Table of contents for April 2, 2018 in TIME Magazine

A WOMAN CLUTCHED HER PHONE TO HER heart the way a missionary might hold a Bible. She was anxious to take a picture of a stunning bouquet of flowers that sat not 10 ft. away, but first she had to get through a crowd of others jostling to do the same. The cause of this recent frenzy was Bouquets to Art, one of the most popular annual events at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. For the 34th year, florists were asked to create bouquets that respond to pieces of art on display, from ancient carvings to contemporary sculptures. A tower of baby’s breath imitates a frothy waterfall in a nearby painting by Gustav Grunewald. Red flamingo flowers and neon blue sticks echo a surreal portrait of a…

FOR YEARS, IT SEEMED THAT THE BEST WAY TO ESTABLISH my place in the physics world with people outside of it was to talk about the time Stephen Hawking, who died on March 14 at 76, saved me a seat at a conference. In our incredible, challenging-to-explain universe, it was perhaps inevitable that it was an incredible, challenging-to-explain person who made it more comprehensible—both to the scientific community and to the public. A functioning brain coupled with what little of his body held off ALS was enough for him to have a life far more active than that of most able-bodied individuals and a life of the mind that exceeded others’ by many multiples. His contribution to our understanding—particularly of black holes—laid bare mysteries that 40 years later are…

I BELIEVE THAT THE FOUR CONFEDERATE monuments in New Orleans that became a dominating presence in my life for well more than two years never reflected what the true society of New Orleans, generations ago, actually felt when they were built. The structures reflected what the people who erected them, mostly ex–Confederate soldiers or sympathizers, believed because they had the power to build them and because they wanted to send a particular political message. They cast a dark and repressive shadow over my city and, in a way, held us back. It took most of my lifetime to see this. So I listened to people who had absorbed a different message from those statues than the one I did over the years. A great part of governing is listening…

Rita Moreno One Day at a Time The Oscar winner plays Lydia, a protective grandma, on this reboot of a 1980s classic Micah Fowler Speechless The actor gets to play a full character—one whose use of a communication board to address his family opens up new comic possibilities Tracee Ellis Ross black-ish Playing an omnicompetent physician, Ross is funniest when collapsing under family stress…

Blue Ivy, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s 6-year-old daughter, bid $19,000 on an acrylic painting of the actor Sidney Poitier during an auction at the Wearable Art Gala. She was ultimately outbid by director Tyler Perry but later picked up a different piece for $10,000. LOVE IT Black Panther became the first movie since Avatar to top the domestic box office five weeks in a row, pulling in over $605 million in just 31 days. LEAVE IT Allstar Marketing Group, the company behind the Snuggie, is being forced to issue $7.2 million in refunds to customers who were deceived by “buy one, get one free” ad campaigns.…

Male birth-control pill shows promise The latest attempt at a male birth-control pill appears to be safe, researchers said on March 18. The new drug reduced testosterone and other hormones needed to produce sperm and had no major side effects. Now scientists need to do a longer study to see if the hormonal changes actually block sperm production. Austin bombing suspect blows himself up A suspect in a series of bombings that terrorized Austin died on March 21 when he detonated an explosive device in his vehicle as police closed in. Authorities believe he was responsible for at least six bombs that killed two people and injured several others. After the suspect’s death, police were left looking for a motive for the bombs, most of which were parcels. French…

PIZZA Chef Johnny Di Francesco, who runs a restaurant in Melbourne, made headlines when his Neapolitan pizza was crowned the world’s top margherita during the 2014 Pizza World Championship. WHISKEY Scottish distilleries had to drown their sorrows when a single malt from Japan’s oldest distillery was named the world’s best whiskey by the 2015 Whisky Bible, which awarded it 97.5 marks out of 100. VODKA Chase Vodka, made from potatoes grown and fermented on a spud farm in Herefordshire, England, triumphed in the 2010 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, beating Russian and Polish vodka brands.…

DECADES AFTER ITS 1961 release, the opening scene of Breakfast at Tiffany’s remains one of fashion’s most recognizable moments on the silver screen. Audrey Hepburn, coffee and Danish in hand, drifts down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue wearing the ultimate little black dress—a sleek, streamlined column gown designed by Hubert de Givenchy, the couturier who died on March 10 at 91. The French aristocrat turned fashion designer changed the way the world saw Parisian chic, with his simple yet refined designs that spoke not only to the power of a woman’s femininity, but also to the demands of her real life. By introducing separates—pieces that the wearer could mix and match at her fancy—in his breakout collection in 1952 and becoming the first designer to debut luxury ready-to-wear, in 1954, Givenchy…

It is not easy to protect 1.4 billion people every day. But if Facebook wants to be the home where all those people share their likes and heartbreaks and plans and politics with acquaintances online, it had better try a lot harder. That was the thrust of the news on March 17, when the Observer of London and the New York Times revealed that analytics firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained data from 50 million Facebook accounts. The company, which worked with both Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump on their 2016 presidential campaigns, then attempted to build psychological profiles of potential voters—with the hopes of using them to determine whom to target. But in this case, unlike other recent privacy breakdowns—like the Equifax data breach that put 145.5 million…

It’s lunchtime on a Tuesday, and the kids are piling into a pizzeria booth in Coral Springs, Fla., to plot a revolution. “The adults know that we’re cleaning up their mess,” says Cameron Kasky, an 11th-grader at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who started the #NeverAgain movement to curb gun violence three weeks earlier in his living room. “It’s like they’re saying, ‘I’m sorry I made this mess,’” adds buzzcut senior Emma Gonzalez, “while continuing to spill soda on the floor.” Kasky and Gonzalez are sitting with two more of the movement’s leaders, Alex Wind and Jaclyn Corin. Except they’re not sitting, exactly. They’re crouching diagonally on the seat and leaning back on one another’s knees in order to devour their calzones while maintaining as much physical contact as…

The saga of the wealthy Getty family—and the 1973 incident in which scion John Paul Getty III was kidnapped for a ransom that his grandfather, oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, refused to pay—has become a Hollywood favorite. After last year’s film All the Money in the World comes Trust, a new FX limited series debuting March 25. The movie featured Christopher Plummer doing straightforward work as a brusque patriarch; on this show Donald Sutherland’s take on the character is more complex. The actor shows you the urgent, addictive need to win that comes with Getty-scale success. And as the younger Getty, Harris Dickinson glimmers with pain: “You don’t know my granddad,” he tells his captors. “If he says he won’t pay, he won’t pay.” He knows his grandfather too…

Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi behemoth Pacific Rim was big and dumb in a smart way. As the movie’s giant manned robots, known as Jaegers, battled a bunch of cranky alien deepsea beasts (called Kaiju), del Toro shaped the action into something more than just one booming attack after another. But Pacific Rim Uprising, the sequel directed by Steven S. DeKnight, is a whole ’nother kettle of ticked-off amphibians. Star Wars’ John Boyega stars as Jake Pentecost, the wayward son of one of the earlier film’s heroes, who’s called to put his skills to use when the previously banished Kaiju suddenly reappear, stronger and smarter than ever. This time, the plot is far less logical than before, and as appealing as Boyega is, he can’t do much with lines…

First pedestrian killed by self-driving car A self-driving Uber car hit and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz., on March 18, causing the company to suspend its autonomous car testing there as well as in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Toronto. The incident is being called the first pedestrian fatality involving self-driving technology. Climate change could displace 143 million people Climate change could lead to the displacement of as many as 143 million people by 2050, according to the World Bank. Mass movement of people in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America is likely to create “hot spots” with tens of millions of people moving into crowded slums, putting pressure on national and local governments. Toys “R” Us says goodbye Retailer Toys “R” Us said on March 15 that…

DIED Representative Louise Slaughter, the oldest member of Congress, on March 16 at 88. The New York Representative had been the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee. BLOCKED A Mississippi law that would ban almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, by a federal judge. If the law is implemented, it will be the most restrictive abortion regulation in the U.S. EUTHANIZED The world’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, to end his suffering from agerelated disease. The death of the 45-year-old rhinoceros leaves his species on the brink of extinction. DECLARED The candidacy of Cynthia Nixon, best known for playing Miranda on Sex and the City, for governor of New York. She will challenge Governor Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary in September. DENIED A…

How the military can ruin one man, then another Marine Corps veteran Matt Young, author of the recent memoir Eat the Apple, reckons with how his service turned him from a lost boy into a bloodthirsty man—as he watches his younger brother enlist. Rectifying a stereotype against black women In an excerpt from her new book, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper confronts a problematic refrain that the root of black women’s problems is “low self-esteem,” an idea her own mother held close when fighting to escape abusive relationships. “Just learn to love yourself, we are told,” Cooper writes. What would Mandela make of Trump? Former editor of TIME Richard Stengel explores the insights of the late South African, whose highest compliment…

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have kept diaries of their experiences since the shooting for TIME, which are excerpted here. Feb. 14 JACK MACLEOD 16, junior There are certain sounds you cannot mistake. I sprinted back up the stairs and locked eyes on my classroom. As I reached for the door handle, it wouldn’t budge. It’s protocol for teachers to lock their doors during a code red. I’m not sure how to describe my feeling in that moment. We ended up making our way to an outside hallway intersection. Someone told us to stay here—this was the safest place we could be in the moment. Being able to see from three directions brought a sense of comfort. It told us that we had other options if we…

VLADIMIR PUTIN MAY HAVE BEEN RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT of Russia on March 18, but he’s far from the grand master of geopolitical chess portrayed in the Western media. Whether bragging about Russia’s “invincible” new missile, playing coy over accusations that his hackers play games with foreign elections or that his spies murder opponents in faraway places, the Russian President seems intent on restaging the Cold War—but without the military reach or global ideological appeal that made the Soviet Union a formidable foe. What has Putin really won? Today’s Russia has an economy smaller than that of Canada. Its entire military budget is less than the extra money President Donald Trump wants Congress to spend on U.S. defense. It has no NATO allies, and it counts countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Sudan,…

ROSEANNE CONNER IS A TRUMP VOTER, and it makes sense. The sitcom mom played by Roseanne Barr lives in one of the Rust Belt towns that broke heavily against Hillary Clinton—though, in Illinois, she’s technically a blue stater. She’s provocative and likes to speak frankly. And, in the first episode of her sitcom revival (premiering March 27 on ABC), she’s newly attracted to one side of our ongoing culture war. Preparing to say grace before dinner, she makes a reference to recent NFL protests, asking her liberal sister (Laurie Metcalf), “Would you like to take a knee?” Roseanne has always been an insult comic, so it’s no surprise that she’s drawn to a President whose power comes in part from his punch lines. In its first run, Roseanne was…

‘IT TURNED INTO, “OH, WHAT IF THE MOBSTER’S HENCHMAN WAS KIND OF LIKE A GUY FROM THE APPLE GENIUS BAR?” ’ The actor and Saturday Night Live veteran makes his directorial debut with the dark comedy series Barry (debuting March 25 on HBO), co-created by Alec Berg. Hader stars as a dejected assassin who follows a mark to an acting class and decides to make a career pivot. How do you find the humor in a story about a depressed hit man? Alec and I both come out of comedy, so we can’t help but not take certain things too seriously. Barry goes to meet with Chechen mobsters, and I don’t like when there are just bad guys—everyone has their reasons—so we opened those characters more. It turned into,…

‘ SKEPTICISM IS MORE NECESSARY AND VALUABLE THAN ANY BLIND BELIEF ANYBODY HAS ABOUT ANYTHING ’ The main character of your book is a mercenary who opposes a Trumpian figure. Do you share Bob Honey’s worldview? I wrote this book to get myself away from my own worldviews. That doesn’t mean they are or are not expressed in the book. It’s up to the reader to decide. Bob drafts a letter to the Trumpian character saying, “We are a nation in need of an assassin.” Are you worried that will be read as you advocating for the assassination of President Trump? No, I’m not worried about that. I think if anybody believes by reading this that I am advocating for something like that, then they are really not getting…