Table of contents for October 1, 2018 in TIME Magazine

IN MY FIRST LETTER TO READERS AS editor, I wrote about the obligation that all of us at TIME feel to ensure that this institution thrives into its second century. Interestingly, that was a secondary priority to Henry Luce, the visionary journalist and executive who founded the magazine in 1923. “I suggest what we want to do,” Luce wrote in a confidential memorandum to his senior leaders a decade later, “is not leave to posterity a great institution but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.” This week, TIME finds itself in the fortunate position of exceeding its founder’s expectations, through a major investment that creates a new home for us as an institution and for our journalism. Following the acquisition in January…

‘We must rid ourselves of any virus that erodes the party’s health.’ CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING, speaking about corruption in October 2017 at the Communist Party Congress marking the end of his first term IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE WEEK’S BIG CHINA story. After all, the new tariffs President Donald Trump slapped on $200 billion of Chinese imports marked a drastic escalation of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. And Beijing may well have wanted its retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods to top the news agenda. But in China, there was a more burning topic: Where on earth is Fan Bingbing? Fan, 37, is China’s best-known actress and the nation’s highest-paid celebrity for four years running, earning a reported $43 million last…

IT WAS AROUND NOON WHEN THE SHARK struck. Arthur Medici, a 26-year-old from Brazil, was attacked on Sept. 16 while boogie-boarding just off Cape Cod’s Newcomb Hollow Beach. Although a friend dragged him from the water, he soon succumbed to his injuries in the first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936. Coming just weeks after a 61-year-old was hospitalized following a bite a few miles up the beach, the death unnerved a region unaccustomed to the presence of these storied predators. The first American shark panic began in the hot summer of 1916, when a spate of attacks off the Jersey Shore killed four in two weeks. This was thought to be the work of a single great white shark—a species indigenous to the Atlantic coast and the…

WHETHER YOU WERE IN THE AUDIENCE OR ONSTAGE NEXT TO her, it was difficult to tell whether Marin Mazzie was an amazing actor who could sing or an amazing singer who could act. She did both equally well—and was a paragon of passion and precision, commitment and creativity, excellence and fearlessness. I did many shows with Marin, who died on Sept. 13 at 57 of ovarian cancer, a disease about which she did so much to raise awareness. The first of those shows was the musical Ragtime, and one of the moments indelibly burned into my mind was watching her sing the anthem “Back to Before” for the first time. Standing alone at center stage, Marin became a beacon of light. Every time she sang, her brilliance shone. She…

Ten years on, the reverberations from the global financial crisis are still shaking up the world order. While the catastrophe led to movements toward nationalism in several countries, it also accelerated America’s departure from its position as leader of the world—and in the void, a new power has begun to rise. INSIDE ONE THING COLLEGES SHOULDN’T TEACH STUDENTS HOW LEARNING CERTAIN WORDS CAN MAKE YOU HAPPIER REDEFINING NFL ARCHETYPES—BY RETIRING…

HOW LOW WE HAVE SUNK. THE DEMOCRATS have demanded an FBI investigation into an alleged drunken sexual assault from 36 years ago, between teenagers, at a party in a private home. The accuser doesn’t remember exactly when the offense took place or exactly how she got to the house. And she allowed her name to be publicly associated with the accusation only after the completion of a two-month investigation into its subject, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and two days of questioning by 18 Senators—and several prior investigations, including by the FBI, during Kavanaugh’s ascension to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In our history, most of America’s distinguished Justices were appointed in a process marked by dignity and decorum. But while…

North Carolina residents might be excused for breathing a premature sigh of relief when Hurricane Florence, once a Category 4 storm, was downgraded to Category 1 before making landfall. But those numbers don’t tell the whole story—and what they leave out can have life-and-death consequences. “Florence is an excellent example of a storm that is a lower category than it was and yet is still extremely dangerous,” Bill Lapenta, director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction at the National Weather Service, tells TIME. Florence especially highlighted one key shortfall of the system known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale: while it measures a hurricane’s wind speed, it doesn’t take into account the speed at which the storm itself is moving. Those are often vastly different figures. While hurricanes…

THE MESSAGE FROM MOSCOW REACHED Paul Manafort at a crucial moment in the U.S. presidential race, just as he was about to secure the official Republican nomination for his client, Donald Trump. Manafort’s overture had been received, the July 2016 message informed him. And Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, would be back in touch soon. In the months before the 2016 elections, Manafort, then Trump’s campaign chairman, had tried repeatedly to reach out to Deripaska through intermediaries, according to emails revealed last year by the Washington Post and the Atlantic. The two men’s relationship went back a decade; Manafort had worked as a political consultant for Deripaska’s business interests in Eastern Europe in the mid-2000s. The messages used coded language—apparent references…

It’s a golden day whenever John C. Reilly has a starring role in a movie. In The Sisters Brothers, set in the rough but booming territory between Oregon and California in the 1850s, Reilly plays Eli Sisters, one half of a ruthless but also somewhat inept family duo who work for a shadowy figure known as the Commodore. Eli and his hotheaded brother, Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix), have been assigned—with the help of an erudite scout (Jake Gyllenhaal)—to capture a mystery man (Riz Ahmed), an idealistic soul who dreams of forming a utopian community. Charlie has been charged with running the show, as if Eli, who radiates a kind of cautious, prickly sweetness, were less well equipped for the job. But these squabbling siblings don’t fit into easily definable roles.…

‘ DOES IT MATTER THAT YOU’RE LIKED? WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT BEING EFFECTIVE. ’ The original edition of Know Your Value quoted Donald Trump before he was President. Is that why you decided to rerelease it, to expunge his presence? Not necessarily exactly because he was in the book. You could argue that it’s important to look at how people think, even sexists and misogynists. It had more to do with just how much more we could really talk about these issues now in the age of Trump. You write of a lunch with the President where you and Ivanka raised the issue of women’s advancement. Have you spoken to her since? We are not getting along. I was extremely outspoken about…

TIME + WEWORK Above, TIME correspondent Haley Sweetland Edwards interviews Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theatre’s first black female principal ballerina and a 2015 TIME 100 honoree, on Sept. 17 at a Manhattan WeWork—the third event in the TIME 100 × WeWork Speaker Series. BONUS TIME Subscribe to TIME’s free Living newsletter for a weekly dose of wellness, career and relationship advice to enrich your life. For more information, visit time.com/email READING LIST After you get through this week’s fall books preview (page 51), check out the new TIME.com series on the most exciting book releases of each month. Find the inaugural list of recommendations at time.com/september-books…

AVERAGE Unsurprisingly, most people fall under “average,” meaning they are typically extroverted and neurotic, but low on openness. Women are more likely than men to fall into the average type. SELF-CENTERED Self-centered types are highly extroverted but less open, agreeable and conscientious. There is a dramatic decrease in the number of self-centered types as people age, with both women and men. RESERVED If you’re reserved, you’ll be somewhat agreeable and conscientious, but not particularly extroverted or open. That may sound boring, but the study suggests reserved types are emotionally stable. ROLE MODELS Lucky role-model types score highly on every trait except neuroticism. “These are people who are dependable and open to new ideas,”said Luis Amaral, co-author of the study. Women are more likely than men to qualify.…

“WILL WE EVER KILL THE Bug?” asked a 1965 Volkswagen advertisement. “Never.” This zesty bit of copy from a legendary ad campaign helped make the Beetle the most popular foreign car in the U.S., transforming the vehicle into a countercultural icon. And yet, on Sept. 13, faced with stalling sales, Volkswagen announced that it will halt production on the Beetle next July. The Beetle was born at the behest of Adolf Hitler, who wanted a practical vehicle for the German middle class. Although associations between the car and Nazism were slow to dissipate after the war, it eventually became an international success—and, perhaps ironically, a symbol of a peace-loving era. The Bug’s popularity declined after its cheerfully anti-materialistic mid-’60s heyday, but its nostalgic appeal endured. When VW introduced the…

Nondairy alternatives like almond, soy and coconut milk are among the fastest-growing beverages—perhaps because 39% of Americans are trying to eat a more plant-based diet, a 2017 survey by the research firm Nielsen found. While cow’s milk is still a much larger market than plant-based beverages, sales of plant milks rose by 61% from 2012 to January 2018 and they raked in an estimated $2.11 billion last year, according to market-research firm Mintel. But plant milks are also a subject of controversy. With the dairy industry’s support, the Food and Drug Administration is mulling a policy that would bar brands from calling nonanimal products milk. The agency is accepting public comment until Oct. 11 and will make a decision soon after. Whatever they’re called, nondairy drinks aren’t going anywhere.…

When Buffalo Bills cornerback Vontae Davis took the essentially unprecedented step of ending his NFL career at halftime of a game on Sept. 16, the predictable rebukes swarmed him. One columnist called him “selfish.” Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander said his actions were “disrespectful to his teammates.” After the game, Davis explained his decision in a statement. “Today on the field, reality hit me fast and hard,” he said. “I shouldn’t be out there anymore.” After a 10-year career with several injuries, he was concerned about his health. The NFL’s culture often equates football with the battlefield. Players with the “warrior mentality” are lionized: your teammates are brothers in arms. But Davis didn’t go AWOL. He decided to stop playing a game. He also likely cost himself a hefty payday,…

THE MORNING AFTER CHLOE DYKSTRA POSTED AN essay online, she woke up and checked Twitter, as she does every day. “I opened trending and saw my face,” she says. “It was the most terrifying thing I have ever experienced. I was just like, ‘No, no, no.’” Dykstra had written about what she described as an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship with an unnamed ex-boyfriend. With a little investigative work, the Internet quickly identified her ex as Chris Hardwick, host of the Talking Dead show and founder of Nerdist. (Hardwick denied the allegations.) At first her account was flooded with encouraging messages. “Then the tide kind of shifted,” she says. “I was attacked relentlessly. There was an organized group of people online whose sole purpose was to try to disprove…

THE NARROW ASPHALT ROAD KNOWN AS PUERTO RICO Route 123 shadows the Río Grande de Arecibo along its eastern bank, a steep hillside with the ropy emerald lushness of a tropical rain forest and, at dawn on Sept. 20, 2017, a terrifying roar. “It sounded like a monster,” Yolanda Guzmán recalls of Hurricane Maria. “I didn’t think I was going to survive.” She did, but the 2,975 people whose deaths were tied to the mega-storm would make it—once they were finally tallied—the most lethal U.S. natural disaster in at least a century. As with Florence, which swamped the Carolinas for days, and Typhoon Mangkhut, which scoured the Philippines and Hong Kong, the physical devastation of Puerto Rico was obvious right away. But it would be 11 months before its…

‘We’ve had a steady history since 1945, and we have come to expect that steadiness. We have no idea what Brexit will bring.’ Kate Atkinson KATE ATKINSON PAYS CLOSE ATTENTION TO history—and how it repeats itself. In the bestselling writer’s 10th novel, Transcription, an unlikely spy, Juliet Armstrong, receives an assignment that will alter her life forever. With a complicated structure—something of a signature for Atkinson—the book highlights the cost of living in a time when no one can be sure of alliances and loyalties, and where rising nationalism threatens the world order. Her characters, maneuvering in the 1940s and 1950s, speak directly to our time. Transcription is one of the fall’s most anticipated books, with glowing advance reviews. Since the publication of her first novel, Behind…

What drew you to the role of Tony Jr.? We wanted this show to be very character-driven, fun for the whole family and mystery-based, the same way you’d watch a Columbo, or Poirot on PBS. We wanted it to be about the whodunit and a love letter to New York. It’s not every day you get offered an opportunity to step even further out of the pigeonhole. Every great thing I’ve done in my life has come through an unexpected door that’s opened. You’re known for your long hair, but you try out a new look in The Good Cop. To be honest, growing out my hair was just my way of hiding my ears in high school, and then it stuck. On The Good Cop,…

‘You wonder why I don’t like to call you my girlfriend. Because I want to call you my wife.’GLENN WEISS, winner of the Emmy for outstanding directing for a variety special, proposing onstage at the 2018 Emmy Awards 50,000 Estimated age, in years, of a mummified wolf pup—complete with head, tail, paws and fur—recovered by paleontologists in Canada; a caribou was also found 2025 Year by which machines could be performing 52% of office tasks, according to a new World Economic Forum study ‘IRREVERSIBLE, PERMANENT PEACE.’MOON JAE-IN, South Korean President, on the goal for his third historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who greeted Moon with a hug upon his arrival at Pyongyang airport on Sept. 18 ‘I hoped that my fears for our future were…

U.S. to slash refugee numbers Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Sept. 17 that the Trump Administration will sharply reduce the number of refugees into the U.S. from 45,000 to 30,000 in the next fiscal year, the lowest cap since the program began in 1980. Pakistan’s ex–Prime Minister released Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister who was sentenced in July to 10 years in jail for corruption, was released from prison along with his daughter on Sept. 19 after a high court appeals hearing. The case remains to be heard by the top court, but the date for a new hearing was not immediately fixed. FGM surgeries put 50 girls in the hospital About 50 girls in Burkina Faso, some as young as 4, suffered botched female genital…

DIED Notorious hoaxer Alan Abel, who in 1980 fooled the New York Times into running his obituary, on Sept. 14 at 94. WON The Democratic nomination for a third term by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sept. 13, beating a primary challenge from actor and activist Cynthia Nixon. REMOVED A sculpture of a Native American man lying at the feet of a Spanish cowboy, from San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza on Sept. 14. The city’s arts commission unanimously voted to remove the “racist” sculpture. ARRESTED Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Sept. 19 over corruption charges related to money allegedly siphoned off from scandal-hit state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) into his personal bank accounts. Najib is already facing seven charges, including money laundering; prosecutors say stolen…

How to step out—with love Therapists who work with people struggling to stay monogamous can attend workshops on how to coach patients through setting guidelines for sex outside the relationship—as Wednesday Martin does in her new book, Untrue. One rule her group proposes: “Your new person doesn’t get to meet the dog.” Bad lessons in identity politics “Campus culture often coaches students to see bias where none exists,” writes Heather Mac Donald, author of the new book The Diversity Delusion, who argues that colleges encourage a false sense of victimhood in women and minority students—in a setting specifically designed to make them succeed. The pains of immigration “She has no idea, just like I have no idea what it’s like to lose a son, ” writes Jose Antonio Vargas,…

SEPT. 20, 2017 Hurricane Maria makes landfall, causing extensive damage across the island. The initial death toll is 10. OCTOBER Only 22% of Puerto Ricans have power, and one-third have no access to clean water. DECEMBER Some schools reopen to low enrollment. The official death count is revised to 64. JANUARY 2018 About 90% of cell-phone towers are back up, but at least a third of the island is still without Internet. MARCH Power is restored to most of the island. But remote areas endure their sixth month without electricity. JUNE As a new hurricane season approaches, thousands of homes are still covered by tarps and plastic roofs. AUGUST Puerto Rico authorities raise the official death-toll estimate to 2,975.…

FICTION KILLING COMMENDATORE By Haruki Murakami The acclaimed 1Q84 author is back with his 14th novel translated into English. This two-part epic follows a lonely painter whose discovery of a hidden painting sends him on a mystical quest. (Oct. 9) THE FERAL DETECTIVE By Jonathan Lethem This case of a missing girl in California, set against the disorientation after the 2016 election, marks Lethem’s first detective story since he rose to fame with Motherless Brooklyn in 1999. (Nov. 6) UNSHELTERED By Barbara Kingsolver The best-selling Poisonwood Bible author’s latest jumps between the 1800s and present day in the same New Jersey town as two families contend with changing worlds. (Oct. 16) —Julia Zorthian NONFICTION HEAVY By Kiese Laymon Laymon examines his relationship with his mother growing…