Inhoudsopgave van August 21, 2017 - TIME Magazine

The FBI carried out a predawn raid in July at the home of Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, leaving the property with various records, a report revealed Aug. 9. A special counsel is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Europe swelters under heat wave A heat wave nicknamed Lucifer sent temperatures across Europe soaring to highs of up to 116°F for several days. The extreme heat kindled wildfires and led to a number of deaths in countries across the continent, including Romania, Poland and Italy. U.S. Marines lost in Australia crash U.S. military officials called off a search-andrescue operation for three U.S. Marines two days after their aircraft crashed off the eastern Australian coast. The other 23 onboard were rescued. Titanosaur would have dwarfed T. rex A…

U.S. SecreTary of STaTe rex TillerSon deserves better than some of the shots fired at him lately, particularly in a scathing Washington Post op-ed by former George W. Bush aide Michael Gerson labeling him a “huge disappointment.” It was always going to be an uphill battle for him to be an effective diplomat-in-chief. President Trump has empowered his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is essentially acting as the nation’s Prime Minister, to vet major foreign policy decisions while sitting just steps from the Oval Office. Given that Trump is frequently most influenced by the last person he sees before making important decisions, Foggy Bottom might as well be in North Dakota. Still, Tillerson has had some significant foreign policy wins of late. The unanimous U.N. Security Council vote to endorse new…

mayBe it’s aN arkaNsas thiNg. if it took the towN of Hope to give us the preternaturally optimistic Bill Clinton, it took the town of Delight to give us Glen Campbell, who died on Aug. 8 at age 81. The singer, songwriter, television host and, sometimes, cautionary tale, who sold 45 million records and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005, had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, a diagnosis he made public in 2011. Campbell was at the vanguard of country music’s embrace of more mainstream pop in the 1960s and ’70s, and with hits like “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” he offered easy, unthreatening listening in a turbulent time. But that belied his musical history. He played in dive bars…

iT has been a very bad year for bud The parroT, but it has been even worse for his former owners Glenna and Martin Duram. Martin is dead, Glenna is in prison for his murder, and it was Bud, a witness to the crime, who tried to rat her out. Really. In 2015, Glenna shot Martin five times in the midst of an argument in their Michigan home. A sensational crime became all the more so when Bud began repeating the words, “Shut up!” and much more tellingly, “Don’t f-cking shoot!” The “Shut up!” was in no one’s voice in particular, but the plea not to pull the trigger was unmistakably in Martin’s. There was no limit of good reasons why Bud wasn’t put on the stand—beginning with the “raise…

HER FAVORITES INGRID THORBURN, INGRID GOES WEST “I haven’t had enough screen time,” Plaza says. “This movie allowed me to be onscreen every single scene.” APRIL LUDGATE, PARKS AND RECREATION Although Plaza is ready to leave April behind, she feels warmly toward the angsty intern: “She’s what started it all.” LENORE, DIRTY GRANDPA The bawdy comedy, though critically disparaged, put her in good company. “I mean, De Niro’s in there,” she says. AND OURS TATIANA, MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES Plaza steals the show as a lewd opportunist hiding her bad-girl swagger under a thin veneer of respectability. BRANDY KLARK, THE TO DO LIST As a bookish teen who redirects her attention to her sexual education, Plaza exudes a sincere and relatable naiveté. LENNY BUSKER, LEGION An androgynous addict…

COMPLEX CHARACTER Newly liberated Eve is the latest memorable Perrotta heroine. Says the author: “I’m really interested in telling the story of women of my generation.” TOM PerrOTTa has dOcuMenTed decades’ wOrTh Of social issues in deceptively domestic novels. He addressed modern parenting in 2004’s Little Children, the Christian right in 2007’s The Abstinence Teacher and the response to grief in 2011’s The Leftovers. All those works take place in suburban America and have at their centers workaday folks living against the backdrop of sweeping change. In examining the national interest by way of dinner-table conversation, Perrotta has created some of the most memorably human drama of his era. His new novel, Mrs. Fletcher, about a mother and son, is the latest example “I never feel like I’m writing…

Left, right and vanishing center, we’ve aLL been spending too much time in the past lately. On the right, Donald Trump’s fans yearn for a bygone America—1950s industries, 1950s masculinity and 1950s demographics. Meanwhile, the left is nostalgic for a more recent past. Either way, we’re losing sight of larger issues, like the planet and our health. Pete Souza, Barack Obama’s White House photographer, has been teasing everyone for months by posting photos of the Obama years that cunningly contrast with whatever President Trump is currently doing. But on Obama’s birthday, Aug. 4, the O-stalgia went into overdrive. The Internet declared it #BarackObamaDay, and social media was awash in images of the former President being nothing like the current one. There he was hugging his wife, laughing at Angela…

‘Why after all our efforts ... do we have no women at all?’ TAYEBEH SIAVASHI, Iranian lawmaker, after newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani nominated only men to his cabinet, despite promising greater gender parity; Rouhani did appoint women to three of the nation’s 12 vice presidencies, a more junior role 20 Population of Nipton, Calif., a town on the Nevada border that cannabis company American Green Inc. purchased for an undisclosed amount in order to transform it into a destination for pot tourists 2,994,056,666 Number of views the music video for the most streamed song of all time, “Despacito,” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, has logged as of Aug. 4, making it the most-viewed clip in YouTube history ‘ONE OF THE REASONS IS MY SISTER SAYS I AM AN…

CLAIM President Trump tweeted on Aug. 7 that his “base is far bigger & stronger than ever before.” REALITY Trump’s support among Republicans is still higher than that among the general population, but it is dropping. An Aug. 2 Quinnipiac University poll found that 76% of GOP voters approve of Trump, down from 84% one month earlier. CLAIM In a subsequent Aug. 7 tweet, Trump touted a “record Stock Market” under his leadership. REALITY The S&P 500 has indeed grown by 8.8% since Trump’s Inauguration. But both Presidents George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama oversaw greater stock-market expansion during the same period (some of Obama’s growth was a rebound from the recession). CLAIM On Aug. 3, Trump told a crowd in West Virginia that he’s ending “the war on…

Hacking claims in Kenyan election Opposition candidate Raila Odinga claimed that the electoral IT system had been hacked to manipulate the results of Kenya’s Aug. 8 presidential election in favor of incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta, who was on the verge of victory as TIME went to press. U.S. mosque bomb ‘act of terrorism’ An explosive hurled at a mosque in Bloomington, Minn., was “an act of terrorism,” Governor Mark Dayton said. A bomb was thrown through one of the building’s windows on Aug. 5. No injuries were reported. Report: Climate change felt in U.S. The U.S. is already feeling the effects of climate change as temperatures have risen dramatically over the past four decades, according to a draft federal report that is awaiting approval by the White House. Activists fear the…

DIED Japanese actor Haruo Nakajima, who portrayed the monster Godzilla in at least 12 movies including the 1954 original, at 88. Helen Alexander, British champion of women’s equality who became the first female president of the Confederation of British Industry, at 60. Robert Hardy, British character actor who played Prime Minister Winston Churchill several times as well as Cornelius Fudge in four Harry Potter movies, at 91. Chantek, an orangutan from Atlanta who was one of the first apes to learn sign language, at 39. In 2014, Chantek starred in PBS’s The Ape Who Went to College. SIGNED A $263 million deal with Paris Saint-Germain by Brazilian soccer star Neymar, making him the most expensive player in the sport’s history. IDENTIFIED The remains of a male 9/11 victim, 16 years…

A composite image of the 2008 eclipse over the Marshall Islands reveals the sun’s halo-like corona during totality DespiTe all The hype, The moon has nothing special planned for Aug. 21. It will continue doing what it’s done for more than 4 billion years—insensibly circling Earth, a dead rock at the end of a long gravitational tether. The sun has nothing special planned either. It will sit where it must sit and burn as it must burn to sustain the flock of planets and moons and asteroids and comets that have orbited it for so long. That’s how things go in the clockwork cosmos, and yet once in a while, there’s poetry in the machinery. Once in a while, the wheels click in synchrony and the indifferent universe offers up…

TENDER IS THE NIGHT (1934) By F. Scott Fitzgerald A couple’s tenuous marriage begins to unravel on the French Riviera, surrounded by temptation and danger. Inspired in part by his own life, it was the last novel Fitzgerald would complete. PHILISTINES AT THE HEDGEROW (1998) By Steven Gaines The journalist’s pop history examines “passion and property in the Hamptons,” where the rich and the famous behave badly and compete over real estate with long-entrenched locals. HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK (1996) By Terry McMillan A divorced investment analyst takes a break from her life as a single mom and heads on vacation to Jamaica, where she falls for a man half her age.…

‘The last thing voters want is a rubber-stamp Senator who agrees with the President or the party on everything.’ You say that conservatives have “lost” their way, being swept up by xenophobia, populism, nationalism. If that’s the case, how does the party right itself?We need to re-embrace those principles that we’ve gone away from: free trade, immigration. It’s not just the policy approach; it’s the demeanor. Conservatism is measured and reliable. Conservative foreign policy is where you embrace your allies and recognize your enemies. That’s a long way from where we are today. We’ve adopted a populist attitude that is a sugar high. Can you win re-election in 2018? Yes. Arizona voters have always valued independence in their elected officials. The last thing voters want is a rubberstamp Senator who…

TURNING THE BODY INTO A CANCER FIGHTER A breakthrough new approach, awaiting FDA approval, has the potential to transform cancer treatment by converting the body’s own cells into cancer-destroying agents. Here’s how it works: WWiTh The usual mix of anTicipaTion and apprehension, Kaitlyn Johnson is getting ready to go to her first summer camp. She’s looking forward to meeting new friends and being able to ride horses, swim and host tea parties. She’s also a little nervous and a little scared, like any 7-year-old facing her first sleepaway camp But the wonder is that Kaitlyn is leaving the house for anything but a medical facility. Diagnosed with leukemia when she was 18 months old, her life has been consumed with cancer treatments, doctors’ visits and hospital stays. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia…

I iT’s beauTiful. should i Take a picTure for my Instagram?” Aubrey Plaza stands up to snap an iPhone photo the avocado toast that’s just arrived at our table. She carefully moves our water glasses to declutter the shot, which she says she’ll post the week her new movie, Ingrid Goes West, hits theaters. In the film, her character also uploads a perfect portrait of the overpriced green grub to her Instagram, with the aim of impressing a social-media influencer she wants to befriend. Now Plaza shakes her head and laughs, saying, “This stupid.” She’s humoring me, because I’ve asked her to meet me—in honor of the film’s theme of millennial social-media obsession—at lower Manhattan’s Cafe Gitane, the birthplace the food trend that’s become an Instagram cliche. Plaza, 33, hates…

In the drama Columbus, the actor, 45, plays the estranged son of an architect who has taken ill. It was filmed in Columbus, Ind., a mecca of modernist architecture.Did the movie change how you look at architecture? I thought about how architects can make us feel in the way they design spaces. I’m thinking about North Christian Church, by Eero Saarinen. My father was a preacher. They say the church is not the building, it’s the people in it. In this church, the seating went upward. It was in the round, so the congregants looked at one another and down at the preacher. It was impossible not to conclude that the church was the people around you. The film talks about seeing the place where you grew up with new…

Tv is unDeniably crowded. But if the herd were thinned even a little, we might lose shows that are unafraid to be terrifically specific—willing to stage parodies of Woody Allen’s little-watched Amazon sitcom or to presume familiarity with Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George.Difficult People, the Hulu comedy in its third season, is one of those gems that would be too good to lose. The show works in the zany vein of 30 Rock, making use of New York City archetypes. Julie (show creator Julie Klausner) is a barely working actor ever enabling or being enabled by her BFF (Billy Eichner of Billy on the Street). Each episode sees slight movement toward Julie and Billy’s dream of fame, before misanthropy sets them back once again. The jokes, often…

Rihanna announced a fiveyear partnership with a bikesharing firm to help provide better access to education for girls in Malawi. ‘What I’m not gonna do is be ashamed of my mistakes. I wanna be a man that learns from them and grows from them.’ —JUSTIN BIEBER, after canceling the remainder of his Purpose World Tour Japan’s Biotherapy Development Research Center has reportedly created ice cream that doesn’t melt. Despicable Mebecame the top-grossing animated-film franchise ever, surpassing Shrek, with the latest Minions movie pushing the total global box office over $3.5 billion. Two months after the rocker’s death, Chris Cornell’s 12-year-old daughter Toni paid tribute to her dad with a moving rendition of “Hallelujah” on Good Morning America. TLC personality Derick Dillard came under fire for posting a transphobic tweet…