Innholdsfortegnelse for June 3, 2019 i Time Magazine International Edition

SAT SCORES WILL SOON MEASURE MORE than just a teenager’s math and verbal skills: the College Board, the nonprofit organization that oversees the admissions test, announced May 16 that it’s prepping the broad rollout of a new “adversity score” program intended to provide universities with a more complete picture of an applicant’s background. The score, officially called the Environmental Context Dashboard, is calculated using 15 factors addressing a student’s home life, community and school system, including local crime and poverty rates, according to the College Board. Together, they add up to an overall disadvantage level, scored out of 100, that universities will be able to view as a supplement to the exam; much of the information it considers was already available to admissions officers but not in this format. Students…

It’s time for the American people to become fully alert to a dreadful possibility. The U.S., led by a Chief Executive so erratic even his closest advisers feel the need to ignore his orders, may stumble into its worst war in more than a generation—without the congressional authorization required by the Constitution. While the public is tracking the fact that tensions with Iran are rising, it does not know precisely why. On May 5, National Security Adviser John Bolton announced that the Administration had ordered a carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf region, allegedly in response to unspecified Iranian threats. On May 13, the New York Times reported that the White House was reviewing updated military plans that could send a total of 120,000 troops to the Middle East—which…

Dennis Honrud’s family has been farming wheat in eastern Montana for three generations. Unashamedly old school, Honrud sows only half his 6,000 acres, leaving the rest fallow to avoid soil depletion. “There’s not many of us left,” he laments. Like many workers in the global economy, the 68-year-old needs to stay connected, in his case to monitor crop prices and weather updates from his green John Deere tractor. So he asked a telecom provider to put a cell tower in his backyard. The Honrud property in Glasgow, Mont., is so remote that it wasn’t well covered by any of the big four American carriers—Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. So Honrud turned to the local provider, Nemont Wireless, to install the tower. Today, cell service is pretty good. When the occasional…

12 PLAYERS TO WATCH THE TOP CONTENDERS HOME-FIELD ADVANTAGE? THROWBACK UNIFORMS MEET THE NEWCOMERS ON A DRIZZLY SPRING EVENING IN New York City, Alex Morgan fixes her gaze on the golf ball at her feet, cocks her arms and then propels them forward with effortless power. The ball leaps off the tee and sails toward the netting between the tee and the Hudson River 200 yd. away. “This is nice,” Morgan says, exhaling between swings. “Really nice.” The driving range is a favorite escape for Morgan, but she’s spending less and less time there—even as she needs the release more than ever. The reigning U.S. women’s soccer player of the year, Morgan is the sport’s most marketable American star since Mia Hamm and the linchpin of Team USA’s bid to…

PATSY, THE STUNNING SECOND NOVEL BY NICOLE Dennis-Benn, chronicles the often hidden sacrifices that black immigrant women make in pursuit of the ever elusive American Dream. As in her first novel, the acclaimed Here Comes the Sun, Dennis-Benn crafts a narrative set between her native Jamaica and her current home of Brooklyn, this time following a mother and child on distinctly different paths over the course of a decade. Patsy, 28, is the ambivalent mother to 5-year-old Tru. When Patsy departs Jamaica for the U.S. in 1998, in search of opportunity, she leaves Tru behind. Readers will judge Patsy at the outset for abandoning her only child, who is wrestling with her own identity back home—approaching adolescence as a gender-nonconforming athlete in a country that offers neither language nor tolerance…

Claws, which is set in a nail salon, has sex, drugs, dance numbers and a mostly female cast decked out in high Florida glam. Is it as much fun to make as it is to watch? It is—from interacting with the cast to figuring out costumes. On a show like Breaking Bad or The Sopranos, the things that the women [of Claws] are doing are reserved for men. But we have badass women doing badass things. Most of the time, it’s for a good reason. You directed an episode of the new season, a first for you. How was that experience? Amazing. First of all, who doesn’t love being able to tell people what to do? Second, I felt I was walking in with a gift and a purpose. The…

‘This is my class, 2019, and my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans.’ROBERT F. SMITH, billionaire CEO of Vista Equity Partners, announcing during his May 19 commencement speech at Morehouse College that he will pay off millions in debt for graduating seniors ‘I really do not want my pictures in your offices, for the President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait.’VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY, Ukraine’s new President, after being sworn in on May 21; the 41-year-old, formerly a TV comedian, also called for snap parliamentary elections $75 Cost of a cup of what’s being called the world’s most expensive coffee; California-based Klatch Coffee, the only North American chain to sell the rare brew called Elida Geisha Natural 803, has already sold out of it 19.3 million…

IN 2017, A LITTLE-KNOWN RAPPER NAMED SUPA DUPA HUMBLE RELEASED his song “Steppin’” to a muted response. He moved on to other projects, but a year and a half later, he noticed a surge in the song’s view count on YouTube. As he scrolled through the comments, he kept seeing one word over and over again: “Who came here from TikTok?” “TikTok brought me here.” “Greetings from TikTok but this song is fire.” “I’m like, What is TikTok?” the rapper, who is 27 and lives in Brooklyn, recalls. Some quick research led him to the app TikTok, which he promptly downloaded and began to explore. The app allows users to post short videos of themselves lip-synching to music, doing makeup tutorials, performing synchronized dances or acting out comedic skits. There…

THE HARDEST JOB IN WASHINGTON RIGHT NOW belongs to a straight-talking New Yorker in his 70s. And it’s not President Donald Trump. As Trump ramps up his defiance of House Democratic investigations, Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler, 71, is a key player in the fight. Nadler’s committee issued the first subpoena for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full, unredacted report into Russian interference in the 2016 election, then voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt when he didn’t deliver it. The committee will likely do the same with former White House counsel Don McGahn, who failed to appear for testimony on May 21. Nadler’s committee may even subpoena Mueller himself. But Nadler faces a dilemma. Liberals in the House Democratic caucus want an impeachment inquiry into Trump. Taking that…

FOR NEARLY A CENTURY, THE ST. PIERRE MANUFACTURING Corp. has made steel products like horseshoes, tire chains and wire ropes in a facility in Worcester, Mass. Yet, despite the strong economy, St. Pierre, like many other American manufacturers, is struggling. Its problems stem from President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese-made goods. The ongoing trade war “makes it a heck of a lot harder to compete,” says Peter St. Pierre, the company’s vice president of finance and operations and a grandson of founder Henry St. Pierre. Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum more than a year ago, later adding them on an additional $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. On May 10, as negotiations on a wider deal with China faltered, he said some tariffs would increase to 25%…

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THE rock-’n’-roll biopic is about as un–rock ’n’ roll as you can get, the ultimate in dancing about architecture. You sit through the whole thing, watching a rock star’s life unfold before you. How can that compare to the thrill of standing in a sweaty pit in the presence of a magnificent human being who calls out to us, one by one and all together, inspiring joy and lust and a zillion other feelings that we haven’t yet invented words for? Who wants to sit down and watch a movie about an art form that makes you wanna shout? But rock biopics, done right, can jump the synapse between how movies work on us and how music moves us. Rocketman—the story of shy Reginald Dwight…

EVERY TWO YEARS, THE WHITNEY Museum of American Art in New York City presents a survey of contemporary art. Throughout its nearly century-long history, the Biennial has been a fertile ground for conversations about social issues and cultural tensions bubbling beyond the gallery walls—occasionally erupting into protest, as in 2017, when a controversial painting of the body of Emmett Till sparked a debate about institutional racism. Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta, the co-curators for the 2019 Biennial, have assembled a show that neither shies away from this history nor provokes for provocation’s sake. The exhibit is diverse: a majority of its works are by artists of color, half by artists who identify as women. These six pieces embody its breadth and complexity—and, in turn, that of many of the issues…