Inhoudsopgave van June 24, 2019 - TIME Magazine

WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT … BUILDING A BETTER BERNIE Readers hailed Anand Giridharadas for the balance of his June 17 profile of 2020 U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, which Nova Saulli of Jacksonville, N.C., called an “insightful” story on the candidate’s pros and cons. For George Reid of Pleasanton, Calif., the proof was in David Brandon Geeting’s cover photo of the Senator as a “smiling, optimistic, confident leader” in contrast to the more common “scowling” portrayal. (“Maybe he was dreaming of the socialist utopia that he wants to impose on the rest of us,” wrote Igor Shpudejko of Goodyear, Ariz.) But Tom Hardenbergh of Bath, Mich., was left feeling that Sanders’ candidacy at age 77 was part of a larger problem for Democrats, whom he sees as “fixated” on…

When I was 7 years old, my father resigned from his job as a college professor. It was a critical moment in his career and created real financial risk for his young family. But he felt that he was being asked to violate his principles—and nothing was more important to him than a strong moral code. That bold decision was a model of my father’s approach to raising his kids. Walk your talk. Live your values. Provide for and protect your family. He told me to be kind to women, sure, but I watched him love and honor my mother. He exhorted me to work hard, but the lesson stuck because I saw him grind night after night as he went back to school to get another degree and took…

‘The actions taken by the NYPD were wrong.’JAMES P. O’NEILL, New York City police commissioner, on June 6, in the NYPD’s first apology for its June 28, 1969, raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan’s West Village; the patrons who fought back are considered by many to have launched the modern LGBTQ-rights movement 13-0 Final score in the U.S.-Thailand Women’s World Cup match on June 11; the U.S. team set a new scoring record for the tournament $58 million Estimated cost of a round-trip ticket to the International Space Station; NASA announced June 7 that private citizens would soon be able to pay their way ‘The encouragement is not coming from a sense of “How great it would be!” It’s from fear.’MINDY KALING, actor, arguing that…

WHEN YOUTUBE ANNOUNCED ON JUNE 5 that it was updating its policies to ban white supremacist and neo-Nazi videos, along with those that deny the truth of historical events like the Holocaust, it was a change months in the making—even though it came amid a new round of controversy for the platform. In early June, YouTube came under fire for its handling of videos posted by Steven Crowder, a conservative video creator with nearly 4 million subscribers, who repeatedly attacked Carlos Maza, a video host for the news site Vox who is gay and Latino. The platform first said it couldn’t intervene because Crowder’s videos didn’t violate its policies, but mounting pressure led it to reverse course and “demonetize” Crowder’s channel, meaning he couldn’t make money from advertising on his…

THERE ARE THANKLESS JOBS, AND THEN THERE is Li Li Leung’s job. As the new president and CEO of USA Gymnastics (USAG), Leung oversees an organization that is struggling to justify its existence. After major sponsors walked away following USAG’s involvement in one of the worst sex-abuse scandals in sports history, the group declared bankruptcy last December, and is now in danger of losing its status as the national governing body for the sport in the U.S. Leung is the fourth new head of USAG in two years and must now restore the reputation of gymnastics in the U.S. She inherits an organization that many gymnasts feel is working against them. Both gymnasts and USAG officials have revealed that under its previous leadership, it not only failed to immediately…

ONCE AGAIN, ITALY and the E.U. are headed toward confrontation. They fought a protracted battle last year over the impact of Italy’s budget on its debt before arriving at a compromise in December, but the problem has re-emerged, and it’s not clear whether a larger fight can be avoided. In recent days, Italy’s technocratic Prime Minister has pledged to resign if leaders of the Five Star Movement and the League, the two parties that make up the country’s fractious coalition government, fail to put aside differences to agree on a budget the E.U. will accept, one that won’t saddle Italy with ever more dangerous levels of debt. Only Greece is in worse shape, and Greece’s economy is small enough that it can be bailed out. Italy’s economy is far…

IN DECEMBER 2014, DURING THE final days of the Umbrella Movement, prominent signs proclaiming WE’LL BE BACK sprang up along Harcourt Road, one of the three major thruways occupied by peaceful pro-democracy protesters for nearly three months. The protest did not achieve its objective of genuine universal voting to elect our chief executive, but it awoke a generation of Hong Kongers to resist Beijing’s interference and showed the potential of civil disobedience. That promise was fulfilled when more than 1 million took to the streets against an amendment that would allow Beijing to request extradition of any individual from Hong Kong. The chief executive would have the final say, but since he or she is handpicked by the Chinese government, we have every reason to be troubled. Yet the…

THE PORPOISE OPENS WITH ACTION. THE NEW NOVEL FROM Mark Haddon, whose 2003 hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was the basis for a Tony-winning play, begins with Maja, pregnant wife of the superwealthy Philippe, going down in a small plane in rough weather. Her life is lost, but the baby is saved. “He will call her Angelica. He will never remember the name he and Maja chose.” The tragedy of his daughter’s birth twists Philippe’s love for his child into a monstrous obsession that turns into sexual abuse. He withdraws them from society, hiding at the family mansion, Antioch, until a young man named Darius stumbles upon Philippe’s crimes and decides to free the girl. This is a fine start, told with arresting detail. But…

CUSTOMS AND BORDER OFFICIALS SAY 144,000 people crossed the U.S. southern border illegally in May, a 13-year high. President Donald Trump has responded with a threat that may have surprised those struggling to stem the flow. On May 30, he vowed to impose escalating tariffs on all Mexican imports, adding a 5% penalty every month on everything from avocados to autos, up to a maximum of 25%, unless Mexico halted the influx of undocumented immigrants. Migration is not a trade problem, strictly speaking, and the episode revealed a larger truth about Trump’s foreign policy. When he is faced with a challenge on the world stage, Trump’s reflex is to reach for economic carrots and sticks as a way to advance U.S. interests. From North Korean nuclear weapons to Chinese intellectual-property…

The British lawmaker—a former soldier, diplomat and author—is running to replace Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party and become Prime Minister. He has been taking his case directly to the public, inviting people to engage with him on social media and on the streets. Do you think there’s something to steal from how the populists use media? Absolutely. I’m the sort of Trumpian anti-Trump. My little video on no-deal Brexit got 2 million views, which is more than he was getting on some of his tweets. Do you think the U.K. got into a political crisis like this because too many people in power are too removed from everyday people? British politics is much less elitist, much less class-based, than it was 50 years ago. And it’s become…

SOME MUSICIANS MAKE SONGS PRAISING troops, like Toby Keith (“American Soldier”) and Kid Rock (“Warrior”). Others rail against war, like M.I.A. (“P.O.W.A.”) and Neil Young (“Let’s Impeach the President”). Then there’s Bruce Springsteen, who does both. In a career spanning five decades, Springsteen has lent a credible voice to many activist causes, decrying poverty, racism and corporate greed. But one topic that he consistently and passionately comes back to is the soldier returning from war. At the peak of his popularity, Springsteen was a major player in the rehabilitation of the movement for Vietnam veterans and helped to normalize the struggles of PTSD; he still raises millions for veterans’ causes and has formed personal bonds with many vets. His new album Western Stars, out June 14, may be a…

Earlier this year, the watchdog organization Freedom House reported the 13th straight year of decline for democracy across the globe. You’ve been teaching the subject for 30 years. How bad are things? It’s an emerging crisis. It’s not the 1930s. We don’t have the situation where a blatantly fascist party has conquered a democracy. It’s a more subtle, creeping and incremental process. But there’s this sense, as there was in the 1920s and 1930s, that it’s the authoritarian regimes or the current neofascist movements that have the energy, the dynamism, the popular engagement. You say Hungary no longer qualifies as a democracy and Poland is on the edge. It’s a dark period that we’re living through now. Unfortunately, part of the darkness has descended on Europe. And that’s supposed to…