Innholdsfortegnelse for May 27, 2019 i Time Magazine International Edition

WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT … “I HAVE A PLAN” Fans of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren saw Haley Sweetland Edwards’ May 20 profile as a victory for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. “She’s FINALLY starting to get the media attention she deserves after what’s been an incredible early-stage campaign,” tweeted activist Adam Best. Conservative pundit S.E. Cupp tweeted that the story was right to point out that Warren “definitely has real policy plans, where many other candidates don’t. Now it’s up to voters to decide if they make sense.” (For her, she added, “they don’t.”) Rodney W. Hanson of Lacey, Wash., wished the article mentioned even more of Warren’s policy positions, particularly those on climate change, but to Facebook user Paul Dukich, all those policies ran together as “more and more…

WHILE THE WORLD’S ATTENTION has been everywhere else, Libya remains in chaos. The capital city, Tripoli, home of the government recognized by the U.N., is under siege by the forces of General Khalifa Haftar, who already controls much of the country’s east. Almost six weeks of fighting has killed more than 450 people, wounded more than 2,000 and displaced 66,000, according to the U.N. Haftar, a naturalized U.S. citizen who rose in influence after helping oust Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, launched an offensive to wrest Tripoli from the Government of National Accord on April 4. Although European, U.S. and Gulf leaders have all endorsed the U.N.-backed administration, Haftar’s Libya National Army has received support from Egypt, the UAE, Russia and France. In a phone call with Haftar in April, President…

SWEDEN GRETA THUNBERG The girl who went on strike for the planet “CAN YOU HEAR ME?” GRETA THUNBERG ASKS THE 150 members and advisers in the U.K. Houses of Parliament. She taps the microphone as if to check if it’s on, but the gesture is meant as a rebuke; she’s asking if they’re listening. She asks again later in her speech. “Did you hear What I just said? Is my English O.K.? Is my microphone on? Because I’m beginning to wonder.” there is Laughter, but it’s unclear if it’s amused or awkward. Thunberg is not smiling. She’s here to talk climate; a catastrophe is looming, her generation will bear it, and she knows whom to blame. “You did not act in time,” she declares. Castigating the powerful has become routine…

‘I think all grand juries are improper. I don’t like the secrecy of it.’CHELSEA MANNING, WikiLeaks whistle-blower released from jail May 9, on why she won’t comply with a new subpoena ‘His main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit.’THE CARTER CENTER, assuring the public on May 13 that 94-year-old former President Jimmy Carter is expected to fully recover from surgery after breaking his hip while preparing to go on a turkey-hunting trip ‘I didn’t mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you’re adults now, and this is an actual crisis.’BILL NYE, host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, urging viewers to take climate change more seriously, on the May 12 episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver…

ON APRIL 25, TWO MEN FROM THE Norwegian Police Security Service knocked on Iyad el-Baghdadi’s door in the capital, Oslo. The bearded, bespectacled activist is sometimes confused with his political opposite, the ISIS leader of the same name. (His Twitter page announces, NOT THAT BAGHDADI.) But the men at the door were there for a different kind of danger. The officers flashed their badges and got to the point: Baghdadi’s life, they told him, could be at risk. They urged him to come with them right away. Followed by a second team watching for tails, Baghdadi was driven by the officers to a safe location with an electronically shielded room where the agents told the longtime democracy activist what was going on. In recent months, Baghdadi has continued the fight…

IN 2015, 2-YEAR-OLD GRETA GREENE was sitting on a bench with her grandmother when a brick fell from an eighth-floor windowsill and struck her head. She died the next day. Her father, journalist Jayson Greene, recounts the incident and its aftermath in an affecting new memoir, Once More We Saw Stars. Greene pours his grief onto the page, rendering a portrait of a father who is fractured and at odds with a world in which his child is gone. He writes in harrowing emotional terms of the time he and his wife Stacy spent during Greta’s days in the hospital. But what sets the memoir apart is his ability to illuminate the mundane moments that become surreal in the midst of trauma and tragedy. His panicked drive with Stacy to…

SPEND A FEW HOURS WITH JESSE KLAVER, AND you realize he is a little different from other politicians in the Netherlands, a country where most people pride themselves on being modest and unpretentious. First, there is the unblinking self-confidence with which he will look you in the eye and tell you he wants to be Prime Minister one day. Then there are his exuberant political rallies, like the one TIME joined in Amsterdam on a windy weekday evening in March. Klaver enters through the crowd to pumping music and rhythmic clapping, like a boxer approaching the ring. The 33-year-old leader of the GroenLinks (Green Left) party made a global splash after his party leapt from four to 14 seats in the 2017 general elections, and his telegenic looks and resemblance…

ON MAY 14 THE ALABAMA SENATE PASSED the nation’s most extreme abortion bill. If it goes into effect, it would ban abortion almost entirely in the state—in every stage of pregnancy—and make it a felony for providers to perform the procedure. It would also send Alabama back to the 19th century. The state first made abortion a crime a bit more than 150 years ago, and others passed similar measures through the middle of that century. These laws punished everyone involved in abortion: providers and assistants; partners who helped pay; even advertisers. All faced jail and fines. And though some antiabortion commentators claim women were not punished when abortion was illegal, many statutes explicitly included them too. Alabama’s new legislation follows other restrictive measures around the U.S.—like the Georgia “heartbeat”…

For the first five months of Morgan Lyles’ high-risk pregnancy with twins, her fiancé Chris Weien was by her side, assembling the double-wide stroller and watching the squiggles of two heartbeats on ultrasound monitors. They’d purchased car seats for their SUVs and confirmed that Lyles would take maternity leave from her job as an attorney for the state of Ohio after the babies were born. But when Weien suffered a series of seizures that sent him to the intensive-care unit for nearly two weeks when Lyles was 20 weeks pregnant, Lyles couldn’t afford to be there with him. She had only four weeks of paid family leave from her job—at 70% of her salary—and was terrified of dipping into her paid vacation and sick time, knowing the twins would need…

PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TELL THE STORY of their youth usually write memoirs; seldom do they make movies. With The Souvenir, English filmmaker Joanna Hogg re-creates some version of her own experience as a film student in early 1980s London. Yet the movie feels less autobiographical than simply lived-in, a burnished tilting mirror reflecting the changing nature of memory itself. Aspiring filmmaker Julie—played, in a lustrous, understated performance, by Honor Swinton Byrne—lives in a house in fashionable Knightsbridge that’s funded with family money; her exceedingly dignified mother (Tilda Swinton, Byrne’s mother in real life) swoops in now and then to check on things. But Julie wants to push herself out of that nest. Her dream is to make “real” stories about working-class people, though she fails to see that her…