Indice dei contenuti per August 1, 2016 in TIME Magazine

Earlier this year, the E.U. reached a deal with Turkey to slow the flow of refugees. As a condition, the E.U. promised to allow Turks visa-free travel to Europe in exchange for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's promise to observe principles of democracy and human rights. So far the deal remains in place, but Erdogan says it can't continue unless Europe keeps its promises on travel. The E.U. says the offer is valid only when Erdogan enacts changes. Then came Turkey's failed coup. Those outside Turkey who saw brave citizens face down tanks on live TV might think it represented a clear-cut win for democracy. There's no denying that Erdogan's party has a real mandate. But thousands have been arrested since the coup, and 2,745 judges have been removed. Erdogan looks…

[The following text appears within a chart. Please see hardcopy or PDF for actual chart.] DEC 2014 2015 A German documentary is the first to claim Russia sponsored doping and cheating on drug tests, implicating the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), then led by Lamine Diack. AUG A second documentary claims evidence of widespread doping on the basis of leaked IAAF data. Sebastian Coe succeeds Diack as IAAF chief and refutes the claims. NOV NOV. 9 The first part of a WADA investigation into the claims finds the Russian government complicit in a culture of cheating and urges bans for Russian athletes. NOV. 13 The IAAF suspends Russia's track-and-field team from international competition. 2016 JAN The IAAF bans Russian athletics chief Valentin Balakhnichev for life for taking bribes. The…

On July 15, Qandeel Baloch, a Pakistani social-media star, was strangled to death by her brother for "dishonoring" the family name by being outspoken about female sexuality. So-called honor killings are widespread in Pakistan, where more than 1,000 women were killed by relatives in 2015. But they're a global issue: ORIGINS Honor killings--which claim thousands each year, mostly in Muslim, Hindu and Sikh communities--stem not from religion but from traditional patriarchy and occur when women are seen as having dishonored their families. Murderers often get off lightly, especially in Pakistan, where a legal loophole allows the guilty relative to walk free if families forgive them. SCALE The bulk of reported cases happen in Pakistan, India and Middle Eastern countries like Jordan, Afghanistan and Yemen. But the West is no stranger…

Few things in life are more ubiquitous than wind. And yet, despite eons of experience, humans still can't predict how it will behave. That's a problem not only for scientists but for the global economy, Bill Streever argues in his new book, And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air. Better long-term weather forecasting, he writes, could help optimize everything from planting crops to booking flights; it could also add as much as $30 billion to the economy each year in increased productivity (per estimates from the World Bank) and save some $2 billion in damages from storms. To be sure, humans have long been able to reap some benefits from wind, using it to power ancient sailboats and preindustrial windmills--and now turbines, Streever writes,…

With help from online food-delivery service Grubhub, TIME analyzed the ordering habits of 187 congressional districts. Here, the dishes that correlated most strongly with area voting preferences: REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS 1. Sweet-and-sour chicken 2. Cannolis 3. Brownies 4. Egg rolls 5. Boneless wings DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS 1. Massaman curry 2. Veggie burgers 3. Summer rolls 4. Guacamole 5. Pancakes EQUALLY POPULAR IN REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS 1. Spicy-salmon rolls 2. Bacon cheeseburgers 3. Shrimp and broccoli 4. Spicy-tuna rolls 5. Lemon chicken --Chris Wilson…

It's no fun being funny these days. The outrage mob is waving its PC pitchforks at stand-up comedy, particularly on college campuses. Don't like jokes about race, religion, sexual orientation? Make it known how offended you are. And try to drown out or shut up what you don't like. Chris Rock has said he no longer plays colleges because of students who have been so shielded by trigger warnings and "safe spaces" that "you can't even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive." Likewise, Jerry Seinfeld, Patton Oswalt and Bill Maher have all decried the onslaught of PC protests, both on and off campus. To make his point, Oswalt last year tweeted a chestnut about a man who threw butter out a window because he wanted to see butter…

'Haven't been watching.' Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State, in an email response to a New York Times query about the Republican National Convention's coverage of race Amazon The company said it would spend $300 million on original content GOOD WEEK BAD WEEK Netflix Share prices slipped on low growth 'I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me.' Montrell Jackson, Baton Rouge, La., police officer, in a Facebook essay on police brutality. It was posted on July 8, nine days before Jackson and two other policemen were shot and killed by a man targeting officers; three more officers were injured $61.6B The total cost BP says it incurred from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2 billion Number of Uber rides taken as of June…

Conservative activists were digging into plates of pasta in downtown Cleveland when a surprise guest appeared to offer testimony. "It's time for us to come together," Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence told the group, which had held a discussion of whether conservatives could support Donald Trump. "I have a sense of this man. I have a sense of his heart." It was pure political cliché: banal, reassuring, predictable. Which may be just what Trump needs in a running mate. Until recently, the Indiana governor didn't know Trump from Adam. They make an unlikely, even unimaginable match: the entertainer and the ideologue; one pompous, one pious; the billionaire Manhattanite and the mild Midwesterner. But in a bitterly divided party, an arranged marriage of political opposites offers benefits for both. Trump gets…

The pattern is tragically familiar: A troubled person with a criminal past attacks in the name of ISIS. San Bernardino, Calif.; Orlando; and perhaps now Nice, France. They are not ISIS, exactly, but ISIS-ish--men and women who have no organizational ties to ISIS yet murder in its name. What are we to make of irreligious criminals or social misfits who suddenly take up the ISIS banner and pledge themselves to the religious crusade of its so-called caliph? The phenomenon is widespread in Europe, as any security professional there will tell you. Some will go so far as to say that the profile fits the majority of ISIS supporters in the West. Some latecomers to the cause believe their violence is redemptive--a way to atone for their past sins and preserve…

Absolutely Fabulous, the BBC TV series that ran from 1992 to 1995 (with a few subsequent resurrections), served up whole wardrobes' worth of ruthless, bad-gal humor: Jennifer Saunders' PR agent Edina Monsoon and Joanna Lumley's magazine editor Patsy Stone were catty, boozy, druggy pals who just couldn't let go of their swinging youth. Fans found their unchecked bad behavior, and their wild outfits, freeing. Each episode was a small, potent ampoule of vitriol. Now Edina and Patsy are back with Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, and this dose of hot-pink poison is just too much. Edina and Patsy are older, and it's terrible. They've run out of money, which may be worse. Their withering wisecracks should be funnier than they are, and their fashion-victim flamboyance now only makes them look pathetic.…

In the hours, days and months after the 9/11 attacks, Americans asked a series of questions: What happened? How many people died? Who did this? And, in the parlance of cable news, Why do they hate us? For those of us who lived through the attacks, the responses to those questions are familiar if not complete. But 15 years later, parents of children born after 2001 struggle to come up with answers that explain the events and their aftermath without diminishing the terror of that sunny September day. In Jewell Parker Rhodes' new novel, Towers Falling, 10-year-old Dèja has never heard about the attacks. As the present-day story begins, her family of five have just been evicted from their Brooklyn apartment and moved into a homeless shelter, in part because…

LOVE IT Prince Harry took an HIV blood test live on the British royal family's Facebook page to raise awareness about how easy it is to get checked. Google's new professional emojis are bucking stereotypes, offering male and female depictions of chefs, teachers, computer engineers and more. A couple got married on one of the world's tallest roller coasters at a North Carolina amusement park, which was also the site of their first date. There's a pop-up Museum of Ice Cream opening in New York City; its exhibits include a "swimmable rainbow sprinkle pool" (above) and an "immersive chocolate room." Ariana Grande and Jimmy Fallon did a duet of her new single, "Into You," over Snapchat. Stephen Colbert crashed the stage at the Republican National Convention dressed as Caesar Flickerman,…

When Turkish military officers set in motion an attempted coup d'état on the night of July 15, lawmakers in the capital, Ankara, were quick to rush to the parliament building. As explosions rocked the capital and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was nowhere to be seen, it appeared the lawmakers might be making their last stand in defense of Turkey's democracy. Before heading to government headquarters, opposition lawmaker Mahmut Tanal brought a copy of the Turkish constitution. Another, Orhan Atalay from Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), grabbed his gun. That might have been the better choice. Turkish and U.S. officials now believe the attempted coup was a serious and well-armed bid for power that came within a hairbreadth of succeeding. The coup plotters commanded tanks, helicopters and F-16s. They…

DIED Nate Thurmond, star center for the then San Francisco Warriors in the 1960s and '70s. The seven-time All-Star was known for his defensive skills. DECLASSIFIED Twenty-eight pages from a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, discussing possible ties between the hijackers and Saudi Arabia. The White House said they did not prove the Saudi government had a direct role in the attacks. ELECTED The United Methodist Church's first openly gay bishop, the Rev. Karen Oliveto of San Francisco, by the church's western district, in spite of the denomination's ban on same-sex relationships.…

Most people who proclaim unions dead are business types. Andy Stern, former head of the Service Employees International Union, is the rare labor organizer who says the same thing. His new book, Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream, is in many ways a downer. After losing faith in the ability of unions, which represent only 11% of American workers today, to effect economic change, Stern set out to study the impact of globalization and technology. His conclusion: we can't fight the machines. Stern tells a persuasive story about a rapidly emerging economic order in which automation and ever smarter artificial intelligence will make even cheap foreign labor obsolete and give rise to a society that will be highly productive--except…

The Republican Convention opened with a distraught mother, tears in her eyes, saying something palpably outrageous: "I blame Hillary Clinton. I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son--personally." The woman was Patricia Smith, the mother of the American hero Sean Smith, who was killed during the attack on the temporary U.S. consulate (and CIA station) in Benghazi. Grief can do terrible things to the mind and soul. I can't imagine why Smith has fixed on Clinton, who was an extremely peripheral figure in the failure to secure the Benghazi station: matters of consular security never reach her level of seniority--and, more to the point, the significant operation in Benghazi was run by the CIA, which should have been responsible for the security. David Petraeus was director of…

At Tommy's restaurant in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where the menu ranges from egg creams to vegan tempeh burgers, there's something for every age and political persuasion. So when Carolyn Smith went there recently to celebrate her 78th birthday with dinner and milk shakes, she and her daughter and granddaughter became an instant focus group on Hillary Clinton. Is the candidate making history, and how much does it matter if she is? As you might guess from exit polls, Carolyn voted for Clinton--most older women did. Her 49-year-old daughter Cindy voted for Bernie Sanders but is "coming around." And granddaughter Josephine Sicking, 18--well, she wasn't sold at all. "She's the most qualified person in history," protests Cindy, a hairdresser with a bright purple streak in her hair, trying to cajole her…

The Emmy-nominated actor, 28, stars in the new film Into the Forest (July 29), an intimate post-apocalyptic drama based on Jean Hegland's feminist novel of the same name; this fall, she'll return to television in HBO's sci-fi thriller Westworld. You've talked openly about your bisexuality. Do you feel a sense of responsibility to discuss LGBT issues? I advocate for things that I've struggled with because that's how I can do the most good. Once I broke through barriers, it was like I took the red pill to get out of the Matrix. It made me want to speak out because I don't want anybody to feel like I did. It's unusual to have so many out women--you, co-star and producer Ellen Page and director Patricia Rozema--involved in one film. Did…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently came under fire for her critical comments about Donald Trump's candidacy. Although she expressed regret, the Supreme Court Justice is no stranger to verbal combat. In a forthcoming children's book, I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark, Debbie Levy depicts the Justice's life as "one disagreement after another." (Ginsburg has seen the book but did not endorse it.) After a series of conflicts with teachers, classmates and courtroom foes, Ginsburg joins the Supreme Court and meets her favorite antagonist: fellow Justice Antonin Scalia. The Ginsburg of I Dissent is a crusader, but she has a soft side: after she and Scalia vehemently disagree in court, they go parasailing in France and elephant riding in India. (Nonfiction!) In a true meeting of the minds, politics just…

This is the 13th Star Trek film overall and the third installment with this cast. What gives this universe longevity? It's Gene Roddenberry's vision. He had such a deep faith in humanity. People respond to the undercurrent of unity. That makes this one timely, given that the country--and the world--feels so divided. Our adversary in this movie is a being who's diametrically opposed to the Federation. He wants to destroy a place that's a hub for different species and races--people from all over the galaxy coming together and inhabiting this one place. It's weirdly parallel to what's going on all over the world right now. There's waves of nationalism and xenophobia and fear-based thinking and intolerance. It's alarming. At the end of the day, this is a blockbuster summer popcorn…