Table of contents for May 21, 2018 in TIME Magazine

Back in TIME Sigmund Freud Oct. 27, 1924 This week’s feature on therapy for sex offenders (page 38) is part of TIME’s long history of covering psychology. The topic, this 1924 article noted, “is so logical in appearance that the gravest error may be made in accepting its conclusions as great and devastating truths. One and one, the world is convinced, make two; but add one bad man to one good woman and the critics will argue forever on the sum.” Read the full story at time.com/vault THE ROAD TO ERADICATING POLIO TIME editor at large Jeffrey Kluger has been reporting from Nigeria, one of the world’s last reservoirs of endemic polio. The polio vaccine has been available in Nigeria for years, but until recently, misinformation about its health…

EVER SINCE DONALD TRUMP CAME ALONG, politics has been upside down and backward, the conventional wisdom rendered useless and the old rules thrown out the window. Political professionals regard the American voter warily, never sure when the next weird surprise might come. Would Republicans vote for a man accused of pursuing teens for sex? Roy Moore nearly won a Senate seat in Alabama despite such allegations, which he denies. Could a Democrat capture a congressional district Trump won by 20 points? Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania did just that. In these topsy-turvy times, anything is possible. And so, on May 9, the so-called experts braced for the latest insanity. But instead, in the first major round of primary voting ahead of this fall’s midterm elections, Republican and Democratic voters made…

Melania Trump to focus on kids First Lady Melania Trump on May 7 unveiled a campaign called “Be Best,” which she said would aim to help children by encouraging social, emotional and physical health. Her choice to include cyberbullying in the platform drew attention because of the President’s tendency to use insults on social media. Hizballah makes gains in Lebanon vote The Iran-backed militant group Hizballah made gains on May 6 in Lebanon’s first parliamentary elections since 2009. Western-backed Prime Minister Saad Hariri said his party lost a third of its seats, while Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah declared the vote a “great political and moral victory.” NASA launches Mars InSight lander On May 5, NASA launched the Mars InSight lander, a small spacecraft designed to conduct studies of the…

Moments after he declared that the U.S. was ditching the Iran nuclear deal, President Trump abruptly switched topics. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was en route to North Korea, he said, to prepare for Trump’s meeting with the despot Kim Jong Un. It seemed like a jarring aside, but it sheds light on why Trump decided to reimpose U.S. sanctions against Iran on May 8. Over the past two months, Trump has come to see his policy toward North Korea as a success. He believes his unusual combination of insults and biting economic sanctions has brought a nuclear-armed dictator to the negotiating table—and now he wants to run the same playbook against Iran. “Today’s action sends a critical message: The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I…

The great dairy debate Mark Kurlansky, author of the new book Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas, details the drink’s history of controversy and why “though cow’s milk is what fills our refrigerators, few claim that it is the ideal milk for humans.” A better option? Donkey’s milk. A transpacific disconnect The Chinese ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai, writes that while “the trade deficit that the United States has with China gets all the headlines,” there’s a more fundamental and pernicious misunderstanding that Americans have of China. Why humans are obsessed with Mars For centuries, earthlings have pinned their hopes on the Red Planet—for extraterrestrial life and for a future home to humans. In a conversation, David A. Weintraub, author of the new book Life on Mars: What to…

1891 Zora Neale Hurston is born in Alabama. She later claimed her birth year was 1901, to stay in school after she aged out. 1928 She graduates from Barnard College, where she studied anthropology. While in NYC, she becomes a figure in the Harlem Renaissance. 1937 She publishes Their Eyes Were Watching God, seen as her masterpiece, amid a flurry of creative and scholarly output. 1942 Her memoir Dust Tracks on a Road is widely hailed, but she later returns to working odd jobs to support herself. 1960 After a stroke, Hurston dies in poverty and is buried in an unmarked grave in Florida.…

The Patrick Melrose novels, by the British writer Edward St. Aubyn, depict the life of a dissolute man as he goes from squandering his promise to having squandered it. Patrick is born into high social status but trained from youth that to strive is unbecoming; instead, he plunges into addiction, finding redemption slowly. Benedict Cumberbatch, the primly composed actor, makes for a perfect Patrick. In Showtime’s remarkable, decades-traversing new miniseries Patrick Melrose, Cumberbatch’s boarding-school anticharisma neatly coincides with a character who holds the world at arm’s length. And the actor’s calculatedness, known to fans of Sherlock, looks radically different as he counts the minutes, and even the seconds, until his next hit, or whiles away the hours after giving drugs up. His is a soulful, careening tale told with…

As we clamor to celebrate female filmmakers in the U.S., let’s not forget those who have been working for years in France. Claire Denis (Beau Travail, Friday Night) is one of the best of those, and her latest film, Let the Sunshine In, is a multifaceted, bittersweet delight. A superb Juliette Binoche plays Isabelle, a middle-aged artist who has split from—though still occasionally sleeps with—her longtime partner and is wondering what her next act might be. Neither a moody, preening actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle) nor the oafish married banker (Xavier Beauvois) who tells her, “You’re charming, but my wife is extraordinary” deserve her. On the most basic level, Let the Sunshine In is a wry, deeply enjoyable picture about the cursed horror of dating and how desire drives us even…

LOVE IT Prince William and Kate Middleton released the first official photos of their newborn third child, Prince Louis. Adele celebrated her 30th birthday by dressing up as Rose from the movie Titanic for a party themed after the 1997 classic romance. LEAVE IT A dairy farm in New Jersey has released a pork-roll ice-cream flavor that combines the essence of French toast with the processed pork product Taylor Ham.…

THE FBI IN CRISIS Eric Lichtblau’s May 14 cover story about the FBI drew strong responses from those with ties to the agency. “The concerns of the American people regarding recent FBI leadership are exceeded tenfold by the anger and disgust of thousands of retired FBI agents like myself,” wrote Joseph W. Koletar, a retired special agent in Bolivia, N.C. But Charlotte Carrabotta of Rockwood, Pa.—the mother of a deceased special agent—felt that the story didn’t “do justice to the majority of FBI agents, who do their job well.” Twitter user @Hestia382 wondered if FBI mismanagement has affected efforts to ensure election security, and @1liners argued that the real crisis is trickling down from the top, tweeting, “The FBI is not in crisis, this presidency is.” ‘As always,…

PATRICK MORRISEY State: West Virginia Party: Republican Establishment cred: State attorney general and a former lobbyist RICHARD CORDRAY State: Ohio Party: Democrat Establishment cred: Obama appointee and a former state attorney general MIKE BRAUN State: Indiana Party: Republican Establishment cred: Businessman and a former member of the Indiana house of representatives…

EVER SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP TAPPED Gina Haspel to lead the CIA nearly two months ago, fierce debate has engulfed Washington over her suitability to run the agency. Haspel, a 33-year intelligence operative who would become the first woman to lead the CIA, remains embroiled in controversy because of her role in the agency’s interrogation and detention program in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. During a May 9 confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, it was her turn to speak. “I want to be clear: Having served in that tumultuous time, I can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership, on my watch, CIA will not restart such a detention and interrogation program,” Haspel said. Still, she evaded answering…

WHEN WARREN BUFFETT held his annual investorfest at the beginning of this month, he weighed in on CEOs taking stands on social issues. While he certainly airs his own political views from time to time, his stance is that he doesn’t want to speak for shareholders. Buffett’s view on this subject was once standard CEO fare. But that’s changed: think Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s campaign against Indiana’s religious-freedom law, Merck CEO Ken Frazier’s resignation from President Trump’s advisory council after the Charlottesville riots or Delta CEO Ed Bastian’s decision to cut discounts for NRA members after the Parkland shootings—to name a few. None of those would have happened a decade ago. So why are they happening now? In many cases, employees and customers are demanding that CEOs speak out.…

NOT THAT IT’S A COMPETITION, but U.S. consumers typically shell out 50% more on Mother’s Day than on Father’s Day. The disparity likely speaks to a fundamental truth about the work American mothers do: research shows that, while dads are spending increasingly more time with their kids, moms still assume the bulk of the child-rearing responsibility. “Children may feel their mothers really sacrifice for them,” says Ralph LaRossa, a sociology professor at Georgia State University who has studied gender and parenthood. In addition, American culture glorifies motherhood more so than fatherhood. “There’s so much symbolic value that touches mothers,” LaRossa says. So it figures that we’d end up giving more back to Mom. Here’s how the spending shakes out.…

WHEN JOAQUÍN “EL CHAPO” Guzmán was born in the rugged village of La Tuna in Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains in 1957, the houses were made of mud, there was no electricity or running water and mules provided the only form of transport. His mother described how she and his father scraped by growing beans and corn on the rocky slopes to care for him and his 10 siblings. “They were difficult times. We longed for something better,” Consuelo Loera, Guzmán’s 88-year-old mother, tells TIME as she looks out at the homes and farmsteads clinging to the sunsoaked hillside. Known as El Chapo (or Shorty) for his diminutive, stocky stature, Guzmán toiled as a child to help bring food to the table, hauling sacks of oranges around the hills to…

JUST ABOUT ANY HUMAN BEING HAS the ability to change, which is why our justice system sometimes claims to offer a chance at rehabilitation after retribution. But what about those who never face legal consequences? What about the ones who, instead, are tried in the court of public opinion? Nearly all of the famous men felled by actions brought to light by the #MeToo movement face lesser consequences than the men who have served out prison sentences for what are in some cases similar accusations. Not being able to host a TV show, run a restaurant or embark on a comedy tour is not the same as being kept from getting even minimum-wage work, renting a home or voting. At worst, powerful men have lost their absurdly high-paying jobs…

‘YOU CANNOT MAKE ART WITHOUT RISK ANY MORE THAN YOU CAN MAKE BABIES WITHOUT SEX’ Wine, hotels, films are all businesses in which you’ve had success. What has one taught you about the other? It’s all show business. Show business is a little derogatory, but it really is what it is. And even to the Greeks in the great golden age of Sophocles, it was still show business. The fact that I’ve not been stuck in one of those fields has given me a perspective about how things that are common in one but unknown in the other might be useful. It’s a sort of self-refreshment. When young filmmakers go to you for advice, what do they ask and how do you answer? They all ask, “How do I…

NEW COKE The most infamous mistake came in 1985, when Coca-Cola introduced the first recipe update in Coke’s history. Customers hated it and the phrase “New Coke” became synonymous with a product fail. TWININGS TEA The British tea company added more citrus flavor to its classic Earl Grey in 2011, but to customers the change was, well, not their cup of tea. Some created a Facebook page demanding the return of the original. NUTELLA When Ferrero changed its Nutella recipe in November, fans of the spread were truly angry. They took to social media, using the hashtag #NutellaGate to profess their love for the old product.…

INAUGURATED Vladimir Putin, as President of Russia, for his fourth term. He has run the country for 18 years as President or Prime Minister. ISSUED The first nonbinary birth certificate in Ontario, Canada, to Joshua Ferguson, who uses the pronoun they. Ferguson received a new birth certificate in May after petitioning the province for a year. NAMED Former Ronald Reagan aide Oliver North, known for his role in the 1980s Iran-contra affair, as the next president of the National Rifle Association, the group said on May 7. DIED Nearly 200 wild horses, of famine and dehydration, at a pond in northern Arizona, Navajo Nation leaders said May 3. Weakened by drought, the horses got stuck in the mud. SUSPENDED Opioid sales from Morris & Dickson, by the U.S. Drug…

FOR CERTAIN STUBBORN BASKETBALL fans, Michael Jordan will always be the greatest player of all time. Even devotees of His Airness, however, must give LeBron James his due. King James finished this NBA season, his 15th, with his highest scoring average (27.5) in eight years, a career-best 9.1 assists per game, and 8.6 rebounds per game, which tied a career high. And he has single-handedly carried the Cavaliers in these playoffs, averaging an eye-popping 34.3 points. He’s also hit two dramatic buzzer beaters, including a running one-handed bank shot to beat the top-seeded Toronto Raptors in Cleveland’s second-round sweep that will populate highlight reels for years. So how to you settle the Jordan-James sports-bar debate? Jordan partisans point to his unmatched aerial artistry and his perfect 6-0 record in…

EARLY 1980S Guzmán establishes himself as a drug-smuggling logistics expert for the Guadalajara Cartel, one of the leading criminal organizations in Mexico. 1989 The Guadalajara Cartel is split into factions, one of which, the Sinaloa Cartel, falls under Guzmán’s control. JUNE 1993 Guatemalan authorities arrest Guzmán and deport him to Mexico. He is sentenced to 20 years in prison. He continues to run cartel operations from prison. JANUARY 2001 With help from prison employees, Guzmán escapes, possibly in a laundry cart that gets wheeled out of prison. For years, he is wanted by Mexican, U.S. and Interpol authorities. FEBRUARY 2014 After eluding Mexican authorities for days using underground tunnels, Guzmán is captured, ending a 13-year manhunt. JULY 2015 Guzmán again escapes prison through a tunnel dug under a…

IN 1927, A MAN IN ALABAMA—THE LAST SURVIVOR of the last known ship ever to bring enslaved humans from Africa to the U.S.—received a visitor. A young anthropologist, working on her first big assignment, wanted to hear what he remembered of freedom, of bondage and of what came before. The aspiring scholar’s name was Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston returned several times, aiming to write a book about the man—called Kossola, with a variety of spellings, or Cudjo Lewis—but never found an interested publisher. Even as she became an esteemed writer, his story stuck with her. His yearning for home, undimmed by time, was wedged in her mind. Now, about 90 years later, the book she had wanted, a nonfiction account of her interaction with a man who lived a…