Inhoudsopgave van July 30, 2018 - TIME Magazine

GO SET A WATCHMAN Fans of To Kill a Mockingbird found out more about the Finch family after Harper Lee’s lawyer uncovered a manuscript that the author wrote in the 1950s. It was published in 2015. APOLLO & VENUS In 2016, the director of an Iowa theater discovered a painting from 16th century Dutch master Otto van Veen in a storeroom. Instead of selling Apollo & Venus, he made it part of the theater’s collection. SHAKESPEARE FOLIO An original copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio was discovered on a Scottish island in 2016, just in time for the 400th anniversary of his death. Only about 230 copies of the First Folio still exist.…

FOR A MAN WHO STARTED his career by selling books on the Internet out of his garage, Jeff Bezos has done pretty well for himself. On July 16, the founder and CEO of Amazon became—according to Bloomberg—the world’s richest person in modern history. Thanks to an extra boost in Amazon’s stock price from this year’s Prime Day, he was worth an estimated $150 billion. Bezos currently makes about $231,000 per minute, or about four times what the average U.S. employee makes in a year, and is $55 billion wealthier than the world’s second richest person, Bill Gates—though Gates would have surpassed Bezos had he not given away billions to charity. Amazon has redefined retail, though critics say its downsides include predatory pricing and a remorseless workplace culture. In the…

LONG BEFORE HE GOT THE CHANCE TO enter politics, Iván Duque was a local rock star. As a teenager in the 1990s, he sang in his high school band, Pig Nose. His onetime bandmates say that even then he was looking for something deeper than rock ’n’ roll. “I was always looking for energy in my music,” recalls Rafael Gavassa, an old friend of Duque’s. “But Iván was a little more about substance.” The grunge music of Pearl Jam and Nirvana informed Duque’s songwriting. “I was more transcendental with the lyrics,” Duque remembers. It’s hard to imagine Duque as a long-haired grunge lover now. Sitting in his campaign headquarters in Bogotá, the 41-year-old sports the sober dress shirt and tie of the political class—a look no doubt honed by…

Men, she posits, always claim they spotted their future wife at a bar first, when in fact the woman spent hours trying to get his attention. Her narrative about witchy women trying to ensnare brainless men could read as gender essentialism, or a cynical take on whether men and women can form a genuine emotional bond with each other. But for the most part, she brushes with broad strokes so that she can later overturn those generalizations in more nuanced ways. “Women are not used to dealing with rejection when it comes to sex,” she says. And then quickly, as an aside, she adds, “We’re used to dealing with rejection when it comes to the idea of, I don’t know, governing our own bodies, having our own thoughts, getting…

Trump orders direct talks with Taliban In a bid to end the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump asked diplomats to pursue negotiations directly with the Taliban. This marks a significant departure from the previous U.S. policy, which has emphasized an Afghan-led strategy. Las Vegas shooting victims sued MGM Resorts International, which owns the Las Vegas hotel from which a gunman shot and killed 58 people in October, is suing more than 1,000 victims to avoid liability. The suit cited an untested 2002 law that absolves security providers of responsibility for failing to prevent a terrorist attack. Lawyers for the victims reacted with outrage. Former leader detained in Pakistan After arriving in Lahore on July 13 to rally their party ahead of elections, former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif…

WON The Wimbledon singles titles, by Angelique Kerber and Novak Djokovic, on July 14 and 15, respectively. WITHDREW Scarlett Johansson, from a transgender role in the upcoming movie Rub & Tug, after facing intense backlash when the part did not go to a transgender actor. OVERTAKEN India, by Nigeria, as the country with the most people living in extreme poverty, according to the monitoring group World Poverty Clock. Nigeria now has 87 million people living on less than $1.90 a day. CREATED A new data-analytics firm called Auspex International, by former staff members of Cambridge Analytica, the firm that closed this year after a Facebook data-harvesting scandal. Auspex promises to “resist all unethical activity.” ORDERED The deletion of part of a Los Angeles Times article, by a California judge,…

‘We were leaving behind all these other parts of the economy that needed the help way more than we needed a faster burrito.’ CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA, founder of VC firm Social Capital CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA COULD BE REVELING IN the status quo. The venture capitalist made a fortune serving as an early Facebook executive, started his own firm that now manages more than $2 billion in assets and even owns a piece of the NBA champions Golden State Warriors. Instead, he keeps talking about how Silicon Valley needs to change. In recent months, the 41-year-old founder and CEO of Social Capital has said that technology companies are “ripping apart the social fabric.” He has criticized advertising-based business models that rely on collecting users’ personal information. And during a long walk…

WHEN ASKED BY CBS News on July 15 to name America’s greatest foe, the first name past the lips of President Trump was the European Union, given “what they do to us in trade,” followed by Russia and then China. By launching steep tariffs on a swath of Chinese and E.U. imports, Trump has given Beijing and Brussels unprecedented incentive to work together—as we saw at the unusually sunny E.U.-China summit on July 16. Unfortunately for China, it’s going to take more than Trump to push Europe wholeheartedly into China’s trade embrace. The China part of the equation is easy. The E.U. is already China’s biggest trading partner and its second-largest export market. Chinese foreign direct investment into Europe hit $12 billion in the first half of 2018, while…

‘WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?’ It was a simple question, asked of President Trump by a seasoned reporter, but it sent a jolt through the assembled media at the July 16 press conference held at an ornate palace in Helsinki. Vladimir Putin had just denied again that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. America’s Justice Department, intelligence community and both chambers of Congress have concluded, definitively, that the Kremlin had done it. Who did Trump trust more? This was the moment for the President to deliver a forceful rebuke to America’s long-standing adversary. Instead, Trump replied: “I have confidence in both parties,” he said. “I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial…

VEGGIE BURGERS AREN’T JUST FOR THE meatless anymore. Research shows that eating more vegetables and a little less meat—even without going vegetarian—comes with health benefits, including a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes. And more than half of Americans say they want to eat less meat, according to recent data from the independent market-research firm Mintel. Omnivores are increasingly choosing plant-based versions of their favorite grillable. Once considered a poor mimic of the real thing, veggie burgers have gone gourmet. Taste is no small point. Mintel research from February finds that 52% of U.S. adults who eat plant-based proteins choose them because they taste good; health, animal rights and sustainability are all lesser motivators. The Impossible Burger, launched in 2016 by the startup Impossible Foods, smells, sears and even…

‘Almost all economic and regulatory policy affects or touches speech.’ JUSTICE ELENA KAGAN, in her dissent in Janus v. AFSCME PICKING A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE CAN BE less a science than a kind of holy divination. It’s an exercise not only in prophesizing a judge’s future decisions based on past actions, but also predicting which questions he or she might one day be asked. But one thing about Donald Trump’s nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, is certain. If he is confirmed to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat, Kavanaugh will not only become a decisive vote on cases shaping the future of administrative agencies, religious liberties, gun and abortion rights, and environmental protections, he will also be joining a court whose conservative majority has redefined the First Amendment, making it a…

INSIDE THE 310,000-SQ.-FT. SHOPPING mall in the heart of Camp Humphreys, you would have no idea the U.S. is 6,600 miles away. Soldiers in fatigues eat Popeyes chicken and drink from Arby’s cups in a food hall where a wall mural reads, OUR CUSTOMERS ARE HEROES. The massive $10.8 billion base in Pyeongtaek is America’s largest overseas military base as a more than decade-long expansion project draws to an end. About 45 miles south of Seoul, it is set to house nearly 45,000 troops, contractors and family members by 2022, following the largest peacetime relocation program in the Department of Defense’s history. The new garrison is about twice as far from the DMZ as the old headquarters at Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. This means it is out of range…

WHEN NANCY BARBATO FIRST MET FRANK SINATRA IN Long Branch, N.J., in the summer of 1934, they were simply two teenagers from working-class Italian-American families who fell in love. But soon after their marriage in 1939, his career exploded, bringing with it a life of frequent travel, intense fame and hordes of adoring fans. Their marriage did not last, but her loyalty did. Although she gave few interviews and remained a very private person, she became a symbol of how everyday life can lurk behind fame—and the toll that the latter can take on the former. Nancy, who died on July 13 at 101, remained a trusted friend and quiet source of stability for Frank even after the end of their marriage in 1951. Although she was wounded by…

Supersize the Supreme Court Rutgers law professor Jacob Hale Russell argues that the U.S. should greatly expand the court. “Three times its current size ... is a good place to start,” he writes, saying the scale would disempower political factions and increase the number of cases heard. How religious scholars can fight terrorism The Taliban has used Islam as a “weapon of war” in Afghanistan, writes Tariq Ali Bakhiet of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation—and “Western powers and the Afghan people have failed to wrest it from their grasp.” But now, he says, Islamic scholars are uniting to profess the sanctity of life not just in cities but across the nation’s villages. A deep distrust of genetic tech Why was there major resistance to the use of DNA data…

VLADIMIR PUTIN CAME PREPARED. Before his plane touched down in Helsinki on July 16—about an hour late, which isn’t much by the standards of Russia’s habitually tardy President—he had studied the U.S. indictment issued a few days earlier by special counsel Robert Mueller. It charged a dozen officers of Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, with helping to orchestrate a complex effort to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. They were the first subordinates of Russia’s Commander in Chief to be indicted for meddling in the 2016 election. Putin had only three days to game out his response. But when he delivered it during his press conference with Donald Trump—standing about a head shorter than the U.S. President but still seeming to tower over him—the Russian leader’s strategy came into…

Iliza Shlesinger is technically a millennial: at 35, she’s young enough to have mastered the art of Instagram stories, but old enough to remember using a landline. She survived her 20s, and now in her Netflix comedy special, Elder Millennial, she wants to offer some advice to her younger cohorts, starting with: love yourself. Part stand-up routine, part TED Talk on self-confidence, Elder Millennial riffs on Shlesinger’s recent engagement (she is now married) to prove to women that what men think about them ultimately doesn’t matter. She repeatedly plays on the “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus” trope.…

LOVE IT Former First Lady Michelle Obama was spotted dancing with Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles Lawson at Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Road II tour in Paris. Kate Middleton and Prince Louis were the picture of happiness outside Clarence House following the royal baby’s christening. LEAVE IT A GoFundMe page was created with the goal of raising $100 million to help lip-kit mogul Kylie Jenner reach the billion-dollar net-worth mark and become the youngest “self-made billionaire” ever.…

By now you’ve probably heard that dietary fat is not the enemy. The latest research suggests that ditching carbs, rather than fat, is a healthier way to control appetite, lose weight and improve risk factors for heart disease. So which fatty foods should you add to your plate? Staples of the Mediterranean diet—nuts like walnuts and almonds and vegetable oils like extra virgin olive oil and sunflower oil—are proven health champs. Their monounsaturated fats appear to lower levels of bad cholesterol, which may explain their health benefits, says Dr. Lydia Bazzano, a professor of nutrition at Tulane University. And don’t forget everyone’s favorite fatty fruit: the avocado. Include fish and seeds too, says Fumiaki Imamura, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. The polyunsaturated fatty…

‘ YOU HAVE TO TURN TO THE FUTURE AND THINK WHICH EMOTIONS WILL ACTUALLY HELP US SOLVE THE PROBLEM ’ You began your new book, The Monarchy of Fear, when the 2016 election left you feeling that fear was “suffusing” society. Was the fear there all along? Fear is ubiquitous in human life. But it’s heightened when there’s a threat. In this situation it’s the combination of extreme polarization, where people are buffeted by conflicting views, and conditions—such as automation, outsourcing and globalization—that make people whose living standards have dropped feel a sense of acute powerlessness. You note that using examples from ancient history helps you avoid that polarization. How did you come to that approach? When I was giving the Jefferson Lecture…