Índex per August 19, 2019 a TIME Magazine

On Aug. 10, 2014, my first day of protest after the shooting of Michael Brown Jr., I stood outside the Ferguson Police Department and asked an officer why, on the night prior, he had brought German shepherds to a black community in grief, evoking the trauma of the mid-century civil rights movement. “Well, did anyone die?” he replied. If that’s the standard, I thought, that’s precisely the problem. “Yes. His name was Michael Brown Jr. And that’s why we’re not going home.” Five years after Brown–an unarmed black teenager–was gunned down by officer Darren Wilson, Ferguson is a fixture. The day that a small town 15 minutes from my childhood home went from being Ferguson, Mo., to #Ferguson altered our collective outlook forever. But in August 2014, we weren’t…

ON JAN. 24, 2007, 19-YEAR-OLD ROBERT RIHMEEK Williams was arrested on his South Philly doorstep. He doesn’t recall everything that happened next because, he says, police beat him so severely that he kept losing consciousness. Facing 19 drug, firearms and assault charges—including the allegation that he’d pointed a gun at a cop—he opted for a nonjury trial for financial reasons, was convicted on seven counts despite a lack of evidence and received a two-year prison sentence. But it’s the eight years of probation supervised by Genece Brinkley, a tough judge who seems to have obsessed over this case, that have consigned Williams to over a decade of legal turmoil, including more time behind bars. It’s hard to imagine Williams’ story—one that’s all too common for young black men in…

THE BEST THING ABOUT A STORY narrated by a dog? At least someone has common sense. The soul of The Art of Racing in the Rain, adapted from Garth Stein’s 2008 novel, is Enzo, a canine with golden fur, soulful eyes and a way with words; his bons mots of shaggy wisdom come to us in the voice of Kevin Costner. Since puppyhood, Enzo has belonged to Denny (Milo Ventimiglia, of This Is Us), a Seattle race-car driver who’s good at what he does yet is only inching toward his big break. When Denny falls in love with Eve (Amanda Seyfried) and starts a family, pressures mount. His rich, stuffy in-laws (Kathy Baker and Martin Donovan) don’t like him much. Then his life with Eve takes a devastating turn.…

‘To those who want to use xenophobia for political goals, we take the path of fraternity.’IVÁN DUQUE, President of Colombia, announcing on Aug. 5 that babies born to Venezuelan refugees in the country from August 2015 to August 2021 would receive citizenship ‘The Boy Scouts don’t protect children.’STEWART EISENBERG, a lawyer representing a man who filed a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America on Aug. 6, alleging he was sexually abused hundreds of times as a Boy Scout in Pennsylvania in the 1970s; the Boy Scouts have said the organization responds “aggressively and effectively to reports of sexual abuse” 100 m.p.h. Speed at which French jet-ski champion Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel via hoverboard on Aug. 4 Trading cards FBI issues subpoenas in probe of sports trading-card…

JAKE GYLLENHAAL IS NO STRANGER TO PLAYING strangers. He’s Hollywood’s go-to guy for delivering loners, slippery souls who aren’t quite what they seem, dudes who are hiding something behind those hedgerow eyebrows, from the tortured cowboy in Brokeback Mountain to the obsessive cop with a history in Prisoners to the superhero Mysterio who’s neither super nor hero in his current film Spider-Man: Far From Home. However, for six nights a week during a brief stint on Broadway this summer, Gyllenhaal is transforming into what may be one of his most alien characters yet: a regular bloke, with the same daunting problems nearly everyone faces, the departure of a parent and the arrival of a child. And unlike so many of the men Gyllenhaal inhabits, the guy in Sea Wall/A…

ONE YEAR AGO, ON JULY 30, 2018, three Russian journalists were shot to death and their bodies left on the side of a road near a conflict zone in central Africa. Their names were Orkhan Dzhemal, a renowned war correspondent; Alexander Rastorguev, an award-winning filmmaker; and Kirill Radchenko, their cameraman. The purpose of their trip to the Central African Republic was to film a documentary about the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company that has been active in several African countries in recent years and is believed to have ties to the Russian military and the state. Authorities in Moscow say the reporters were killed in a random act of violence. It was a robbery gone wrong, goes the official line. But the colleagues of the victims have…

IT’S A STORY POP CULTURE KEEPS RETELLING: A SMART, kindhearted kid from a poor neighborhood sees his potentially bright future threatened by gangs. Movies like Boyz n the Hood set the prototype in the 1990s. The 21st century has brought variations on this theme to television, in shows as different as HBO’s classic The Wire and the Netflix teen comedy On My Block. The title character of David Makes Man, which premieres Aug. 14 on OWN, starts out in the same perilous situation. A 14-year-old growing up in the South Florida projects, David (Akili McDowell) is an anomaly at his magnet middle school. Though he’s far from the sole black student, he does seem to be the only kid whose family sometimes has to choose between electricity and phone…

AS THE TRAIN FOR BERLIN PULLED OUT OF Malmo station in southern Sweden on a sweltering July afternoon, the atmosphere among the six strangers seated in car 104 was almost festive. It’s unlikely their cheerfulness was sparked by the close quarters, replete with faded velour seats, or by the 13-hour adventure ahead. Perhaps instead it sprang from a shared mission. “I felt guilty when we flew to Barcelona for our last holiday,” student Cathrine Hellberg said to nods all around. “I feel a little proud now to be taking the train.” This is the season of flygskam (flight shame) and its counterpart tagskryt (train bragging). You don’t have to be teen climate activist Greta Thunberg—who is crossing the Atlantic by sailboat in August—to be among the growing number of Europeans…

Rivers of meltwater carve into the Greenland ice sheet near the Sermeq Avangnardleg glacier in this view from a plane on Aug. 4. July was the hottest month since record keeping began 139 years ago, one more entry in the ledger marked “Climate Crisis.” Still another came on Aug. 1, when the largest one-day loss by volume of the Greenland ice sheet was recorded—12.5 billion tons of ice melted in the course of 24 hours. For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox…

BILL CLINTON ON BANNING WEAPONS OF WAR JULISSA ARCE ON FEARING THE OTHER DAVID FRENCH ON THE RISE OF THE “ALT-RIGHT” JON MEACHAM ON WHAT TRUMP WON’T SAY ROD ROSENSTEIN ON PROSECUTING TERROR JESSICA GOLD & MEGAN RANNEY ON GUNS AND MENTAL HEALTH For more than a generation, the image lurking in Americans’ nightmares has resembled the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks: an Islamic jihadist. Not a 21-year-old white supremacist from a prosperous Dallas suburb. But long before that young man drove to El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 3 and allegedly murdered at least 22 people at a Walmart crammed with back-to-school shoppers, it was clear that white nationalists have become the face of terrorism in America. Since 9/11, white supremacists and other far-right extremists have been responsible for…

AMID EVEN THE LONGEST, BLOODIEST conflicts, some acts of violence remain capable of enraging a desensitized public. One such incident occurred on June 12, 2014, when three teenage Jewish boys were kidnapped in the West Bank. As the Israel Defense Forces launched a massive manhunt—which ended in the deaths of five Palestinians and the arrests of about 400—Israelis took to the streets to demand the boys’ safe return. But on June 30, a search party found the bodies of all three, shot dead by Hamas militants. The nation mourned. Nationalists started talking about revenge. The HBO miniseries Our Boys, an American-Israeli co-production premiering Aug. 12, dramatizes what happened next. Before the sad news about the boys breaks, we meet two other teens: Mohammed (Ram Masarweh), an Arab who’s doing…