Table of contents for April 3, 2017 in TIME Magazine

5 | From the Editor 9 | For the Record The Brief News from the U.S. and around the world 11 | What to know about the airline electronics ban 16 | Ian Bremmer on how a stalemate is exacerbating Russia-Ukraine relations 18 | RIP guitar icon Chuck Berry, newsman Jimmy Breslin and poet Derek Walcott 20 | When German Chancellor Angela Merkel met First Daughter Ivanka Trump The View Ideas, opinion, innovations 23 | The U.S. women's hockey team's fight for fairer pay 24 | Inside the world of elite sommeliers 25 | The thorny history of cherry blossoms 26 | 100 super healthy and filling foods 28 | Camille Paglia on free thought and free speech 31 | Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad's open letter to the President The Features…

In Ukraine, things have taken another turn for the worse. In January, Ukrainian army veterans began an unofficial blockade of rail traffic into the country's breakaway eastern provinces to protest their government's willingness to do business with the pro-Russian separatists holding power there. On March 15, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, anxious to regain control of the situation and to keep the confidence of his supporters, made the blockade official. Separatists remain defiant. Russia is reportedly recognizing travel documents from the breakaway provinces for entry into Russia, and we're getting closer to the moment when Moscow will move to formalize trade and economic links with the separatist territories. In other words, the Ukrainian stalemate has deepened. Ukraine has fallen behind Western neighbors like Poland and Hungary over the past 25 years.…

Jimmy Breslin and Donald Trump were both born in Queens. But while Trump represents the New York City borough as grasping, aggressive and grating, Breslin, who died March 19 at 88, represented it as authentic, ethnic and expansive. Of course, Trump had a cushier background than Breslin. And today's Queens is not the Queens into which either Breslin or Trump was born. Over both of their lifetimes, it became a regular United Nations. Breslin embraced the change, defending these immigrants when necessary, as with his book The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez, investigating the construction accident that killed a Mexican immigrant. Breslin knew what the President still needs to learn: that these are the people who can help make America "great"--just as Jimmy Breslin's words and passion did. Troy…

DIED Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's former Deputy First Minister, at 66. Once an Irish Republican Army leader, he helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, paving the way to peace after decades of violence. • Robert Silvers, founding and longtime editor of the New York Review of Books, at 87. • Chuck Barris, creator and host of numerous hit TV game shows, including The Gong Show and The Dating Game, at 87. PROMOTED Geisha Williams, as the head of PG&E, making her the first female CEO in the energy company's history as well as the first Latina CEO of a Fortune 500 company in the U.S. QUIT Uber's president Jeff Jones, less than seven months after he joined. Jones told Reuters that the "beliefs and approach to leadership" that…

Wine aficionados tend to scoff at cheap, mass-produced bottles--in part because the wine inside is often augmented with various powders, oils, salts and concentrates to make it more palatable to the average drinker. But in her new book, Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker points out that such chemical manipulation has always been part of winemaking. For centuries, even the finest winemakers have added ingredients like egg whites or sulfur dioxide to improve a wine's flavor and prevent it from spoiling. The fact that mass producers use more manipulation doesn't make their wine bad, Bosker argues; it raises the bar for all wines. What sommeliers consider "bad" wine, she explains, is "really wine that [tastes] good, at least to large numbers of wine drinkers." In 2015, for example, Americans spent almost $2…

A roundup of new and noteworthy insights from the week's most talked-about studies 1 SLEEPING WELL FEELS LIKE WINNING THE LOTTERY A study in Sleep of more than 30,000 people found that those who improved their sleep quality had levels of mental-health improvement after four years similar to those of lottery winners of roughly $250,000 after two years. 2 FEWER BABIES ARE BEING BORN WITH HIV IN THE U.S. A report in JAMA Pediatrics found that HIV transmission from mother to child has decreased in the U.S., from 216 babies born with HIV in 2002 to 69 babies in 2013. Researchers attribute the decrease in part to higher rates of HIV testing. 3 COMMON PAIN MEDS MAY INCREASE RISK OF HEART PROBLEMS A study in the European Heart Journal--Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy…

Dear President Trump, Representing the U.S. in the Olympic Games was the greatest honor of my life. I will never forget walking into the opening ceremony behind our American flag that I revere, surrounded by my teammates, each drawn from different sports, many of different faiths and various ethnicities. Yet in that diversity was America itself: united by love for our country. My story is a quintessentially small-town American story. In my hometown, Maplewood, N.J., the question was always which sport I would play instead of why a girl would play one. My point isn't really about sport, it's about opportunity. The opportunity to strive for and believe in one's own destiny. That is what made America's story so distinct from any that preceded it, and mine and every other…

This is a moment in the U.S. when funding for arts education is in doubt. Why does arts education matter? The arts are the first thing that suffer these days, and yet they are truly the most vital thing I can imagine to make our lives better, to make a bridge between communities and countries and to be able to connect without any animosity. What do you hope parents will get out of the series? One of the things we hope is that parents or grandparents will be interested enough to come and watch the program with their children. When you read something like Winnie-the-Pooh as an adult, there's a whole other level of sophisticated humor. That's what I'm hoping our show has. I'm hoping that the whole family will…

Even before the official release of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley in March, early readers deemed it worthy of excitement. The novel--at once a coming-of-age adventure, a love story and a literary thriller--has appeared on several most-anticipated books lists for 2017, has been blurbed by the likes of Ann Patchett and Richard Russo and was snapped up by Hollywood and optioned for television. Author Hannah Tinti was already armed with literary credentials. She co-founded the magazine One Story in 2002. Her short-story collection Animal Crackers sold in 16 countries. And her 2008 debut novel, The Good Thief, anointed her a best-selling author and drew comparisons to Dickens. Twelve Lives conjures even more storied roots: Tinti, the daughter of a librarian, says she turned to her bookshelf while writing and…

You write that we have lost the point of Adam and Eve: they were two people who loved each other through passion and pain. Should we all disobey God on our first dates to build an eternal relationship? Adam and Eve are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. And when you go back to the story, you find the first commandment that God gives in the entire Bible is to Adam and Eve: Go forth and multiply. They are called by God to succeed. The story is not one of disobeying God. It's about obeying the larger message, which is making the relationship work. Why has Eve shouldered the blame when Adam was right there, taking a bite from the same fruit? Because organized religion…

In April 1966, the streets of America were crime-ridden, Southeast Asia was threatened by "godless communists," and some radical theologians were weighing the heretical question that TIME asked on its cover: Is God dead? It was "a summons to reflect on the meaning of existence," and while the story was as much about the state of the church as the health of the deity, it nonetheless inspired angry sermons, heartfelt letters and a lively debate at a time when 97% of Americans told pollsters they believed in God. Half a century later, I suspect that about as many would say they believe in Truth, and yet we find ourselves having an intense debate over its role and power in the face of a President who treats it like a toy.…

A group of European engineers called PTScientists has announced plans to make the first unmanned, private moon landing sometime in 2018 on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. Here are other initiatives to return to the moon: NASA NASA is studying the possibility of accelerating the development of its Space Launch System--a giant rocket being built to transport people to Mars--to take a crew of astronauts around the moon on its first flight as early as 2018. BLUE ORIGIN Jeff Bezos wants an Amazon-like delivery service in order to enable "future human settlement"on the surface. His space company, Blue Origin, hopes to deliver gear for habitats and lunar experiments by mid-2020. ROSCOSMOS Russia's space agency said last year it is looking to build a manned moon station based on Cold…

FRANCE In March, poachers broke into Thoiry Zoo, near Paris, overnight and killed a 4-year-old white rhino, then hacked off his horn. Police are investigating the incident. SOUTH AFRICA On Feb. 20, an armed gang broke into a rhino orphanage in KwaZulu-Natal and removed two rhinos' horns in front of staff members. One rhino was killed and the other had to be euthanized. KENYA During the summer of 2013, seven rhinos were killed by poachers in a series of coordinated attacks within the space of one week in national parks and wildlife sanctuaries across Kenya.…

By now you know the basics of a healthy diet: lots of fruits and vegetables, some nuts, healthy dairy and a little fish and lean meat. But that doesn't mean you always abide by those rules--or that they're easy to follow. Most food choices are guided by hunger--which can lead people to make in-the-moment decisions that don't line up with their longer-term nutrition goals. In fact, research suggests that one of the strongest predictors of whether a diet will be successful is how hungry a person feels while he or she is on it. That's why forward-thinking doctors have shifted their focus away from nutrients like fat and even carbs and instead recommend foods according to their full nutrition profile. What they've found is that many of the most filling…

Generations of American children have learned the apocryphal tale of young George Washington, bravely admitting to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree. The story sprang from a culture that wanted even its fables to serve the ideal of truth. By that standard, the House Intelligence Committee hearing on March 20 should have been a massive humiliation for the President, who followed Washington 228 years later. It is rare for such hearings to be unclassified--and thus televised--but FBI Director James Comey found the largest possible audience for his rebuke of the sitting President. He had given Donald Trump nearly three weeks to walk back his incendiary tweets accusing President Obama of "wire tapping" Trump Tower during the campaign. If such surveillance had been done through legal channels, the…

In 1763 London, the opening sequence of Hulu's new series Harlots informs us, 1 in 5 women is a sex worker. If anything, this figure seems low once the show plunges viewers into a world so relentlessly focused on the flesh trade that it's a wonder Georgian London had any other industries at all. Two rival madams, Samantha Morton's earthy Margaret Wells and Lesley Manville's pretentious Lydia Quigley, sit atop this world. And their rivalry provides the engine for a compelling drama. The pair share little aside from enmity: Lydia teaches her working girls French and pockets their money, celebrating the finer things in life while profiting from the prurient. Margaret's style, by contrast, is more saloon than salon. Her trade tends toward the rougher-edged, with one glittering exception--her daughter…

LOVE IT Fraternal boy band Hanson is launching a world tour, 25 years after the "MMMbop" singers made their debut on the pop scene. A new Muppet on Sesame Street, named Julia, will be the series' first character with autism. 'We were worried that the BBC would never call us again.' Professor Robert E. Kelly, speaking with the network about his adorable children interrupting a live interview on South Korea A study published in Scientific Reports that measured participants' responses to different curvatures of Mona Lisa's mouth found the famed subject was almost unanimously perceived to be smiling. Real-life couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski will take their much gushed-over marriage to the big screen, starring together in the thriller A Quiet Place. TIME's weekly take on what popped in…

'I have one client. It's the law.' Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court Justice nominee, promising to keep politics and other outside influences from entering into his judgments, during a March 21 confirmation hearing $26,500 Amount in fines a man was sentenced to pay on March 17, having pleaded guilty to tying more than 100 helium balloons to a lawn chair in July 2015, which floated about 2.5 miles over Calgary, Canada, into the path of commercial aircraft 'Forty or so live viewers, and no one thought to call authorities.' Anthony Guglielmi, Chicago police spokesman, describing the March 18 sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by as many as six males that was broadcast on Facebook Live; as of March 21, investigations were ongoing 'Do you want to have a handshake?' Angela…

When Derek Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, TIME called him the "Bard of the Island Life." It was an apt description, marrying his devotion to his native St. Lucia with his passion for English, the colonizing tongue that both agitated and animated him. Over time, Walcott's short poems ("A Far Cry From Africa," "The Sea Is History") became iconic, as did his epic, book-length poems (Omeros, Tiepolo's Hound). He even made time for impressive work as a playwright and watercolorist. Although he trotted the globe, his life and work remained tethered to his Caribbean home--and the rhythm, beauty and power of what he called "that grey vault," the sea. --SARAH BEGLEY…

The calendar, if little else, says spring is here. Although many flock to see cherry blossoms, that reliable harbinger of the season, history shows these buds are more than just pretty flowers. For centuries people in Japan have celebrated gathering under cherry trees when they're fully flowered. Because the buds tend to bloom all at once and wither quickly, they became a symbol of "something that's evanescent and fleeting"--something that, echoing Buddhist principle, must be enjoyed before it's too late, says Bruce L. Batten, a historian of Japan. That idea made cherry blossoms appealing as military symbols; personnel were told it was an honor to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" during the era of imperial expansion in Japan, which stretched from the 19th century through World War II, says…

History moves in cycles. The plague of political correctness and assaults on free speech that erupted in the 1980s and were beaten back in the 1990s have returned with a vengeance. In the U.S., the universities as well as the mainstream media are currently patrolled by well-meaning but ruthless thought police, as dogmatic in their views as agents of the Spanish Inquisition. We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group. The premier principles of my new book, Free Women, Free Men, are free thought and free speech--open, mobile and unconstrained by either liberal or conservative ideology. The liberal-vs.-conservative dichotomy, dating from the split between left and right following the French Revolution, is…

On March 20, FBI Director James Comey confirmed that as part of the federal probe into Moscow's operation against the 2016 U.S. election, FBI agents are "investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts." He declined to elaborate. What we know, so far, from the public record: TRUMP'S PEOPLE MIKE FLYNN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER Flynn was fired on Feb. 13 after misleading the Vice President about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Routine intercepts of Kislyak's calls overheard Flynn discussing U.S. sanctions on Russia while President Obama was still in office. According to documents released by the House Oversight Committee, Flynn was also paid over $33,000 to speak…

Becky G just got her driver's license--not that she has many opportunities to drive. "I will if it's an emergency or I need to get somewhere quickly," says the 20-year-old. But her mom or other members of the family have chauffeured her around for more than a decade. That's how long Becky, born Rebbeca Marie Gomez, has been working as an entertainer. "Don't get me wrong," she says. "I'm a grown woman and a boss lady. But I'm still growing up. Who wants to drive in L.A. traffic anyway?" After starting with voice acting and commercial work when she was 9, the Los Angeles native developed a following for her YouTube covers of pop and hip-hop songs. By her mid-teens, she had signed a deal with RCA Records and released…

One day we will all be hacked. By "we," I mean the famous and powerful, so it's not something you really need to worry about. But I do. So, figuring the best defense is a good offense, I decided to hack myself in order to control the inevitable damage of being outed by Russians, North Koreans, WikiLeaks, Anonymous or that obese guy in New Jersey whom Donald Trump seems to know a lot about. Unfortunately, I've had bad luck tempting someone to help me in this endeavor. Over the past three years, I've gotten two hackers I found online to agree, but after hours on the phone arranging how to do this, they suddenly stopped getting back to me without doing any hacking, which, sadly, has made me distrustful of…