—a goofy blue planet where each human creature was endowed with free will. Several eons later, all that choice had yielded overpopulation, climate change and lots of senseless violence. God—by now an exasperated, disengaged CEO holed up in his office in a bathrobe—started making plans to destroy his flawed creation and conjure something better. A restaurant at the center of a lazy river, perhaps. This speculative history of the universe comes courtesy of the punchy new TBS comedy Miracle Workers, which premieres on Feb. 12. In a divine casting choice (that came about only after Owen Wilson left the role), Steve Buscemi plays a coarse,…

A LITTLE MORE THAN THREE YEARS AGO, Marlon James made a comment he now insists was a joke. The acclaimed Jamaican author, fresh from winning the Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, told a reporter that his next project would be an “African Game of Thrones.” James underestimated the buzz the comparison would stir up, and soon enough, multiple outlets published breathless stories about the diverse epic fantasy he had promised. Now, on the eve of that novel’s release, James laughs when he considers just how far his offhand comment traveled: an email arrived in his inbox from George R.R. Martin, the man behind the massively popular fantasy series. Sitting at his office desk in Brooklyn, dressed in a black one-piece tracksuit, James sets…

IF YOU’RE GOING TO MOUNT AN AMERIcan remake of a Norwegian film about a father who avenges the death of his son with the help of a giant snowplow, whom else would you cast but Liam Neeson? Forget, for a moment, that he’s Irish: His features, resolute and precise as the cliffs rising high above your average fjord, may as well have been carved from the movement of ancient glaciers. Plus, when it comes to fatherly revenge-getters, he’s still the go-to guy. (Though it remains to be seen if Hollywood’s goodwill toward him will survive his recent controversy.) But even though Cold Pursuit (the remake) and In Order of Disappearance (the original) were both made by the same gifted director, Hans Petter Moland, much of the earlier film’s icy-cool elegance—and…

BEHIND THE COVER To illustrate an issue on optimism, artist Nelson Makamo thought a portrait of a child would be a natural choice. Adults forget there’s “beauty in being a human being,” while “children are just discovering that,” as he puts it. Learn all about the 36-year-old Johannesburg-based artist at time.com/optimists-cover DAVOS DEBRIEF TIME’s presence at the World Economic Forum meeting included an opening-night event, a panel on protecting the oceans moderated by editor Haley Sweetland Edwards, and a discussion of inequality with TIME editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal (far left), which went viral after historian Rutger Bregman (far right) urged attendees to confront the issue of tax evasion. More from Davos on page 28 and at time.com/davos SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT In “Beyond Walls” (Feb. 4–11), we mischaracterized a law passed recently in Denmark.…

Though Super Bowl LIII, a 13-3 victory for the New England Patriots over the Los Angeles Rams, was a bit of a stinker as a game, its result was stunning. The Hall of Fame–worthy plan by Patriots coach Bill Belichick, with its mix of confusing coverages, left the Rams flummoxed and punting. Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman (left) made 10 catches for 141 yards. Tom Brady (right) clinched a record sixth career Super Bowl win; at 41, he’s set a new standard for middle-aged pros. He has no plans to retire. A dynasty reigns on. For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox…

THE MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC Forum at Davos is time. No one has enough of it, so everyone makes compromises to make the most of it. President Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica is no exception. As we near the 10-minute point of our interview at his hotel in the Swiss ski resort, his press officer begins to wrap things up. The Costa Rican leader is expected at the conference center, a mile and a half away, in 15 minutes, she says. So the interview continues in the presidential SUV through the icy, snow-packed streets. Even TIME has to make the most of time. ‘We have to convince people not just to save the planet but to save ourselves.’Alvarado Quesada If Alvarado Quesada gets his way, such…

FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS, THE ELITE CORE OF intelligence professionals stayed silent. But faced with President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on America’s top spymasters and mounting security challenges around the globe, senior intelligence briefers recently took the extraordinary step of revealing their stories to TIME. Their warning: the President is endangering U.S. security with what they say is a stubborn disregard for their assessments. These intelligence officials say Trump displays what one called “willful ignorance” when presented with analyses generated by America’s $81 billion-a-year intelligence services. The officials, who include analysts who prepare Trump’s briefs and the briefers themselves, describe futile attempts to keep his attention by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible.…

A passing typhoon has just tickled southern China’s Hainan Island, churning the sea into angry peaks. One glance is enough for Li An Xiao and Zhao Zhi Ping to cancel their customary 7 a.m. swim, the kind of unspoken agreement that comes with half a century of happy marriage. Instead, they join dozens of other retirees performing calisthenics at the adjacent exercise park, where one silver-haired gent nonchalantly hangs upside down from the monkey bars. Li was once a hydro-engineer in China’s arid northwestern province of Gansu. Today, the 85-year-old is enjoying a leisurely retirement with Zhao, 75, on the volcanic island that is Asia’s closest equivalent to Florida. Lunch at noon, a 3 p.m. dip in their apartment complex’s hot tub, perhaps a nap and, typhoon permitting, back to…

FEMALE ADOLESCENCE CAN be a harrowing introduction to the constant, gendered indignities of female adulthood, as pop culture is always reminding us. But that doesn’t preclude girls’ growing pains from being just as funny and gross as the ones depicted in male coming-of-age stories. This simple truth fuels Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle’s PEN15, a raw, sweet comedy set amid the pubescent hellscape of seventh grade. The 10-episode first season comes to Hulu on Feb. 8. The twist is that Erskine and Konkle star as versions of themselves at 13, in 2000, while their peers are played by actual kids. It works, too, allowing the show to be frank about the girls’ changing bodies and sexual awakenings without getting creepy. Erskine, a natural at physical comedy, is fearless in these…

FOR A LARGE CHUNK OF THE 2010S, country music was defined by the bro. The stadium-rocking, beer-chugging subgenre dominated radio and arenas, thanks to the popularity of artists like Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean. Characterized by copious “Southern” signifiers (trucks, girls, nights out with the guys) and elements of modern-day hip-hop (drum machines, gruffly pattered vocals), these bro-country songs have the type of sonic power you might expect from a Def Leppard album. Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard were at the forefront of the movement. As Florida Georgia Line, the duo—who met while studying at the Nashville-star factory Belmont University—struck platinum right away with their debut single “Cruise.” A summery showcase for their classic-country harmonies and blunt-force hooks, it was a country-radio hit that mushroomed into a crossover smash after…

It’s no secret that fried food isn’t good for you, but a recent study published in the BMJ links it to a serious outcome: early death. The researchers looked at data from more than 100,000 women in the U.S., ages 50 to 79, who had filled out a detailed diet questionnaire in the 1990s and were tracked for about 20 years. Those who said they ate at least one serving of fried food per day had about an 8% higher chance of dying early compared with women who didn’t eat any. Fried meats—from land and sea—were linked to the worst outcomes, according to the research. FRIED CHICKEN Of the foods studied, fried chicken was linked to the highest increase in risk of early death. Women who ate at least one serving…

THE FIRST-EVER PAPAL VISIT TO THE Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam, was meant to build bridges between faiths. But shortly after Pope Francis touched down in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 3, he made the visit about more than just religion. The UAE is a member of the Saudi-led coalition that has been bombing Yemen since 2015, part of a campaign that the U.S. supports and that the Vatican has criticized. Francis risked his host’s displeasure to make a public point about the crisis in Yemen. GOOD RELATIONS For Pope Francis, who began his papacy by taking strides to improve interfaith dialogue, the historic visit was a chance to cement ties with Islamic leaders. Together with an influential imam, he signed a “document…

BOVINE BOTHER Two cows and a calf were left stranded atop a small mound of earth after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake rocked New Zealand in 2016. A rescue team eventually managed to get the cattle out of their predicament. NOAH’S BARK Pets often get left behind when a storm prompts evacuation—but last September, one man named Tony Alsup, driving an old school bus, got 53 dogs and 11 cats out of South Carolina before Hurricane Florence made landfall. EQUINE ESCAPE During the deadly 2018 California wildfires, Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control reported having rescued 815 animals from danger—including 550 horses. Other groups rescued alpacas, turkeys, ducks, rabbits and more.…

In Zimbabwe, the term for depression is kufungisisa, which translates to “thinking too much.” Like many low-income countries, Zimbabwe is ill-equipped to care for its citizens suffering from mental illness. The country of roughly 16.5 million currently has about 12 trained psychiatrists. One of those psychiatrists, Dr. Dixon Chibanda (above left, with U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock), has been on a mission to narrow this treatment gap ever since one of his young patients, who didn’t have the $15 bus fare to travel to a scheduled evaluation, hanged herself from a tree. In 2007, Chibanda seized on the idea of creating an informal system of therapists from the community. “It suddenly dawned on me that one of the most reliable resources we have in Africa is grandmothers,” he says. Chibanda’s…

TWO MEN CLAIM TO BE THE President of Venezuela, which has the largest oil reserves on the planet and so little food that in a single year the average citizen lost 24 lb. One, Nicolás Maduro, secured a second term in a 2018 election widely regarded as a sham. The other, Juan Guaidó, took an oath of office on Jan. 23, in a maneuver that was equal parts audacious and ingenious and that offered the nation at least the possibility of a peaceful way out of its catastrophe. The trick was finding a possible opening in the mire of Maduro’s authoritarianism. By fiat and force, Maduro has spent the past few years remaking the Caracas government to his liking—replacing justices on the Supreme Court, declaring emergency rule and sidelining the…

IN THE SMALL, WHITEWASHED MEDIcal clinic of Banki, one of northeastern Nigeria’s largest camps for internally displaced people (IDP), midwife Stella Aneto takes a rare pause between deliveries to catch her breath. Before wiping down the clinic’s sole delivery bed with disinfectant, Aneto glances at the clinic logbook. Two women have already given birth, and at least three others are in the early stages of labor. She instructs an assistant to prepare extra emergency supplies. Anything can go wrong when it comes to labor and delivery, but especially in a region with high rates of child marriage, malnutrition and malaria, where it’s not uncommon for midwives to tend to 18-year-olds giving birth to their fourth child. In a bare-bones clinic that has no electricity or running water, and where the…

THERE ARE TWO NEW YORK CITIES, the real one and the movie one, and both have a place in Todd Strauss-Schulson’s goofy-delightful Isn’t It Romantic. The movie opens and closes in the real New York, a stinky, noisy collage of 99¢ stores and food carts adorned with unappetizing falafel photos, a place where it often seems impossible to find love. The New York in the middle section is a fantasyland of dainty cupcake stores and flower-covered brick townhouses—this is surely the place where love is meant to happen. That’s where it almost does for Natalie (Rebel Wilson), an architect toiling away at a firm that doesn’t appreciate her. Her assistant (played by the marvelous Betty Gilpin) spends most of the workday streaming 1980s- and ’90s-era romantic comedies; Natalie lectures her…

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s The Lego Movie, released in 2014, is a tough act to follow: Nobody expected an animated adventure featuring characters made from plastic blocks to be any good. But the picture was amusing in its peculiarly dotty way, a kooky anticapitalist parable that left you feeling as if you’d just spent 100 minutes inside a popcorn popper. The bad news is that The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, written by Lord and Miller but directed by Mike Mitchell, is more of the same—yet less. Chris Pratt returns as the voice of Lego everyman hero Emmet Brickowski. This time he has to save his true love, alleged tough girl Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), from a kidnapping scheme hatched by a shape-shifting minx mastermind from another building-block galaxy,…