Table of contents for June 26, 2017 in TIME Magazine

‘The axiom follow the money certainly applies in this situation.’ LYNDA LLOYD, Albuquerque THE SWAMP HOTEL “Gold-plated swamp.” That’s how Byron Nelson of Laguna Beach, Calif., summed up the conflicts of interest posed by the Trump International Hotel in Washington, as outlined in TIME’s June 19 cover story. And Caroline Van Antwerp of Holland, Mich., predicted a populist revolt: “The kind of flaunted excess and luxury displayed in this article have— in other places and times—led to revolutions with the ‘peasants’ wielding pitchforks in the streets.” Ronald J. Price of Sebring, Ohio, argued, however, that a President who’s also a businessman is “exactly what this country needs at this particular time in history,” while other readers called for a similar look at the Clinton Foundation. ‘Compelling. And frightening. As…

SUNDAE Nashville, Mich., built a 3,656-ft. ice cream sundae, made of 5,400 lb. of ice cream, berries, syrup and cream in September 2016, beating a record set months earlier by nearby Ludington. SAUSAGE Retailer Carrefour and meat producer Aldis made the world’s longest sausage in Ploiesti, Romania, in December 2014. The 38.9-mile wurst weighed 45 tons. SANDWICH Four movable ovens were used to bake bread for a 2,411-ft. sandwich in Beirut in May 2011. The sub was then filled with chicken breast, tomato, pickles and spices.…

TV icon Long before Michael Keaton or Christian Bale donned somber bat ears, Adam West, who played Batman in the TV series of the same name from 1966 to 1968, defined the character for a generation of comicbook fans. West, who died June 9 at 88, was a pop-art superhero, perfect for his era. His Caped Crusader could defend Gotham City one minute and segue into a discotheque shimmy the next, always keeping a sense of humor about his character’s tortured soul. Later in his career, he won acclaim as the voice of Mayor Adam West on Family Guy. But mostly he’ll be remembered as the screen’s first great Batman.Wham! Pow! And goodbye.…

DespiTe a miD-June swoon, Technology sTocks are off to the races again. And many investors believe that 15 years after the tech wreck that ended in 2002, things really are different this time. They may well be. For one thing, “today’s tech companies do have earnings and sales,” says Pankaj Patel, head of quantitative research at Cirrus Research. “We’re not just valuing businesses on eyeballs.” That’s true. And yet . . . investors did recently make Tesla, a profitless Silicon Valley company, the most valuable automaker in the country, surpassing the $52 billion market cap of GeneralMotors. O.K., but stocks haven’t soared to ridiculous heights as they did in the late 1990s. This is true too. Following a pullback after Apple shares were downgraded, tech stocks have returned about 17%…

On a brisk night last July, i tOOk a lOng walk through the streets of San Francisco with Travis Kalanick, from Uber’s headquarters in the gritty Mid-Market neighborhood to the Ferry Building on the waterfront and nearly to the Golden Gate Bridge. Kalanick likes these walking meetings. It’s how he got to know Anthony Levandowski, a former Google self-driving-car engineer, whose company Uber bought, only to have Google parent Alphabet sue Uber for Levandowski allegedly stealing its technology. On that summer evening, Kalanick was in an expansive mood. We talked about how he raised billions for Uber, about the perils of being in the media’s glare and about how Uber was changing as it grew. In fact, toward the end of our threehour- plus conversation I asked him how he…

The actor, 33, stars in the survival thriller 47Meters Down, about two sisters trapped in shark-infested waters after a cage-diving trip goes awry. What’s the scariest part about filming a shark movie? It was a cumulative challenge of shooting a movie that takes place 95% underwater and having no diving training. But I was looking for something like that—I was ready to sort of take a deep dive. What attracted you to the role? I have never been thought of for a thriller before, and I have never done anything in this genre. And I was craving something really challenging and weird and different. I was in the middle of a divorce. I just [wanted] to have something that would get my mind off all of that, quite frankly. You…

‘New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated, like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy, or we’re not going to get there. No one is coming to save us.’ Wonder Woman became the first film directed by a woman to make more than $100 million in its opening weekend. Are you surprised? I’m stunned by the success of the film. But I’m also surprised how rare it’s been. How long until we can stop pointing out women’s achievements because they’re not surprising anymore? I can’t wait till enough women filmmakers have had a chance to make movies of this size and scale and those movies have been successful. There will still be conversation about smaller issues. But it will be nice that they can just be filmmakers making films. It’s not like…

Democrats take Trump to court Nearly 200 Democrats in Congress sued President Trump for improperly accepting payments from foreign governments, claiming his actions violated an emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution. It’s the third such lawsuit Trump faces. FDA to drugmaker: stop selling opioid The Food and Drug Administration asked the maker of opioid medication Opana ER to take it off the market, because of the risks of abuse. The drug was featured on TIME’s cover in June 2015, where it was blamed for “creating the worst addiction crisis America has ever seen.” Panama shifts allegiance to China Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela announced his country would establish diplomatic relations with China and break ties with Taiwan, claiming it was the “right path” for the country. Taiwan said Panama was…

Nowhere is the destabilizing impact of our lack of leadership more obvious than in the Middle East The lack of clear, unconTesTed international leadership is everywhere we look these days. This power vacuum is evident in the hollowing of the Western alliance, Europe’s fragmenting politics, the fast-shifting balance of power in Asia and the impotence of governments in Latin America and Africa. Yet nowhere is the destabilizing impact of this trend more obvious, and pressing, than in the Middle East. Last week’s unprecedented move by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain to sever all ties with nominal ally Qatar over its more accommodating approach to Iran and support for Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood has already inflicted irreversible damage. Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a likely future…

DIED Actor and model Anita Pallenberg, a muse to the Rolling Stones and former girlfriend of Brian Jones and Keith Richards, at 73. Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, Namibian independence leader who was jailed for 16 years in South Africa’s Robben Island prison, at 92. Actress Glenne Headly, known for starring in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) and Dick Tracy (1990), at 62. Sam Panopoulos, widely credited as the inventor of the Hawaiian pizza, at 83. STEPPED DOWN General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt, after 16 years as the corporation’s CEO. He will be replaced by John Flannery, who has been at GE since 1987. COMPLETED Sale of tech giant Yahoo to Verizon, for $4.48 billion. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced her resignation. NAMED Ariana Grande as an honorary citizen of Manchester, U.K., following…

These days, faTher’s day seems like an inescapable part of American culture. But it didn’t become a national holiday until President Nixon signed a bill in 1972— almost 60 years after the U.S. recognized Mother’s Day. So, what drove the decision? Some historians credit the VietnamWar. The prolonged, increasingly divisive conflict had uprooted American fathers from their families, and there was a sense that their public service needed to be recognized, according to Ralph LaRossa, author of The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History. Montana Senator Mike Mansfield even appeared to say as much when he declared—during a debate on the 1972 bill—that Father’s Day deserved the same legal status as Mother’s Day “in view of the burdens and responsibilities placed upon [fathers] during these trying times.” Some…

FAIL On The mOrning Of June 13, uber emplOyees shuffled into an all-hands meeting at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. They came to hear the results of an investigation that, like many in Silicon Valley, they had been anxiously awaiting for months. In February, a former female engineer at the company wrote an expose describing a workplace plagued by sexism and mismanagement; the explosive allegations led Uber to hire former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s law firm to find out how far harassment and retaliation had gone at the world’s fastest-growing startup. “The process, as you all know, was longer than we thought and more painful than we thought, but it comes to an end today,” board member Arianna Huffington told employees during a presentation in which executives’ voices at…

MOVIES Cult members, crazed cannibals and acid-fueled dance parties abound in The Bad Batch (June 23), starring Suki Waterhouse, Keanu Reeves and Diego Luna. BOOKS Daring to Drive (June 13) is clear-eyed memoir about how Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi, led a women’srights movement in her home country. TELEVISION Ten kitchen warriors go spatula to spatula for the best-amateurbaker crown on the BAFTA-winning reality show The Great British Bake Off (June 16). MUSIC Terror Jr’s Bop City 2 (June 16), the alt-pop group’s second album, is a synth-heavy meditation on capitalism and relationships that has a summery bounce.…

Nashville has kept busy aNd profitable since the 1990s with artists like Toby Keith, Shania Twain and Carrie Underwood ascending to pop-country royalty. All the while, though, another genre has quietly gained traction in rock clubs and indie circuits and on college radio: alt-country, a country-rock hybrid, with roots in the ’60s folk scene. Never favored on mainstream radio, the alt-country success stories have a few things in common: nonstop touring; a cerebral, sensitive approach to lyrics; and a willingness to experiment in the studio. Three of its top practitioners have new albums this month, each taking a distinctive approach to the form. Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy has been playing solo shows on and off for the past 20 years, turning the band’s songs, which can be loud and…

UNCHARTED: THE LOST LEGACY This stand-alone sequel to one of the best titles of 2016, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, is studio Naughty Dog’s latest fortune-hunting escapade for PlayStation 4. The game still involves finding ancient artifacts, but this time the protagonists are two women. Aug. 22 MADDEN NFL 18 EA is giving its annual football sim for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One a massive overhaul. Changes include better graphics, weekly matchups linked to real-world rosters, a story mode and, perhaps best of all, Tom Brady on the box. Aug. 25 DESTINY 2 One of the world’s most popular online shooters gets a ferociously anticipated sequel for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Hostile aliens have triumphed, and players must do battle on new worlds. Early September…

‘THE SUGGESTION THAT I PARTICIPATED IN ANY COLLUSION ... IS AN APPALLING AND DETESTABLE LIE.’ JEFF SESSIONS, U.S. Attorney General, testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 13 that he played no part in Russian efforts to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor ‘You start to forget about cars, and jobs and families ... all the things that make up a society.’ CHELSEA MANNING, describing life in solitary confinement during her first interview since being released from prison, after serving seven years for leaking U.S. diplomatic and Army documents in 2010; President Obama commuted her 35-year sentence in January $850,000 Amount of money a diamond ring bought for about $13 at a London flea market sold for at a Sotheby’s auction Bread The International Space Station…

CLAIM After James Comey testified that a Trump tweet had inspired him to leak memos to the press, the President’s lawyer Marc Kasowitz claimed the material had been quoted by the New York Times before the tweet. REALITY The Times story that mentions the memos was published days after the tweet, not the day before, corroborating Comey’s testimony CLAIM “In just a short period of time, we’ve already added nearly 1 million new jobs,” Trump said on June 8. REALITY The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the economy has added 594,000 new jobs since January, when Trump took office. CLAIM In a tweet on June 12, Trump welcomed the opening of the “first new coal mine of [the] Trump era” with a link to a Fox News story…

Michigan official faces Flint charges Michigan’s director of health and human services Nick Lyon was charged with involuntary manslaughter for failing to alert the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease linked to contaminated water in Flint in 2015. U.S. student freed from North Korea Otto Warmbier, a U.S. college student who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly trying to steal a poster in North Korea, arrived home in Ohio. He had been in a coma for more than a year before being released and was rushed to a hospital, his parents said. Trump travel ban blocked again The U.S. court of appeals in San Francisco became the latest court to block President Trump’s revised travel ban on people from several mainly Muslim nations. The judges…

This past NBA season will be remembered not for the hard-fought duels but for the unrelenting excellence of the Golden State Warriors. After barreling through the opening rounds of the playoffs without losing a game, the sweet-shooting Warriors met the Cleveland Cavaliers in the title bout for the third consecutive year. On June 12, Golden State avenged last year’s loss to LeBron James and Co. with a 129-120 win: Stephen Curry (above) scored 34 points, and Kevin Durant was named Finals MVP, having averaged 35.2 points for the series en route to the first title of his storied career. Golden State’s 16-1 postseason record is the best in NBA history.—…

‘The office of the President is entitled to expect loyalty.’ MARC KASOWITZ, criticizing leaks from government officials during his June 8 press conference James Comey had barely finished speaking in the Senate on June 8 when Marc Kasowitz appeared at Washington’s National Press Club to hurl the brushback pitch. Kasowitz, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, claimed his client had been vindicated by the testimony, slammed unauthorized leaks and castigated Comey for disclosing “privileged” conversations with the President. The six-minute performance was as pugnacious as Comey’s had been precise. It was vintage Kasowitz. Trump has turned to the aggressive Manhattan litigator in high-stakes disputes for more than 15 years and has tapped him now to represent him in the widening probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. That makes Kasowitz an…

The iphone is commonly referenced as a firstofitskind device that revolutionized the way we navigate the world. But in his new book, The One Device, Brian Merchant argues that Apple’s breakthrough product was less a stroke of genius and more a “container ship of [preexisting] inventions.” By the time the iPhone debuted, in 2007, FingerWorks had figured out multitouch keyboards, Nokia’s phones were playing music and running apps, and IBM had birthed and buried its own smartphone, the Simon. So what set the iPhone apart? Steve Jobs’ insistence on intuitive design was a huge factor. So was timing. In 1992, when IBM unveiled the Simon, hardware was bulky and wifi was essentially nonexistent. By 2007, that landscape had shifted, paving the way for the iPhone’s success. “The point isn’t that…

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week’s most talked-about studies: 1 EATING FRENCH FRIES MAY INCREASE MORTALITY RISK An eight-year study of 4,400 older people in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that those who ate fried potatoes, such as hash browns or french fries, more than two times per week were at least twice as likely to die prematurely as those who did not. Unfried versions like baked or mashed potatoes weren’t linked with increased mortality. 2 STAYING UP LATE ON WEEKENDS IS BAD FOR YOUR HEART A study presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting found that each hour of “social jet lag”—staying up late and sleeping in on weekends—was linked with an 11% higher risk of heart disease, along with fatigue…

$84 MILLION Amount paid to Massachusetts and California drivers in legal settlements last year 200,000 Number of customers who deleted their accounts— about 0.5% of Uber’s active users—in protest of the company’s response to President Trump’s January travel ban 14,000 Number of documents allegedly stolen from Google’s self-driving-cars division, Waymo, which filed a trade-secrets lawsuit against Uber in February SOURCES: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; COMPANY WEBSITES (WORKFORCE STATISTICS); NEW YORK TIMES; FORTUNE; LOS ANGELES TIMES…

Remake or spin-off Heavy makeup Started as an app Celebrity guests Audience votes Weird talents Hosted by Steve Harvey Hosted by someone with another job Beat Shazam (Fox, airs Thursdays at 8 p.m.) Actor and singer Jamie Foxx puts his charisma to the test as host of this game show in which competitors try to name tunes faster than the musicrecognition app. It’s like IBM’s Watson playing Name That Tune. Love Connection (Fox, airs Thursdays at 9 p.m.) Andy Cohen’s revival of the dating-show standard, in which the studio audience helps pick among suitors, will feature gay, lesbian and interracial pairings. Romance is likely a nice break from the bickering Real Housewives he works with on Bravo. Steve Harvey’s Funderdome (ABC, airs Sundays at 9 p.m.) This show asks…

“Why is iT ThaT We have such a need for murder mystery,” asks Susan Ryeland, the narrator of British author Anthony Horowitz’s new novel, Magpie Murders, “and what is it that attracts us—the crime or the solution? Do we have some primal need of bloodshed because our own lives are so safe, so comfortable?” If anyone should be able to answer these questions, it’s Susan. As an editor at a publishing house, she works with the massively successful Alan Conway, a writer of Agatha Christie–style whodunits. Magpie Murders is one mystery novel wrapped in another: we the readers peruse Alan’s latest manuscript alongside his editor, while another crime plays out in Susan’s life. Evidence mounts that finding the guilty party in the book will shed light on the case in…