Innholdsfortegnelse for October 24, 2022 i Time Magazine International Edition

‘We do ourselves no favors by pretending that somehow everything will just work out.’—JON MEACHAM IN HIS BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED NEW HISTORY OF ABRAHAM Lincoln, Jon Meacham takes care to note that America’s 16th President “cannot be wrenched from the context of his particular times.” But he is well aware that a book about America’s most searing period of division, published in 2022, cannot be wrenched from its time either. As he writes in this issue, Lincoln, in both his triumphs and his failings (“I love him not because he was perfect but because he was not and yet triumphed,” wrote W.E.B. Du Bois), holds many lessons for our own moment of acute polarization—above all, the essential role of leaders of conscience. While “the prospect of great armies forming and clashing…

THREE DAYS AFTER HURRICANE IAN MADE landfall in Florida on Sept. 28 as a Category 4 storm, Johnny Aburto arrived in Port Charlotte, a mostly white community of 64,000 popular with retirees on the state’s southwestern coast. The town suffered extensive damage during the storm: roofs blown off, homes flooded. There was a lot of work to be done. Aburto, 42, was there to do it. Originally from Nicaragua, he is part of a large, informal, overwhelmingly immigrant workforce that travels the U.S. cleaning up after increasingly frequent climate-related disasters. Once a hurricane hits, these crews are bused in by contractors desperate for workers, or they drive to the area themselves and wait in Home Depot parking lots to be picked up for a day’s work. Aburto, a skilled laborer,…

THAT NEEDY BLACK RECTANGLE YOU CARRY around everywhere you go? You’re probably too attached. Although it’s not formally recognized as an addiction—yet—“problematic smartphone use” interferes with many aspects of life, says Jay Olson, a postdoctoral scholar in psychology at McGill University who has researched the topic. “It could be interfering with your concentration. It could be that you feel less social when using your phone. It could be that you’re sleeping less well, because you’re staying up late scrolling.” Those signs likely sound familiar, because smartphone overuse “affects almost anybody who has a device at this point,” says Dr. Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University who wrote a book about the dopamine hits we get from our screens. “The digital content is just so…

U.K. Bukayo Saka TAKING SOCCER HIGHER By Charlie Campbell IT WAS AUG. 8, 2021, and Bukayo Saka had every reason to fear the worst. Less than a month earlier, at the UEFA men’s Euro 2020 Final, he had been one of three England players to miss a penalty kick, crowning Italy as champions of Europe and unleashing a maelstrom of racist abuse online, because all three players are Black. Now the 19-year-old found himself in London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, a crucible of more than 60,000 howling soccer fans with burning hatred for his club team, Arsenal. But then something momentous happened. As Saka left his seat to join the game in the second half, the entire stadium followed suit in a standing ovation, demonstrating unheard-of appreciation for an Arsenal player…

TIME100 NEXT The 2022 honorees shared their surprise and delight at making this year’s list. “This is actually kinda nuts. New era loading,” tweeted singer SZA. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu thanked U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley for the essay lauding her political chops, tweeting, “Honored to rep Boston in #TIME100Next—with special gratitude for [Pressley’s] partnership & leadership.” Similarly, U.N. climate adviser Bogolo Kenewendo said that Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s essay about her was an even greater honor than making the list. Sirleaf retweeted Kenewendo, calling her “a testament to the power of African women’s #leadership & its progress from one generation to the next.” The list was widely covered by other media outlets, as well. E! News hailed Ryan Reynolds’ write-up for fellow actor Joe Alwyn, exclaiming, “This glimpse into…

Peace prize goes to rights campaigners Imprisoned Belarusian human-rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the banned Russian group Memorial, and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties received the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 7. With the honor, the Nobel Committee underscored the importance of civil society in combatting authoritarianism. Mass shooting at day care in Thailand Thailand is reeling from the country’s deadliest mass shooting ever after a former police officer opened fire on a day-care center on Oct. 6, killing at least 36 people, including 24 children. The atrocity is forcing Thais to examine the causes: narcotics, police corruption, and a proliferation of guns. NASA rocket diverted asteroid A NASA spacecraft successfully knocked a small asteroid off course, altering its orbit. The space agency said the historic mission represented “humanity’s first…

DIED Sacheen Littlefeather Essential messenger BY DEVERY JACOBS I was 11 years old the first time I watched the clip of Indigenous actor Sacheen Littlefeather at the 1973 Academy Awards. Littlefeather, who died Oct. 2 at 75, took the stage on Marlon Brando’s behalf, accepting his award in protest of Hollywood’s depiction of Native Americans. That night, while calmly delivering her speech, Sacheen received boos and threats for her message. Sacheen’s impact shaped my perspective on what it means to be an Indigenous actor and activist. It also reaffirmed my responsibility to carry the voice of my community into the entertainment industry—despite its not always welcoming us. Being part of a new wave of Indigenous creatives, and being on a show like Reservation Dogs, has felt like whiplash. Only recently…

THREE DOZEN STATES ARE VOTING FOR GOVERNOR, AND EVERY one of those races revolves around the question: How have the Republican nominees embraced—or distanced themselves from—Donald Trump? Some candidates have contorted themselves into disciples of the former President. Others have conceded that Trump is the most powerful force in American politics, shifting from an independent pose into a reluctant convert to the MAGA movement. Most, but not all, who stood in opposition to Trump found themselves shown the door. Here are five gubernatorial races to watch, each with the Republican modeling a different posture toward Trumpism. ARIZONA: THE TRUMP DISCIPLE Kari Lake is perhaps the avatar of the Trump-styled GOP for a new generation. If Trump asserts something, Lake parrots it. Her opponent, state elections chief Katie Hobbs, has made…

REGINALD ANDRES IS NOT LIKE OTHER VAMpires. Sure, he has fangs, subsists on blood, and sizzles in the sun. Yet the hero of Syfy horror comedy Reginald the Vampire, played by Jacob Batalon, is also timid and self-conscious about his round belly. It doesn’t help that the vampire community is more superficial than a nest of high school mean girls. Listen, not every bloodsucker is a supermodel—just ask cinema’s ur-vampire, Nosferatu. But if the past century of film and TV is any indication, they’ve yet to receive the body-positivity memo. Adapted from Johnny B. Truant’s comic Fat Vampire, the silly but sweet Reginald plays with the trope of the impossibly attractive vampire. Instead of sinking his teeth into swooning humans, Reginald nurses a crush on a co-worker. Instead of lying…

GEORGE SAUNDERS IS THAT RARE CONTEMPORARY author who is as original as he is beloved—even rarer for having made his name on that often overlooked form of fiction, the short story. His first collection was the 1996 book CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and even as his star has risen through the decades and he’s written in other forms—collections of essays, his Booker Prize–winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo—he keeps returning to stories. Last year, the former MacArthur Fellow channeled his years of teaching fiction at Syracuse University into a tour-de-force literary class for the masses called A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, his book exploring short stories by Russian greats like Turgenev, Chekhov, and Gogol. Returning to one’s own short fiction after dissecting and exalting those masterworks takes…

THE FIRST ROUND of Brazil’s presidential election, held in early October, promises greater drama to come. The lead story from those results was that President Jair Bolsonaro trailed challenger and favorite Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by just 5 points (48.4% to 43.2%), about half the margin that pre-election polls had led us to expect. Lula, President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010, remains likely to win the second-round runoff on Oct. 30, but the challenges ahead, for him and for his country, will be daunting. For Lula, election victory is where the good news ends, because a better-than-expected performance by right-wing parties that support Bolsonaro in Congress, and in many races for state governorships, will limit Lula’s ability to advance an ambitious economic and social agenda. His victory will…

AS THE OUTRAGE OVER BRETT KAVANAUGH’S Supreme Court nomination grew, I received an unexpected invitation. Senator Dianne Feinstein asked me to be at the Capitol in person to hear the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, who had come forward with a claim that she had been sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh 30 years prior, when they were in high school. I had founded the “me too” movement to support survivors of sexual assault in 2006, so I had spent the year—since the #MeToo hashtag went viral in late 2017—on a lightning-fast run of red-carpet events, magazine covers, and television appearances. They were so far from what was normal in my life that I often felt completely out of sorts. But here was our first major organizing opportunity. Responding to the call…

What’s the state of poetry in 2022? It’s an incredible moment for contemporary poetry. If I open a [literary] magazine, I can read 20 poems from poets I’ve never heard of before. Twenty years ago, there was a smaller number of voices. Now it feels like America is really in the room. What changed? There has been a push over the last 10 years to make poetry accessible. It’s not always in the classroom. Sometimes it’s on the subway. Sometimes it’s on social media—Twitter, Instagram. That kind of access has ignited a passion, not only to read poetry, but to write it. How does it feel to become poet laureate during a wave of book-ban attempts? It’s a very significant moment in history in which to celebrate poems from different types…