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Editor’s letter
“Ride it out, baby. Play dead.” That’s the counsel Fortune’s
humor columnist, writing under the pen name Stanley Bing, once
gave to executives asked for a public apology. Just wait. “The
hungry badgers” sniffing around would soon find somewhere
else to go. The advice was presented in jest, but there was a seri-
ous undercurrent. In his day job, Bing (real name: Gil Schwartz)
was the longtime public relations chief for Les Moonves, head of
the CBS television network. For years, the advice worked. Now,
obviously, it doesn’t. This week Moonves resigned in disgrace,
pursued by new allegations of brutal sexual assaults, harassment,
and retaliation. In retrospect, it’s hard to believe that he tried to
hold on through the first round of charges, in July. What was it
that he thought he had to gain? There he stood, like a punch-
drunk boxer swaying on his heels and telling his foes to come at
him just one more time.
Until recently, Masters of the Universe never had to say they
were sorry. As anyone who’s been in a schoolyard knows, most
people defer to and even admire bullies. The key, titans like
Harvey Weinstein and Roger Ailes instinctively knew, is to main-
tain the illusion that you are invincible. No one will dare to
check if you really are. And even if they do, you can rely on the
belief that you’re just Too Big to Fail. But as the dominoes con-
tinue to fall, U.S. companies are discovering that morally rep-
rehensible executives, TV anchors, and other big stars are not
indispensable. When they leave, replacements will step in, the
gears will continue to turn, and the business will survive. All the
thousands of people who’ve kept it going will keep doing their
jobs. In fact, they’ll do them better, because they won’t have to
worry about being sexually harassed, demoted, pushed out, or
bullied by the boss. Mark Gimein
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The president faces
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own administration; who
deserves credit for the
booming economy?
6 Controversy of the week
Was Serena Williams
unfairly penalized for her
display of on-court anger?
7 The U.S. at a glance
Hurricane Florence bears
down on the Carolina
coast; a police shooting
sparks anger in Dallas
8 The world at a glance
Russia suspected of
attacks on U.S. diplomats;
China cracks down on
Muslims and Christians
10 People
Geoffrey Owens on
being job-shamed; Glenn
Close’s years in a cult
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Can Trump revive the
ailing coal industry?
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4 NEWS The main stories...
The White House hunt for the internal ‘Resistance’
What happened
White House officials this week franti-
cally sought to uncover the identity of
the anonymous administration official
behind an explosive op-ed in The New
York Times describing a secret “Re-
sistance” of senior officials working
internally to rein in President Trump.
The author, identified only as a senior
administration official, describes Trump
as “erratic,” “ill-informed,” “petty,”
“impulsive,” and “detrimental to the
health of our republic,” without mor-
als or principles. “Many of the senior
officials in his own administration are
working diligently from within to frus-
trate parts of his agenda and his worst
Clockwise: Huntsman, Pence, Pompeo, Mattis
inclinations,” the unnamed official
wrote. “There are adults in the room...trying to do what’s right
even when Donald Trump won’t.”
Trump reacted with fury, blasting the author as an “anonymous,
gutless coward” and calling on the Justice Department to launch
an investigation as a matter of “national security.” So far, more
than 25 administration officials have publicly denied writing the
op-ed, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo, and Defense Secretary James Mattis. Many of them
echoed Trump’s attacks on the author, with the president report-
edly keeping close tabs on which officials stepped forward to issue
denials and denounce the op-ed.
writer is to be believed, an unelected
cabal of White House advisers is work-
ing to undermine “the agenda that
Mr. Trump promised to accomplish if
he were elected.” The honorable and
democratic thing to do would have
been to resign and explain why. “The
United States is not a banana republic.”
Honestly, none of this is that shock-
ing, said the Chicago Tribune. We’ve
had enough behind-the-scenes reports
to know that White House staffers are
constantly trying “to keep the country
from running off the rails.” This feels
more like a “CYA memo.” When the
administration finally falls apart, this
official wants to be able to say, “See? I
told ya I tried to save the country.”
What the columnists said
“The obvious suspect” is Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to
Russia, said William Saletan in Slate.com. A moderate Republi-
can, he was never a true Trumpist, and the op-ed’s prose closely
matches Huntsman’s stated public views and verbal quirks. For ex-
ample, the phrase “Americans should know that there are adults in
the room,” matches a letter that Huntsman wrote to The Salt Lake
Tribune in July defending his decision to serve in the administra-
tion. He also is fond of the unusual words “malign,” “moorings,”
and “impetuous,” and of the slogan “Country first,” all of which
show up in the letter.

White House officials publicly ruled out Sen. Rand Paul’s sugges- It doesn’t matter who wrote the op-ed, said Jennifer Rubin in The
tion that they administer polygraph tests, but continued to hunt Washington Post. “The president, we are repeatedly told by people
for the author at Trump’s insistence. Officials reportedly narrowed close to him, is nonfunctioning, irrational, and unfit to such a de-
the list of suspects down to fewer than half a dozen people. In an gree that he’s not fulfilling his job in a meaningful way.” Congres-
interview with ABC News, Donald Trump Jr. said his father’s circle sional committees should summon senior administration officials
of trust is shrinking. “It’s a much smaller group than I would like it to testify to the president’s fitness on the record.
to be,” he said.
Anonymous has done the anti-Trump
What the editorials said What next? resistance no favors, said Rich Lowry
This is a “constitutional crisis,” said The New York Times’ gambit in publishing the in NationalReview.com. This stunt will
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The op- op-ed could backire “if the author is unmasked just make the president more paranoid
ed claims that President Trump is so and turns out to be a little-known person,” said and isolated, and play into the narrative
manifestly unfit for office that there David Bauder in the Associated Press. There are among his supporters that he’s being
were “whispers within the Cabinet approximately 700 “senior” positions in govern- stabbed in the back by the Deep State.
of invoking the 25th Amendment,” ment that require Senate conirmation. “This “Few things could be better calculated
which allows for the replacement of person could easily be someone most of us to bring out Trump’s worst instincts.”
an incapacitated president. The op-ed’s have never heard of and more junior than you’d
Anonymous, in fact, is more “enabler”
publication dovetails with this week’s than resistance, said Adam Serwer in
expect,” said Jennifer Palmieri, former com-
release of journalist Bob Woodward’s TheAtlantic.com. Like the rest of the
munications director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016
book Fear, which depicts White House GOP, the author hails accomplishments
presidential campaign. Don’t expect the Justice like tax cuts and increased military
staffers “literally snatching documents”
Department to ferret out the author’s identity, spending to justify covering for a
from Trump’s desk and ignoring his de-
said Natasha Bertrand in TheAtlantic.com. Bad- dangerous demagogue. At no point
mands for war plans against Syria and
North Korea, to prevent him from de- mouthing the boss may be a ireable offense. does the anonymous official describe
structive and dangerous acts. We know But the writer didn’t commit an “obvious crime” trying to stop the administration’s most
“more than enough to launch a serious that would justify opening an investigation. egregious abuses, such as family separa-
congressional inquiry into whether the “There is no classiied information here and no tion, the travel ban, and the botched
president is mentally incapacitated.” felony,” said John McLaughlin, a former acting hurricane response in Puerto Rico.
director of the CIA. “This is instead a problem of “The hands that enabled this will never
This is “nothing less than a coup,” said discipline and management in the White House.” be clean. Dishing to Woodward, or the
AP (4)

The Washington Times. If the op-ed Times, will not change that.”
Illustration by Fred Harper.
THE WEEK September 21, 2018 Cover photos from Newscom (2), Getty
 ... and how they were covered NEWS 5

Trump, Obama tussle for credit on economy

What happened
President Trump made the case this week
that he deserves sole credit for the strong
state of the economy, after former President
Barack Obama argued that the “economic
miracle” had in fact started on his watch.
In a speech launching his midterm cam-
paign blitz (see Talking Points), Obama
said he was amused to hear Republicans
talk about “how great the economy’s doing
right now,” because the monthly new jobs
numbers “are the same as they were in
2015 and 2016.” Trump quickly responded,
accusing his predecessor of “trying to take Blue-collar jobs are growing.
credit for this incredible thing that’s hap-
pening,” and dispatching Kevin Hassett—chairman of the Council
of Economic Advisers—to make his case in a White House press
briefing. Hassett said the current strength of the economy was not
“just a continuation of recent trends,” but that “a whole bunch of
data items”—including business optimism and investment—had
surged as soon as Trump was elected. Hassett did concede Trump
made a mistake when he tweeted, “The GDP Rate (4.2%) is higher 20 months are proof that “fiscal stimulus when the labor market is
than the Unemployment Rate (3.9%) for the first time in over 100
years!” The correct number is 10 years.
New data showed the economic recovery continuing to power
ahead. Worker payrolls expanded by 201,000 in August, accord-
ing to the Department of Labor—the 95th consecutive month of
job growth—and hourly wages went up by 2.9 percent. Blue-collar dropping nearly 14 percent in Obama’s last 18 months. Manu-
jobs are also expanding at their fastest rate since 1984, with the
mining, construction, and manufacturing industries growing at
3.3 percent in the year up to July. Service sector job growth has
remained at around 1.3 percent over the past year.
There’s another number you should
consider, said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
$890 billion. That is the projected federal
deficit for the year ending Sept. 30, “a level
not seen since the Great Recession.” Trump
blew “a massive hole” in the budget with
his $1.5 trillion tax cut and by signing a
monster $1.3 trillion spending bill. For the
sake of some short-term growth, the presi-
dent has burdened generations of Americans
with a massive debt.
What the columnists said
It pains me to admit it as a liberal, said
Matthew Yglesias in Vox.com, but Trump
deserves some credit for the economic boom. As late as 2016,
progressives were arguing that the economy was still suffering from
the recession and “would benefit from additional fiscal stimulus.”
Well, Trump did just that. Of course, I’d rather he’d spent trillions
of dollars addressing real social needs—clean energy initiatives,
free preschool—instead of a tax cut for rich people. But the past
short of full employment works.”
The people benefiting most from this economic surge are the blue-
collar workers in rural areas who were forgotten under Obama,
said Rich Lowry in NationalReview.com. Mining and logging
employment increased 9 percent in Trump’s first 18 months, after
facturing employment climbed 2 percent in the first 18 months of
Trump, but was flat the last 18 months under Obama. Thanks to
Trump’s pro-growth tax and deregulatory program, “the economic
recovery is really beginning to reach into Trump country.”

What the editorials said
The numbers don’t lie, said The Wall Street Journal. By taking an ax
to taxes and regulation, Trump has freed up valuable business capi-
tal, which firms are using to reward workers. “Economists who pre-
sided over the historically slow wage growth of the Obama years”
argue that this “is no big deal” because inflation is rising at the same
rate as hourly wages. But when bonuses and employee benefits are
added to the equation, post-tax wages have climbed an impressive
1.4 percent in real terms over the past year. That is a big deal.
Presidents get too much credit and too much blame for the
economy, said Michael Strain in Bloomberg.com. “Powerful global
forces,” such as advances in technology, or turmoil between na-
tions, have far more impact on the economy than any one presi-
dent’s policies. Trump’s short-term stimulus and tax reform should
increase investment, but his trade wars, attacks on international
institutions and immigration, and “comfort with crony capitalism”
could all leave lasting damage. My final words on how we should
judge the Trump economy? “It’s still too early.”

It wasn’t all bad
QMinutes after Kaylee Foster was
crowned homecoming queen,
Getty, David Seminatore, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
QA California pediatric nurse got a heartwarming surprise QAaron Allen and his sister, Jolisa
when she met her newest colleague—and discovered she’d Jones, were driving down a Florida
cared for him 28 years ago when he was a premature baby. highway when they saw an SUV
Vilma Wong, 54, was on shift at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Chil- crash into a pond after being

the Mississippi high school senior
traded her tiara for a football
helmet. For the past three years,
Foster has been a placekicker for
Ocean Springs High’s team. And
she proved to be the squad’s MVP
during the homecoming game last
week, kicking two field goals and
the winning extra point that led
Ocean Springs to a 13-12 victory. “I
was pretty sure I wasn’t going to be
homecoming queen,” Foster said,
“but I was pretty sure I was going
to make that kick.”
dren’s Hospital when she spotted a new doctor in the NICU sideswiped by a car. The siblings
where she has worked for 32 years. She introduced herself to jumped out of their delivery truck
neurologist Brandon Seminatore, and quickly realized he was and rushed to the overturned
the same Brandon SUV, finding a mom, a dad, and
she’d treated at the an 11-day-old baby trapped inside.
facility in 1980, when With water flooding the vehicle, the
he was born 13 weeks pair flipped the car onto its side,
early, weighing a mere and Allen wrapped his shirt around
2 pounds, 6 ounces. his hand and punched through the
“As a nurse,” she said windshield. The brother and sister
of meeting Semi- then pulled out the family, who re-
natore as a healthy markably had suffered no injuries.
adult, “it’s kind of like “Heaven sent,” dad Thomas Wind-
Wong and Seminatore: Then and now your reward.” sor said of his rescuers.

THE WEEK September 21, 2018

6 NEWS Controversy of the week
Serena Williams: Was she treated unfairly?
When male athletes like Michael Jordan, Tiger
Woods, Kobe Bryant, and John McEnroe
screamed at referees, taunted opponents, and
showed extreme emotion while competing,
said Kurt Bardella in USA Today, they were
celebrated for their warrior’s heart and
“intensity.” When Serena Williams lost
her cool at the 2018 U.S. Open tennis
final last weekend, she was repeatedly
penalized by umpire Carlos Ramos in
an act of “blatant sexism.” During Williams’ defeat by
Japan’s Naomi Osaka, 20, umpire Carlos Ramos cited
Williams for allegedly receiving hand signals from her
coach in the stands. When Williams later smashed
Bawling out Ramos
her racket after losing a game, Ramos docked her
a point and Williams “understandably lost it.” She called Ramos
“a thief” and asked him to apologize for his earlier accusation of
cheating. Ramos “wasn’t going to let a woman talk to him that
way,” said Sally Jenkins in The Washington Post. Rather than de-
escalate the situation, he penalized Williams a whole game, mak-
ing the score 5-3 and effectively handing the title to Osaka. What
a pity that a new star’s first grand-slam title, and one of “Williams’ Perhaps so, said Ben Rothenberg in The New York Times, but it’s
last bids for all-time greatness,” were both ruined because a man
in authority “couldn’t take a woman speaking sharply to him.”
Ramos did his job and did it well, said Bre Payton in TheFederalist one full disqualification at the Australia Open. At this year’s U.S.
.com. After the match, Williams’ coach admitted sending signals
from the stands. As for Williams smashing her racket, that’s an
automatic penalty in tennis, and so is questioning the officials’
honesty. “Serena Williams isn’t a victim of anything except being
Serena Williams,” said Jonathan Last in WeeklyStandard.com.
Her career lowlights include telling a lineswoman that she would
“take this f---ing ball and shove it down your f---ing throat”
and threatening a female umpire by saying, “If
you ever see me walking down the hall, walk the
other way.” Worse, these outbursts have often
occurred when Williams is losing to a player she’s
supposed to beat. That’s the behavior not of a
strong woman but of “a bully trying to build an
alibi for herself.”
Still, there’s no doubt that tennis has a double
standard, said Alex Abad-Santos in Vox.com. In
this very same Open, male player John Isner had
a total tantrum after losing a game, destroyed his
racket, and looked over at his coach. “He was
only assessed a verbal warning.” The double
standard extends beyond sport, said Rebecca
Traister in NYMag.com. Across our society,
women’s rage “is automatically understood as a threat” to male
authority, “a form of defiance that must be quashed”—especially if
it comes from a woman of color. The “one thing black women are
never allowed to be without consequence is livid.”
just not true that male tennis players routinely get away with bad
behavior. That “infamous brat” McEnroe actually was assessed
dozens of point and game penalties in his long career, including
Open, there were 23 code-violation fines levied against men, but
only nine against women. Smashing rackets and abusing officials
is “behavior that no one should be engaging in on the court,”
said Martina Navratilova, also in the Times. We do need to look
at issues of gender equality in tennis, but that doesn’t absolve any
player of the duty to “honor our sport and to respect our oppo-
nents.” That’s what “Serena got wrong.”

Good week for:

Only in America
QA Cincinnati police officer
has been placed on restricted
duty after using his Taser on
an 11-year-old girl. The child,
who is black, had alleg-
edly shoplifted $53 worth of
merchandise from a grocery
store, and bodycam footage
shows Officer Kevin Brown,
who is white, telling her after
Tasing and handcuffing her,
“This is why there aren’t any
grocery stores in the black
community.”
QA Utah woman is suing
Tesla for $300,000, claiming
her car should have stopped
her from crashing into a
stationary fire engine. Heather
Lommatzsch admits looking
at her smartphone before the
crash, but says Tesla told her
that in autopilot mode the car
would automatically brake
if it detected an imminent
collision. Tesla says users are
advised to “pay attention to
Preventive policing, after a British police department asked citi-
A second summit with
North Korea?
zens to file official reports of “noncrime hate incidents,” including
The White House said this
any “offensive or insulting comments” that might lead to crimes. week it has opened negotia-
Complex harmony, with the revelation by Beatles legend Sir tions with North Korea for a
Paul McCartney that he and John Lennon once masturbated new summit meeting between
together while yelling “Brigitte Bardot!” “It was a one-off,” President Trump and North
McCartney said. “Or maybe it was like a two-off.” Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The softening comes after a
Amazing coincidences, after novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, letter the administration de-
68, who wrote two novels about escaping awful husbands and scribed as “warm” and “very
an essay titled “How to murder your husband,” was charged in positive.” North Korea also
Portland, Ore., with murdering her husband. conspicuously skipped show-
ing off long-range missiles
Bad week for: in its annual military parade.
Immortality, after Kurt Pilgeram of California sued Alcor Life While the White House called
Extension Foundation for $1 million, saying that the company the June Trump-Kim sum-
promised to cryogenically preserve his late father at death, but mit in Singapore a success,
froze only his severed head. “There is little, if any, hope of bringing progress on denuclearization
his head ‘back to life’ under the circumstances here,” Pilgeram said. has stalled, and President
Trump abruptly canceled the
Domino’s, which promised 100 free pizzas a year for life to any secretary of state’s fourth trip
Russian who tattooed the chain’s red-and-blue logo on a visible to North Korea. The White
part of the body. So many Russians rushed out to get tattoos that House maintains that conces-
Domino’s cut off the promotion after the first 350 customers. sions should come from Kim.
Having to go, after a flushed diaper on an American Airlines National security adviser John
Bolton said, “President Trump
flight caused all the plane’s toilets to overflow, forcing passengers can’t make the North Koreans
to relieve themselves into plastic bags and bottles for nearly six
walk through the door he’s
hours. “What do you mean I have to pee in a bag?” a video shows
Reuters

the road at all times.” holding open.”

one indignant passenger asking a flight attendant.
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 The U.S. at a glance ...
Billings, Mont.
Booted: A high school senior whose face
screamed skepticism at a Trump rally last
week was kicked out midway through the
event—though
“#plaidshirt
guy” had
already
become an
internet
meme. The
student,
#plaidshirtguy 17-year-old
Tyler Linfesty, had secured a spot behind
the president, and viewers couldn’t help
but notice as he raised his eyebrows
and dropped his jaw while Trump made
claims like “We have the best economy in
history” and “Unemployment is at record
lows.” Linfesty, who put on a Democratic
Socialists of America sticker during the
speech, says he was questioned by the
Secret Service and told not to come to
Trump rallies. “I wasn’t planning
on trolling him or protesting,”
Linfesty said. “When I heard
something that I disagreed with,
I visibly disagreed.” Though the
crowd in his area was urged to
cheer enthusiastically, Linfesty
explained, “I’m not going to
pretend to support something I
don’t support.”
Dallas
Police officer charged:
A police officer was
charged with man-
slaughter this week after
she fatally shot a man
in his own apartment,
sparking citywide pro-
tests. The officer, Amber
Guyger, 30, was off
Officer Guyger
duty when she returned
to her apartment complex at 10 p.m.
She claims to have mistaken 26-year-old
Botham Jean’s unit for her own. Guyger
says the front door was ajar, leading her
to believe Jean was a burglar. Guyger
told investigators that when Jean ignored
her commands she shot him in the chest,
only realizing she was in the wrong
apartment after turning on the lights.
Jean’s family lawyer cites witnesses who,
before the gunshots, “heard the officer
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knocking at the door and repeatedly say-
ing, ‘Let me in.’” Prosecutors said Guyger
could still face stiffer charges. This deadly
encounter between a white officer and
a black man fueled tension in a county
where just last month a white officer was
convicted of murdering Jordan Edwards,
a black teenager.
Shanksville, Pa.
Sept. 11 tributes: The nearly 3,000
Americans who perished in the 2001
attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon were honored at an array of
ceremonies this week. President Trump
attended a ceremony on a rural field in
Pennsylvania, where 40 passengers and
crew members on United Airlines Flight
93 brought down a fourth hijacked
airplane targeting the Capitol building.
“A piece of America’s heart is buried
on these grounds,” said Trump, the first
president to visit the crash site. “But
in its place has grown a new resolve to
live our lives with the same grace and
courage as the heroes of Flight 93.”
Vice President Mike Pence and Defense
Secretary James Mattis led a ceremony at
the Pentagon, while police officers gath-
ered at a Midtown Manhattan precinct
to read aloud the names of colleagues
who died in the rescue effort.
Washington, D.C.
Palestinian office to close: The Trump
administration announced this week that
it will shut the Washington office of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization. It’s
the latest step to pressure the Palestinians
into negotiations for a new Middle East
peace plan. A State Department spokes-
person said the closure was justified
because the PLO has resisted negotiations
with Israel and “refused to engage with
the U.S. government with respect to peace
efforts.” In response, Saeb Erekat, the
Palestinians’ chief negotiator, said, “This
dangerous escalation shows that the U.S.
is willing to disband the international
system in order to protect Israeli crimes.”
Although the Trump administration often
cites its plans for an Arab-Israeli “deal of
the century,” U.S. officials have offered
few insights as to what that might entail.
President Trump has eliminated hundreds
of millions of dollars of aid to Palestinian
refugees and the Palestinian Authority.
NEWS 7
Alexandria, Va.
Staying in jail: A fed-
eral judge this week
ordered alleged Russian
spy Maria Butina to
remain in custody pend-
ing her trial, saying
she presents a serious
flight risk. The order
followed a request from
Butina’s lawyers that
Butina: Flight risk
the 29-year-old, who’s
accused of infiltrating the National
Rifle Association and other conservative
circles on behalf of Moscow, be released
on bail and placed under house arrest.
Instead, the judge imposed a gag order
and rebuked Butina’s counsel for giving
a series of media interviews. The judge
also slammed prosecutors, who had
claimed that Butina’s emails suggested
she had traded sex for access—an asser-
tion picked up across national news
outlets. “It took me approximately
five minutes to read those emails
and tell that they were jokes,”
the judge said.
North
Carolina,
South
Carolina
Gathering storm
Hurricane
havoc: The National Weather Service
warned of a “storm of a lifetime” for
the coast of the Carolina, as 1.5 million
people fled Hurricane Florence. As The
Week went to press, the Category 4 storm
shifted southward as it approached the
coast, increasing the storm’s likely severity
in South Carolina and parts of Georgia.
The National Hurricane Center predicted
tsunami-like ocean levels with waves
higher than 80 feet, “life-threatening
freshwater flooding” from 30-plus inches
of rain, and “damaging hurricane-force
winds” that could reach 145 mph.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster
said he expected the storm to be worse
than 1989’s Hurricane Hugo, which
made landfall near Charleston, S.C., and
caused 21 deaths on the U.S. mainland.
While President Trump said the U.S.
was ready for the hurricane, the director
of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency said power in the region could
be knocked out for weeks, and a som-
ber North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper
announced, “Disaster is at the doorstep.”
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
8 NEWS The world at a glance ...
Ottawa Strasbourg, France
No toking on duty: With the EU vs. Orban: The European Parliament voted this
recreational use of marijuana week to punish Hungary for cracking down on
becoming legal across Canada on democratic institutions, kick-starting a process
Oct. 17, the Canadian military has that could ultimately lead to the country being
announced tight new weed restric- stripped of its voting rights in the European Union.
tions for service members. Certain It is the first time the parliament has launched a dis-
personnel—including pilots, sub- ciplinary process against an EU member nation—the
Orban
mariners, and flight surgeons—will leaders of member states will now have to approve
Don’t puff when on parade be completely banned from using any punitive measures. The vote was a sign of the increasing dis-
marijuana 28 days before reporting for duty. For all other troops, quiet in the bloc with the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister
no use is allowed for eight hours before normal duty; for those Viktor Orban, who since taking power in 2010 has targeted oppo-
handling weapons, the restriction is 24 hours. By contrast, sol- sition media outlets, undermined the judiciary’s autonomy, and
diers must refrain from drinking alcohol for only six hours before banned NGOs from aiding migrants. Orban called the threat of
going on duty. Marijuana will not be allowed on military aircraft censure a form of “blackmail” and an insult to Hungary.
or ships, or among troops deployed abroad. The new rules, said
Chief of Military Personnel Lt. Gen. Chuck Lamarre, “will ensure
that our men and women are ready at all times.”
Havana
Russia targeted diplomats? U.S. intelligence agencies believe
that Russia is behind the mysterious attacks that left dozens of
American diplomats in Cuba and China with concussion-like
brain injuries, NBC News reported this week. That suspicion is
supported by intercepted communications, U.S. officials said, but
there is not yet enough evidence to formally accuse Moscow. The
attacks began in 2016, when government workers in Havana
complained of hearing strange sounds and suffering headaches.
U.S. scientists suspect a microwave weapon could be responsible,
and the Pentagon is trying to reverse engineer the device. “If
the NBC News reports are true, this is a direct attack by Russia
against the United States,” said Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.). He
called for designating Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

San Salvador, El Salvador

U.S. withdraws ambassadors: The U.S. this week tem-
porarily recalled its top diplomats from El Salvador, the
Dominican Republic, and Panama over those countries’
recent decision to no longer recognize Taiwan. With
investment in Latin America by U.S. companies and the
U.S. government falling, the three nations are looking to
China—which considers the island of Taiwan part of its
territory—to fund vital infrastructure and energy proj- Closing Taiwan’s embassy
ects. “You left some space and the other guy moved in,” a Latin
American diplomat told McClatchyDC.com. “The region will
work first with the people who bring the money.” Taiwan is an
important U.S. ally, although the U.S. does not officially recognize
it as independent.

Caracas Dirkou, Niger

U.S. plotted coup: Trump administration officials held secret talks
last year with dissident Venezuelan military officials seeking to
overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. U.S. officials and
a former Venezuelan commander told The New York
Times that the rebels met multiple times with U.S. offi-
cials before the administration decided against helping
the plotters, who abandoned their plan. One dissident
officer said the rebels were encouraged to reach out
to the U.S. after President Trump announced, in
New drone base: The CIA is set
to launch secret drone strikes
on Islamist militants in southern
Libya from a newly expanded air base in
northeastern Niger, The New York Times
reported this week. Former President Back in business
Barack Obama scaled back CIA drone
operations late in his presidency and sought to place them under
the control of the military, following a series of strikes in Pakistan,
Getty, Reuters, Getty, Newscom, AP

August 2017, that the U.S. had a “military option”
for Venezuela. Maduro condemned the plots as
“American imperialism” but added that he had
survived multiple coup attempts, proving he was
“invincible, invulnerable.” More than 2 million
Venezuelans have fled the country in recent years
Maduro as its economy collapsed.
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
Yemen, and elsewhere that killed numerous civilians, stirring local
outrage. But President Trump has restored the CIA’s authority to
aggressively target al Qaida– and ISIS-affiliated militants in Africa.
U.S. and Nigerien officials say surveillance missions have already
been launched from the base. An official said the expansion of the
Dirkou base was partly a response to an ambush by jihadists last
fall in another part of Niger that killed four U.S. troops.
 The world at a glance ... NEWS 9
St. Petersburg, Russia Urumqi, China
Beating protesters: Russian police Religious repression: U.S. lawmakers
arrested more than 1,000 people this are calling for sanctions on China over
week after demonstrators took to the its repression of the country’s Uighur
streets of St. Petersburg and other Muslim minority. At least 1 million of
cities to protest President Vladimir China’s 11 million Uighurs—who mostly
Putin’s plan to hike the retirement age. live in the western province of Xinjiang—
Footage of the rallies showed offi- are being held in concentration camps for
cers pummeling demonstrators with “re-education.” The detained Uighurs, Propaganda in Xinjiang
Police arrest a demonstrator.
batons and dragging away children. former inmates report, are forced to
Putin’s spokesman said that the protests were unauthorized and renounce Islam, sing communist songs, and chant “Long live Xi
police acted lawfully. The government plan would raise the age for Jinping,” China’s president. Their children are placed in orphanages
collecting state pensions by five years, to 65 for men and 60 for and indoctrinated to despise their parents and their Uighur culture.
women. In Russia, the average life expectancy is 66 for men and Those not in the camps are monitored under an intrusive, high-tech
77 for women. The proposal has caused a sharp drop in support surveillance system that uses facial recognition. China is also con-
for Putin, with 46 percent of Russians saying they’d vote for him if ducting a crackdown on Christianity, destroying crosses, burning
elections were held today, down from 62 percent in June. bibles, and shutting churches in Beijing and beyond.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Border opens: Ethiopians and Eritreans celebrated this week
after the border between their two countries was opened for the
first time in 20 years. The resumption of trade and travel is the
Newscom (2), Getty, Bryan Denton/The New York Times/Redux, Getty
Idlib, Syria
Millions trapped: The United Nations is warning of a humanitar-
ian catastrophe in northern Syria as the army of dictator Bashar al-
Assad and its Russian and Iranian allies prepare an all-out assault
on the last rebel stronghold, Idlib Province. Some 3 million people
are trapped in Idlib. Russian and Syrian
forces are pounding the province, which is
controlled by the al Qaida–linked Nusra
Front and the Turkish-supported Free
Syrian Army rebels, with airstrikes and
artillery. U.N. Secretary-General António
Guterres implored all parties to avoid a
full battle, which he said “would unleash a
humanitarian nightmare unlike any seen in
A refugee camp
the blood-soaked Syrian conflict.”
Cairo
Mass trial: Egypt has sentenced 75 people to death and another
600 to prison for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in protest that was
brutally broken up by security forces. The Cairo protest was orga-
nized by supporters of democratically elected President Mohammed
Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, after he was toppled
by a military coup. At least 817 people were killed when security
forces opened fire on demonstrators in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.
Those on trial, though, weren’t the police—who have immunity for
any abuses they may have committed—but the survivors, who were
accused of crimes ranging from property damage to murder. The
verdict, said Amnesty International, was “a grotesque parody of
justice.” Among those sentenced to death were Brotherhood leaders
Essam el-Erian and Mohamed Beltagi; the Brotherhood’s spiritual
leader, Mohamed Badie, was given a life sentence.
Pandharkawada, India
Man-eating tiger: India’s top court has issued a rare shoot-to-kill

most significant step in the reconciliation process that began in
July, when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean
President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace agreement. The border was
shut at the beginning of the 1998–2000 Ethiopian-Eritrean war, a
conflict that separated families and trapped travelers on the wrong
side of the border. “It’s a wonderful day,” said one Ethiopian at a
newly opened border crossing. “I came
here to meet my relatives who I haven’t
seen for 20 years.” The path to peace
was made possible by Ethiopia’s Abiy,
who announced that he intended to
end decades of conflict and tension
with Eritrea just weeks after taking
Reunited after decades apart office in April.
authorization for a tigress that officials say has killed 13 people
over the past two years—three of them in August alone. India’s
roughly 2,230 endangered tigers are strictly protected, and environ-
mentalists had protested the decision to kill the man-eater, sending
the case to the Supreme Court. But
justices this week sided with authori-
ties in the state of Maharashtra. Indian
conservationist Ajay Dubey said the
tiger attacks were likely a consequence
of forests being destroyed to make
space for farm land. “Tigers aren’t
encroaching on human habitats,” he
said, “it’s human beings who are con-
tinuously coming in.” Hunting the tigress

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10 NEWS People
Close’s childhood in a cult
Glenn Close had an unconventional upbringing,
says Gabrielle Donnelly in The Daily Mail (U.K.).
Her father was absent for much of her early
life, working as a doctor in the war-torn Belgian
Congo. Her mother would join him for extended
visits, leaving Close and her siblings in the U.S., in
the care of grandparents. Then, when Close was
7 years old, the family suddenly moved to the
headquarters of the Moral Re-Armament movement in Switzerland—
an experience that proved the stuff of nightmares. “It was a cult-like
group where everybody is supposed to say the same things and act
in the same way,” says the actress, now 71. “It was devastating
to a child, because at a time when you’re trying to figure out who
you are, you’re being told who you’re supposed to be. By the time I
was able to break away from it, I didn’t trust my instincts, because
I thought they had all been dictated to me.” In the 1960s, she sang
with the cult-linked, clean-cut group Up With People and married
two MRA members in succession—the first in “a kind of arranged
marriage.” But at age 22 she went to study drama at the College of
William & Mary in Virginia, and at last felt free. “I walked into the
theater department,” she says, “and became someone else.”

Reunited with the father he already knew

When Deland McCullough discovered the identity of his biological
father, said Sarah Spain in ESPN.com, he felt as if he might pass
out. The Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach always knew
he was adopted, but it was only last year—at age 44—that he
began looking for his birth parents. Records led him to his birth
mother, Carol Briggs, who told him that she’d become pregnant
at 16 after a fling with a young man bound for college. That
man was Sherman Smith, who would go on to become a football
coach at Miami University of Ohio. As it happens, Smith recruited
McCullough for his team, though neither knew they were father
and son. In college, McCullough says, other players often joked,
“‘Man, you and Coach Smith look alike.’” When he learned his
birth father’s identity, “A sense of pride went through me, like,
‘Wow, that explains these things.’” But when McCullough phoned
Smith and told him he was his dad, Smith was stunned. Briggs
had never told Smith she was pregnant, and now he suddenly
had a grown-up son. After a paternity test came back positive,
McCullough traveled to Smith’s home in Nashville, where the old
coach greeted McCullough with open arms and the words “My
son.” “Now I know who I am and where I’m from,” McCullough
says. “I got all of the pieces to the story. I got them all now.”
A Cosby alum’s work ethic
Geoffrey Owens wants people to take pride in their work, said
Christina Dugan in People.com. Best known for playing Elvin
Tibideaux on The Cosby Show, the 57-year-old actor was thrown
into the spotlight last week after photos of him working at a Trader
Joe’s in New Jersey appeared on tabloid news sites. The outlets
appeared to be gleeful about a former TV star being reduced to man-
ning a cash register. “It really hurt,” he says. “The words they used to
describe me were so demeaning.” Owens took the part-time job last
year because he was struggling to cover the bills by teaching acting
classes and taking small TV roles. When the story broke, he immedi-
ately texted an apology to his 19-year-old son, who was away at col-
lege. “I knew his classmates would see it and he’d be humiliated.”
But celebrities such as Terry Crews and Halle Berry quickly leaped
to Owens’ defense on social media, condemning what they saw
as job shaming and sharing stories of how they’d also worked side
gigs during low periods in their careers. The outpouring of support,
he says, was “really overwhelming.” He hopes his viral moment will
help spark “a re-evaluation of what it means to work. There is no job
that’s better than another job. Every job is worthwhile.”

QJudith Nathan Giuliani is shopping a tell-
all memoir about her soon-to-be-
ex–husband, Rudy, the New York
Post reports. The book won’t detail
“salacious” scenes about their af-
fair and subsequent marriage,
a source told the newspaper,
but “that doesn’t mean she
isn’t picking up the poison
pen.” Judith filed for divorce
in April shortly after accus-
ing Rudy of cheating, which he
adamantly denies, and they’re
now fighting over an estimated
$45 million in assets. Judith’s book
recent work as lawyer for President Trump.
Based on her experience “as a spouse and
a nurse,” Judith says, Giuliani “is absolutely
not the man he was when I married him.”
QRoy Moore is suing Sacha Baron Cohen for
$95 million after the comedian duped him
into appearing in a prank interview in which
he mocked Moore for being an alleged pe-
dophile. Moore, 71, sued Cohen, Showtime,
and CBS over an episode of Who Is America?
that aired in July. The Alabama Republican’s
Senate campaign was derailed last year after
six women accused Moore of making sexual
advances when they were teenagers and he
was a prosecutor in his 30s. For his TV show,
Cohen invited Moore to fly to Washington,
D.C., to receive an award as a supporter of
have a wand that could identify pedophiles.
The wand beeped as Cohen waved it over
Moore, who finally stalked out. Moore’s law-
suit claims he “suffered extreme emotional
distress” as a result of being tricked.
QGerard Depardieu was spotted this week
at a military parade in Pyongyang, just
weeks after the acclaimed French actor was
accused of raping a 22-year-old actress.
Depardieu, 69, wore sunglasses and a hat to
the event, which honored the 70th anniver-
sary of North Korea’s founding. It had been
revealed only a few days earlier that French
prosecutors are investigating allegations
that Depardieu twice sexually assaulted the
actress at his Paris mansion. Depardieu, who
denies the charges, is close with the actress’
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will focus on the collapse of Israel. Posing as an Israeli counterterror- father and had “taken her under his wing,” a
Rudy’s political career and his ism agent, a disguised Cohen claimed to source told The Daily Telegraph (U.K.).

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 Briefing NEWS 11

The decline of the coal industry

President Trump has promised to revive coal’s flagging fortunes. Is it possible?

How big is the coal industry? which aimed to cut carbon emissions
Coal represents just a sliver of the from power plants by 30 percent
American economy. At its peak, in by 2030. The White House has also
1923, coal employed 883,000 work- eased restrictions on the dumping of
ers. Today, about 53,000 people toxic coal ash in streams and water-
work in coal mining—less than the ways, lifted a moratorium on new
number of people who work at nail coal leases on federal land, and killed
salons, bowling alleys, or Arby’s. The a federal study on the health impacts
decline of coal has been precipitous: of mountaintop-removal coal mining.
In 2010, the U.S. had 580 coal-fired It has reportedly proposed lifting a
power plants providing 45 percent requirement that coal plants install
of the nation’s electricity generation. equipment reducing toxic mercury
Today, there are fewer than 350 emissions. “We have ended the war
coal plants responsible for about on beautiful, clean coal,” Trump
30 percent of the country’s electric- declared during his first State of the
ity. Nevertheless, coal continues to Union Address, in 2018.
A coal worker at a mine in Virginia
have an outsize environmental and
political impact. Coal is the country’s leading source of carbon Are coal jobs coming back now?
emissions that contribute to climate change. The American Lung Not really. Only about 1,300 new coal jobs have been created dur-
Association believes that the effects of coal pollution kill about ing Trump’s presidency so far, and Trump’s efforts haven’t reversed
7,500 Americans every year. Burning coal releases fine particulates the long-term problems facing the industry. Even after the rollback
into the air—tiny particles and liquid droplets of toxic substances of the Clean Power Plan, the White House expects the percent-
such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, lead, and other age of energy generated by coal to decline by 20 percent between
heavy metals. Inhaled, they contribute to respiratory conditions now and 2030. Thirty-six coal-fired plants have been retired since
like asthma, heart problems, and cancer. These same airborne Trump was elected, and 30 more have announced they will close.
pollutants also settle in the oceans, which is why coal is a leading
contributor of toxic mercury in seafood. “There’s no reason to Why the obsession with coal?
think the fortunes of the coal industry are going to change any- The electoral map. For most of the 20th century, the Democrats’
time in the future,” said Noah Kaufman of Columbia University. alignment with labor unions such as the United Mine Workers
“Coal is an industry in decline.” helped them reliably win in the coal country of Appalachia. But
the party’s embrace of environmentalism—as well as its deepening
Is that solely because of environmental reasons? culture divide with white, rural Americans—has put coal states
There are economic reasons, too. Demand for coal has plum- such as West Virginia and Pennsylvania in play. Coal also remains
meted over the past decade amid a flood of cheap natural gas a powerful cultural totem: The image of the hardworking coal
from the U.S. fracking boom and advances in wind and solar miner ranks with the cowboy as an icon of American masculin-
energy. American coal production ity. Marybeth Beller, a political sci-
dropped 27 percent between 2011 and What coal miners make ence professor with West Virginia’s
2016, with the combined value of the Coal has a reputation for generating well-paid Marshall University, says past elections
country’s four biggest coal companies jobs that don’t require a college education. show that many voters “support can-
falling from $33 billion to $150 mil- The average coal miner under a United Mine didates who demonstrate support for
lion. Nonetheless, the promise of coal Workers of America contract makes at least the coal industry, whether or not that
jobs remains potent in states like West $61,650 a year—usually closer to $85,000 a year support actually increases jobs.”
Virginia, which has been devastated with overtime. But just 2.5 percent of coal min-
by the coal bust. President Trump ing jobs were unionized in 2016, down from Can coal jobs be replaced?
made revitalizing the industry a center- 40 percent two decades ago. Many coal work- There are efforts underway to retrain
piece of his 2016 campaign, blaming ers now hold temporary jobs that offer few coal workers for jobs in renewable
Obama administration environmental benefits. The New York Times reported last year energy or other industries. More than
regulations for killing coal jobs. that an underground-mine coal miner’s job in 260,000 Americans already work in
Waynesburg, Pa., was being advertised at $17 the solar power industry, which has
What has Trump done? an hour, or less than $35,000 a year. Miners also nearly tripled in size since 2010. The
True to his word, President Trump face increased risk for black lung disease, a totally plains of Wyoming, the nation’s largest
disabling condition. Cases of black lung have coal producer, are seen as a natural fit
has tried to use federal power to
been growing since 2000, although researchers
revive the coal industry. Many of the for the burgeoning wind power indus-
aren’t sure why. As many as 1 in 5 miners show
White House’s actions closely mir- try. Many renewable-energy companies
evidence of black lung, according to a recent
ror a policy wish list submitted early federal study, the highest level recorded in 25 even pay for retraining. But miners
in the administration by coal tycoon years. “I feel like I gave them the best part of my have largely rejected the idea, bet-
Robert Murray, who contributed life, and they paid me—guess the way it was sup- ting that coal will be revived. “I think
$300,000 to Trump’s inauguration. posed to be,” said Bob Cox in Beaver Dam, Ky., there’s a coal comeback,” said 33-year-
That includes withdrawing from the who has early-stage black lung. “But in the end, it old Mike Sylvester, son of a coal miner
Paris climate change agreement and didn’t turn out in my favor.” in western Pennsylvania. “I have a lot
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scrapping Obama’s Clean Power Plan, of faith in President Trump.”

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12 NEWS Best columns: The U.S.
Attacking Republicans are hell-bent on killing the Affordable Care Act, said
Helaine Olen, but their stubborn assault on this increasingly popular It must be true...
Obamacare law is “the definition of a political suicide mission.” Even as Repub-
licans struggle to fight back a “blue wave” in the midterm elections,
I read it in the tabloids
will backfire 20 Republican-controlled states are charging ahead with a legal chal-
lenge to Obamacare—including its provision that health insurers cover
QA Chinese kindergarten
principal hired a scantily
Helaine Olen people with pre-existing conditions. Polls show that three out of four clad pole dancer to liven up
The Washington Post Americans believe it’s “very important” that protection for pre-existing a back-to-school ceremony,
conditions remain in place. Meanwhile, “support for broader health- angering hundreds of
insurance reform is surging.” Medicare for All, written off just a couple astonished parents. The
of years ago as a socialist fantasy, is now supported by a majority of parents, attending the event
Americans—including a majority of Republicans. Why? The GOP vow with their 5-year-old children
to eliminate Obamacare was an effective campaign strategy until Presi- on the first day of school,
watched openmouthed as
dent Trump took office. Suddenly, repealing a program that extends
the dancer—wearing black
health coverage to millions of Americans was “no longer theoretical”— hot pants, a skimpy top, and
and support for the law skyrocketed. By persisting with its kamikaze heels—began to shimmy
mission to destroy Obamacare through the courts, the GOP is giving up and down a flagpole in
Democrats a gift. “Even if Republicans win’’ their lawsuit, “they lose.” the kindergarten’s courtyard
to a soundtrack of thump-
ing dance music. Cellphone
Another “You’d think the lesson would sink in by now,” said John Fund. Politi-
cal elites in both Europe and the U.S. continue to dismiss “deplorables”
videos showed several boys
in the audience copying her
immigration who object to a massive influx of immigrants, but those voters “are
going to have their say.” Sweden is the latest country to pay the price for
moves. Inundated with com-
plaints, principal Lai Rong
backlash refusing to “grapple with the legitimate sentiments of working-class vot-
ers.” This week’s elections saw the right-wing populist Sweden Demo-
defended pole dancing as
“good exercise,” but officials
John Fund crats (SD) take 18 percent of the vote—enough to deny a governing ma- quickly fired her.
NationalReview.com jority to the traditional left- and right-wing parties. The SD’s base is pri- QA fishmonger
marily concerned with “the poor assimilation of migrants to Sweden.” in Kuwait has
Liberal Sweden, with just 10 million citizens, proudly took in 165,000 been shut down
asylum seekers in one year. Many of these mostly Muslim immigrants after the market
have struggled to find work or adapt to Swedish culture, resulting in was caught
insular neighborhoods where crime and gangs are rampant and many sticking plastic
newcomers depend wholly on generous welfare programs. By making it googly eyes on
“forbidden” to even discuss this, Sweden’s establishment fueled the Swe- its fish to make
den Democrats’ rise—the same pattern that led to Brexit and President them appear
Trump’s election. When millions of voters believe their leaders “aren’t fresher than they actually
telling the truth” about sensitive issues, backlashes are inevitable. were. The ruse was exposed
by an angry customer, who
filmed herself cleaning a
When Korean War veteran Floyd Carrier, 86, tried to vote in Texas sev- just-bought fish, causing a
The strategy eral years ago, he handed his Department of Veteran Affairs card to the googly eye to slip off and
reveal the cloudy, yellow fish
behind registrar—and was turned away, said Carol Anderson. He’d used that
ID for more than 50 years, but Texas had passed a law that required eye beneath. Police quickly
shut down the fishmonger,
voter ID laws voters to show a state-approved ID with photo, and he didn’t have one.
“I wasn’t a citizen no more,” Carrier said. Denying people like Carrier and a rival fish market took
advantage of the scandal,
Carol Anderson the right to vote “has been a central electoral strategy for Republicans,”
announcing on social media
The New York Times as they use voter ID laws to screen out blacks, Hispanics, the poor, and that it only sold fish “without
the young. Multiple studies have proven that “there is no epidemic of cosmetic surgery.”
illegal voting,” and that, in fact, it is vanishingly rare. But Republicans
QA Virginia man erected
fear that the country’s changing demographics will doom them. So they
an electric fence around his
have created a concerted strategy to “block people of color from the
lawn in a bid to keep kids
ballot box.” In 2000, strenuous Republican efforts to purge voter rolls waiting for the school bus off
of blacks and interfere with the Florida recount led to George W. Bush’s his grass. Bryan Tucker said
victory by 537 votes. That victory taught Republicans to “lie without the children routinely strayed
shame” about voter fraud, and to relentlessly pursue purges and laws into his yard despite his “No
designed to turn certain citizens into nonentities. Trespassing” signs. So on the
first day of school last week,
he installed an electric fence
Viewpoint “The demise of neutrality lies behind the dominant political problems of our
to shock the kids into respect-
age. The inability to marshal a national consensus even on basic facts—like the
Russian efforts to disrupt our elections—has prevented us from taking steps to secure our democracy ing his property rights. Tucker
and left many fearful about the soundness of our system. Without trust in the government and other took down the fence after of-
Screenshot: @bayan_kw

neutral bodies to provide reliable information, we risk losing one of our democracy’s greatest virtues: ficials determined it violated
the ability to wage our debates freely and contentiously while knowing that ultimately most of us will codes, but he was glad he’d
accept the resolutions as legitimate. Without such acceptance, self-government becomes like a trial put it up. “The message,” he
without a judge, a boxing match without a referee.” David Greenberg in Politico.com said, “has gotten across.”

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14 NEWS Best columns: Europe
Britain is being led by a “government of the talent-
UNITED KINGDOM less,” said Marina Hyde. Just look at Karen Brad-
ley. As secretary of state for Northern Ireland, she
Adrift is the cabinet minister “with operational responsi-
bility for arguably the most highly sensitive region
without of the U.K.” Yet Bradley, 48, cheerfully gave an in-
terview last week in which she admitted that when
leadership she was appointed in January, she didn’t know the
first thing about the sectarian and political divide
Marina Hyde
that has dominated politics in the province for
The Guardian
decades. She had no idea, she said, that “national-
ists don’t vote for unionist parties and vice versa.”
This is upsetting on multiple levels. It’s not just “the
initial imbecility of having no clue” how to do your
job, but also the “second imbecility of thinking you
should ever mention that in public.” Still, our lead-
ership could soon be even less competent. Before
Bradley, the cabinet member most “insouciantly
unsuited to their job” was Boris Johnson in the
post of foreign minister. Johnson, a disingenuous
cheerleader for Brexit who was disastrous at actu-
ally negotiating its terms, resigned in July, but is
now being touted as a challenger to Prime Minister
Theresa May. It’s a measure of Britain’s diminished
standing that “the preposterous inadequates of the
past” are now seen as “elder statespeople.”

GERMANY Our orderly nation is breaking down, said Ales-
sandro Peduto. Thousands of far-right supporters
A crisis descended on the city of Chemnitz in the eastern
region of Saxony last month to protest the mur-
of law der of a German man who was allegedly stabbed
by two migrants, one from Iraq and one from
and order Syria. Neo-Nazis marched, raising their arms in
Hitler salutes; mobs chased and attacked people
Alessandro Peduto
who didn’t look German. It used to be that fol-
Freie Presse lowing such an appalling scene, Germans would
blame Saxony—formerly part of communist East
Germany—calling its residents backward and rac-
ist. Not this time, though. The country as a whole
is suffering a “loss of confidence in the state.” The
Iraqi suspect in the killing had his asylum request
denied in 2016, yet had still not been deported—
that lapse shows that “those responsible for
migrants are badly overstretched.” The late and
inadequate police response to the riots calls into
question “the state’s monopoly on violence.” And
the far right was much better organized than any-
one had anticipated. Sure, this time it was Chem-
nitz, but other Germans now “recognize that it
could happen in their city too.” Germans can no
longer trust that their government will protect
them, either from violent migrants or from neo-
Nazi thugs. Can we still avert irreparable “harm
to our democracy”?

Sweden: The far right falls short

Don’t get too worked up over Sweden’s
“new political reality,” said Dagens
Nyheter (Sweden) in an editorial. Yes,
the anti-immigrant, far-right Sweden
Democrats took third place in last
weekend’s elections, receiving a record
17.6 percent share of the vote. But that
was far short of the result expected by
many pundits, who predicted the party—
which has neo-Nazi roots—would take
well over 20 percent and place second.
Experts were tricked into overestimat-
ing support for the Sweden Democrats
by the fact that their voters “scream Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson
so loudly.” With its opposition to the
European Union and almost all forms of immigration, the party
is little more than an adolescent tantrum, “a collective political
puberty” that blames foreigners and elites for everything so no
one else has to take responsibility for anything. But this far-right have “the best refugee and immigration policy.”
pitch failed at the ballot box because the “vast majority of voters
are still in the middle.” The governing Social Democrats received The irony, said Peter Kadhammar in Aftonbladet (Sweden), is that
28.4 percent of the vote, the highest share for any individual
party, and together with its center-left coalition partners took
40.6 percent. The center-right Moderates came in second with
19.8 percent, and their bloc received 40.3 percent. Sweden and
its democracy “are still greater than the Sweden Democrats.”
Swedes are trying to downplay the election results, said Kjetil
Hanssen in Aftenposten (Norway), but the rightward shift was
clear. Every major political party lost votes except the Sweden
Democrats, who have soared from less than 6 percent of the
vote in 2010 to nearly 18 percent today. The party leeched sup-
port from mainstream parties on the
left and right by promising to protect
Sweden’s welfare state—for Swedes—
while getting tough on immigrants.
Tellingly, “if only men had voted,” the
Sweden Democrats would have been
in first place. These results are a reac-
tion to Europe’s 2015 immigration
crisis, when Sweden took in 163,000
mostly Muslim migrants, more per
capita that any other European coun-
try. Since then, Swedes have been
shaken by high-profile crimes com-
mitted by immigrants, including gang
shootings and an ISIS-inspired truck
rampage that killed five in Stockholm. Nearly one-third of voters
now say that the Sweden Democrats, who advocate a morato-
rium on new asylum seekers and a tougher path to citizenship,
the election’s winner is also “the biggest loser.” Prime Minister
Stefan Lofven’s Social Democrats party dropped 2.8 percentage
points, for its worst showing in a century. Nearly 60 percent of
the electorate voted against the ruling coalition Lofven leads, and
he will likely resign as prime minister. Haggling will now begin
over a new coalition, said David Ahlin in Sydsvenskan (Sweden),
and it’s highly unlikely that the next government will include the
Sweden Democrats. That’s because this vote wasn’t really about
immigration: It was about the Sweden Democrats and whether
they should be “given power and influence.” A large majority of
Sweden’s voters “have answered with an unequivocal ‘No.’”
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 Best columns: International NEWS 15

Brazil: Assassination attempt upends campaign

A knife attack might have ensured the vic- paign like never before.” Brazil had already
tory of the far-right candidate running for been shaken by the impeachment on dubi-
the Brazilian presidency, said Kelli Kadanus ous charges of Lula’s leftist successor, Dilma
and Fernando Martins in Gazeta do Povo Rousseff, and by the disastrous presidency
(Brazil). Jair Bolsonaro was campaigning of her conservative replacement, current
in the town of Juiz de Fora last week when President Michel Temer. Poverty has soared
he was stabbed multiple times in the abdo- by a third under Temer, who has imple-
men by an apparently mentally ill leftist, mented tough austerity measures and is also
who ranted about his “divine duty” to kill. battling corruption charges. With many
Bolsonaro—a 63-year-old former paratrooper poor, black Brazilians demanding Lula be
who is known as Brazil’s version of Donald allowed to run, and wealthier, white voters
Trump for his racist, sexist, and homophobic cheering on Bolsonaro, this election has the
comments—lost 40 percent of his blood and makings of an “explosive cocktail.”
underwent several surgeries. He is expected
Bolsonaro: After the knife attack
to recover fully, but may not be able to re- Lula isn’t helping, said Merval Pereira in
sume campaigning before the first-round vote on Oct. 7. Even be- O Globo (Brazil). For months, he refused to let former Saõ
fore the attack, Bolsonaro was leading the crowded race, with an Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad replace him as the official can-
estimated 22 percent of the vote. Now, analysts say, the extensive didate of his Workers’ Party, believing he’d somehow be allowed
coverage of his recovery “could have a significant effect” on the to run from his prison cell. Lula reluctantly endorsed Haddad
28 percent of Brazilian voters who claim they’re undecided. Some this week. Bolsonaro’s team has also done little to reduce ten-
might have been his supporters all along. “Many people who were sions, said Eliane Brum in Brasil.ElPais.com. His running mate,
ashamed to say that they’ll vote for Bolsonaro,” says political sci- retired Gen. Hamilton Mourão, reacted to last week’s attack
entist Marcio Coimbra, “will now have the courage to admit it.” with a threat to call out the military, saying, “If you want to use
violence, we are the professionals of violence.”
Bolsonaro is the front-runner only because the courts have
banned the most popular candidate, said El Observador (Uru- Such rhetoric should frighten us all, said O Estado de São Paulo
guay) in an editorial. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is still loved by (Brazil). It is “the echo of a long and deafening preaching of
many Brazilians for lifting up the poor while president from 2003 hatred and flight from reason.” Candidates from all parties talk
to 2011. But the leftist can’t run in the election because he was re- of their opponents “as if they were enemies to be physically
cently sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption, a charge he destroyed.” If we can’t stop this cycle, “Brazil will once again
says was politically motivated. His barring “radicalized the cam- plunge into the turmoil of instability.”

The leaders of more than 50 African countries
CHINA gathered in Beijing last week for the Forum on
China-Africa Cooperation—then came the inevi-
Developing table Western criticism, said the Global Times. In
recent years, China has poured billions of dollars
Africa is good into African businesses, infrastructure, and educa-
tion; bought cobalt and copper mines on the con-
for everyone tinent; and opened some 10,000 Chinese-owned
firms there. Westerners try to spin this investment
Editorial
as “neocolonialism,” accusing Beijing of plunder-
Global Times
ing Africa’s resources and leading its countries
into “a debt trap.” Such slurs are an expression of
the West’s “sour grapes.” Beijing has pledged to
invest some $175 billion over a decade in Africa,
dwarfing the U.S. commitment of $14 billion. But
then, the U.S. and Europe were always content to
treat Africa as a subordinate colony, not as a main
player in the global economy. China, though, rec-
ognized that “African countries do not want to be
enslaved,” and they have welcomed China’s mutu-
ally beneficial business. China has “creatively po-
sitioned the continent as the new opportunity for
the world economy.” Would African leaders keep
signing agreements with Beijing if it weren’t in
their countries’ interests? Of course not, and it is
condescending to suggest otherwise. In Africa, and
elsewhere, “the West seems like a loser covering
up its own problems by cursing others’ progress.”

INDIA How telling it is that India’s ruling party stayed
silent on one of the most vital civil rights issues of
Legal to be our times, said Krishnadas Rajagopal. In a historic
decision last week, the Indian Supreme Court
gay, in spite overturned Section 377 of the criminal code—
a 157-year-old colonial law that banned homo-
of government sexual acts, making them punishable by up to 10
years in prison. One would have expected Prime
Krishnadas Rajagopal
Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist gov-
The Hindu ernment to take a stand on the issue—either for or
against—but it declined to do so, saying it would
leave the decision to “the wisdom of the court.”
The court was not pleased with this abdication.
AP
Justice Dhananjaya Chandrachud wrote that the
government was derelict in offering no opinion
about a law that “typecasts LGBTQ individuals as
sex offenders, categorizing their consensual con-
duct on par with sexual offenses like rape.” That
status had become a public health issue, he wrote,
since the stigma associated with being part of a
criminal class caused gay Indians to avoid public
health providers, compromising the fight against
HIV/AIDS. Gay and lesbian Indians are now cel-
ebrating: The ruling said their sexual orientation
was “intrinsic to their dignity.” Their political lead-
ers, though, still have no comment.

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16 NEWS Talking points
Kavanaugh: Did he pass the Senate’s test?
“If I didn’t know this whole thing was a monu- There’s plenty of bad faith to go around,
mental bag job, I’d think Brett Kavanaugh said Paul Waldman in The Washington Post.
was in a lot of trouble,” said Charles Pierce “Republicans are pretending they neither
in Esquire.com. President Trump’s Supreme know nor care what Kavanaugh thinks about
Court nominee had to white-knuckle it through abortion or corporate power or executive
an ugly confirmation hearing at the Senate privilege or anything else; they support him
Judiciary Committee last week, as Democrats only because of his fine credentials and deep
unveiled a trove of damning documents from respect for the law.” But we all know that
his time as a lawyer in George W. Bush’s White Kavanaugh came up through the same Feder-
House. While Kavanaugh promised to respect alist Society pipeline built by right-wing legal
precedent on abortion, calling Roe v. Wade activists to crank out reliably conservative
“settled law,” a 2003 memo he wrote suggests Artful dodger: Did he tell the truth? judges. Kavanaugh’s confirmation will give
he thinks otherwise: “[The] Court can always overrule its prec- the Supreme Court a far-right majority for decades to come, a
edent,” Kavanaugh said of Roe back then. He also contradicted legal revolution that will touch the lives of every American. Demo-
his testimony from his first judicial confirmation hearing, in 2006, crats were “grandstanding” to bring attention to that fact.
when he flatly denied receiving Judiciary Committee documents
stolen from Senate Democrats by Republicans. Confronted with I welcome that revolution, said Kevin Williamson in National
emails showing that he did in fact receive stolen material, with one Review.com. Democrats don’t want judges like Kavanaugh, who
email labeled “spying,” Kavanaugh admitted receiving the docu- will apply the law as it is written. “They want super-legislators
ments but claimed he didn’t know they were stolen. When Sen. who will give them what they want: abortion rights, gay marriage,
Kamala Harris asked if he’d discussed the Mueller investigation political censorship, etc.” Oh please, said Katherine Stewart in
with a lawyer working for President Trump’s personal attorney, The New York Times. Conservative “originalists” like Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh floundered and stalled, finally saying he’d had no are no less skilled at twisting the Constitution toward their own
“inappropriate” conversations about Mueller. At best, Kavanaugh ends. For example, conservatives now reject the established prin-
was exposed as a highly partisan Republican operative. At worst, ciple that there must be a wall between church and state, saying it
he is guilty of perjury. Republicans will vote for him no matter was based on “bad history.” Instead, they use “religious liberty”
what, but he has no business being on the Supreme Court. to justify rulings that allow conservative Christians to be exempt
from the law. Kavanaugh will create a solid conservative majority
That’s “cheap character assassination,” said David French in on the court that will authorize evangelicals and Catholics to defy
NationalReview.com. Kavanaugh has not committed perjury on laws providing women access to birth control and barring dis-
the stolen documents or anything else; there is a big gap between crimination against LGBT people. Conservatives know they’ve lost
unknowingly making an inaccurate statement “and the kind of the culture war with the general public, so “the only way for their
willful, deliberate falsehood that constitutes a federal crime.” By regressive views to dominate is if they control the courts.”
all accounts, he’s a decent man and thoughtful jurist. But left-wing
partisans see his conservatism as “ipso facto proof of his low Kavanaugh’s confirmation looks like a done deal, said Ed Kilgore in
character.” Democrats turned the Kavanaugh hearings into “over- NYMag.com. Before Sen. John McCain of Arizona died, Democrats
wrought performance art,” said Noah Rothman in Commentary only needed to flip one GOP vote to defeat Kavanaugh, with the
Magazine.com. At one point, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey ailing John McCain’s absence leaving Republicans with 50 Senate
boomed that he was risking expulsion from the Senate by releasing votes. But with the reliably conservative Jon Kyl filling McCain’s
confidential Kavanaugh documents, even though they’d already seat, Democrats now need turn both pro-choice GOP senators
been cleared for release the night before. “This is about the closest against Kavanaugh. Right now, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and
I’ll ever have to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment,” Booker declared. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska both look likely to vote for him, despite
The histrionics of other Democrats seeking “gotcha” moments his vague equivocations on abortion. “The moment either Collins
with Kavanaugh were no less embarrassing. or Murkowski announces for Kavanaugh, it’s game over.”

QOne in four Americans have deleted the
Facebook app from their phones, and 54
percent of Facebook users have strength-
ened their privacy settings, according to the
Pew Research Center.
The Washington Post
Noted
their belongings while QAlmost 2 million low-income Ameri-
passing through airport cans could lose food stamp benefits un-
security are frequently der a new House bill that would allow
contaminated with cold states to remove 8 percent of recipients
and flu viruses, a new from the rolls. Forty-two million Ameri-
study found. Half the cans currently receive benefits from
bins tested by scien- the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
AP, Will Peebles/Savannah Morning News/AP

QAmerica’s trade deficit rose $4.3 billion— Program (SNAP).

or 9 percent—from June to July of this year.
President Trump’s tariffs may have caused
fewer exports of soybeans and civilian
aircraft, while imports of computer and auto
parts hit record highs.
Axios.com
QThe plastic bins in which travelers deposit
tists carried viruses
that cause respiratory disease, because
of constant contact with people’s hands.
Researchers warn that the bins could serve
to rapidly spread more deadly microbes
throughout the world in the event of an
“emerging pandemic threat.”
The Washington Post
The New York Times
QHotel employees will soon be equipped
with panic buttons to protect them from
assault and harassment. More than a dozen
major hotel chains have agreed to provide
workers with the personal safety devices.
Time.com

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 Talking points NEWS 17

Kaepernick: Nike’s polarizing new face Wit &

“Colin Kaepernick is the new
face of Nike,” said Jason Gay in
first place—his belief that
there is widespread mistreat-
Wisdom
The Wall Street Journal, “and the ment of African-Americans “Nothing discloses
country predictably lost its mind.” by police. And it’s simply real character like the use
Last week, the giant sportswear “not healthy for America” for of power.”
19th-century orator Robert
and sneaker company launched consumer brands to further Green Ingersoll, quoted in
a new ad in its “Just do it” cam- divide us into warring camps. The Washington Post 
paign featuring the former NFL Brands used to be “terrified
“Failure is the condiment
quarterback, who started the of controversy,” said Rebecca that gives success its flavor.”
player protest of kneeling during Jennings in Vox.com, but since Truman Capote, quoted in
the national anthem. Underneath Trump became president, The Daily Telegraph (U.K.)
Kaepernick’s face, the ad says, “there’s never been a more “Every child is an artist.
“Believe in something. Even if popular time to be a brand The problem is
it means sacrificing everything.” with an opinion.” Coke, how to remain an artist
The Nike ad: We’re woke!
Within hours, a boycott was Pepsi, Airbnb, and Patagonia once we grow up.”
launched, outraged conservatives began post- are just a few of the companies that have created Pablo Picasso, quoted in the
ing videos of themselves burning Nike gear and ad campaigns to make themselves seem “woke,” Scarborough, Ontario, Mirror
cutting the “swoosh” out of apparel, and Nike’s with images of protests or tributes to diversity. “The reason grandparents
stock slid 2.6 percent. But fans who side with and grandchildren get
Kaepernick and other black players involved in Will the “woke Social Justice Warrior crowd” along so well is that they
the kneeling protests helped boost online sales by fall for this obvious manipulation? asked Jim have a common enemy.”
Humorist Sam Levenson,
31 percent. Nike’s marketing team “had to know Geraghty in NationalReview.com. Let’s not forget quoted in the Jeffersonville,
all of it was coming”—“the praise, the fury,” that Nike, a company with $35 billion in rev- Ind., News and Tribune
even the videoed barbecues of $180 Air Maxes. enues, has a long history of exploiting overseas
“Every day
“Whether you’re offended, not so offended, or labor, with pathetic wages, forced overtime, and
on Earth’s another chance
offended that other people are offended, you’re limits on bathroom trips. It’s also getting sued in to get it right.”
participating in a Nike marketing campaign.” the U.S. for pay discrimination against women Musician Steve Earle, quoted
and ignoring sexual harassment complaints. Nike in The Washington Post
What a deeply cynical way to sell overpriced officials built their empire through branding that’s “I don’t always follow
sneakers, said Megan McArdle in The Washington as disingenuous as it is ingenious. Once again, my own advice.”
Post. Nike’s ad commercializes, and thus trivial- they’ve “cemented their position as The Man by Edith Wharton, quoted in
izes, the issue Kaepernick was protesting in the marketing an image of fighting The Man.” Architectural Digest
“Trendy is the last stage
before tacky.”
Obama: No longer on the sidelines Karl Lagerfeld, quoted in
Forbes.com
“No one does the cool burn quite so deftly as his administration and “media cronies” smeared
Barack Obama,” said Karen Tumulty in The “everyone who dared hold a contrary opinion”
Washington Post. Breaking with the norm of ex- as a racist. That wasn’t Obama’s only “grade-A, Poll watch
presidents not criticizing their successors, Obama primo historical revisionism,” said Becket Adams QVoters now say they
branded President Donald Trump “a threat to in WashingtonExaminer.com. In criticizing favor a Democratic can-
democracy” in a speech last week at the Univer- Trump’s ugly rhetoric about the press, Obama didate over a Republican
sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “This is conveniently failed to mention that he spent eight one in their district, 52%
not normal,” Obama said of the chaotic Trump long years taking actions that were “far worse to 38%. The Democrats’
presidency, calling the current president “a symp- for press freedoms.” Obama’s Justice Department advantage has jumped 10
tom, not the cause” of the GOP’s embrace of “the spied on reporters, seized phone records, and percentage points since
politics of division, of resentment and paranoia.” even deployed the Espionage Act of 1917 to label April. Compared with past
Obama may have wanted to “remain above the ex–Fox News reporter James Rosen a “criminal midterm elections, 75% of
fray,” said Robin Abcarian in LATimes.com, co-conspirator” for using a State Department Democrats say, this year’s
but the stakes have grown far too high. Trump’s contractor as a source. But hey, at least Obama is much more important,
presidency has been defined by the dismantling of was polite to reporters at press conferences. compared with 57% of
Republicans.
Obama’s “legacy piece by piece, and making racists
Washington Post/ABC News
feel safe again.” It’s about time the 44th president Obama’s speech showed that he is still “one of
re-emerged to call Trump what he is—a shameless the most skilled rhetoricians in American his- Q72% believe the claim
fearmonger, a bully, and a demagogue. tory,” said Matthew Yglesias in Vox.com. But by the anonymous op-ed
he’s no longer the Democrats’ best messenger for column in The New York
It’s hardly a surprise that Obama is attacking the need for change. The ex-president won’t be Times that some or most
his successor, said Derek Hunter in TownHall on the ballot this November or in 2020, and his of Trump’s administration
is working against him.
.com. “Why should we expect anything differ- dominating presence on the stump only highlights
55% say it is inappropriate
ent” from a president who spent “eight years in Democrats’ “paucity of compelling communica-
for aides to undermine the
office whining” about his predecessor, George W. tors among the top leadership.” If Democrats are president’s agenda.
Twitter/AP

Bush? As for Obama blaming Republicans for the to woo back voters, it’s critical for them to “find CNN
country’s divisions, he must have forgotten how leaders who aren’t Barack Obama.”
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 Technology NEWS 19

Social media: Alex Jones wears out his last welcome

Twitter has finally put a limit on hate mon- such as Super Male Vitality and Brain
gering, said Taylor Lorenz in The Atlantic. Force Plus that he hawks on the air; losing
Last week the platform banned Alex Jones, platforms to promote his advertisers will
the conspiracy theorist best known for claim- deliver a significant financial hit. Jones also
ing that the Sandy Hook massacre was a faces expensive defamation suits from fami-
hoax staged by the government and gun- lies of victims in the Sandy Hook massacre,
control activists. The ejection comes after the Connecticut shooting that took 26 lives,
years of “inaction and half-measures”— including 20 first-grade children. After two
and, not coincidentally, one day after decades conjuring “angry nativist rants and
congressional hearings attended by Twitter end-of-days fear mongering,” Jones now
CEO Jack Dorsey. His company has banned meets a “legal, public opinion, and social
some controversial figures, including for- Jones: Sweating under the pressure media reckoning.”
mer Trump adviser Roger Stone, and has
sanctioned Jones before. But it has long considered itself “the free The Alex Jones ban could irk some conservatives who “claim
speech wing of the free speech party” and resisted calls for a com- tech platforms single out right-leaning accounts for punishment,”
prehensive ban on Jones and his digital network, Infowars—until said Cristiano Lima in Politico.com. But it likely won’t be very
now. Apple, the other outlier among tech companies, has joined many, because it’s not just Twitter that Jones managed to alienate.
Twitter and pulled Jones’ Infowars app from its store. Republicans were willing to defend Jones until they actually met
him, said Will Oremus in Slate.com. Then, at last week’s congres-
Jones has claimed that bans just make him stronger, but Twit- sional hearings on social media, Jones tried to shoulder his way
ter’s blackballing will hurt, said Elizabeth Williamson and Emily into Sen. Marco Rubio’s press gaggle. Jones repeatedly insulted
Steel in The New York Times. Jones’ multiplatform Infowars the Florida Republican, who finally gave up and told reporters
channel, his forum for “flimsy fact, grievance, paranoia, ideol- to deal with “this clown.” At the same hearings, the anti-Muslim
ogy, combativeness, and solipsism,” is also a lucrative business. activist Laura Loomer loudly disrupted the proceedings to protest
According to records from his divorce battle, it netted him $5 mil- her treatment by tech companies. It was a perfect illustration of
lion in 2014—enough to pay for a Rolex watch shopping spree, the central problem of social media: Bad actors claiming to ex-
a $40,000 saltwater aquarium, and a $70,000 grand piano. The ercise their free-speech rights quash the chance of a genuine civil
money comes from survivalist products and health supplements debate. Now the GOP has seen it happen in their own house.

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

There’s now a man-
nequin that shows
doctors and nurses
in training what it’s
like to treat a real,
suffering patient,
said Matt Simon in
Wired.com. Meet
Hal, a “hyper-real”
robot capable
of shedding tears and bleeding,
developed by the medical company
Gaumard Scientific. Trainees “can
wirelessly control him to go into ana-
phylactic shock or cardiac arrest,” and
if they “shine a light in his eyes, his
pupils shrink.” Hal, who will soon be
available for $48,000, can be hooked
up to real hospital machines; trainees
can even “jolt him with a defibrilla-
tor.” Hal is so realistic that instruc-
tors have seen trainees become
“emotionally charged” by the intense
simulations. His realistic breathing
is made possible by a mechanical-
pneumatic system, and “a cartridge
in his leg allows him to exhale CO2.”
Reuters, John Zillioux
The electric SUV race
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its first all-electric
SUV as it gets ready to take on Tesla, said Eric
Adams in Wired.com. The Mercedes EQC
was launched in Sweden last week and is
“the first in a long line of electric vehicles the
automotive juggernaut will roll out over the
coming years.” With a planned range of more
than 280 miles, the EQC can hit 60 mph in
less than five seconds and “packs a tech-heavy
punch.” It arrives amid a flood of announce-
ments from automakers looking to contest
Tesla’s dominance of the all-electric market.
Audi is introducing an electric SUV later this
month, BMW is taking orders for the iX3, and
“Jaguar is gearing up to start U.S. deliveries of
its much lauded electric i-Pace later this year.”
Instagram’s shopping app
“Facebook is planning a major new move into
e-commerce,” said Casey Newton in TheVerge
.com. The social media giant is building a new
stand-alone app for its Instagram platform
that will be devoted entirely to shopping. Un-
like Instagram’s main application, the shop-
Instagram for virtual window-shopping, and
advertisers can provide links to their online
stores. However, Instagram has been careful
about commerce within the app, believing that
getting it right takes more than an image and
a “buy” button. The new app is a bet that
users could be more open to sales pitches in a
“dedicated home” for purchases.
U.S. cities plan for more cyberattacks
Most major U.S. cities are now buying in-
surance for attacks from hackers, said Scott
Calvert and Jon Kamp in The Wall Street
Journal. The ransomware attack that infected
the city of Atlanta’s network earlier this year
has spurred other cities into action. Now a
majority of the 25 most populous U.S. cit-
ies have either purchased cyber insurance or
are actively looking into it. Many U.S. cities
say their security systems are already under
a “constant barrage.” Houston, the fourth-
biggest U.S. city, has invested in a $30 mil-
lion plan with a $471,400 premium. Earlier
this year, Atlanta refused to pay a $51,000
ransom, and hackers froze most of the city’s

And the fake tears? They’re gener-

ated by hydraulic systems, while
servo motors that tug on his face
make him look angry and scared.
ping app will let users make purchases right
from a post. Instagram has more than 25 mil-
lion business accounts; 2 million of those are
paying advertisers. Many people already use
computer systems. The city estimates the cost
at $20 million; it had just purchased an insur-
ance policy three months earlier and has only
now begun submitting claims.
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20 NEWS
How climate change will reshape ecosystems
If climate change continues on its cur-
rent course, nearly every ecosystem on
Earth will be completely transformed,
creating a world almost unrecognizable
compared with the one we live in today.
That’s the conclusion of a major new
international study that sought to shed
light on the future by looking at the past,
reports TheAtlantic.com. The researchers
examined fossil and temperature records
from the peak of the last Ice Age, about
20,000 years ago, to the year 1800. Global
temperatures rose 4 to 7 degrees Celsius
over that period, and the resulting changes
were extreme: Sea levels rose by nearly
Rear-facing is the best way to ride.
New advice on car seats
Kids should use rear-facing car seats for
as long as possible to protect their heads,
necks, and spines in the event of a crash,
according to updated guidelines from the
American Academy of Pediatrics. The AAP
had previously advised that children could
begin facing forward at age 2. But now
it says they should ride rear-facing until
they reach the maximum height or weight
limit listed on their car seat. The change
came after a scientific journal retracted the
research on which the organization’s previ-
ous advice had been based. The authors of
the new guidelines say there isn’t enough
data to recommend an exact age to transi-
tion to a forward-facing seat, but note that
most modern car seats can remain rear-
facing until the child reaches 40 pounds—
generally well beyond the second birthday.
Placing a child in a car seat correctly can
reduce the risk of death or serious injury
in an accident by more than 70 percent,
reports ABCNews.com. “Every month that
a child rides rear-facing gives more time for
the head, neck, and spine to develop,” says
Kerry Chausmer of the nonprofit Safe Kids
Worldwide. “That’s why we want kids to
ride rear-facing.”
A muscular dystrophy fix?
Scientists have used gene editing to correct
the mutations behind a form of muscular
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
Health & Science
400 feet, forests grew on what was once
ice-covered ground, and savanna turned
to desert. To look ahead, the research-
ers examined how ecosystems would
fare under four possible climate-change
scenarios over the coming century. In the
most optimistic case—in which global
temperatures rise only 1 degree Celsius—
the chances of large-scale ecosystem
change remain low. But in the other three,
including the “business as usual” scenario
of 4-degree temperature increases by
2100, the world would be completely
altered: Oak forests would turn into grass-
lands; evergreen woods would become
dystrophy in dogs—a major breakthrough
that raises hopes the same procedure could
be used to cure the disease in humans. The
most common fatal genetic condition in
children, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is
caused by a genetic mutation that prevents
the body from producing dystrophin, a
protein essential for strong muscle fibers.
If the gene is mutated, muscles—including
the heart and diaphragm—waste away,
reports The Guardian (U.K.). For this study,
researchers used the gene-editing technology
CRISPR to restore dystrophin production
in four dogs. Within weeks of receiving the
injection-administered treatment, the dogs
had significantly improved levels of dystro-
phin: a 92 percent correction in the heart
and a 58 percent change in the diaphragm.
The researchers estimate that as little as
15 percent improvement could dramatically
help people with Duchenne. They are now
planning more extensive studies on dogs.
“If everything were to continue smoothly,”
says lead researcher Eric Olson, from the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center, “we might be able to anticipate
moving into a human trial in a few years.”
Deep-sea coral
‘mountains’
Scientists have
made an unex-
pected discovery
about 160 miles
off the coast of
Charleston, S.C.: a
massive coral reef
at least 85 miles
long. The find is one
result of a five-year gov-
ernment project to explore
deep-sea ecosystems off the Southeast coast
from Virginia to Georgia. After diving half
a mile underwater aboard a submersible,
researchers began studying what appeared
to be mounds of rock topped by a thin
A warmer world will look radically different.
deciduous. The findings, says study
co-author Jonathan Overpeck, a climate
scientist at the University of Michigan,
“provide yet another wake-up call that we
need to act now to move rapidly toward
an emission-free global economy.”
layer of coral. But on closer inspection,
they discovered that the “mountains”—
some of them more than 300 feet high—
were made entirely of live reef or coral
rubble that had built up over thousands of
years. “We couldn’t find a place that didn’t
have corals,” expedition chief scientist
Erik Cordes tells HuffingtonPost.com. “It’s
incredible that it stayed hidden off the East
Coast for so long.” The reef is mostly white
lophelia, a stony variety of coral. Other
lophelia reefs have previously been discov-
ered off Florida and North Carolina—but
never so deep or so far from the coast.
Health scare of the week
STDs on the rise, again
Rates of sexually transmitted diseases
climbed for the fourth consecutive year in
the U.S. in 2017, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has announced.
A record high of 2.3 million cases of
chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were
diagnosed last year—some 200,000 more
than in 2016, itself a record-breaking year.
Scientists say there is no single reason for
the years-long uptick, reports The New
York Times. Possible factors include the
proliferation of dating apps, the opioid
epidemic, and reduced funding for public
sexual health clinics. “Most people
with these STDs do not know they
are infected,” says Gail Bolan, direc-
tor of the CDC’s division of sexu-
ally transmitted disease prevention.
Shutterstock, Getty, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
“They don’t realize that these dis-
eases are spreading silently through
the country.” The CDC warns that
chlamydia and gonorrhea—which
is becoming increasingly resistant to
antibiotics—can lurk in the body without
symptoms and lead to serious health issues
if left untreated. The agency recommends
that all women under 25, as well as men
who have sex with men, undergo annual
screenings for both diseases.
 ARTS
Review of reviews: Books
Book of the week
The Personality Brokers:
The Strange History of
Myers-Briggs and the Birth
of Personality Testing
by Merve Emre (Doubleday, $28)
The most popular personality test in the
world turns out to have been the brainchild
of two women who were “true, irreducible
weirdos,” said Molly Fischer in Bookforum.
In Merve Emre’s “crackling” new history of
the questionnaire and its legacy, Katharine
Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs
Myers, emerge early on as brilliant eccen-
trics, and their idiosyncrasies are cleverly
enlisted in the author’s effort to undermine
the very theories their work popularized.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator prom-
ises, after all, to be able to sort all people
into just 16 personality types, and since
1943, the test has been a boon to employ-
ers. Emre eventually mounts a “damningly
thorough” critique of the MBTI, but the
pleasure of The Personality Brokers lies
in its portrait of two women who remain
undeniable originals.
Novel of the week
The Golden State
by Lydia Kiesling
(MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26)
Don’t be put off by this book’s disorienting
start, said Adelle Waldman in Bookforum.
Lydia Kiesling’s portrait of a San Francisco
mother who takes off one day with her
16-month-old daughter is, after the first
10 or 15 pages, “an excellent, accom-
plished, original novel, one of the best
I’ve read in a while.” Kiesling, editor of
TheMillions.com, is especially sharp at
capturing what it’s like to parent a small
child. But because we spend 10 days
with Daphne as she wanders a town she
barely knows, The Golden State “bears
some resemblance to a flaneur novel”—a
particular world as seen by a particular, in-
quisitive mind. Not that the child’s needs
aren’t forever also on Daphne’s mind,
said Heather Abel in Slate.com. When
she finally indulges in a long nap “it gives
the reader the erotic satisfaction one
sometimes feels when two lonely char-
acters, kept apart for 200 pages, finally
make out.” But The Golden State mostly
reminds us that duty will always frustrate
our dreams of escape. New mothers,
long neglected by literature, “could have
shown us this a long time ago.”
Alamy
The key categories in MBTI’s sorting system
The mother made her daughter a test sub-
ject at an early age, said Louis Menand in
The New Yorker. Katharine, a university
valedictorian turned homemaker, treated
child rearing as a series of experiments in
behavioral psychology, and when Isabel
became engaged during her own stellar col-
lege years to a man Katharine considered
a peculiar match, his future mother-in-law
decided to develop a personality quiz to
understand such choices. Katharine soon
became so enamored of Carl Jung’s perti-
nent writings that she wrote an erotic novel
about the German psychologist. Isabel
eventually codified her mother’s ideas and
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir
With Photographs
by Bill Cunningham (Penguin, $27)
Bill Cunningham
was a New York
City institution, said
Angela Ledgerwood
in Esquire.com. If you
spent any time stroll-
ing on Fifth Avenue in
the past four decades,
you were likely to
stumble upon the
New York Times
fashion photographer
stopping “an exquisitely or outrageously
dressed fashionista” to snap her picture for
the Sunday Styles pages. But Cunningham,
despite his big smile, outgoing personality,
and large devoted following, was so private
a man that even his family had no idea he’d
written a memoir until it was discovered
among his papers after his death two years
ago. A “captivating” read, “it will reinvigo-
rate the way you see the world.”
Fashion Climbing can seem at times “like
the most guileless thing ever written,” said
Dwight Garner in The New York Times.
Focused on the author’s upbringing and his
early, midcentury years in the fashion busi-
21
began personally marketing them to gov-
ernment and corporate clients while chug-
ging an odd-smelling energy drink of her
own concoction. If these two eccentric ama-
teurs hadn’t been so obsessed for so many
years with people-sorting, “there would be
no Myers-Briggs today.”
They at least meant well, and Emre
acknowledges as much, said Jennifer Szalai
in The New York Times. The author never
comes to respect the science behind MBTI,
a test now taken by 2 million people a year.
But she grows sympathetic to her subjects’
intense desire to categorize personality
types. Isabel, in particular, believed people
would be happier if their different strengths
were recognized and we all found our way
into work roles that suited those strengths.
And Emre learned that the idea of differing
personality types, despite its shaky foun-
dations, has been enormously helpful to
people in their efforts to better understand
themselves and others. Her “beguiling”
book is “history that reads like biography
that reads like a novel,” and its shape-
shifting fits the content. “If there’s a theme
to The Personality Brokers, it’s that the self
is more slippery than we allow.”
ness, it bubbles with enthusiasm and lan-
guage so dated, it’s “reminiscent of Archie
comic books.” Yet much of the material,
“in a less buoyant writer’s hands,” could
easily have been presented as tragic. At
age 4, Cunningham tells us, he was beaten
by his middle-class Boston mother when
she discovered him trying on his sister’s
dress. But neither his parents nor the
Army—Cunningham reports wowing his
Korean War comrades with his skill at cam-
ouflaging helmets with flowers—could stifle
his interest in fashion, and after stints at
top department stores, he graduated from
college and set himself up in New York as
a maker of women’s hats. His insights on
style, beginning with hats, turn Fashion
Climber into a “shy little primer, a Strunk
and White of chic.”
Cunningham is “a bit of an unreliable
narrator,” said Robin Givhan in The
Washington Post. Thwarted by his shield
of cheerfulness, we never do learn his
sexual orientation and are left guessing how
much he was ostracized as a young man
for his fashion obsession. But we can see
why he was recruited into fashion journal-
ism, because he’s an astute observer of its
rules and mores. “He doesn’t dig far below
the surface. But downward is not where
Cunningham ever cast his gaze.”
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
22 ARTS
Author of the week
Anand Giridharadas
Anand Giridharadas isn’t
afraid to bite the hand that
offers him canapés, said Nick
Tabor in NYMag.com. In 2015,
the global-affairs journalist
was named a fellow at the
Aspen Institute, a think tank
where corporate titans and
thought lead-
ers gather to
discuss grand
philanthropic
projects. A
few fellows
selected each
year are, by
design, “a
little renegade-y,” Giridharadas
says. Still, he surprised fel-
low Aspen attendees that
summer when he delivered a
speech informing his listeners
that they were perpetrating a
sham. Though he hadn’t seen
it instantly, he had come to
realize that the big firms and
fat cats that sponsored all the
talk about improving the world
were the same ones making
life worse for countless mil-
lions. “It was a drip-drip-drip of
moments where you thought,
‘Wait a second, why are we
sitting in the Koch building?
Why is this event funded
by Monsanto, and by Pepsi,
which seems to be changing
the world by fattening kids?’”
Giridharadas’ new book,
Winners Take All, extends the
argument, said Isaac Chotiner
in Slate.com. The 36-year-old
author wants readers to see
that the elite’s charitable efforts
distract us from the harm they
do, and that their pet causes
ask less of the rich than mean-
ingful reforms would. Instead
of national subsidized child
care, we get Lean In–style cor-
porate mentorship programs
for women; instead of equi-
table funding in public educa-
tion, we get charter schools.
“The advantage of this kind of
change is that it doesn’t cost
the winners anything,” he says.
But don’t expect Giridharadas
to bring his fully realized argu-
ment to Aspen anytime soon.
“It was made clear to me,” he
says, “that I was not necessar-
ily welcome back.”
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
The Book List
Best books...chosen by Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson, the Oscar-winning British actress and screenwriter, is currently
starring in the film The Children Act, a drama adapted from an Ian McEwan novel.
Below, Thompson names six favorite comic works written by women.
The Trouble With Women by Jacky Fleming
(Andrews McMeel, $13). The ultimate comment
on the patriarchy, this illustrated 2016 volume
felled me in my local bookshop. Literally. I
laughed so hard I sank to the floor. The men I
know who have read it get it, but it’s not quite as
funny for them.
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran (Harper
Perennial, $16). The only book I know that
starts with a woman masturbating. Given the
taboo around this interesting subject, that fact
alone makes How to Build a Girl required read-
ing. Plus, it’s brilliant and hilarious and has made
a lot of people feel a lot less alone.
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Dover, $5).
Gentle, probing, sharp, bitter, and sweet all at
once, the first novel Jane Austen finished also
includes one of the finest comic characters ever
created—Isabella Thorpe—who’s silly and self-
serving in equal measure. Henry Tilney was my
first literary love. I’ve lost count of the number
of times I stole him from Catherine Morland by
sweeping into Bath’s famous Pump Rooms in a
tube top and slingbacks.
Also of interest...in learning experiences
His Favorites
by Kate Walbert (Scribner, $22)
Kate Walbert’s timely novella “begs
to be read,” said Lucy Feldman in
Time. The narrator looks back on
the late 1970s, when she arrived at
an elite boarding school at 15 and
was initially flattered by the atten-
tions of a popular teacher. The way he abuses her
trust is shattering and reminds us of one of the
most important lessons of the #MeToo awaken-
ing: “Before things turn treacherous, there’s a
moment when predation can feel dangerously
like kindness.”
The Shakespeare Requirement
by Julie Schumacher (Doubleday, $26)
The lovably bilious protagonist of
Dear Committee Members is back,
said Katy Waldman in NewYorker
.com. As he was in that Thurber Prize–
winning 2014 comic novel, Jay Fitger
is still a disillusioned English profes-
sor. But he’s now department head, and when he
becomes enmeshed in a budget battle involving
odd allies and a humanities-loathing rival, “one of
the intense pleasures” of following his misadven-
tures is in how he rides, Don Quixote–style, to the
defense of liberal arts education.
Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg
(Holt, $23). This is the world’s best loo book. It
appears simple and, like all simple and excellent
things, is based on extreme skill and profound
understanding.
The American Way of Death by Jessica
Mitford (out of print). The peerless Mitford
explores the notion that for some Americans,
death appears to be optional. Mitford’s book
was published in 1963, and it is sobering to note
that the resistance to discussing death endures,
though it remains the only known fact about
our futures.
The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White
(Virago U.K., $19). Everything you ever wanted
to know about feminism but were afraid to ask.
Kind, necessary wisdom with good gags, the book
is based on Frances-White’s podcast of the same
name. I attended the recording of the 100th epi-
sode at the Palladium in London, and was
stunned by the sense of community she has cre-
ated among young women who are feminists but
still shave their legs. And old ones like me, whose
legs have finally forgotten how to grow hair.
The Class
by Heather Won Tesoriero (Ballantine, $27)
The Class offers a fascinating glimpse
of “a teaching environment that most
public school teachers will never
know,” said Melanie McCabe in The
Washington Post. In tony Greenwich,
Conn., a few dozen gifted students
are given the chance each year to pursue an indi-
vidual research project aimed at, say, curing can-
cer. Readers get to know several prodigies well,
but given the students’ unusual advantages, the
story of their successes must be read “less as an
attainable model” than as an anomaly.
Reader, Come Home
by Maryanne Wolf (Harper, $25)
Though we encounter a novel’s worth
of text on our screens each day, we
may well be eroding our capacity
to read deeply, said Sophie Haigney
in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Maryanne Wolf “makes a strong
Nick Haddow, Mackenzie Stroh
case” for that argument, marshaling data and,
in “a remarkable moment,” recalling a recent
failed attempt to reread a challenging novel she
once had loved. Though we may be beyond
society-level fixes, Wolf’s tips on how to reclaim a
healthy attention span “feel like a start.”
 Review of reviews: Art & Stage
Exhibit of the week
Sense of Humor: Caricature,
Satire, and the Comical From
Leonardo to the Present
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
through Jan. 6
Stop me if you’ve heard this one, said Susan
Delson in The Wall Street Journal. Three
curators walked into a museum—and
pulled from its vast collection some 100
prints, drawings, and illustrations they
considered to be good for a laugh. The
results have been hanging at the National
Gallery of Art all summer, and “witty as
they are, the pieces on view are also fine
works of art.” One of the oldest artifacts
is a 16th-century drawing, Two Grotesque
Heads, that anticipates a coming flood of
caricature and was created by a student of
Leonardo da Vinci. The show’s last gallery
mixes newspaper funny pages, underground
comics, and various works by such modern
masters as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol,
and Alexander Calder. But is enough of the
work truly funny? asked Sheila Wickouski
in the Fredericksburg, Md., Free Lance-
Star. “Some might find the exhibit amusing
and others irritating.”
In the works from previous centuries, “it
is a revelation to discover so much bawdy,
rambunctious, even asinine humor,” said
Kriston Capps in Washington City Paper.
The Black Clown
American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Mass., (617) 547-8300 ++++
Tines and company: Hard-selling their soul
The 1931 Langston Hughes poem that
inspired this exuberant new musical is far
from a relic, said Zoë Madonna in The
Boston Globe. “Its words still sound with
acute prescience in the America of 2018,”
reminding us that the culture still pressures
black Americans to assume the role of enter-
tainers, and often to play the clown. Davóne
Tines, the show’s librettist and star, worked
Maggie Hall, Tom Lawlor
with composer Michael Schachter to create a
show that pays loving tribute to many black
musical traditions, yet often emphasizes the
blurred line between black self-expression
and the need to commodify such arts to
Goya’s wonderfully ridiculous donkey
In one 1592 etching, Cupid gives “the
equivalent of the finger” to a bearded satyr
who’s leering at a naked, sleeping Venus.
In Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Armoire,
two lovers have been caught in flagrante
inside a wardrobe, and the gag is in the way
the young man sheepishly covers his crotch
with a hat. “More sophisticated humor”
finally arrives courtesy of England’s William
survive. With his “stirring” voice, Tines takes
the lead in asking audiences to think harder
about that line, while the show’s exceptional
ensemble spins and stomps through “songs
of joy, grief, and rage.” The effect is electrify-
ing: After a “devastating” rendition of the
19th-century spiritual “Motherless Child,”
the opening-night audience leaped to its feet.
“A future production might make better
use of its performers by cutting down on
the razzle-dazzle,” said Robert Israel in
ArtsFuse.org. The show is by necessity a
study in contrasts, but its “ferocious itch to
entertain doesn’t give us time to reflect on
the shadows.” Still, “there are many indel-
ible moments.” In one dance sequence, the
performers throw off their chains as if they
were “as light as feather boas.” Later, a lad-
der descends from on high but proves impos-
sible to climb. Though at times the sting of
Hughes’ message is blunted by the produc-
tion’s showbiz flourishes, The Black Clown
“expresses the longing of many who yearn to
be respected in a land that promises equality
but cruelly withholds it.”
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Hogarth (1697–1764) and France’s Honoré
Daumier (1808–1879), and the 20th-century
gallery is better still, because the jokes still
resonate. No explanations are required for
the humor in Rupert Garcia’s 1969 silk
screen that juxtaposes the grinning black
chef from Cream of Wheat boxes with the
caption “No More O’ This S---.”
“Most of the show isn’t funny at all,” and
it’s worth asking why, said Philip Kennicott
in The Washington Post. I suspect that’s
because humor is too often cruel. In many
of the older works, we’re prompted to
laugh at people for the way they look, or
because they’re hunchbacked, or because
they drink too much. Racist and misogynist
jokes spring from the same ugly impulse,
and “as we advance as a society,” expand-
ing our capacity to embrace as family the
once marginalized, the old jokes become
unfunny. But don’t worry that liberalism
might kill comedy. In a 1799 etching by
Francisco de Goya, a donkey dressed in fine
clothes sits in a chair flashing “a smug, self-
satisfied smile” as he peruses a book filled
with family portraits. Goya’s caption: “And
so was his grandfather.” For the first time,
“I laughed out loud,” and it was because
the target of the joke was the willful stu-
pidity of this preening ass. For as long as
we human beings exhibit such avoidable,
unnecessary flaws, “we can laugh at our-
selves, and productively.”
The week’s other opening
Private Peaceful
TBG Arts Center, New
York City, (212) 760-2615
++++
War is hell, a fact
seldom conveyed
more grimly than
in this “punish-
ing” British import,
said Alexis Soloski
in The New York O’Regan
Times. Adapted from
a young adult novel by War Horse author
Michael Morpurgo, the play dramatizes
the memory-filled final night of a teen-
age World War I soldier waiting to be
executed at dawn on an unjust charge of
cowardice. Such things do happen, but
as this soldier’s terror escalates, seeing
his agony dramatized feels callous, “even
dehumanizing.” But Shane O’Regan,
playing the title role and 23 others,
demands to be seen, said Tim Teeman
in TheDailyBeast.com. “There is no other
word for O’Regan’s performance than
virtuosic,” starting with the title character,
a sweetly naïve farm boy. “His name is
his nature. It should also, in a more just
world, be his saving grace.”
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
24 ARTS Review of reviews: Film
White Boy “Many people dream of mak-
ing a modern-day film noir, and
into his role” as the flawed but
caring Rick Sr. Unfortunately,
Rick in terms of style, White Boy though, the movie marginalizes
Directed by Yann Demange Rick comes close,” said Stephen the story’s black characters and
(R)
Farber in The Hollywood doesn’t find enough drama in
Reporter. Set in 1980s Detroit, what’s left. Only at the very end
++++ the movie re-creates the gritty do we get the true story’s “most
A teenager falls into texture of a city in decline fascinating twist,” said Eric
a life of crime. that’s falling into the grip of Kohn in IndieWire.com. When
the crack-cocaine epidemic. Merritt and McConaughey: The two Ricks 17-year-old Rick was busted
Where the movie disappoints for cocaine possession, the FBI
is in its failure to present characters who “compel abandoned him, letting him be sentenced to life in
audiences in the way that the great noir antiheroes prison. Even then, the movie “can’t overcome its
did.” Newcomer Richie Merritt plays the real-life selective sense of moral outrage,” said Jake Cole in
title character, a teenager whose father sells guns SlantMagazine.com. By presenting a white kid as
to drug dealers and who is eventually pressured by particularly undeserving of the draconian penalty,
the FBI into becoming a drug informant. Merritt White Boy Rick “validates the punitive system it
is solid and Matthew McConaughey “disappears seeks to criticize.”

The Predator Shane Black’s Predator reboot

is “a so-so movie for grown-
nity. Keegan-Michael Key enjoys
room to shine as a cut-up who’s
Directed by Shane Black up kids who like the smell of part of the team charged with
(R) their own trash,” said Joshua hunting down the Predator, said
++++ Rothkopf in TimeOut.com. In Bryan Bishop in TheVerge.com.
the 1987 original, Black played But while the movie gestures at
A dreadlocked alien a wisecracking character killed satirizing the excesses of ’80s
sends heads flying.
off early by an unseen alien action flicks, it never commits,
creature hiding in a Central and “ends up feeling like the
American jungle, so it’s no sur- A rampaging Predator on the loose least inspiring combination” of
prise that his own edition is an thriller, horror flick, and parody.
ultraviolent, aggressively paced action film “over- In the end, the movie “works on the level of a disco
loaded with smug one-liners.” Black’s screenplay ball,” said Dennis Harvey in Variety. You won’t find
“always feels the need to be winking at us,” and the many rewards if you bother to see it, but “it’s shiny,
hyperactive jokiness robs the film of needed solem- it moves, and it’s accompanied by much noise.”

Bisbee ’17 “Bisbee 17 is no ordinary docu-

mentary,” said Alissa Wilkinson
the community in 1917 “divide
it still,” said A.O. Scott in The
Directed by Robert Greene in Vox.com. Set in Bisbee, Ariz., New York Times. Some Bisbee
(R) a former mining town just north residents argue that the roundup
of Mexico, Robert Greene’s was necessary to preserve the
++++ ambitious new film explores a town’s source of wealth, and
A border town revisits crucial local historical event by neither side can escape the
its unsettling past. having current residents re-enact reality that 90 percent of the
it. On July 12, 1917, a posse of deportees were immigrants. All
2,000 deputized townspeople Townsfolk in costume
of it is past history, but not once
rounded up 1,300 striking min- the play-acting begins. “Every
ers at gunpoint, loaded them into cattle cars, and important thing this movie is about is still alive.”
left them in the desert hundreds of miles away. Not Greene never pushes the contemporary resonances,
every Bisbee resident knew about the deportation but they’re there, said Richard Brody in NewYorker
before Greene arrived, but many did, and as the re- .com. “The film is a form of drama therapy for a
enactment unfolds, “we can feel something in the community that, in crucial ways, reflects the pathol-
town shift.” The arguments that so violently split ogies and the conflicts of the country at large.”

New on DVD and Blu-ray

Scott Garfield, Kimberley French, Jarred Alterman

Hereditary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Ocean’s 8

(Lionsgate, $30)
“A new horror classic,” Ari Aster’s debut fea-
ture film evinces “a lasting power to disturb,”
said the Los Angeles Times. Toni Collette is
brilliant as a mother who fears her teenage
children may have inherited their grand-
mother’s demons, and Aster ratchets up the
dread “with quiet, unshowy mastery.”
(Universal, $30)
The recent hit documentary about TV’s
Mister Rogers “operates both as a dewy-eyed
nostalgia trip and a stirring appeal for civility,”
said The Washington Post. The gentle chil-
dren’s show host championed love above all,
and in taking up the cause, this tribute proves
“as quietly, cozily radical as its subject.”
(Warner Bros., $25)
The ladies-only spinoff of the Ocean’s 11
heist franchise is best when it’s celebrating
“the delights, and depth, of girly culture,”
said Slate.com. Even with Sandra Bullock,
Cate Blanchett, and Rihanna playing thieves
who savor their own hypercompetence and
style, Anne Hathaway nearly steals the show.

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Movies on TV
Monday, Sept. 17
Rosewater
Jon Stewart’s strong direc-
torial debut dramatizes the
true story of an Iranian-
born journalist who risked
his life when he returned to
Tehran. With Gael García
Bernal. (2014) 5:45 p.m.,
Showtime
Tuesday, Sept. 18
The Debt
Helen Mirren, Ciarán Hinds,
and Tom Wilkinson co-star
in a thriller about Mossad
agents harboring a secret
about their Nazi-hunting
heroics. (2011) 10:05 p.m.,
the Movie Channel
Wednesday, Sept. 19
Ocean’s Eleven
Frank Sinatra leads his
Rat Pack comrades in the
original caper flick about a
big heist on the Las Vegas
Strip. (1960) 8 p.m., TCM
Thursday, Sept. 20
Hoosiers
Gene Hackman, Dennis
Hopper, and a bunch of
scrappy teenagers team
up for an unlikely run at a
state championship in a
sports drama that justifies
Indiana’s love of basketball.
(1986) 8 p.m., Epix
Friday, Sept. 21
Nighthawks
Sylvester Stallone and Billy
Dee Williams are New York
cops tasked with taking out
a European terrorist in a
thriller descended from The
French Connection. (1981)
10:35 p.m., Starz Encore
Saturday, Sept. 22
The Shape of Water
A mute cleaning lady
crushes on a merman held
inside a government lab in
the period fable that won
2018’s Best Picture Oscar.
Sally Hawkins and Michael
Shannon co-star. (2017)
Michele K. Short/Netflix, David Scott Holloway/CNN
8 p.m., HBO
Sunday, Sept. 23
Far From the Madding
Crowd
Julie Christie plays an heir-
ess loved by three men
in a standout adaptation
of Thomas Hardy’s 1874
novel. (1967) 5 p.m., TCM
• All listings are Eastern Time.
Television
The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes
The true-crime revival continues as Fox’s Lost
Tapes series revisits the most sensational murder
story of the hippie era. This two-hour documen-
tary special draws on hours of footage shot by
the one filmmaker allowed inside the Southern
California compound where Charles Manson and
his followers lived. Interviews with prosecutors
and former Manson disciples help explain how
a cult founded on peace, love, and hallucinogens
turned into a killing force. Liev Schreiber narrates.
Monday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m., Fox
I Feel Bad
Don’t let the gloomy name of the show mislead
you. Executive-produced by Amy Poehler and
based on the graphic novel I Feel Bad: All Day.
Every Day. About Everything, this new half-
hour sitcom finds cockeyed humor in the endless
small failings of its heroine—a working mom in
her 40s who depends on her immigrant parents
for child-care help when she escapes her hectic
family life to manage an all-male team of much
younger video-game developers. Sarayu Blue
stars. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 10 p.m., NBC
Dead Lucky
Amid today’s tidal wave of imported crime
procedurals, Dead Lucky has one major edge:
It has Rachel Griffiths as its lead. The Golden
Globe–winning Australian actress plays a
moody but gifted detective whose pursuit of
a cop killer leads into corners of Sydney new
to most American viewers. That, and co-star
Brooke Satchwell, might be enough. Available for
streaming Thursday, Sept. 20, Sundance Now
Art in the Twenty-First Century
Do you suffer from dandruff-like symptoms when
confronted with contemporary art? The series
that’s long been a cure for such head-scratching
returns with new episodes that will focus on inno-
vative artists in Johannesburg, Berlin, and the San
Francisco Bay Area, and on how place shapes the
artists’ work. Begins Friday, Sept. 21, at 9 p.m.,
PBS; check local listings
Maniac
Mind-bending dark comedies seem to be trend-
Bourdain with W. Kamau Bell in Kenya
ARTS 25
Maniac: Hill and Stone board a mind trip.
ing this fall. In this 10-part limited series, Emma
Stone and Jonah Hill co-star as unhappy strang-
ers who develop a brain stem–deep connec-
tion when they both volunteer for a drug trial
overseen by a would-be visionary who claims to
have “solved” the mind. Hallucinations quickly
become hard to distinguish from reality as direc-
tor Cary Fukunaga hopscotches amid multiple
truths. Justin Theroux and Sally Field co-star.
Available for streaming Friday, Sept. 21, Netflix
Other highlights
70th Primetime Emmy Awards
Not every great show will win (or even be men-
tioned), and not every winner will be great. But
TV’s big awards night feels more important every
year, with this one poised to decide if Netflix
now outshines HBO and how to divide awards
among Game of Thrones, Westworld, and The
Handmaid’s Tale. Michael Che and Colin Jost co-
host. Monday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m., NBC
Quincy
Quincy Jones and his remarkable music career
get a loving documentary tribute from his daugh-
ter Rashida. Available for streaming Friday,
Sept. 21, Netflix
Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
Anne heads to college to complete a Canadian-
produced trilogy that adapts the same novels as
Netflix’s Anne With an “E.” Sunday, Sept. 23, at
7:30 p.m., PBS; check local listings
Show of the week
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
You could almost have guessed that Anthony
Bourdain was hard at work on a new season of
his inimitable travel series when he committed
suicide in June. Seven episodes have now been
completed, and though most won’t include the
host’s bighearted narration, they’ll show Bour-
dain and assorted friends soaking up the local
cooking and culture of South Texas, Indonesia,
Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and the Asturias
region of Spain. In the final two episodes, col-
leagues will reflect on Bourdain’s legacy. But first:
A trip with the chef to Kenya. Sunday, Sept. 23, at
9 p.m., CNN
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
26
Turkey roasted in banana leaves: A lesson from Cuba
Chefs in Cuba have to be creative with
often-limited resources, and they “love to
wrap foods in banana leaves prior to roast-
ing them,” said Guillermo Pernot in Cuba
Cooks (Rizzoli). The method was favored by
the indigenous Taino people, and the leaves,
which grow abundantly throughout the
island, are used to hold in moisture and add
flavor to everything from fish to whole pigs.
At my Cuba Libre restaurants, we cook
turkey this way, first brushing the breasts
with a mango-curry sauce, or mojito. Frozen
banana leaves, which are more easily found,
work just as well if you thaw them just
before cooking, and you can sub in parch-
ment paper if needed. Banana leaves aren’t
edible, but “they impart an herbal smoki-
ness” and “make for a striking presentation.”
Recipe of the week
Banana leaf–roasted turkey with
mango-curry mojito
For mojito:
1 cup diced mango
¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
¼ cup olive oil
¼ tsp sugar
2 tsp Thai red curry paste
1 sprig fresh basil
¾ tsp kosher salt
1 tbsp fresh lime juice
1 cup shrimp stock
Rum: Finally, the real thing
At last we may have found the one true
rum, said Jason Wilson in The New York
Times. A decade after craft-spirit enthu-
siasts discovered rhum agricole, a rival
has emerged, and it “ticks all the roman-
tic boxes.” Clairin is made only in Haiti,
often in homemade stills and from wild
sugars crushed by the power of oxen.
But give agricole a try as well. They’re
both distilled from pure cane-sugar juice
rather than from the molasses used in
common rum, and that difference
introduces complex, earthy flavors.
Neisson Rhum Agricole Blanc ($35).
“Perfect in cocktails,” this unaged
rum from Martinique offers notes of
brown butter, dill, and sage.
Rhum J.M. V.O. ($40). Three years
of aging works wonders: “Swirl-
ing flavors of smoked herb,
smoked honey, and barbecue”
lead to a spicy, licorice inish.
Clairin Casimir ($40). Past the
funky aroma (seaweed and
burned rubber), this clairin brims
with “attractive umami notes.”
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
LEISURE
Food & Drink
all mojito ingredients except shrimp stock
until curry paste fully dissolves. Transfer to
a blender; puree until smooth. Pour into a
bowl and stir in shrimp stock. Taste, and
adjust salt. Cover and set aside.
Preheat oven to 400. In a mini food proces-
sor, pulse onion and lemon zest until onion
is finely chopped. Add sage, parsley, olive
oil, bay leaves, butter, and salt; pulse until
mixture forms a coarse paste.
Place turkey breasts on a work surface and
carefully insert your fingers between skin
and flesh of each breast, creating a pocket
that runs the length of the breast. Be care-
ful not to pull skin off. Season outside of
Surprising flavor and a ‘striking’ presentation breasts generously with salt and pepper.
Stuff half the herb paste into the pocket
For turkey: of a turkey breast and spread evenly over
1 small onion, chopped flesh. Repeat with second breast.
Zest of 1 lemon
12 fresh sage leaves Place two banana leaves in the bottom of a
½ cup fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves large roasting pan and set a turkey breast
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil on each one. Baste breasts with mojito
6 bay leaves glaze, then wrap individually in remaining
4 tbsp unsalted butter banana leaves, fully enclosing them.
1 tsp kosher salt, plus more as needed
2 (4½-lb) boneless turkey breast halves Roast turkey about 40 minutes, until
Freshly ground black pepper breasts are cooked through and a ther-
4 banana leaves, fresh or thawed mometer registers an internal temperature
of 155. Remove from oven and let rest for
In a small saucepan over medium heat, cook 10 minutes before carving. Serves 16.
Juneau, Alaska: A food destination built on crab legs
The food revolution has inally reached Alaska’s
humble capital, said Liza Weisstuch in The Wash-
ington Post. Ask a local today where to ind a meal
and the answer will no longer be “Seattle” but any
of a cluster of cafés, restaurants, or crab shacks
where ambitious chefs who learned their trade in
the Lower 48 are elevating Alaskan food. “So what
is Alaskan food?” Think foraged cloudberries,
seafood from the wild, and whole ish smoked
over indigenous alder. And think a culinary scene
that “works like linked gears,” because in a town
of 32,000, everyone knows everyone else. Potting the king crab at Tracy’s
Salt Chef Lionel Uddipa, winner of 2017’s Great
American Seafood Cook-Off, takes a morning in the wilderness to collect the mountain
strawberries, beach asparagus, or spruce tips he incorporates into his specials. In Salt’s
“upscale yet casual” dining room, he’ll sear Alaskan halibut at your table and pair it with
Steve Legato, Liza Weisstuch/The Washington Post
foraged mushrooms and broccolini conit. 200 Seward St., (907) 780-2221
Tracy’s King Crab Shack Tracy LaBarge’s waterfront crab shack launched Juneau’s
culinary awakening, and most every talent in town owes her for an early boost. The
current Tracy’s feels like an institution, but it still has an open-air vibe, and the buck-
ets of steamed king crab legs still get ferried out of the open kitchen by the dozens.
432 S. Franklin St., (907) 723-1811
In Bocca al Lupo The pizzas are made in a wood-burning oven behind the bar at this
two-year-old casual Italian spot, where James Beard Award semiinalist Beau Schooler
shows his skills with simple pastas. The crown jewel is cavatelli with parsley, Alaskan
scallops, garlic, chili flakes, and cauliflower. 120 2nd St., (907) 586-1409.

This week’s dream: Wrangling cattle in Colorado
The first day you spend at Chico Basin
“imbues you with an immediate urge to
become a more capable human being,”
said Candice Rainey in Condé Nast
Traveler. Unlike most other Western
dude ranches, “where visitors might fol-
low up their leisurely trail ride by play-
ing 18 holes or dozing off on a massage
table,” Chico is a working cattle farm
where there’s real work to be done,
and guests are expected to help mend
fences, move and sort cattle, and even
brand calves. From the moment I clam-
ber into the saddle of my moody horse,
“I am instantly aware I am not riding a
Disney creature.” But I learn quickly. “I
dig rugged individualism,” and, being a
native of Utah, I want to prove I belong.
At Chico and two other state-owned
Colorado ranches run by a company called
Ranchlands, the goal is to keep ranching
alive by educating visitors in the whole
way of life. I’m game for the challenge
up through our first afternoon of herd-
Travel
Guest ranchers watch the sunset in Chico Basin.
ing cattle out in the “seemingly endless”
grasslands. But then it’s time to guide the
cattle into narrow chutes and onward to
be weighed, and “I’m quite frankly scared
s---less,” because these half-ton animals
are dangerous when anxious. I manage
to help guide one through a gate, though,
then another, and by the end I’m both
LEISURE 27
exhausted and glad I didn’t quit,
because “I’d have missed out on
that distinctive afterglow that only
washes over you when you feel you
are, well, necessary.”
I spend the end of my trip at Zapata,
a Ranchlands property that’s “a little
less rough around the edges.” I enjoy
the indoor showers and private baths
at Zapata’s rustic but comfortable
lodge, where warm community meals
are served at long wooden tables.
Guests can work here, but they can
also rock climb, geek out with the
on-site naturalist, or spy on the bison
that run wild in the neighboring
national park. One day, I learn how to ride
a horse running at full stride in a creek bed.
As she picks up speed, cool water sprays
my back. “The feeling is like falling but not
falling—controlled serendipity.”
At Chico Basin Ranch (chicobasinranch
.com), a six-night working ranch experi-
ence costs $1,995.

Hotel of the week Getting the flavor of...

Living like a ’49er
Yosemite Pines RV Resort
Yosemite National Park,
California
There’s a new way to go
glamping, said Lyndsey
Matthews in Afar.com. The
Yosemite Pines RV Resort,
located 30 minutes from
Yosemite National Park, now
has two Conestoga covered
wagons that are just like
those used by the pioneers,
“but with air-conditioning.”
The larger wagon can sleep
six, in a king-size bed and
two sets of bunks, and the
smaller wagon sleeps four.
Each wagon comes with
Ranchlands, Yosemite Pines RV Resort
The world’s first human catapult
“If you have $172, are older than 13, and weigh
equal to or under 280 pounds, well, get thee
to New Zealand,” said Kastalia Medrano in
Thrillist.com. Queenstown, the self-branded
Adventure Capital of the World, is now home
to the world’s first human catapult. Designed
and operated by AJ Hackett, the company that
popularized bungee jumping, the catapult doesn’t
simply hurl your body into the void. Instead,
you’re outfitted with a harness, strapped into
a high-tech winch system, lifted off a platform,
“and then rocketed 492 feet out across the Nevis
Valley, reaching more than 60 miles per hour
almost instantly.” When your screaming stops,
you bounce about in mid-air briefly before being
hauled back in. AJ Hackett (bungy.co.nz) also
offers bungee jumps and zip lines in Queenstown,
and because the 30-year-old company has an
“absolutely spotless” safety record, there’s no
room for excuses. “You’ve gotta try this thing.”
Last-minute travel deals
Alaska by cruise ship James Bond’s Caribbean
Book a seven-night Alaska Through October, enjoy fourth
Literary Oxford
Oxford, England, is a great destination for book
lovers, said Amy Pay in LonelyPlanet.com. J.R.R.
Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, and Philip
Pullman all found inspiration in the city’s pubs,
gardens, and cathedrals, and their footsteps can be
easily traced. Tolkien often wrote at a hexagonal
stone table that still sits in the gardens at Merton
College, and he and C.S. Lewis were members
of a literary society that met at the Eagle and
Child, a still-active 17th-century pub. Opposite
St. Mary’s church, look for an ornate door etched
with the face of a wise lion. It’s the “Narnia
Door” that inspired Lewis. Pullman enthusiasts
should visit the Covered Market and the Botanic
Garden, both of which figure into his novels. And
though J.K. Rowling didn’t work Oxford into her
Harry Potter books, key Potter movie scenes were
shot in the New College courtyard and cloisters,
and in the Bodleian Library, with its “sprawling
corridors of floor-to-ceiling shelves.”
Fall golf in Vermont
Through October 31, spend a

a microwave, mini fridge,
picnic table, and fire pit. The
wagons lack bathrooms, but
you won’t require the cour-
age of a pioneer to make the
short walk to shared facilities.
yosemitepinesrv.com; wagons
from $179
cruise with Prestige Cruises
before Sept. 21 and you can
enjoy free drinks plus free
berths for the third and fourth
guests in each cabin. The offer
starts at $899 per person, dou-
ble occupancy.
prestigecruises.com
nights free at GoldenEye, the
Jamaican resort that James
Bond creator Ian Fleming once
called home. With the discount,
rates start at $319 a night, with
dinner and daily glass-bottom
boat tours included.
goldeneye.com
night at Vermont’s Woodstock
Inn and enjoy unlimited golf
at the top-rated Woodstock
Country Club. Rates for dou-
bles start at $431 on weekdays
and $629 on weekends. Use
code UNLIMGOLF18WEB.
woodstockinn.com

THE WEEK September 21, 2018

28 Best properties on the market
This week: Homes in Wisconsin
1 X De Soto This award-
winning four-bedroom
house sits on 40 acres on
the western border of the
state. Inspired by Frank
Lloyd Wright, the architect
created an interior of
wood, stone, and concrete,
with oversize windows
and geothermal heating.
Notable outdoor features
include a wind turbine,
reflecting ponds with koi,
an outside fireplace and
hot tub, and two cabins
currently used as guest-
houses. $1,790,000. Paul
Handle, Mahler/Sotheby’s
International Realty, (414)
964-2000

2 W Middleton Set on 1.5 acres,

this five-bedroom home was
built using environmentally
sustainable principles, with
insulated concrete, a metal
roof, and radiant heat. Details
include a media room hidden
behind bookcases on the lower
level, a tower room accessible
via a spiral staircase, an au pair
suite, and a master bedroom
with steam shower, infin-
ity tub, sauna, and fireplace.
$988,900. Susi and Paul
Haviland, Stark Co. Realtors,
(608) 576-9211

3 X De Pere The Crow’s Nest is a seven-bedroom

home in the Green Bay area. Built in 1858, the
residence retains the original interior wooden
shutters, millwork, and crystal chandeliers.The
master suite has French doors leading to a veran-
da. The 2-acre property features a pool, a pergola
draped with wisteria, and 198 feet of frontage on
the Fox River. $1,500,000. Sandra Ranck, Keller
Williams, (920) 265-5033

THE WEEK September 21, 2018

 Best properties on the market 29

4 X Madison Built in 2002, this four-bedroom, prairie-

influenced house overlooks Lake Mendota. Interior de-
tails include a chef’s kitchen, a great room with vaulted
ceiling, and a master suite with spa bathroom. The
landscaped property has a patio, stone walls, a heated
three-car garage, and a boathouse. $1,800,000. Kristine
Jaeger, Sprinkman Real Estate, (608) 217-1919

Wisconsin 3

1 6
2
4

5 W Birchwood Little Bear Lodge is a five-bedroom log house on Red

Cedar Lake. The two-story home features an open-space plan, first-
floor master suite, kitchen with sunroom, and great room with a large
stone fireplace and a wall of windows. The 1.2-acre property includes a
hot tub, a porch, a patio, a dock, and more than 300 feet of shoreline.
$1,050,000. Brian Sundberg and Jim Seabold, Coldwell Banker Burnet,
(612) 309-2702

Steal of the week

6 X Fox Point This four-bedroom bungalow was

built in 1927. The interior features the original
floors, built-ins, crown molding, and leaded glass
windows. The wooded property has a backyard
patio and three-car garage, and is in a highly ranked
school district. $274,900. Falk Ruvin Team, Cold-
well Banker Residential Real Estate, (414) 688-3935
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
30 LEISURE
The 2019 Kia Forte: What the critics say
Edmunds.com
Attention, value shoppers: “This is the
deal you’ve been looking for.” The new Kia
Forte isn’t the quickest or nimblest car in its
class, but it’s more enjoyable to drive than
a Honda Civic, it “exceeds expectations” for
style, and it comes packed with features and
backed by a generous warranty. Now bor-
rowing design elements from Kia’s sporty
and upmarket Stinger, including a longer
hood and fastback roof, the Forte “starts
paying off before you even get in it.”
KellyBlueBook.com
“In short, the Forte has grown up.” Having
just supplanted a CUV—the Soul—as Kia’s
Consumer
top-selling model in the U.S., the new Forte
is longer and wider than the previous edi-
tion, and its stiffer platform makes the driv-
ing experience sportier and more reined.
The trunk has grown to near best in class,
and thanks in part to a new CVT, or continu-
ously variable transmission, this Kia touches
41 mpg on the highway.
Motor Trend
Because it’s still powered by a 147-hp four-
cylinder engine, the Forte “feels a little slow Kia’s new sales leader, from $17,690
accelerating from a standstill.” But the CVT
delivers power smoothly, and anyway, this money.” Lane-keeping assist, an 8-inch touch
Forte “improves upon what Kia already screen, Apple CarPlay: “You won’t ind those
does best: offering tons of features for the features standard on the current Civic.”

The best of...wearing fall’s plaids

Bershka Straight Cut
Wool Coat
A budget-friendly riff
on the Meghan Markle
trenchcoat that launched
2018’s craze for plaids,
this casual wool-blend
driving coat is no
$1,000 Burberry. But the
appeal of its silhouette
and classic colors “will
last multiple seasons.”
$70, bershka.com
Source: Glamour.com
By the Way
Cher Wrap Skirt
Consider it “what
Cher Horowitz would
wear if Clueless were
set in 2018.” This fully
lined cotton skirt uses
an airier plaid and a
touch of asymmetry to
update the look Alicia
Silverstone made iconic
in 1995.
$52, revolve.com
Source: Stylecaster.com
Topshop
Check Bumbag
The unexpected fanny-
pack renaissance meets
the tartan trend in a
playful fast-fashion
accessory that “dei-
nitely will not remind
you of your grand-
mother’s wardrobe.” The
material is pure PVC
and “looks rad in plaid.”
$35, topshop.com
Source: EliteDaily.com
Chelsea 28
Plaid Blazer
Add easy elegance
to any outit with a
poly-blend blazer in a
subtle plaid. This one
can be your everyday
lightweight jacket or the
perfect complement to
a pair of high-waisted
jeans and a deep-V
black bodysuit.
$109, nordstrom.com
Source: UnionvilleTimes.com
& Other Stories
Duo Platform Heels
Still not sure you’re
ready to wear plaid?
Test the waters with
these two-tone plat-
form heels. They have
“a swinging ’60s vibe,”
and when the tempera-
ture drops, they’ll “look
great with a pair of
socks.”
$129, stories.com
Source: NYMag.com

Tip of the week...
Plants you should know and avoid
QPoison ivy secretes a sticky oil that causes
itchy, painful blisters, and the oil can be
carried into your home by pets. Remember
the old saying: “Leaves of three, let it be.”
The plant’s leaflets grow off the main stem in
groups of three rather than the five common
to similar-looking backyard plants. Other tip-
offs: the plant’s white berries and hairy vines.
QPokeweed, a common green-leafed shrub,
is “toxic from head to toe” and can be
recognized by its long clusters of poisonous
dark berries, which hang from pink stems.
QPoison hemlock has white blooms that
resemble those of Queen Anne’s lace. But
poison hemlock has a smooth stem dappled
with purple spots, not a hairy green stem.
QGiant hogweed is the worst. The invasive
plant, which can grow higher than 10 feet,
has huge lobed leaves and white, umbrella-
like flower clusters. Its sap causes horrible
blisters and burns.
Source: The Washington Post
And for those who have
everything...
“Remem-
ber the
Lite-Brite?”
There’s now
an even bet-
ter version
of the classic
plug-in pegboard toy—better because it’s
big enough to ill a wall. LiteZilla comes in
four different sizes, measuring up to 6 by 8
feet. As on a classic toaster-size Lite-Brite, the
front panel is a grid lit from behind so that
you can create illuminated pictures and pat-
terns by inserting translucent colored pegs
in every hole. Every LiteZilla is handcrafted,
with the board made of surgical-grade HDPE
and frames available in steel, walnut, white
oak, or even snakewood. The pegs, which
are 4 inches long and an inch wide, can be
ordered in any Pantone color you desire.
From $10,000, litezilla.com
Source: CoolThings.com
Best apps...
For craft beer aficionados
QUntappd is fueled by the ratings and com-
ments of its 5 million beer-loving users, so it
has become a go-to source for discovering
what’s new, what’s creating excitement, or
where to find any craft brew you’re seeking.
QTapHunter tracks down coveted suds “like
Ahab did Moby Dick.” Plug in your ZIP code
and the beer you’re seeking, and TapHunter
will search its database of bars to tell you
where it’s being poured.
QPairWise suggests pairings of food and
beer, drawing from a database of 1,300
dishes and 58,000 beers.
QNext Glass and SipSnapp let you scan
bar codes on cans and bottles to pull up
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The bottom line
QHong Kong has passed
New York as the city with the
most multimillionaires. More
than 10,000 people living
there have $30 million in
assets, compared with New
York’s 8,900. Twenty-six of
the 30 fastest-growing cities
in the world for the ultra-
wealthy are in China.
CNBC.com
QOf the roughly 8,300 mil-
lion metric tons of plastic
that have been produced
to date, about 60 percent is
believed to be floating in the
oceans or stuffed in landfills.
The New York Times
QAmerican teenagers now
say they prefer texting to talk-
ing to friends in person, ac-
cording to research from
Common Sense Me-
dia. In a survey, 35 per-
cent chose texting as
their favorite form of
interaction—versus
just 32 percent for
in-person conver-
sations. Roughly
89 percent of teen-
agers now have their
own smartphone, up
from 41 percent in
2012. The majority of
those surveyed also
acknowledge that
apps regularly wake them
up at night and distract them
from homework.
NBCNews.com
QThe average monthly cost
for U.S. child care now sits at
$1,385—inching closer to the
country’s median monthly
rent of about $1,500, accord-
ing to Care.com. In-home
care runs to an average of
$28,354 annually, and day
center child care costs are on
average $9,589.
CNBC.com
QOne sector of manufactur-
ing where America remains
a leader: computer chips.
The U.S. exports $44 billion
in semiconductors annu-
ally, making them America’s
fourth-largest manufacturing
export after cars, airplanes,
and refined oil. There are
roughly 80 wafer-fabrication
plants in the U.S., based in
AP, Newscom
19 states.
Axios.com
BUSINESS 31
The news at a glance
Auto: Ford will still make a car in China
President Trump claimed The president misunderstands
this week that thanks to the workings of the global
the prospect of tariffs, auto industry, said Elizabeth
Ford “could begin making Werth in Jalopnik.com. Ford
a small car in the United is still planning to build
States instead of importing the Focus Active hatchback
it from China,” said Neal model in China. What’s
Boudette in The New York changed it that it is simply
Times. Last month, the com- going to sell the cars in coun-
pany killed plans to import tries other than the U.S. Ford
its Focus Active hatchback Ford: still building in China
has already suffered “plenty
from China, as proposed of blows” because of the
25 percent tariffs would make the cost too high. White House’s trade war. So far, the prospect of
According to Ford, it couldn’t sell 50,000 Focus auto tariffs has been a flop for everybody. It’s
models in the U.S., regardless of where the car escalated an international trade war, as all sides
was built. Trump’s Twitter response suggested he “root their heels down deeper in the dirt and
was unconvinced: “This car can now be BUILT play chicken until things get bad enough that
IN THE U.S.A. and Ford will pay no tariffs!” someone has to break.”
Chile’s skies entice
Tech: Apple unwraps supersized new iPhone Valley eyes
Apple this week unveiled its next generation of devices, including
“by far the biggest iPhone yet,” said Jacob Kastrenakes in TheVerge The cloudless skies
.com. The new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max look similar to their above Chile’s northern
Atacama Desert offer
predecessors, but under the hood they have been given significant a unique economic
upgrades—including improved water resistance (up to 2 meters),
opportunity, said
tougher glass casings, better displays, enhanced stereo sound speak- Cassandra Garrison
ers, speed increases, and what Apple calls an all-new camera system.
in Reuters.com. The
But it’s the XS Max’s whopping 6.5-inch screen, surpassing even South American nation
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9’s, that is most noteworthy. The larger ver- is home to 70 percent
sion will start at a price of $1,099. of global astronomy
investment, thanks to
Vaping: FDA floats ban on Juul Atacama, the driest
The Food and Drug Administration is threatening to pull flavored
desert on Earth. Now
electronic cigarettes such as Juul off the market, said Anna Edney Amazon is in talks to
in Bloomberg.com. The agency has given the five major e-cigarette “house and mine mas-
manufacturers 60 days to come up with ways to address their prod- sive amounts of data
ucts’ use by children and teens. If they fail to find a solution, the FDA generated by the coun-
may ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes altogether. Juul seems to be try’s giant telescopes.”
the preferred brand of young vapers—who currently include an esti- The tech giant hopes
mated 2.1 million middle and high school students. the problem of sifting
and sorting the data
Unions: Steel workers threaten strike action could prove a worthy
Workers at two of the biggest U.S. steelmakers are demanding higher challenge for new arti-
pay as tariffs push steel profits “to their highest point in years,” said ficial intelligence tools.
Bob Tita in The Wall Street Journal. Steel prices have risen by more The timing is perfect for
than 30 percent this year; while many other industries have opposed Chile, which is trying
tariffs, the steel industry has embraced them. Worker contracts at to wean its $325 billion
United States Steel and ArcelorMittal, responsible for 40 percent of economy from its reli-
U.S. production, expired Sept. 1. The two companies together employ ance on copper mining.
30,000 United Steelworkers members. Workers have authorized Other tech companies
unions to call a strike, claiming their pay hasn’t risen since 2015. have also caught the
astronomy bug; Google
Taxes: GOP aims to make tax cuts permanent is already part of the
House Republicans seek to push through a second round of tax cuts, group developing the
said Jeff Stein in The Washington Post. The strategy would aim to Large Synoptic Survey
lock in the huge cuts the GOP passed last fall, but it could also add Telescope, which will
more than $2 trillion to the federal deficit over a decade. Informally begin operating in
dubbed “tax reform 2.0,” the proposed package makes permanent Chile in 2022 and will
photograph the entire
cuts that were passed in December 2017, including a reduction in
visible night sky every
rates and a 20 percent deduction for “pass-thru” businesses. Many of
few nights.
the 2017 cuts are set to expire in 2025.
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32 BUSINESS Making money

FIRE: An early exit from the rat race

A growing number of young profes- off. The key to success is avoiding
sionals are trying to leave the work “lifestyle creep”—the temptation to
world before they’re 40, said Steven spend more money as your income
Kurutz in The New York Times. rises. Co-workers often start off
Looking for “a way out of soul- skeptical, but end up envious. What
sucking, time-stealing work,” they do you do in early retirement? Back-
are embracing the burgeoning FIRE pack around Europe and the U.S.;
movement—“financial independence, get in an Airstream trailer and Ins-
retire early.” FIRE evangelists “geek tagram your camping life; or, in one
out calculating compound interest” case, hit the wilderness to become an
to maximize their savings and find avalanche forecaster.
the formula that lets them move from
places such as Silicon Valley to more Just know before you set out that
affordable towns. Variations abound: there’s no magic number for early
There are advocates of “lean FIRE,” Scott and Taylor Rieckens gave up stress—and their BMW.
retirement, said Steve Adcock in
who believe in extreme frugality, “fat MarketWatch.com. You’ll want
FIRE” who hold on in the work world long enough to keep up four years of living expenses in available cash. And you will end
a higher standard of living, and even “barista FIRE,” who quit up needing more than $1 million, a stockpile that many in the
stressful jobs but work at Starbucks part-time for the health in- movement shoot for, to take you through the rest of your life.
surance. “We all know that a traditional retirement is a thing of But guess what? There’s no “retirement police” keeping you from
the past,” said Elizabeth O’Brien in Money.com. FIRE enthusi- making some extra money from your passions. Just be care-
asts are essentially saying, “Let’s just blow up the whole concept ful to know what you’re in for, said Alessandra Malito, also in
of career, and retirement, and start from scratch.” MarketWatch.com. Factor in the cost of health care; that’s some-
thing many early retirees dangerously underestimate. If you really
It’s easy to see why the FIRE cult is expanding, said Shomari want to retire in your 30s, you’ll need to cut back on eating out,
Wills in Vice.com: Today’s high-pressure office jobs take an movies, and vacations. That means forgoing a lot of the “things
unprecedented toll on our health. One infotech worker decided that make life enjoyable.” But even if you don’t go all out, you
to retire early after seeing her mentor keel over and get carried can still take a cue from the FIRE movement and “prioritize ex-
off on a stretcher. But ultra-early retirement isn’t easy to pull periences over material possessions.”

What the experts say Charity of the week

A warning on coastal properties
Prices are falling for seaside houses as sea lev-
els rise and storms strengthen, said Ed Leefeldt
in CBSNews.com. Domestic properties lo-
cated close to beaches that are exposed to
rising water levels sell at a 7 percent discount
compared with homes that are “just as close
to the water,” but more protected. The dis-
count, according to a study from the Journal
of Financial Economics, is “driven by sophis-
ticated buyers and communities worried about
the long-term effect of global warming.” That
global-warming discount seems to be figured
into the price of about a third of coastal
homes; the effect is greatest in areas of high
income and education. Economists warn that
a major flood could cause a “wealth shock”
with a sudden drop in coastal values.
Last chance to report foreign assets
“If you’re holding a bank account or an in-
pate could be subject to large fines, penalties,
and criminal prosecution.” The program was
launched back in 2009 and led to more than
56,000 taxpayers reporting in—and eventu-
ally forking out $11.1 billion in back taxes,
interest, and penalties. By law, Americans are
required to report overseas accounts to the
IRS and Treasury. “Frustration over those
requirements—and the related cost of remain-
ing in compliance—has led some citizens
abroad to renounce their citizenship.”
Downside of summer jobs
“Working more hours as a student may back-
fire” if your family has qualified for financial
aid, said Gail MarksJarvis in Reuters.com.
Roughly 78 percent of college students spend
a portion of the year working, and 45 percent
have jobs year-round. An estimated 58 percent
of freshmen depend on outside work. That
makes sense: Tuition, room and board, and
Human trafficking
is the fastest-
growing crime in
the world, with
nearly 25 million
people exploited
for sex and labor.
Coalition to Abol-
ish Slavery &
Trafficking (castla
.org) assists and advocates for survivors
of modern slavery. By providing shelter,
counseling, medical assistance, transpor-
tation, legal services, and job training,
the organization helps survivors, often
immigrants brought into the U.S. illegally,
leave their captors and build new lives.
CAST also works to affect policy through
the National Survivor Network leadership
program. NSN members currently serve
on the U.S. Advisory Council on Human
Trafficking board, where they advocate for
other survivors and provide policy advice
and recommendations to federal officials.
Last year, the charity helped more than
750 victims transition into safety.
Leah Nash/The New York Times/Redux

vestment account overseas, you’re running out
of time to come clean to the IRS,” said Darla
Mercado in CNBC.com. On Sept. 28, the
Internal Revenue Service is pulling the shutters
down on its voluntary disclosure program for
those who have funds held in foreign bank ac-
counts. That means U.S. citizens with assets in
foreign accounts “who have failed to partici-
THE WEEK September 21, 2018
other costs can add up to more than $30,000
at public colleges and as much as $70,000
at private universities. But the financial aid
formula dings students who earn more than
$7,000 a year. For instance, a student who
had already earned $7,000 for 2018 and tried
to fit in another $3,000 in the summer could
lose about $1,300 in financial aid.
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.
34 Best columns: Business

Media: Did CBS act too slowly on Moonves charges?

CBS boss Les Moonves had won so many
battles, he thought he could even survive
#MeToo, said John Koblin in The New York
Times. Having taken CBS from last place in
the ratings to the top with shows such as CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation and, yes, Survivor,
Moonves made himself into “perhaps the
most powerful television executive of the last
two decades.” When the first detailed allega-
tions of sexual harassment against him were
raised last month by New Yorker reporter
Ronan Farrow, Moonves was convinced
he would avoid the fate of #MeToo villains
Moonves: Will he get $120 million?
Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, and Charlie
Rose. He stepped right back into the public eye, dining with his
wife, the CBS host Julie Chen, at Nobu Malibu, a hot spot for
Hollywood executives. But last week, six more women accused
Moonves of sexual assaults, “physical violence, and intimida-
tion,” said Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker. The women said
that when they tried to escape Moonves, he retaliated, growing
“cold as ice, hostile, nasty,” and sabotaging their careers.
The reports of Moonves’ behavior are truly disturbing, said
Megan Garber in The Atlantic. But until this week, CBS reck-
oned with the allegations at a listless pace. So far, there’s “little
evidence of deeper or more meaningful amends making.” Far-
row uncovered “a radiating rot” at CBS, a “culture of complic-
ity and complacency” that emboldened powerful men to exploit on will be a supreme challenge. Analysts expect rival media com-
and intimidate. Months ago, factions of CBS’s board were
told of a sexual assault police complaint that was filed against
Moonves and warned of rumors that his #MeToo moment was
coming. But corporate infighting hampered CBS’s response.
Moonves’ leaving is a big deal, “but it is
very much not the full deal.” In his time as
CEO, CBS has paid Moonves more than
$650 million. He also argues he’s entitled
to $120 million in severance, which CBS
has placed in escrow pending an internal
investigation. It’s also donating $20 million
to #MeToo movement charities—which will
be deducted from any Moonves payout. Yet
because of a confidentiality clause, the in-
vestigation’s results may stay hidden. If that
happens, “the culture that appears to have
allowed him to operate unimpeded for so
long might well remain in place.”
That’s unacceptable, said The Washington Post in an editorial.
The length of time it took for CBS to remove Moonves “shows
how far the country remains from workplace equality.” Rather
than sweep this mess under the carpet, CBS should reveal who
else at the network knew of these allegations and what effect
executive-suite attitudes had on news coverage and programming.
The only real winner in this bruising saga is Shari Redstone,
said Keach Hagey and Joe Flint in The Wall Street Journal. The
daughter of media tycoon Sumner Redstone had been fighting
for control of CBS, and Moonves was “her main antagonist.” As
part of Moonves’ departure deal, she jettisoned six board mem-
bers close to him and replaced them with new directors. Moving
panies and tech giants to explore a takeover deal. But any new
regime must “grapple with the darker elements” of the culture
Moonves created, and it’s likely that Shari Redstone will “be held
to account for how CBS’s story plays out from here.”

The bank The U.S. is “hastening along” a financial crisis that

could prove as bad as the one that hit 10 years ago,
bailout’s said John Cassidy—and this time we don’t have the
tools to fix it. The collapse of the investment bank
real cost Lehman Brothers in September 2008 opened “the
biggest financial crisis and deepest economic recession
John Cassidy since the 1930s.” But it would have been worse if
The New Yorker the secretary of the treasury and the chairman of the
Federal Reserve hadn’t gone to Congress and warned
that “if they didn’t authorize a $700 billion bank
bailout, the financial system would implode.” Saving
the banks may have staved off Great Depression–level
25 percent unemployment. But “using taxpayers’
money to bail out greedy and incompetent bankers”
inevitably had political consequences. Parties tied to
bailouts in the U.S., France, and the U.K. all paid a
price. And ordinary voters felt “the entire game had
been ‘rigged.’” Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sand-
ers seized on that, and ultimately the election of 2016
delivered a “stark verdict” on the bailout. The finan-
cial system remains fragile, and Republicans have
undermined rules put in place to protect it. “Everyone
knows that in a 2008-style panic banks could still go
down like dominoes.” If that happens, it’s unlikely
Trump will rebuild the “fragile cross-party coalition”
that held the country together.

Dislike Trump, “What does it mean to be a patriotic company

when you vehemently disagree with your na-
but work tion’s leader?” asked Andrew Ross Sorkin. That’s
the debate raging in Silicon Valley. Employees at
with him Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have lobbied their
companies to drop government contracts; Google
Andrew Ross Sorkin abandoned Project Maven, which used artificial
The New York Times intelligence to analyze images from drones. The
argument is supposedly about morality and ethics.
In truth, though, “the ethical arguments are a diver-
sion. This is political.” It’s really about President
Trump. But the idea that the tech industry shouldn’t
with doesn’t play well outside Silicon Valley. “How
do you stand up and talk to a Marine or a special
operator and explain to them” that you won’t let
them use your software, asks the CEO of Palantir,
a company that has many contracts with the U.S.
government. Workers in Silicon Valley might ponder
that and rethink their position. Helping the country
with its defense was one of the ways that the Val-
ley helped demonstrate the value of technology to
the public. With so many questions emerging about
the benefits that tech companies offer society, there
could soon be a time when Silicon Valley needs the
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work with elected leaders that employees disagree public’s support.

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 Obituaries
The Hollywood heartthrob who played it for laughs
Burt In the late 1970s and early ’80s, Burt
Reynolds Reynolds was America’s favorite hunk
1936–2018 of beefcake. With his self-depreciating
Southern charm, his rakish mustache,
and a hairy chest that he bared frequently onscreen,
the actor could single-handedly propel movies held
together by the flimsiest of plots—such as car-
crash comedies Smokey and the Bandit and The
Cannonball Run—to blockbuster status. Offscreen,
Reynolds became famous for his playboy lifestyle
and terrible career choices. He turned down the
roles of Han Solo in Star Wars, retired astronaut
Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment, and cop John McClane
in Die Hard. “I think I’m the only movie star who’s a movie star in
spite of his pictures,” he once said, “not because of them.”
Born in Lansing, Mich., Reynolds grew up in Riviera Beach, Fla.,
“where his father was police chief,” said The New York Times. A
star football player in high school, he went on to play for Florida
State University, “but his sports career ended in 1955 when he was
seriously injured in a car crash.” Reynolds started going to drama
classes—to find “the pretty girls,” he said—and moved to New
York City to pursue a theater career. “He literally crashed into
television work,” said The Washington Post, “when he was offered
$150 to fall through a glass window for a TV series.” One-quarter
Cherokee on his father’s side, Reynolds was often cast as Native
Americans in 1960s TV shows such as Gunsmoke and Hawk.
He “came to big-screen prominence in Deliverance (1972),” director
John Boorman’s brutal tale of a weekend trip to the wilderness that
ends with rape and murder, said Variety.com. Reynolds won critical
acclaim for his role as the macho Lewis Medlock, but he thought
the movie was overshadowed by what he called his “stupid” deci-
sion to pose as Cosmopolitan’s first-ever nude centerfold that year.
The Amway founder who bankrolled conservative causes
Richard Few people have loomed larger in
DeVos American business and politics over the
1926–2018 past six decades than Richard DeVos.
He made billions of dollars as the co-
founder of Amway, bought the NBA’s Orlando Magic,
and was a major benefactor of conservative causes and
candidates. He authored five inspirational and auto-
biographical books and became a sought-after motiva-
tional speaker preaching the gospel of “compassionate
capitalism”—a theme George W. Bush adopted for his
first presidential campaign. DeVos credited his entrepre-
neurial spirit to his father, an electrician who was fired
after years on the job during the Great Depression. “Own your
own business, son,” his father advised. “Work hard at it. Set high
goals for yourself and never give up, no matter what.”
Raised in Grand Rapids, Mich., DeVos had a hardscrabble child-
hood, said The Wall Street Journal. After his father lost his job,
the DeVos family moved in with relatives and young Richard
helped “one of his grandfathers sell fruit and vegetables door-to-
door, an experience that he said taught him the art of salesman-
Everett Collection, Getty
ship.” Following a stint in the Army Air Corps during World
War II, DeVos and a former school friend, Jay Van Andel, began
experimenting with business ventures, said The New York Times.
They ran a drive-in restaurant and “a failed charter schooner ser-
vice, which almost led to their drowning,” and in 1959 founded
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That shot, Reynolds claimed, made it tough for
Hollywood to take him seriously as an actor, so he
began taking lighter roles. In 1974’s The Longest
Yard, he played an imprisoned football star who
leads “a rag-tag team of prison inmates in a game
against the guards,” said The Hollywood Reporter,
and in 1977 he played a daredevil, Coors-smuggling
driver in Smokey and the Bandit. The movie grossed
$126 million—“only Star Wars took in more that
year”—and led to a romance between Reynolds and
his co-star, Sally Field, whom he later called “the
love of my life.” There’d been no shortage of past
loves: His exes included singer Dinah Shore, country star Tammy
Wynette, tennis player Chris Evert, and actress Farrah Fawcett.
By the mid-1980s, Reynolds’ star was beginning to fade, said The
Times (U.K.). His 1983 stock-car racer movie Stroker Ace flopped,
and while filming the following year’s City Heat, he suffered a
shattered jaw during a fight scene. Struggling to eat and addicted
to painkillers, Reynolds lost 30 pounds, leading tabloids to falsely
claim he had AIDS. No longer a box office draw, “the actor found
himself mired in debt.” He blamed his financial woes on his messy
divorce from actress Loni Anderson, who accused him of battery.
But his extravagant lifestyle—he had 100 horses, a petting zoo, and
an always on-call private jet at his Florida ranch—was also a factor.
Then in 1997 he experienced something of a career revival, win-
ning his first Oscar nomination for his sympathetic turn as a “curi-
ously sexless director of pornographic films” in Boogie Nights, said
The Daily Telegraph (U.K.). Looking back at his career in 2015,
Reynolds expressed regret that he hadn’t begun to take acting
seriously until he was in his 40s, but said he still believed that his
greatest role might be ahead of him. “I may not be the best actor in
the world,” he said, “but I’m the best Burt Reynolds in the world.”
Amway, short for American Way. It relied on an army
of door-to-door salespeople, or “distributors,” to hawk
everything from household cleaners to hardware and
cosmetics. “By the 1980s, Amway had achieved sales
of $1 billion a year worldwide.” Critics called its sales
strategy a pyramid scheme—its distributors worked on
commission and increased their earnings by recruiting
other distributors—“and in 1975 the Federal Trade
Commission accused it of being just that.” But the com-
mission later dropped the charge, declaring the firm’s
business strategy “a legal multilevel marketing approach.”
With the growing success of Amway, DeVos extended his “influ-
ence to politics and society,” said The Washington Post. He
helped fund “bedrock conservative organizations” such as the
Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, and, motivated
by his evangelical Christian faith, “contributed to statewide
efforts throughout the country to ban same-sex marriage.” DeVos
stepped down as Amway president in 1993; his son Doug now
leads the company. But he remained active in politics, supporting
measures to provide taxpayer-funded vouchers to parents who
want to send their children to private school—a cause championed
by his daughter-in-law, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. And
DeVos continued to believe in the power of a can-do attitude. “If
you fail at something, you don’t have to despair,” he said. “There’s
another opportunity for success just around the corner.”
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36
How we talk about race. Or don’t.
President Trump’s racially charged rhetoric has changed how neighbors see one another, said journalist Greg Jaffe.
In one South Carolina suburb, a swimming pool confrontation left an integrated community badly divided.
B
EFORE HE HEARD from
neighbors about the
confrontation at his sub-
division swimming pool, Jovan
Hyman saw a shaky video of
it on his phone, where it was
quickly going viral.
He clicked the link, which
opened on turquoise water and
a white woman walking quickly
toward three black teenage
boys, one of whom is filming
her with his cellphone.
“Get out!” the woman yells,
slapping at the phone in the
teen’s hand. “Get out now!”
As the three boys head for the
pool exit, the woman follows
and takes another swing at the Schoolteacher Jovan Hyman: Shocked by what the video revealed
boy and his phone.
Hyman called his wife, Tameka, over and
played it for her.
“PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me this was
NOT where I think it is,” she typed in a
Facebook post that linked to the video. At
that point, the video, shot in late June, had
only been online for about 10 hours.
“In my neighborhood!” her husband
added on Facebook a few minutes later.
“This is totally uncalled for and downright
embarrassing!”
The video rocketed around the country
and the world—one of more than a dozen
online clips from the summer that captured
whites accusing blacks, often improperly, of
trespassing, loitering, and in one instance
involving an 8-year-old black girl, selling
bottled water without a permit. At least
six of the videos took place at neighbor-
hood swimming pools in places such
as Indianapolis; Winston-Salem, N.C.;
Pasadena, Calif.; and the community pool in
Summerville, S.C., just a few hundred yards
from Jovan and Tameka Hyman’s house.
Hyman’s first post, reacting to the video,
had been online for only 20 minutes
when he received a private message from
Stephanie Sebby Strempel, the woman in
the swimming pool video. The video was
rapidly piling up views, and Strempel’s
Facebook inbox was filling with threats and
insults from around the country.
“You’re a hotheaded racist,” read one that
she forwarded to Hyman. “Love to see
y’alls getting your lives ruined.”
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The last word
Hyman and Strempel had never met,
though Hyman and his wife had hazy mem-
ories of seeing her around the subdivision
and at the pool. She lives less than a block
away from him. Now she had an impor-
tant message: “Jovan if you live here. You
don’t know what happened.... Please let me
explain. I need someone to know what hap-
pened.... This is out of hand.”
The Summerville video, shot in late June,
spanned only 19 seconds. Darshaun
Simmons, 15, who was holding the phone
that day, waited 24 hours before he showed
the video to an adult. The confrontation at
the pool had taken place on the same day
that his great-grandmother was rushed to
the hospital. She died the next morning.
Because his parents were busy with family
and the funeral arrangements, Darshaun
first played it for his aunt. His phone
screen shattered when Strempel knocked
it from his hand, he said. So it was hard
for his aunt to make out exactly what was
happening.
She could hear Strempel screaming “Get
out,” threatening to call 911, and disparag-
ing the three boys as “little punks.” She
could see Strempel draw back her hand to
slap Darshaun two times.
“Is this you?” his aunt recalled asking her
nephew. He replied quietly that it was.
Darshaun’s aunt said she noticed that none
of the adults at the pool seemed to be
doing anything to help him. She called over
Darshaun’s mother to watch. Darshaun
told them that he and two
friends had been invited
to the pool by a family
that lives in the subdivi-
sion. They were just sitting
down at a table and kick-
ing off their shoes when
Strempel approached them,
asked them if they lived in
the subdivision, and then
accused them of trespassing.
Darshaun’s mother took
him to the Dorchester
County Sheriff’s Office to
file an assault complaint.
His aunt looked Strempel
up on Facebook and dashed
off a quick message.
“Good evening, Stephanie.
Is this you in the video?” she asked.
After four hours passed without a response,
Darshaun’s aunt posted it to her Facebook
page, tagging local activists, two televi-
sion news stations, the NAACP, and the
Coast Guard unit where, she had learned,
Strempel’s husband was serving.
“This kind of behavior is unacceptable
and we WILL NOT TOLERATE IT!!!!
PLEASE SHARE!!!!” she wrote. “...Racism
at its best.”
She hit post at 11 p.m., flipped off her com-
puter, and went to sleep.
O
NLINE, STREMPEL WOULD soon be
dubbed “Pool Patrol Paula,” join-
ing “ID Adam,” “BBQ Becky,”
“Permit Patty,” “Coupon Carl,” and others
branded as exemplars of racism and white
entitlement.
It was 10 the next morning when Strempel,
who declined to comment for this story
through her attorney, sent her first mes-
sage to Jovan Hyman. She denied hitting
Darshaun—even though the video showed
her doing so—and defended herself as an
involved member of the community.
“I have children,” she wrote. “My husband
is a respected Coast Guard officer. I have
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a special needs son.... My husband and I
are being threatened and slandered all over
social media [and it] is not okay.”
By this point, Hyman had watched the
video several times and he had no doubt
that Strempel had targeted the boys at the
pool because of the color of their skin.

He and his wife had moved to Summerville
after serving together in the Navy. They
bought their first home in the subdivision,
known as Reminisce in the gauzy feel-good
language of newly created communities,
five years earlier. He taught English at a
local elementary school and coached high
school football in nearby North Charleston.
Together they were raising a 3-year-old son.
Hyman said he didn’t want to come across
as “a bitter African-American person.” But
as he watched and rewatched the video, he
thought of all the times he had seen white
teenagers from outside the subdivision
use the pool without being questioned by
residents. He imagined someone, someday,
confronting his son at the pool.
“Hello, the video is very damaging!” he
messaged Strempel. “I understand your
concern, but you have to understand the
points of view of others!”
Strempel replied that she had been trying
to help the boys by telling them to leave
before someone at the pool called the
police.
“No one knows what the kids said to me
or did,” she wrote. “They only see me
looking like I’m beating him up. Not the
case, but it’s disgusting.”
The next day the Reminisce Homeowner’s
Association sent out an email to the sub-
division residents urging the homeowners
to call 911 or the sheriff if they spotted
trespassers. “We hope this incident will
allow us to come together as a community
and work with law enforcement to provide residents was clear: “The subject is very
security for your community as you might
need it from time to time,” it read.
To Hyman, the email missed the main
point. Like Strempel, the homeowners asso-
ciation had assumed that the teens were not
guests. “That was not the case,” he said.
Even worse, the language about providing
“security” suggested that the boys posed a
threat to the subdivision’s residents, Hyman Facebook group.
said. In fact, they were just boys trying to
escape the summer heat in South Carolina
and didn’t harm anyone.
F
OR MUCH OF its history, Summerville
was a quiet vacation town, about
30 miles from Charleston. Its main
square is crammed with antique stores,
art galleries, and Victorian homes. Today,
Reminisce is reminiscent of a typical
Southern suburb, where blacks and whites
live side by side but usually avoid sensitive
topics such as race and politics. It’s a precinct
where Trump took nearly two-thirds of the touch her?” asked Grant on the Reminisce
vote—mostly white and made up of school- Facebook page. “She is the adult!”
teachers, police officers, and employees of
the nearby Air Force base and Boeing plant. blacks who had voted for Trump in 2016.
The last word
As the video was taking off online, several
black families in the subdivision tried to
post a link to it on the homeowners asso-
ciation’s closed Facebook group account,
hoping that it would generate a discussion
about exactly what happened and the role
race may have played in the incident.
Each time, an administrator for the page
would remove it. Eventually, the black resi-
dents quit trying. Tamanu Lowkie, a black
Reminisce resident, complained on the page
that the censorship was absurd.
“I posted [the video] because it was shared
with me from someone that doesn’t live
in the neighborhood,” she wrote shortly
Summerville, S.C.: Blacks and whites live side by side. most of them African-American, didn’t
after her first post was taken down. “It’s all
over Facebook. You can delete it from this
private page, but it’s on Live 5 [News] and
everyone’s page.... Just saying.”
To Lowkie, the message from the white
uncomfortable to them.” They didn’t want
to discuss it.
Instead, many white residents fretted about
the effect the video might have on their
property values and complained about the
reporters who were converging on their
neighborhood.
“Hopefully if everybody just ignores them
they will leave,” one resident wrote in the
As his neighbors argued, Corey Grant, who
is black, grew frustrated with the debate.
He, his wife, and their three children had
moved to Reminisce one year earlier in
search of good schools and a “certain level
of peace,” he said. He thought he had
found it. “Most of my neighbors are nice.
Some aren’t,” he said. “I love where I live.” said, offering his explanation.
Still, he couldn’t understand how his white
neighbors could suggest that the teens and
Strempel shared equal blame. “Did the kids
Grant was one of a small percentage of
37
Since then, he had come to regret the deci-
sion. “Trump has opened racial wounds,”
Grant said. The upheaval within the home-
owners association was further proof.
T
ODAY, THE 19-SECOND snippet from
the swimming pool has faded from
the online discussion, usurped
by other videos. Back in Summerville,
Darshaun and his two friends have
returned to their normal lives: basketball
practice, video games, and bike riding.
Strempel faces a third-degree assault
charge, which carries a maximum penalty
of 30 days in jail and a $500 fine.
In the Reminisce subdivision, black and
white residents have given up on reaching
an understanding about the pool incident
or other issues that touch on race. The
tensions dredged up by the pool video,
though, still rumble beneath the surface.
Grant was at a backyard barbecue with
a few of his white Reminisce neighbors
recently when talk turned to the upcom-
ing National Football League season.
During a speech in Alabama last year,
Trump referred to NFL players who
knelt during the national anthem as
“sons of bitches.” Last month, he sug-
gested in a tweet that the football players,
know why they were demonstrating.
“The deeper we got,” Grant said, “we
almost got to the NFL protests.”
Grant considers the neighbors from the
barbecue as friends. “Our families do
things together all the time,” he said. But
they seemed uncomfortable talking about
the protests with him. “The conversation
stopped,” he said. “That’s a rough one for
my neighbors because it means they have to
pick a side.... We never touched on it.”
Hyman and his wife similarly avoided
talking about the pool video with white
neighbors, beyond Hyman’s initial brief
exchange of online messages with Strempel.
“If there was an open discussion, it would
shine a light on racist neighbors,” Hyman’s
wife, Tameka, said. “I’d rather not know—
especially if it’s someone living this close.”
Hyman agreed. Shortly after it went viral,
Hyman asked his white next-door neighbor
if he had seen the “crazy” video.
“Must be the hot weather,” the neighbor
“Global warming,” Hyman joked.
The two men said nothing more about it,
and retreated to their air-conditioned homes.
Excerpted from an article that origi-
nally appeared in The Washington Post.
Reprinted with permission.
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