Newsweek 07/20/2018

1938 Violence surged in the Middle East during the Great Revolt (1936–1939) against British control of Palestine, which was 94 percent Arab. The story chronicled a particularly vicious outbreak of violence in July: “bombs hurled into crowds, individuals shot down in dark streets, wayfarers stoned and stabbed on the highways.” By the time the revolt ended, more than 5,000 Arabs had been killed. The British mandate finally expired on May 15, 1948, the day after David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the state of Israel. 1981 The same year President Ronald Reagan’s administration began cracking down on oil-rich Libya, our cover story described its leader, Muammar el-Qaddafi, as “a madman, a mystic, a religious zealot bent on the export of terrorism.” The divisive dictator survived Reagan, remaining in power until 2011,…

“It’s the only hope you have to live as a human being.”» ALAN DERSHOWITZ IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK with high-profile clients like O.J. Simpson, Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst and Claus von Bülow (whose murder conviction he got overturned in 1985; Dershowitz’s best-selling Reversal of Fortune followed). But the Harvard Law Professor is gaining notoriety and criticism, among fellow Democrats, for something else: His views regarding President Donald Trump. Dershowitz has clearly stated that he does not support his agenda. Rather, he is defending his civil liberties, as he would anyone’s, a view laid out in his new book. Dershowitz is first and foremost a scholar of consitutional law. Among his positions: That Trump, as head of our “unitary executive” branch, has the right and authority to order the attorney general…

The administration’s new policy means “no people from the Third World coming to the United States and asking for asylum.” WHEN MUSLIM RIOTERS BURNED down his shop in northern Nigeria around 2015, Stephen fled the sectarian campaign against Christians like himself and headed south. But soon more violence erupted; government troops clashed with supporters of a secessionist movement in Nigeria’s southeast, echoing the tensions that had plunged the country into civil war 50 years earlier. He had not heard from his father or sister since the riots over a year before, and, fearing for his life, he set out last September for Ecuador and, ultimately, the United States—more than 10,000 miles and an ocean away. Stephen joined thousands of other migrants along the land route from South America, traveling by foot, bus…

ON THE EVENING OF FEBRUARY 1, TINA Adams peered out the window of her hotel room in Charleston, West Virginia. It had been snowing for hours, and the roads were freezing over. Earlier in the day, she had driven two hours north from coal country to set the stage for a protest at the state Capitol. Adams, a middle school teacher and mother of six, was furious. After 15 years at Baileysville Elementary and Middle School, in Brenton, she made about $47,000 a year—$12,000 less than the national average. Like many of her fellow teachers, she sometimes worked nights and weekends to boost her income; for extra pay, she offered private tutoring for students who had discipline problems or developmental disabilities. It wasn’t always enough, and Adams had begun thinking about selling…

OBADA NAWAWRA WAS TALKING TO FRIENDS AT A restaurant in Bethlehem. Outside the window, the terraced hills around the ancient West Bank city rolled into the distance. It was early June, and most restaurants were closed for Ramadan; aside from a table of tourists, the large place was nearly empty. As the conversation shifted to the subject of the Palestinian Authority (PA)—the semi-autonomous government based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank—the idle waiters edged closer to Nawawra’s table. The 25-year-old was staking out a historically mainstream position: The PA is an important institution for keeping peace in Palestinian enclaves. “Without the authority,” he said, there would be lawlessness—“more crime and drugs.” A boyish-looking waiter was incredulous: “How is the authority good? Before it, was there more crime? Another waiter, a woman who…

SCIENTISTS ARE TAKING AN UNUSUALLY SIMPLE APPROACH TO TREATING cancer: forget about killing the cells, just stop them from spreading. Patients who get surgery, chemotherapy or radiation can relapse if malignant cells remain and eventually metastasize—i.e., migrate—to other parts of the body. An international team, led by Dr. Raymond Bergan at Oregon Health and Science University, devised a way of crippling cancer cells by attacking the proteins that enable movement. Their invention, a molecule called KBU2046, attaches to the cells and freezes them in place. The molecule seems to work on breast, prostate, colon and lung cancers, but so far only in petri dishes. The next step: human clinical trials, which the researchers say will take about two years and cost $5 million.…