Índex per September 30, 2019 a TIME Magazine

WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT … HOW EARTH SURVIVED TIME’s Sept. 23 special issue on climate change took a hard look at what the world could be like in 30 years—and young readers like Gabrielle Prince, a 17-year-old in Lancaster, N.Y., felt the urgency of that date. She started her school’s Environmental Action Club but felt her “feet turning cold” as this month’s climate strike neared, until she was “assured” by former Vice President Al Gore’s essay encouraging youth activism. “He wrote of my heavy burden. I cried on my living room couch,” Prince wrote. “His words could not have reached me at a better time.” And young people weren’t the only ones concerned. Joan Rose of Seal Beach, Calif., wrote that she won’t be alive in 2050 but worries…

AFTER SIX DAYS AT SEA ON SEPT. 14, THE Ocean Viking sailed into port carrying 82 asylum seekers. It was the first rescue ship to dock in Italy since Matteo Salvini, one of Europe’s most fervent antimigrant politicians, lost his job as Interior Minister. He had shut Italian ports to rescue ships like the Ocean Viking, but his coalition government collapsed in August over the direction of migration policy. On Sept. 10 a new coalition took office without his far-right League party. “This is the end of Salvini’s propaganda,” a new minister tweeted. DEADLY PASSAGE After becoming Interior Minister in June 2018, Salvini threatened fines of up to €1 million and human-smuggling charges for captains who defied his migrant-entry ban. It had the desired effect: arrivals have fallen to…

BAD EGG A routine checkpoint in France solved a valuable mystery in 2013, when a car was found to be carrying a golden egg worth about $1.3 million—which had gone missing in Switzerland four years earlier. HEAVY BREAD A gold loaf of bread became a symbol of Ukraine’s revolution in 2014, when it was found by protesters storming the mansion of then President Viktor Yanukovych. In 2015, the new government said it was stolen. SOUND THE ALARM Hours after flutist Samuel Coles played Schubert’s Ninth Symphony at London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2015, his golden flute, then worth about $76,000, was stolen from the bar where he was celebrating.…

It’s a bright early-September day inside France’s presidential Élysée Palace, and President Emmanuel Macron is reflecting on the grueling 12 months just past, with the so-called Yellow Vests (gilets jaunes) protesters raging across the country, many aiming their fury at him. That was surely enough to rattle any leader. Yet Macron, leaning forward on his leather couch, offers another view. “In a certain way, the gilets jaunes were very good for me,” he says, as the afternoon shadows lengthened on the lawn outside. “Because it reminded me who I should be.” The question of who Emmanuel Macron should be has occupied the French, and many around the world, in the three years since the then Economy Minister launched a grassroots uprising of his own. That movement would deliver him…

SOMETHING UNUSUAL HAPPENED AT THIS summer’s Television Critics Association press tour, an event where networks hype their upcoming slates to the media. During Fox’s presentation, journalists voiced concerns about Almost Family, a new drama that recalls several real cases of fertility fraud. The show opens with the revelation that a doctor (Timothy Hutton) has inseminated dozens of women with his own sperm, without their knowledge. Critics who had seen the show detected an incongruously breezy tone for a story of what several described as a medical rape. Seemingly caught off guard, creators Jason Katims and Annie Weisman promised to address Hutton’s character. But they also insisted his actions were beside the point; the salient theme, they said, was family. I don’t think the show’s creators intended to make light…

‘The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets.’BORIS JOHNSON, U.K. Prime Minister, in a Mail on Sunday interview published on Sept. 14, on his determination to take his country out of the E.U. next month 190 million Distance, in miles, to a newly discovered comet, at its closest approach to Earth; scientists believe it may be the second interstellar object ever observed in our solar system 14 days Jail sentence handed down to Felicity Huffman on Sept. 13; the actor admitted in May to paying $15,000 in 2017 to have her older daughter’s SAT answers doctored ‘I did this for my human soul. For myself. I wanted to practice and compete with freedom, with peace of mind.’SAEID MOLLAEI, Iranian judo champion, in an AP interview published Sept. 16, after…

Forest fires spread across Indonesia Forest fires burned across the islands of Borneo and Sumatra on Sept. 17, disrupting flights and choking nearby cities with air pollution. The fires—the worst in years, thanks to a long dry season—threaten the habitats of endangered species including orangutans. Trump repeals clean-water regulation The Trump Administration announced the repeal of the Waters of the United States rule on Sept. 12. The Obama-era rule, the latest of many environmental regulations reversed or weakened under Trump, limited the use of environmentally damaging chemicals near bodies of water like wetlands and streams. Snowden: ‘I want to come home’ Edward Snowden, who has been living in Russia since revealing details of NSA surveillance in 2013, said he wants to come back to the U.S. but doesn’t believe…

DIED Ric Ocasek Rock original RIC OCASEK DIDN’T LOOK OR SOUND MUCH LIKE THE classic conception of a rock star. He was spindly, with a lilting gait and deep-set eyes; he sang in a plaintive, reedy voice. But the songwriter and lead singer of the Cars, who died on Sept. 15 at 75, didn’t particularly care for conventions. Indeed, he spent his career tweaking and then reinventing them. The Cars, formed by Ocasek and Benjamin Orr, broke out of Boston’s music scene in the late 1970s and helped define a movement that would become known as new wave, integrating rock’s pugnacious past with its synthetic future. Songs like “Just What I Needed,” “Drive” and “Let’s Go” united fans of punk, college rock and mainstream pop alike. As the band receded…

BRIAN GRAZER LIKES TO TELL THE STORY ABOUT the time he didn’t meet Vladimir Putin. Not meeting Putin is a story nearly all of us could tell, but Grazer came closer than most, right into the ante-room of the Russian President’s office, in fact. Grazer—producer and founding partner, along with friend and director Ron Howard, of Imagine Entertainment—had gone to Moscow for one of what he has dubbed his “curiosity conversations,” which are pretty much just what they sound like. You may be one of the great power players in Hollywood, responsible for such cinematic classics as A Beautiful Mind and Splash, and such TV hits as Arrested Development and Friday Night Lights, but that doesn’t mean you know everything. So Grazer tries to sit down with accomplished people…

NEWLY SELECTED British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stormed into 10 Downing Street this past summer vowing to do the impossible: secure a better deal from Brussels than the one offered to his predecessor Theresa May. Johnson threatened to pull the U.K. out of the E.U. on Oct. 31 should that deal not materialize. Two months later, Johnson’s impossible promise remains very challenging. Not only have the Europeans refused to reopen negotiations, but Johnson’s move to sidestep the British Parliament by suspending it for five weeks triggered parliamentary mutiny—Johnson and his Conservative Party lost their working majority in the House of Commons, and a cross-party alliance of MPs (including a number of high-profile Tories) banded together to pass legislation preventing Johnson from pulling the U.K. out of the E.U. absent…

WHEN PURDUE PHARMA ANNOUNCED ON Sept. 15 that it had reached a possible settlement in a major federal case involving America’s opioid crisis, the embattled pharmaceutical company shared other news too: that as part of the proposed deal, it had filed for bankruptcy. But those announcements are unlikely to spell a resolution for the lawsuits facing Purdue, which is accused of contributing to the public-health crisis by using deceptive marketing practices to promote its prescription painkiller OxyContin. Purdue has been sued in various courts over OxyContin, but central to the new developments is one major federal case before an Ohio judge, involving some 1,600 consolidated lawsuits from across the country. The company—which did not admit to any wrongdoing—said in a statement that it had reached the possible settlement with…

YOU CANNOT SEE MARIA GALLAGHER AT FIRST. ALL YOU hear are her words, spoken quickly, each one sounding as if it had taken the long way out of her—drenched in the deepest parts of her rage and pain. What you can see is the man, Senator Jeff Flake, looking down, looking away, looking anywhere but at Gallagher. “I was sexually assaulted, and nobody believed me. I didn’t tell anyone, and you’re telling all women that they don’t matter, that they should just stay quiet because if they tell you what happened to them, you are going to ignore them,” Gallagher says to Flake, while she stands outside the elevator and he stands inside. You can see Gallagher’s head now. “Don’t look away from me,” she says, desperation in her voice.…

You spent two years preparing for the film Judy. What stood out as the most important thing to capture about Judy Garland? What struck me was, despite the tragic circumstances and how they were portrayed on the public record, she never stopped hoping. She was a joyful person. She didn’t strike me as a tragic figure at all. She seemed heroic in her determination to carry on and her belief that things would get better. In the film, her fans feel they know her, but she doesn’t appear to feel known by them. Is there a certain loneliness that comes with fame? I’m sure it’s different for everybody. I suppose it depends on how much of your public persona and professional responsibilities consume your time vs. how much time…