Table of contents for April 1, 2019 in TIME Magazine

WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT … DARE TO IMPEACH Molly Ball’s March 25 cover story about House Democrats who want to impeach President Trump prompted debate among readers across the political spectrum. Christopher Moree of Apopka, Fla., dismissed Democrats who want to impeach Trump as sore losers, while Larry Schultz of Bellevue, Wash., said the Democrats’ motive “seems to simply be that Trump is a jerk and they don’t like him.” But Phil Nuernberger of Honesdale, Pa., saw urgency in the issue. “It IS a crisis when impeachment should occur and doesn’t,” he wrote. And some readers who might agree with House Democrats were turned off by the result impeachment would entail: “Pence may not be as obnoxious,” wrote Henry Close of Douglasville, Ga., “but his policies are just as…

AMERICAN WRITER A.N. DEVERS WAS AT A rare-book fair in New York City in 2015 when she noticed a Joan Didion title selling for just $25. Then she saw the price tag of a novel by the equally famous Cormac McCarthy: about $600. “I realized we don’t value women’s work the same way we do men’s,” Devers says. “It’s depressing. But it’s also exciting, because I can do something about it.” Three years later, after moving to London and joining the U.K.’s thriving rare-book trade, Devers opened the red doors of her new bookstore, the Second Shelf. Tucked away in a quiet courtyard off the busy streets of London’s Soho, the store almost exclusively stocks rare books by women (alongside a handful of male-authored books about women). The focus is…

THIS IS AN UNUSUAL INTERVIEW. I AM NOT meeting Eliza Dushku in a Beverly Hills restaurant or a SoHo hotel bar, where celebrity profiles are usually set. Instead, I find her in a coffee shop just off Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. Inside, students in hoodies hunch over their laptops. Dushku has become one of these sweatshirt-clad students: she’s studying holistic psychology, a therapeutic modality that integrates mind, body and spirit, at Lesley University. After nearly 30 years working in Hollywood, Dushku says she’s been getting a lot of calls from friends, a tinge of concern in their voices. “So, you’re in Boston?” Yes, she is. Because Dushku has been thinking a lot lately about the narrative of her life, and she’s decided that learning more about how to…

THIRTEEN EUROpean countries have already declared themselves open for Chinese business, but the 14th has both Brussels and Washington on edge. Chinese President Xi Jinping is traveling to Rome in late March to officially welcome Italy into his ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, a Chinese-backed plan to unite East and West with railways, ports, tunnels and other infrastructure projects and transform China’s economic strength at home into undisputed geopolitical power abroad. Absent an alternative, Italy is set to become the first G-7 country to enroll in China’s signature foreign policy initiative While China has already made inroads into various Eastern European countries, signing up Italy—the euro zone’s third largest economy and a G-7 member—has pushed concerns about China’s potential to splinter Europe from the periphery to the core, literally and…

Your old office is handling multiple investigations into Donald Trump. Should that worry him more than Robert Mueller? Yes. Unlike the special counsel’s office, the Southern District does not have any kind of circumscribed mandate. They are not limited to issues related to collusion or obstruction or interference with the election of 2016. They can look at everything. And that includes bank fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, you name it. What can the public expect to see when Mueller’s investigation ends? If the report is devastating to the President and there are people on earth who know, I don’t see how you keep that from the public. If it’s not so damaging, I assume [Attorney General] Bill Barr and others would rush to disclose it. The problem will be…

DIED W.S. Merwin Bard of the ephemeral By Rita Dove I FIRST READ AND ADMIRED W.S. MERWIN, WHO DIED AT 91 ON March 15, long before I met him, in the 1970s. In the ’80s we got to know each other at various literary events. By the time we were both poetry consultants for the Library of Congress’s bicentennial in 1999, it was like meeting an old friend again. Once, while he was visiting the University of Virginia to give a reading, we were late for dinner and I was rushing, when I suddenly noticed he wasn’t beside me anymore. I turned around to find him at the edge of the parking lot, staring into the evening sky. What was wrong, I asked, and he replied, “Rita, don’t you pay…

INSIDE THE U.K. HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, THE grownups were at work. Outside, thousands of other people—many of whom were not old enough to vote—were doing their best to make sure business was anything but usual. With their chants echoing down the streets, they were among an estimated 1.6 million students in over 120 countries who left school on March 15 in protest of adult inaction on climate change. “It shocks me how great a length we have to go to be heard,” said 16-year-old Miranda Ashby, who’d traveled more than two hours to London with roughly 50 of her classmates. “We are protesting now because if not now, when?” The school climate strikes started one Friday last August with teen activist Greta Thunberg’s standing vigil outside Sweden’s Parliament. “When I…

WHEN A GROUP OF MORE THAN 20 PROTESTERS showed up in the halls of the U.S. Senate on a recent February day, they would have been forgiven for expecting a chilly reception. For the past seven months, sit-ins at a range of offices—from California Governor Jerry Brown’s to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s—had followed a similar pattern: show up, sing songs, get led away in handcuffs for disrupting the peace. But on that particular Wednesday, things were different. Instead of being dismissed or arrested, this band of environmental activists from a group known as the Sunrise Movement was warmly welcomed. Democratic Senators’ aides applauded their songs, led them to back offices for meetings and cheered their efforts. “It starts with what you’re doing, from the bottom on up,” Vermont…

I CAN’T REALLY TELL YOU MUCH ABOUT THE OA. Netflix has asked journalists to not reveal certain plot points before the second season of its mind-bending serialized drama premieres on March 22—but even if it hadn’t, there’s just so much about this show that remains so mysterious. Like what I’m looking at, right now, in a small screening room on the eighth floor of Netflix’s Hollywood offices, seated next to its co-creator and star, Brit Marling. From our perch on a black leather couch, we watch this season’s dizzying seventh episode in its entirety. This is “QC,” or quality control—one last check to make sure every frame and cue is just as Marling wants it, the last step before it gets beamed onto television screens in millions of living…