Table of contents for June 5, 2017 in TIME Magazine

‘You told the whole story with just one picture. No caption or text required.’ ALBERT ANDRUS, Hamtramck, Mich. HACKING U.S. DEMOCRACYMassimo Calabresi’s May 29 story about Russia’s use of social media to influence Americans was a reminder to be “wary of the source of that liked/upvoted social post,” wrote Sanjeev Verma of Sunnyvale, Calif. However, as Francis Hamit of Sherman Oaks, Calif., pointed out, foreign attempts to sway American politics aren’t necessarily new. “It’s just that we are finally paying attention,” he noted. The issue’s cover provoked a similarly strong response. Anthony Plumer of Portland, Ore., called the image of Moscow’s St. Basil’s Cathedral merging with the White House “utterly chilling.” But others argued such a cover should not run before an investigation into possible connections between the two…

More than 30 people, many of whom were toddlers, drowned after falling from an overcrowded migrant boat off the coast of Libya. About 200 people fell from the vessel, which was trying to reach Europe from North Africa. South Koreans sue over fine dust A group of South Koreans launched a suit against the governments in Beijing and Seoul, claiming to have suffered mental distress because of fine dust blowing into South Korea from the western deserts of China. The plaintiffs are seeking $2,600 each in compensation. Climbers’ bodies found on Everest The bodies of four climbers were found in a tent on Mount Everest, raising this season’s death toll to 10. The discovery was made by a team dispatched to retrieve the body of a Slovakian climber who had…

LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN OFFICIAL Washington, Vice President Mike Pence sometimes struggles to keep track of what is happening inside the White House. So he knew people would be closely watching when he traveled north on May 20 to deliver a commencement address for graduates of Pennsylvania’s Grove City College, a devoutly Christian school where chapel attendance is mandatory and federal student aid is rejected, freeing the institution to ignore nondiscrimination laws. “Servant leadership, not selfish ambition, must be the animating force of the career that lies before you,” Pence told the graduates. The words were cribbed from his evangelical beliefs, but they also described the mission that Pence has adopted for himself, as the only person in President Donald Trump’s West Wing orbit who cannot be fired. “Don’t fear…

SUMMER IS A GREAT TIME TO escape: to the beach, to the mountains or to the world of a great book. This year, I have found myself drawn even more than usual to books that take me outside, and I don’t mean the great outdoors. These books push me out of my own experiences, and I learned some things that shed new light on where humanity might be headed. Some of these books helped me better understand what it’s like to grow up outside of the mainstream: as a child of mixed race in apartheid South Africa, as a young man trying to escape his impoverished life in rural Appalachia or as the son of a peanut farmer in Plains, Ga. I hope you’ll find that others make you think…

ALARABI-ALSALEH FAMILY Faraj, now 8 months old, has settled with his family in a sunny apartment in Thessaloniki, with a view of a local dump and the distant sea. The family of seven was offered relocation to Lithuania, only to have the offer rescinded. The family is deciding whether to appeal or apply for asylum in Greece and give up its dreams of a better life in Northern Europe. Greece has been good to the refugees, but it is in economic free fall, and there are no jobs. ALTALLAA-ALARSAN FAMILY Rahaf, born on Nov. 1, has just started cruising around her parents’ studio apartment in Thessaloniki. Nour Altallaa and Yousef Alarsan still have no news about which country will accept them. They check the Greek Asylum Service website every day…

MUSIC Alt-pop singer Halsey gets soulful about her ex on sophomore album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (June 2). BOOKS TIME contributor and retired Navy admiral James Stavridis explores the geography of oceans and why they matter now in Sea Power (June 6). Co-author R. Manning Ancell joins Stavridis to survey 200 military generals about the books that influenced them in The Leader’s Bookshelf (out now). DOCUMENTARY Comedy icon Carl Reiner talks to artists thriving after age 90 in the HBO documentary If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (June 5). MOVIES Zoe Lister-Jones and Adam Pally play an aimless married couple who start a garage band to get their union back on track in indie comedy Band Aid (June 2).…

Aug. 17, 2009 This week’s examination of the latest science of weight loss is not the first time we have tackled the subject. Read past issues attime.com/vault THE BIG QUESTION More Americans were exercising regularly, but obesity was still increasing. Why? THE ANSWER As one researcher put it, while exercise is good for other reasons, it’s “pretty useless” for weight loss. CHOICE FACTOID So, what accounts for the idea that you can work off the pounds? Sure, public-health officials recommend exercise for its own benefits, but a more surprising source was found in President Bill Clinton, whose jogging habits had made headlines just as interest in the weight-loss benefits of exercise increased.— STATE OF THE UNIONS Almost 50 years after the Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage, more Americans are marrying…

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected two gerrymandered congressional districts in North Carolina, ruling that lawmakers had violated the Constitution by relying too heavily on race when redrawing them after the 2010 Census. Philippines police chief beheaded Militants linked to ISIS beheaded a police chief and killed other members of the security forces as they swept through the southern Philippine city of Marawi. President Rodrigo Duterte said he may declare martial law “to protect the people.” Uber to refund New York City drivers Uber said it would refund its New York City drivers an average of roughly $900 each after it admitted to underpaying them. The ride-sharing company revealed that it had been mistakenly taking too large a cut of their fares since November 2014. FCCwon’t punish Colbert’s Trump dig The…

Four four-bedroom homes in Detroit ($45,000 each) One four-bedroom home in Columbus, Ohio ($195,000) One three-bedroom home in New Orleans ($191,000) One two-bedroom home in Anchorage ($189,000) Half of a onebedroom home in Seattle ($388,000) A quarter of a onebedroom home in San Francisco ($819,000)…

MUCUNA CHIAPANECA The climbing vine, which was found in Mexico, is one of nine new species that are related to the genus Mucuna. They contain a dopamine precursor, L-DOPA, which may help treat Parkinson’s disease. MANIHOT DEBILIS Scientists found this wild relative to cassava—a diet staple in the developing world—in central Brazil. It could help scientists develop new strains of cassava that are more resistant to climate change. BEGONIA ACIDULENTA This 19-in.-long plant is one of 29 new species of Begonia that were discovered mainly in the forests of Malaysia. Locals use its leaves to polish silver and as an acidic food flavoring.…

Terrorist attacks are intended to sow fear far beyond where they happen, to force people to think twice about doing what was once routine. But the places terrorists choose to strike can have specific meaning too: the symbolic landmarks targeted on 9/11, the cosmopolitan culture of Paris’ 10th and 11th arrondissements. Now that grim list includes a concert hall in Manchester filled with young girls wearing cat ears and lip gloss. Much is still unknown about the terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people and maimed dozens of others. But one thing is clear: the suicide mission, for which ISIS has claimed responsibility, was also an attack on Western girlhood. It was a blow delivered at a moment of budding independence, to young girls taking their…

THIS DIET MAY HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT. LIKE MOST PEOPLE, KEVIN HALL USED TO THINK THE REASON PEOPLE GET FAT IS SIMPLE. The National Weight Control Registry is an ongoing study of 10,000 people who havelost 30 lb. or more and kept it off.The statistics highlighted in this story show what they have in common. 98% CHANGED THEIR DIET IN SOME WAY A PERSON CAN EAT ALMOST ANYTHING IF THE PORTION SIZE IS APPROPRIATE.’ Melinda L. Irwin, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health 90% EXERCISE ON AVERAGE ONE HOUR A DAY “Why don’t they just eat less and exercise more?” he remembers thinking. Trained as a physicist, the calories-in-vs.-calories-burned equation for weight loss always made sense to him. But then his own research—and the contestants on…

VIDEO GAMES THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD WHAT REMAINS OF EDITH FINCH NIOH HORIZON ZERO DAWN YAKUZA 0 SONGS “SIGN OF THE TIMES,” HARRY STYLES “GREEN LIGHT,” LORDE “BIG FOR YOUR BOOTS,” STORMZY “BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD,” SAM HUNT “HUMBLE,” KENDRICK LAMAR TELEVISION BIG LITTLE LIES, HBO FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN, FX THE HANDMAID’S TALE, HULU THE YOUNG POPE, HBO I LOVE DICK, AMAZON MOVIES I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO GET OUT MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI BEAUTY AND THE BEAST THE LOVERS PODCASTS MISSING RICHARD SIMMONS NANCY POD SAVE THE PEOPLE S -TOWN ROOKIE THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: NINTENDO; YAKUZA 0: SEGA; THE LOVERS: A24; BIG LIT TLE L IES, THE YOUNG POPE: HBO; WATSON, STYLES, LORDE, LAMAR: GETTY IMAGES…

DISNEY KIDS Gomez, left, starred on the Emmy-winning children’s show Wizards of Waverly Place, while Cyrus played a teen moonlighting as a pop star on Hannah Montana THE BIGGEST STARS IN POP are getting older, and they’re looking to their predecessors for inspiration. Consider the No. 1 album in the country the week ending May 18, One Direction star Harry Styles’ self-titled solo debut, which pays homage to the rock gods of the last half-century, David Bowie, Queen and Pink Floyd. It became the bestselling debut from a U.K. male artist, moving an estimated 230,000 units. This may mark the first occasion many younger listeners, raised on candy-coated EDM beats, hear rock music that sounds conspicuously like what their parents used to listen to on the radio. Styles’ female contemporaries,…

‘I HAVE A SICKNESS, BUT I DO NOT HAVE AN EXCUSE.’ ANTHONY WEINER, former Democratic Congressman, pleading guilty on May 19 to sexting with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina, a felony that requires him to register as a sex offender and could result in up to 10 years in prison; his wife, Huma Abedin, a top Hillary Clinton aide, filed for divorce the same day ‘IT BECAME LIKE A GOD.’ KE JIE, the world’s top player of Go, the highly complex ancient Chinese board game, after a Google algorithm defeated him in a May 23 match; while an earlier version had beaten another highly ranked player more than a year ago, this victory affirmed artificial intelligence could beat the best human mind at a task thought to rely on…

CHINA The AnBot that patrols Henan’s Zhengzhou East Railway Station can monitor air quality, detect emergencies like fires and use facial-recognition technology to follow potential criminals. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO These 8-ft.-tall solarpowered machines help police direct traffic in the capital of Kinshasa. U.S. This “bomb robot,” which touts an explosive device on its arm, was used by Dallas police in 2016 to kill a gunman suspected of fatally shooting five officers. DIGITS 85 Age when Japan’s 83-year-old Emperor Akihito is expected to abdicate the Chrysanthemum Throne, now that the Cabinet has approved a bill allowing him to retire. He will be succeeded by his elder son, Crown Prince Naruhito.…

DONALD TRUMP HAS HAD A HISTORICALLY bad series of news cycles as of late. But the President—with an approval rating just above 40%—is sitting pretty compared with some other heads of state and government: NICOLÁS MADURO OF VENEZUELA President Maduro may have retained an approval rate in the mid-to-low-20s since last year, but he is currently the world’s most embattled political leader. Venezuelans take to the streets daily to protest his government amid crippling food and medicine shortages. So far, Maduro has used a combination of police forces, the national guard and armed militias to contain them, which has made the situation worse. MICHEL TEMER OF BRAZIL Following Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached, should have been easy. Not so for President Temer, who is barely hanging on to…

RogeR Ailes, who died at 77 on May 18, days after a fall at his home, will be remembered for grasping earlier and better than anyone else cable television’s great power to shape the popular perception of politics, and to cultivate and monetize grievance. His signal achievement in that particular area was Fox News Channel, the network he founded with Rupert Murdoch in 1996. Fox grew into one of media’s most profitable shops by turning the American culture wars into a 24-hour spectacle—and taking a side. Ailes’ “fair and balanced” network fancied itself a corrective to the supposed liberal domination of news and entertainment. And Fox thrived as hosts like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly defended the misadventures of George W. Bush; lamented a supposed “war on Christmas”;…

‘Warren Buffett loaned me his copy of Business Adventures by John Brooks many years ago. It’s still the best business book.’ Several times a year, Bill Gates releases favorite recent reads, including a summer recommendation list for fellow passionate readers. Gates spoke to TIME about his new list—shared on these pages—his voracious appetite for the written word and the books that have influenced his life and mind.S What book do you most often recommend? Who is your most trusted book recommender? I read Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature a few years ago and got to talk to him about it after, which was a lot of fun. I reviewed it for my blog, Gates Notes, because I wanted other people to read it, love it and…

‘Ask not what your country can do for you,’ JFK said. Trump declared, ‘A nation exists to serve its citizens.’ THESE ARE WORDS HARDTO IMAGINE WRITING, OR READING: John F. Kennedy was born a century ago. One hundred years is a meaningful milestone, a distance at which even youth seems somehow antique. The concept doesn’t square with the unlined Kennedy face, the chestnut hair, the saddle-shoed children, the fluorescent grin. Frozen in time by tragedy, forever young, Kennedy eludes the prison of the past to remain a vibrant symbol of a time when the U.S. felt strapping and full of purpose. In another sense, though, the Kennedy centennial has arrived with impeccable timing. Although he lived to see less than half of it, Kennedy was an epitome of 20th century…

AS REAL-LIFE POLITICS generates high drama, the political shows that flourished in the Obama years— Veep, Scandal—suddenly seem less urgent. No show feels more diminished than Netflix’s House of Cards, now in its fifth season. Cards is still what it has always been: a melodrama about power-thirsty creeps. But the thrill has waned, its characters’ machinations blunted by having actually attained power. President Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) continues to run roughshod over the dopes in his way, but this season’s focus on manipulating the election to guarantee him a new term seems small compared with what came before. Underwood isn’t Nixonian or Clintonian (pick your villain); he’s a flat character for whom recognition is its own reward. This may make the show a surprisingly good fit for our times. But…

‘They have made “Nevertheless, she persisted” their connection to America’s future. They will not sit down and be quiet. Not ever again.’ Do you think the Democratic Party has put forth a clear, alternative vision to Trump’s? No! If we had, we’d be in the majority in the House and Senate and we’d have the White House. Look at the core elements: Every kid is entitled to an education without getting crushed by student-loan debt. Raise the minimum wage. Make bigger investments in infrastructure. Expand Social Security. More banking regulations. Make people at the top pay their fair share in taxes. All of those are supported by the American people by about 2 to 1. The progressive agenda is America’s agenda. Republicans have argued that the financial-reform law Dodd-Frank capped…