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Editors letter
Regrets, I have a few. Ive made some impulsive and boneheaded
mistakes in my life that sometimes surface in the wee hours, like
Dickensian phantoms, to mock me. (Lately Ive been seeing sev-
eral pre-election covers of The Week that were premised on polls
predicting a Trump defeat.) But there are no do-overs in life; we
all have to live withand learn fromour mistakes. There are
some people, however, for whom that burden is public, historic,
and unimaginably heavy. Consider what some of the losers of the
recent election will have to carry for the rest of their days.
In a lovely white Dutch Colonial house in Chappaqua, N.Y.,
Hillary Clinton must be replaying her campaigns decision to
virtually ignore safe Wisconsin and Michigan in the final
weeksstates she lost by 0.3 and 1 percent, respectively. She
must also be thinking, If I had just used that damn State De-
partment email address.... And lets spare a thought for Chris
Christie, who groveled shamelessly at Trumps feet in hopes of
reviving his political career, and was rewarded by being booted
out as head of the Trump transition team and denied the Cabinet
job he coveted. Anthony Weiner deserves no ones pity, but you
have to wonder how he lives with himself after his online exhi-
bitionism destroyed his career, marriage, and family, and turned
his name into a national sick joke. A fiercely partisan Democrat,
Weiner also bears responsibility for sparking the FBI investiga-
tion that led Director James Comey to announce, 11 days before
the election, that the agency had stumbled upon a new batch of
Clinton emails on Weiners laptop. Did Weiners penile fixation
help elect Donald Trump? One more thing he can think about
at 3 a.m. As for Comey, the voluble G-man has gone utterly si-
lent since he intervened in a presidential election and then said,
Oops, nothing new. Its probably not how Comey hoped his-
tory would remember him. But even the head of William Falk
the FBI doesnt get a do-over. Editor-in-chief

NEWS
4 Main stories
Donald Trumps Cabinet
takes shape; a settlement
in Trump University cases;
Trump attacks the media
6 Controversy of the week
Trumps businesses will
present an unprecedented
conict of interest
7 The U.S. at a glance
Police ofcers targeted
in string of killings;
NSA chief under re for
security lapses
8 The world at a glance
Trump wades into British
politics; Syrias regime
targets hospitals
10 People
Glenn Beck gives up
conspiracy theories;
Patton Oswalts
heartbreaking grief
11 Briefing
Is the International
Criminal Court doomed?
12 Best U.S. columns
Democrats costly
identity politics; the
dangers of tearing up the
Iran nuclear deal
15 Best international
columns
Israelis rejoice, and
panic, over Trumps win
16 Talking points
Jeff Sessions coming
nomination ght; Trump
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4 NEWS The main stories...
Trumps Cabinet taking shape
What happened agement. Flynn has tweeted that Fear of
Donald Trump continued to form his Muslims is RATIONAL. His inuence in
administration this week, nominating three the White House could presage a harsh
staunch conservatives for senior national and counterproductive U.S. approach to
security positions and unveiling his plans the Muslim world.
for his rst acts as president. The president-
elect named Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as Whats encouraging is that Trump ap-
his attorney general, Rep. Mike Pompeo of pears to be looking for gures of stature
Kansas as CIA chief, and retired Lt. Gen. outside his inner circle, said The Wall
Michael Flynn as White House national Street Journal. Pompeo, a talented Army
security adviser. Congressional Republicans veteran and Harvard law graduate, is
praised the nominations, but Democrats the president-elects most impressive
voiced objections to Flynn, who has said appointment yet. And although Trump
Islam is not a religion but a political ideol- Trump and Romney after their surprise meeting may not make Romney his secretary
ogy, and Sessions, who was once denied a of stateSouth Carolina Gov. Nikki
federal judgeship after being accused of making racist comments. Haley and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani are also under
(See Talking Points.) In a surprise move, Trump met with one of his considerationthe outreach to a former antagonist shows a will-
ercest Republican critics, 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Rom- ingness to expand his governing coalition and unify the GOP.
ney, as a potential pick for secretary of state. He was also consider-
ing retired Gen. James Mattis for Defense secretary, and investment What the columnists said
banker Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary. Kansas Secretary of Back in April, Trump promised hed become so presidential if
State Kris Kobach, a candidate for Homeland Security chief, was elected, said Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post. Were still
photographed holding a plan that included restarting a controver- waiting. The president-elects tweets are as angry and petty as ever,
sial registry of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries. and he refuses to address concerns over his conicts of interest and
nepotism. (See Controversy.) His nominations of angry, white male
In a YouTube video, Trump promised to take several executive conservatives indicate that his election night promise to bind the
actions on his rst day as president, including withdrawing the U.S. wounds of division was empty rhetoric.
from the Trans-Pacic Partnership trade deal, removing limits on
domestic energy production, and introducing new restrictions on Theres one thread that runs through these appointments: white
government ofcials moving into lobbying. The president-elect also nationalism, said Jamelle Bouie in Slate.com. Sessions, Flynn, and
gave a wide-ranging interview to The New York Times, in which he chief strategist Steve Bannon have all made it clear they believe
disavowed his alt-right supporters and suggested he was disinclined in the political and cultural dominance of white Americans.
to launch a criminal investigation into his former opponent, Hillary With them in charge, we can expect the Trump administration to
Clinton, saying it would be very, very divisive for the country. pursue discriminatory policy on voting, to empower local police
departments to operate with impunity against communities of
What the editorials said color, and to curtail the rights and freedoms of innocent Muslims.
President-elect Trump is making some dangerous appointments,
said The Washington Post. Pompeo was one of the more fanatical Sorry, but the medias incessant scaremongering is way out of
purveyors of conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks on proportion, said Kyle Smith in the New York Post. Every move by
Benghazi. Flynn is a respected military tactician with considerable the Trump transition team is greeted with hysteria. By keeping the
experience ghting al Qaida in Afghanistan and Iraq. But he has outrage meter up to 11 at all times, the media risks desensitizing
worrying links to Russiahe sat next to President Vladimir Putin people so much that theyll shrug off any genuine White House
at an event for RT, the countrys propaganda outletand was scandals that do arise. The media should at least wait until Inau-
sacked as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for bad man- guration Day before it declares the end of the world.

It wasnt all bad
QAfter tragedy struck the family of
an Indiana farmer, his neighbors
helped the best way they knew how. After getting a knitting kit from his daughter, Moseley spent
Steve Wollyung was preparing to
harvest his farms last 110 acres
when his 4-year-old granddaughter
was killed in an accident. Knowing
the Wollyungs would need help
with the remaining crops, more than
60nearby families set to work on the
land, harvesting more than 18,000
bushels of grain in a single daya
QEd Moseley is proof that it is never too late to learn QCrossing guard Fetene Yezengaw
something new. The 86-year-old Atlanta man taught himself has manned the intersection near a
to knit after his assisted living facility challenged residents Houston school for nearly a decade,
to create warm hats for the preemies at a nearby hospital. but students noticed recently that
walking seemed to be getting
hours making 55color- harder for him. Yezengaw, 42, had
ful caps for the infants. lost his leg after stepping on a land-
He even held classes for mine as a child soldier in his native
other residents, and with Ethiopia, and the prosthetic he was
the help of his caretak- using was in need of repairs. So a
ers, friends, and fam- group of students organized a bake
ily, delivered more than sale to raise money for the fixes,
300hand-knitted caps to and a GoFundMe campaign quickly
the neonatal unit. Now surpassed its goal of $5,500. The
AP, Northside Hospital

feat it would have taken Wollyung a Ive graduated to large generosity makes me cry, said
week to do on his own. I couldnt caps, Moseley said. Im Yezengaw. He deserves this, said
believe it, said Wollyung. All of the doing caps for all my parent Karen Johnson. He is the
support was just overwhelming. Moseley modeling his caps grandkids. kindest, sweetest man.

Illustration by Fred Harper.

THE WEEK December 2, 2016 Cover photos from AP, Science Source, AP
 ... and how they were covered NEWS 5

Trump takes on the dishonest media...

What happened into a statesman of poise and deliberation
Donald Trumps post-election reset with the after he won the election, said David Remnick
media got off to a combative start this week after in NewYorker.com. Trump has signaled that his
the president-elect held a ery summit with TV war with the media will continue when he gets
executives and news anchors at Trump Tower to the White House, and that hell use Twitter
and dressed them down for their coverage of to lash out at any criticism. The president-elect
hima meeting one participant described as a does not care who knows how unforgiving or
disaster. At the start of the sit-down with some vain or distracted he is. This is who he is, and
40 senior media gures, the president-elect turned this is who will be running the executive branch
to CNN chief Jeff Zucker and said, I hate your of the U.S. government for four years.
network, everyone at CNN is a liar, and you
should be ashamed, a source told the New York Trumps attacks on his critics are genius
Post. He then criticized NBC for publishing a whether intentionally or not, said Joshua
photo of him with a double chin, before attacking Trump leaving the Times building Miller in The Boston Globe. By bypassing the
stunned reporters one by one for their dishon- traditional media and lling his Twitter feed
est coverage. It was like a f---ing ring squad, the source said. with bluster and bombast, the president-elect has successfully
Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway had a different view of diverted attention from other, sometimes less attering stories
the meeting, calling it a very lively, spirited exchange. including his chaotic Cabinet search and concerns that his sprawl-
ing business empire is creating conicts of interest.
A day later, Trump took a more conciliatory tone with editors, col-
umnists, and reporters at The New York Times, after beginning the But as president-elect, Trumps words matter, said The Washing-
meeting by complaining the paper had covered him unfairly dur- ton Post. During the campaign, it was easy to mock the attacks and
ing the campaign. I think I have been treated very rough, Trump threats of retaliation he leveled at journalists. Now that hes about
said. But he said he had tremendous respect for the Times, and to become leader of the worlds most powerful democracy, these
expressed hope that he could turn around its coverage of him. complaints can no longer be dismissed as cranky late-night ram-
Asked about his commitment to the First Amendments free speech blings. Worse, said Monika Bauerlein in MotherJones.com, Trump
protections, Trumpwho threatened to loosen libel laws and sue is declaring war on transparency at a time when Republicans have
the Times during his campaignreplied: I think youll be happy. unmitigated one-party control over the federal government. In
the past, the Fourth Estate has been essential at moments like these.
What the columnists said Now, under attack from Trump and distrusted by the American
Lets dispense with the fantasy that Trump would be transformed public, the press itself is among the institutions under strain.

...and settles Trump University fraud suits for $25 million

What happened
Putting to rest years-old fraud allegations, Donald Trump agreed
last week to pay $25 million to settle three lawsuits in California
and New York brought by 7,000 former students of Trump Uni-
versity, his now-defunct real estate seminar program. The settle-
ment, announced days before one of the lawsuits was set to go to
trial in San Diego, removes a legal cloud that had hovered over
Trumps presidential transition. Former Trump University students
claimed that they were charged as much as $35,000 for courses
that promised to teach them Trumps real-estate investment secrets
but proved largely worthless. In sworn testimony, former Trump
University managers testied that salespeople were trained to
pressure attendees to buy additional pricey seminars, and that
the enterprisewhich falsely claimed that Trump handpicked the
instructorswas a fraudulent scheme.
During his campaign, Trump had drawn controversy for alleging
that Indiana-born federal judge Gonzalo Curiel, who oversaw two
of the cases, was biased against him because of Curiels Mexican
heritage. Trump had repeatedly called the lawsuits baseless and
vowed never to settle, and as part of the nal settlement did not
admit to any wrongdoing. The ONLY bad thing about winning
the Presidency, Trump tweeted, is that I did not have the time to
go through a long but winning trial on Trump U. Too bad!
What the columnists said
These suits revealed an ugly fact about the president-elect, said
Libby Nelson in Vox.com. For decades, Trump has led his admir-
Getty
ers to believe that hed use his power, wealth, and knowledge to
help them. In reality, his standard operating procedure has been
to exploit others to enrich himself. The people who fell for the
Trump University sales pitch looked a lot like Trumps base
and sincerely believed the celebrity mogul wanted to bring them
wealth. Little did they know Trumps mission was to separate
gullible people from their money.
The settlement was clearly an effort to prevent a major embar-
rassment on the eve of Trumps inauguration, said John Cassidy
in NewYorker.com. Had the San Diego trial gone forward, the
nation would have watched a succession of witnesses explain
how Trump University used false advertising and promises to
lure them into parting with their life savings. Or about how
Trump approved the companys ads but never attended the semi-
nars or even reviewed the curricula. Avoiding such a spectacle
was surely worth a lot more than $25 million to the future
commander-in-chief.
This wont be the end of Trumps legal troubles, said Paul Callan
in CNN.com. Hell still have to worry that potential litigants
will be emboldened by these settlements to pursue cases of their
own against him. Indeed, a nationwide study by USA Today
revealed that Trump currently has at least 75 open lawsuits
against him and his businesses, a historic number of legal mat-
ters for an incoming president. In all likelihood, Trump will be
coughing up substantial coin to make these lawsuits go away
for some time to come.

THE WEEK December 2, 2016

6 NEWS Controversy of the week
Trumps businesses: An unprecedented conflict of interest
Donald Trump ran, and won, on a promise to drain the
swamp of corruption and self-dealing in government, said
Eugene Robinson in The Washington Post. But its already
starting to look as if his real plan is to deepen the muck
and make his fabulously wealthy family even wealthier.
The president-elect owns or has stakes in at least 500
companies, 111 of which do business overseas. The sprawl
extends across Asia, South America, and the Middle East,
and includes such countries as Saudi Arabia, China, India,
and Turkey; his businesses also owe hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars to banks in China and Germany, and
perhaps Russia. Thats a massive and unprecedented
conflict of interest. When dealing with countries where
he does business, will Trump put his own financial
interests aside and do whats best for the U.S.? Trumps
supposed solution is to let his adult children run his
company while he retains ownership, said Pat Garofalo
in USNews.com. Thats no blind trust. In fact, its a
joke. Since the election, Trump has let Eric, Donald Jr.,
and Ivanka Trump serve on his transition team; met Ivanka: Many roles
with business partners from Pune, India, where he is
developing a pair of towers; and invited Ivanka to sit in on a meet- and its no secret how he feels about those.
ing with the Japanese prime minister. Clearly, Trump intends to
turn the presidency into an arm of his family business. The laws
totally on my side, Trump said this week. The president cant
have a conflict of interest.
What this means, said Paul Waldman in WashingtonPost.com, is
that it will now be ridiculously easy to bribe the U.S. president.
Any foreign dictator wanting a favor from Trumpsay, Vladimir
Putincan simply arrange for a local developer to pay Trump
hundreds of millions of dollars to license his name, or hire the
Trump Organization as consultants, or sell the company land
at a big discount. Untold sums could flow into Trumps
pocketsand since hell never release his tax returns, no one
will know. The influence buying has already begun, said
Jonathan OConnell, also in WashingtonPost.com. Since the
election, the new Trump International Hotel in Washington,
D.C., has been hustling for business from diplomats and for-
eign dignitaries, who are eager to give Trump their money.
I can tell the new president, I love your new hotel!
explained one Asian diplomat.
Trump is right about one thingnone of this is illegal,
said Eric Levitz in NYMag.com. Presidents are exempt
from the conflict-of-interest statutes that apply to most
elected officials. Some experts say that Trump risks vio-
lating the Constitutions Emoluments Clause, which bars
officeholders from accepting gifts from any king, prince, or
foreign state. But the law has rarely been enforced, and
theres no binding precedent for its interpretation. Unless
Congress or the courts step in, said Josh Voorhees in
Slate.com, the only hope is that Trump voluntarily
follows the accepted norms of ethical behavior
Trump will give Democrats a big fat target if he doesnt address
this problem, said The Wall Street Journal in an editorial. To avoid
serious political damage, he has to liquidate his stake in the
Trump Organization and put the proceeds in a true blind trust
run by an independent manager. The sale would be painful and
perhaps costly for Trump. But millions of Americans have put
their trust in him to improve their lives, not treat the presidency as
a brief hiatus from his business. If hes serious about cleaning up
Washingtons culture of self-dealing, hes going to have to make a
sacrifice and lead by example.

Good week for:

Only in America
QA group of University of
Michigan students is calling
on school officials to create
a segregated safe space for
African-Americans in the
wake of Donald Trumps elec-
tion. Students 4 Justice said
Trumps election means that
they now have their lives
at risk, and that the campus
police can no longer protect
them because the police, as a
union, has endorsed Trump.
QTexas lawmakers want to
require public school teachers
and counselors to out LGBT
students to their parents. The
proposed right to know law
would compel schools to tell
parents any information about
students psychological or
emotional well-being. LGBT
activist Steve Rudner said that
the law would hurt vulnerable
kids. If your kid is gay, and
can tell his teacher, but hasnt
told you, Rudner said, then
Checking out, after entrepreneurs opened the first DivorceHotel
Boring but important
in upstate New York, allowing guests to check in married and Obama blocks
check out single, all in one weekend. It doesnt need to be the Arctic drilling
worst experience of your entire life, said a divorce mediator. President Obama banned
new oil and gas drilling in
Alone time, after an international study found that highly intel-
ligent people tend to be happier when they spend more time alone, the Arctic Ocean this week,
two months before Donald
working on their goals and interests, and less time socializing with Trumps inauguration
other people. making it nearly impossible
Vengeance, after Donald Trump supporters started an online for the Republican president-
campaign urging like-minded coffee drinkers to use the name of the elect to allow U.S. drilling in
president-elect when ordering at Starbucks. The goal is to force the the area in the near future.
young, presumably liberal baristas to call out Trump every time Obamas five-year offshore
plan allows oil exploration to
an order is ready.
proceed in Alaskas Cook Inlet,
Bad week for: but blocks the sale of drilling
Mailing weed, after a report from the U.S. Post Office Inspector rights in the Chukchi and
General revealed that postal employees are stealing most of the Beaufort Seas north of Alaska.
marijuana that is found while being illegally shipped through the Environmentalists argued that
Arctic drilling would exac-
mail. After suspicious packages are quarantined, theyre stored in
erbate climate change and
unsupervised and unlocked areas. endanger whales and other
Media literacy, after a Stanford University study found that sea life. Trump has expressed
82 percent of middle schoolers couldnt distinguish a real news skepticism that climate change
story on a website from a sponsored content post by a business. is real, but to reverse Obamas
Getting a callback, after a Japanese man admitted to stealing the ban he would have to restart
wallet of a company president during his job interview. I wanted a regulatory review process
that could take as long as two
Newscom

to work for that company, said Shogo Takeda, 24, after confessing
you are the problem. years to complete.
to the crime. But since I havent got a job, I needed money.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
 The U.S. at a glance ...
Louisville
Trumps Ford pressure: President-elect
Donald Trump claimed victory last week
after the Ford Motor Co. said it would
keep pro-
duction of
the Lincoln
MKC
vehicle at its
Louisville
plant. I
worked hard
Fords Louisville assembly line with [Ford
executive
chairman] Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln
plant in Kentucky, tweeted Trump,
implying that he had stopped the com-
pany from moving the entire factory
to Mexico. Ford had never planned to
move the plant or cut any U.S. jobs, and
isnt allowed to do so under its current
contract with the United Auto Workers.
But the company was planning to move
production of the MKC model to
its Cuautitln factory in Mexico
so that Kentucky workers could
focus on building more of the
Ford Escape SUV, which out-
sells the MKC 12 to 1. Ford
reportedly made the largely
symbolic shift in its plans as
an olive branch to Trump,
and to signal it wants to work
with him to make U.S. manufac-
turing more competitive.
San Antonio
Police targeted: A police
officer was killed in San
Antonio this week and
another two officers shot
in targeted attacks in
St. Louis and Sanibel,
Fla., in one of the
Marconi: Killed
bloodiest days for law
enforcement this year. In San Antonio,
police arrested Otis Tyrone McKane, 31,
for allegedly gunning down Detective
Benjamin Marconi as the officer wrote a
traffic ticket outside police headquarters.
As he was taken into the police station,
McKane told reporters he was upset
over a custody battle and lashed out
at someone who didnt deserve it. San
Antonio Police Chief William McManus
said Marconis killing was an attack on
AP, Getty, Newscom, screenshot: YouTube
all officers. I think the uniform was
the target, said McManus. Hours after
Marconi was shot dead, an officer in
St. Louis and one in Sanibel were shot
while sitting in their patrol cars. The sus-
pected attacker in St. Louis was later shot
dead by police, while the Sanibel suspect
was arrested after a shoot-out.
St. Paul, Minn.
Officer charged: A Minnesota police offi-
cer was charged with second-degree man-
slaughter last week over the fatal shooting
of Philando Castile, a black motorist
whose death in July was live-streamed
on Facebook by his girlfriend. Castile,
32, was killed during a traffic stop in
the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights. In
a video streamed immediately after the
shooting, Diamond Reynoldssitting next
to a bleeding Castile, with their 4-year-
old daughter in the backseatsaid her
boyfriend was shot after he told Officer
Jeronimo Yanez that he was armed and
had a license to carry a firearm. I told
him not to reach for it, a uniformed
officer can be heard shouting in the video.
Prosecutors said that Yanez, who fired
seven shots into the car, was not justified
in using deadly force. Yanezs attorneys
said the officer intends to plead not guilty.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
School bus tragedy: At least five elemen-
tary school children were killed and
another 23 injured in Chattanooga this
week, a day before the Thanksgiving
break, when their school bus slammed
into a tree and split apart. The bus was
taking 37 children ranging from kin-
dergartners to fifth-graders home from
Woodmore Elementary School when it
veered off the road, flipped onto its side,
and wrapped around a tree. Emergency
responders took more than two hours to
free all of the children. The buss driver,
Johnthony Walker, 24, was arrested
hours later and charged with five counts
of vehicular homicide, reckless endanger-
ment, and reckless driving. Authorities
said Walker had been driving well
above the posted speed limit of 30 miles
per hour at the time of the accident.
Chattanooga has suffered an unimagi-
nable loss, said Mayor Andy Berke.
There are no words to comfort the bro-
ken heart of a mother or father.
NEWS 7
Washington, D.C.
NSA chief under fire: The heads of
the Pentagon and the intelligence com-
munity have recommended
to President Obama that
NSA Director Adm. Michael
Rogers be removed from his
job, according to
a report published
in The Washington
Post this week.
Unnamed govern- Rogers: Job on the line?
ment officials said
that Defense Secretary Ash Carter and
Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper called for Rogers removal last
month out of frustration over a num-
ber of serious security lapses at the NSA
since former contractor Edward Snowden
leaked thousands of classified documents
in 2015including two subsequent
internal thefts of material at the NSAs
premier cyberhacking unit. Carter is also
reportedly disappointed that the
U.S. Cyber Command, also
under Rogers leadership, was
only able to disrupt online
ISIS networks for the first time
last month. Donald Trump is
said to be considering Rogers as
Clappers replacement to oversee all 17
U.S. intelligence agencies, after Clapper
announced his resignation last week.
Washington, D.C.
Far right cheers Trump:
White nationalists raised
their arms in Nazi salutes
as they celebrated
Donald Trumps
electoral victory in
Washington, D.C.,
this week, during a
gathering for the Spencer: Hail Trump!
alt-right move-
ment. The conference, held annually by
the white supremacist National Policy
Institute, initially focused on how the alt-
right can act more like the mainstream
media. But after many journalists had left,
NPI President Richard Spencer told the
audience at the Ronald Reagan federal
building that America belonged to white
people, whom he called the children
of the sun, according to a video of the
speech. Spencer said that white national-
ists have a psychic connection with
Trump, and that white identity was at the
core of both the alt-right and the Trump
movement, even if most Trump voters
arent willing to articulate it as such.
As he concluded his speech with a Hail
Trump! some attendees ran forward,
holding their arms aloft in a Nazi salute
and shouting Heil the people!
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
 8 NEWS The world at a glance ...
London Kallstadt, Germany
Ambassador Farage? British Prime Minister Trump the exile: A historian has discovered a royal
Theresa May this week politely dismissed decree issued to Donald Trumps grandfather order-
a suggestion from Donald Trump that she ing him to leave Germany and never return. Friedrich
appoint Nigel Farage, the leader of the anti- Trump was born in the town of Kallstadt in 1869
immigrant, pro-Brexit U.K. Independence and emigrated to the U.S. at 16 to escape poverty.
Party, as Britains ambassador to the U.S. He made a fortune running taverns and brothels
The president-elect said on Twitter that in Canadas Yukon territory, but returned to Friedrich Trump
Farage, a staunch Trump supporter, would Kallstadt with his homesick German wife in 1901.
Farage: Trump pick
do a great job in the post. There is no Four years later, Friedrich was issued with the deportation order
vacancy, a spokesman for May replied. We have an excellent recently unearthed by historian Roland Paulas punishment for
ambassador to the U.S. During a meeting with Farage last week, skipping mandatory military service. Friedrich wrote a letter in
Trump encouraged the UKIP leader to oppose offshore wind farms which he begged the well-loved, noble, wise, and just prince of
similar to one being developed near his golf course in Balmedie, Bavaria to let him stay, but the request was denied and the Trumps
Scotland, said The New York Times. He did not say he hated boarded a New York Citybound steamship on July 1, 1905.
wind farms, said Andy Wigmore, a British media consultant pres-
ent at the meeting. He just did not like them spoiling the views.
Sabha, Libya
Monkey war: A pet monkey has been blamed for sparking
a tribal conflict that left as many as 40 Libyans dead and scores
more injured. The violence erupted in the town of Sabha when
a monkey owned by a member of the Gaddadfa tribe reportedly
attacked a schoolgirl from the Suleiman tribe, scratching her face
and pulling off her head scarf. Suleiman tribal members soon retal-
iated, killing several Gaddadfa men as well as the monkey. That in
turn triggered more reprisals, and Sabha residents stayed indoors
as gunfire, tank cannons, and mortar rounds shook the town.
After four days of clashes, tribal leaders were able to halt the
fighting. Enmity runs deep between the two tribes. Former Libyan
leader Muammar al-Qaddafi was a member of the Gaddadfa;
members of the Suleiman were accused of plotting his 2011 ouster.

Caracas
First nephews imprisoned: Two nephews of
Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores were found
guilty in a U.S. court last week of conspiring
to ship 1,700 pounds of cocaine to the U.S.
Efrain Campo, 30, and his cousin Francisco
Flores, 31, were arrested in Haiti last Novem-
ber and flown to the U.S. following a sting
operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency. During the trial in Manhattan federal
court, prosecutors said the men had plotted
to use a presidential hangar at a Venezuelan
Campo and Flores: Busted
airport to send millions of dollars worth of
cocaine to Honduras, on its way to the U.S. Campo and Flores
each face a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Lima
Obama warns Trump: President Obama said this
week that he might break with tradition and pub-
licly criticize President-elect Donald Trump if he
feels that his successor is threatening essential
American values. I want to be respectful of the
office and give the president-elect an oppor-
tunity to put forward his platform and
his arguments, Obama said at a press
Obama: Speaking out conference after the Asia-Pacific Economic
Rio de Janeiro
Gangs vs. police: Five police officers
and at least seven civilians were killed in
an outbreak of gang violence last week
that left Rio de Janeiros western neigh-
Policing the City of God
borhoods resembling a war zone. Four
police died when their helicopter crashed during a security opera-
tion in the notorious City of God favela. In video footage of the
Reuters, Wikimedia, AP, Newscom (2)

Cooperation summit in Lima. But he added that if an issue goes
to core questions about our values and our ideals, and if I think
that its necessary or helpful for me to defend those ideals, then
he would speak out. The president added that his main advice for
Trump is to remember that America really is an indispensable
nation when it comes to upholding the world order. Theres
nobody to fill the void, Obama said. There really isnt.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
crash, sustained gunfire can be heard before the aircraft tumbles
from the sky, but investigators said they had found no evidence
that the helicopter had been shot down. Following the choppers
crash, military police flooded the favela, arresting residents and
seizing weapons. Soon after, the bodies of seven local young men
were found, some of whom had allegedly been killed execution-
style. Residents blamed the deaths on police.
 The world at a glance ...
Moscow
No Americanos: Cafs across Russia are scrubbing the Americano
off their coffee menus and replacing it with the more patrioti-
cally named Russiano, following a joke by Prime Minister Dmitry
Medvedev. Speaking at a conference of Eurasian leaders last week,
the premier quipped that in these times of heightened U.S.-Russia
tension, calling a shot of espresso topped with hot water an
Americano didnt seem politically correct. Other summitgoers
replied that the drink should be rebranded the Russiano, and
cafs and restaurants throughout the nation soon began following
their advice. One establishment, Bar-Restaurant Ogonyok in the
Ural Mountains, has gone even further, changing its menu so that
a Jack Daniels is now called a Zhora Denisov, a Lynchburg lem-
onade is a Saratov limonad, and a B-52 cocktail is an SU-34the
name of a Russian fighter jet.
Ankara
Widening crackdown: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
stepped up his purge of political opponents this week, firing an
additional 15,000 civil servants from their jobs and shutting
down 375 organizations, including nine news outlets. Turkish
authorities said that those dismissedwho included soldiers and
police, tax inspectors and midwiveswere linked to U.S.-based
Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the regime accuses of
masterminding Julys failed coup attempt. The state is not fully
cleared of this treacherous gang, Erdogan said.
We wont allow them to destroy this country.
More than 125,000 people have been fired or
suspended from their jobs since July, and some
Newscom (2), Getty, Newscom
36,000 have been jailed. The latest dismiss-
als came on the same day that the European
Parliament was due to debate whether to
halt accession talks for Turkey to join the
European Union, because of the countrys
Erdogan worsening record on human rights.
NEWS 9
Seoul
President under pressure: South Koreas main
opposition parties this week began planning for
the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye,
after prosecutors named her as a co-conspirator
in an influence-peddling scandal that has
rocked her administration. Parks troubles stem
from her decades-long friendship with Choi
Soon-sil, the daughter of a religious cult leader,
who has been charged with using her influence
with the president to shake down businesses
for $69 million. Prosecutors say Park helped
Choi extort that cash, but as president she is Protesting Park
protected from indictment. Park has apologized, but refuses to step
down. Members of the national legislature have been under grow-
ing pressure to oust Park, with weekly demonstrations drawing
hundreds of thousands of protesters across the country.
Kabul
ISIS attacks Shiites: An ISIS suicide bomber killed at least
30 people and left more than 70 injured in an attack on a Shiite
mosque in Kabul this week, the latest assault on a religious minor-
ity in Afghanistan to be claimed by the Sunni jihadist group. The
bomber detonated his explosive vest after hundreds of worshippers
had crowded into the Baqir ul-Uloom mosque in the Afghan capi-
tal. The blast was so powerful that it blew out all the windows in
the three-story building and left the walls coated with blood. We
were offering the final prayer when we heard a big bang and saw
a big flame, said Salman Firuzi, a worshipper who said he helped
carry 20 dead bodies out of the mosque. It was the third major
attack against Shiites in Kabul in as many months.
Purwa, India
Horrific train wreck: Rescuers this
week were combing through the
twisted wreckage of a passenger
train that derailed near the village
of Purwa, killing at least 146 people
and leaving dozens seriously injured.
Survivors said the overcrowded train
After the crash suddenly swerved off the track, caus-
ing its 14 cars to crumple into each
other, trapping hundreds of passengers for hours. Emergency
workers used cranes and gas cutters to separate the mangled com-
partments, as they scoured the site for survivors. The cause of the
crash is still unknown, but accidents are common on Indias aging
railway network, killing more than 25,000 people every year.
Aleppo, Syria
Last hospitals bombed: Russian and Syrian government air-
craft bombarded the last working hospitals in rebel-held eastern
Aleppo this week, forcing the facilities to close and leaving up
to 300,000 people trapped in the devastated city without critical
health services. Warplanes bombed two general hospitals as well as
eastern Aleppos only pediatric hospital, where doctors and nurses
rushed to evacuate babies in incubators to safety. The attacks were
the culmination of days of airstrikes
that have killed more than 300 peo-
ple in some of the most intense
bombing of the five-year-old civil war.
Observers believe that the stepped-up
attacks show that the Syrian regime
and its allies in Moscow are prepar-
ing for a final push to gain total con-
trol of Aleppo, the countrys second-
largest city after Damascus. Another airstrike victim
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10 NEWS People
Oswalts heartbreaking grief
Patton Oswalt is going through one of the dark-
est periods of his life, said Jason Zinoman in
The New York Times. In April, the comedians
world fell apart when his wife, true-crime writer
Michelle McNamara, unexpectedly died in her
sleep at age 46. That day, says Oswalt, was the
second worst of his life. The worst is when I
told my daughter the next day. Seven months
later, Oswalt is still inconsolable. He has tried counseling, has read
C.S. Lewis A Grief Observed, and even tried drinkingbut noth-
ing has helped. His previous battles with depression pale in com-
parison to the pain he is feeling now. Depression is more seductive.
Its tool is Wouldnt it be way more comfortable to stay inside and
not deal with people? Grief is an attack on life. Its an ambush. It
stands right out there and says, The minute you try something, Im
waiting for you. Doing stand-up has been cathartic, though he
cant help but guiltily think: Your wife is dead and youre telling
jokes? Whats wrong with you? He has also created a new thera-
peutic ritual with his 7-year-old daughter, where they sit down every
night before bed and write down three things they remember about
McNamara. It keeps this living portrait of her, says Oswalt,
choking up. At this point, the only thing he can do is carry on. Ill
never be 100 percent again, but that wont stop me from living.

Paglias dangerous world

Camille Paglia is a different sort of feminist, says Emily Hill in The
Spectator (U.K.). The New Yorkborn essayist and iconoclast calls
herself a street-smart Amazon feminist, and scoffs at safe spaces,
trigger warnings, and gender quotas. Im from an immigrant
family, she says. The way I was brought up was: The world is
a dangerous place; you must learn to defend yourself. You cant
be a fool. Modern parenting and campus politics, she says, raise
women in precisely the opposite mold: cosseted, protected from
anything difficult or dangerous, taught to fixate on their own
victimhood. We are rocketing backwards here to the Victorian
period, with this belief that women are not capable of making
decisions on their own. This is not feminism. There will never be
equality of the sexes if we think that women are so handicapped
they cant look after themselves. Paglia also has provocative views
on male-female relations and date rape. Now you have this shib-
boleth, No means no. Well, no. Sometimes No means Not yet.
Sometimes No means Too soon. Sometimes No means Keep
trying and maybe yes. For challenging modern feminism, Paglia
says, she has been defamed, attacked, and viciously maligned.
Becks philosophical conversion
Glenn Beck has had a startling change of heart, said Nicholas
Schmidle in The New Yorker. The right-wing pundit built his career
on attacking the Left, regularly launching conspiratorial rants on the
Marxist-Islamist cabal plotting to take over America. He famously
called Barack Obama a racist with a deep-seated hatred for white
people. But Beck says hes undergone a philosophical transforma-
tion, partly as a result of listening to Obama talk about race. I did a
lot of freaking out about Obama, he says, [but] Obama made me
a better man. Beck is now a full-throated supporter of Black Lives
Matter. There are things unique to the African-American experi-
ence that I cannot relate to. I had to listen to them. He thinks its
time Americans ended the culture war, and re-adopted decency in
public life. We have, as a culture, embraced the bad guys. I love
Tony Soprano. But, when a Tony Soprano shows up in your life, you
dont love him so much. Beck admits his hysterical punditry had a
major role in this trendand in paving the way for a Donald Trump
presidency. Weve made everything into a game show, and now
were reaping the consequences of it. So much of what I used to
believe was either always a sham or has been made into a sham.

QFuture first lady Melania Trump and her
10-year-old son, Barron, will remain in
New York City rather than move to the
White House after Donald Trump be-
comes president. The former model,
46, will remain based at the familys
posh penthouse at Trump Tower
so Barron can continue classes at
the private Columbia Grammar
and Preparatory School on Manhat-
tans Upper West Side. Melania is
extremely close to Barron, a source
close to Trumps transition team tells
the New York Post. The campaign
mute to Washington, D.C., when necessary, his Saint Pablo tour, during which hes gone
sources said, but plans to focus on her son, off on several rambling rants. At a concert
rather than any official duties as first lady. last week in San Jose, West declared that he
The Trumps say she will move to the White would have voted for Donald Trump if hed
House when the school year ends. voted at all, while the crowd booed.
Q Kanye West was hospitalized this week QAfter a brief interruption, Katie Holmes
for his own safety at UCLA Medical Center and Jamie Foxx have reportedly resumed
in Los Angeles after some bizarre behavior, their not very secret relationship, Radar
with sources telling People he feels as if hes Online.com reports. Holmes, 37, who in 2012
under spiritual attack. The hospitalization finalized her acrimonious divorce from Tom
came after Los Angeles police responded to Cruise after six years of marriage, began
a medical welfare call regarding West. He dating Cruises former friend Foxx, 48, on the
is exhausted and currently dealing with sleep down low the following year. The actress and
deprivation, the source close to West said. the actor-comedian have never confirmed
Friends told DailyMail.com that West had suf- their relationship, and Holmes became im-
fered a breakdown triggered by problems patient because Foxx was too noncommittal.
AP, Newscom (2)

has been difficult for Barron, and she in his marriage, paranoia over his rift with Insiders say the couple missed each other
is really hoping to keep disruption Jay Z, and his seething jealousy of Beyonc. and have reconciledbut still wont confirm
to a minimum. Melania will com- The rapper called off the remaining dates of the romance.

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 Briefing NEWS 11

The crippled International Criminal Court

Russia just announced it is joining South Africa in withdrawing from the ICC. Is international justice doomed?

What is the ICC? did join, but after a few years many
Its the one place in the world African countries said the court was
where genocide can be prosecuted. biased against Africans.
Headquartered in The Hague,
Netherlands, the International Criminal Is that charge true?
Court weighs evidence of the worst Of the 39 people who have been
crimes on the planet: crimes against indicted, all are Africans, including
humanity, including genocide and sys- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir,
tematic torture. The ICC is a court of former Ivorian President Laurent
last resort to bring the worlds monsters Gbagbo, and Kenyan President
to justice, and it hears a case only if Uhuru Kenyatta (see box). But that
the state where the atrocity occurred is alone isnt evidence of bias: Most
unable or unwilling to convene a fair of the cases were referred to the
trialeither because a conflict has deci- court by African governments them-
mated the justice system or because the selves. The current prosecutor, Fatou
accused is in power. There is no jury; The ICC headquarters at The Hague Bensouda of Gambia, points out that
instead, a panel of judges decides each the victims of the crimes for which
case. Over 14 years, just four people have been convicted: three indictees are being prosecuted have also been Africanspeople
Congolese warlords and one Malian extremist. with no hope of getting justice in their own countries. Bensouda
was appointed in 2012 expressly to combat the ICCs image as
How did it come to be? anti-African, and she has opened preliminary investigations into
The court began operating in 2002, but its roots go back to the possible war crimes in Georgia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq,
end of World War II. After the Nazi concentration camps were Palestine, and Ukraine. But Africans are not appeased. Sheriff
liberated and the Allies held war-crimes trials in Nuremberg and Bojang, Gambias information minister, calls the ICC a court for
Japan, international leaders began discussing ways to ensure the persecution and humiliation of people of color.
that such hideous crimes could not happen again. In 1948, the
newly formed United Nations adopted the Genocide Convention Who has quit the ICC?
and the year after that the Geneva Conventions, which lay out South Africa was first, last month. Its government ignored the
wartime rules for the treatment of wounded soldiers, prisoners ICC indictment and failed to arrest Sudans Bashir when he visited
of war, and civilians. But there was no court that could prosecute South Africa for a regional conference this year. South Africa says
offenders, and many atrocities went unpunished. Then, in the it cant fulfill its role as the continents peace broker if its expected
1990s, two horrifying events rekindled calls for an international to arrest the warring leaders. Gambia and Burundi followed,
court: the Yugoslav civil wars, which brought concentration and Kenya and other African states may, too. Last week, Russia
camps back to Europe, and the Rwandan genocide, in which withdrew from the court altogether after the ICC issued a report
800,000 people were slaughtered in just 100 days. An appalled calling the annexation of Crimea an occupation. Russias exit is
U.N. set up special tribunals to try war crimes for both those con- symbolic, since Russia never ratified the treaty, but Cambridge
flicts, and the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the court, was University law professor Sarah Nouwen says every withdrawal
signed in 1998. From the beginning, though, the court suffered a hurts. The smaller the courts jurisdiction, the more selective it
crisis of legitimacy. will be seen as operating.
Kenyattas ill-fated indictment
What hampered it? The indictment of Kenyan President Uhuru Will the court survive?
At its inception, the court was seen as Kenyatta was a turning point for African objec- In diminished form, perhaps, but
a godsend for Africa. Our own conti- tions to the court. It was the first time the ICC the court is headed for even greater
nent has suffered enough horrors ema- decided to prosecute a case on its own volition, opposition in the coming months.
nating from the inhumanity of human without being referred by a member state or the The ICC is about to open an official
beings towards human beings, said U.N., and many Africans saw it as unwarranted investigation into possible war crimes
Nelson Mandela when he signed the meddling. Prosecutors indicted Kenyatta, his committed in Afghanistan from 2002
treaty. Many of these might not have rival, William Ruto, and several others for incit- to 2005some by the Taliban but
occurred, or at least been minimized, ing revenge killings after the disputed 2007 elec- others by U.S. forces. Charges against
had there been an effectively function- tion. But evidence was hard to come bypartly Americans are unlikely, as the prosecu-
ing International Criminal Court. But because of Kenyan government obstruction and tor would have to show that the U.S.
the largest world powers, including the witness intimidation. Kenyatta and Ruto then failed to address allegations of torture
U.S., did not join. The Clinton admin- joined political forces to become president and through its own justice system. But the
istration signed the treaty, but by the vice president, campaigning and winning the mere existence of an investigation is
time it came into force in 2002 with 60 2013 election while under indictment for crimes likely to harden U.S. opposition to the
ratifications, the Bush administration against humanity. After that rebuke of the court court. President-elect Donald Trump
decided to unsign it, saying it could by Kenyan voters, the ICC dropped the charges. has already said he wants to bring
put U.S. soldiers at risk of prosecution. One ICC official told Reuters that Africas rejec- back waterboarding and go tougher
Russia signed but did not ratify, and tion of the courts authority was bound to hap- in terrorism interrogations, so coopera-
China and India didnt sign at all. Most pen when dictators decide to run for cover. tion between a Trump administration
of Africa, South America, and Europe and the ICC is all but ruled out.
AP

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12 NEWS Best columns: The U.S.
The Democrats fixation on diversity has turned into an all-encompassing
Identity politics obsession that cost them the election, said Mark Lilla. The moral prin- It must be true...
cost liberals ciples underlying identity politics are valid and have had many good
effects: Affirmative action has brought minorities into all-white work-
I read it in the tabloids
the election places; Black Lives Matter delivered a wake-up call to every American
with a conscience; and liberal cultures efforts to normalize homosexu-
QA Bernie Sanders sup-
porter who lost a bet on the
Mark Lilla ality produced a sea change in how families and society treat gays. But presidential election now
The New York Times Democrats have become so focused on racial, gender, and sexual iden- has a permanent reminder of
tity, its made them indifferent to people outside their designated, disad- the vote: a tattoo of Donald
vantaged groups. During the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton too Trumps face on his lower
often campaigned as a champion of women, Latinos, African-Americans, back. Iowan Zach Cobert was
and gays. That message left white, rural, and religious people feeling ex- so certain that the Republican
cluded. In the end, two-thirds of Americans without college degrees and would be defeated that he
made a bet with a Trump-
80 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump. Blaming their defeat
backing buddy, pledging to
on a whitelash will only allow liberals to continue to write off half the get a tattoo of Trump if the
country, while waiting for demographics to save them. To win national businessman won. A week
elections, Democrats need to shift their focus away from identity politics after Election Day, Cobert
and return to emphasizing Americans shared destiny. made good on his promise
and got inked with a Trump
stamp, which he called the
Donald Trump has said that dismantling the Iran nuclear deal will be
The prospect his No. 1 priority as president, said Joshua Keating. What happens
stupidest thing Ive done. His
girlfriend agreed. Im not
of war if he does? The president-elects advisers have signaled he wants to re-
negotiate the treatywhich curbs the Islamic regimes nuclear program
happy with [the tattoo], said
Jenni Gang. I have to look at
with Iran in exchange for sanctions reliefrather than scrap it entirely. But the
Iranian regime has insisted it will accept no changes, and with Russia
it forever.
QChina has
Joshua Keating and the European nations that signed the deal opposing renegotia- blocked social
Slate.com tion, Trump would lack the leverage of the multilateral sanctions that media users
brought Iran to the table in the first place. So hed probably impose from calling
new U.S.-only sanctions to punish Iranleading the irate Iranians to North Koreas
withdraw from the deal altogether. That would not only destroy the portly dictator
Wests ability to monitor the Islamic regimes nuclear activity, it would Kim Jong Un
also strengthen the Islamic hard-liners who opposed moderate President Kim Fatty III,
Hassan Rouhanis outreach to the West, and weaken Rouhani. At that Kim Abundant III, and Kim
point, Irans nuclear enrichment programs could resume. Trump Fat Fatty, after complaints
administration hawks would then argue that the only way to stop Iran from their allys regime. The
would be with a major military strike. Once that happens, the scenar- now-blocked nicknames
ios become much more dangerous, and much harder to predict. poked fun at the Glorious
Leaders ever-expanding
waistlinethe cheese-loving
House Republicans are considering bringing back pork-barrel spending Kim has reportedly gained
Bring back and for the good of our country, they should, said Chris Cillizza. Ear- nearly 100 poundsand his
status as the third generation
pork-barrel marks, as Congress calls member items in which federal funds are
doled out to museums, programs, highways, and other projects in their of the Kim family to rule his
country. Creative Chinese
spending districts, were banned when Republicans took control of the House in
2010, as evidence they were cleaning up Washington. While banning social media users now refer
to the double-chinned despot
Chris Cillizza these handouts sounded good in theory, the fact is that Congress works
as Chubby III, Kim Fatty 2+1,
The Washington Post better when it, um, actually works. And pork-barrel spending was the and Kim Fat Fat Fat.
grease that kept the legislative wheels turning. Legislative leaders used
these allocations to get the votes of reluctant members and cut deals on QA New York City woman
important legislation addressing major national problems. In the year is suing fashion retailer Zara
after a dress she bought
that the earmark ban went into effect, the government spent $16.5 bil-
came with an unwelcome ac-
lion on pork-barrel projects, just a small fraction of the $3.8 trillion bud- cessory: a dead rat sewn into
get that year. Since that spending disappeared, compromise has ground the hem. Cailey Fiesel, 24,
to a halt and Congress has been largely paralyzed. Earmarking may not noticed that a disturbingly
be the way government should work, but it is the way government does pungent odor followed her
work, and did for more than two centuries. So bring it back. around when she first wore
the foreign-made, $40 dress
to work. When she investi-
Viewpoint Im not a white nationalist. Im a nationalist, an economic nationalist. The
gated, she found the leg of
globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in
a dead rat protruding from
Asia. Like [Andrew] Jacksons populism, were going to build an entirely new political movement
a seam. Fiesel is suing for
related to jobs. Im the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates
throughout the world, its the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything: Shipyards, ironworks, get unspecified damages, say-
them all jacked up. If we deliver, well get 60 percent of the white vote, and 40 percent of the black ing Zara dresses should be
and Hispanic vote, and well govern for 50 years. free from defects, including
Newscom

Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon in The Hollywood Reporter rodent infestations.

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of the Witches of Oz

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14 NEWS Best columns: Europe
Its taken Donald Trumps victory to make me truly
UNITED KINGDOM appreciate our monarchy, said Giles Fraser. This
was the thought that occurred to me when, in a
Thank God vain attempt to distract myself from the night-
mare of the U.S. election, I started watching The
we have Crown, the Netflix series about Queen Elizabeth II.
Trump makes you realize how valuable it is for
the queen a country to have something beyond the bal-
lot box to unite around. I see this every week at
Giles Fraser
the London church where Im parish priest. The
The Guardian
members of the congregation, from a wide range
of backgrounds, have little in common. Yet they all
sing God Save the Queen with an affection that
you would never see directed at an elected official.
Some anti-monarchists claim that the royal family
is a threat to progressive reform, that this historic
institution is the embodiment of British conserva-
tism. Thats nonsense. Indeed, its arguable that
the steady, reassuring presence of King George VI
made it easier for Prime Minister Clement Attlee
to introduce radical progressive policies, including
the National Health Service and welfare state, in
the years following World War II. In an age where
the money god has become incarnate in this man
Trump, we should thank our lucky stars that our
head of state worships at a very different altar.

GERMANY Something disturbing is happening on German
TV, said Boris Reitschuster. Earlier this month, a
Stop giving prime-time talk show aired a discussion on why
some young German Muslims are being radical-
airtime to ized. One guest, a Swiss Islamist wearing a black
niqab, claimed it was fine for teenagers who feel
rabble-rousers discriminated against to go and join ISIS in
Syria. Only the scandalized reaction of the other
Boris Reitschuster
Muslim guests gave any indication that her views
Focus were controversial. This propagandist should
never have been allowed on air, yet its no sur-
prise that she was. In their desperate competition
for viewers, German talk shows host the most
outrageous speakers and justify it in the name of
democracy, as though spreading hateful lies
were a basic right. We see it constantly, too, with
pro-Putinists who are introduced as indepen-
dent experts and given free rein by presenters
whose bosses have told them not to be too criti-
cal. Well-informed Russian journalists who could
give a more honest view are never invited on air.
As the great social democrat Carlo Schmid said
in 1948, we must have the courage to be intoler-
ant of those who take advantage of democracy in
order to destroy it. He was thinking of the demo-
cratic politicians of the doomed Weimar Republic
who failed to stand up to Nazis and communists.
It happened once; it could happen again.

France: Contemplating a President Le Pen

The tectonic plates of French politics grabbing its attention with wild
have shifted, said Le Monde (France) in promises and offensive language.
an editorial. After Trumps shock elec- The polished Le Pen, though, wants
toral triumph and this summers vote to woo voters from Frances two
by Britain to leave the European Union, main parties, the Republicans and
stunned politicians on the Left, Right, the Socialists. To do that, shes aban-
and Far Right are now muttering the doned the National Fronts overtly
same words: Everything is possible. anti-Semitic, racist rhetoric and tried
One increasingly likely possibility is to present the party as a force for
that Marine Le Pen, leader of the xeno- moderate nationalism. That make-
phobic, anti-immigrant National Front over has boosted support for the Na-
party, could be elected French presi- tional Frontjust not enough, said
dent in 2017. The 48-year-old Le Pen Dagens Nyheter (Sweden). The once
certainly thinks history is on her side. fringe party took 28 percent of the
A new world is emerging, she said vote in regional elections last year,
after Trumps victory. Polls suggest that Trumps win has boosted the National Front leader. up from 11 percent in 2010. Still, Le
the populist Le Pen would win at least Pen needs more than 50 percent to
25 percent of votes in the first round of the election, in April, win the presidency. That likely wont happen, because her pro-
enough to qualify for the May runoff, said the Financial Times posal to dump the euro and reintroduce the franc as the national
(U.K.). But forecasts show that voters, scared of radical change, currency scares off business as well as pensioners and savers.
would then rally behind her more conventional adversarylikely
to be Alain Jupp or Franois Fillon, two former prime ministers But to defeat a populist, you need a fresh, popular candidate,
who are battling for nomination by the center-right Republicans. said Jean-Dominique Merchet in LOpinion (France). Hillary
After the electoral upsets of the past year, no one is likely to take Clinton lost to Trump because she was a woman of the past
too much comfort from these predictions. and a representative of the elites. The men who would challenge
Le Pen are similarly stale. Jupp, 71, first joined the government
Its easy to draw parallels between Trumps and Le Pens election 30 years ago; Fillon, 62, is an establishment figure who served
strategies, said Jean-Claude Jaillette in Marianne (France). Both as prime minister from 2007 to 2012. In country after country,
support protectionist trade policies, are hostile to immigration the people are voting against the system. Will French voters fed
especially from Muslim nationsand want a closer relationship up with a 10 percent unemployment rate, near zero percent eco-
with Russia. Yet an essential difference separates the two. nomic growth, and the ongoing threat of jihadist violence really
Trump mobilized a once indifferent slice of the electorate by settle for the status quo?
AP

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 Best columns: International NEWS 15

Israel: Mixed blessings from a Trump administration

Americas relationship with Israel Why has Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
could be about to enter a new golden jamin Netanyahu, who is usually
age, said Isi Leibler in The Jerusalem quick to castigate any minute mani-
Post. U.S. President-elect Donald festation of anti-Semitism around
Trump literally gushes over Israel, the globe, turned a blind eye to this
and has promised to revitalize an al- poison? This should be a wake-up
liance that rotted under President call to liberal American Jews, said
Obama. Trump supports settlement Daniel Gordis in The Jerusalem
construction in the West Bank, says Post. For years, they have adopted a
he will move the U.S. Embassy from holier-than-thou attitude toward
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and has pledged our right-wing government and the
to terminate Obamas bogus nuclear occupation of the West Bank. But
deal with Iran. Despite these pro- now that liberalism is under frontal
Israel credentials, many liberal Ameri- Israels right is celebrating Trumps victory. attack in the U.S., it is time for them
can Jews have tried to tar Trump as to end the preaching and moral-
an anti-Semite, accusing him of appointing a Jew hater, Steve izing. Let us reassert an ancient truth: We are one people, and
Bannon, the former head of the right-wing Breitbart News, as when we stop feeling and expressing that, we flirt with existen-
his chief strategist. This is nonsense: Bannon surrounded himself tial danger.
with Jews at Breitbart, is a fierce critic of Obamas appeasement
of Iran and radical Islam, and is known for his fervent support The Israeli right would be wise to calm its excitement about
for Israel. To smear him as an anti-Semite is beyond the pale. Trump, said Itamar Eichner in Yedioth Ahronoth. High-ranking
Israeli officials who know the president-elect say that he is com-
Like confession in the Catholic Church, support for Israel ap- pletely pro-Israel and note that his son-in-law and chief adviser,
parently absolves all sins, said Chemi Shalev in Haaretz. And Jared Kushner, is Jewish. But they also told me that Trump is
Bannon has committed many, many sins. According to a sworn impulsive and impossible to predict. On the campaign trail, he
statement by his ex-wife in 2007, Bannon once said that he said that Israel would need to pay for the security assistance it
didnt like Jews and didnt want his daughters going to school receives from the U.S. Trump later walked back this statement,
with whiny Jewish brats. During Bannons reign at Breit- but the red flags have been raised. Worryingly, the officials
bart, the site ran articles referring to conservative commentator said they couldnt rule out a scenario in which Trump would use
Bill Kristol as a renegade Jew and to Washington Post colum- Israel as a bargaining chip with another major power, such as
nist Anne Applebaum as a Polish, Jewish, American elitist. Russia. In other words, he will put Americas interests first.

ISIS has taken root in Pakistan, and our leaders are
PAKISTAN in denial, said Zahid Hussain. Last month, the ji-
hadist group claimed responsibility for an attack on
How anti-Shiite the police academy in Quetta, in which 61 cadets
were killed, many as they slept in their dormito-
preaching ries; this month, an ISIS suicide bomber attacked a
remote shrine in Balochistan province revered by
enables ISIS both Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, killing at
least 52 worshippers, many of them children. While
Zahid Hussain
the terrorist group doesnt yet have a formal orga-
Dawn
nizational structure in Pakistan, it has found allies
among local Islamist groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
and Tehrik-i-Talibanoutfits that once joined ef-
forts with al Qaida. What brings them together is
the strong anti-Shiite bent of their jihadist ideol-
ogy. Pakistan has allowed this sectarian hatred to
grow in its midst. In Balochistan, where sectarian
militancy is on the rise, were seeing the mush-
rooming of foreign-funded radical madrassas,
backed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. The
government has allowed these religious schools to
preach overtly anti-Shiite hate, and Sunni sectarian
groups have grown strong. Worse, theres evidence
that jihadist groups are cooperating with militias
that were sponsored by the intelligence agencies
to counter Baloch separatists. Pakistans Shiite
minority is in danger, as are we all. We are reaping
the whirlwind of our misplaced policies.

NAMIBIA Namibian leaders cant blame global warming
for the countrys water emergency, said Victoria
Dont use Tuwilika Shifidi. Experts say that the Von Bach
Damthe main water supply dam for the capital,
climate change Windhoekwill be dry by the end of the year.
Already, livestock are dying of thirst, and villagers
as a scapegoat have begun drinking unsafe well water because
water has stopped flowing from their taps. The
Victoria Tuwilika Shifidi
government says that this crisis is a result of cli-
The Namibian mate change, but its letting itself off the hook. We
may be in a major drought, but its not unprec-
Newscom
emanate more from poor management than from
the weather. Authorities have approved water-
intensive projects such as breweries and chicken
farms in dry areas, and there are practically no
regulations on water pollution. Factories, hotels,
and individuals continue to pollute streams,
waterways, and subsequently dams, with no re-
percussions whatsoever. We arent suffering from
physical water scarcity so much as economic
water scarcity. That is both the good news and
the bad. Better resource management can solve the

edented, and its not the worst the country has problem, but our nations leaders tend to lose mo-
faced. In fact, our current water crisis seems to mentum whenever it starts raining well again.
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16 NEWS
Noted
QThe Democratic Party
leadership is dominated
by senior citizens. In the
House, the top three
Democrats are Nancy
Pelosi, 76, Steny Hoyer, 77,
and Jim Clyburn, 76. The
top three Republican lead-
ers, by contrast, are Paul
Ryan, 46, Kevin McCarthy,
51, and Steve Scalise, 52.
The Washington Post
QThere are now more
marijuana dispensaries in
Colorado than there are
Starbucks coffee shops.
The Economist
QIn an increasingly polar-
ized nation, ticket splitting
is essentially dead. For the
first time in U.S. history,
every state that elected
a Republican senator in
the recent election gave a
plurality of its votes to the
Republican presidential
nominee (Donald Trump),
and every state that elect-
ed a Democratic senator
went for the Democratic
presidential nominee
(Hillary Clinton).
Vox.com
QApproximately
60,000 protest-
ers demonstrated
at Nixons re-
election; about
20,000 people
protested George
W. Bushs first
inauguration.
On Facebook,
some
110,000
people
have said they are attend-
ing the Womens March
against Trumps inaugura-
tion on Jan.21; another
200,000 are interested
ingoing.
The New Yorker
QAway from the East and
West coasts, Republicans
now so dominate the
country that a traveler
could drive 3,600 miles
across the continent, from
Key West, Fla., to the Ca-
nadian border at Porthill,
Idaho, without ever cross-
ing a blue state.
The Wall Street Journal
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
Talking points
Sessions: A big nomination fight ahead
Donald Trump evidently wants
to put the white back in White
House, said Michael Tomasky
in TheDailyBeast.com. The
president-elect last week nomi-
nated Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions
as his attorney generala man
deemed too racist to be a fed-
eral judge. In 1986, the Senate
Judiciary Committee blocked
the thenU.S. attorneys nomina-
tion after hearing testimony that Sessions: A history of racism?
he addressed a black assistant U.S. attorney as
boy and warned him to be careful what you
say to white folks, and denounced the NAACP
and ACLU as un-American and communist-
inspired. The four-term U.S. senatorfull
name Jefferson Beauregard Sessions IIIbuilt his his career on law and order, and is just the man
reputation prosecuting black civil rights activ-
ists on trumped-up voter fraud charges and has
described the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act
as intrusive legislation. Sessions nomination
confirms our worst fears about Trumps white
nationalist administration, said Scott Lemieux in to enforce federal civil rights law, hate crimes law,
NewRepublic.com. If this Confederate flagwaver and marriage equality, and let states do as they
is approved by the Senate, say goodbye to police, please. Sessions confirmation hearing will be the
antitrust, and civil rights prosecutions, and watch president-elects first big fight, said Jennifer
the Justice Department lead a witch hunt against
phony voter fraud involving minorities.
Sessions is no racist, said Mark Hemingway in
WeeklyStandard.com. He vehemently denied
Fake news: How the media lost its influence
We are living on the edge of an information cri-
sis, said David Zurawik in The Baltimore Sun. A
new analysis by BuzzFeed.com found that 20 fake
election stories generated more Facebook engage-
ment during the homestretch of the campaign than
did real news from 19 major outlets combined.
All but three of the fake stories were overtly
proDonald Trump, including a story claiming
Clinton sold weapons to ISIS and another claim-
ing the pope had endorsed Trump. Facebook has
said it will create a task force to tackle the issue.
But that wont solve the underlying problem, said
Gregory Ferenstein in WashingtonPost.com. A
recent Gallup poll found that trust in the media
is at a historic low of 32 percent, down 28 points
since 2005. Thanks to the proliferation of highly
partisan and conspiracy-theory sites online, people
are becoming immune to any information that
contradicts their beliefs, dismissing news and opin-
ion they dont like as biased.
The mainstream media has only itself to blame,
said David Harsanyi in TheFederalist.com.
Perched in their ivory towers on the East and
West coasts, most journalists have little under-
standing of what Middle America is thinking.
Their contempt for Trump and insistence that he
calling his colleague boy and
insisted the other comments
were taken out of context.
As a U.S. attorney, he led legal
efforts to desegregate schools
in Alabama, and successfully
prosecuted the son of a Klan
leader for murdera case that
ultimately helped break the
back of the KKK in Alabama.
Sessions is a sensible pick for
attorney general, said National
Review.com in an editorial. Under President
Obama, the Department of Justice and its activ-
ist civil rights division interfered with local
police decisions and exhibited a special con-
tempt for the rule of law. Sessions has focused
to restore integrity to the Justice Department.
The Trump loyalist will certainly wield extraordi-
nary power, said Mark Joseph Stern in Slate.com.
If the past is prologue, Sessions will simply refuse
Rubin in WashingtonPost.com. Senate Democrats
wont be able to block him without Republican
votes, but the hearings will be ugly and divisive.
The question is how big a toll it will take on an
administration barely getting its feet wet.
had zero chance of winning only gave Trump-
minded voters solid reasons not to believe the
media and to retreat to fringe or hoax alterna-
tives. Americans on both the Right and the Left
are trapped in their partisan echo chambers, said
Alfred Hermida in Salon.com. Facebook and
other social media have only made this phenom-
enon worse, creating a personalized stream of
information designed to envelop users in the
cozy embrace of the familiar. On social media,
emotion and virality rulenot truth.
Democracy fails if the populace is uninformed,
misinformed, or disinformed, said Kathleen
Parker in The Washington Post. Rebuilding trust
in legitimate journalism is now perhaps the
greatest challenge of our time. News organiza-
tions need to work harder at presenting bal-
anced reporting that represents the perspectives
of both red and blue America. And newspapers
should stop engaging in advocacy journalism,
in which they mix real reporting with an obvi-
ous agenda, objectivity be damned. Still, its
unlikely there will be a solution to this problem
without the support of our next president. After
AP, Getty
all, Donald Trump did more than anyone to con-
vince Americans that the media are the enemy.
 Talking points NEWS 17

Hamilton: Polarization takes center stage Wit &

It was a collision of two
Americas, said Philip
just one more group of
condescending liberals.
Wisdom
Rucker in The Washington The demeaning and Americans will put up
Post. When Republican condescending tone with anything as long as it
Vice Presidentelect Mike of Dixons civics lesson doesnt block traffic.
Dan Rather, quoted in
Pence last week attended was disrespectful to the Hyperallergic.com
the smash Broadway musi- vice presidentelect, said
People respond well
cal Hamilton in New York Gracy Olmstead in The to those that are sure
City, he got a cold recep- Federalist.com. Too bad of what they want.
tion from the multicultural the cast didnt take its cues Anna Wintour,
nation represented by the Dixon addressing Pence as he leaves the theater from President Obamas quoted in Inc.com
play and cast. The audience greeted Pences arrival eloquent Election Day speech, calling for a sense I will look at any addi-
with an impassioned, sustained boo. After the of unity, a sense of inclusion, a respect for our tional evidence to confirm
final curtain, actor Brandon Victor Dixon read institutions...and a respect for each other. the opinion to which I
a statement to Pence from the cast: We are the have already come.
British politician Hugh
diverse America, he said, alarmed and anxious Pence has a few uncomfortable moments and Molson, quoted in The Wall
that your new administration will not protect us... Trump cries harassment, said Jessica Valenti in Street Journal
and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. Dixon The Guardian (U.K.). This from a man who Human kindness has
added that he hoped the show had inspired Pence has mocked a disabled reporter, encouraged vio- never weakened the stam-
to work on behalf of all of usall of us. Pence lence at his rallies, and spent a lifetime denigrat- ina or softened the fiber
later said he was not offended, but President-elect ing women. He even had the gall to insist the of a free people. A nation
Donald Trump responded by unleashing a furious theater should be a safe place. Apparently, the does not have to be cruel
tweetstorm, complaining the cast had harassed concept of safe spaces is politically correct to be tough.
Pence. The Theater must always be a safe and nonsense for women, blacks, and LGBT individ- Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
quoted in Hindustan Times
special place, Trump tweeted. Apologize! uals, but extremely important when a powerful
politician who supports conversion therapy for The great enemy
of communication is the
The Hamilton cast members should get off their gays wants to enjoy a Broadway musical. Since
illusion of it.
high horse, said David French in NationalReview Trump and Pence were elected, hate crimes have William H. Whyte, quoted in
.com. Their naked partisanship only serves been soaring, Muslims and Hispanics are being the Montreal Gazette
to alienate millions of Americans from what harassed and attacked, and swastikas are being Some of my best friends
is truly a magnificent work of art. Now many painted on walls. But yes, by all means, lets talk are children. In fact, all of
people will see the plays creators and actors as more about your hurt feelings and civility. my best friends are children.
J.D. Salinger, quoted in
The New Yorker

Congress: Should Democrats work with Trump?
Will the donkey lie down with the elephant?
said Daniel Henninger in WSJ.com. Democrats
distraught over their crushing defeat to Donald
Trump are now fighting among themselves
trying to figure out what hit them and what
to do about it. Despite labeling Trump as a
racist, misogynist, and bullying tyrant, many
Democratsincluding new Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumerare saying theyll col-
laborate with their sworn enemy if it means getting
something they want, including major infrastruc-
ture spending and paid maternity leave. Mock
all you want, but its a clever strategy, said Scott
Salmon in Qz.com. If they team up with Trump on
progressive policies opposed by small-government
conservatives within his own party, Democrats will
not only help their constituentsthey might drive
a wedge between Trump and the GOP.
Were this a normal election, said Eric Sasson
in NewRepublic.com, this might be a defensible
strategy. But proposing to work with a racist
authoritarian who promised to deport millions
Hamilton LLC/AP, AP
The inability to find and
speak the truth is a failing
malization. Its also bad politics, said Jonathan that no talent for speaking
Chait in New York magazine. Republicans spent the untruth can disguise.
the past decade obstructing President Obama at Poet Boris Pasternak, quoted
in BrainPickings.org
every turnand its paid great dividends. Theyve
figured out that if the president is seen as suc-
ceeding, voters will reward his party. But if his
administration is mired in partisan rancor and Poll watch
accomplishes little, they blame himwhether he QPresident-elect Donald
deserves it or not. Democrats should adopt the Trumps favorability has
GOP playbook, become the loyal opposition, grown to 46% after the
and obstruct Trump whenever they can as he election. Prior to his
seeks to erode our nations democratic norms. win, his favorability was
at 37%. Similarly, his
Unfortunately, I dont think total obstruction la unfavorability rating has
the Republicans will work for the Democrats, said dropped from 61% to 46%.
Politico/Morning Consult
Michael Tomasky in TheDailyBeast.com. It made
ideological sense for small-government Republi- Q47% of Americans
cans to block Obamas bid to spend $447 billion say they now feel like a
on infrastructure. But if the Democrats did so, it stranger in their own
would look nakedly partisan. What, these are the country, including 49% of
Hispanics, 42% of African-
people who like to spend money, and now sud-
Americans, and 41% of
denly they dont want to spend money just because Asians. Among whites,
its Trump? Total obstruction could backfire in 48% say that they feel like

of people and ban Muslim immigrants is a dan- the 2018 midterm elections, when Democrats have a stranger in their own
gerous folly. Indeed, any mention of finding to defend 10 Senate seats in states Trump carried. country.
common ground with Trump is a step toward Democrats will have to play ball with Trump Reuters/Ipsos
accomplishing the exact thing we fear most: nor- at least sometimes.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
18 NEWS Technology

Social media: Twitter tries to drain the swamp

Twitter may be getting serious about re- Plenty of folks within the alt-right commu-
claiming its platform from trolls, said Char- nity are loudly complaining that Twitters
lie Warzel in BuzzFeed.com. The social net- actions are blatant censorship, said Cale
work unexpectedly suspended accounts be- Guthrie Weissman in FastCompany.com.
longing to prominent white nationalist and Many of the banned users appear to have
alt-right users last week as part of a large taken up residence on Gab, a new alt-right
effort to rein in hate speech and harassment social network that works like a combina-
on the site. The decision came just hours tion of Twitter and Reddit. Some are even
after the company unveiled long-awaited using it to coordinate anonymous harass-
tools for combating online abuse, includ- ment campaigns on Twitter in retribution
ing an expanded mute feature allowing for the companys actions. Gabs Trump-
users to block specific words and offensive Getting serious about hate speech
supporting founder, Andrew Torba, who
phrases. The move was met with howls of was kicked out of a Silicon Valley startup
outrage from banned users. In a YouTube video, Richard Spen- incubator for violating its anti-harassment policy, says companies
cer, the head of an alt-right think tank called the National Policy have no right to decide whats harassment and what isnt. Hate-
Institute, declared that was he alive physically, but digitally ful and harassment are subjective terms, he says.
speaking, there has been execution squads across the alt-right.
Twitter is acting wholly within its rights, said David Frum
Twitters crackdown comes amid a rising tide of online hate in TheAtlantic.com. But I still think its making a mistake. The
speech, said Jessica Guynn in USA Today. An October re- perception of arbitrary and one-sided speech policing is exactly
port from the Anti-Defamation League found that more than what drives so many young men toward radical, alt-right beliefs
2.6 million tweets with anti-Semitic language were sent between in the first place. Lets not turn loudmouths and thugs into free
August 2015 and July 2016, many directed against journal- speech martyrs. Thats why Twitter needs to be transparent about
ists covering Donald Trump. The neo-Nazi website The Daily what kind of behavior merits a ban, said Will Oremus in Slate
Stormer recently published a list of more than 50 Twitter users .com. Right now, the company doesnt discuss specific tweets,
who expressed fear about a Trump presidency, urging its read- even with the user being suspended. More transparency wont
ers to punish them with a barrage of tweets that would drive insulate Twitter from criticism, but it would at least give the
them to suicide. company a stronger claim to the high ground.

Innovation of the week Bytes: Whats new in tech

The inven-
tor of the
Roomba
wants to
help clean
up your
garden, said
Elizabeth
Woyke in TechnologyReview.com.
Joe Jones, the roboticist who devel-
oped the popular vacuum-cleaning
gadget, is continuing to alleviate
housework drudgery with Tertill,
a roving robo-gardener that weeds
flower and vegetable gardens. Tertill,
built by Jones startup, Franklin
Robotics, is a waterproof robot that
uses four-wheel drive to navigate
the outdoors unsupervised. Sensors
help the robot avoid obstacles and
know when to activate its weed
blades. When the Tertill encounters
vegetation shorter than its 1-inch-
high bumper, it assumes it is a weed
and cuts it. Jones, who plans to build
Making clean cars purr
Federal regulators want electric vehicles to get
a little noisierfor safetys sake, said Sonari
Glinton in NPR.org. One of the benefits for
owners of electric and hybrid cars is that they
are quiet. But while that may be a selling
point for drivers, it poses a danger to pedestri-
ans, especially those who are visually impaired.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Admin-
istration finalized a new rule last week requir-
ing hybrid and electric cars, trucks, SUVs,
and buses to make an audible noise to alert
pedestrians to their presence when traveling at
speeds less than 19 miles per hour. At faster
speeds, tire and wind noise are enough to
warn people that a vehicle is coming. The new
feature will cost car companies $39 million
each year, partly to install external waterproof
speakers, but is expected to result in 2,400
fewer pedestrian injuries each year.
Strolling memory lane with Google
Google wants to help you finally digitize those
game-like interface. The app opens to the
smartphone camera and shows users how to
position a photo within the frame. Users then
scan the photo by moving their phone over
four dots that appear on top of the photo
in the cameras viewfinder, which takes just
seconds. Photos are automatically cropped,
rotated, and color corrected. The tradeoff is
in scan quality, which is slightly lower than
what you might expect to get from a tradi-
tional flatbed scanner.
Your cellphone number knows all
The next time someone asks you for your
cellphone number, you may want to think
twice about giving it, said Steve Lohr in The
New York Times. Cellphone numbers are be-
coming a kind of 10-digit key code to your
private life, with companies like moneylend-
ers and social networks using it as a link to
users private data and online habits. In fact,
a cellphone number can often now tell more
about its owner than a Social Security number
Reuters, courtesy of Joe Jones

an entire line of agricultural robots, because it is tied to so many databases and is

hopes future versions will appeal to
organic farmers who want to weed
their crops without using herbicide.
Tertill is scheduled to launch in sum-
mer 2017 for $250.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
scrapbooks full of old family photos, said
Casey Newton in TheVerge.com. A new app
called PhotoScan, released last week for iOS
and Android, allows users to quickly scan lots
of old prints and save them online with a
single tap. PhotoScan uses a novel, almost
connected to a device people almost always
have with them. But unlike with Social Secu-
rity numbers, which companies are required to
keep private, there are scant consumer protec-
tions for personal cellphone numbers.
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Is life hiding in ice cauldrons on Mars?
Scientists have identified two funnel-
shaped craters on Mars that may contain
water, heat, and nutrientsthe ingredients
in the formation of life. The odd-looking
depressionsone in the Hellas Planitia
basin, the other in the Galaxias Fossae
regionwere first spotted several years
ago, but researchers were only recently
able to analyze them in detail, reports
Astronomy.com. Using equipment that cre-
ates a 3-D map from 2-D images, the team
from the University of Texas found that
both craters are shaped like funnels. The
Galaxias depression has debris around it,
indicating it was probably caused by an
Southern Californias drought may continue.
La Nias impact on weather
Months after the conclusion of one of the
strongest El Nios in history, the weather
systems lesser-known sister, La Nia, has
finally made her arrival. Unlike El Nio,
which occurs when ocean temperatures
in the Pacific become unusually warm,
La Nia cools the surface of the tropical
Pacific, altering the storm track over North
America and other parts of the world.
El Nio was blamed for last years balmy
winter in the Northeast and soaking rains
in the drought-stricken West; La Nia will
have the opposite effect, ushering in wet-
ter, cooler conditions in the northern states
and exacerbating dry conditions across
the South. The weather system is likely
to contribute to persisting or developing
drought across much of the southern U.S.
this winter, Mike Halpert of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, tells
CNN.com. An ongoing drought in Southern
California also is likely to continue. This
La Nia isnt particularly strong, and is
expected to last only until spring.
Supercharging statins
Statins have become the gold standard
for the treatment of high cholesteroland
a new type of drug known as PCSK9
inhibitors could make them even better. In
a recent study, researchers split a group of
968 volunteers into two groups: one tak-
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
Health & Science
asteroid impact. But the Hellas Planitia
crater has similar geological features to
the ice cauldrons found in Iceland and
Greenland, which form when underground
volcanic activity melts away surface ice.
If the same process occurred on the Red
Planet, the interaction of lava and ice
would have created an environment with
liquid water and chemical nutrientsfertile
ground for microbial life. The research-
ers hope future missions to Mars will
explore the craters further. These features
do really resemble ice cauldrons known
from Earth, and just from that perspec-
tive they should be of great interest, says
ing only a statin, the other combining the
drug with evolocumab, a PCSK9 inhibi-
tor. After 18 months, the team measured
the participants levels of LDL, or bad
cholesterol. Anything below 100 mil-
ligrams per deciliter of blood is considered
excellent, and those who were taking only
a statin averaged an impressive 93 mg/dL.
But those taking a combination of the two
drugs averaged an astonishing 36 mg/dL
of LDLan ultralow level generally seen
only in babies. In a sense, says cardiolo-
gist Elliott Antman, who wasnt associated
with the study, you are turning back
the cardiovascular clock. These striking
reductions came with an added benefit,
reports Reuters.com: greater declines in
dangerous plaques that had accumulated
in the patients arteries. Plaques shrank in
two-thirds of those taking both drugs, but
in only half of those taking a statin alone.
The only downside of PCSK9 inhibitors is
their cost: With some prescriptions priced
at $14,000 a year, most insurers are refus-
ing to pay for them.
Paralyzed monkeys walk
In a medical breakthrough that offers new
hope to people with spinal cord injuries,
scientists have used a brain implant to
enable partially paralyzed monkeys to
regain the ability to walk. Researchers at
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
implanted the device in the monkeys
motor cortex, or movement center, where
it recorded neural activity. This data was
then wirelessly routed to a second implant
placed on the spi-
nal cord beyond
the injured nerves,
which triggered the
intended movements.
Two monkeys
fitted with this
brain-spine
interface system
The Hellas Planitia depression
University of Iceland volcanologist Gro
Pedersen, who was not involved in the
study. So far, several missions to Mars
have yet to find any evidence of microbes,
though some scientists think its a matter
of looking in the right place.
regained the ability to walk within days,
and were fully mobile after three months.
It was a big surprise for us, Grgoire
Courtine, a neuroscientist who led the
research, tells The Guardian (U.K.). The
gait was not perfect, but it was almost like
normal walking. The foot was not drag-
ging and it was fully weight-bearing. The
implants componentswhich took seven
years to develop, after 10 years of work on
rodentsare already approved for use in
humans. But helping monkeys walk using
four limbs is much less challenging than
enabling paralyzed people to balance and
walk on two legs. Nevertheless, researchers
believe the technology could be transferred
to humans within a decade.
Health scare of the week
Teenage depression rising
The number of young Americans bat-
tling depression rose by more than a third
in the decade leading up to 2014. In a
review of surveys completed by more than
170,000 teens, researchers from the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health found that 6 percent of boys suf-
fered a major depressive episode in 2014,
up from 4 percent in 2005. Among girls,
the figure soared from 13 percent to more
than 17 percent. Its unclear whats behind
this worrying trendand why girls are
more at risk. Researchers note that social
media use and cyberbullying are much
more prevalent among girls, which could
make them more vulnerable to depression.
Complicating matters, the number of
teens being treated for the disorder
remains unchanged. This suggests
AP, Joseph Levy/NASA, screenshot
many young people are suffering
in silence, increasing their risk for
suicide, reports NBCNews.com. Ramin
Mojtabai, the studys leader, said it was
imperative that we find ways to reach
these teenagers and help them manage
their depression.
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Review of reviews: Books
Book of the week
Strangers in Their Own Land:
Anger and Mourning on the
American Right
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
(New Press, $28)
If you didnt vote for Donald Trump and
wonder who the voters are who did, this
book is the perfect place to start, said
Gabriel Thompson in Newsday. Arlie
Russell Hochschild is a Berkeley, Calif.,
native and a staunch liberal. But several
years ago, the esteemed sociologist began
hanging out in southwestern Louisiana to get
to know local conservative activists and to
examine what she calls the Great Paradox:
that resentment of a proactive government
runs deepest in regions where government
help is most needed. The book shes written
after her five-year immersion is extraordi-
nary for its consistent empathy: Even when
she struggles to recognize logic in the politi-
cal views of her subjects, she sees most of
them as smart, compassionate people. More
usefully, she discerns the emotional frame-
work through which they view the world.
Novel of the week
Thus Bad Begins
by Javier Maras
(Knopf, $28)
Javier Maras latest novel owes its title
to Hamlet. But the spirit that hovers
over the pages is, in its obsession with
the past and the dwelling on the minu-
tiae of memory, distinctly Proustian,
said Lee Langley in The Spectator (U.K.).
Set in 1980 post-Franco Madrid, Thus
Bad Begins follows the story of Juan de
Verean apprentice of film director Ed-
uardo Muriel who has been instructed
by his mentor to find out a secret about
a longtime friend. If the book lacks the
brilliant complexity of Maras earlier
work, it makes up for it with a slow-
building sense of Hitchcock in Vertigo
mode as de Vere peels back the layers
of Muriels past, including the directors
tortured relationship with his wife. As
usual, Maras layers the action with
passages of philosophical inquiry that
somehow never detract from the sto-
rys drama, said Sarah Begley in Time
.com. As dark secrets continue to be
uncovered, the characters may wish
theyd closed their eyes and covered
their ears. But the reader will devour
every exquisitely wretched revelation.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
ARTS
Mike Pence and Trump touring Louisiana
What matters most to the people she gets
to know is that no one counts them among
the weak or needy, said Sean McCann in the assigns her Tea Party friends to reduc-
Los Angeles Review of Books. These aston- tionist categories that sound like they were
ishingly resilient folks live in a region thats dreamed up in the faculty lounge. But her
known as Cancer Alley because of illnesses
linked to abuses by the local petrochemi-
cal industry. Her subjects have had homes
erased by hurricanes and sinkholes but still
resent federal intervention. Hochschild wins who says the poor should work or starve,
nearly unanimous agreement when she
proposes to them that they see themselves
as stoics whove kept their heads down,
Settle for More
by Megyn Kelly
(Harper, $30)
Megyn Kelly has
had quite a year,
said Emily Jane
Fox in VanityFair
.com. The cable
news anchors very
public feud with
Donald Trump
catapulted her
from a star within
the world of Fox
News to a veritable
household name
across the country.
Months after that initial Trump dustup,
she played a central role in deposing Fox
News chief Roger Ailes by backing up a
lawsuits allegation that her longtime boss
was a sexual predator. Her new memoir
goes deeper into both stories, helping send
the book to the top of best-seller lists. But
its post-election release of those juicy details
raises questions about Kellys worthiness
to be regarded as a heroine. Waiting until
Nov. 15 to tell the public all she knew
about candidate Trump stands as one of
the more calculating, cynical footnotes in a
highly cynical, calculating election season.
worked diligently to attain economic secu-
rity in an atavistic world, and therefore
bristle at changes in the rules and at the
groupsincluding African-Americans and
immigrantswho appear empowered to cut
ahead in line. Hochschild maintains, even
while attending a raucous Trump primary-
season rally, that this politics of honor
neednt be divisive. But the very force of
her argument cuts against the optimism she
tries hard to maintain.
Its hard to entirely trust Hochschilds
central insights, said Carlos Lozada in The
Washington Post. She arrives in Louisiana
with too many preconceived ideas, includ-
ing that conservatives are obstacles to the
environmental policies she favors. She then
efforts do offer a useful road map toward
empathy, said The Economist. In Strangers
in Their Own Land, people like Janice
Areno, a Bible-[thumping] Pentecostalist
become human, their anger and hurt
intelligible to all. In todays political cli-
mate, this may be invaluable.
Settle for More isnt mostly about Ailes and
Trump, said Ken Tucker in Yahoo.com.
Instead, Its about Kellys rise from middle-
class girlraised by a loving mom and a
dad she adored who died of a heart attack
when he was just 45to the media presence
she is now. Its about a girl who was bul-
lied in middle school, but who was raised
with a strong work ethic that powered her
first through law school and then rocket-
propelled her to TV stardom. From start to
finish, the flinty persona that Kelly proj-
ects on air serves her well as a memoirist,
enabling her to admit mistakes and flaws
while insisting on the redemptive power of
faith in oneself and hard work.
The new material on President-elect Trump
is disturbing, said Erik Wemple in The
Washington Post. Kelly suggests the candi-
date tried bribing reporters with free flights
and resort stays; she says she refused but
hints that others did not. She also reports
threats he made against her and describes
almost having to skip moderating a candi-
dates debate after she fell suddenly ill under
circumstances that suggest she could have
been poisoned. Surely Kelly had reasons for
holding back such anecdotesincluding
that she didnt wish to become a focus of
coverage. Even so, journalists present sto-
ries when theyre relevant.
AP
 The Book List
Best books...chosen by Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic, the worlds best-known performance artist, has been provoking
audiences for half a century. Her new memoir, Walk Through Walls, recounts her
journey from a childhood in Belgrade to art superstardom in New York.
Zizeks Jokes by Slavoj Zizek (MIT Press, $19).
Since I live in America, my appetite for dark
Balkan humor is greater than everespecially
in this moment of incredible political correct-
ness in comedy.
The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan
Buddhist Sects by Alexandra David-Neel and
Lama Yongden (City Lights, $14). This is one of
my favorite books of all time. I discovered it in
my early 20s, and I have never stopped learning
from it.
Uncommon Wisdom by Fritjof Capra (out of
print). There is always something to learn from
humans who have true wisdom. This collection
of conversations with economists, physicists, doc-
tors, and anthropologists is timeless, with parts
that can be read again and again. And you dont
need to read it from beginning to end. I open the
book with closed eyes and point to sections at
random to read. For me any part of this text can
answer my deepest questions.
The Black Count by Tom Reiss (Broadway,
$16). Brilliantly researched, this book transports
you vividly into the world of Thomas-Alexandre
Also of interest...in searches for meaning
American Philosophy
by John Kaag (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26)
In this lucid, winning mix of mem-
oir, biography, and critical reflection,
John Kaag has created a transcen-
dently wonderful love song to philoso-
phy, said Heller McAlpin in NPR.org.
When a dark patch in 2008 forced
him to question if life was worth living, the New
England professor coped by decamping to the
home of 19th-century philosopher William Ernest
Hocking. Kaag was strengthened by Hockings
ideas, then reinvigorated by the blossoming of a
romantic relationship. Its an exhilarating read.
The Word Detective
by John Simpson (Basic, $28)
Dictionaries and the people who cre-
ate them are too easily dismissed as
necessary yet unexciting, said Henry
Hitchings in The Guardian (U.K.).
In his appealing memoir, John
Simpson, former editor of the Oxford
Marco Anelli, Naomi McColloch
English Dictionary, reveals the field to instead be
filled with folks who admirably combine worldli-
ness, curiosity, and a detectives determination and
skepticism. Though Simpson is far from a twee
word lover, he is a connoisseur of the caprices
of the English language.
Dumas, a mixed-race nobleman and soldier dur-
ing the French Revolution who inspired his son,
Alexandre Dumas, to write The Count of Monte
Cristo. It is a must-read.
The Castle by Franz Kafka (Oxford, $14). Kafkas
unfinished novel features so many lives and so
many different moments from the development of
our society. Its lessons can be applied to the cul-
tural and political moment we live in right now.
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
(Univ. of Michigan, $18). Our developed world
is bursting with screens and projections pump-
ing out an incessant stream of whats real, and
whats represented to be real. In this moment
when we are witnessing the evolution of virtual
reality, I find Baudrillards classic work of semiot-
ics especially relevant. It has been hugely influ-
ential for me as a basis from which to explore
important concepts and ethics around what our
relationship with art and meaning will become.
In the future, we will increasingly view the world
through representations of reality, which will
become so realistic that our brains could become
completely deceived.
On Living
by Kerry Egan (Riverhead, $24)
Considering this books title and sub-
ject, you might expect something
depressing or Hallmarky, said Kim
Hubbard in People. Its anything
but. Kerry Egan is a chaplain at a
South Carolina hospice who decided
to share the lessons shes learned from patients
about letting go of life. Illuminating, unflinch-
ing, and ultimately inspiring, On Living pres-
ents the spiritual work of dyinga term Egan
employsas a profound process with undeni-
able elements of beauty.
The Great Spiritual Migration
by Brian McLaren (Convergent, $21)
Brian McLaren, a pastor and leading
voice in contemporary Christianity,
writes about a crisis in the faith as
only an insider can, said Barbara
Mahany in the Chicago Tribune.
With rock-solid authority, he
chides todays churches for focusing too much
on boundary maintenance, rules, and money,
and thus prompting an exodus from their pews.
Christianity, he argues, should foremost be a
just and generous way of life. His argument
demands attention.
ARTS 23
Author of the week
J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance didnt set out
to write a book about why
America voted Trumpbut
thats essentially what he
did, said Alan Johnson in the
Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch.
Hillbilly Elegy, Vances best-
selling memoir about grow-
ing up in a
dying steel
town in a
dysfunctional
Appalachian
family, was
embraced by
the national
media even
before Election Day as a field
guide to Trumpland. Now that
the results are in, Vance is
sounding an alarm about the
cultural divide exposed by the
vote distributionwhile offer-
ing an intriguing potential
solution, said Nate Hopper
in Time. The Yale-educated
former Marine argues that
people who have, like him,
escaped dying communi-
ties and found success on
the coasts need to consider
returning home.
Our country would really
benefit, he says, if those
who went to elite universities,
who started businesses, who
started nonprofits, werent
just doing so on the coasts.
People should be encouraged
to go back to so-called middle
America. Not that Vance is
suggesting responsibility for
the cultural schism belongs
solely with coastal elites. The
reconciliation that I hope will
happen cant just happen in
one direction, he says. But
because he thinks it unlikely
that a poor excoal miner
could make a fresh start in,
say, San Jose, the coastal
dwellers will have to lead
Vances hoped-for migration.
The 32-year-old, who writes
for National Review and works
at a Bay Area venture capital
firm, has announced no plan
to move back to central Ohio
himself. But he is exploring
creating an education-oriented
nonprofit there. Im looking,
he says, for opportunities to
contribute.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
 THE WEEK | SPECIAL REPORT: HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
New in tech: 10 top picks
What to get for audiophiles, gamers, photo enthusiasts, and kids
Sennheiser PXC 550
Wireless Headphones
The new travel king has arrived in
the form of this gift for the serious
audiophile. The headphones feature
quality noise canceling, clear,
powerful sound, up to 30 hours
of battery life, and a touch control
panel on the ear cup that lets you
change tracks and control volume.
$399.95, en-us.sennheiser.com
Source: GQ.com
Tivoli Model One BT
Why choose between radio and
streaming when your loved one can
have the best of both worlds?
The Model Ones AM/FM radio has
a huge dial for easy analog tun-
ing and pairs with Bluetooth for
listening to downloaded music and
podcasts.
$179.99, tivoliaudio.com
Source: Wired.com
Polaroid Snap
Instant Digital Camera
For photographers who delight in
instant gratification, the Snap is
absolutely easy and fun to use.
It works like an old-school Polaroid
camera, popping out a 2-by-3-inch
print while also storing a digital ver-
sion on a memory card.
$99.99, polaroid.com
Source: CNET.com
Misfit Ray
For those who like their wearable
tech to mix style and substance, the
Ray is an elegantly minimalist fit-
ness tracker. Still, it packs all of the
essentials, including monitoring of
steps, calories, and distance on a
daily basis.
$99.99, misfit.com
Source: ArsTechnica.com
ChiP
This toy robo-dog has plenty of
spunk and will obey commands,
play fetch, and follow your kids
around. ChiPs personality develops
over time in response to the way the
owner interacts with the pup, so no
two are alike.
$199.99, wowwee.com
Source: HuffingtonPost.com
24 | THE WEEK December 2, 2016
NES Classic Edition
This miniature version of the origi-
nal Nintendo Entertainment System
comes pre-loaded with 30 games,
including hits like The Legend of
Zelda and the first three Super
Mario Bros. As an impulse gam-
ing purchase or as a little piece of
decorative 80s nostalgia, its a
no-brainer.
$59.99, nintendo.com/nes-classic
Source: TheVerge.com
PlayStation VR Headset
Cutting-edge gamers will appreciate
the gift of virtual realityand Sonys
headset represents the most acces-
sible, affordable, and user-friendly
full VR option around. Just be aware
that it needs to be connected to a
PlayStation 4 to work.
$399, playstation.com
Source: CNET.com
HP Sprocket Photo Printer
Dont let your friends pictures be
buried in their photo gallery again.
This portable device with Bluetooth
connectivity prints pictures directly
from a smartphone or tablet.
$130, hp.com
Source: Elle.com
Q Designs
Phone Charger Bracelet
This unisex bangle opens at the
hinge to reveal a lightning charger
that can boost an iPhones battery
by up to 50 percent. A lightweight,
attractive way to carry phone-charge
insurance wherever you go, without
anyone noticing.
$125, bloomingdales.com
Source: HarpersBazaar.com
Sphero SPRK+
Kids can play and learn all at once
with this adorable little robotic
ball. An app teaches them how to
use coding to program its behavior,
which ranges from basic rolling to
complex tasks such as painting and
maze running.
$129, sphero.com
Source: USAToday.com
26 ARTS Review of reviews: Stage & Music
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Imperial Theatre, New York City, (212) 239-6200 ++++
The overused phrase Youve never seen
anything like it usually amounts to empty
hyperbole, said Christopher Kelly in the
Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger. But to Natasha,
Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, it
really does apply. Loosely adapted from
a section of Leo Tolstoys War and Peace,
Dave Malloys rapturous pop opera is a
whirling, swirling onstage carnival in which
the actors cavort with audience members
and the entire theater is transformed into a
performance space. The show premiered
four years ago in a shoe boxsize venue
in Manhattans Hells Kitchen neighbor-
hood, but has lost none of its intimacy or
verve after being upgraded to Broadways
1,000-plus seat Imperial Theatre. The plot
is, in true Tolstoy style, a little dense,
said Charles Isherwood in The New York
Times. The cheeky opening number intro-
duces nearly a dozen aristocratic characters
and suggests that confused audience mem-
bers consult their programs, Cuz its a
complicated Russian novel / Everyones got
nine different names.
It doesnt really take a lit major to fol-
low the bones of the story, said Leah
Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly.
Miranda Lambert
The Weight of These Wings
++++
Miranda Lamberts
audacious new
release is both a
protest against busi-
ness as usual and a
power play, said Kelefa
Sanneh in The New
Yorker. The 33-year-
old singer-songwriter, following a widely
publicized divorce from fellow country
star Blake Shelton, has put out a two-disc
concept album of 24 mostly contemplative
songs about making trouble and assess-
ing the damage. Its not just Lamberts
best record yet; its one of the years
best. Lambert can always be counted on
to speak her truth, said Maura Johnston
in The Boston Globe. But whats truly
stunning about Wings is how much rich-
ness shes been able to mine from country
music, honoring both its honky-tonk roots
and a future when hazy guitar feedback will
be just another way to convey emotion. The
second disc strips down the sound further,
allowing Lamberts sweetly acidic voice
to shine. Wings matches the take-no-
prisoners attitude of her lyrics with music
that travels unexpected routes but often
winds up touching the soul.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
Groban breaks out of his shell.
Natasha, played by a luminous Dene
Benton, is a young countess visiting
Moscow while her soldier fiance is off
fighting Napoleon. Anatole, a peacock-
ing rogue played by Lucas Steele, plans to
seduce the innocent girl and wont take nyet
for an answer. It is up to Anatoles mourn-
ful, merlot-swilling brother-in-law Pierre
pop-opera idol Josh Groban making his the-
atrical debut in a fat suitto try to rescue
her even as he deals with his own romantic
woes. Wearing half-period, half-punk cos-
tumes, cast members sing, dance, and stroll
through the multilevel seats, plopping into
laps and encouraging audience members
A Tribe Called Quest
We Got It From Here
++++
Its hard not to feel a
flood of gratitude for
the mere existence
of this record, said
Clayton Purdom in
AVClub.com. Not only
does it mark the return
of one of most revered
groups in the history of hip-hop after an
18-year hiatus; it was completed despite the
death in March of one of its featured rap-
pers, 45-year-old Malik Phife Dawg Taylor.
Like everything else A Tribe Called Quest
recorded, this farewell album seems pulled
from some primordial, easygoing ether. an ounce of fat on 24K Magic, and thats
Its jazzy and positive, smart and funny, a
sinuous sound collage thats a tribute to
Phife and yet much more. Its without a
doubt a brainchild of Q-Tip, the philoso-
pher and sonic avant-gardist of the Queens,
N.Y.based collective, said Donnie Kwak in
TheRinger.com. Tip masterfully orchestrates
contributions from fellow rappers Phife and
Jarobi, and guests including Busta Rhymes
and Kanye West. He also balances silli-
ness with urgent political awareness. Its an
outstanding effortan exceedingly rare
example of a successful, age-appropriate
project from 40-something rappers.
to join in the frequent vodka toasts. And
that comet? Its a late player in the game,
a glittery art decomeetsdisco stalactite
that hangs over the center of the stage until
the final moments. Like the show itself, its
a flash of brightness that fades quickly but
dazzles while its there.
Somehow the sensory overload remains
intoxicating, never exhausting, said
David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter.
Thats partly because of Malloys ravish-
ingly complex score, which mixes electro-
pop with Slavic folk, waltzes, and even
hints of Leonard Bernstein. But the cast
also deserves credit, especially newcomer
Groban. The first all-out display of his
virtuoso vocals comes in the operatic
lament Dust and Ashes, in which Pierre
confesses that hes dead inside and longs
to wake up. The sudden burst of celestial
harmonies from around the house gave
me chills. So what if Natasha, Pierre, and
the Great Comet of 1812 doesnt have the
political relevance of Hamilton, playing one
block away? This maverick show and its
boundlessly inventive production are no
less audacious or satisfying in their bid to
rejuvenate the American musical.
Bruno Mars
24K Magic
++++
Pops time-traveler-
in-chief appar-
ently aspires to be
nothing more, said
Nolan Feeney in
Entertainment Weekly.
A year after Uptown
Funk made the hit-
maker a megastar, 31-year-old Bruno Mars
has returned with a nine-song set that con-
jures a 1990s dance party, complete with
80s torch songs, a hint of James Brown,
and plenty of new jack swingstyle odes to
penthouses and Champagne. Theres not
good, because even play-acted materialism
and male entitlement can get old quick.
From start to finish, the arrangements are
simply outstanding, bubbling and per-
colating with ADD explosions of melodic
counterpoints, overdubs, subplots, and
funky worms, said Christopher Weingarten
in Rolling Stone. But while his funk game
is strong and swagger stronger, Mars
widely recognized talent for writing hooks
mostly sat this party out. Already the title
track is drooping its way back down the
Chad Batka
singles charts, and its not impossible to
understand why.
 Review of reviews: Film
Manchester by Kenneth Lonergans third fea-
ture in 17 years is a stagger-
the Sea ing American drama, almost
Directed by Kenneth operatic in the heartbreak it
Lonergan chronicles, said A.A. Dowd
(R) in AVClub.com. It wouldnt be
nearly as powerful, though, if it
++++ didnt consistently make room
An uncle and nephew for the everyday headacheslike
fumble through grief. a misplaced parked carthat
Afflecks caged-in everyman
crop up in good times and bad.
The results are almost unspeakably movingand
at times, disarmingly funny. Casey Affleck stars
as Lee Chandler, a handyman whos nursing a deep
emotional wound when his brother dies and he
learns, after returning to his seaside hometown, that but when she does, she shows a level of fearlessness
his 16-year-old nephew is to be put in his custody.
ARTS 27
Playing a man broken by past
tragedy, Affleck delivers one
of the most fiercely disciplined
screen performances in recent
memory, said A.O. Scott in The
New York Times. Even when
Lee makes a joke, the force
of his pent-up emotion is ter-
rifying. And Afflecks co-stars
are nearly as fine, with Lucas
Hedges particularly good as
a teen trading loving jabs with his haunted uncle.
Michelle Williams is outstanding, too, even by her
standards, said Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles
Times. Playing Lees ex, she doesnt get many scenes,
and raw vulnerability that will tear your heart out.

Fantastic What a relief to get away

from Hogwarts, said Anthony
Beasts and Lane in The New Yorker. J.K.
Rowlings Harry Potter spin-
Where to off introduces a new story, set
Find Them decades before Harry enrolled
at the storied school, and the
Directed by David Yates
result is a cunning and peppy
(PG-13)
surprise. Eddie Redmayne stars
++++ as Newt Scamander, a wizard Redmayne talks to the animals.
A wizard zoologist hunts who arrives in 1926 New York
for exotic pets. to find and collect endangered magical beasts in
an enchanted suitcase. Redmayne overdoes Newts
shyness, but the rest of the cast is sturdy, and the
magic tricks Newt and friends toss off remind us
that wizardry is most compelling out in the world,
when it clashes against the iron of ordinary lives.
Unfortunately, Fantastic Beasts
doesnt really have a plot, said
Dan Kois in Slate.com. Several
creatures escape Newts suitcase,
prompting a hunt through a city
awash in anti-wizard prejudice.
But Rowling has too many sto-
ries and rules to establish for the
five-film franchise shes launch-
ing, and this entry gets bogged
down by exposition. The best of
the Harry Potter movies benefited from screenplays
that combined sharp dialogue with strong dramatic
carpentry, said Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street
Journal. This perfectly pleasant movie does little
more than set the stage for a potentially enjoyable
franchise. Heres hoping for magical sequels.

Nocturnal Fashion designer Tom Ford has art commentary never comes
made his second feature film, off. Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal
Animals and it makes a lot of noise do some real acting here, said
Directed by Tom Ford for a movie that doesnt have Stephanie Zacharek in Time
(R)
much to say, said Will Leitch in .com. Gyllenhaal plays both the
NewRepublic.com. Amy Adams ex and the protagonist of the
++++ plays a rich gallery owner who novel, a man whose wife and
A socialite looks back on loses herself in a manuscript, daughter are assaulted by three
her lifes wrong turn. written by her novelist ex- strangers in a nighttime highway
husband, that relates a violent Adams: Comfortably forlorn
sequence that proves the best in
tale of rape and revenge. Three the filmtense and beautifully
stories soon intertwine: the dissolution of the couples sustained. But too much of the movie feels glazed
marriage years earlier, the empty life that Adams and remote, as if it werent even made by a human.
character leads now, and the Texas-based story in the Its ultimately a coffee-table book of a nightmare,
novel. The results are never dull and never not said Ty Burr in The Boston Globe. Though easy to
gorgeous, but the films attempt to merge pulp with admire, its also easy to close the cover on.
Claire Folger, Warner Bros. Pictures, Merrick Morton

New on DVD and Blu-ray

Hell or High Water
(Lionsgate, $30)
This powerful contemporary Western
should not be overlooked by Academy
Award voters, said The Fresno Bee. Chris
Pine and Ben Foster star as Texas brothers
who go on a bank-robbing spree, creating
a modern-day twist on the Robin Hood
approach to economic parity.
Gleason Eight Days a Week
(Sony, $31) (Apple, $25)
This portrait of an ex-NFL player with ALS is After 50 years of Beatles worship, is there
one of the most poignant documentaries of really anything new left to say? asked the
the past decade, said TheDailyBeast.com. Financial Times. Not really, but Ron How-
Steve Gleason, a local hero in New Orleans, ards documentary does a nice job of cap-
begins fading just as hes about to become turing the excitement of the bands touring
a dad, and his bid to leave a paternal legacy years. What shine through are the tunes,
proves absolutely heartbreaking. the camaraderie, and the irreverent charm.

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28 ARTS
Movies on TV
Monday, Nov. 28
Punch-Drunk Love
Adam Sandler is darker,
and better, in this Paul
Thomas Anderson dark
comedy than in anything
else hes done. Emily
Watson co-stars. (2002)
8 p.m., the Movie Channel
Tuesday, Nov. 29
The Major and the Minor
In Billy Wilders first
Hollywood film, Ginger
Rogers plays a woman
who disguises herself as a
12-year-old during a long
train ride home to Iowa.
(1942) 9:45 p.m., TCM
Wednesday, Nov. 30
The American
George Clooney plays a
contract killer who goes
rogue in Italy when he
suspects his handlers are
trying to kill him. (2010)
8:10p.m., Sundance
Thursday, Dec. 1
Away From Her
An Alzheimers patient
drifts away from her loving
husband in a drama that
earned Julie Christie an
Oscar nomination. Based
on an Alice Munro story.
(2007) 10:15 p.m., the Movie
Channel
Friday, Dec. 2
Panic Room
Jodie Foster and Kristen
Stewart play a mother and
daughter who seal them-
selves into a locked room
during a home invasion,
triggering a prolonged
standoff. (2002) 10 p.m.,
Cinemax
Saturday, Dec. 3
Lured
Before she was zany Lucy
Ricardo, Lucille Ball did
film noirs like this one, in
which she plays the bait for
a serial killer. With Boris
Karloff and Charles Coburn.
(1947) 11:15 p.m., TCM
Sunday, Dec. 4
Real Genius
Val Kilmer stars in this
cult comedy about college
whiz kids tricked into build-
ing a weapon for the U.S.
military. (1985) 11 p.m.,
Sundance
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
Television
The Weeks guide to whats worth watching
Patria o Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death
America isnt the only nation waiting for change
to kick in. Director Olatz Lpez Garmendias
vivid (though sometimes heavy-handed) docu-
mentary paints Cuba as a land of oppression
and desperate poverty, one thats changed little
since the 2014 thawing of relations with the U.S.
Interviews with famous dissidents combine with
intimate snapshots of ordinary Cubans to issue
a veritable cry for help. Monday, Nov. 28, at
8 p.m., HBO
Pearl Harbor: USS OklahomaThe Final Story
The USS Oklahoma was just one of eight
manned battleships sunk by Japanese torpedoes
on Dec. 7, 1941, but mysteries long surrounded
its demise. This one-hour documentary pieces
together the whole harrowing tale. The ship
capsized minutes after the attack began, trapping
hundreds of men who died waiting for rescue,
some clamoring futilely for help for days. Only
recently did researchers learn that the Oklahoma
was capsized by a Japanese midget submarine;
only last year did the Navy begin identifying
the remains of hundreds of victims. Monday,
Nov. 28, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings
Good Behavior
Downton Abbeys Michelle Dockery is no Lady
Crawley in her noirish new series. Playing a sul-
try North Carolina con artist and parolee, the
ever-watchable actress manages to make break-
ins look like second nature before the character
stumbles on a murder plot and tries to thwart
the handsome contract killer (Juan Diego Botto).
Not all of the twists are believable, but sharp
dialogue and likable stars make for fun viewing.
Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 9 p.m., TNT
Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of
James Arthur Ray
James Arthur Ray was an obscure motivational
speaker for many years before his appearance in
the new age 2006 movie The Secret made him
a self-help star. Then three customers died in a
sweat lodge at one of his Spiritual Warrior
retreats, resulting in prison time and an unex-
pected comeback attempt. In this documentary,
Travis Fimmels Lothbrok: Ready to start again`
Dockery lets down her hair in Good Behavior.
director Jenny Carchman takes a critical look
at Rays career, and at what it says about the
personal-growth industry. Thursday, Dec. 1, at
9 p.m., CNN
Close to the Enemy
In a formerly grand hotel in bombed-out London,
a British officer is tasked with winning coopera-
tion from a German scientist whos half-guest,
half-prisoner. If you love slow-burning, circa-
1946 intrigue, this wonderfully shot seven-part
series is worth finding. Jim Sturgess leads a
strong cast filled out by Angela Bassett, Alfred
Molina, and Freddie Highmore. Available for
streaming at Acorn TV
Other highlights
Incorporated
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck present a new sci-
fi series set in a dystopian 2074, when the world
is ruled by business conglomerates. Wednesday,
Nov. 30, at 10 p.m., Syfy
Picasso: A Museum Reborn
A chronicle about the reopening of Paris Muse
Picasso offers viewers a chance to enjoy an in-
depth look at the masters art. Thursday, Dec. 1,
at 7 p.m., Ovation
Fifth Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony
In sciences version of Oscar night, $25 million
will be handed out to innovators in multiple dis-
ciplines. Morgan Freeman hosts. Sunday, Dec. 4,
at 10 p.m., National Geographic Channel
Show of the week
Vikings
We have watched Norse king Ragnar Loth-
brok thrillingly maraud through the Old World
for three-plus seasons now. But heand the
series built around himhave been in self-
imposed exile since he suffered defeat in
France at the hands of his brother, Rollo. The
shows midseason premiere finds Ragnar re-
turning to his Kattegat homeland after a multi-
year absence, reuniting with his now-grown
TNT, History Channel
sons, who all will vie for his favor. His story
will finally dovetail with King Ecberts as Rag-
nar seeks to exorcise a grudge. Wednesday,
Nov. 30, at 9 p.m., History Channel
All listings are Eastern Time.
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Pumpkin chicken curry: A comforting blend of traditions
The dishes I love most bring together
the culinary roots of two special places,
said Asha Gomez in My Two Souths
(Running Press). Born and raised in
Kerala, India, I moved to Atlanta more
than 15 years ago and opened my first
restaurant there after creating a supper
club that took off once I began blending
Southern and Kerala cuisines.
In Georgia, people are passionate about
chicken and dumplings. But I make a
version that folds in lessons I learned in
Kerala, where I used to mix the spices
for family dinners and where theres a
tradition of women gathering to roll rice
flour dumplings, or pidi, when a woman is
expecting a child. In this recipe, any vari-
ety of pie pumpkin or winter squash can
be used to impart the earthy sweetness. If
you like dumplings, I implore you to give
these cumin-seeded darlings a try.
Recipe of the week
Chicken and pumpkin with dumplings
2 cups rice flour
1 tsp cumin seeds
tsp kosher salt
2 tbsp olive oil
1 small fryer chicken (2 to 3 lbs), cut
into 8 pieces
cup unbleached all-purpose flour
3 shallots, peeled and thinly sliced
Beer: The best Pilsners
Whenever you start wishing that brew-
ers would just make beer taste like beer
again, Pilsner is the name to reach
for, said Spike Carter in Bloomberg
.com. First brewed in the Bavarian city
of Pilsen in 1842, the crisp, clean pale
lager is by far the worlds most popular
beer style. Czech-made Pilsner Urquell
remains the archetype, and easy to find.
But these superlative U.S. examples
deserve a go, too.
Firestone Walker Pivo Pils Paso Robles,
Calif. Modeled after Italys floral, grassy,
bittersweet, and cult-worthy Tipopils,
this clean-drinking Pils has a subtly
fruity hop nose.
Half Acre Pony Pilsner Chicago
The sweet maltiness of this
German-style lager is balanced
by a nicely cutting hop bite.
Russian River STS Pils Santa
Rosa, Calif. Citrusy, grainy,
herbaceous, and immensely
crushable, this Pils won gold
at the 2015 Great American
Beer Festival.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
LEISURE
Food & Drink
will have a somewhat sandy texture.
Form 24 -inch balls of dough with
hands or melon baller. Make small
divot in each by pressing down in center
with thumb; place on baking sheet. Set
steamer basket over medium pan with
1 qt water; place dumplings in basket,
making sure they are not touching, and
cover. Bring water to boil over medium-
high heat. Steam dumplings until firm
and plump, 8 to 10 minutes.
For the stew or curry:
Put olive oil in large Dutch oven with
In this dish, any winter squash will do. tight-fitting lid; heat on medium until
oil is hot. In separate bowl, dredge
1-inch piece peeled fresh ginger, thinly sliced chicken pieces in flour. Drop chicken pieces
2 cups seeded, peeled, and diced sugar one by one into oil; brown for about
pumpkin 2 minutes on each side. Remove chicken
2 stalks celery, rough-cut into large chunks and set aside. Add shallots and ginger to
2 fresh bay leaves Dutch oven and cook, stirring, 2 minutes.
2 sprigs fresh thyme Add pumpkin, celery, bay leaves, thyme,
1 tsp turmeric powder turmeric, and salt. Cook, stirring, 1 minute;
1 tsp salt stir in stock. Return chicken to Dutch oven;
4 cups chicken stock cover, reduce heat to medium low, and sim-
2 cups coconut milk mer for 15 minutes. Add coconut milk; stir
15 fresh Thai basil leaves just until combined. Add dumplings and stir
gently to coat dumplings with sauce. Cover
For the dumplings: and simmer 12 minutes. Remove from heat.
In a medium bowl, mix rice flour, cumin
seeds, and kosher salt. Gradually stir in Roll basil leaves in a cigar-like fashion; slice
2 cups warm water to rice flour mixture to into thin ribbons. Garnish each serving
make soft dough that is not sticky; dough with a scattering of basil. Serves 6.
Americas best pies: One critics favorite send-offs
Nothing beats a slice of pie at the end of a good
meal, said Bill Addison in Eater.com. As a roving
restaurant criticand former pastry chefI keep a
list of the best desserts Im served each year, and
pies show up again and again. For me, fruit trumps
chocolate and simplicity beats intellectualism.
The finale of a meal should send you out into the
world again feeling delighted and comforted, as
do the pies at these three whistle-stops.
Greenwoods on Green Street Roswell, Ga. Bill
Greenwoods pies have always been special, but Lisa Ludwinskis plum pie
theyve gotten even better since he started using flour made from organic soft red win-
ter wheat. Order the apple at Greenwoods suburban Atlanta family restaurant and you
get a quarter of the pie, a tall ships prow of cinnamon-blasted fruit with a crust thats
never been more tender and pliant. 1087 Green St., (770) 992-5383
Sister Pie Detroit Theres only one table at my absolute favorite pie bakery, a soulful
Asha Gomez and Martha Hall Fosse, Bill Addison
two-year-old West Village charmer with a single communal table and usually a long line
snaking around it. In July, owner Lisa Ludwinski makes a show-stopping Michigan
cherry pie perfumed with bourbon. On my last visit, I vanished dreamily into her plum
pie covered with crisp oat streusel and a big dollop of whipped cream. 8066 Kercheval
Ave., (313) 447-5550
Honeypie Caf Milwaukee A salted honey pie is the calling card of this popular comfort-
food spot in the Bayview neighborhood, and any aficionado has to admire it. I havent
tried all 50 pies that make appearances in the cafs display case, but so far, Ive most
enjoyed a slice that featured the goodness of summery blueberries tumbling out of a
flaky crust. 2643 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., (414) 489-7437

This weeks dream: Touring southern Africa by train
To board a train in Cape Town is
to follow a well-trodden path, said
Ted Conover in The New York Times
Magazine. In the late 19th century,
British colonists built a network of
tracks stretching from that South
African port to present-day Congo.
Trains and the bloody history of colo-
nialism remain inseparable, but these
sprawling railways offer one of the best
ways to make sense of Africas past,
its epic scale, and its wild beauty. My
wife, Margot, and I spent two weeks
riding 3,000 miles from Cape Town to
Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, crossing
Zimbabwe and Zambia en route. From
train to train, our adventure whipsawed
between luxury and something closer to
freight-hopping.
After arriving in Cape Town, we checked
into a dreamy hotel overlooking the sea
and watched as pods of whales swam past.
The Blue Train, our first ride, was eas-
ily the fanciest train I have ever seen.
Travel
The club car of the Blue Train
Walking from our private waiting room in
the station was like feeling the 21st cen-
tury collapse into the 19th. Our experi-
ence on board, courtesy of an all-black staff
of butlers, was likewise both comfortable
and discomfiting. After a formal dinner
that belonged in a scene from Downton
Abbey, we fell asleep watching the stars as
the tracks clicked beneath us, and I woke
to a flurry of pink and white just as the
LEISURE 31
train rolled past a lake where thou-
sands of flamingos flocked. As the
day unfolded, landscapes, all differ-
ent, appeared outside our window.
The Blue Train spoiled us. Our next
train, from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe,
was filthy. The lights didnt work,
and the windows didnt shut. Once
we arrived in Zambia, though, we
lounged in a first-class waiting room,
where we exchanged stories with a
group of friendly Zambian women.
They traded us some fresh fruit for
our Clif bars and showed Margot
how to wrap fabric into a skirt. Our final
ride into Dar es Salaam was much nicer,
but somehow arrived 11 hours later than
it should have. Miraculously, our driver
had waited for us. I practically hugged
him. His car was old and beat up. It was
beautiful.
Journeys by Design (journeysbydesign.com)
offers an all-inclusive 10-day adventure by
train starting at $18,200 a person.

Hotel of the week Getting the flavor of...

TR slept here.
The Grafton Inn
Grafton, Vt.
Close your eyes and imag-
ine a quaint, postcard-perfect
Vermont country village,
said Diane Bair and Pamela
Wright in The Boston Globe.
Open those eyes in Grafton
and youre there. This 1801
inn on the village common
has hosted Teddy Roosevelt,
Ulysses Grant, and Rudyard
Kipling. It oozes historic
charm, with worn pine floors,
fireplaces, and antique fur-
nishings. Guests can sit in a
rocking chair on the porch and
The Blue Train, courtesy of The Grafton Inn
Dallas own Sistine Chapel
If you want to see the pinnacle of Italian Renais-
sance art, head to Dallas, said Michael Hoinski in
Texas Monthly. Through Jan. 8, Michelangelos
Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition will display mas-
sive reproductions of the artists famous frescoes
at the former Womens Museum building in Fair
Park. Created by a Los Angelesbased production
company, the show aims to make Michelangelos
paintings accessible to the masses, without the
never-ending lines and insufferable neck cran-
ing tourists experience in Vatican City. Instead
of being rushed through, visitors can pore over
the 34 reproductions, all brightly illuminated
and rich with color. And unlike at the Sistine
Chapel, where photography is prohibited, here
its encouraged. So go ahead and take that selfie
in front of The Last Judgment. Put it on your
holiday card and see if you can trick a few people
into thinking you were within arms reach of
Michelangelos masterpiece.
Last-minute travel deals
Machu Picchu now A Spice Isle December
Arizonas natural wonders
When I explored southern Arizona in mid-
October, all was rust-colored rock and unre-
lenting heat, said David Kelly in the Los
Angeles Times. And that was the point. The
Sonoran Desert may be the most biodiverse des-
ert in the world, host to an amazing variety of
plants, birds, reptiles, and mammalsincluding
Americas only jaguars. At the Organ Pipe Cactus
National Monument, a slice of wild desert, I
walked among elephant trees and organ pipe
cacti waving gently like desert anemones. This
starkly beautiful monument bordering Mexico
was once dangerous, but these days, 500 border
agents patrol the area. Saguaro National Park,
outside Tucson, has a different feel. Thousands
of saguaro cacti, some 50 feet tall and 200 years
old, greeted me with upraised limbs. I hiked a
trail where prehistoric petroglyphs adorn basalt
rocks. After sundown, the towering cacti became
crooked silhouettes against a starry sky.
Spiritual solitude

watch as clouds roll over the
Green Mountains, then head
inside for a dinner of roasted
sea bass or a zingy house
paella chock-full of sausage,
shrimp, chicken, and mussels.
graftoninnvermont.com; doubles
from $209
Save $500 a head on a 10-day
Peruvian tour leaving either
Dec. 6 or Dec. 20. The Center
of the Inca Universe pack-
age starts at $6,695 per per-
son, double occupancy, and
includes visits to Machu Picchu
and the Urubamba Valley.
inca1.com
Through Dec. 23, the Mount
Cinnamon resort in Grenada
is offering 40 percent off four-
night stays at all beachfront vil-
las and suites. A one-bedroom
villa costs $297 a night, break-
fast and access to water-sports
gear included.
mountcinnamongrenadahotel.com
Casa Palop, a boutique hotel
on Guatemalas sacred Lake
Atitln, has assembled a
three-night $1,107 package for
solo travelers that includes a
boat tour to a Mayan village
and a blessing by a shaman.
Through Dec.31.
casapalopo.com

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32 LEISURE
The 2017 Nissan Titan: What the critics say
Autoblog.com
Nissan has finally remade its half-ton pickup,
and the finished product is absolutely
impressive in many ways. Fast, comfort-
able, and equipped with an enviable array of
task-ready bed features, it will make many
owners of the original Titan very happy.
None will be surprised that the power train
is arguably the best feature. After all, Nis-
san is at its heart an engine company. But
even with its fantastic 5.6-liter V-8, the
2017 Titan doesnt appear ready to leapfrog
any of the segments best-sellers.
New York Daily News
The Titans beefier sibling, the diesel-
Consumer
powered Titan XD, remains a more distinc-
tive offering. The half-ton Titan never lacks
for power, though, and its reduced weight
produces delightful steering feel. That
seems appropriate for a pickup thats as
much a family hauler as it is a workhorse.
Parents will appreciate the spacious crew
cab, the low step-in height, and clever child-
seat latches. Exceptionally comfortable
front seats should make long hauls fly by.
The 2017 Titan Crew Cab, from $34,780
Car & Driver
But to win over Ford, Chevrolet, and Ram ing, hauling, and fuel economy ratings. In
buyers, Nissan needed to innovate. The a market where loyalty matters, though,
new Titan, clearly aiming at holding its simply matching the incumbents may not
own, sits right at the midpack in its tow- be enough.

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Tip of the week
Four car-maintenance hacks
QFor old bumper stickers: Pull off what you
can, then dampen a sheet of newspaper
and lay it over the area for 15 minutes. The
messy residue will soften and be easy to
wipe away. Gently scrape any excess away
with a credit card.
QFor cloudy headlights: Smear toothpaste
on a clean rag and start scrubbing. The mild
abrasives in the toothpaste will clear away a
thin layer of the headlight lens surface while
filling in tiny scratches.
QFor frozen locks: Apply hand sanitizer to
your key and start working it into the lock.
The alcohol in the sanitizer thaws ice, and
you might just be carrying some on a cold
night when you most need it.
QFor a chipped windshield: Use clear nail
polish to fill a small chip or crack before it
spreads across the whole windshield. When
the polish dries, it will be almost com-
pletely invisible.
Source: Popular Mechanics
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This week: Homes in Canada
1 X Petite-Rivire-Saint-
Franois, Quebec This
three-story house next to
the Massif de Charlevoix
ski area won a modern ar-
chitecture award. Built in
2014, the three-bedroom
home features polished
concrete floors, wood
paneling, high-end finishes
throughout, and floor-
to-ceiling windows that
offer views of the moun-
tains and the St. Law-
rence River. $2,035,000.
Stphane Caron and
Guillaume LEcuyer,
Profusion Realty/Christies
International Real Estate,
(581) 983-7075

2 W Toronto This four-

bedroom house lies on a cor-
ner lot in the South Rosedale
neighborhood. Details include
leaded- and stained-glass
windows, three fireplaces,
hardwood floors, and a
gourmet kitchen with Car-
rara marble counters, a Sub
Zero refrigerator, and a Wolf
stove. $3,105,000. Christian
Vermast, Paul Maranger, and
Fran Bennett, Sothebys Inter-
national Realty Canada,
(416) 960-9995

3 X Rural Bighorn, Alberta Designed by a Norwe-

gian architecture firm, the two-bedroom T House
is one in a series of five modern homes in the foot-
hills of the Canadian Rockies. The new single-story
house has custom cabinets and storage, two terraces,
and mountain views from each room. The prop-
erty provides access to 650 acres of meadows and
forests. $1,566,000. Christopher Vincent, Christian
Dubois, and Laura Wright, Sothebys International
Realty Canada/Canmore and Banff, (403) 707-8048

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 Best properties on the market 35
4 W Sechelt, British Columbia
Whitestone Island Estate is
set on its own 6-acre island
in the Georgia Strait, 30
minutes by private boat to
downtown Vancouver. The
four-bedroom home features
hardwood floors, maple
cabinets, floor-to-ceiling
windows, and a master
suite with a soaker tub with
ocean views. Outside, 2,400
square feet of deck are built
around a mature oak tree.
$2,813,000. Shaz Karim, So-
thebys International Realty
Canada, (604) 649-1494

5 S Huntsville, Ontario This 2007 post-and-

beam house on Lake Vernon features water
views from each room. The three-bedroom
home has two stone fireplaces, vaulted ceil-
ings, and an open-concept main living space.
Canada The property includes lake access, a boat-
house, and landscaped gardens. $1,665,000.
Blayne Hutchins, Century 21 Cottage Coun-
4 5 try Realty, (705) 783-6356
6 3
7
2 1

6 W Vancouver Built in 2016, this home in the Cambie Corridor boasts

six bedrooms and six baths. The modern house has an open concept
and a rooftop terrace with city and mountain views. The property
includes a patio and a yard, plus a two-story laneway house with a
separate entrance and parking. $3,354,000. Jason Soprovich, Royal
LePage SussexJason Soprovich, (604) 817-8812

Steal of the week

7 S Maders Cove, Nova

Scotia This three-bedroom
house sits on a hill over-
looking Mahone Bay. Built in 1916, the two-story home has
a fireplace, an updated furnace, and some wood flooring. The
4-acre property includes mature trees and water views. $372,700.
Ernie Buote, Domus Realty, (902) 499-3041
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
36
The bottom line
QThe U.S. imports about
98percent of its footwear,
nearly eight pairs for every
man, woman, and child.
Boston-based New Balance,
the only major athletic shoe-
maker in the U.S., makes just
a quarter of its shoes here.
Reuters.com
QThe number of Americans
who filed for unemployment
benefits during the second
week of November fell to
235,000, the lowest weekly
level since 1973. Jobless
claims have stayed below
300,000 for 89 straight weeks,
the longest streak since 1970.
Bloomberg.com
QOnly 27 of the 60 biggest
employers in the U.S. say
they have a paid family leave
policy, according to a study
by Paid Leave for the United
States. Amazon, Bank of
America, Deloitte, and EY
provide the most extensive
policies, offering 16 weeks or
more of fully paid parental
leave for mothers, fathers,
and adoptive parents.
FastCompany.com
QMcDonalds is bringing
table service to its 14,000
restaurants in the U.S. Under
the new system, customers
will place their orders at a
digital kiosk, with the option
of having their food
brought to their table.
The fast-food giant will
also introduce mobile
ordering next year.
BusinessInsider.com
QThere will be 3.1mil-
lion new American
millionaires by 2020,
according to Boston
Consulting Group esti-
mates. That translates
into roughly 1,700 new
millionaires every day.
Bloomberg.com
QBank stocks have reacted
more favorably to Donald
Trumps election than to any
other presidents in nearly
a century. Bank stocks have
fallen by an average of 2 per-
cent in the weeks following
the election of a new presi-
dent going back to Herbert
Hoover. Since Trumps win,
theyre up nearly 15 percent.
Qz.com
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
BUSINESS
The news at a glance
Federal Reserve: Janet Yellen stays the course
The Federal Reserve is sticking to Spare a thought for Yellen, whose
chairwoman Janet Yellens playbook, job is about to get a lot harder under
said Binyamin Appelbaum in The Trump, said Daniel Gross in Slate
New York Times. Testifying before .com. When January rolls around, the
Congress last week, Yellen said it Fed chief will be the last Democrat
is too soon to predict the economic in Washington with any kind of real
impact of Donald Trumps election, authority. Not only that, but Yellen
but stressed that the Feds short-term will have to figure out how to work
interest rate plans remain unal- with a president who lambasted
tered. Yellen made clear that her throughout his campaign,
the central bank will likely raise accusing her of keeping interest
its benchmark interest rate when rates low to benefit President
Yellen: Sticking around
it meets again in mid-December, Obama and Hillary Clinton. In
citing healthy job growth and modest increases the meantime, shell be charged with navigating
in inflation. She also dismissed rumors that she a global economy full of potential disruptions,
might resign before her term ends in February including the lingering drama of Brexit, Chinas
2018. It is fully my intention to serve out my economic slowdown, and the ongoing struggles
term, Yellen said. of Deutsche Bank, Germanys largest bank.
At Home Depot,
Markets: Dow tops 19,000 for the first time moving the bolivar
The Dow Jones industrial average broke into record territory this week,
A Home Depot hard-
said Adam Shell in USA Today. The stock market index topped 19,000
ware salesman in
for the first time in its 120-year history, with investors growing bull- Alabama is waging
ish on President-elect Donald Trumps promises of lower taxes, less
an online war for eco-
regulation, and higher infrastructure spending. All four major U.S. stock nomic freedom in his
indexesthe Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Russell 2000closed at
native Venezuela, said
record highs Monday, the first time thats happened since Dec. 31, 1999. Anatoly Kurmanaev in
But with Trump not yet in office, whether the bullish hype turns out to The Wall Street Journal.
be the right trade remains to be seen. Gustavo Daz, 60, runs
DolarToday.com, which
Banks: JPMorgan settles international bribery charges provides a widely used
JPMorgan has agreed to pay $264 million to settle charges that it bribed
black-market exchange
foreign officials to win business in China, said Renae Merle in The rate for Venezuelas
Washington Post. U.S. officials accused the bank of hiring hundreds of currency, the bolivar.
unqualified friends and relatives of Chinese officials in its Hong Kong The site is one of Vene-
office between 2006 and 2013, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt zuelas most popular,
Practices Act. Participants in the Sons and Daughters program were meaning Daz prob-
kept on if the banks relationship with their patron generated enough ably does more than
revenue. Officials said JPMorgan acknowledged wrongdoing as part of anyone else to set the
the settlement, an unusual admission in such cases. price of everything
from rice to aspirin to
Sports: DraftKings and FanDuel fantasy sites to merge cars in his home coun-
After tussling for years as rivals, the two biggest fantasy sports com- try. Between shifts at
panies in the U.S. are teaming up, said Liana Baker in Reuters.com. the Hoover, Ala., store
DraftKings and FanDuel announced a merger last week that will allow where he works, Daz
them to trim their legal bills and reduce advertising costs. Financial fends off threats from
terms havent been disclosed, but both companies were valued at more Venezuelas socialist
than $1 billion before authorities began a crackdown in 2015 on daily government, which has
fantasy sports sites, which critics liken to sports betting. Both compa- controlled the bolivars
value since 2003 and
nies agreed last month to pay $6 million each to settle false advertising
bars anyone from quot-
claims with the New York attorney general. ing informal rates. Daz
Autos: Volkswagen to cut 30,000 jobs in Germany himself participated in a
Volkswagen is embarking on a radical shakeup, said William Boston failed coup against for-
in The Wall Street Journal. The embattled German automaker plans to mer Venezuelan leader
cut 30,000 jobs at its VW brand over the next five years, amounting Hugo Chavez in 2002,
to a one-fifth reduction in its German workforce. The move is meant before seeking asylum
in the U.S. To me, its
to save the company $3.9 billion, allowing it to increase investments in
still a passionate daily
Newscom (2)
new technologies like electric vehicles and self-driving cars and move fight against totalitari-
beyond its devastating emissions-cheating scandal. So far, Volkswagen anism, he says.
has spent nearly $20 billion to settle lawsuits and recall 11 million cars.
 Making money BUSINESS 37

Financial planning: Coping with an uncertain world

Sorry, but this financial adviser is at a The truth is, theres no way to
loss for words, said Carl Richards in The Trump-proof your portfolio, said
New York Times. After Donald Trumps Walter Updegrave in Money.com.
shocking victory in the presidential elec- Youre better off setting a strategy
tion, I have no idea what to say about grounded in the things over which you
the markets, investing, or budgeting. have the most controlhow much
Its not clear how a Trump presidency you save, how broadly you diversify,
will affect your home price, retirement [and] how much risk you take. The
accounts, or plans to pay for college. But tried-and-true investing goal is to build
I do know a thing or two about uncer- a portfolio that will give you a shot at
tainty, which we all inevitably confront building a reasonable nest egg under
when making decisions about money. a variety of market conditions. Of
The key question is this: What can you course, any plan you make will inevi-
control right now? Make a list. Con- Confronting uncertainty can be unsettling. tably rest on forecasts and assump-
sider anything not on your list some- tions, which means youll want to
thing that may cause you anxiety if you focus on it too much. periodically check in and adjust your plans to ensure that youre
still on track. But dont stress yourself out trying to predict the
A time of political shock isnt a time for investing action, said Feds every move or attempting to outguess the markets.
Jason Zweig in The Wall Street Journal. Rattled investors are
being bombarded with advice about which stocks to buy and The morning after the election, I woke up and started review-
sell under a Trump presidency. But little is ever clear about an ing my budget to figure out how to put more money in my
incoming president, especially this one. When President Obama savings account, said Tiffany Johnson in TheBillfold.com. I
took office vowing to impose health-care regulations, you might work in education, and Trumps proposed policies for my in-
have expected health-care stocks to plummet. Instead they dustry have been varied and contradictory, not to mention the
ended up resoundingly outperforming the rest of the stock mar- president-elects potential impact on everything from my health
ket. President George W. Bush boosted military spendinga care to my retirement account. But Ive found that taking small,
clear signal to investbut defense stocks lost 19 percent in 2001 tangible actions is helping me combat my feelings of unease
and nearly 7 percent in 2002. The only sensible step for inves- and helplessness after the election. I havent started building a
tors to take at a time like this is to do nothing. bunker (yet!), but I am preparing in the best way I know how.

What the experts say Charity of the week

Trade college loans for mortgage debt
A new home-loan refinance program allows
borrowers to swap student loans for mortgage
debt at todays low interest rates, said Ann
Carrns in The New York Times. The program,
called the Student Loan Payoff ReFi, is offered
by nonbank lender SoFi and mortgage giant
Fannie Mae. It allows homeowners who have
student loans, or home-owning parents who
cosigned student loans with their children, to
refinance their mortgage and take out addi-
tional home equity as cash to pay off student
debt. The borrower is left with a new, larger
mortgage, but at a lower interest rate. How-
ever, borrowers with federal student loans
will lose protections like the option to defer
payments and the repayment programs that tie
monthly payments to income.
Military retirement is changing
Major changes are coming to the military
retirement system starting in 2018, said Kim- Relying on one spouses workplace coverage
berly Lankford in Kiplinger.com. Those who
joined the military between 2006 and 2017
will soon be able to opt into a new blended
retirement system, while those who join in
2018 or later will automatically be enrolled.
Under the current system, service members are might file for benefits right away, while the
Getty
but receive nothing if they stay fewer than
that. The new plan includes a pension after
20 years, but also allows service members to
make matching contributions into a Thrift
Savings Plan, which can be kept after just two
years of service. The military offers match-
ing contributions of up to 5 percent of base
pay. If you dont plan to stay in the military
for 20 years, youll come out ahead with the
blended retirement system.
Retiring as a couple
Teamwork is important for couples nearing
retirement, said Elizabeth OBrien in Money
.com. Financial advisers say spouses are often
happiest if they retire within a couple of years
of each other. But that might not always
be possible, because of either a job loss or a
health situation. One consideration for people
retiring before age 65: where their health insur-
ance will come from before Medicare kicks in.
could go bad if that worker loses his or her
job. To keep income flowing, both spouses
should try to delay claiming Social Security to
increase payouts. If it isnt feasible for you to
both delay claiming, the lower-earning spouse
The late chore-
ographer and
dancer Alvin
Ailey is credited
with revolu-
tionizing the
role of African-American performers in
contemporary dance. His legacy lives on
today through the company he founded,
which has grown into the larger Alvin
Ailey Dance Foundation (alvinailey.org).
This umbrella organization supports the
two Alvin Ailey dance companies, which
regularly perform across the country, and
the prestigious Ailey School, which trains
3,500 aspiring artists and dance enthusi-
asts each year. AileyCamp offers young
people ages 1114 a summer camp
experience where they can learn popular
dance styles such as jazz, ballet, and West
African, and build self-confidence and
communication skills. During the school
year, the organization partners with local
groups to make classes and community
dance experiences possible in middle
schools across the country.
Each charity we feature has earned a
four-star overall rating from Charity
Navigator, which rates not-for-profit
organizations on the strength of their
finances, their governance practices,
and the transparency of their operations.
Four stars is the groups highest rating.

eligible for a pension after 20 years of service, higher earner waits till age 70.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
38 Best columns: Business

Issue of the week: Trumps infrastructure promises

In these divisive times, voters and politi- projects require billions of dollars in
cians seem to agree on at least one thing: direct public funding, which is a non-
Our nations infrastructure is desperately starter with the Republican-controlled
in need of major upgrades, said Andy Congress. There is one way to get
Uhler in Marketplace.org. In fact, it the private sector to pay for projects
was one of the first things President-elect like Flints water system: Give them
Trump mentioned in his victory speech, a cut of the profits in perpetuity,
echoing earlier pledges on the campaign said David Dayen in NewRepublic
trail to invest as much as $1 trillion .com. The result would probably be a
rebuilding U.S. highways, airports, and disaster, however. Chicago did some-
schools. The specifics, however, are thing similar in 2008, when it leased
murky. Who foots the bill and what the rights to 36,000 parking meters
projects get priority are just a few of the for 75 years to a Wall Street investor
details the Trump team has to work out. When it comes to funding, hazards ahead. group, which now charges exorbitant
Trumps promise to refurbish crumbling fees to park in the city.
U.S. infrastructure is a big reason behind the stock markets post-
election rally, said Paul Davidson in USA Today. His advisers Dont expect a blue-collar job boom, either, said Steve Chapman
have laid out a rough blueprint centered on public-private part- in the Chicago Tribune. The unemployment rate for construction
nerships, which theoretically would add nothing to the deficit. workers is just 5.7 percent, and out-of-work coal miners dont
That program, says Team Trump, would generate up to $1 trillion necessarily have the skills contractors need to expand airports or
worth of investment over 10 years, creating 3.3 million jobs. replace bridges. And while stimulus spending can be helpful in a
recession, in the eighth year of a recovery, it will just crowd out
The catch, though, is that Trump doesnt really have a plan to private spending, nullifying any macroeconomic benefit. Still,
do all this, said Brad Plumer in Vox.com. At least not a con- companies are already lining up to make sure that their pet proj-
ventional one. Right now, the idea is to offer some $137 billion ects qualify as essential infrastructure, said Steven Mufson in the
in tax breaks to private investors who want to finance toll roads Los Angeles Times. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has pressed Trump
and bridges or other revenue-generating projects. The problem on the need to invest in cybersecurity, while Verizon is pitching
is, if every project needs to make a profit for its investors, a lot internet-connected LED streetlights. Meanwhile, energy compa-
of pressing infrastructure needs wont get funded. The mon- nies are licking their chops at the prospect of new oil pipelines.
etized approach likely wont work for repairing existing roads There is no shortage of volunteers, but what eventually gets the
or replacing aging pipes in poor communities like Flint, Mich., green light is anyones guess. One persons critical infrastructure
where people cant afford a big hike in their water bills. Those is another persons bridge to nowhere.

Donald Trump has pledged to bring the coal in-
Why coal dustry back, but hell be lucky just to slow its pre-
cant be cipitous decline, said Justin Fox. There are signs
that market watchers think the Trump presidency
saved could indeed revive the struggling sectors fortunes;
shares of coal giant Peabody Energy, which filed for
Justin Fox bankruptcy in April, surged after the election. And
Bloomberg.com to be fair, Trumps promises to miners arent en-
tirely empty. The Obama administration really has
been waging a war on coal, by putting into place
tougher air pollution regulations and blocking new
coal leases on federal lands. Trump could immedi-
ately cease hostilities, which would help remove
some of the industrys headwinds. But environmental
regulations were never the main reason for coals
decline; market forces were. Thanks to the fracking
boom, natural gas has displaced coal as the nations
No. 1 source of electrical power. Natural gas not
only burns cleaner than coal, its also cheaper. Thats
likely to remain the case no matter how much Trump
tries to give coal country a helping hand, because no
one has reason to expect a crackdown on natural
gas drilling from his administration. The past few
years have been so terrible for miners that even a
pause in coals decline may feel like a comeback. But
a permanent revival? Its just not in the cards.

U.S. manufacturing is about to get smarter, said
Factories Christopher Mims. The same data revolution that
of the has transformed the advertising business, allowing
for real-time decision making and highly targeted
future marketing, is poised to reshape the factory floor. Just
as marketers harvest customer information to deliver
Christopher Mims more effective ads, manufacturers are hoping to use
The Wall Street Journal data from their machines to make factories more
productive, less costly to operate, and more reliable.
The insights generated could be used, say, to set the
ideal temperature for an entire factory or quickly
line from a broken machine; car owners are already
familiar with this kind of preventive maintenance,
thanks to software that tells drivers when a part is
about to fail. Id assumed that manufacturers were
already pretty far along in this process, given all the
talk about the Internet of Things. But that turns out
not to be the case. Industrial giants like GE say add-
ing high-tech sensors to legacy equipment is expensive
and challenging, especially when it comes to power-
ing them. The business opportunity, however, is mas-
sive. A data-driven approach rapidly revolutionized
Newscom

ramp up production in response to sales. It could the $500 billion global ad industry. Think about what
also prevent unplanned downtime on an assembly it could do for the $12 trillion manufacturing sector.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016

The news anchor who broke down racial barriers
Gwen When Gwen Ifill
Ifill watched the news as
19552016 a child, the anchors
and reporters she
saw onscreen were almost all white
men. There was no one, she said,
who looked like me in any way. No
women. No people of color. So Ifill
set out to change that. In a trailblaz-
ing TV career, she rose to become the
first black woman to anchor a major
weekly news show, PBSs Washington
Week, and the first to moderate a
vice-presidential debate. On PBS, she
and Judy Woodruff formed the first all-female
anchor team on a nightly network news show.
Im very keen about the fact that a little girl
now, watching the news, when they see me and
Judy sitting side by side, it will occur to them that
thats perfectly normal, Ifill said in 2013. That
it wont seem like any big breakthrough at all.
Born in New York City, Ifill lived a semi-nomadic
life growing up because her Panamanian-
immigrant father pastored at African Methodist
Episcopal churches across the Northeast, said
the Los Angeles Times. At Simmons College in
Boston, she secured an internship at the Boston
Herald American; when a co-worker sent her
a racist note, her editors were so embarrassed
The courageous journalist who fought injustice
Ruth Ruth Gruber was a
Gruber fearless reporter who
19112016 chronicled some of
the 20th centurys
most harrowing storiesthe rise
of Hitler, the Holocaust, Stalins
gulags, and the Nuremberg trials.
But her finest hour came as a govern-
ment employee. Acting on behalf
of President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Gruber in 1944 escorted nearly
1,000 refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, many
of them Jews, as they made the perilous voy-
age across the U-boat-infested Atlantic Ocean to
safety in the U.S. The experience formed the basis
of Grubers 1983 memoir, Haven, later made into
a CBS miniseries. Gruber was motivated to join
that rescue mission by the same passions that
drove her empathetic journalism. I just felt that I
had to fight evil, she said in 2001, and Ive felt
like that since I was 20 years old.
Getty, courtesy of Reel Inheritance Films
Born in Brooklyn to Eastern European Jewish
immigrants, Gruber was a brilliant student,
said The New York Times. She earned a masters
degree in German at the University of Wisconsin
at age 19, and a doctorate in German literature
at the University of Cologne at 20. Gruber joined
the New York Herald Tribune in 1935 and soon
after became the first Western journalist to visit
Obituaries
by the incident that she was
hired upon graduation. Ifill
started writing about politics,
and quickly rose through the
ranks, with spells at the Baltimore
Evening Sun, The Washington
Post, and The New York Times.
In 1994, after two years as
the Times White House cor-
respondent, Ifill made the leap
to broadcast journalism, said
The Washington Post. Covering
Capitol Hill for NBC, she quickly
established herself as a smart,
no-nonsense broadcaster, and in 1999 moved to
PBS to host Washington Week. Five years later,
she moderated the 2004 vice-presidential debate
between Dick Cheney and John Edwards.
Ifill broke ground again in 2013 when she and
blocked the movies release
Woodruff became co-hosts of PBSs NewsHour.
Despite her success, Ifill always saw herself
more as a reporter than as a news anchor, pro-
gram host, or moderator, said The New York
Times. She said she loved covering presidential
politics because it allowed her to talk to so many
different people. But she insisted shed never
want to run for office herself. Its much more
fun to watch and to ask, she said, than to
actually have to account for your behavior.
the Soviet Arctic and the gulag,
said The Washington Post. During
World War II, Gruber worked as
special assistant to Roosevelts
interior secretary, Harold Ickes,
who recruited her to help comfort
984 refugees as they sailed from
Allied camps in Italy to the U.S.
Gruber tended the sick, organized
English classes, and served as
morale officer. Standing alone on
the blacked-out deck, she wrote, I was trem-
bling with the discovery that from this moment
on my life would be forever bound with rescue
and survival.
She was right. Gruber was reporting in Jerusalem
in 1947 when she learned that British warships
had intercepted the Palestine-bound Exodus, car-
rying 4,515 Jewish refugees from Germany, said
Forward.com. Within sight of the Promised Land,
the refugees were transferred to prison ships and
sent back to Europe. Gruber photographed and
wrote about the horrific conditions on those
vessels and the German camps where they were
held, sparking an international outcry. Grubers
postwar reportages ranged widely, but in her 19
books and other writings, she generally followed
one guiding principle. Whenever I saw that Jews
were in danger, she said, I covered the story.
39
The record-breaking
free diver who swam
to new depths
Enzo Maiorcas spirited rivalry
with fellow free diver Jacques
Mayol inspired director Luc
Bessons acclaimed 1988
film The Big Blue. Beginning
in 1966, the
Enzo Italian traded
Maiorca world records
19312016 with the
Frenchman,
descending to depths scien-
tists had previously thought
unreachable without the aid
of breathing apparatus. But
Maiorca was furious that
Bessons movie characterized
him as a brash and thuggish
Sicilian. Calling the portrayal
deeply wounding, Maiorca
in Italy until after Mayols
death in 2001, and even then
insisted on certain lines being
cut. According to Besson, I
was an uneducated mafioso,
he said. I am not that kind of
a person.
Born in the Sicilian city of
Syracuse, Maiorca learned
to swim at age 4, despite
having a fear of the sea that
never entirely left him, said
TheGuardian.com. He discov-
ered free diving through his
passion for spearfishing, a
hobby he later dropped after
feeling the anxiously beating
heart of a grouper he had
speared. In 1960, Maiorca
descended to 45meters
(148feet), setting the first
of 17 records in the sport.
When he became the first
free diver to reach 50meters
(164feet) the following year,
the Italian media dubbed
him Lord of the Abysses.
In 1974, Maiorca under-
took a televised attempt to
set a new record depth of
90meters (295feet), said
The Daily Telegraph (U.K.).
But just a few meters into the
dive he collided with a cam-
eraman, and upon surfacing
subjected him to a barrage
of invective, which was
streamed live to Italian audi-
ences. Ostracized by Italian
TV, Maiorca retreated from
competitive diving until
1988, when he briefly came
out of retirement with a dive
of 101meters (331feet). It
was a new, and final, per-
sonal best.
THE WEEK December 2, 2016
40 The last word
In thrall to Adderall
Like many young people, I relied for years on prescription stimulants to power me through all-nighters in college
and late nights at the office, said writer Casey Schwartz. Then I tried to kick my addiction.

H
AVE YOU EVER was in the basement of
been to Enfield? the library in a state of
I had never even ecstasy. The world fell
heard of it until I was away; it was only me,
23 and living in London locked in a passionate
for graduate school. One embrace with the book
afternoon, I received I was reading and the
notification that a pack- thoughts I was having
age whose arrival I had about it, which tumbled
been anticipating for days out of nowhere and built
had been bogged down into what seemed an
in customs and was now amazing pile of riches.
in a FedEx warehouse in When dawn came, I
Enfield, an unremarkable was hunched over in the
London suburb. I was on grubby lounge of my
the train within the hour. dormitory, typing my
The package in question, last fevered perceptions,
sent from Los Angeles, vaguely aware that out-
contained my monthly side the window, the sky
supply of Adderall. was turning pink. I was
The train to Enfield was On Adderall, studying all night, running 10 miles, then reading The New Yorker was a breeze. alone in my new secret
hardly the greatest extreme world, and that very
to which I would go during the decade roughly 16 million Adderall prescriptions aloneness was part of the great intoxication.
I was entangled with Adderall. I would were written for adults between ages 20 and I needed nothing and no one.
open other peoples medicine cabinets, 39. Adderall has now become ubiquitous I would experience this same sensation
root through trash cans where I had previ- on college campuses. Black markets have again and again over the next two years,
ously disposed of pills, write friends col- sprung up at many, if not most, schools. whenever I could get my hands on Adderall
lege essays for barter. Once, while living in In fact, according to a 2012 article, the on campus, which was frequently, but not,
New Hampshire, I skipped a day of work off-label use of prescription stimulants had I began to feel, frequently enough. Adderall
to drive three hours each way to the clinic come to represent the second most common wiped away the question of willpower. Now
where my prescription was still on file. form of illicit drug use in college by 2004. I could study all night, then run 10 miles,
Never was I more resourceful or unswerv- Only marijuana was more popular. then breeze through that weeks New
ing than when I was devising ways to To date, there is almost no research on Yorker. It was fantastic. I lost weight. That
secure more Adderall. the long-term effects on humans of using was nice, too. I did snap at friends, though,
Adderall is prescribed to treat attention- Adderall. In a sense, then, we are the walk- abruptly accessing huge depths of fury I
deficit hyperactivity disorder, a neuro- ing experiment, those of us around my age wouldnt have thought I possessed.
behavioral condition marked by inatten- who first got involved with this drug in By my senior year of college, my school-
tion, hyperactivity, and impulsivity thats high school or college, when it was sud- work had grown more unmanageable, not
predominantly seen in children. That denly everywhere, and then did not manage less. For the first time in my life, I wasnt
condition, which has also been called to get off it for years afterwardif we got able to complete it. My Russian-history
attention deficit disorder, has been increas- off it at all. We are living out what it might professor granted me an extension on the
ingly diagnosed over recent decades: In mean, both psychologically and neurologi- final term paper. One Friday evening well
the 1990s, an estimated 3 to 5 percent of cally, to take a powerful drug we do not into December, I was alone in the Sciences
school-age American children were believed need over long stretches of time. Sometimes Librarythe one that stayed open all
to have ADHD; by 2013, that figure was I think of us as Generation Adderall. nightsquinting down at my notes on the
11 percent. It continues to rise. And the

increase in diagnoses has been followed
by an increase in prescriptions. In 1990,
600,000 children were on stimulants, usu-
ally Ritalin. By 2013, 3.5 million children
were on stimulants, and in many cases,
the Ritalin had been replaced by Adderall,
officially brought to market in 1996 as the
new, upgraded choice for ADHDmore
effective, longer lasting.
By the mid-2000s, adults were the fastest-
T
HE FIRST TIME I took Adderall, I was Russian intelligentsia. Outside, it was bliz-
a sophomore at Brown University, zarding. I felt dizzy and strange. It had been
lamenting to a friend the impossibil- a particularly chemical week; several days
ity of my plight: a five-page paper due the had passed since I had slept more than a
next afternoon on a book I had only just handful of hours, and I was taking more
begun reading. Do you want an Adder- and more pills to compensate. Suddenly,
all? she asked. I cant stand itit makes when I looked up from the page, the bright
me want to stay up all night doing cart- room seemed to dilate around me, as if I
wheels in the hallway. werent really there but rather stuck in some
strange mirage.
Could there be a more enticing description?
My friend pulled two blue pills out of tinfoil An hour later, I was in an ambulance,
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growing group receiving the drug. In 2012, and handed them to me. An hour later, I being taken through the snowstorm to the
THE WEEK December 2, 2016

nearest hospital. I sat for hours in the ER,
until I was ushered behind a curtain and a
skeptical-looking doctor came in to see me.
I described what Id been taking. His diag-
nosis: Anxiety, amphetamine induced. I
had had my first panic attackan uncom-
mon but by no means unknown reaction to
taking too much Adderall.
A few days later, I drew incompletes in my
classes and went back home to New York.
I spent that long winter break soldiering
lethargically through the essays I hadnt
been able to cope with while taking amphet-
amines. What I didnt know then, what I
couldnt have known, was that the question
of whether Adderall actually improves cog-
nitive performance when taken off-label
whether or not it is a smart drugwas
unresolved. It would be another few years
before studies appeared showing that
Adderalls effect on cognitive enhancement is
more than a little ambiguous. Martha Farah,
a cognitive neuroscientist at the University
of Pennsylvania, has conducted much of
this research. She has studied the effect of
Adderall on subjects taking a host of stan-
dardized tests that measure restraint, mem-
ory, and creativity. On balance, Farah and
others have found very little to no improve-
ment when their research subjects confront
these tests on Adderall. Ultimately, she says, Millions of adults now take Adderall regularly.
it is possible that lower-performing people
actually do improve on the drug, and higher- waitress. And yet these were the answers, I
performing people show no improvement or discovered from the briefest online research,
actually get worse.
My pill-free period didnt last very long. I
turned in my incomplete schoolwork and
duly received my grades, but by gradua-
tion that spring, I was again locked into the
familiar pattern, the blissful intensity and
isolation followed by days of slow-motion
comedown, when I would laze around for
hours, barely able to muster the energy nec- sun, prescription slip in hand. That single
essary to take a shower.
It took me exactly one year from the time of hour, would follow me everywhere I went:
college graduation to come to the decision
that would, to a great extent, shape the next then to London; then to New Haven, Conn.,
phase of my life. It hit me like a revelation: where I would pick it up once a month at the
It might be possible to declare my indepen-
dence from the various ADHD kids who
sold me their prescription pills at exorbi-
tant markups and get a prescription all my
own. The idea occurred to me as I walked
among the palm trees on the campus of
UCLA. By then, I was living in Los Angeles,
working as a private tutor for high school
kids, many of whom were themselves on
Adderall, and taking summer-school classes
in psychology and neuroscience in order
to be able to apply for graduate school. As
soon as it occurred to me that I might be
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able to get my own prescription, I went to
the nearest campus computer and searched
for cognitive behavioral psychiatrist,
The last word
Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
The very next day, I was describing to the
young psychiatrist in the chair opposite me
how I had always had to develop elabo-
voice would take over, and I would jump
rate compensatory strategies for getting
through my schoolwork, how staying with
any one thing was a challenge for me, how
I was best at jobs that required elaborate
multitasking, like waitressing. Untrue, all
of it. I was a focused student and a terrible
that were characteristic of the ADHD diag-
nostic criteria. These were the answers they
were looking for in order to pick up their
pens and write down Adderall, 20 mg,
once a day on their prescription pads. So
these were the answers I gave.
Fifty minutes later, I was standing on San
Vicente Boulevard in the bright California
doctors assessment, granted in less than an
through the rest of my time in Los Angeles;
Yale Health Center; then back to New York,
where the doctor I found on my insurance
plan would have no problem continuing to
prescribe this medication, based only on my
saying that it had been previously prescribed
to me, that Id been taking it for years.
Occasionally, I would try to get off the
drug. Each attempt began the same way.
Step 1: the rounding up of all the pills
in my possession, including those secret
stashes hidden away in drawers and clos-
ets. Debating for hours whether to keep
just one, for emergencies. Then the leap
of faith and the flushing of the pills down
the toilet. Step 2: a day or two of feeling
all right, as if I could manage this after all.
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Step 3: a bleak slab of time when the effort
needed to get through even the simple tasks
of a single day felt stupendous. Panic would
set in. Then, suddenly, an internal Adderall
up from my desk and scurry out to refill my
prescription or borrow pills from a friend,
if need be.
Ive often wondered whether my inability to
give it up was my deepest failing. Ive found
some comfort in seeing my own experience
mirrored back to me in the dozens and doz-
ens of disembodied voices on the internet,
filling the message boards of the websites
devoted to giving up this drug. One post,
in particular, has stayed with me, a mother
writing on QuittingAdderall.com:
I started taking Adderall in Oct. 2010. And
my story isnt much different than most....
The honeymoon period, then all downhill.
I feel like I cannot remember who I was,
or how it felt, to go one minute of the day
not on Adderall. I look back at pictures of
myself from before this began and I wonder
how I was ever happy without it because
now I am a nervous wreck if I even come
close to not having my pills for the day.
I
WAS 30 by the time I got off Adderall for
good. This statement horrifies me even
now, more than three years later, recog-
nizing the amount of precious time I gave
away to that drug.
During my first weeks of finally giving
up Adderall, the fatigue was as real as it
had been before, the effort required to
run even a tiny errand momentous, the
gym unthinkable. The cravings were a
force of their own: If someone so much as
said Adderall in my presence, I would
instantly begin to scheme about how to get
just one more pill. Or maybe two. I was
anxious, terrified I had done something
irreversible to my brain, terrified that I was
going to discover that I couldnt write at all
without my special pills.
On one of those earliest days of being off
the drug, I was moving slowly, more than
a little daunted, trying to walk the few
miles to an appointment I had in midtown
Manhattan. It was a glorious summer
evening, the sun just going down. As I
approached Bryant Park, I heard live music
and wandered in to see. A rock band was
performing onstage. The singer gripped
the microphone with two hands, pouring
his heart into every word. Suddenly, tears
were streaming down my face. I was embar-
rassed, but I couldnt stop. It was as if I
hadnt heard music in years.
Excerpted from an article that origi-
nally appeared in The New York Times
Magazine. Reprinted with permission.
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