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Contents 3

Editor’s letter
In the world of young adult fiction (YA), the censor has now be-
come the censored. Not so long ago, aspiring novelist Kosoko
Jackson was a freelance “sensitivity reader” for major publish-
ing houses, vetting teen book manuscripts for “insensitive” ma-
terial on race, gender, or privilege. On Twitter, he explained what
he considered “off limits” in literature: female authors “profit-
ing” from gay male stories, nonblack people writing about the
civil rights movement, men writing about the fight for wom-
en’s suffrage. But then, as Jennifer Senior explained in The New
York Times, came “a karmic boomerang.” Jackson’s own debut
YA novel, A Place for Wolves, violated his standards. A tale of
two gay American teenagers in war-torn Kosovo, it was savaged
on social media by other YA writers and reviewers for focusing
on privileged Westerners and not persecuted Muslim Kosovars.
Jackson—who is black and gay—apologized for the “hurt” he’d
caused and last month asked his publisher to scrap the book,
making him the second YA author in five weeks to pull a debut
work over sensitivity issues.
Jackson’s downfall shows the impossibility of his purity test. He
didn’t base his debut on his own experiences, but instead did what
novelists have always done: stepped outside himself and dreamed
up new realities. If authors were barred from doing that, as Jack-
son previously advocated, few great works of fiction would ever
have been published. The able-bodied Victor Hugo couldn’t have
written about the disabled hunchback in Notre-Dame de Paris, or
Gertrude Stein—who was born to privilege—about working-class
women in Three Lives. E.M. Forster, a gay Briton, would have
been judged a sinner for daring to ponder the internal lives of
Muslim doctors and English women in A Passage to India. Read-
ers should be the ones with the power to decide whether a novel
fails or succeeds, not cultural police who punish Theunis Bates
writers for using their imagination. Managing editor

NEWS
4 Main stories
Boeing jets grounded
after deadly crash;
wealthy parents charged
in college admissions
scam; Paul Manafort gets
seven years in prison
6 Controversy of the week
Democrats divided after
Rep. Ilhan Omar accused,
again, of anti-Semitism
7 The U.S. at a glance
President Trump’s budget
plan takes aim at benefits;
California governor halts
death penalty
8 The world at a glance
Britain seeks a Brexit
delay; Iran imprisons a
Editor-in-chief: William Falk
Managing editors: Theunis Bates,
Mark Gimein
Deputy editor/International: Susan Caskie
Deputy editor/Arts: Chris Mitchell
Senior editors: Alex Dalenberg,
Danny Funt, Michael Jaccarino, Dale Obbie,
Hallie Stiller
Art director: Dan Josephs
Photo editor: Loren Talbot
Copy editors: Jane A. Halsey, Jay Wilkins
Researchers: Joyce Chu, Emilio Leanza
Contributing editors: Ryan Devlin,
Bruno Maddox
EVP, publisher: John Guehl
Sales development director: Lora Logan
Account managers: Alison Fernandez,
Ware Trimble
Midwest director: Lauren Ross
Southeast director: Jana Robinson
West Coast directors: James Horan,
A grieving relative at the Boeing 737 Max 8 crash site in Ethiopia (p.4) Rebecca Treadwell
Associate marketing director: Kelly Dyer
Integrated marketing managers:
ARTS LEISURE Reisa Feigenbaum, Lindsay LaMoore
Marketing designer: Maureen Dougherty

top human rights lawyer
10 People
Matthew McConaughey’s
22 Books 27 Food & Drink Research and insights manager: Joan Cheung
Sales & marketing coordinator:
Animals’ real and rich Tasting the world in the Carla Pacheco-Muevecela
emotional lives restaurants of Provo, Utah Digital director, ad operations & client
services: Yuliya Spektorsky

tell-all mom; how Chaka
Khan survived addiction
11 Briefing
Will 5G phone technology
live up to the hype?
12 Best U.S. columns
America’s two justice
systems; why Pelosi
opposes impeachment
15 Best international
columns
Canada’s Justin Trudeau
faces his first big scandal
16 Talking points
The campaign to scrap
daylight saving time; calls
AP, Newscom
23 Author of the week 28 Travel Programmatic director: Isaiah Ward
Digital planner: Maria Sarno
Brian Fies on turning a The wild alpine beauty of Chief executive officer: Sara O’Connor
devastating wildfire into Georgia’s Tusheti region Chief operating & financial officer:
a graphic novel Kevin E. Morgan
29 Consumer Director of financial reporting:
Arielle Starkman
24 Art & Stage Toyota’s new Corolla Consumer marketing director:
A new exhibition hybrid is a Prius killer Leslie Guarnieri
HR manager: Joy Hart
takes a fresh look
Operations manager: Cassandra Mondonedo
at Jean-Michel BUSINESS
Chairman: Jack Griffin
Basquiat Dennis Group CEO: James Tye
32 News at a glance U.K. founding editor: Jolyon Connell
25 Film & Music An unexpectedly dismal Company founder: Felix Dennis
History jobs report; the return of
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4 NEWS The main stories...

Boeing’s 737 Max 8 grounded worldwide
What happened While the jury is still out, said the San
President Trump bowed to mounting Jose Mercury News, the FAA had no
pressure this week to ground the Boeing real choice but to “err on the side of
737 Max 8 after a second deadly crash in caution.” People’s lives are at stake.
five months killed 157 in Ethiopia and per- Boeing, meanwhile, sent mixed signals,
suaded regulators and carriers worldwide insisting that the plane is safe but then
to ban the planes from their airspace. After promising to install new flight-control
the Ethiopia disaster, in which at least software on Max 8s. “In other words,
eight Americans died, the Federal Aviation there’s nothing wrong with our planes,
Administration initially said it found “no but we want to fix them anyhow.”
systemic” issues with the Max 8 and thus
“no basis” for a ban. But the FAA and What the columnists said
Trump, who had been personally lobbied This disaster is rooted in “a bad busi-
by Boeing’s CEO to keep the plane in the ness decision” by Boeing, said Jeff
air, reversed course after more than 50 New 737 Max 8s at Boeing’s Washington state plant Wise in Slate.com. To stay competitive
nations—including the European Union, with a new, fuel-efficient Airbus jet,
Canada, and China—had grounded the plane over concerns that it Boeing faced a choice: Design a next-generation 737 from scratch
was difficult to control during takeoff. “The safety of the American or revise the legacy version—a vastly cheaper option. Boeing chose
people, and all people, is our paramount concern,” Trump said. the latter. But to accommodate better engines, it had “to move the
point where the plane attaches to the wing,” resulting in a danger-
Trump’s decision came after Canada’s transportation minister said ous tendency for the Max 8 to pitch up and possibly stall. Boeing
a review of satellite-tracking data by his country’s experts found compensated by added software that pitches the nose down if it
similarities between Sunday’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet and senses upward drift. Clearly, the “engineers used automation to
a Lion Air crash in Indonesia’s Java Sea in October, which killed paper over the aircraft’s flaws.” These crashes could be the result.
189. It was also revealed this week that at least five pilots from U.S.
airlines had lodged complaints with the FAA about how the Max The FAA’s slowness to respond to this crisis is not surprising, said
8 performed in flight since October. The Max 8 first flew commer- Heather Timmons in Qz.com. The Trump administration is hostile
cially in 2017, and some 350 are registered, including Southwest to regulation, and acting officials occupy the FAA’s top three posts,
Airlines’ 34 and American Airlines’ 24. United Airlines has 14 Max including administrator Dan Elwell, a former American Airlines
9s, which were also grounded. Boeing—which has 5,000 Max executive and airline industry lobbyist. Trump just proposed
series planes on order, or two-thirds of its future deliveries—said it massive cuts to FAA staff. The agency simply “isn’t under optimal
agreed with the decision to ground the planes “out of an abun- conditions to deal with a big issue like two Boeing crashes.”
dance of caution.”
It’s also worth noting that “Boeing’s influence in Washington
What the editorials said is mammoth,” said Melanie Zanona and Brianna Gurciullo in
Let’s wait for investigators to reach their conclusions before deciding Politico.com. The company has 153,000 workers, and employs
the plane was at fault, said the Chicago Sun-Times. Yes, both crash- 24 in-house lobbyists and nearly 20 lobbying firms. It spent
es exhibit similarities. The Ethiopian crash came just six minutes $15 million–plus on D.C. lobbying last year—“more than any
after takeoff; the Lion Air flight, 12. But there are also differences. other U.S. company except for Google and AT&T.” Oh, and
Lion Air has been previously cited for improper plane maintenance Trump’s new secretary of defense, Patrick Shanahan, spent 31 years
and pilot training, and some witnesses said they saw smoke coming at Boeing and has been reported to lavish praise on the company’s
from the plane before it crashed. And don’t forget that “350 planes products at meetings and criticize those of its competitors. Does
of the same model have been flying all around the world for two that explain why the U.S. was the last advanced nation in the
years without incident.’’ world to ground the Max 8 and 9?

It wasn’t all bad
QReese Turner stands only 4-foot-4,
but that hasn’t stopped the 17-year-
old from becoming a high school
basketball sensation. The junior,
who has dwarfism, is a standout
member of Cushing High’s team,
which finished the 2018–19 season
26-4 thanks in part to Turner’s fierce
skills. He averaged 8 points a game
and can be seen raining down
threes in the video highlights that
he posts on social media with the
hashtag #HeartOverHeight. “I am
more than a little person,” Turner
says. “Live up to your dream, and
QTwo formerly conjoined twins arrived home in the Himalayan
kingdom of Bhutan last week after lifesaving separation surgery
in Australia, delighting family members who saw them walk-
ing independently for the first time. Twenty-month-old Nima
and Dawa Pelden, once joined at the torso and sharing a liver,
headed to Melbourne’s Royal
Children’s Hospital five months
ago. There, they underwent a
six-hour surgery that involved
some 25 surgeons, nurses, and
anesthetists, and recovered at a
retreat run by the Children First
Foundation—the charity that
brought them to Australia. “They
are just developing into beauti-
ful little girls,” said CFF’s Debbie
Pickering. “They are delightful in
QA former British Royal Marine
has become the first amputee
to row from mainland Europe
to South America, smashing the
able-bodied record for the cross-
ing in the process. Lee Spencer,
49, made the 3,800-mile voyage
from Portugal to French Guiana in
60 days, 36 days faster than the
able-bodied record. Spencer bat-
tled 40-foot waves on the journey
and had to move around his boat
on one leg—the Afghan and Iraq
War vet lost his right leg below
the knee in 2014 when he was hit
by debris from an exploding car
engine. “No one,” Spencer said,
Getty, AP

don’t let anybody write you out.” Nima and Dawa every way.” “should be defined by disability.”

Illustration by Fred Harper.

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... and how they were covered NEWS 5

Feds expose college admissions cheating scheme

What happened What the columnists said
Federal prosecutors this week charged more “I am half-horrified and half-entertained
than two dozen wealthy parents—including by this scandal,” said Jason Gay in The
Hollywood actresses, financiers, and a Napa Wall Street Journal. The delicious details
Valley vintner—with using bribes, fake test read like a parody of 21st-century privilege:
scores, and bogus athletic records to secure Some kids’ faces were allegedly photo-
their children’s admission to Stanford, Yale, shopped onto the bodies of pole vaulters
and other elite colleges. The parents allegedly and water polo players to prove their non-
funneled $25 million through a sham col- existent athletic prowess. It’s yet another ex-
lege counseling service that paid proctors to ample of an entitled American elite that has
secretly correct students’ SAT and ACT exam been “conditioned to get what it wants.”
papers and college coaches to recruit students Loughlin and Huffman: Expensive education
for sports they didn’t play. Fifty people in six “Though we might be laughing, the joke
states—including 33 parents and nine college coaches—have been is probably on us,” said Willa Paskin in Slate.com. Our society of
charged in connection with the scheme. In most cases, the students haves and have-nots is becoming so stratified that even extremely
were not aware of the scam, said Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for rich moms and dads are “in a panic for their children’s future.”
the District of Massachusetts. “The parents are the prime movers These parents understand that attending brand-name schools
of this fraud.” provides entrée into elite circles, the kind that might help a young
person move from the 1 percent to the 0.01 percent.
Among those accused are sitcom star Lori Loughlin and her
husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, who allegedly paid “The real college admissions scandal is what’s legal,” said Libby
$500,000 to get their daughters on the University of Southern Cali- Nelson in Vox.com. Legacy admissions grease the skids for un-
fornia’s crew team, even though they weren’t rowers. Felicity Huff- derperforming children, as do big gifts of cash. Harvard admitted
man of Desperate Housewives allegedly paid $15,000 to help one of 4.6 percent of all applicants in 2018, but 42 percent of donors’
her children cheat on the SAT in 2017. The scheme was organized kids got in. President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared
by William Singer, who ran a phony nonprofit in Newport Beach, Kushner was admitted to the school after a $2.5 million donation
Calif.; he has pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and faces from his father. “At least there’s a level of transparency” to such
up to 20 years in prison. Some students get into college through the transactions, said Maureen Callahan in the New York Post. But our
“front door,” on merit, Singer explained, and others through the cosseted elite can’t even play by rules written in their favor. Is it any
“back door,” where big donations from parents increase the odds of wonder Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist call “to eat the
admittance. “I created a side door—a sure thing.” rich” has found an audience?

Manafort gets 7 years, bids for Trump pardon

What happened
Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman,
got a second prison sentence this week, bringing his term to seven
and a half years—by far the longest sentence to date resulting
from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Manafort,
69, pleaded guilty to not disclosing high-paying lobbying work in
Ukraine, then tampered with two witnesses and lied to investiga-
tors after agreeing to cooperate. With more than 20 of Mueller’s
staff in the Washington, D.C., courtroom, Judge Amy Berman
Jackson said, “It is hard to overstate the number of lies and the
amount of fraud” involved in Manafort’s case. Jackson added
43 months to the nearly four-year sentence ordered last week by
a judge in Alexandria, Va., following Manafort’s conviction for
eight felony counts of bank and tax fraud. “This defendant is not
Public Enemy No. 1,” Jackson said, “but he’s also not a victim.”
Just an hour later, a New York grand jury indicted Manafort
on 16 counts related to millions of dollars in alleged mortgage
fraud, an effort by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
to convict Manafort on state charges should Trump pardon his
federal crimes. Trump hasn’t ruled out a pardon, saying he felt
“very badly” for Manafort after last week’s sentencing. Manafort
lost out on a lighter prison term by voiding his cooperation agree-
ment with the special prosecutor. By contrast, Mueller’s office
recommended little or no prison time for former Trump national
security adviser Michael Flynn, who completed his year-plus of
cooperating testimony this week.
AP
What the columnists said
Manafort’s lawyers stood in Jackson’s court but spoke directly to
Trump, said David Graham in TheAtlantic.com. After the hearing,
Manafort attorney Kevin Downing called the sentence “callous,”
adding, “Judge Jackson conceded that there was absolutely no
evidence of any Russian collusion in this case.” That’s a stretch; in
fact, she warned that one reason Manafort’s case uncovered little
may be that he lied to investigators. Manafort keeps “hyping his
victimhood” and portraying himself as a loyal soldier to Trump,
who has “conspicuously declined to rule out a pardon.”
Cue the “complaints that Jackson let Manafort off too easy,”
said Andrew McCarthy in NationalReview.com. “If you feel that
way, then Mueller shoulders much of the blame.” He capped the
possible sentence to coax Manafort into testifying against Trump,
a strategy that yielded nothing. Mueller has been “flouting Justice
Department charging policies” throughout his probe. This time, it
blew up in his face.
Only one question will determine whether Manafort gets a
pardon, said Paul Waldman in WashingtonPost.com: “Is it good
for Trump?” The president certainly wouldn’t do something so
politically explosive “out of sympathy or compassion.” Now
that Manafort faces a slew of state charges, it’s possible Trump
wouldn’t be able to rescue him from prison anyway. All a pardon
would do, said Brent Budowsky in TheHill.com, is create “an epic
constitutional crisis” and “guarantee” impeachment hearings.

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6 NEWS Controversy of the week

Rep. Omar: Do Democrats have an anti-Semitism problem?
“I have a new hobby,” said Matthew Continetti in ing, “Jews, you will not replace us”? Omar’s ill-chosen words
the Washington Free Beacon: “collecting the excuses were offensive, said Michelle Goldberg in The New York
Democrats make for Ilhan Omar,” the freshman Times. “But the reaction was worse.” Led by the “repug-
Minnesota congresswoman trying to “mainstream anti- nant white nationalist” in the Oval Office, Republicans
Semitic rhetoric within the Democratic Party.” Before gleefully attacked the first hijab-wearing congresswoman
her election, Omar accused Israel of having “hypnotized because vilifying Muslims plays to their base. As a Jew,
the world,” presumably with the sinister mind-control I find Omar’s language “reckless,” but also think
powers that anti-Semites for centuries have attributed that there’s nothing inherently anti-Semitic about
to Jews. She then dredged up the myth of outsize questioning the U.S.’s unblinking support for the
Jewish financial influence, claiming that U.S. increasingly right-wing and oppressive Israeli gov-
support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins ernment. “Omar needs to do better, but right now
[$100 bills], baby.” Omar apologized, claiming there’s still only one political party in America
not to know the history of these ugly tropes, but Omar: Invoked the ‘dual loyalty’ slur that is a safe place for hate.”
then dredged up the ugliest of all, the “dual loyalty” slur, accusing
Israel supporters of demanding “allegiance to a foreign country.” Not if Omar gets her way, said Bret Stephens, also in the Times. I
Rather than denouncing Omar, Democrats “circled the wagons,” believe she knows “exactly what she’s doing”: trying to remake the
said Seth Mandel in The Washington Post. They accused her crit- Democratic Party into a safe haven for far leftists who hate Israel.
ics of racism and Islamophobia (Omar is a black Muslim), while If this sounds paranoid, look at Britain, where under the leader-
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the Somali-born Omar “has a ship of Omar’s kindred spirit Jeremy Corbyn the Labour Party has
different experience in the use of words.” In the end, Omar’s only become such a hotbed of anti-Semitism that British Jews are now
punishment was a toothless House resolution condemning bigotry fleeing that party in droves.
in all its forms, including both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
“Even for Washington, the cynicism was breathtaking.” Omar’s critics are right about her “crude and freighted language,”
said Andrew Sullivan in NYMag.com. But the fact is we now give
These howls of right-wing outrage “ring hollow,” said James $3.8 billion annually in aid to Israel, far more per capita than to
Downie, also in the Post. Where was this “principled opposition to any other country—and yet we are “expected to consent to any-
anti-Semitism” when GOP Rep. Kevin McCarthy accused Jewish thing and everything Israel wants.” In the Trump administration,
billionaires George Soros and Michael Bloomberg of trying to that has included withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, a move
“buy” the midterm elections? Or when President Trump repeat- of our embassy to Jerusalem, a surge in West Bank settlements,
edly used the word “globalist,” long a favorite of anti-Semitic and “an intensification of the abuse of the Palestinians.” This is
conspiracy theorists who think international Jewry controls the “a grotesque distortion of U.S. foreign policy,” and it “deserves
world? Or when he claimed there were some “very fine people” in a much wider debate.” Is it possible to have one without being
the white supremacist mob that marched on Charlottesville chant- accused of engaging in “any anti-Semitic ‘tropes’ at all?”

Good week for:

Only in America
QA new app helps Presi-
dent Trump supporters find
restaurants where they will be
“safe.” The app, 63red Safe,
rates businesses as either
“safe” or “not safe” based on
such criteria as whether they
post political content on social
media (not safe), and whether
customers are allowed to
carry guns (safe). Developer
Scott Wallace says the app is
needed due to the “rise of the
socialist goon squad.”
QA California hospital has
apologized for sending a
robot to tell a man he was
dying. Now-deceased Ernest
Quintana, 78, was at Kaiser
Permanente Medical Center
when a robot rolled into the
room and a doctor on its
video screen informed Quin-
tana he had only days to live.
News of such gravity, said
daughter Catherine Quintana,
should be delivered “by a hu-
man being.”
Boring but important
Fornicators, after the Utah state legislature this week belatedly
voted to repeal the law criminalizing fornication, in which an unmar- U.S. lets private schools
ried person “voluntarily engages in sexual intercourse with another.” hire religious groups
Education Secretary Betsy
Integrity, after the ex-wife of a man who just won $273 million
DeVos said this week that she
in the Mega Millions lottery announced that she doesn’t want him
would cease enforcing a law
back or a cent of his winnings, despite supporting him for years. that bars religious groups
“He’s not appealing to me all of a sudden because he has this from providing federally fund-
money,” said Eileen Murray, 53. “I have morals.” ed services to private schools,
Efficiency, with President Trump’s denial that he referred to Apple continuing her department’s
CEO Tim Cook as “Tim Apple” during a recent White House meet- push to expand protections
for faith-based organizations.
ing. When a video showed that Trump had, in fact, said “Tim Apple,”
Federal law entitles private
Trump tweeted that it was “an easy way to save time & words.”
schools to funding for some
Bad week for: services that public schools
Restaurant menus, after the mayor of Bologna, Italy, launched get, especially if they benefit
a campaign to convince the world that the meat-based pasta sauce children from low-income
known globally as bolognese has no historical connection to his city. households or English-
language learners. Private
“Spaghetti bolognese doesn’t actually exist,” said mayor Virginio
schools were not allowed to
Merola, 64. Bologna, he said, did create tagliatelle and tortellini. hire religious organizations to
Jingle Bells, with the arrest of Clayton Lucas, 25, of Pittsburgh, provide those services. DeVos,
who allegedly tried to choke his Lyft driver from the back seat because however, contends that runs
the man wouldn’t stop singing out-of-season Christmas songs. counter to a 2017 Supreme
Biblical literalism, after a South African diver was swept, Jonah- Court decision which held
like, into the mouth of a feeding Bryde’s whale. Rainer Schimpf, 51, that denying public funds to
improve the safety of church
says, “It got dark, I felt some pressure on my hip, and I instantly
playgrounds “was odious to
knew a whale had grabbed me.” Fortunately, the filter-feeding the Constitution.”
whale spit the intruder out of its baleen.
AP

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The U.S. at a glance ...
Portland, Ore.
Vaccine wars: A 6-year-old
unvaccinated boy almost died
in 2017 after contracting the
state’s first known pediat-
ric case of tetanus in more
than 30 years, the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention reported last week.
He spent 57 days hospital-
Lifesaver ized at a cost of $811,929
for a disease that’s prevent-
able with five doses of a $30 vaccine.
Six days after cutting his forehead while
playing on a farm, the boy experienced
muscle spasms and trouble breathing. He
couldn’t open his mouth when admit-
ted to the hospital, spent a month on
a ventilator, and was in such pain that
he wore earplugs in a darkened room
for weeks to shut out light and noise.
Surviving tetanus doesn’t provide future
immunity, and the boy’s family declined
to have him vaccinated after his
recovery. In Oregon, 7.5 percent
of kindergarten-age kids are
unvaccinated for nonmedical
reasons, one of the highest
rates in the U.S.
Sacramento
Executions halted: Gov. Gavin
Newsom imposed a moratorium
on the state’s death penalty, granting
reprieves to all 737 Californians await-
ing execution—a quarter of the country’s
death row inmates. The newly elected
Democrat
said, “The
intentional
killing of
another per-
son is wrong.”
He added that
the death pen-
San Quentin alty discrimi-
nates against
minorities, the mentally ill, and the poor
while failing to deter murders since
California enacted its execution law in
1978. California’s last execution was in
2006, and prison officials have struggled
since to devise a lethal injection proce-
dure that would pass muster in federal
Newscom (2), Reuters, Facebook/Miami Herald/TNS
court. Newsom’s order will apply for the
remainder of his tenure, but the current
death penalty law can be changed only
by a ballot initiative. Such a measure
narrowly failed to pass in 2016. Voters
instead approved a rival initiative to
speed up executions; in the 2016 race for
governor, Newsom had pledged to “be
accountable to the will of the voters” on
the death penalty.
Cincinnati
Planned Parenthood: The 6th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals this week upheld
an Ohio law that defunds Planned
Parenthood because it provides abor-
tions. An 11-6 decision allowed the state
to strip $1.5 million of annual support
for Planned Parenthood’s more than two
dozen clinics in Ohio. Just three of those
provide abortions, but Ohio passed a
law in 2016 preventing organizations
that perform or promote abortions from
receiving government funds. The 11-judge
majority, four of them appointed by
President Trump, ruled that provid-
ers “do not have a due process right to
perform abortions.” The case, one of
several nationwide concerning efforts to
defund Planned Parenthood, likely will be
appealed to the Supreme Court. While the
high court has recently avoided similar
cases, conservative justices Neil Gorsuch,
Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas have
pushed for it to issue a definitive ruling.
Washington, D.C.
Opening bid: President Trump this week
proposed a $4.7 trillion budget, the larg-
est in federal history. Drawing fierce
rebukes from congressional Democrats,
the proposal previewed the likely themes
of Trump’s re-election campaign. The
White House wants a nearly 5 percent
increase in military spending—more than
the Pentagon requested—plus $8.6 billion
to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
It’s also asking for $200 billion over 10
years for infrastructure. But the pro-
posal’s main author, Russell Vought, said,
“We have many, many programs that
are wasteful and inefficient,” explaining
Trump’s backing away from a pledge to
leave safety-net programs intact. The plan
would cut $818 billion from projected
spending on Medicare over the next
decade and $1.5 trillion from Medicaid,
and includes massive cuts to climate
programs. Nonetheless, the White House
estimates the plan would produce trillion-
dollar deficits for four straight years.
NEWS 7
New York City
Trump finances:
State Attorney
General Letitia
James issued
subpoenas this
week to Deutsche Trump’s bankers
Bank for records
related to four Trump Organization
projects and Trump’s failed 2014 effort
to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. The civil
investigation was prompted by last
month’s testimony from Trump’s former
lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who
provided documents to Congress indicat-
ing Trump inflated his assets. James is
seeking records related to a $125 million
loan Trump obtained to buy the Doral
golf resort outside Miami, $170 mil-
lion to create the Trump International
Hotel in Washington, and $69 million to
refinance old loans on Trump’s tower in
Chicago. James also subpoenaed records
from New Jersey–based Investors Bank
regarding its backing of Trump
Park Avenue in Manhattan.
To bolster his bid for the Bills,
Trump valued a New York
mansion at $291 million when
local assessors valued it at around
$19 million. He said his name brand
alone was worth $4 billion.
Palm Beach, Fla.
Selling access: Li
“Cindy” Yang, the
founder of a chain
of Florida massage
parlors linked to pros-
titution, also ran a
company that offered
Chinese clients access
to President Trump at Presidential selfie
his Mar-a-Lago club.
The news of Yang’s ties to Trump come
on the heels of New England Patriots
owner Robert Kraft’s arrest last month
after he was allegedly videoed solicit-
ing prostitution at a day spa that Yang
founded but later sold. Yang, 45, was
not implicated in the sting operation that
shut down 10 spas, though her franchises
reportedly are also known for offering
sexual services. She was photographed
with Trump at Mar-a-Lago as he cheered
on the Patriots in February’s Super Bowl.
She and her close relatives have donated
almost $60,000 to the Trump campaign
and his Super PAC. Yang, who carries
a rhinestone-covered “MAGA” purse,
denies doing anything illegal. It’s unclear
whether she was ever hired to connect
clients with Trump.
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8 NEWS The world at a glance ...

London
Brexit delay: With the U.K.’s
March 29 exit date from the EU
only weeks away, Parliament this
week overwhelmingly rejected
for a second time the divorce
deal Prime Minister Theresa May
negotiated with the bloc. Hard-
Parliament still has no plan.
line Brexiteers in her Conservative
Party said they were not persuaded by last-minute concessions
from the EU intended to prevent the U.K. from being trapped
indefinitely in the European customs union by the deal’s so-called
Irish backstop. The backstop is an insurance policy to stop a hard
border from going up between Ireland and the U.K. province of
Northern Ireland. Parliament also ruled out leaving the EU without
a deal, and as The Week went to press, it was preparing to vote to
ask the EU to delay Brexit for a few months, which is far from a
sure thing. “I don’t see reason to give any extension if first of all
we don’t know what the majority position is of the House of
Commons,” said EU Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt.
Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany
Poisoner gets life: A German machinist who sprinkled
poison in his co-workers’ sandwiches was sentenced
to life in prison this week—a rare punishment
in the country. Managers at the ARI-Armaturen
valve factory were mystified when a 23-year-old
trainee suddenly fell into a coma, having apparently Klaus O. in court
ingested mercury, and two other workers suffered severe kidney
damage. Police eventually asked the company to install a camera in
its breakroom, and a worker identified as Klaus O., 57, was caught
tampering with lunches. Officials are now reviewing 21 deaths in
and around the company since 2000 for “any indication of foul
play that would justify an exhumation.” The court heard that the
defendant had been experimenting with poisons for years and had
a home lab stocked with mercury, cadmium, and lead.

Paris
Instagrammers, sortez: Residents of Paris’ prettiest street are
begging tourists to stop thronging their doorsteps and taking
photos. Rue Crémieux, a cobbled lane with
pastel-painted townhouses, is closed to cars.
Professional photographers use it to stage wed-
ding and fashion shoots and rappers to film
music videos, while visitors do yoga poses in
doorways for their Instagram feeds. “Frankly,
it’s exhausting,” said one homeowner. The res-
idents’ association wants the city to close the
street to visitors on evenings and weekends. Pretty in pictures

Caracas
U.S. pulls diplomats: After a days-long blackout led to looting
and riots across Venezuela, the U.S. said this week that it would
remove all remaining diplomatic staff from the country. The pres-
ence of American diplomats, said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,
“has become a constraint on U.S. policy.” Most of the country
was left without electricity following the failure of a major substa-
tion in central Venezuela last week. Dozens of people—including
babies—died when hospitals lost power, taps ran dry as water
pumps stopped working, and already-scarce food rotted in refrig-
erators. “We’re going to arrive at a moment when we’re going to
eat each other,” said Caracas resident Zuly González. President
Nicolás Maduro insisted the blackout was the work of the U.S.

Brasília Buenos Aires

Bolsonaro’s obscene tweet: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has Fury after child gives birth:
drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum for tweet- Thousands of Argentine
ing an obscene video shot during last week’s Carnival parades. The women demanded changes to
video showed a man dancing lewdly while another man urinated the country’s strict abortion
on him. “This is what many of the street parties in Brazil’s Carnival laws after authorities there
have turned into,” Bolsonaro said. The next day, he tweeted, effectively denied an abortion
Demanding abortion reform
“What is a golden shower?”—the term for that act. His office to an 11-year-old girl who
said he was trying to demonstrate had been raped by her grandmother’s boyfriend. The procedure
that the Mardi Gras festivals in the was repeatedly delayed, and when the girl was given the go-ahead
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country have grown too risqué, but
critics said he was just angry that so
many floats and dances poked fun at
him. Bolsonaro describes himself as
“homophobic and very proud of it”
and is pushing for a ban on discus-
sion of gender diversity and sexual
Carnival: President not a fan orientation in schools.
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at 23 weeks, doctors said an abortion would be too risky and per-
formed a C-section instead. The baby died a week later. Celebrities
posted photos of themselves at age 11 on social media, with the
hashtag #NiñasNoMadres (“Girls, not mothers”). Abortion is legal
in Argentina only in cases of rape or to prevent a mother’s death,
but it is often denied even in those cases. Medical professionals who
assist in an illegal abortion can be imprisoned for up to 15 years,
while the woman can be sentenced to up to four years.
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The world at a glance ...
Berlin
Huawei threat: The U.S. warned Germany’s government this week
that it would curtail intelligence sharing with Berlin if Chinese tech
giant Huawei were allowed to build the country’s next-generation
5G mobile internet network. U.S. intelligence officials say that
Huawei shares data with authorities in Beijing and could com-
promise the national security of any country that contracts with
it, by supplying equipment with “backdoors” that would allow
unauthorized surveillance. Germany and the U.K. have said they
can handle any potential cybersecurity threats
that come from using Huawei 5G equipment. FBI
Director Chris Wray said last year that Americans
should not use phones from Chinese firms such
as Huawei and ZTI, because they could be used
to “maliciously modify or steal information” and
Chinese spies? “conduct undetected espionage.”
Algiers, Algeria
Bouteflika won’t run: After weeks of protests, Algeria’s longtime
president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has agreed not to run for a fifth
term—but there’s a catch. Bouteflika, 82, has delayed elections
that were scheduled for next month, even though his term ends
on April 28. Instead, he’s appointed a new prime minister and
announced that a national conference will be held to reschedule
the election and rewrite the constitution,
which could allow him to hold power
at least through the end of the year. The
hundreds of thousands of Algerians who
have been protesting across the coun-
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try for weeks were not appeased. They
continued to march in the streets, calling
for Bouteflika—who has held power for
20 years and was left paralyzed by a 2013
stroke—to step down now. Clinging to power
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Moscow
Jail for snarky tweets: About 15,000
people demonstrated for internet free-
dom in Moscow this week after the
national legislature made it a crime
to disrespect the government online.
The law, which is similar to Soviet-era
rules used to repress dissidents, forbids
social media posts that show a “bla-
tant disrespect for society, the country, Protesting for online freedom
Russia’s official state symbols, the constitution, or the authori-
ties.” A first offense will bring a $1,500 fine, and repeat offenders
will be punished with fines up to twice as large, or 15 days in
prison. Protesters were also upset at Kremlin plans to seal off the
Russian internet from outside servers, which will make censorship
much easier. In Chechnya, meanwhile, the speaker of the region’s
parliament declared a blood feud against a popular exiled blogger.
Al-Hawl, Syria
ISIS bride’s baby dies: A British teenager who was stripped of her
citizenship by the U.K. government after she joined ISIS watched
her third baby die in a Syrian refugee camp last week. Shamima
Begum, 19, fled London to join ISIS at age 15, married a Dutch
fighter, and bore and lost two children before ending up in the
camp after ISIS was routed. Close to her due date and largely
unrepentant, Begum had asked to return home to give birth, but
the U.K. denied her request, saying that since her parents were of
Bangladeshi origin she could claim citizenship there. Left stateless,
she gave birth to a son last month in a squalid refugee camp with-
out heat, where temperatures drop below freezing at night. Her
3-week-old boy, Jarrah, died of pneumonia.
Tehran
Lawyer to be lashed: In a verdict that is extreme even
by Iranian standards, renowned Iranian human rights
lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to
38 years in prison and 148 lashes for charges
believed to include “encouraging corruption and
prostitution.” Sotoudeh, 55, devoted her career
to representing opposition activists. Arrested last
Sotoudeh
June while defending women arrested for remov-
ing their headscarves in a public protest, she was convicted in a
secret trial on charges that were not made public. Her husband,
Reza Khandan, was sentenced to six years in January for post-
ing updates about Sotoudeh’s case on Facebook, but he remains
free with their two young children. Amnesty International called
Sotoudeh’s punishment “obscene.”
Melbourne
Pell sentenced: Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Catholic
priest to be convicted of sexually abusing children, was sen-
tenced to six years in prison this week, far short of the 50-year
maximum. The Australian cleric, 77, will be eligible for parole
in less than four years. Victims groups called the sentence too
lenient, and one of the two men Pell was convicted of abusing
as a child—who wasn’t named, to
protect his identity—said through
a lawyer, “It is hard for me, for the
time being, to take comfort in this
outcome.” Accusations of child sexual
abuse had dogged Pell since he was a
seminarian in Australia in the 1960s,
yet he rose to become archbishop of
Melbourne, the Vatican’s CFO, and
a senior adviser to Pope Francis. He
will appeal the conviction. Pell: Guilty of sexual abuse
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10 NEWS People
Why Khan got clean
Nothing in Chaka Khan’s life has been straight-
forward, says Alexis Petridis in The Guardian
(U.K.). The singer grew up in Chicago with a
strict Catholic mother and a beatnik father. “My
sister and I used to go on his nocturnal excur-
sions by the lake in the park. The weed was
thick in the air, the wine bottles were flowing,
music was playing,” she says. “I had a pretty
magical life.” When her parents divorced, Khan’s father married a
civil rights activist who encouraged her to speak at rallies; by 14,
she’d been recruited by the Black Panthers. One day she was given
a gun to hide; she felt physically sick carrying it. “I threw it into
a pond. That finished me with the Panthers.” Still, Khan credits
the habits she formed during her radical phase—taking herbs,
going on monthly fasts—with helping her survive her heyday in
the 1980s, when she was addicted to heroin, cocaine, and alcohol.
“It was the healthy living that brought me through drugs alive,
I’m sure of it.” Khan, 65, is now a teetotal vegan, having kicked
her final addiction, to prescription painkillers, following her friend
Prince’s 2016 death from opioids. “I never, ever got any indication
that he was on pills,” Khan says. “Secrets kill. I’m alive maybe
because he’s dead.”

Fox’s new perspective

Michael J. Fox has had a remarkably successful second act, said
David Marchese in The New York Times. After going public with
his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 1998, the actor has raised $800 mil-
lion to combat the disease. He’s written three best-selling memoirs,
acted in a string of hit TV shows, and has a famously happy fam-
ily life. “I’d developed a relationship with Parkinson’s,” says Fox,
57, where “it left me areas I could still flourish in.” That changed
last year, when he developed a debilitating spinal problem that
required surgery and extensive rehab. He largely recovered, only
to fall at home in August and fracture his arm. Those setbacks
“brought me to places where I started to say, ‘Was it false hope
I’d been selling? Is there a line beyond which there is no consola-
tion?’” He became aware that his own experience with Parkinson’s
was unique, and why not everyone can make peace with the
disease. “When I started to deal with the effects from surgery, I
realized, Wow, it can get a lot worse. Being in a position where I
couldn’t walk and had health aides 24 hours a day, was I still pre-
pared to say, ‘Hey, chin up!’” Still, his sense of optimism remains
mostly undiminished. “If the worst I’ve had is as bad as it gets,”
he says of his life, “it’s been amazing.”
McConaughey’s rebel mom
Matthew McConaughey has a lot of nerve, said Jessamy Calkin in
The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.), and he may get it from his mother.
She was, the actor says, a “big rule breaker.” Kay worked as a
teacher for 39 years—despite never having received a teaching
certificate. Whenever she started at a new school, McConaughey
explains, “she would say, ‘My previous school is sending it...’ and
that would buy her enough time for the kids and staff to see what
a great teacher she was, and then the principal would just forget
about it.” Now 87, Kay remains a big presence in his life, which
can be tiring. When the actor, 49, first became famous, she’d often
show up at interviews and answer questions. “I’d say, ‘Please,
Mom—I’m trying to navigate this newfound celebrity and being
in the public eye, so just watch the loose lips.’” He once turned
on the TV to see her showing a news crew around his childhood
home in Uvalde, Texas. “This is where Matthew slept with his first
girlfriend,” he recalls her telling the reporter, “and this is where I
caught him in the shower doing you know what.” McConaughey
eventually stopped pleading with his mother. “Now I’ve said, ‘You
know what, Mom? Free rein. Go for it.”

second for Rodriguez, who has two daugh-
ters with ex-wife Cynthia. Hours after their
QJennifer Lopez said “yes” this week after
engagement announcement, retired baseball
Alex Rodriguez proposed with a 15-carat, slugger Jose Canseco used social media to
emerald-cut ring estimated to cost north accuse Rodriguez of currently cheating on
of $1 million. Lopez, 49, and Rodri- Lopez with Canseco’s ex-wife, Jessica.
guez, 43, began dating in early 2017, QFox News host Tucker Carlson refused to
a few months after A-Rod ended a apologize this week after radio interviews re-
career that featured 696 surfaced in which Carlson joked about child
home runs, a yearlong rape, made crude remarks about women,
ban for using steroids, and called Iraqis “semiliterate primitive
and two of the richest monkeys.” In appearances on the shock-jock
contracts in baseball program Bubba the Love Sponge between
history. This will be 2006 and 2011, Carlson defended convicted
the fourth marriage sex offender and cult leader Warren Jeffs for
for J-Lo, who has a arranging marriages with teenage girls, say-
son and a daughter ing statutory rape isn’t really rape. In other
America” and Hillary Clinton “anti-penis,”
and said women “just need to be quiet and
kind of do what you’re told.” Confronted with
his quotes, Carlson said he’d been caught
“saying something naughty” but declined to
offer “the usual ritual contrition.”
QFox News rebuked Jeanine Pirro this week
after the host attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.) for being the first woman to wear
a hijab on the House floor. Pirro said “the
Quran 33:59” commands women to wear a
hijab, and then asked, “Is her adherence to
this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adher-
ence to sharia law, which in itself is antitheti-
cal to the United States Constitution?” In
a statement, Fox News said, “We strongly
condemn” Pirro’s comments. Pirro denied
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with ex-husband Marc episodes, Carlson called Britney Spears and calling Omar “un-American,” saying she only
Anthony, and the Paris Hilton “the biggest white whores in intended to “start a debate.”

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Briefing NEWS 11

The 5G revolution
Phone companies have made big promises for their new 5G networks. Will the next generation of wireless live up to the hype?

What is 5G? and low latency could let phones off-

Since the first commercial wireless net- load computing tasks to powerful cloud
work went live in 1986, we’ve built computers, extending battery life and
a new one about every decade. The easing the race for more powerful and
first-generation network—1G—allowed expensive phones.
voice calls over bulky “brick” phones.
The second gave us digital texting. The Is it only about speed?
mid-2000s ushered in mobile internet Yes and no. Speed matters; the chip-
connectivity. The next decade brought maker Intel projects that in the first
4G and broadband video streaming. 10 years of 5G networks, 90 percent
This year, all four major U.S. mobile of the use will come from video, which
carriers are rolling out the next genera- certainly benefits from every improve-
tion of service. The dramatically faster ment in download speed. But the hope
connectivity they promise with 5G could is that the combination of more data
unlock an array of technologies, from and close-to-zero latency could open the
autonomous cars that share traffic data Installing a 5G cell tower in Washington state
way to new kinds of applications. Self-
to immersive virtual reality games. It’s driving cars and trucks are high on the
not just a phone technology: It could replace wired broadband in list, because 5G connectivity could bring online not only the vehi-
the home and allow for billions of other connected devices. Chris cles but also the roads and cityscapes they navigate. Drones will be
Lane, a telecom analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, thinks it will turn able to send video and mapping data to be analyzed in real time.
cities “smart” in much the same way electricity illuminated them. Mobile 5G is the focus right now, but in time the services could
“Everything will be connected,” he says, “and the central nervous also reshape the internet access market, creating serious competi-
system of these smart cities will be your 5G network.” tion for cable companies’ home broadband services.

What’s the key technology? When is 5G coming?

Cellular phones are essentially two-way radios, transmitting voice
and data as radio waves. 5G uses higher frequencies that can
transmit vastly more data, allowing for blazing speeds. Today’s 4G
signals use waves that are a few inches to a foot and a half long.
The waves for 5G are the size of raindrops, permitting smaller
antennae to transmit them. Today’s cell towers might support a
dozen antennae. But 5G towers can house 100, allowing networks
to support 1,000 more devices per meter than 4G. The flip side
is that the antennae need to be placed closer together, too. In cit-
ies such as Denver that are getting an early rollout of 5G, that’s
already spurring conflict, as unsightly new towers spring up on
residential streets.
America’s largest wireless carriers—Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T,
and Sprint—have announced plans to roll out 5G this year,
with nationwide service available in 2020. Already, AT&T
offers 5G hot spots in 12 cities and Verizon a “5G Home”–
branded Wi-Fi service in four. That said, “coverage is going to
be fairly sparse this year,” said Mark Hung, an analyst at Gart-
ner, though “within the next three to four years, 5G coverage
is going to be fairly ubiquitous.” But it might not ever reach
everyone. Steve Berry, a Washington lobbyist for smaller wireless
companies, said the costly build-out required to achieve 5G will
turn an existing “digital divide” between rural and urban America
into a “digital divide on steroids.”

Just how fast will it be? Is there reason for skepticism?

Experts envision millions of these small
cells blanketing cities and providing
dense, ultrareliable networks that cut
latency—the time it takes a signal to
travel to a tower and onward to the
internet—from 50 milliseconds to as
little as one. Meanwhile, mobile 5G
download speeds could reach 10 giga-
bits per second (Gbps), or enough to
reduce download times for a typical
movie from six minutes to 20 seconds.
But don’t expect these speeds right away.
The telecom maker Qualcomm expects
initial median 5G speeds of 1.4 Gbps,
or about 20 times faster than today’s 4G
and around 1.4 times faster than the top
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The U.S. competition with China
The 5G revolution has sparked a global competi-
tion between the U.S. and China that has been
likened to the Cold War arms race. Chinese and
U.S. firms are vying for technical patents and
standards, with China’s telecom industry now
controlling a major share of both. No company
has been as aggressive in developing and
promoting 5G than China’s Huawei—but that
telecom maker has been effectively banned
from selling gear in the U.S. amid fears of espio-
nage and accusations of stealing trade secrets.
The new technology also promises to improve
artificial intelligence and machine learning by
allowing algorithms to access more data, faster.
The nation that dominates 5G gets to develop
Yes. Some experts don’t see strong
5G in the U.S. until 2023—and say
paying an extra $200 to $300 for
a 5G-enabled phone will be wasted
money until then. And some think the
predictions of instantaneous transmis-
sion of vast amounts of data will turn
out to be hype. Linley Group analyst
Linley Gwennap points out that the
promised latency of 1 millisecond cov-
ers only the connection to the nearest
smart cell or tower, and that down-
loading data from the internet will take
significantly longer. “For most normal
things you’re doing on the phone, it’s
got to go to the cloud,” says Gwennap.

home broadband speeds now offered by
cable. That’s not the speed you’ll get this
year or next, however. Initial speeds on
AT&T’s network have been measured
at about four times as fast as a 4G con-
nection. Eventually, though, 5G’s speed
“a whole generation of mobile services that take
advantage of that,” said David Chao of DCM
Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in
China. If it’s China, those services could then “be
exported to the Western world.”
He wonders what happens when the
5G-enabled self-driving car hits a cellu-
lar dead zone. Mobile Ecosystem ana-
lyst Mark Lowenstein advises that “a
dose of reality is needed,” along with
“patience and a long view.”
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12 NEWS Best columns: The U.S.

Paul Manafort is the poster child for America’s unjust criminal justice
Our two system, said public defender Rachel Marshall. My clients, who are It must be true...
justice largely poor and nonwhite, “get none of the sympathy” Manafort did
from the federal judge who last week sentenced President Trump’s for-
I read it in the tabloids
systems mer campaign manager to a mere 47 months in prison for extensive
tax and bank fraud. My very first client was sentenced to life in prison
QFarmers in central India
are conducting a running
Rachel Marshall under California’s “three strikes law” for stealing a pair of pants from battle with opium-addicted
The Washington Post Sears; his other two strikes were unarmed robberies he’d committed as parrots that are pillaging
a teen. He was abused as a child growing up amid abject poverty and their poppy fields. The
drug abuse, but the judge felt not a bit of sympathy for him. Manafort, frustrated farmers say the
meanwhile, made tens of millions he didn’t report or pay taxes on, in a parrots are raiding their
sleazy career advising foreign dictators while strutting around in $5,000 fields 30 to 40 times a day
suits. But when U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, 78 and white, looked to get another fix, tearing
open poppy plants to get
“at the 69-year-old white defendant,” he saw a sympathetic figure who,
at the opium-laced seeds.
Ellis said, had led an “otherwise blameless life.” To be clear, less puni- “We have tried making loud
tive sentencing is a good thing. “But my clients deserve compassion and sounds and even use fire-
discretion in sentencing, too, and they often do not receive it.” crackers to scare the birds,”
said Nandkishore, a poppy
Nancy Pelosi’s “anti-impeachment stand makes sense,” said Ed Kilgore. farmer. “But nothing has
Why Pelosi The House speaker angered some of her Democratic colleagues this
helped.”

opposes week when she said that impeachment proceedings would be “so di-
visive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and
QA French
bull who ap-
impeachment overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that
path.” Now, Pelosi didn’t rule out the House impeaching Trump if
parently thinks
he’s a horse has
Ed Kilgore become a
special counsel Robert Mueller or Democratic committee investigations
show-jumping
NYMag.com revealed crimes or wrongdoing so damaging that even Republicans sensation.
abandon him; Pelosi was merely acknowledging that the GOP is un- Sabine Rouas,
likely to turn on Trump no matter what comes out. A recent Morning a horse trainer
Consult poll found that 86 percent of Republicans oppose initiating from Stras-
impeachment proceedings, despite ample evidence of corruption and bourg, adopted
crimes. “This is a very different and more right-wing Republican Party” Aston as a calf
than the one that turned on Richard Nixon during Watergate. Trump from a dairy farm five years
has convinced his supporters that politics is nothing but partisan war- ago. She soon found him
fare, and that any impeachment effort would be “a coup d’état.” So eagerly watching her prac-
why launch an impeachment effort that’s doomed to fail—and may just tice sessions with a pony
energize the Republican base? Pelosi thinks it’s better to let all the dirt named Samy. So she trained
come out and then run against a badly damaged Trump in 2020. the 1.3-ton horned male cow
to trot, gallop, go backward,
turn on command, and leap
With three words—“I’ll protect you”—President Trump last week re- over 4-foot-high obstacles.
For Trump, vealed “the essence of his re-election strategy,” said Ronald Brownstein. She even rides him. “He’s
very proud when he feels
re-election In a rambling, profane, two-hour speech at the annual Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump portrayed his supporters as that he’s made me happy,”
said Rouas, who now
hinges on fear “under siege” from criminal illegal immigrants, socialists who “hate our
country,” and gun-grabbing liberals. Only he could save them, he said. delights fans across Europe
with Aston’s tricks.
Ronald Brownstein Though most incumbents primarily point to their accomplishments and
TheAtlantic.com goals, Trump “is drawn far more toward running on fear than on hope.” QA Florida man spent his
Trump speaks almost exclusively to his base of “blue-collar, older, and wedding night in a jail cell
nonurban whites,” warning them that “the American way of life” is in after allegedly pummeling
great peril. In this strategy, it’s actually better if Congress and the courts a beachgoer who refused
to get out of the way of the
block his border wall: Trump can then portray himself as “the solitary
wedding photos. Jeffrey
figure standing up for his voters.” Some Republican strategists think Alvord, 27, told Ocean Ridge
Trump needs to expand his base and woo back suburbanites who voted cops he pleaded with the
for Democrats in the midterm elections. Instead, Trump will “reprise the man to move—and even
strategy” that got him elected. He wants rural whites and evangelicals to offered him $50 to abdicate
feel threatened, and to believe that “only he can shield them.” his choice, oceanfront spot.
The victim, 24, claimed a
groomsman held him as
Viewpoint “The question before the United States and other advanced countries is not:
an “irate” Alvord punched
Immigration, yes or no? In a mobile world, there will inevitably be quite a lot
him three times in the face,
of movement of people. Immigration is not all or nothing. The questions to ask are: How much?
breaking his nose and de-
What kind? Too little immigration, and you freeze your country out of the modern world. Too much,
or the wrong kind, and you overstress your social-insurance system—and possibly upend your stroying his glasses. Alvord
democracy. Choose well, and you build a stronger, richer country for both newcomers and the long- posted $3,000 bail the next
settled. Choose badly, and you aggravate inequality and inflame intergroup hostility.” day, married his fiancée, and
jetted off to his honeymoon.
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Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis just made his
CZECH REPUBLIC first visit to the White House, said Petr Holec, and
it seems his talk with Donald Trump went well.
How to tell True, the U.S. president didn’t call Babis a “great
leader,” as he did North Korean dictator Kim Jong
if Trump Un after their recent summit in Vietnam, but nei-
ther did he cut the meeting short. It was the first
likes you summit between a Czech leader and a U.S. presi-
dent in eight years, and Babis had said he wanted it
Petr Holec
to be a “restart” in U.S.-Czech relations. President
Blesk
Milos Zeman, a fervent Russophile, has been ori-
enting our country toward Moscow, but Babis is
trying to turn it “back toward the West.” Babis
was a better choice than Zeman for this meeting,
because he has been called the Trumpiest leader in
Europe. Like Trump, Babis is a billionaire business-
man who swept to power on a wave of nationalis-
tic and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Babis also knows
how to flatter. He said he plans to emulate Trump’s
platform in order to “make the Czech Republic
great again” and promised to bring Czech defense
spending up to 2 percent of GDP, something Trump
demands of all NATO members. It paid off: After
Babis left Washington, Trump “did not release any
nasty tweet to undercut his previous praise.” That’s
how you know a Trump meeting was a success.

GERMANY Turkey keeps on pressing the Saudis about the
murder of Jamal Khashoggi, said Rainer Hermann,
Saudi Arabia and the Saudis are fighting back through social
media. A Saudi-born Washington Post columnist
uses Germans and outspoken critic of Riyadh, Khashoggi was
visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last Octo-
to hit Turkey ber to get a document for his marriage to a Turk-
ish woman when a 15-member Saudi hit squad
Rainer Hermann
killed and dismembered him. His body has yet to
Frankfurter Allgemeine be found. Because Turkey won’t let the case go, the
Zeitung Saudis are trying to hurt Turkey’s tourism industry.
Saudi trolls edited footage of a statement by Turk-
ish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu last week to
make it appear as though he had threatened to ar-
rest any tourist in the country who had ever been
critical of Turkey. In fact, Soylu was talking only
about Kurdish terrorists, saying that if they had
been agitating abroad, they would be prosecuted
for it upon their return home. But the apparent
threat to arrest tourists played big in Germany, be-
cause some 4 million Germans vacation in Turkey
every year. German foreign ministry spokesperson
Maria Adebahr even warned Germans to be wary
of travel if they have participated in pro-Kurdish
demonstrations. Still, it’s Turkey’s own fault that
the hoax was so plausible: Five Germans of Turk-
ish descent are currently imprisoned in Turkey “for
political reasons.”

How they see us: Funding the far right in Europe

American billionaires are trying to influ- ist forces, as personified by Hungarian
ence the May elections for the European Prime Minister Viktor Orban. He has
Parliament, said Damien Leloup in “put forward an explosive European
Le Monde (France). Not content with plan based on a civilizational vision
spreading misinformation in the U.S. that exploits the defense of Christian
through the far-right Breitbart News, identity.” His camp, which includes Po-
hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 72, land’s ruling Law and Justice party and
and his daughter Rebekah, 45, also fund Italy’s League, wants a weaker EU.
the Gatestone Institute, “a neoconserva-
tive think tank focused on Europe.” The The explicit goal is to destroy Euro-
institute frequently warns of a coming pean cohesion from within, said Ingrid
jihadist takeover of the Continent. The Steiner-Gashi and Irene Mayer-Kilani
Mercers also fund The Rebel, a Canadian in Kurier (Austria). That’s what Steve
far-right site that actively campaigned for Bannon: Building a ‘gladiator school’ for populists Bannon, former chief strategist for U.S.
Brexit and routinely “depicts a Europe on President Donald Trump, boasted last
the verge of collapse, especially because of immigration.” In 2017, year. “The beating heart of the globalist project is in Brussels,”
a Rebel writer disseminated “MacronLeaks,” emails stolen from Bannon said. “If I drive the stake through the vampire, the whole
the presidential election campaign of Emmanuel Macron and thing will start to dissipate.” Backed by unknown financiers, pos-
published two days before the second round of the French vote. sibly the Mercers, Bannon is setting up a “gladiator school” at an
The ploy failed to derail Macron’s victory, but it’s feared that old Italian monastery where would-be populist activists will be
similar email dumps could affect the European Parliament vote. trained in the dark arts of spreading misinformation and hate. So
Nor are the Mercers alone: U.S. manufacturing billionaire Robert far, the plan is still just a plan. But the EU “fears Bannon’s influ-
Shillman has poured money into far-right causes across Europe, ence through fake news and social media propaganda.”
including support for anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
Yet Bannon has far less influence than he pretends, said Daniel
These billionaires want to tip the balance in a 27-nation election DePetris in The Spectator (U.K.). Many EU countries bar politi-
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post

that is shaping up to be an epic battle for Europe’s future, said cal parties from receiving foreign help, and some far-right par-
Christian Makarian in L’Express (France). On one side are the ties “are concerned about the optics of taking direction from an
establishment liberals, best represented by Macron and German American.” The Alternative for Germany party actually “seemed
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who want a stronger, more integrated offended” at the very idea, understandable given Trump’s mas-
EU and who emphasize civil liberties, tolerance, and human rights. sive unpopularity in Europe. If populists do gain in May, Euro-
On the other side are the authoritarian, anti-immigrant, national- peans will have only themselves to blame—not Americans.

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Canada: The scandal that threatens Trudeau

The biggest scandal to hit Canadian stood, resulting in what he calls “an
politics in decades doesn’t involve sex or erosion of trust.” This is what happens
money, said Peter Donolo in The Globe when you pick ministers based on quo-
and Mail, but it is still the stuff of high tas rather than competence, said Jim
drama. Former Attorney General Jody Warren in the Toronto Sun. Trudeau
Wilson-Raybould has accused Prime wanted a rainbow cabinet, with 50 per-
Minister Justin Trudeau of pressur- cent women and all races and religions
ing her not to prosecute SNC-Lavalin, represented. He got ministers who lack
a multinational engineering firm that “loyalty and political experience.”
employs thousands of Canadians and
stands accused of paying $36 million Wilson-Raybould, in particular, seems
in bribes to secure contracts in Libya. “singularly devoid of any politi-
Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s first indig- Wilson-Raybould and Trudeau: Corporate pressure? cal sense,” said Lysiane Gagnon in
enous justice minister, stood firm and was demoted in a January La Presse. She should have understood that the trade-off be-
cabinet reshuffle; she has since resigned and gone public with the tween punishing SNC-Lavalin and protecting the Canadian jobs
scandal. This grubby tale combines male politicians not taking a it provides is worthy of discussion. Other countries faced with
female colleague seriously; corporate favoritism; and the revelation similar conundrums have opted to fine the company in question,
that Trudeau, our golden boy, is just another politician. Trudeau rather than push for expensive, lengthy trials that often result
has claimed there was a simple “breakdown in communications” in exactly the same fine being issued. But Wilson-Raybould in-
between his office and that of Wilson-Raybould, and that there sisted her mind was made up—she wanted SNC-Lavalin taken
was “no inappropriate pressure.” But it looks ugly “for a leader to court. This whole flap was caused by her horror that “behind
who is both an avowed feminist and a champion of indigenous rec- closed doors, politicians talk about...politics.” Where’s the scan-
onciliation” to publicly refute Wilson-Raybould’s version of events. dal in that? Trudeau will weather this, as he should.
That another woman cabinet member, Treasury Board Secretary
Jane Philpott, has resigned in solidarity with Wilson-Raybould Maybe this public bruising will be good for the prime minister,
only cements “the latter’s claim on the moral high ground.” said Stephen Maher in Macleans. Trudeau has been “a Disney
prince striding on the world stage, speaking up for feminism,
Why can’t Trudeau just say sorry? asked Jaime Watt in the diversity, and human rights,” but this “princely confidence seems
Toronto Star. Canadians “apologize so frequently it has been to come with a princely sense of entitlement.” The son of a prime
deemed part of our national character.” Yet Trudeau has ex- minister, he has “spent his life having strangers fawn over him.”
pressed only tepid regret that his office’s actions were misunder- Let him learn a little humility.

The unearthing of a massive Russian money-
RUSSIA laundering scheme that moved $4.8 billion from
Russia to Europe and the U.S. made headlines
Where we around the world last week, said Maria Zheleznova.
Apart, that is, from here in Russia, where the story
politely ignore was all but ignored. From 2006 to 2013, an arm
of Russian investment bank Troika Dialog used
criminality more than 70 offshore companies to mix its clients’
potentially dirty assets with other wealth in a series
Maria Zheleznova
of complicated transactions designed to obscure the
Vedomosti
source of the cash. Of course, nobody in Russia is
“willing to come out and defend Troika outright.”
But nobody is exactly condemning the bank, either.
Perhaps that’s because the sheer “variety of Russian
subjects and personalities involved is so impres-
sive.” The investigation by the Organized Crime
and Corruption Reporting Project, an international
consortium of journalists, revealed that at least
$69 million went to companies linked to President
Vladimir Putin’s dear friend Sergei Roldugin, the
cellist and businessman. The report also features
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport, the
relative of a regional governor, and the list goes on.
Sberbank, which bought Troika in 2013, says only
that it has nothing to do with the affair. The silence
on the part of Russia’s business community “speaks
more eloquently about the situation in the country
than the investigation itself.”

TANZANIA This newspaper is back after having been banned
for a week, and what have we learned? asked The
A thriving Citizen. For daring to report on the slide of the
Tanzanian shilling against the U.S. dollar, our print
society needs and web presences were censored by the govern-
ment as punishment. Our reporters had interviewed
a free press bankers and currency traders to source our story,
but the government held that official informa-
Editorial
tion, such as exchange rates, must come only from
The Citizen the Bank of Tanzania. The suspension order also
cited “seditious intent” in our reporting on com-
Newscom (2)
Tanzania and push back against “the tide of anti-
democratic actions.” All we can say is this: The
Citizen has always striven to provide “true, fair,
accurate, and balanced reporting.” We believe that
only “a well-informed society” can “creatively and
actively contribute toward building a dynamic,
vibrant economy.” The government of President
John Magufuli aims to transform Tanzania from
a mostly agricultural to a “semi-industrialized,
middle-income economy” by 2025, and we support
that goal. To get there, though, “information is

ments by U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who asked the key.” The people “need to be informed of govern-
Trump administration to defend civil liberties in ment policies.” That’s what we’ll continue to do.
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16 NEWS
Noted
QDemocrats have chosen
Milwaukee, Wis., as the
site for their 2020 national
convention. Party organiz-
ers hope to win back the
once Democratic-leaning
state, which Hillary Clinton
lost in 2016 after holding
no campaign events there.
The Wall Street Journal
QAbout 61 percent of the
nation’s 10.7 million un-
documented immigrants
live in just 20 major metro-
politan areas. The largest
undocumented immigrant
populations are in New
York City (1.1 million), Los
Angeles (925,000), Hous-
ton (500,000), and Dallas–
Fort Worth (475,000).
Pew Research Center
QMore than 1,400 cities
and towns across the U.S.
have had a newspaper
close over
the past 15
years. As
a result,
many Amer-
icans no
longer have
journalists
serving as watchdogs on
their local public officials,
chronicling high school
and amateur sports, or
honoring the lives of local
residents in obituaries.
Associated Press
QSo far, the Trump
administration’s travel ban
has blocked 9,500 family
members of U.S. citizens
from entering the country,
including 5,500 children
and nearly 4,000 spouses.
The ban primarily affects
five Muslim-majority coun-
tries: Syria, Iran, Yemen,
Somalia, and Libya.
The Washington Post
QMore than 150,000 Amer-
icans died from alcohol-
and drug-induced fatalities
and suicide in 2017—the
highest number since the
Centers for Disease Control
began collecting the figures
in 1999. Nearly a third of
the total dead—47,173—
were suicides.
The New York Times
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Talking points
Daylight saving time: The sleepy backlash
Human beings can do
nothing to change the
rotation of the Earth
and the sun, said Kirk
Johnson in The New York
Times. “And yet, every
year, bless our hearts,
we try.” So once again
this week, millions of
irritated, sleep-robbed
Americans groped blindly
in the predawn dark for
the snooze button, then
A poster promoting DST from circa 1917
repeated the confounding
ritual of resetting the clocks on at least a half-
dozen appliances. This “leaping, clock-shifting
confusion” began in 1918, when the country
first instituted daylight saving time (DST) to save
energy during World War I. But in a growing,
nationwide backlash, “many people are saying
it’s time for time to be left alone.” At least 31
states are considering legislation that would end
the biannual changing of clocks. And last week,
bills were introduced in the Senate and House to
permanently keep the country on daylight saving
time. Even President Trump has jumped on the
bandwagon, tweeting, “Making Daylight Saving
Time permanent is O.K. with me!”
Changing the clocks is not such a big deal, said
Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. That
“extra cup of coffee” you need for a day or two
Big Tech: Should it be broken up?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren just fired a “thermonuclear
warning shot” at Silicon Valley, said Tina Nguyen
in VanityFair.com. The Democratic presidential
candidate last week unveiled an audacious pro-
posal to break up technology giants like Amazon,
Facebook, Google, and Apple. Technology com-
panies with annual global revenue of $25 billion
or more would be barred from sharing customer
data with third parties, and would also be for-
bidden from selling their own products on those
platforms. That means Amazon wouldn’t be able
to sell its own line of “AmazonBasics”—which has
grown to encompass everything from computer
accessories to motor oil. Warren’s plan would
also undo many of the industry’s biggest acquisi-
tions, so Big Tech would face more competition.
Facebook, for example, would be forced to spin
off Instagram and WhatsApp, while Google would
have to divest the Waze traffic app.
It’s time to “bust up the monopolies,” said Robert
Reich in The Guardian (U.K.). Like the robber
barons of the 19th century, America’s tech moguls
have amassed an unhealthy level of control over
the economy. Google accounts for nearly 90 per-
cent of all online searches, and it and Facebook
swallow up 58 percent of digital advertising.
every spring is a “small
price to pay for the next
eight months of more
sunshine.” Springing
forward borrows sun-
light from the predawn
hours, when most
people are still in bed or
getting ready for work,
and adds it “to our
most active period of
the day.” This gives the
“average 9-to-5 worker
a bit more time to enjoy
life under natural light.” As Popular Mechanics
put it, DST is “a lifehack” to “force our lives to
fit the natural world in a more sensible way.”
There might be a middle ground, said Mark
Joseph Stern in Slate.com. As the Senate and
House bills suggest, the answer “is not to end
DST; it is to extend DST year-round.” Standard
time is the villain, “responsible for the crime of
early sunsets” each November. Permanent DST
would the end the clock fiddling and “make all
our lives better,” said Steve Calandrillo in Market
Watch.com. Studies suggest that an extra hour of
evening sunlight would diminish fatal U.S. traf-
fic accidents, reduce crime by 20 percent, save
energy, and boost commerce and recreation. So
let’s set “the clocks forward forever”—and never
switch them back.
“Amazon is now the first stop for a third of all
American consumers seeking to buy anything.” In
this environment, it appears many entrepreneurs
have stopped even trying to compete. The rate
of job-creating businesses formed in the U.S. has
dropped by half since 2004. Until recently, Demo-
crats have been loath to criticize left-leaning Sili-
con Valley, said Issie Lapowksy in Wired.com. But
with candidates like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Amy
Klobuchar also speaking out against tech’s monop-
oly power, the 2020 campaign season “is about to
get a whole lot bumpier” for the industry.
“Break up Big Tech” is a catchy campaign slogan,
said Megan McArdle in The Washington Post,
but it would probably make most Americans’ lives
“somewhat worse.” Forcing technology companies
to downsize would choke off funding for free ser-
vices that people rely on, like Gmail and Google
Maps, without actually increasing competition.
Nor would it substantially reduce these companies’
power over our day-to-day lives. Warren’s plan
may be imperfect, said Sam Biddle in TheIntercept
.com, but it has started an important conversa-
tion among presidential contenders about Silicon
Getty (2)
Valley’s growing power. That’s something that we,
“the humble data-mined,” deserve to hear.
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Trump’s children: Fair game for investigators? Wit &

House Democrats have
eagerly “gone to war” with
“way out of bounds.” Some
Democrats apparently believe
Wisdom
President Trump, said Andrew Trump’s election and conduct “The most radical
Desiderio and John Bresnahan “give them license to eliminate revolutionary will become
in Politico.com, “but there’s all restrictions” on congres- a conservative on the
day after the revolution.”
one target they’re skittish of sional oversight. It’s true that Hannah Arendt, quoted in
hitting too hard: his children.” “putting a member of the The Daily Star (Lebanon)
It would be “impossible” for president’s family in the inves-
“Happiness is a reward
sprawling new probes into tigatory hot seat is a delicate that comes to those that
Trump’s political and business business,” said The New York have not looked for it.”
careers to ignore Donald Jr., Times in an editorial. But the Philosopher Émile Chartier,
Eric, Ivanka, and her hus- public needs to know why the quoted in the Montreal Gazette
Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr.: Under scrutiny
band, Jared Kushner, particu- CIA didn’t want to give Kush- “Any plan conceived in
larly since all but Eric work in the White House. ner a security clearance, among other things. moderation must fail
Yet some Democrats fear that investigating the when the circumstances
Trump children would create sympathy for the Trump supporters will no doubt cry foul, said are set in extremes.”
president. That’s why some on the House Over- Tina Nguyen in VanityFair.com. In certain Austrian diplomat Klemens
von Metternich, quoted in
sight Committee hope to leave the kids’ crimes circles, the first family is revered like “royalty,” TheFederalist.com
to federal prosecutors “while they take on the and Trump’s three eldest children collectively
“In politics, if you want
president.” Recent revelations make that difficult: have about 12 million Twitter followers. No one
anything said, ask a man.
Trump reportedly overrode aides’ objections to in Trump’s orbit spends more time “taunting the If you want anything done,
grant Jared and Ivanka top-secret security clear- president’s critics and pursuers” than Donald Jr., ask a woman.”
ance, and Donald Jr. signed checks reimbursing said Greg Sargent in WashingtonPost.com. He Margaret Thatcher, quoted in
Michael Cohen for illegal hush payments from seems to be “daring the fates to come at him,” GoodHousekeeping.com
the campaign. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks confident he will “skirt any consequences.” It “Earth is the cradle of the
family is fair game, saying, “Whoever falls into was he, remember, who replied “I love it” when mind, but humanity cannot
the net, falls into the net.” Russians offered dirt on Hillary Clinton. When remain in its cradle forever.”
House investigators recently requested documents Rocket scientist Konstantin
Tsiolkovsky, quoted in the
What an apt metaphor, said Michael Goodwin from Eric Trump, he called the inquiry “a joke.” Los Angeles Times
in NYPost.com. The House is embarking on a Trump’s children seem to think they’re untouch-
“ridiculous fishing expedition” to smear Trump, able; whether that “hubris” ultimately brings “History teaches that men
and nations behave wisely
and going after “his children and business” is them down “remains to be seen.”
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.”
Israeli statesman Abba Eban,
Democrats: The decision to shun Fox quoted in The New Yorker
“I find penguins at present
The Democratic National Committee has declared Martha MacCallum—“are far more objective”
the only comfort in life.
it won’t allow a racist “propaganda outfit” to than obvious lefties at other networks, such as One feels everything in the
host the party’s 2020 presidential debates, said Jake Tapper of CNN and Chuck Todd of NBC. world so sympathetically
Eric Levitz in NYMag.com. In other words, Fox For Perez to shun Fox News as nonobjective is ridiculous; one can’t
News is out. DNC chair Tom Perez announced laughable. It’s also “a huge mistake,” said Matt be angry when one looks
last week that Fox would be excluded from the Laslo in NBCNews.com. Plenty of swing voters in at a penguin.”
debates, citing a “bombshell” New Yorker article Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan tune in to Art critic John Ruskin, quoted
in the Daily Mail (U.K.)
that, he said, proved the network had an “inap- Fox frequently. Democrats aren’t punishing Fox;
propriate relationship” with President Trump. they’re punishing themselves.
That article reported that Fox tipped off Trump
to questions before a 2015 GOP primary debate That’s a legitimate concern, said Greg Sargent in Poll watch
and killed a story in 2016 about his “affair with The Washington Post. But Fox is fundamentally Q48% of Britons think
Stormy Daniels and his efforts to buy her silence,” different from news organizations with liberal the country shouldn’t
then demoted the reporter who’d “acquired hard leanings. It is now in the business of spreading have voted to leave the
evidence” of the scheme. A media outlet that pun- “disinformation” and has wholly joined in the European Union, while
ishes reporters for digging up politically inconve- Trump administration’s efforts to convince mil- 40% think the U.K. made
nient stories is not “a legitimate news network.” lions of Americans that the intelligence agencies, the right choice. However,
the Justice Department, and Congress “no longer a majority of voters—83%
Sure, and NBC, CBS, and ABC—“not to mention have any legitimacy.” Fox shamelessly promoted of Leave voters and 89%
of Remainers—still think
the cartoonishly biased MSNBC and CNN”— the Obama “birther” nonsense, and the slander-
their initial referendum
aren’t in bed with the Democrats? asked Mollie ous conspiracy theory that Democratic official
choice was in the coun-
Hemingway in TheFederalist.com. These liberal Seth Rich was murdered by the Clinton campaign. try’s best interest. 78%
outlets pretend to be “straight news” but fill True, said Jack Shafer in Politico.com, but being think the British govern-
their airtime with attacks on Republicans and president means “confronting tough customers.” ment is handling negotia-
fever dreams about Russian collusion. Yes, Fox’s Any candidate “who can’t hold his own against a tions with the EU poorly.
opinion hosts openly support Trump, but its news journalist from the other team should be disquali- YouGov
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Facebook: Real privacy or just window dressing?

Prodded by sustained criticism, Facebook who we’re connected to, and when we are
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans connecting. That’s “more than enough to
to rebuild the social network to focus on characterize us to a breathtaking degree.”
private interactions, said Sarah Frier in Promoting privacy is a “neat judo move.”
Bloomberg.com. It’s a striking change for Facebook can now wash its hands of pri-
a company that has provided “the digital vacy complications without altering the
equivalent of a town square.” Now Zuck- fundamental premise of its business model.
erberg wants you to feel like you are in
your own living room, offering new options This a clever way to dress up a pivot to
for encrypted messaging and spaces “that the kind of product Facebook needs to
Facebook wouldn’t be able to monitor keep younger users, said Molly Wood in
or police.” That vision seems to emulate Wired.com. Facebook’s core product is
China’s popular messaging service WeChat, Facebook’s users need a reason to stay. collapsing. The News Feed is “a wasteland
said Li Yuan in The New York Times. Face- of reposted memories, divisive propa-
book’s business model relies on targeted advertising. But WeChat ganda, and the occasional baby picture.” Facebook users are
isn’t dependent on that. It has a mobile payments system that fleeing it by the millions. They want more personal interactions,
“allows people to shop, play games, pay utility bills, and order controlled environments, and what made Facebook fun in the
meal deliveries” through the app, and WeChat gets a commission first place: talking to friends. Zuckerberg has promised to re-
from those sales. Facebook seems to be trying to follow suit. shape Facebook before, and the plans “rarely take shape exactly
as he describes them,” said Jacob Kastrenakes in TheVerge.com.
Don’t expect Facebook to eliminate its most problematic fea- But it’s clear that Zuckerberg is “shifting attention away” from
tures, said Brian Feldman in NYMag.com. Nobody on Wall all the trouble that those Friends lists and “Likes” have caused
Street is treating this as a drastic change. That’s probably be- his company. The News Feed has been largely responsible for
cause it’s not. Advertisers’ “primary tool for gaining attention, the “growing mistrust” about data privacy, the spread of misin-
the News Feed, isn’t going away or changing substantially.” And formation, and the rise in incivility on the site. But what we’re
Facebook is still going to be “able to target us with uncanny pre- getting is not so much a blueprint for a new Facebook as it is
cision,” said Christopher Mims in The Wall Street Journal, even an acknowledgement that Zuckerberg sees he’s been behind the
if our messages are encrypted. It will still know who we are, times and has to play catch-up.

Innovation of the week Bytes: What’s new in tech

A Japanese startup is using AI to
detect shoplifters, said Lisa Du and
Ayaka Maki in Bloomberg.com.
Software built by the company,
Vaak, uses footage from security
cameras to flag customers who
display “fidgeting, restlessness, and
other potentially suspicious body
language.” Employees are then
alerted about the potential theft
via a smartphone app, giving them
time to approach the target—“like
a scene out of the movie Minority
Report,” in which technology could
identify “pre-crime.” The company
aims to be in 100,000 stores across
Japan in three years. The system
has worked already: Vaak’s technol-
ogy helped apprehend a shoplifter
at a convenience store in Japan last
year. It might also have applications
for public spaces and transportation
Are you ready for Apple Glass?
Apple could be ready to unveil augmented-
reality glasses by the middle of next year,
said Tim Hardwick in MacRumors.com. The
glasses “will be marketed as an iPhone acces-
sory,” letting the company keep them “slim
and lightweight,” without all the processing
hardware of the ill-fated Google Glass. The
headset would run on its own custom opera-
tion system, called rOS, for “reality operating
system.” Apple has been exploring augmented
and virtual reality for more than 10 years.
CEO Tim Cook has called AR “profound”
because the technology “amplifies human
performance” without isolating people. In
other words, a user can get live stats without
turning away from a basketball game, and re-
ceive visual navigation alerts on a walk while
continuing to chat with friends.
Phoning in your vote
Denver will allow some voters to cast ballots
with a smartphone application this year, said
Andrew Kenney in The Denver Post. The
phone-based voting system will be available
only to members of the military and voters
living outside the United States. West Virginia
overseas voters to mark ballots, but this is its
first use of an app. It’s made by a Boston-based
company called Voatz, and “users have to
upload a 10-second video of themselves and
a picture of their photo ID to register.” Votes
are stored using technology that distributes the
information across multiple private servers,
minimizing the risk of a cyberattack—although
“no technology is completely secure.”
Amazon loosens rules for sellers
Amazon this week quietly ended a controver-
sial practice that restricted sellers in its market-
place, said David McCabe in Axios.com. The
retail giant had insisted on a “most-favored
nations” clause in contracts with sellers that
kept them from selling the same products for
less on any other website. Lawmakers in the
U.S. and regulators in Europe have called the
requirement anti-competitive. Sen. Richard
Blumenthal (D.-Conn.) asked regulators last
year “to investigate the requirements for pos-
sible antitrust violations.”Amazon had already
dropped the requirement in Europe follow-
ing investigations from regulators in the U.K.
and Germany. The change means that buyers
may now find items from the same sellers
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hubs to detect suspicious behavior. tried a similar pilot test of an app in 2018. for less on other platforms, or on a seller’s
Denver has for years offered a website for own website.
THE WEEK March 22, 2019

More proof vaccines don’t cause autism
A decade-long study involving more than
650,000 children has once again confirmed
what scientists have been saying for years:
The measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine
doesn’t increase a child’s risk of autism.
The myth linking the MMR shot with
autism has refused to die, even though
the small and flawed 1998 study on which
it is based has been widely and compre-
hensively debunked. The “anti-vax” move-
ment has gathered steam in recent years,
leading to a surge in measles cases. There
are currently outbreaks of the disease in
Washington state, New York, and Texas,
and 206 cases of measles were confirmed
across 11 states in January and February
A high-risk treatment can eradicate the virus.
Beating HIV with stem cells
An unnamed man in London has become
only the second HIV patient ever to be
declared free of the virus, after undergoing a
bone marrow transplant. The man, who also
had Hodgkin’s lymphoma, received bone
marrow transplants in 2016 as part of his
cancer treatment. They came from a donor
with a rare genetic mutation that made
his or her CCR5 gene—which allows HIV
to enter cells—resistant to the virus. Since
the man came off his anti-retroviral pills
18 months ago, the virus hasn’t returned.
The first “cured” patient, Timothy Brown,
underwent the same procedure about a
decade ago. The treatment wouldn’t work
for most people with HIV because stem cell
transplants carry high risks: They require
a patient’s immune system to be wiped out
with powerful drugs or radiation and then
reconstituted, reports NPR.org. But these
new findings suggest “there exists a proof
of concept that HIV is curable,” says Anton
Pozniak, president of the International AIDS
Society. “The hope is that this will eventu-
ally lead to a safe, cost-effective, and easy
strategy to achieve these results using gene
technology or antibody techniques.”
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Sleep loss can’t be made up
You can’t make up for skimping on sleep
during the week by crashing for 10 hours
on the weekend. That’s the dispiriting
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this year—more than in the whole of 2017.
The new study followed 657,461 kids born
from 1999 and 2010 in Denmark, which has
a free and voluntary national vaccination
program. Overall, 31,619 kids remained
unvaccinated. Later, 6,517 children were
diagnosed with autism. The research-
ers found that the children who received
the vaccination were in no way more
likely to develop autism than those who
did not, that the shot had no triggering
effect on those more susceptible to the
developmental disorder, and that there
was no clustering of autism cases after
immunization. Saad Omer, a professor
of global health, epidemiology, and pedi-
conclusion of a new study by scientists at
the University of Colorado Boulder, which
says such catch-ups may even put people
at risk of excess weight gain. The research-
ers enlisted 36 healthy adults ages 18 to 39
and had them stay in a lab for two weeks
where they monitored the participants’
food intake, light exposure, and sleep. The
test subjects were split into three groups,
reports NBCNews.com. The first had nine
hours’ sleep a night for 10 consecutive
days; the second had only five hours a night
over the same period; the third had five
nights of five hours sleep, two “weekend”
nights of unlimited sleep, and then three
more nights of restricted sleep. The two
sleep-deprived groups snacked more and
gained weight. But while the group that
consistently had only five hours sleep a
night saw a 13 percent reduction in insulin
sensitivity, a marker for diabetes risk, the
catch-up group’s reduction was 27 percent.
“Sleep isn’t a math game—you can’t bal-
ance it out,” says Azizi Seixas, from New
York University School of Medicine, who
wasn’t involved in the study. “Your body
needs a schedule for a reason.”
Warming seas are losing fish
Scientists have long warned that warming
ocean temperatures will severely deplete
fish stocks—and a new study suggests the
declines have already begun. Researchers
looked at historical fishing data from
around the world from 1930 to 2010. In a
quarter of the regions studied, fish numbers
grew: In the mid-Atlantic, for example, sus-
tainable catches of black sea bass increased
by 6 percent. There were no major changes
in another quarter of the areas. But in the
other half, fish stocks declined.
Particularly badly
affected were
the northeast
Atlantic and
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Protecting his health—and the community’s
atrics at Emory University, says this was
one of the largest-ever studies conducted
on the MMR vaccine and autism. “The
appropriate interpretation,” he tells The
Washington Post, “is that there’s no asso-
ciation whatsoever.”
the Sea of Japan, which saw stocks plum-
met by about 35 percent. Globally, the
drop was 4.1 percent. The researchers say
overfishing and poor fisheries management
played a part, but that the bigger factor
was fish being driven out of their natural
habitats by rising temperatures. “Fish are
like Goldilocks: They don’t like their water
too hot or too cold,” co-author Malin L.
Pinsky, from Rutgers University, tells The
New York Times. The research follows a
recent study that found that ocean tempera-
tures are warming much faster than previ-
ously thought.
Health scare of the week
TV’s negative effect on memory
Watching television for more than 3½ hours
a day could exacerbate memory loss in older
people, a new study has found. Researchers
in England carried out memory and fluency
tests on 3,662 adults ages 50 and over—first
in 2008–09 and again in 2014–15—and
also asked about participants’ TV habits.
Those who sat in front of the small screen
for more than 3½ hours a day experienced
an 8 to 10 percent decrease, on average,
in verbal memory during the study period;
those who watched less than that had a
4 to 5 percent decline. The researchers
believe that the increased decline may be
the result of viewing choices. “Older people
tend to like watching more soap operas,
which can be stressful because they iden-
tify closely with the characters,” Andrew
Steptoe, from University College London,
tells BBC.com. “This may create cognitive
stress, which could contribute to memory
decline.” Another possible factor is that
people who watch a lot of TV are likely to
spend less time on activi-
ties that help preserve
mental function, such
as reading and doing
crosswords.
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Review of reviews: Books
Book of the week
Mama’s Last Hug: Animal
Emotions and What They Tell
Us About Ourselves
by Frans de Waal
(Norton, $28)
Frans de Waal’s new book about animals’
emotional life “surprises us on every page,”
said Sy Montgomery in The New York
Times. Take the opening scene, in which
a 58-year-old chimpanzee on her death-
bed is approached by a biologist she’s not
seen lately. She’s known him for 40 years,
though, and when she notices him, she
smiles broadly, reaches out to stroke his
hair, then pulls him toward her in a hug.
Millions watched the video of Mama and
the researcher when it was posted online,
but too many of the scientific experts
among them would resist saying they had
witnessed a warm reunion of two old
friends. De Waal, a veteran primatologist
who scored a best-seller with a 2016 book
about animal intelligence, wants to change
such thinking. That makes this latest vol-
ume “even bolder and more important.”
Novel of the week
Little Faith
by Nickolas Butler
(Ecco, $27)
Too few novels give a grandparent more
than a supporting role, said Sam Sacks
in The Wall Street Journal. That makes
Nickolas Butler’s “tender, perceptive”
third novel a welcome exception, be-
cause it’s about a family crisis as seen
through the eyes of a retired couple in
rural Wisconsin. Lyle and Peg Hovde
are at first overjoyed when their adult
daughter, Shiloh, moves back in with
them, bringing her 5-year-old son, Isaac.
Lovely, unhurried grandfather-grandson
moments follow. But after Shiloh joins a
fringe church whose leader claims that
Isaac has special powers, Lyle has to
decide what action to take. His lack of
religious faith becomes a sticking point,
said Ellen Akins in the Minneapolis Star
Tribune. Isaac falls ill, and when Shiloh
blames her father’s nonbelief, the cri-
sis her faith precipitates feels “as real
as it is shocking.” The moment works
because Butler has allowed us time to
know Lyle and Peg, the kind of “rec-
ognizable regular folks behind whose
plainspoken reserve and dry humor
beats the heart of the country.”
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‘Mama’ embraces her old friend.
De Waal “chips away, example by example,
at any notion of human exceptionalism in
the emotional realm,” said Barbara King
in NPR.org. Admitting that we can only
observe displays of emotion rather than
know what any one animal feels, de Waal
then provides story after story of animals
seeming to express feelings. Rats squeak
when tickled, and come back to their keep-
ers’ hands for more. A capuchin monkey
will protest if she sees her human handlers
are giving another monkey better rewards
for the same conduct. De Waal’s own
I.M.: A Memoir
by Isaac Mizrahi (Flatiron, $29)
Isaac Mizrahi
“seems to be living
his best life,” said
Laird Borrelli in
Vogue.com. Ever
since he emerged as
a fashion designer
in the late 1980s,
the “ebullient” New
York City native
has never lacked
admirers, and he
has managed to use
his enduring success in that field to become
a more freewheeling creative force. Many
now know him as a TV personality; here,
he’s flexing his talent as a writer. “I.M. is
a coming of age/coming out story that will
challenge what you think you might know
about Mizrahi.” Yes, he’s funny here, but
he’s also very good at sharing what it was
like to grow up gay in an Orthodox Jewish
neighborhood in Brooklyn and then find
huge success by playing a role that didn’t
quite fit his sense of self.
“The first half of I.M. is fascinating—
maybe even a classic Jewish memoir,” said
Adam Kirsch in TabletMag.com. Born
research indicates that chimpanzees can be
skilled at conflict resolution, said John Carey
in The Sunday Times (U.K.). But he goes
too far when he argues that we are, emo-
tionally, essentially the same as chimpanzees.
He rejects the possibility that human emo-
tional life is different because language gives
us a different way to experience feelings. In
fact he writes, “The importance we attach to
language is just ridiculous.”
Given all that he’s invested in promoting
respect for animals’ emotional complex-
ity, his ideas about corrective measures
seem “small-scale, even trivial,” said Mark
Cocker in the New Statesman. He suggests,
for example, that supermarket shoppers
should be able to use their phones to scan
the bar codes on supermarket meat products
to see how the butchered animal was raised.
At a time when human population growth
has put countless species under threat of
extinction, that’s not enough. Though
de Waal should be congratulated for the
work he’s done here, “if complex emotions
really are a common heritage of the whole
animal kingdom, then we need to reimagine
our responsibility to, and relationship with,
the creatures that share this planet.”
in 1961 as the son of a Syrian-American
clothing manufacturer, Mizrahi embraced
the family trade even as a child, when
he sewed together tiny outfits for Barbie
dolls. Otherwise, he stuck out in paro-
chial Brooklyn, he writes, “like a chubby
gay thumb.” But a guidance counselor
at his yeshiva encouraged him to apply
to an elite performing arts high school in
Manhattan, which opened a new world.
After a chance opportunity to make a dress
for then–child actress Diane Lane, Mizrahi
switched his focus from performance to
design. Eventually, I.M. becomes “the story
of a fabulous life spent among famous and
beautiful people,” but that material, com-
paratively, is “not very interesting.”
Even so, Mizrahi’s prose perks up “when-
ever he’s describing the eccentric women
who swan in and out of his sartorial orbit,”
said Rachel Syme in Bookforum. He’s
particularly entertaining describing Liza
Minelli, whose need to dance and execute
impromptu fan kicks made her a difficult
client to measure. Mizrahi is now more
celebrity than artist, but in this colorful,
“surprisingly literary” memoir, I discovered
someone else: “the kind of giddy autodidact
who gets into fashion because it is the only
Screenshot
medium that can accommodate a thousand
ideas at once—in a single garment.”
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The Book List ARTS 23

Best books...chosen by Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is the author of the groundbreaking 1999 young-adult novel
Speak, about a teenager who shuts down after being raped by an upperclassman.
Shout, Anderson’s new memoir-in-verse, revisits the real-life trauma that inspired it.
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan (2003).
I avoided reading memoirs while I was writing
Shout so I could focus on my own truth. But
as soon as I turned in the manuscript, I started
devouring them. Reading Tan’s memoir-in-essays
is like taking a hike in the mountains with her.
She skillfully threads connections between her
family’s past, her own life, and her stories,
enchanting and delighting the reader.
Hunger by Roxane Gay (2017). This is the
most important, riveting book I’ve read in the
past decade. The first time I read Gay’s account
of her gang rape at age 12 and its life-defining
aftermath, it was with my eyes. Then I reread it
with my ears. Gay reads the audiobook herself;
her voice adds another layer of power to the
narrative.
Educated by Tara Westover (2018). Westover’s
parents raised their children in rural isolation,
the shifting boundaries of their world determined
by her survivalist father’s mental illness. The
tension between family loyalty and her desire
for an education broke my heart. Westover’s
determination and sensitivity left me awestruck.
Also of interest...in essays and criticism
The Source of Self-Regard
by Toni Morrison (Knopf, $29)
Toni Morrison “makes writing seem
like an urgent calling, the most neces-
sary of professions,” said Nilanjana
Roy in the Financial Times. In this
collection of 43 essays and speeches
spanning her five decades as a public
figure, the novelist and Nobel laureate repeatedly
challenges abuses committed by the powerful,
and her moral clarity shines through on every
page. Though many of these pieces are familiar,
they have been smartly sequenced, and “to see
them collected in one place is a gift.”
The Trouble With Men
by David Shields (Mad Creek, $19)
David Shields’ latest norm-shattering
work “might be read as a petition
for divorce,” said Blake Morrison in
TheGuardian.com. Largely an open
letter to his wife, it paints her as
Courtesy of the author, Karen Fies
Author of the week
Brian Fies
Not many people reach for
sketchbooks when disaster
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson strikes, said Sam Whiting in
(2014). Woodson is the master of evoking place the San Francisco Chronicle.
and time with just a few words. In Brown Girl But the day after Brian Fies
Dreaming, winner of the 2014 National Book and his wife fled an epic 2017
Award for Young People’s Literature, she brings wildfire that engulfed their
the South Carolina and New York City of her Santa Rosa, Calif., home,
childhood to life vividly and uses them as the Fies visited a
backdrops of her coming of age during the Target to buy
necessities
1960s and ’70s.
and walked
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel out with
by Alexander Chee (2018). Carved from heart socks, under-
and bone, this exquisitely written collection of wear...and
essays braids together stories of identity and the a 70-page
hunger to write. The essays Chee includes here drawing
about confronting the childhood sexual abuse he pad. “Even before I knew my
house was gone, I knew I was
endured should be read by everyone.
going to be writing about it,”
Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes (due out says the 58-year-old cartoon-
in October). Acclaimed poet and young-adult ist. The blaze, which burned
novelist Grimes focuses her gaze on her New for 23 days, killed 44 people
York City childhood in this memoir written in and destroyed 8,000 build-
verse. Her powerful story, told with the music ings. When it had been partly
of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your contained, Fies posted an
heart grow. Make sure you have Kleenex at 16-page online comic whose
stark portrayal of living
hand when you read it.
through the disaster was
soon viewed by more than
3 million people. A Fire Story,
his new book, is a more
detailed account, weaving
Nobody’s Looking at You together his tale with those of
by Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27) five other survivors.
Janet Malcolm has always been a Fies, a former reporter, never
“ruthlessly artful” portraitist, said doubted that using his experi-
Michael Upchurch in The Seattle ence with comics was the
Times. “Her magazine profiles are way to capture this story and
peerless when it comes to unraveling its powerful emotions, said
what makes people tick,” and she’s Katie Kilkenny in PSMag.com.
delivered several more in this collection of recent “When a comic’s really work-
essays and features from The New Yorker and ing right,” he says, “the reader
The New York Review of Books. Surprisingly, absorbs the story before they
“she’s completely frank about it when someone is even know they’ve read it.” He
particularly hoped to capture
a riddle to her”—as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow
the way Santa Rosans, both
was. Even then, Malcolm is never uninteresting.
rich and poor, put aside their
Figuring own losses because they
wanted to help neighbors they
by Maria Popova (Pantheon, $30) believed had suffered worse.
If only the world were as simple as “We certainly felt that, my
Maria Popova portrays it, said Laura wife and I,” he says. But as the
Miller in Slate.com. Popova’s popular Fieses prepare to move back
into their nearly fully rebuilt
website BrainPickings.org has for
home, they rarely pass a day
years treated readers to “short, snack-
without remembering some-

domineering and details the dynamics
of their sex life, all because the author of Reality
Hunger hopes to solve the puzzle of who he is by
closely scrutinizing his sexual desires. He folds in
commentary from literary giants as he goes, and
you can’t help admiring both his openness and
“his gift for collecting memorable quotations.”
able” excerpts from the works of
great writers and thinkers. But her first book tries
to illuminate connections between them, linking
Johannes Kepler, say, to Emily Dickinson, and
usually the only glue is “vaporous palaver about
art, truth, beauty, and genius.” The book is “a
grab bag of mildly cool factoids,” little more.
thing they didn’t carry out.
“It’s like a fresh stab to the
heart,” says Fies. “I don’t think
you get over it; I think you just
build a new, different life than
the one you had before.”
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24 ARTS Review of reviews: Art & Stage

Exhibit of the week
Jean-Michel Basquiat
The Brant Foundation, New York
City, through May 15
It turns out we have been looking
at Jean-Michel Basquiat all wrong,
said Blake Gopnik in ArtNet.com.
The Brooklyn-born artist, who died
in 1988 at age 27, never has lacked
admirers, yet his myriad champions
“have just about drowned him and
his work in tired romantic clichés.”
Even before the heroin overdose
that killed him, Basquiat was cast
as a tortured spirit who poured out
his soul in slashes of paint—first
as graffiti on the buildings of New
York City’s ragged East Village,
then on canvas. But a new Basquiat show,
mounted at billionaire collector Peter Brant’s and his death, he forged his own brand of
new four-story exhibition space in Basquiat’s
now gentrified neighborhood, “lets us see
a very different, much smarter, and more
complex artist” than the primal screamer of deconstructionism and the cutup technique
myth. The 1980s wunderkind whose paint-
ings now sell for boggling sums was “an
artist of words and thoughts”—a conceptual tions well, and they even include his untitled proposed a different vision of the ideal polity
artist rather than a neo-expressionist.
But Basquiat felt that he was demean-
ingly misread, and “this seemed to fuel his
work toward greater heights,” said Martha
Schwendener in The New York Times.
Deborah Solomon in WNYC
.org. Next to no information is
provided about the individual
works, which heightens the
impression that despite the lack
of an admission fee, this is a
commercial endeavor, which
flatters Basquiat’s collectors
while boosting the value of their
holdings.
“What would Basquiat have
made of all of this?” said
Andrew Russeth in ArtNews
.com. His work has been impres-
sively displayed here, with
“moments of real drama.” The
A barrage of Basquiat in one of the Brant’s grandest rooms public also benefits, or at least
those who aren’t waitlisted for
During the short span between his discovery tickets, in that these paintings have become
so expensive that even museums can’t
African- American history painting, mixing afford to insure them for an exhibition. But
expressionist figuration with snippets of Basquiat was an outsider who fought for oth-
language that revealed his interest in French ers like him, and little room is now left in the
thoroughly gentrified East Village for people
of Beat-era writers. The nearly 70 works without money. In The Price of Gasoline
on display represent his career contribu- in the Third World and works like it, he
painting of a black skull, from 1982, that by capturing the “exhilarating, topsy-turvy,
sold at auction in 2017 for $110.5 million— sometimes heartbreaking nature of life” in
the current record for a work by an Ameri- early-1980s New York. “As is often the case
can artist. “I’m not sure that the new show with Basquiat, the result is not seamless or
has a clear theme, other than what I can pristine. It’s provisional, obviously pieced
only call Very Expensive Paintings,” said together, but it works, and it is beautiful.”

Be More Chill
Lyceum Theatre, New York City, (212) 239-6200 ++++
The show hasn’t matured much since: It still
features a repetitive score, “painfully forced”
rhymes, and “a general approach that mis-
takes decibel level for emotional intensity.”
But Be More Chill’s amateurishness—“its
very lack of chillness”—may be what young
fans love about it.
Our hero’s use of ingestible tech very
predictably goes awry, said Sara Holdren
Roland takes coaching from Lauren Marcus. in New York. But this show is “canny
about its use of formula,” and it features
By normal critical standards, the latest teen- “bang-up” performances. In the lead role,
focused musical to reach Broadway rates Will Roland has “just the right combina-
as “the worst of the lot,” said Ben Brantley tion of nerd vibes and killer voice.” But
in The New York Times. But if the history Jason Tam steals the show as the snarky
of the production is any measure, its flaws computer entity that takes up residence in
won’t dampen enthusiasm for the show, our hero’s brain: “He’s like the nefarious
which is based on a young-adult novel about nanobot offspring of Cher and Ming the
a high school loser who swallows a pill-size Merciless.” The contrived outrageousness is
supercomputer that’s supposed to make him fine for kids, said Charles McNulty in the
cooler. Critics panned the original stage incar- Los Angeles Times. Still, for the benefit of
nation when it premiered at a regional theater those outside that target audience, Be More
four years ago. The cast album, though, went Chill’s producers should consider including
viral, racking up 150 million streams and “a an advisory in their Playbills: “Some mate-
staggering number” of social media tributes. rial might not be suitable for adults.”
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On other stages...
‘Daddy’
Pershing Square
Signature Center, New
York City ++++
“There is nothing as
thought-provoking
on the New York
stage right now as
‘Daddy,’” said Tim
Peet and Woodard
Teeman in TheDaily
Beast.com. Jeremy O. Harris, the young
playwright who created last year’s incen-
diary Slave Play, has returned with a
many-layered tale of a black artist and
older white patron-lover. While loung-
ing in and around a Bel Air pool, Alan
Cumming and his boy toy Ronald Peet
play disturbing games, and the arrival
of Peet’s devout mother (Charlayne
Woodard) portends juicy battles between
the two older stars, said Frank Scheck in
The Hollywood Reporter. Alas, the play
“seriously goes off the rails,” losing all
momentum. Cumming and Woodard are
a pleasure together, and it will be intrigu-
ing to see where Harris’ ambitions take
him next. But despite its nudity and pro-
vocative themes, this lugubrious drama
“barely manages to work up a sweat.”
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Captain Marvel’s blockbuster movies

have been surprisingly inven-
space cops. After a mission
lands her back on Earth, she
Marvel tive lately, but “sadly, that bumps into Samuel L. Jackson’s
Directed by Anna Boden streak is over,” said David Sims Nick Fury and eventually fig-
and Ryan Fleck in TheAtlantic.com. Though ures out that she’s actually U.S.
the studio’s first woman-led Air Force pilot Carol Danvers.
(PG-13)
superhero movie is a huge Latasha Lynch pops up to play
++++ hit, it “feels a little routine”— a long-lost friend of Danvers’,
An amnesiac superhero a prologue to April’s Avengers: and that warm relationship
sifts through her past. Endgame rather than a must- Larson’s future Avenger “instantly becomes the pulse of
see. In Brie Larson, the film has the movie,” said Melissa Leon
an “incredibly gifted” star, but because she’s been in TheDailyBeast.com. Marvel had needed a girl-
asked to play a heroine with amnesia, she “doesn’t power spectacle as much as it needed a setup for
have much of an actual character to play.” She’s Endgame, said Shana O’Neil in TheVerge.com. In
initially unaware of her past, let alone her future the end, “Captain Marvel gets its many jobs done,
as Captain Marvel, and is working in a team of and it looks pretty good doing it.”

Transit “The past becomes an eerie

prophecy for the present in
Georg also connects with a boy
from North Africa as Transit
Directed by German director Christian “touchingly illuminates” the
Christian Petzold Petzold’s new existential bonds that form within migrant
(Not rated) thriller,” said Chris Nashawaty communities. But don’t expect
in Entertainment Weekly. sentimentality: Characters
++++ Adapted from a 1944 novel disappear in police raids, and
Refugees flee about refugees desperate to those who don’t are trapped in
a fascist France. escape Nazi-occupied Marseille, a sort of purgatory. Watching
this “waking nightmare of a Rogowski with Paula Beer the film drain its protagonists
film” boldly sets the action in of hope is “like watching
a present where the fascists don’t wear swastikas an anti-Casablanca,” said Anthony Lane in The
but suggest history’s potential for repeating itself. New Yorker. Still, Rogowski holds our attention.
Franz Rogowski plays Georg, a concentration “Haunted and hunted, he has the darkly despairing
camp escapee who quietly assumes the identity of a gaze of an insomniac and the wariness of a fox. In
dead man only to cross paths with the dead man’s his face you can read the dilemma that any dis-
wife, said Justin Chang in the Los Angeles Times. placed person must confront: Should I run or hide?”

Patty Griffin Solange Maren Morris

Patty Griffin
++++
Patty Griffin “has
always been one of the
best singer-songwriters
around,” said Glenn
Gamboa in Newsday.
But after a bout with
cancer, the Grammy-
winning alt-country art-
ist says she is seeing the world differently at
54, and the result is her first self-titled stu-
dio release and “one of the best albums of
the year.” Often, it’s hard to tell what’s auto-
biographical. The opening track, “Mama’s
Worried,” looks at poverty through the eyes
of an anxious child and mixes the Maine
native’s earthy voice with Spanish classical
guitar. Later, she borrows from Celtic bal-
ladry to tell a story about a previous cen-
Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios, Music Box Films
When I Get Home
++++
Solange’s first album
since her 2016 break-
through is not built to
provide instant gratifica-
tion, said Jon Pareles
in The New York Times.
“A reverie, a meditation,
a therapeutic retreat, a
musician’s playground,” When I Get Home
strings together 13 sketch-like songs that
all but abandon the verse-chorus format
the singer-songwriter had stretched to her
purposes before. Her lilting voice, often lay-
ered in harmonies, is still at the center, tying
together spare beats and filigreed keyboard
and bass, but these tracks “prize mantras
over hooks, and wander in structure and
tempo.” Don’t comb the album for hits; “it
Girl
++++
Maren Morris has
every right to reach for
Grammy-night glory,
but her sophomore
album “seems awfully
strategized,” said
Mikael Wood in the Los
Angeles Times. “A slick,
knowing blend of country music and pop,”
Girl waters down the “funny and ribald”
wit that the 28-year-old Texan displayed on
her 2016 debut while shearing her music
of surprises. Morris still “has the best voice
of any country singer working today,”
said Chris Richards in The Washington
Post. But the mindless lyrics here “really
gunk things up.” It “feels almost criminal
when a singer this expressive describes

tury’s Irish immigrants. Always, she moves
easily between idioms, said Jewly Hight
in NPR.org. You’ll hear Hill Country blues
in “The Wheel” and New Orleans–style
swing in “Hourglass.” As always, Griffin
shows deep concern about the struggles of
working people and “a gift for imagining
the untamed forces of people’s inner lives.”
Here, she has finally woven those themes
into “a strikingly intricate whole.”
is designed to flow as a whole, gradually
infusing a room like incense.” Solange has
said the album conjures “a Houston of the
mind,” and that seems apt, said Anupa
Mistry in Pitchfork.com. The “spectral, free-
associative” quality of the music suggests
that “home” is a collection of memories
that live in each of us. Though the record is
“missing a thesis statement,” which is frus-
trating, it’s “beautiful as an ambient piece.”
her own heightened emotional state as
‘the feels’”—as she does repeatedly on
one track. But Morris is also a savvy artist
“who knows without a doubt who she is,”
said Ellen Johnson in PasteMagazine.com.
She is very loudly positioning herself as a
country rebel who refuses to “shut up and
sing,” and she has packed this record with
potential radio hits. In fact, “The Feels” has
“major song-of-the-summer potential.”
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26 ARTS
Movies on TV
Monday, March 18
Jezebel
Before being denied the
lead in Gone With the Wind,
Bette Davis played a head-
strong Southern belle in this
stylistically similar drama.
Henry Fonda co-stars. (1938)
6 p.m., TCM
Tuesday, March 19
What About Bob?
A needy therapy patient
butts in on his fussy shrink’s
family vacation in a lov-
able comedy that pairs
Bill Murray with Richard
Dreyfuss. (1991) 8 p.m.,
Cinemax
Wednesday, March 20
The Miseducation of
Cameron Post
Chloë Grace Moretz plays
a young teen sent to a
Montana camp that prom-
ises to cure homosexuality.
(2018) 9:45 p.m., HBO
Thursday, March 21
Network
Sidney Lumet’s landmark
media satire watches as a
TV anchor unravels and his
bosses find ways to exploit
his mad ravings. With
Oscar winners Peter Finch
and Faye Dunaway. (1976)
10:15 p.m., TCM
Friday, March 22
Marathon Man
Dustin Hoffman and
Laurence Olivier face off in
a thriller about a graduate
student who falls in the path
of a Nazi war criminal who’s
not afraid to abuse dentistry
tools. (1976) 5:50 p.m., Epix
Saturday, March 23
Trading Places
Eddie Murphy and Dan Ayk-
royd co-star in a comedy
about a street hustler who
replaces a disgraced broker-
age executive when both
become pawns in a wager.
(1983) 1:30 p.m., IFC
Sunday, March 24
The Great Gatsby
Robert Redford and Mia
Farrow co-star in a slow but
acceptable adaptation of F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz
Age novel. (1974) 9:55 p.m.,
Movieplex
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Television
The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
POV: 306 Hollywood
Anyone who has ever cleared out a house after the
death of a loved one will appreciate what siblings
Elan and Jonathan Bogarín have tried to do with
this whimsical documentary. Looking to capture
the spirit of their grandmother, a dressmaker
who lived most of her years in a modest New
Jersey home, the Bogaríns sift through her belong-
ings, reading them for meaning. Along the way,
they enlist help from an archaeologist, a fashion
conservationist, models, dancers, and even space-
time-continuum expert Alan Lightman. Monday,
March 18, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings
The Fix
It’s hard not to see this new legal drama series
as Marcia Clark’s revenge fantasy. Written and
produced by the former O.J. Simpson prosecutor,
it opens with a dogged district attorney failing to
win the conviction of a black celebrity defendant
who murdered his wife. Here, the justice seeker
gets another chance years later when the star’s
new girlfriend is found dead. Robin Tunney and
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje co-star. Monday,
March 18, at 9 p.m., ABC
The Act
A twisted real-life mother-daughter relationship
now has been dramatized as an eight-part series.
Patricia Arquette stars as Dee Dee Blanchard,
who fooled neighbors for decades by presenting
her cheerful only child, Gypsy Rose, as severely
disabled—unfit for school, unable to walk, fight-
ing multiple health threats. Gypsy Rose is now in
a Missouri prison, convicted of having conspired
to murder her mother in 2015. She’s played here
by an impressive Joey King. Available for stream-
ing Wednesday, March 20, Hulu
The Village
Any of the characters in This Is Us would be
desirable tenants of The Village. The new series,
set in a Brooklyn apartment building where every
resident has a touching backstory and a heart of
gold, will air immediately following NBC’s flag-
ship drama before assuming its slot in April. If
you believe the following—that it takes a village,
that life’s trials can be beautiful, and that nine
Holmes at a Theranos lab
Twisted love: Arquette and King in The Act
out of 10 New Yorkers will have the faces of
soap-opera actors—then get your tissues ready.
Tuesday, March 19, at 10 p.m., NBC
Action
Sports gambling is big business—and destined to
grow far bigger following the 2018 U.S. Supreme
Court ruling allowing legalization. This four-part
documentary series tracks various high rollers
throughout the most recent NFL season to illu-
minate how the industry works both in the open
and on the down low. The story builds toward
Super Bowl Sunday, sports gambling’s biggest
day. Sunday, March 24, at 8 p.m., Showtime
Other highlights
Mental Samurai
Rob Lowe hosts a flashy new game show in
which contestants are spun around the studio by
a giant robotic arm as they answer trivia ques-
tions. Tuesday, March 19, at 9 p.m., Fox
The OA
The ambitious mystery/sci-fi/fantasy series
returns after a two-year hiatus. Co-creator Brit
Marling wakes this time in a parallel dimension
where no one has even heard of Barack Obama.
Available for streaming Friday, March 22, Netflix
Hunt for the Giant Squid
Scientists bring state-of-the-art cameras deep into
Antarctica’s Southern Sea to capture footage of
one of the oceans’ most elusive creatures. Friday,
March 22, at 10 p.m., Nat Geo Wild
Show of the week
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Elizabeth Holmes has already been immortalized
as the author of one this era’s great business
cons, but we‘ve needed a screen account equal
to the story. Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney
captures how the passion of the young founder
of Theranos won over high-profile investors who
bought the claim that her Silicon Valley startup
had developed a breakthrough in blood testing
Brownie Harris/Hulu, HBO
that would revolutionize medicine. Good press
soon inflated the company’s value to $9 billion
before the puffery began to unravel and Thera-
nos worked to silence detractors. Monday,
March 18, at 9 p.m., HBO
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Food & Drink
Ethiopia’s secret sauce: Your brunch menu just got a little spicier
Niter kebbeh, a spiced clarified butter, Watch to make sure butter does not darken.
is “the soul of Ethiopian cuisine,” says Remove pan from heat. Let settle. Strain liq-
Yohanis Gebreyesus in Ethiopia: Recipes uid through cheesecloth into a clean glass jar.
and Traditions From the Horn of Africa
(Interlink Books). Used as the cooking oil To make chechebsa:
in many recipes, it adds a distinctive tex- 1 generous cup all-purpose flour
ture and aroma that anyone who has ever Salt
stepped into an Ethiopian kitchen would Oil, for greasing pan
recognize instantly, and “once you’ve tried 3½ tbsp niter kebbeh
it, you’ll see that infusing clarified butter is ½ tbsp berbere spice blend
a wonderful technique to add to your reper- Plain yogurt
toire.” The flavor possibilities are endless. Clear honey

Niter kebbeh even has a place in morning
meals. All across Ethiopia, you’ll find varia-
tions on a dish consisting of thin pancakes
torn into pieces and seasoned with niter keb-
beh. This recipe, from the Oromia region,
calls for berbere, the chile-based spice blend
that’s also integral to Ethiopian cooking.
Berbere can be purchased premixed, and for
the Ethiopian herbs, which may be hard to
find, substitutes are suggested. To substitute
for nigella seeds (black cumin), try mixing
cumin seeds and black pepper.
Recipe of the week
Chechebsa (butter-soaked flatbread)
To make 1¼ cups niter kebbeh:
1 lb 2 oz unsalted butter
1 tsp coriander seeds (optional)
1 tsp nigella seeds
½ tsp cardamom seeds
Chechebsa, topped with honey and yogurt
1 tsp dried koseret or equal parts dried
oregano and thyme
1 tsp dried besobella or Thai basil
In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, melt butter
over low heat, skimming off foam. Cook
for about 5 minutes until solid, milky
residue sinks to bottom, but do not let the
solids darken. Remove pan from heat and
allow to cool a little, then strain liquid into
a clean saucepan and discard solids.
Add coriander, nigella, and cardamom seeds
to clarified butter and cook over low heat
until aromatic, 5 to 10 minutes, stirring
gently from time to time. Add dried herbs
and cook 5 minutes more, stirring gently.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour with
a generous pinch of salt. Whisk in 1 cup
water to make a thin batter.
Heat a large griddle or frying pan over
medium heat and very lightly grease with
oil. Ladle in enough batter to thinly coat
bottom, tilting pan as needed. Cook pan-
cake until golden, 2 to 3 minutes, then flip,
cover with a lid, and cook another 2 min-
utes. Transfer to plate. Repeat with remain-
ing batter.
In a small saucepan, melt niter kebbeh. Stir
in berbere. While pancakes are still warm,
cut into pieces and place in a serving bowl.
Pour melted niter kebbeh over chechebsa,
turning pieces until well coated. Serve
warm, with side bowls of yogurt and honey,
for adding as desired. Serves 2 to 3.

Provo, Utah: America’s most surprising melting pot Wine: Italy’s Valtellina
The home of Brigham Young University is “not For those of us who know valtellinas,
your typical college town,” said Andrea Sachs in “it’s hard to look at a bottle without
The Washington Post. Because 9 out of 10 Provoans marveling at the sheer determination of
are Mormons, bars are understandably scarce—but its maker,” said Eric Asimov in The New
not nightlife or a wide array of good food. Because York Times. A product of the Lombardy
young church members do international missionary region of northern Italy, the wine derives
work and return to Provo with expanded palates, from the grape known elsewhere as neb-
a visitor can play “spin the globe” in the historic biolo, but these vines grow on steep, ter-
downtown, finding pho, Indian curries, Belgian raced slopes and require daily tending.
frites, and more. Museums stay open late, live music The results are worth the effort.
is easy to find, and you can even play board games 2014 Ar.Pe.Pe Rosso di Valtellina ($35).
Black Sheep Cafe’s casual creativity until midnight at a place called Good Move Café. This “beautifully balanced” wine has
Hruska’s Kolaches Don’t sleep on this breakfast spot, created by Texas-born siblings “a high-toned elegance” and “all the
whose Czech-American grandmother supplied her recipe for kolache dough. Doors delicious hallmarks of nebbiolo”—
open at 6:30 a.m., and by noon “only the tags describing the 24 flavors and two specials red fruit, menthol, a touch of tar.
remain.” Early birds enjoy their choice of the Czech pastries, from raspberry nutella to 2015 Sandro Fay Valtellina Supe-
bacon and egg with cheese and jalapeño. 434 W. Center St., (801) 623-3578 riore ‘Cà Moréi’ ($38). “Both rustic
Black Sheep Cafe Chef Mark Mason learned to cook while living on a reservation, and he and refined,” this valtellina supe-
blends Navajo, Hidatsa, and Southwestern influences on his menu. The braised hog jowl riore is “riper and more powerful,”
tacos are served on blue corn tortillas and the bison burger on Navajo bread—with rose- flavored with dark fruit and licorice.
mary mayo and a cabernet sauvignon reduction. 19 N. University Ave., (801) 607-2485 2015 Aldo Rainoldi Valtellina Supe-
Peter Cassidy, Evan Cobb

Sweet’s Hawaiian Grill This family eatery was born when a Provo law student from Sa- riore Grumello ($40). Another com-
moa and his wife from Tonga began serving lunch plates inspired by Hawaii, their former plex, medium-bodied wine, this
home. Their children, now grown, haven’t changed it much: Diners still crowd in for the one’s also “more brooding,” its fruit
tropical smoothies, kalbi ribs, and katsu fried chicken. 711 Columbia Lane, (801) 374-0000 notes “dark-tinged and denser.”

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28 LEISURE
This week’s dream: Tusheti—‘the last wild place in Europe’
I risked my life to see Tusheti—and
it was totally worth it, said Benjamin
Kemper in TheDailyBeast.com. The
remote corner of northeast Georgia
remains snowbound nine months a year,
and the only road in is a treacherous dirt
track “plagued with avalanches, rock
falls, and vodka-swilling mountain men
careening around switchbacks in Soviet
trucks.” I drove in with a friend last
spring, and my heart pounded as our
wheezing 4-by-4 crawled up the Greater
Caucasus, passing memorials to dead
travelers. On the other side, though, lay
a land of “untamed alpine beauty” and
a proud, welcoming people who’ve main-
tained a unique Christian-animist culture
against all odds.
When a sea of sheep halted our progress,
my friend, Kartlos, cursed in Georgian
and leaned on the horn. “Rush hour in
Tusheti, brother,” he shrugged. We were in
fact witnessing “one of the world’s most
awe-inspiring animal migrations.” Every
Travel
A 13th-century fortress tower near Zemo Omalo
spring, tens of thousands of sheep clamber
over these mountains, and the shepherds
who lead them shear them for the wool
used in the region’s hardy quilts. Farther
on, I began spotting koshkebi—the sentry
towers that Tushetians used for centuries
to fend off Persians, Ottomans, Mongols,
and other invaders. Up close, you can see
the towers’ triangular arrow slits and other
ingenious defense mechanisms. “Medieval
Tushetians did not mess around.”
Kartlos and I spent the next two days
exploring ancient stone hamlets, some
abandoned. “Shrouded in mist and
blanketed in wildflowers, these lost vil-
lages are the stuff of fantasy novels.”
The Soviets drove everyone out of the
mountains decades ago, but a couple
dozen Tushetians now stay year-round,
letting the others leave with the sheep.
Irakli Khvedaguridze, a 77-year-old doc-
tor, told me he sometimes trudges nine
hours through the snow to make house
calls. “I’m not a hero,” he insisted.
Later, I asked a guesthouse owner about
some planned infrastructure, and whether
he worries about modernization. “The
Soviets tried to destroy our culture, and
they were almost successful,” he said. “If
we Tushetians survived that, we can survive
anything. We are proud of this paradise we
call home, and we are ready to show it off.”
InterGeorgia Travel (intergeorgia.travel)
offers a three-day Jeep tour for $856.

Hotel of the week Getting the flavor of...

239 feet of floating luxury
Fingal
Edinburgh
“A night or two at Edinburgh’s
newest hotel is probably
the closest you will get to
staying on a superyacht
without actually chartering
one,” said Claire Wrathall
in the Financial Times. The
former lighthouse supply
ship recently underwent a
renovation that removed
187 tons of steel, added two
California’s next superblooms
Grab your camera, said Laura Randall in The
Washington Post. California received a lot of rain
this fall and winter, so wildflowers are erupting
across the state this spring. Death Valley is pre-
dicted to be bloomless, but Anza-Borrego Desert
State Park is currently experiencing a superbloom—
the rare profusion of flowers that occurs once
every 10 or 15 years. That crowd-drawing
bloom peaks before mid-March, but Joshua Tree
National Park, another must-see destination this
year, is topping out later, said Deb Hopewell in
Afar.com. To follow the flowers, seek higher ele-
vations as the season goes on. The Antelope Val-
ley Poppy Reserve should see a superbloom begin-
ning in April. At that 1,800-acre paradise north of
Los Angeles, “the rolling hills blanketed in poppies
can seem to go on forever.” Pinnacles National
Park is showiest in May, while in Mono County,
the Eastern Sierra will blaze with “every hue of
the color wheel” from late May through July.
The world’s last Blockbuster
Feeling nostalgic for 2005? said Tiffany Hsu in
The New York Times. If you miss stopping at
Blockbuster to browse the newest DVDs, you have
one final opportunity—and it’s in Bend, Ore. As
of March 31, when the only surviving Blockbuster
in Australia shuts its doors, Bend’s will be the last
outpost in the world flying the blue-and-yellow
banner of the once ubiquitous movie-rental chain.
“But this is no elegy.” Bend’s Blockbuster, which
sits just off a highway near a cannabis retailer and
a pet cremation service, has been capitalizing on
its dodo-bird status. Tourists travel hours to visit
it, and the shop has 4,000 active accounts, mostly
because the rural area surrounding Bend has poor
internet service, and people would rather drive to
Blockbuster than fuss with spotty streaming. New
customers sign up each day, with some even buy-
ing Blockbuster-branded hats, cups, and refrigera-
tor magnets. Says manager Sandi Harding, “They
treat us like celebrities.”
Nyani Quarmyne/Panos Pictures/Redux, courtesy of Fingal

new decks, and converted

the bridge into a dining
room, the fuel tanks into a
galley, and the hold into a
ballroom. The 23 spacious
cabins speak well of Scottish
artistry and craftsmanship,
while the large, light-filled
lounge serves a “lavish”
$50-a-head afternoon tea.
fingal.co.uk; doubles
from $390
Last-minute travel deals
Vietnam in a week
Explore Hanoi and Ho Chi
Minh City on an all-inclusive,
nine-day tour of Vietnam. The
“Exotic Vietnam” package cov-
ers seven nights’ lodging and
round-trip airfare from New
York City. Book by March 31
for rates from $999 a person.
worldspree.com
Springtime in the Arctic
The Norwegian cruise line
Hurtigruten is offering up to
30 percent off voyages booked
by March 31. You can see polar
bears and massive glaciers
on a 2020 Spitsbergen cruise,
which starts at $5,445 a person
with the discount.
hurtigruten.com
Ancient and modern Israel
Take in historic Jerusalem and
chic Tel Aviv on a 10-day tour
of Israel with Gate 1 Travel. The
trip includes round-trip airfare
and starts at $1,699 per per-
son, double occupancy, when
you book by April 1. Use code
TZWARJ.
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Consumer LEISURE 29

The 2020 Toyota Corolla Hybrid: What the critics say

Jalopnik.com
“It’s tough right now for a car like the
Prius.” The new Corolla Hybrid instantly
erases any reason for buying that gas-
sipping icon, and “stands atop its grave.”
It’s no longer necessary to choose such a
weird-looking Toyota just to achieve 50-
plus miles per gallon. The hybrid Corolla
averages 52 mpg, costs slightly less than
the 18-year-old Prius, and looks and feels,
mostly, like a normal car. It’s so sensibly ef-
ficient, “it makes other cars feel deficient.”
Car and Driver
The new gas-powered Corollas are also
significantly improved, but there’s “little
downside to choosing the hybrid.” Thanks
to clever battery placement, it has the
same amount of trunk space as the regular
Corolla sedan. And though the hybrid costs
$3,000 more than the gas-powered base
model, few buyers would choose that car’s
weak engine.
Edmunds.com
“If anything,” the hybrid “has a bit more
zip off the line.” Sure, it’s slow on highway A new Prius killer, from $22,950
entrance ramps, but the same pokey feel-
ing hasn’t kept Priuses from selling. “In But the Corolla “will give you the same per-
terms of driving comfort, safety, and even formance without danger of getting stuck
style,” the Corolla Hybrid will “surprise in a Whole Foods parking lot talking about
and delight.” You can still buy a Prius, sure. climate change.”

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It’s hip to wear squares,
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Valentino’s riff on the
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Tip of the week...
What to pounce on at Goodwill
QSterling silverware sometimes hides
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QOrnate picture frames are often worth
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QVintage luggage is hip these days, and
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could be worth upward of $100.”
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collectors use it for cooking.
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30 Best properties on the market

This week: Tudor architecture
1 X Darien, Conn. Ship-
ping magnate Daniel Keith
Ludwig, once one of the
world’s richest men, lived
in this home for 20 years.
The 1929 five-bedroom
Tudor features a slate
roof with copper gutters,
leaded-glass diamond win-
dows, four fireplaces, ex-
posed beams, and French
doors leading from the liv-
ing room to a stone patio.
The 2.6-acre landscaped
property has a circular
driveway, expansive lawn,
gunite pool, pond, and
mature trees. $2,995,000.
Susan Nix, William Pitt
Sotheby’s International
Realty, (203) 554-3612

2 W Bronx, N.Y. In the his-

toric Riverdale neighborhood,
this 1930 stone-and-stucco
Tudor is close to the Hudson
River and public gardens. The
six-bedroom house features
new hardwood floors, a stone
fireplace, a media room, a sun-
room, and a master bedroom
with spa bathroom and Juliet
balcony. The yard has a patio
area, and a neighboring lot is
also for sale. $3,500,000. Auc-
tion date: March 26. No reserve.
Jennifer Middleton, Concierge
Auctions, (646) 760-8109
3 X Portland, Ore. Famed architect Albert E.
Doyle built the Cobbs Estate in 1918. Listed
on the National Register of Historic Places,
this seven-bedroom home has oak-paneled
walls, a billiards room in a turret, and a mas-
ter suite with marble fireplace, sleeping porch,
and dressing room. The 2-acre lot features
cedar trees, a Japanese teahouse, a pool, and
a pool house. $5,900,000. Suzann Baricevic
Murphy, (w)here Real Estate, (503) 789-1033

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Best properties on the market 31

4 W Philadelphia In 1915, industrialist George W. Elkins
visited a duke in England and decided to buy his own
16th-century Tudor mansion. This seven-bedroom home
was brought from Guildford, Surrey, in 30 shiploads
and reassembled in Philadelphia by European craftsmen.
Features include limestone arches and walls, leaded-glass
windows, 13 fireplaces, two elevators, and a wine cellar.
The 18.3-acre park-
like grounds include
a pool, a terraced
amphitheater, and
sunken gardens.
$9,300,000.
Hannah Griswold
McFarland, Kurfiss/
Sotheby’s Inter-
national Realty,
(917) 453-3632

3 6

1
2
4

5 X Charleston, S.C. This 1914 brick home stands

on a corner lot in the South of Broad neighborhood.
The four-bedroom Tudor has a tile roof, French
doors, high ceilings, a din-
ing room with an inlaid-
wood fireplace mantel,
painted wood floors, and
a screened porch. The
property includes a low-
maintenance garden and
is located two blocks from
the water. $1,500,000.
Georgia Bell, William
Means Real Estate,
(843) 568-1601

6 W Chicago Built in 1925, this four-bedroom brick-and-stucco

Steal of the week Tudor sits on a double lot in West Ridge, a neighborhood at the
city’s north end. Interior features include hardwood floors, a sun-
room, two skylights, a spa bathroom, a vaulted master suite, and a
large, bright base-
ment. The fenced
property is close
to area parks and
a two-block walk
from a shopping dis-
trict. $498,000. Julie
Malmed, Coldwell
Banker Residential
Brokerage,
(847) 869-0515

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32
The bottom line
QBy some measures, the bull
market hit the 10-year mark
last week, with stocks gaining
roughly 320 percent during
this run. One difference from
10 years ago: 52 percent of
Americans age 35 or younger
held stocks in 2008. Now that
number is just 38 percent.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
QNearly 48 billion robocalls
were made in the U.S. in
2018. Texas residents were
robocalled 5.32 billion times,
leading the nation. And
306 million robocalls used
Washington, D.C.’s 202 prefix,
a favorite choice for scam-
mers, who often pretend to
be calling from a government
agency.
Axios.com
QA Bugatti recently sold for
$19 million,
making it
the most
expen-
sive new
car ever
produced. “La Voiture
Noire”—French for “the black
car”—was first shown to the
public this week. Only one
was built, with a 16-cylinder,
8-liter engine and 1,500 brake
horsepower.
CNBC.com
QPublicity for the documen-
tary Leaving Neverland may
have paradoxically raised
interest in Michael Jackson’s
music. In mid-February,
streams of Jackson’s songs
on services such as Spotify
shot up to 22.8 million a
week, from about 16 million.
The New York Times
QCaptain Marvel hauled in
$455 million in worldwide
ticket sales in its box-office
debut, setting a record for an
opening weekend for a movie
with a female lead. It was the
sixth-best worldwide opening
of all time. Between 55 and
58 percent of the ticket buyers
for Captain Marvel were men.
The Hollywood Reporter
QWith marijuana legal and
the cannabis boom in full
swing, the city of Denver is
now home to 216 cannabis
dispensaries and 272 indoor
grow locations.
Inc. Magazine
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BUSINESS
The news at a glance
Economy: Weak job growth but rising wages
The U.S. added just 20,000 The jobs report could
jobs in February, the few- create a problem for the
est since February 2017, said Federal Reserve, said Justin
Katia Dmitrieva and Carlyann Lahart in The Wall Street
Edwards in Bloomberg.com. Journal. Thanks to an aging
Released last week, the number population, the economy
fell well below estimates and only needs to add about
“bucked a recent trend of strong 50,000 jobs per month for
February readings.” The data unemployment to stay at
weren’t all bad: Wages grew its current 3.8 percent. So
at 3.1 percent, the fastest pace Applying for tech jobs in L.A. even though the economy
since 2009, and comfortably above the rate of appears to be slowing, the tight labor market
inflation. But a “long-forecast slowdown” may be could send wages and prices up. This puts the
arriving. Analysts were already expecting payroll Fed in a tricky spot. The Fed has dialed back its
gains to drop to an average of about 170,000 interest-rate hikes to keep the economy moving.
workers, from 223,000 in 2018, as the effects of That’s easy as long as “inflation is quiescent.”
President Trump’s tax cuts wear off. “The trend is But it may be hard to stick to that plan if “infla-
probably shifting down,” said one economist. tionary pressures build.”
Incarceration: The orange-collar CEO Some truly
fine print indeed
Disgraced pharmaceuticals executive Martin Shkreli continues to steer
his old company from prison, said Rob Copeland and Bradley Hope A Georgia woman won
in The Wall Street Journal. Using a contraband smartphone, Shkreli $10,000 simply for
reading the fine print in
“still helps call the shots” at Phoenixus AG while serving seven years a travel insurance pol-
for securities fraud. The reviled “pharma bro” CEO earned infamy for
icy, said Allison Klein
raising the price of an HIV medication to $750 per pill from $13.50. in The Washington
The 35-year-old conducts research at an inmate computer lab, “has Post. Donelan Andrews
made prison friends, including ‘Krispy’ and ‘D-Block,’” and now does recently purchased the
15 consecutive push-ups, thanks to their workout regimen. travel insurance before
Gigs: Uber settles driver lawsuit a trip with friends to
England. Unlike most
Uber this week settled a long-running driver classification lawsuit for people, she actually
$20 million, said Andrew Hawkins in TheVerge.com. The case was ini- sat down to read it. On
tially brought in 2013 by drivers “who argued they should be classified page 7, she encoun-
as employees” rather than as contractors. The agreement, which covers tered a paragraph
13,600 drivers, is “a boon for Uber,” which will not have to change header that said, “Pays
the status of its drivers. A judge rejected a $100 million settlement with to Read.” It stated that
drivers as insufficient in 2016, but a series of higher court decisions fewer than 1 percent of
later made it much harder for Uber’s drivers to prevail. travelers actually read
all the policy informa-
Hollywood: Endeavor lets go of Saudi cash tion, and the first per-
A Hollywood talent agency returned a $400 million investment from son to email the com-
Saudi Arabia to protest the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, pany about the contest
said Kate Kelly and Ben Hubbard in The New York Times. Endea- would receive $10,000.
vor, helmed by uber-agent Ari Emanuel and counting Ben Affleck and So she emailed, and
Charlize Theron among its clients, agreed to a deal with the Saudi it turned out the con-
government last spring. The deal was expected to give the wealthy test was no joke. The
kingdom entrée to “sports, events, modeling, and television and film insurance company,
production.” Despite an outcry over the murder of Khashoggi, most of Squaremouth, had
the Saudis’ other “overseas partnerships have remained intact.” quietly started it a
day earlier, sending
Guns: Sporting goods chain defies NRA 73 policies out before
Dick’s Sporting Goods announced plans this week to stop selling Andrews emailed. A
guns in 125 stores, said Eben Novy-Williams in Bloomberg.com. The Squaremouth spokes-
move expands a trial in which the retailer removed hunting products person says the com-
from 10 stores last year. CEO Ed Stack said fourth-quarter sales and pany really does want
foot traffic rose in those stores. “Once a major vendor of firearms people to read policies
in the U.S.,” Dick’s stopped selling assault rifles and ammo after the to know exactly what’s
Getty, Newscom
covered. “It makes
Parkland massacre. The move angered the National Rifle Association,
everybody’s life a
and Dick’s revenue fell 2 percent in 2018, partly because of “slower
lot easier.”
firearm sales.”
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Wage gap: Google finds it’s been underpaying men

A survey of salaries at Google revealed a ish employees on average earned 17 per-
surprising result: “Men were being paid less cent less per hour” than men.
money than women for doing similar work,”
said Daisuke Wakabayashi in The New York Google’s study should be seen as a good
Times. Google managers can adjust pay sign for women’s progress in tech, said
based on a subjective assessment of whether Elizabeth Nolan Brown in Reason.com.
an employee’s pay is in line with “peers who Instead, the professional gender-equality
make similar contributions.” Though the lobby is “insisting that the study only
company has been accused of bias against masks much deeper discrimination.” If
women in the past, Google’s 2018 analysis women are still facing discrimination
found that in these judgments managers ac- related to leveling, that’s an issue worth
tually tilted too far in the other direction. To reviewing. But activists have spread mis-
remedy that, Google gave $9.7 million in ad- information about the wage gap for years
Not really a workplace utopia
ditional pay to more than 10,000 employees. while lumping together every category of
Google’s hasn’t provided precise numbers but did disclose that job. Now, when the data hasn’t showed what they hoped for,
men, who make up 69 percent of the company’s workforce, got they are “arguing for more nuance.”
an even higher proportion of the money.
Women have actually been making gains relative to men in
Sharing this “counterintuitive” statistic only serves to undermine “cognitive/high-wage occupations,” said Justin Fox in Bloomberg
the complaints of thousands of women, said April Glaser in .com. The reason? Women have better social skills than men,
Slate.com. Google faces a lawsuit from women who say that and social skills are growing in influence in those jobs. It’s what
female engineers “hired with the same experience as men are has made girls historically better than boys at school. Women
given lower positions at the company.” It’s hard to know exactly have outpaced men in attaining their college degrees since the
what’s happening at Google, said Bryce Covert in The New York 1980s. “The consequences are still playing out.” In politics, “the
Times, because the company won’t release all its data. But a fed- Republican Party’s strongest base of support is now among non-
eral judge recently cleared the way for U.S. regulators to begin college-educated white men.” And the advantages that propelled
requiring companies with 100 or more employees to report girls past boys in school are now growing in value in the labor
information on pay by gender and race. In Britain, a similar rule market. “That’s reason enough to think that the earnings gender
forced Google “to cough up the fact that in 2017 its female Brit- gap will keep shrinking.”

What the experts say Charity of the week

Tips for a 529 plan
If you’re setting up a 529 account for a child’s
college education, said Chana Schoenberger
in The Wall Street Journal, it’s best to put it
in the name of the parents or the child, not a
grandparent. Most colleges use the standard
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA) to determine a family’s assets and ob-
ligations. If the account is in the name of the
parents or a dependent student, it’s counted
in the parents’ assets and financial aid each
year gets cut by 5.64 percent of its value. If the
custodian is a grandparent or anyone else, “it
doesn’t show up on the FAFSA as an asset at
all.” But watch out: When the student with-
draws money to pay for school, it will be con-
sidered untaxed income on the following year’s
FAFSA, cutting financial aid eligibility by as
much as half of the withdrawal.
Where the money flows freely
The world’s 200,000 wealthiest people are
gravitating more and more toward a few cities,
said Benjamin Stupples and Frederik Balfour
in Bloomberg.com. London—with close to
5,000—Tokyo, and Singapore are home to
the most people worth at least $30 million.
Also in the top 10: São Paolo; Taipei, Taiwan;
Getty
city in the top 10. “The data highlight the
concentration of the ultrawealthy living in the
biggest metropolises.” Last year, buyers from
Hong Kong and China made about a quarter
of the purchases of London homes worth at
least 2 million pounds ($2.6 million). Asia is
the world’s biggest source of new billionaires,
boosting luxury investments like cars, artwork,
and whisky. The last is up in value by 582 per-
cent over 10 years, helped along by a new
nonstop air route from Edinburgh to Beijing.
Coming back to the workforce
The share of Americans ages 25 to 54 who
have a job has finally reached pre-recession
levels, said Christopher Rugaber in the Associ-
ated Press. Economists refer to this group as
“prime-age workers,” and for the first time
since 2008, 80 percent of them are now em-
ployed. “More people have decided to look for
work” than economists expected, leading to an
influx of job seekers. With unemployment now
around 4 percent, “businesses have increas-
ingly begun recruiting more widely,” relaxing
their prerequisites for education or experience
and expanding training programs. “Women
have returned to the workforce in greater num-
bers than men have.” For women ages 25 to
Founded in
1997, Women
of Tomorrow
Mentor and
Scholarship
Program (women
oftomorrow
.org) empowers
at-risk girls by
providing the
mentorship, professional opportunities,
college financial aid, and group support
they need to succeed. In partnership with
high schools in Philadelphia, Detroit, and
Florida, WOT places groups of five teenag-
ers under the mentorship of a successful
professional woman. Through meet-ups,
college campus visits, and career-focused
field trips, the program has been proved
to encourage the girls’ level of self-esteem
and increase their GPA; of the teenagers
in the program, 94 percent receive high
school diplomas. Since its inception, WOT
has helped 15,000 at-risk girls, is active
in nearly 200 public schools, and has
awarded $6.4 million in scholarships.
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 group’s highest rating.

and Zurich. New York City is the only U.S. 34, labor participation is at an 18-year high.
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34 Best columns: Business

Imports: Tariff wars yield yawning trade gap

So far, “President Trump’s effort to nar- are on the edge of recession.” China’s
row the trade gap has flopped,” said economy is slowing as well. This means
Josh Zumbrun in The Wall Street Jour- “foreign consumers and businesses are
nal. It’s been a year since Trump’s “trade spending less” on U.S. products. The
agenda shifted into high gear.” Yet the primary cause of the deficit, said Rob-
U.S. trade deficit in goods and services ert Samuelson of The Washington Post,
for 2018 hit $621 billion, the biggest is the strength of the dollar. It’s strong
since 2008; for goods alone, it was a because the entire world uses it as a
record $891 billion. The 2017 tax cuts global currency. That feeds the demand
may be one reason: They “juiced demand for dollars, and makes imports cheaper
from U.S. consumers and businesses,” for us. The only times the U.S. has run
fueling a 7.5 percent increase in imports a trade surplus have been during reces-
last year. Trump’s tariffs on $300 billion Tariffs on solar panels have hit buyers hard. sions, when the world economy slowed
worth of goods such as washing ma- and U.S. imports fell. If you’re really
chines and solar panels, as well as on steel and aluminum, were intent on achieving a trade surplus, the easiest way “would be to
supposed to bring trade partners to negotiate. But they just “led cause a worldwide economic collapse.”
countries to retaliate” with corresponding tariffs, dampening ex-
ports. And, unlike other times when the trade gap has widened, Trump campaigned on the notion that we have a trade deficit
it’s not about oil, said Jeffry Bartash in MarketWatch.com. In because we made “bad deals,” said Paul Krugman in The New
2008, oil imports represented 47 percent of the trade deficit, and York Times, and his solution is “to throw up barriers to foreign
67 percent in 1991. But in 2018, thanks to a “shale-oil revolu- products.” That’s not how trade works. Yes, the 2018 tariffs cut
tion,” it was just 6.1 percent. The hope used to be “that a re- imports of some items. “But imports of other goods rose, while
surgent U.S. oil industry would slash the nation’s trade deficit.” exports performed poorly.” The end result is that the deficit
Instead, the U.S. imports more of everything else—food, heavy soared. This is “exactly what you should have expected” from
machinery, cars, and electronics. the tariffs. For all the tough tariff talk, Trump didn’t accomplish
his goal, said Jennifer Rubin in The Washington Post. But he
The president may never celebrate a trade deficit, said Karl Smith did “inflict pain on farmers” and increase costs for American
in Bloomberg.com, but maybe he’ll learn not to hate it. The defi- consumers. A recent study found that workers in Republican-
cit is a sign of American strength, not weakness. The economy is leaning states were suffering the greatest losses from the tariffs
the best it has been in a generation, and businesses are increasing that trading partners imposed on the U.S. as retaliation. Trump’s
their investment in plants and equipment. U.S. trading partners, voters are the ones who’ve “absorbed the brunt of the pain”
however, are struggling. “Most of the major economies in Europe from the failed trade policy.

The U.S. economy “keeps performing worse than the
This isn’t experts have predicted,” said David Leonhardt. I saw
what a boom this laid out clearly at an economics conference in
Washington. When economists projected economic
looks like growth two years out, they were too optimistic in
nine years out of 10. The Federal Reserve has repeat-
David Leonhardt edly “overestimated how quickly the economy would
The New York Times grow,” only to revise the forecasts downward. If the
original forecasts had been correct, the U.S. economy
would be about 6 percent larger than it is today—
that’s $1.3 trillion more in goods and services.
Despite frequent predictions, the economy has not
reached 3 percent annual growth since the financial
crisis ended in 2010. Why the stagnation? Americans
are saving more and spending less, thanks to tax cuts
favoring the wealthiest—who spend a smaller share
of their income than the poor and middle-class. And
there’s an “investment slump” as a lack of competi-
tion drives down incentives to invest in new projects.
To address this, the U.S. needs infrastructure projects,
stronger safety-net programs, more aggressive anti-
trust policies, and a more restrained Federal Reserve
that stops overestimating growth and inflation. Presi-
dent Trump likes to take credit for the “booming
economy.” But here’s the truth that so many experts
seem to keep missing: There is no boom.

A new relaxed dress code at Goldman Sachs is de-
Conforming signed to send the signal that “everyone’s supposed
to business to be an innovator now,” said Stephen Mihm. It’s
part of a decades-long shift in American business
casual away from “corporate bureaucracies that favored
regimentation and predictability.” Early in the 20th
Stephen Mihm century, most white-collar workers spent their days
Bloomberg.com toiling away on predictable tasks, and they were
expected to dress the part. Conformity used to be in
the DNA of even cutting-edge companies like IBM,
which famously required engineers to wear “white
Apple, and Microsoft did away with dress codes and
hierarchies. They presented themselves as disruptive
innovators, and their success inspired others to look
toward Silicon Valley. Many of the old company
men, the middle managers in their monotonous
suits, were replaced by computers or had their work
outsourced. “Companies began to self-consciously
adopt practices associated with the tech sector.” It’s
worth asking, though, whether this break with tradi-
tion really gives employees “the freedom to dress the
way they want—or whether the old dress code has
Newscom

shirts, black ties, dark gray suits, and starched col- just been replaced by one that requires you to dress
lars.” But in the 1970s, companies such as Intel, like Mark Zuckerberg to succeed.”
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The 90210 hunk who became a teen obsession
Luke Luke Perry caused
Perry young hearts to throb
1966–2019 so hard that there
were riots at the sight
of his sideburns. When the smolder-
ing star of hit teen soap Beverly
Hills 90210 visited a Seattle mall to
sign autographs in 1991, he had to
be smuggled to safety in a laundry
hamper after frenzied fans surged the
barricades to get close to him. Later
that year, 21 people were injured
when a crowd of 8,000 Perry aco-
lytes rushed the stage at another mall appearance
in South Florida. Perry’s brooding performance
as 90210’s rebellious loner Dylan McKay helped
lure millions of viewers to the show and made his
chiseled features ubiquitous on supermarket fan
magazines. But Perry—who died last week at age
52 after suffering a massive stroke—was always
taken aback by his ability to induce civil disorder.
“I don’t know why it happened,” he said after the
Florida melee. “I don’t even sing.”
Coy Luther Perry III was raised in Fredericktown,
Ohio, which he described as being simultaneously
“a redneck backwater and a rural paradise,” said
TheGuardian.com. His steelworker father was
a violent alcoholic, and Perry’s parents divorced
when he was 6. Perry struggled in high school,
The journalist who cracked up sports fans
Dan Though golf can be
Jenkins fanatically strait-
1928–2019 laced, one of its most
celebrated scribes
was anything but. Dan Jenkins’
irreverent, snarky, and occasionally
off-color coverage helped define
the heyday of Sports Illustrated. He
reported on 232 of golf’s four annual
“majors” (a term he popularized),
including every big tournament from
1969 to 2014, and teed up countless
perfect put-downs. “Greg Norman,”
he once wrote, “always looked like
the guy you send out to kill James Bond, not Jack
Nicklaus.” Jenkins also covered another child-
hood love for the magazine, college football, and
his raucous 1972 gridiron novel Semi-Tough—
made into a movie with Burt Reynolds and Kris
Kristofferson five years later—is often ranked
among the all-time great sports books. Fueled
by Winston cigarettes and black coffee, he wrote
more than 20 other sports books, which he pro-
duced with seemingly little effort. He followed a
credo of his own making: “Type fast, get it done,
and go to a bar.”
Photofest, AP
Jenkins was born in Fort Worth, where his sales-
man and gambler father “left the family when
Dan was a toddler, though he showed up now
Obituaries 35
The hard-living Airwolf
star who crashed
said the Los Angeles Times, “an
and burned
experience he mined for his 90210
character.” “I felt like I belonged on In the mid-1980s, Jan-Michael
a screen,” he said. “I related to the Vincent was the highest-paid
people up on that screen much more actor on TV, earning up to
than the people around me.” Perry $200,000 per episode play-
moved to Los Angeles when he ing daredevil helicopter pilot
Stringfellow Hawke on the
was 17 to pursue acting and landed
CBS series Airwolf. With
brief, recurring roles on the daytime a square
soaps Loving and Another World. Jan-Michael jaw and
He was working for an asphalt- Vincent a surfer’s
laying business when he was cast as 1945–2019 physique,
Dylan in 90210. Vincent
seemed tailor-made to be
The series about life at the glamorous (and fic- a Hollywood star. But his
tional) West Beverly Hills High “premiered on offscreen behavior ulti-
Fox in 1990 to dismal ratings and reviews,” mately destroyed his career.
Struggling with alcohol and
said The Washington Post. But the show took
drug addiction, Vincent fre-
off the following year, with People magazine
quently appeared drunk on
dubbing Perry “TV’s hottest heartbreaker.”
set and got into after-hours
Although Perry never found another star-making
bar fights, leading crew
vehicle, he appeared in 1992’s film version of
members to nickname him
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, had a recurring role “Jan-Michael Vodka.” Unable
in the gritty HBO prison drama Oz, and in to rely on an erratic star and
recent years played the father of another high with ratings dwindling, CBS
school heartthrob—Archie Andrews—on CW’s canceled Airwolf in 1986
Riverdale. Perry knew his legacy would be his after three seasons. Vincent’s
90210 character. “I’m going to be linked with career went into a tailspin.
him until I die,” he said. “But that’s actually just Raised in Hanford, Calif.,
fine. I created Dylan McKay. He’s mine.” Vincent, an avid surfer,
had little interest in work-
ing a 9-to-5 job, said The
Washington Post. He headed
for the coast “when his strict
father tried to strong-arm him
and then to take his son to sporting into joining” the family’s sign-
events,” said The New York Times. painting business. After drop-
Raised mainly by his paternal grand- ping out of college and serv-
parents, he discovered a talent for ing a stint in the California
writing when his grandma bought National Guard, Vincent was
him a typewriter. He would type out spotted by a talent agent
a story from that day’s newspaper who, “marveling at his good
word for word, said The Washington looks, got him a contract with
Universal Studios.”
Post, until one day he decided to
improve an article. “I thought, Vincent played a hit-man
‘This guy’s an idiot, I can do better apprentice to Charles Bron-
than this,’” Jenkins said. “It hasn’t son in 1972’s The Mechanic,
said The Guardian (U.K.),
stopped since.” He started writ-
a devil-may-care surfer in
ing for The Fort Worth Press while 1978’s Big Wednesday, and
attending Texas Christian University, where he one of Robert Mitchum’s sons
was captain of the golf team and practiced with in the hit 1980s TV miniseries
his hometown hero, pro golfer Ben Hogan. The Winds of War. “But his
post-Airwolf years amounted
The writer joined Sports Illustrated in 1962 “and to a litany of misfortune,”
saw his stock rise alongside the magazine’s for with Vincent consigned to
two decades,” said Sports.Yahoo.com. His first D-list films. A 1996 car acci-
piece for SI dealt with the terrors of putting. “The dent left him with damaged
devoted golfer is an anguished soul,” he wrote, vocal cords and a permanent
rasp; an infection led doc-
“who has learned a lot about putting just the
tors in 2012 to amputate part
way an avalanche victim has learned a lot about
of his right leg. Addiction
snow.” Jenkins left SI in 1985 and became a
was a constant struggle, he
regular columnist for Golf Digest; he was work-
told a reporter in 2000. “I’m
ing on a new book shortly before his death. “I hanging on,” he said, “by my
don’t believe in retirement,” he said in September. white knuckles.”
“Everybody who retires too early dies too early.”
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When you become allergic to meat
A tick-borne syndrome that triggers an allergy to meat and animal products is spreading throughout the
southeastern U.S. and the world, said journalist Maryn McKenna. It has doctors baffled—and worried.
I
T IS EARLY morning in early summer,
and I am tracing my way through
the woods of central North Carolina,
steering cautiously around S-curves and
braking hard when what looks like a
small rise turns into a narrow bridge. I
am on my way to meet Tami McGraw,
who lives with her husband and the
youngest of their kids in a sprawling
development of old trees and wide
lawns just south of Chapel Hill. Before
I reach her, McGraw emails. She wants
to feed me when I get there:
“Would you like to try emu?” she asks.
“Or perhaps some duck?”
These are not normal breakfast offer-
ings. But for years, nothing about
McGraw’s life has been normal. She
cannot eat beef or pork, or drink milk
or eat cheese, or snack on a gelatin-
containing dessert without feeling her
throat close and her blood pressure
drop. Wearing a wool sweater raises
hives on her skin; inhaling the fumes
of bacon sizzling on a stove will knock
her to the ground. Everywhere she goes,
she carries an array of tablets that can
beat back an allergy attack, and an auto-
injecting EpiPen that can jolt her system out
of anaphylactic shock.
McGraw is allergic to the meat of mammals
and everything else that comes from them:
dairy products, wool and fiber, gelatin from
their hooves, char from their bones. This
syndrome affects some thousands of people
in the United States and an uncertain but
likely larger number worldwide, and after a
decade of research, scientists have begun to
understand what causes it. It’s brought on by
the bite of a tick—picked up on a hike, or
brushed against in a garden, or hitchhiking
on the fur of a pet that was roaming outside.
The illness, which generally goes by the
name “alpha-gal allergy” after the compo-
nent of meat that triggers it, is a trial that
McGraw and her family are still learn-
ing to cope with. In much the same way,
medicine is grappling with it, too. Allergies
occur when our immune systems perceive
something that ought to be familiar as for-
eign. For scientists, alpha-gal is forcing a
remapping of basic tenets of immunology:
how allergies occur, how they are triggered,
whom they put in danger and when.
For those affected, alpha-gal is transforming
the landscapes they live in, turning the reli-
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The last word
Even the smell of a steak can trigger a reaction.
able comforts of home—the plants in their
gardens, the food on their plates—into an
uncertain terrain of risk.
In her memory, McGraw’s symptoms began
after 2010. That was the year she and her
husband, Tom, a retired surgeon, spied
a housing bargain in North Carolina in
a development next to a nature reserve.
The leafy spread of streams and woodland
pockets was everything she wanted in a
home. She didn’t realize that it offered
everything that deer and birds and rodents,
the main hosts of ticks, want as well.
She remembers one tick that attached to
her scalp, raising such a welt the spot was
red for months afterward, and a swarm of
baby ticks that climbed her legs and had
to be scrubbed off in a hot bath laced with
bleach. Unpredictably, at odd intervals, she
began to get dizzy and sick.
“I’d have unexplained allergic reactions,
and I’d break out in hives and my blood
pressure would go crazy,” she told me. The
necklines of all her T-shirts were stretched,
because she tugged at them to relieve the
feeling she couldn’t take a deep breath. She
trekked to an array of doctors who diag-
nosed her with asthma or early menopause
or a tumor on her pituitary gland. They pre-
scribed antibiotics and inhalers and steroids.
They sent her for MRI scans, pulmo-
nary function tests, echocardiograms of
her heart. Nothing yielded a result.
Looking back, she realizes she missed
clues as to the source of her problem.
She would feel short of breath and
need to visit an urgent-care clinic on
Saturdays—which always started, in
her household, with a big breakfast of
eggs and sausages.
Then a close friend had a scary epi-
sode, going for a run, arriving home
and passing out on the hot concrete of
her driveway. Once she had recovered,
McGraw quizzed her. Her friend said:
“They thought I got stung by a bee
while I was running. But now they
think maybe I have a red-meat allergy.”
McGraw remembers her first reaction
was: That’s crazy. Her second was:
Maybe I have that, too.
She Googled, and then she asked her
doctor to order a little-known blood test
that would show if her immune system
was reacting to a component of mam-
mal meat. The result was so strongly
positive that her doctor called her at home
to tell her to step away from the stove.
T
HE SURPRISING STORY of how doc-
tors in the U.S. discovered alpha-gal
allergy begins with a cancer drug
called cetuximab, which came onto the
market in 2004. Cetuximab is a protein
grown in cells taken from mice. For any
new drug, there are likely to be a few peo-
ple who react badly to it, and that was true
for cetuximab. In its earliest trials, one or
two of every 100 cancer patients who got it
infused into their veins had a hypersensitiv-
ity reaction: Their blood pressure dropped,
and they had difficulty breathing.
But there was an aberration. In clinics in
North Carolina and Tennessee, 25 of 88
recipients were hypersensitive to the drug,
with some so sick they needed emergency
shots of epinephrine and hospitalization.
At about the same time, a patient who got
cetuximab in a cancer clinic in Bentonville,
Ark., collapsed and died after the first dose.
Alpha-gal is familiar to many scientists
because it is responsible for an enduring
disappointment: Its ability to trigger intense
immune reactions is the reason that organs
taken from animals have never success-
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fully been transplanted into people. The
puzzle was why the drug recipients were

reacting to it. To have an allergic reaction,
someone needs to have been primed with a
prior exposure to a substance—but the trial
recipients who reacted badly were all on
their first dose of cetuximab.
A team of allergy specialists led by Dr. Thomas
Platts-Mills at the University of Virginia
scrutinized the patients and their families
for anything that could explain the prob-
lem. The reactions appeared regional—
patients in Arkansas and North Carolina
and Tennessee experienced the hypersen-
sitivity, but ones in Boston and Northern
California did not.
Then Dr. Christine Chung, a Nashville
researcher recruited to the team, stumbled
onto an intriguing clue. Almost one in five
of the patients enrolled at a cancer clinic at
her hospital had high levels of IgE antibod-
ies linked to alpha-gal allergy. But when
she checked those patients’ neighbors, the
same almost one in five had those antibod-
ies, too. The alpha-gal reaction, it turned
out “had nothing to do with cancer,” says
Platts-Mills. “It had everything to do with
rural Tennessee.”
The question then became: What in rural
Tennessee could trigger a reaction like this?
A clue emerged: Rocky Mountain spotted
fever is transmitted by the bite of a tick,
Amblyomma americanum, one of the most
common ticks in the southeastern U.S. It’s
known as the lone star tick for a blotch of
white on the back of the female’s body.
The researchers wondered—if the mys-
tery reactions shared a footprint with a
tick-caused disease, could ticks be linked
to the reactions too? It was an intriguing
hypothesis and was reinforced by a new set
of patients who came trickling into Platts-
Mills’ clinic at about the same time. They
were all adults, and that was odd to start
with, because allergies tend to show up in
childhood. They’d never had an allergic
reaction before, but now they were expe-
riencing allergy symptoms: swelling, hives,
and in the worst cases anaphylactic shock.
They, too, had high levels of IgE antibodies
to alpha-gal.
None of them, though, were cancer patients.
They told the physicians that they had no
proof of what was causing their reactions—
but more than a few of them sensed it had
something to do with eating meat.
Dr. Scott Commins, a postgraduate fellow
in Platts-Mills’ group, took it upon himself
to phone every new patient to ask whether
they’d ever suffered a tick bite. “I think
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94.6 percent of them answered affirma-
tively,” he says. “And the other few percent
would say, ‘You know, I’m outdoors all the
time. I can’t remember an actual tick that
was attached, but I know I’d get bites.’”
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T
HERE HAS BEEN so little research
into alpha-gal allergy that scientists
can’t agree on exactly what stage
of the bite starts victims’ sensitization. It
is possible that a fragment of a previous
blood meal, from a mouse, bird, or deer,
lingers in a tick’s guts and works its way
up through its mouth and into its human
victim. It’s also possible that some still-
unidentified compound in tick saliva is
chemically close enough to alpha-gal to
produce the same effect.
The lone star tick is not the only culprit.
One aspect of its epidemiology is becoming
clear, though. The allergy isn’t caused only
by the lone star tick—nor did it begin in
the U.S.
In 1987, Dr. Sheryl van Nunen was con-
fronted with a puzzle. The head of the
allergy department at a regional hospital
outside Sydney, Van Nunen saw a patient
who kept waking up, in the middle of
the night, in the grip of some profound
reaction. The only potential allergen that
returned a positive result was meat. Then
a few more such patients came her way. By
2003, she had seen at least 70, all appar-
ently affected by meat they had eaten a few
hours before. “And invariably, these people
would say to me, ‘I haven’t been bitten by
a bee or a wasp, but I’ve had lots of tick
bites,” Van Nunen recalls.
Van Nunen wrote up a description of 25
meat-allergic patients whose reactions she
had confirmed with a skin-prick test. All
but two had had severe skin reactions to a
tick bite; more than half had suffered severe
anaphylaxis. That abstract formed the
basis of a talk she gave later that year to an
Australian medical association.
It took until 2009 for the Virginia group to
catch up to Van Nunen’s work, after they
had already published their first alert. The
crucial detail in Van Nunen’s research that
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Platts-Mills’ team didn’t know about wasn’t
just that her cases were earlier than the first
round of American ones. It was that they
were caused by bites from a different tick:
Ixodes holocyclus, called the paralysis tick.
Alpha-gal allergy was not just an odd
occurrence in one part of the U.S. It had
occurred in the opposite hemisphere, mak-
ing it possible that it was a global problem.
And so it has proved. Alpha-gal reactions
linked to tick bites have now been found
in the U.K., France, Spain, Germany, Italy,
Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Sweden,
Norway, Panama, Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, and
South Africa. These cases trace back to at
least six additional tick species.
Wherever ticks bite people—everywhere
other than the Arctic and Antarctic—alpha-
gal allergy has been recorded. In Belgium,
patients reacted badly to a drug produced
in rabbit cells. In the Italian Alps, men who
went hunting in the forests were more at
risk than women who stayed in their vil-
lage. In Germany, the most reactive food
was a traditional delicacy, pork kidneys. In
Sweden, it was moose.
Van Nunen herself has now seen more than
1,200 patients. “The next busiest clinic,
about 350,” she says. Those cases have all
occurred in two decades. As in America,
the surge leaves Van Nunen mystified as
to what the cause might be. She reasons
that the rise cannot be due to something in
her patients; neither genetic nor epigenetic
change could occur so quickly. “It has to be
environmental,” she says.
Last August, Commins gave a talk on
alpha-gal allergy at the International Con-
ference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, a
conference held every two or so years and
sponsored by the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention that often surfaces the
earliest signals of illnesses that are destined
to become big problems.
The CDC’s director of foodborne illness
was in the audience; so was its director
of vector-borne diseases, the department
that deals with ticks. Afterward, they both
zoomed up to ask him questions. “I kind
of had the impression this was just a weird,
small thing,” Dr. Lyle Petersen, the vector-
borne director, told him. “But this seems
like kind of a big deal.”
With the NIH and the CDC paying atten-
tion, research into alpha-gal might be reach-
ing a threshold at which isolated investiga-
tions coalesce into answers. For the patients,
those answers can’t come soon enough.
Adapted from an article that origi-
nally appeared in Mosaic (online at
MosaicScience.com).
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