Indice dei contenuti per July 9, 2018 in TIME Magazine

IF WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. WAS THE MONARCH OF 20TH CENtury American conservatism, then Charles Krauthammer, who died of cancer on June 21 at age 68, was its best general: an intellectual hurricane who could turn the often sloppy craft of ideological warfare into an elegant art. His writing on U.S. politics inspired and sustained a generation of conservative policymaking; even those who strongly disagreed with him could not deny his influence. His legacy—particularly with regard to the Iraq War, for which he cheered—is worthy of the sort of serious consideration at which he was so preternaturally good. But I will remember Charles Krauthammer first and foremost as a man of deep compassion. In June 2017, my father sustained a spinal-cord injury while surfing in Nicaragua, leaving him paralyzed…

PLANNED PARENTHOOD V. CASEY (1992) In one of the many abortion cases Kennedy would hear, he sided with the court’s progressive wing and voted to uphold Roe v. Wade. He continued to support the precedent through his tenure. CITIZENS UNITED V. FEC (2010) Kennedy wrote the majority opinion holding that corporations have the right to free speech. The decision opened the way for massive campaign spending in recent elections. OBERGEFELL V. HODGES (2015) Kennedy wrote the landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the country, the capstone of his long history of expanding gay rights from the bench. FISHER V. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (2016) Kennedy walked a fine line on affirmative action, opposing quotas but saying race could be considered as one of many factors. In 2016, he wrote the…

The lift of the ban on female drivers on June 24 marked a long-awaited moment for Saudi Arabia’s activists. But not everyone was celebrating. That day, several leading figures of the Saudi women’s-rights movement were still detained on unspecified charges, facing up to 20 years in prison and unable to mark the achievement of a goal they had been working toward for years. Loujain al-Hathloul, Aziza al-Yousef and Eman al-Nafjan are three of at least 11 people linked to the Saudi women’srights movement who were detained as part of a broader crackdown in May. According to human-rights observers, the women were targeted in a “smear campaign” on social media and state-linked media outlets. They were accused of being “traitors” to the state and collaborating with “foreign entities.” Here, more…

SHERLOCK HOLMES MAY BE THE greatest detective ever. But it turns out his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, was no slouch himself. In a gripping new book, Conan Doyle for the Defense, journalist Margalit Fox tells the maddening story of how a German-Jewish petty crook was wrongfully convicted of murdering a wealthy older woman in Glasgow in 1908. After serving over 18 years in one of Scotland’s harshest prisons for a crime he clearly did not commit, Oscar Slater was finally released thanks to the tireless efforts of Conan Doyle, who dismantled the police’s dismal case and used his celebrity to summon attention. Around this story, Fox weaves a fluid tour of British anti-Semitism, late Victorian morals, the nascent arts of forensic science, the difference between deductive and abductive reasoning…

What led you to suspect that there was lead in the water of Flint, Mich.? I was clued in by a high school girlfriend—a drinking-water expert—over a glass of wine at a barbecue at my house. She told me that the water [which was being piped from the local river to save money] wasn’t being treated properly. And once you proved that to be true, the city swung into action? No. I was attacked, the science was attacked and my credibility was attacked. Everybody talking about this was attacked: moms, activists, pastors, journalists. In your new book, What the Eyes Don’t See, you say the crisis in Flint was caused by both government policy and a lack of faith in government. How can it be…

‘All my actions I did willfully.’REALITY WINNER, former National Security Agency contractor, pleading guilty to leaking documents related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election ‘HER WORKS REFLECT DATED CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARD INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND PEOPLE OF COLOR.’ AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, explaining that the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award will be renamed the Children’s Literature Legacy Award in the wake of renewed attention to the Little House on the Prairie author’s stereotypical portrayals of Native Americans ‘WHO IS THIS STUPID GOD?’RODRIGO DUTERTE, President of the Philippines, dismissing the biblical creation story in a speech on June 22 that has angered church leaders in the predominantly Catholic country $1,500 Prize money won by Zsa Zsa, a 9-year-old English bulldog, for her victory in the 2018 World’s Ugliest…

Judge orders migrant families reunited A federal judge in California granted a preliminary injunction on June 26 halting nearly all family separations at the U.S. border. The judge said children who’d been separated from their families under the Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy must be reunited with them within 30 days; children under 5 must be reunited in 14 days. Prince William makes historic Middle East trip Prince William became the first British royal to make an official visit to Israel and the West Bank, during a five-day Middle East trip that began on June 24 and also included time in Jordan. His plans included meetings with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. California fires lead governor to declare emergency California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state…

TO BE KNOWN BY ONLY ONE name requires a certain degree of celebrity. Fittingly, at the time of her death on June 19 at age 46, Koko was perhaps the most famous ape in the world—a 280-lb. western lowland gorilla who did more than impress observers with her mastery of sign language. The Gorilla Foundation in California, where she lived, called her an “ambassador” for her own kind, but her impact reached beyond species. Born in captivity, Koko began learning sign language from her trainer, Francine “Penny” Patterson, when she was about a year old, and came to understand more than 1,000 different signs, which she used to share her feelings. She expressed sadness after the 2014 death of Robin Williams, with whom she had played. Her desire to…

AMY CONEY BARRETT Indiana, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Before she was confirmed to the Seventh Circuit in October, Barrett weathered tough questions from Senate Democrats over whether her Catholic faith would influence her decisions on the bench. THOMAS HARDIMAN Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit The first person in his family to go to college, Hardiman was the runner-up to Neil Gorsuch for Justice Scalia’s seat. BRETT KAVANAUGH Maryland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Like Gorsuch, Kavanaugh was once a law clerk for Kennedy. He was a significant addition to Trump’s list last fall. AMUL THAPAR Kentucky, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Thapar is a home-state favorite of Senate majority…

At the 18th Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of State, the first summit since the expansion of its membership, leaders of the eight member states mapped the future of a larger organization. The meeting, held in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, on June 9-10, saw the release of milestone documents that codify their consensus. All this will further enhance the solidarity and influence of the SCO. Evolution The SCO came into being against a distinct international backdrop in the aftermath of the Cold War. It was created as a mechanism to meet the needs of countries in the region in terms of maintaining stability and promoting shared development. Under the Shanghai Five grouping, predecessor to the SCO, China, Russia and countries in Central Asia…

‘Allies of the U.S. [were left] wondering, who is the leader of the democratic world?’ ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, former Secretary-General of NATO THE PREFERRED TERM FOR THE 29 COUNTRIES of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not members or signatories but allies. Yet as a July 11–12 NATO summit approaches, 28 of those nations’ leaders would be forgiven for questioning whether that word still applies to the leader of the 29th. In the space of two weeks in June, U.S. President Donald Trump baited the E.U. and Canada into a trade war; argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin—still under E.U. and U.S. sanctions for the annexation of Crimea—should be invited back into the G-7; and branded Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “dishonest” and “weak.” He then met…

DIED South African photographer David Goldblatt, who captured the brutal realities of apartheid, on June 25 at 87. Joe Jackson, the controversial patriarch behind the Jackson 5, on June 27. He was 89. BORN A daughter, to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, on June 21. Ardern is the first world leader to give birth while in office in nearly 30 years. CHANGED The U.S. Open’s approach to seeding players after pregnancy leave, the organization said on June 22, after French Open officials were criticized for not seeding Serena Williams when she returned to competition after giving birth last fall. CANCELED Fifteen performances of Billy Elliot by the Hungarian State Opera on June 22. Ticket sales for the musical plummeted after a conservative writer claimed the show was spreading…

FOR YEARS, SOME OF THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL DISCUSSIONS IN AMERICA WERE HELD AROUND A SMALL ROUND TABLE IN FRONT OF A WINDOW WITH A VIEW ACROSS FIRST STREET TO THE CAPITOL BUILDING.IT WAS THERE, IN THE PIN-DROP SILENCE OF HIS SUPREME COURT CHAMBERS,THAT JUSTICEANTHONY KENNEDY CONVENED HIS CLERKS EACH YEAR TO ASSIGN AND ANALYZE THE CASES THAT WOULD COME BEFORE AMERICA’S HIGHEST COURT IN THE COMING MONTHS. It was also where Kennedy would greet guests for private conversation. Courtly to the point of caricature, he would have his staff lay out white linen napkins and a cut-crystal milk jug, then serve tea. He would also salt his legal analysis with Shakespearean allusions, fresh in his mind from after-dinner reading at home with Mary, his wife of 55 years. Alternately…

In Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg’s buzzy first novel, historian Dr. Voth discovers a suspicious manuscript that upends centuries-old assumptions about notorious jail breaker Jack Sheppard. The document reveals that 18th century street prowler was a trans man like Voth. As he loses himself in Sheppard’s untold story, Voth must fight to keep the manuscript out of the hands of his university administration. Rosenberg, a literature and gender studies professor himself, interweaves the two narratives by letting the “found” Sheppard manuscript serve as the central text and revealing Voth’s present-day story line through confessional footnotes and annotations. Sheppard’s story is a dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance against the hegemonic forces of 18th century London; Voth’s is a dystopian satire of higher education. Together, they make for…

ON THE OPENING WALL LABEL FOR THE MUSEUM of Modern Art’s Bodys Isek Kingelez retrospective, the curators have compiled a list of materials deployed by the visionary Congolese artist “roughly organized from most to least prevalent.” To create his wildly complex, fantastical cityscapes, Kingelez used a wealth of commonplace materials and found objects, according to the inventory studiously prepared by conservators and curators, ranging from: “Paper (including colored paper, printed paper, wrapping paper and tissue paper); corrugated cardboard, paperboard, and printed commercial packaging; wood; acrylic and plastic; aluminum and metallic foil and cardboard; rubber foam, Styrofoam, and foamcore; ink, pencil, colored pencil, crayon, marker, and paint (paint pen, gouache, and poster paint); adhesive, tape (colored tape and metallic tape), and stickers; fabric, yarn, string, thread, and twine; beads (paper,…

For healthy adults, experts say that eating a lot of fruit is unlikely to get you into trouble, as long as it’s part of a normal diet. The main concern with overeating fruit is its natural sugar, yet research has consistently linked whole-fruit consumption to a reduced risk for obesity and other metabolic diseases, says Dr. Robert Lustig, a neuroendocrinologist and professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. That’s because whole fruit has a few built-in advantages that seem to mitigate any sugar-driven health risks. It contains both soluble and insoluble fiber, which form a gel-like “latticework” on the inside of the small intestine, Lustig says. That latticework prevents a big portion of the fruit’s sugar from being absorbed early on during the digestive process.…