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Editor’s letter
Is it time to slap an NC-17 rating on our presidential debates?
Civics teachers have long encouraged students to watch the TV
broadcasts, thinking they’ll learn something about the work-
ings of American democracy and the great battle of ideas. But
this electoral season’s debates haven’t exactly been kid-friendly.
In the Republican primaries, Donald Trump personally insulted
his rivals (remember “Lyin’ Ted”?) and discussed the size of his
hands and his “something else” on stage. Since then, the debates
have only grown more explicit. This week’s showdown between
Trump and Hillary Clinton saw the GOP nominee asked about
a 2005 hot-mike recording in which he bragged about grab-
bing women “by the p----.” (See Main Stories and Controversy.)
Trump in turn used Bill Clinton’s sordid past to attack Hillary,
noting that several women who’d accused the former president
of sexual assault were in the audience, and then pledged to put
his rival “in jail.” The debate was less Lincoln vs. Douglas and
more Jerry Springer, complete with angry finger-pointing, accusa-
tions of criminality, and spouses confronted with old infidelities.
Knowing what was coming, many parents banned their kids
from watching the debate, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Trenna Sutcliffe, a pediatrician from Los Altos, Calif., told her
8- and 6-year-old that they couldn’t watch because “there were
going to be a lot of unkind words.” Now, politics has always
been a contact sport, and part of the fun of presidential debates
is seeing a candidate reel from a well-delivered zinger, like Ron-
ald Reagan’s “There you go again” line against Jimmy Carter.
But this election’s face-offs are no longer governed by Queens-
berry Rules, and it might get worse yet before it’s over. I can only
hope that by the time my 3-year-old daughter is old enough to
stay up and watch a debate, she won’t want to—because once
again it’ll be 90 minutes of policy talk that Theunis Bates
will bore the kid to sleep. Managing editor

NEWS
4 Main stories
Trump goes to war with
the GOP establishment;
WikiLeaks exposes
Clinton campaign emails
6 Controversy of the week
Were Trump’s groping
comments just macho
locker room banter, or
something much uglier?
7 The U.S. at a glance
Hurricane Matthew
leaves chaos along the
East Coast; pipeline
protest digs in
8 The world at a glance
Brexit pummels the
pound; U.S. anger over
Israeli settlements
10 People
Victoria Beckham’s
fashion smarts; Warren
Beatty’s many, many loves
11 Brieing
Five years after his death,
Anwar al-Awlaki still
inspires terrorist attacks
12 Best U.S. columns
Obama’s undeserved
Nobel Peace Prize; how
celebrities get away with
sexual assault
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4 NEWS The main stories...
Trump turns his guns on the GOP
What happened as “embattled down-ballot Republicans
GOP presidential candidate Donald still need Trump voters.” But it’s essential
Trump triggered a civil war within his we have a “check on a potential Hillary
own party this week, after dozens of con- Clinton presidency.”
gressional Republicans announced they
could no long support his candidacy, and Trump’s promise to have Clinton locked
House Speaker Paul Ryan told his mem- up was a “disturbing low in presidential
bers they were free to abandon the presi- politics,” said The Washington Post.
dential nominee and focus on their own The unprecedented threat proves Trump
campaigns. The exodus—which included would rule like an “autocrat,” using
Sen. John McCain—took place after the the power of the presidency to pun-
release last Friday of a 2005 Access Hol- ish his enemies, the press, and anyone
lywood video in which the GOP nominee who dared oppose him. It’s hardly any
was caught on a hot mike bragging in surprise he continues to ally himself with
graphic terms about how he “can do Rallying his supporters in Florida Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. In the
anything” to women because he’s a star, debate, Trump dismissed government
including “grab ’em by the p----y.” (See Controversy.) Republicans intelligence reports that Russian hackers are interfering in the U.S.
had already grown concerned that Democratic nominee Hillary election, and falsely claimed that Russian and Syrian government
Clinton’s widening poll lead over Trump could imperil their con- forces are bombing ISIS, when in fact they’re targeting Syrian
trol of the Senate, and maybe even the House, and when the video rebels and civilians.
emerged, lawmakers began rescinding their endorsements and call-
ing for Trump to step aside. In response, the billionaire business- What the columnists said
man blasted the “weak and ineffective” Ryan for providing him “This is an absolute worst-case scenario for Republicans,” said
with “zero support,” said “the shackles were off” of his campaign, Chris Cillizza in WashingtonPost.com. The party originally lined
and promised retribution against “disloyal” Republicans. Several up behind Trump in the hope he could be “managed” or “brought
GOP lawmakers, including Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, to heel.” But those efforts have failed, and now they’re facing an
sheepishly reversed themselves and said they’d vote for Trump after “angry, cornered, vengeful, selfish” nominee. There is one silver
his supporters berated them as cowards and traitors. lining, said George Will in NationalReview.com. Trump’s inevi-
table defeat will be so ugly and complete that “he can simplify the
While fighting fellow Republicans, Trump also turned up his at- GOP’s quadrennial exercise of writing its post-campaign autopsy.”
tacks on Clinton and her husband, Bill. For the second presidential This year, it can be summed up in one sentence: “Perhaps it is
debate on Sunday, Trump invited as guests three women who had imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan.”
accused Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting them decades ago (see
Talking Points), and said what the former president did to women Trump isn’t just a charlatan, said Will Saletan in Slate.com. He’s a
was “far worse” than his own “locker room talk” on the 2005 potential dictator who “threatens journalists,” wants to align the
tape. He said that if he wins, he would appoint a special prosecu- U.S. with Putin’s Russia, challenges the validity of our democratic
tor to investigate Clinton’s use of a private email server and put her elections, encourages mob violence, and now threatens to put his
“in jail.” Clinton accused Trump of living in an “alternate reality,” political opponent in jail—all violations of critical norms. “For
and said the 2005 video “represents exactly who he is.” 240 years, Americans worked, fought, and died to get us this far.
We could blow it all in a day.”
Polls suggested Clinton won the debate among all voters, but that
Trump’s aggressive performance helped solidify his support among Still, the Republicans’ mass defection may backfire, said Josh
Republicans. Still, the RealClearPolitics.com national poll average Kraushaar in NationalJournal.com. Their endorse-but-don’t-
showed Clinton opening a command- defend strategy was “awkward, but it
ing lead of 6.2 points, up 2 points from was working”—most GOP House and
last week. Polls also showed her pulling What next? Senate candidates were “running well
ahead in battleground states such as Trump’s advisers say they’re no longer trying to ahead of Trump.” But if Trump loyal-
Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, expand his support base, said Monica Langley ists now punish Republican lawmakers
and even Ohio. in The Wall Street Journal. The new strategy is for abandoning ship, this could turn
to “amplify his no-holds-barred attacks against into a total Democratic rout. Whatever
What the editorials said Clinton” in a bid to depress Democratic turnout. happens, this week marks the start of
The Republican Party is undergoing a Clinton’s team say she’ll continue to ignore “the Republican civil war,” said Jona-
“truly historic rupture,” said National personal attacks on her and focus on Trump’s than Tobin in CommentaryMagazine
Review.com. While the timing of this unitness for the presidency, said Edward-Isaac .com. If Trump loses, he’ll inevitably
“open revolt” is curious—were Trump’s Dovere in Politico.com. Her aides always knew blame the party for his defeat—and
comments on the tape that much worse this would be a particularly “intense” campaign, his supporters are already “vowing
than anything else he has said?—it is but even they’re surprised by how grim and vengeance.” Will they sit out the 2018
welcome nonetheless. Ryan and his col- ugly it has become. After four more weeks of midterms, and will Trump return for
leagues must now “separate themselves” savage personal attacks, many Americans will the 2020 election? It’s too early to say,
from their toxic nominee, and focus be in need of “a juice cleanse, a yoga retreat, but mainstream Republicans certainly
Newscom

on preserving their Senate and House [or] some kind of deep mud scrub.” won’t be able to take their party back
majorities. It’ll be a tough line to tread, “without a fight.”
Illustration by Fred Harper.
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 ... and how they were covered NEWS 5

WikiLeaks emails embarrass Clinton campaign

What happened candidate says in public that she wants to punish banks
WikiLeaks released a trove of hacked emails from Hillary with more regulation but in private says she really likes
Clinton’s presidential campaign this week, includ- them, believe the public comments.”
ing embarrassing and politically damaging excerpts
from transcripts of the lucrative, closed-door speeches What’s most worrying is how Trump has shrugged
she gave to Wall Street firms after leaving the State off Moscow’s hacks, said The Washington Post. He is
Department. One email from January, taken from receiving classified intelligence briefings, so is aware of the
the personal account of campaign chairman John evidence pointing to Russia. Yet he consistently claims that
Podesta, shows a staffer flagging speech excerpts nobody really knows who’s responsible, and insists he’d
that could hurt Clinton in her Democratic like to “get along” with President Vladimir Putin. Does
primary battle with Vermont Sen. Bernie he propose this collaboration out of ignorance or because
Sanders, who accused Clinton of being too of undisclosed business interests? “Putin surely knows
close to Wall Street. In a 2013 address to a the answer to that question—but U.S. voters do not.”
Brazilian bank, Clinton said her “dream is
a hemispheric common market, with open Too cozy with Wall Street and the media? What the columnists said
trade and open borders.” That year at The emails reinforce conservatives’ and leftists’ “worst
Goldman Sachs, she said that financial reform “really has to come presumptions” about Clinton, said Ben Wolfgang in The Washing-
from the industry itself,” and in another speech, argued that politi- ton Times. Her “dream of open borders” suggests she isn’t com-
cians need a “public and a private position.” The hacked emails mitted to homeland security; her Wall Street doublespeak exposes
also showed Chelsea Clinton expressing “serious concerns” about her as a hypocrite. It was risky to give closed-door speeches to big
the blurring of lines between her family’s foundation and the con- banks, “an object of scorn” for many Americans, said Eric Levitz in
sulting company of a longtime Bill Clinton aide, Doug Band. Other NYMag.com. Fortunately for Clinton, this story broke just as Trump
messages revealed the campaign’s coziness with reporters at The was caught bragging about groping women. “If her opponent
New York Times, CNBC, The Boston Globe, and other outlets. weren’t a sexual predator,” the leaks “would be devastating.”

The WikiLeaks dump came just hours after the Obama admin-
istration formally accused Russia of trying to influence the 2016
election by stealing and disclosing emails from the Democratic
National Committee and other institutions and prominent indi-
viduals. Podesta accused Moscow of also being behind the latest
hack and claimed that longtime Donald Trump aide Roger Stone
had received advance warning of the leak, noting that Stone had
tweeted in August that it would soon be “Podesta’s time in the bar-
rel.” Stone called the accusation a “vile smear.”
What the editorials said
Now we know why Clinton never released these transcripts: they
would have cost her the nomination, said The Wall Street Journal.
But while Sanders’ progressive supporters might argue that the leaks
show Clinton to be a Wall Street crony, our guess is that she was
actually conning the bankers, angling for campaign contributions
and earning her $200,000-plus speaking fees. “When a presidential
But Clinton is right that politicians “need a public and a private po-
sition,” said Matthew Yglesias in Vox.com. Just look at the example
she used in a speech: President Lincoln’s backroom machinations to
pass the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery. Broadcasting nego-
tiations in public, especially in our polarized environment, promotes
posturing and “is antithetical to compromise.” Clinton’s speeches
show she can operate within the system, and isn’t a fantasy candi-
date who’s going to “clean up the mess in Washington.”
Should we rely on WikiLeaks as a source? asked Andrew McCarthy
in NationalReview.com. If the information is authentic, we are obli-
gated to consider it. But by promoting this material, “we are encour-
aging more rogue behavior, consciously or not.” Our best defense is
to encrypt every form of private and government digital communica-
tion. We have to shut the back doors that Putin’s intelligence services
use to steal and publish important information, “even if that means
it is lost to election campaigns and high-stakes public debates.”

It wasn’t all bad
QA California teenager’s com-
mute just got a lot easier, thanks
to a kindhearted cop. Since his
car broke down in July, Jourdan
Duncan, 18, has had to walk to
and from his job at a packaging
line—2½ hours each way. Officer
Kirk Keffer recently spotted Dun-
can walking home and stopped to
talk to the teen. Impressed by his
work ethic, Keffer gave Duncan
a lift home and a few days later
presented him with a mountain
bike that he and his colleagues
had bought. “There’s not a lot of
18-year-olds out there that have
this dedication,” said Keffer.
AP (2)
QFive years ago, Turia Pitt was told by doctors that she’d
never race again. The Australian mining engineer and fitness
fanatic had been caught in a bushfire during an outback
ultramarathon and suffered horrific burns to 65 percent of
her body. She spent 864 days in the hospital, lost the use of
seven of her fingers, and
underwent more than
200 operations. But Pitt
started race training again
as soon as she could and
last week completed the
prestigious Ironman World
Championships in Hawaii,
swimming 2.4 miles,
cycling 112 miles, and run-
ning 26.2 miles in 14 hours
37 minutes 30 seconds.
After the race, Pitt said she
Pitt crosses the finish line. felt “really bloody proud.”
QThe world’s oldest man has
finally celebrated his bar mitzvah,
100 years late. Born in Poland
in 1903, Israel Kristal missed his
Jewish coming-of-age ceremony
because he turned 13 when World
War I was raging. After his 113th
birthday earlier this year, he was
recognized as the world’s oldest
man by Guinness World Records,
and the Auschwitz survivor’s fam-
ily decided it was time to hold his
long-overdue bar mitvah. On the
big day, his children, grandchildren
and nearly 30 great-grandchildren
gathered at his home in Israel.
“Everyone sang and danced
around him,” said his daughter
Shulamith, “He was very happy.”

THE WEEK October 21, 2016

6 NEWS Controversy of the week
Trump: Is his ‘locker room talk’ disqualifying?
Donald Trump says it was only “locker room talk” when
he bragged of forcibly kissing women and groping their
private parts on that Access Hollywood tape, said Ryu
Spaeth in NewRepublic.com. The grisly truth, however, is
that “this is hardly the first time Trump has been exposed
as a misogynist.” During his presidential campaign,
he’s repeatedly demeaned women with sexist,
dehumanizing comments. He mocked Fox
anchor Megyn Kelly by saying she had “blood
coming out of her whatever,” and attacked
former GOP rival Carly Fiorina’s looks by
saying, “Can you imagine that, the face of
our next president?” He’s been repeatedly
accused of harassing and assaulting women;
his ex-wife, Ivana, said Trump once yanked
out a clump of her hair and raped her in a fit ‘When you’re a star, they let you do it.’ estate, Harth says, Trump pushed her against a
of rage. For a deep dive into how Trump views
women, said Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.com, just listen, if you can
stomach it, to the archived hours of Trump’s appearances on The
Howard Stern Show. In his banter with the shock jock, Trump
repeatedly rates women’s looks on a 1 to 10 scale, brags of ogling
and sleeping with Miss Universe contestants, and discusses his own “didn’t meet his standard for attractiveness,” who got pregnant, or
daughter’s “voluptuous” breasts and agrees with Stern’s observa-
tion that she is “a piece of a--.” The predatory sleazeball caught
on NBC’s tape is not just an act; it’s “who he really is.”
Spare me the “left-wing hysteria,” said Dennis Prager in National
Review.com. How many of us can honestly say we’ve never made
a private remark that wouldn’t embarrass us if it were made pub-
lic? Conservatives who are now abandoning Trump need to ask
themselves: Is it really “worth giving the Left the White House
over such trivia,” knowing that a President Hillary Clinton would
install a liberal majority on the Supreme Court that would last
for at least 30 years? The “trumped-up outrage” here is
ridiculous, said Heather Mac Donald in City-Journal.org.
The same feminists and liberals clutching their pearls over
Trump’s “bragging about his libido” argued in the 1990s that
it was utterly irrelevant that President Bill Clinton exploited
“the power of the presidency to seduce a young intern.”
What’s worse: Trump’s words or Clinton’s actions?
Trump wasn’t just bragging, said Nicholas Kristof in
The New York Times. Numerous women over the
years have come forward with tales of his “sexual
predation.” One former business partner, Jill Harth,
testified in a lawsuit that he put his hand up her
dress under the table during a business dinner with
her husband; later, during a tour of his Florida
wall, kissed her, and groped her in his daughter
Ivanka’s bedroom. Trump denies the allegations, said John Kelly
in USA Today, but it’s a simple fact that Trump and his companies
have been sued dozens of times for harassing and discriminating
against women. He’s been repeatedly accused of firing women who
who complained about a hostile work environment.
No doubt about it: “Donald Trump is a vile human being,” said
Jonathan Chait in NYMag.com. But what if Democrats had to
decide whether to withdraw their support for a Trump-like presi-
dential candidate, “even if it meant handing the presidency to
Republicans?” It’s not just a theoretical question: When he was
president, Bill Clinton was accused not only of philandering but
also of rape and sexual assault. Yet Democrats stuck by him,
because “policy matters an awful lot.” Now Republicans have to
make that same, deeply uncomfortable choice.

Good week for:

Only in America
QA Milwaukee man trying
to register to vote under
Wisconsin’s new voting law
was told that he needed to
show a photo ID to obtain a
photo ID. Leroy Switlick, 67,
has voted for 40 years, but
is partially blind, so he does
not have a driver’s license.
He’s made three trips to a
state office without success.
“If I’m coming to get a photo
ID,” Switlick said, “how can I
already have a photo ID?”
QOklahoma Gov. Mary Fal-
lin declared Oct. 13 “Oilfield
Prayer Day,” calling on
Christians to “thank God for
the blessings created by the
oil and gas industry,” which
is suffering due to falling
prices. After complaints
that she’d excluded non-
Christians, Fallin asked all
faiths to ask God to protect
the industry. “I think prayer
Boring but important
Kenneth Bone, the nerdy undecided voter in a red pullover
sweater who changed the sordid tone of last week’s presidential Muslim detention case
debate by earnestly questioning the candidates on their energy heads to Supreme Court
policies. Bone, 34, became an instant internet hero, appeared on The Supreme Court said this
week it will decide whether
Jimmy Kimmel, and received an offer to star in a porn film.
Muslims, Arabs, and other im-
Ignoring the coaches’ advice, after Italian researchers found
migrants rounded up after the
that having sex before sporting events has no discernible effect on Sept. 11 terrorist attacks can
athletic performance and might even “have a beneficial effect.” sue former Attorney General
Spoiler alerts, after Fox News commentator Mike Huckabee John Ashcroft and other of-
compared Donald Trump to the Captain Quint character in Jaws, ficials for violating their civil
saying that Republicans need a tough, “vulgar” guy to “save your rights. Hundreds of nonciti-
zens, many of them Muslim,
butt” from the sharklike Hillary Clinton. “I hate to be the one to
were held in harsh conditions
tell you this,” replied host Megyn Kelly. “Captain Quint got eaten
by the shark.” at a Brooklyn detention center
after the attacks—some for as
Bad week for: long as eight months. They
The latest conspiracy theory, after InfoWars founder Alex were never charged with ter-
Jones told his radio listeners that Hillary Clinton and President rorism offenses, but instead
detained on civil immigration
Obama are literally “demon-possessed” and that his sources say
violations. Only six justices
they “both smell like sulfur.” will preside over the case,
Ronald McDonald, after McDonald’s announced that its signa- which also names former FBI
ture character would cut way back on public appearances due to Director Robert Mueller as
the “current climate around clown sightings in communities.” a defendant. Justices Sonia
Second thoughts, after an Alabama man revealed in a widely Sotomayor and Elena Kagan
shared Facebook post his deep regret for getting a “Feel the Bern” have recused themselves,
and the late Justice Antonin
Newscom

is always a good thing for tattoo on his penis to support presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
anyone,” she said. Scalia’s seat remains vacant.
“It seemed like a good idea at the time,” Joshua Hughes said.
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
 The U.S. at a glance ...
Palm Springs, Calif.
Police killings: Two Palm Springs
officers—one of them the new mother
of a 4-month-old baby—were shot dead
this week while responding to a domestic
disturbance
involving a
gang member
allegedly armed
with an assault
rifle. Officer
Lesley Zerebny,
27, and
A memorial to the victims
35-year police
department veteran Jose Gilbert “Gil”
Vega responded to the home of John
Hernandez Felix, 26, after Felix’s father
rushed to a neighbor’s house saying his
son had a gun and was “ready to shoot
all the police.” As the officers asked Felix
to step outside, he opened fire with an
AR-15, officials said. The shooting led
to a 12-hour standoff that ended when
police used chemical agents to
force Felix out of his house.
Prosecutors said Felix, a gang
member previously impris-
oned for assault with a deadly
weapon, was wearing body
armor and had planned “kill
police officers.’’ Felix was
charged with two counts of
first-degree murder.
Phoenix
Arpaio facing charges: Less
than a month before his
bid for re-election,
firebrand Arizona
sheriff Joe Arpaio
will face criminal
Arpaio: Vowing to fight
contempt-of-court
charges over his controversial immigra-
tion patrols in Maricopa County, the
U.S. Justice Department announced this
week. Arpaio, 84, a prominent Donald
Trump supporter who calls himself
“America’s Toughest Sheriff,” has drawn
widespread condemnation for his policy
of stopping and detaining Latino drivers
on the suspicion they were illegal immi-
grants and then handing them over to
immigration enforcement officials, even
though they had committed no crimes. In
2013, a federal judge ruled that Arpaio
and his deputies had engaged in racial
profiling and ordered them to stop the
patrols—an order that prosecutors say
Arpaio has repeatedly ignored. Arpaio
AP, NASA, Newscom (2)
is famous for other attention-seeking
stunts, including making prisoners wear
pink underwear and putting them in
chain gangs. Arpaio said the ruling was a
“political attack” against him.
NEWS 7
Standing Rock Sioux Pittsburgh
Reservation, N.D. Mars mission:
Pipeline protest: The Standing Rock President Obama
Sioux tribe and other Native American this week announced
groups protesting the Dakota Access that NASA will part-
Pipeline vowed to dig in for the winter ner up with private
this week after a federal appeals court aerospace companies
rejected their request to halt construction with the goal of
on the controversial project. Tribe mem- sending humans to Ready for humans?
bers from across the U.S. have traveled to Mars by the 2030s.
the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to In a CNN op-ed written two days ahead
protest the 1,170-mile oil pipeline—which of the Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh,
they say would destroy sacred burial where the president was scheduled to
grounds and threaten the reservation’s give a speech on the mission, Obama
main water source, the Missouri River. said that the U.S. government’s ultimate
Last month, the U.S. government tempo- goal was not only to send astronauts to
rarily blocked construction of the pipeline the Red Planet and return them safely to
while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Earth but also to “one day remain there
reviewed the project. But this week, a for an extended time.” NASA is already
federal appeals court said the company working with two private companies,
in charge of the pipeline, Energy Transfer Elon Musk’s SpaceX and aerospace giant
Partners, could continue construction Boeing, to develop crew capsules to take
on private land up to where the pipeline astronauts to the International Space
would cross under the Missouri River. Station. A number of private com-
panies are also currently work-
ing on their own Mars plans,
including SpaceX, which has
vowed to send 1 million people
to colonize the planet over the
next century.
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina,
North Carolina, and Virginia
Devastation from Hurricane Matthew: At least
34 people were killed across five U.S. states
this week as Hurricane Matthew moved north Flooding in Lumberton, N.C.
from Haiti and Cuba and slammed into the East
Coast—downing trees, unleashing torrential flooding, and leaving more than a million
people without power. The storm prompted the largest mandatory hurricane evacua-
tion in the country since 2012, as hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes
in Florida, North Carolina, and Georgia, and Walt Disney World closed its parks in
Florida for just the fourth time in its 45-year history. As the hurricane made landfall in
South Carolina, wind speeds hit 75 mph—significantly lower than the 145 mph winds
experienced in Haiti, but enough to cause widespread destruction.
The brunt of the deaths came in North Carolina, where at least 18 people died—many
of them trapped in cars submerged by floodwater, or hit by downed trees. North Carolina
Gov. Pat McCrory warned that the death toll was expected to rise in the state as flooding
continued into the week, and that a breach in the Woodlake dam was “imminent,” endan-
gering people in the area who had so far refused to evacuate. He urged them to get out
immediately. “If we say the water’s coming,” said McCrory, “we mean it.” McCrory also
confirmed that a state trooper had fatally shot a man in Lumberton during a “confronta-
tion” in a flooded area that emergency workers were trying to traverse. Another nine
people died in Florida, where a federal judge extended the voter registration deadline for
at least one week to accommodate those displaced from their homes. At least three people
each were also killed in South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia.
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
8 NEWS The world at a glance ...
London
Brexit crushes pound: The pound plunged to a 31-year
low against the dollar this week after Prime Minister
Theresa May indicated that the country was
heading for a “hard Brexit” from the European
Union in 2019—one that sacrifices access to the
European single market and prioritizes controls
on immigration. In June, before the U.K. voted to
May
leave the EU, a pound was worth $1.48; it’s now
at about $1.22. More economic worries were signaled by a leaked
government report that said a hard Brexit could cost Britain up to
$81 billion a year. Meanwhile, the British government was forced
to backtrack this week after saying companies should be compelled
to reveal how many non-Brits they hire. The opposition Labor
Party said the policy would “fan the flames of xenophobia.”
Leipzig, Germany
Refugees foil terrorist plot: Three
Syrian refugees were hailed as heroes
this week after they captured a fellow
asylum seeker accused of plotting a ter-
rorist attack on Berlin. Police had been
watching Jaber al-Bakr, 22, for months
and raided the Syrian national’s apart-
ment this week when they feared he At the scene of Bakr’s arrest
was close to finishing a bomb, but he
escaped. Bakr posted on a message board used by refugees saying
he needed a place to stay, and the three other asylum seekers recog-
nized him from police photos and invited him to their apartment.
The trio overpowered Bakr, tied him up with electrical cables, and
called the cops. Bakr is believed to have ties to ISIS.

Tijuana, Mexico
Haitians stuck at border: Tent
cities have sprung up at the U.S.-
Mexican border as thousands of
Haitians wait for a chance to cross
into the United States. Haitians were
given easier access to the U.S. after the
2010 earthquake that devastated their
Desperate to reach the U.S. country. But the Obama administra-
tion scrapped that program earlier this
year, after a surge in the number of Haitians seeking asylum. The
news of the policy change apparently hasn’t reached the refugees
who arrive by the hundreds every day, many after traveling over-
land from Brazil, which had its own preferential settlement pro-
gram following the earthquake but is now in economic crisis.

Istanbul
Pipeline for Russia: Turkey and Russia have patched things
up. Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Istanbul
this week with Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan and revived a plan to build the Turkish
Stream pipeline, which would run under the Black
Sea to Turkey and Greece. The pipeline would allow
Russian gas to reach Western markets without going
through Ukraine, which means Moscow could cut
Erdogan and Putin
Ukraine’s gas off without affecting Russian shipments
to the EU. Turkish-Russian ties were strained last year after Turkey
shot down a Russian plane on the Syrian border. But Turkey, a
NATO member, has since clashed with the U.S. over Washington’s
support for Syrian Kurdish rebels, whom Erdogan regards as terror-
ists. Putin has sought to exploit that rift.

Bogotá, Colombia
The other guerrillas: Fresh off winning the Nobel Peace Prize for
his negotiations to end the conflict with FARC rebels, Colombian
President Juan Manuel Santos has opened peace talks with his
country’s other big guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army, Caracas
or ELN. The group, which has some 1,500 fighters, said this Putin the peacemaker: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has
week that it would free all of its created a brand-new peace prize to honor his late predecessor,
hostages, a condition Santos had Hugo Chávez, and its first recipient is Russian President Vladimir
set for negotiations. Colombians Putin. The prize, a miniature copy of a statue of Chávez by a
narrowly voted to reject Santos’ Russian artist, will go to national or international figures “who
deal with FARC last month, but have excelled in the struggle for peace.” Putin was honored with
that doesn’t mean hostilities will the award, Maduro said, for being a “fighter for peace, for bal-
Newscom (3), AP, Newscom

resume. The two sides are work-
ing on amendments to the peace
deal that could be acceptable to the
Colombian political opposition, led
Coming to the negotiating table by former President Álvaro Uribe.
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
ance, and a builder of a pluripolar, multicentric world.” Maduro
did not mention Putin’s forcible annexation of Crimea from
Ukraine, the ongoing Russian airstrikes in Syria that have killed
hundreds of civilians, or the invasion of Chechnya that he over-
saw in 1999, which left at least 25,000 civilians dead.
 The world at a glance ...
Aleppo, Syria
Civilians bombed: Russian and
Syrian regime jets continued their
bombardment of rebel-held eastern
Aleppo this week, killing scores of
civilians, including children. Russia
has all but abandoned the pretense
Crying after Russian airstrikes
that it is fighting ISIS in Syria, as it
has now given the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad anti-
aircraft weaponry, even though ISIS has no planes. French President
François Hollande said Russia could face war crimes charges over
its actions in Syria and later announced that he would not accom-
pany Russian President Vladimir Putin to a ceremony in Paris,
prompting Putin to cancel a planned visit to France. Last week,
Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution proposed by
France and Spain that demanded a stop to the bombing of Aleppo.
NEWS 9
Jerusalem
Settlement sparks U.S. ire: Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
phoned Secretary of State John
Kerry this week to ask that the
U.S. not support a U.N. Security
Council resolution condemning the
construction of settlements in the A settlement in the West Bank
West Bank. Israel was alarmed at
unusually strong criticism from the U.S. last week after it approved
a plan to move settlers from one West Bank outpost illegally built
on Palestinian-owned land to new houses in another outpost that
was once illegal but which Israel legalized in 2012. The announce-
ment came just three weeks after the Obama administration agreed
to a 10-year, $38 billion military aid package for Israel. The State
Department “strongly condemned” the settlement plan in a state-
ment, saying it ran counter to the security interests Israel was
seeking to protect with the military deal. Some Israelis believe that
President Obama may seek to rebuke Netanyahu through the U.N.
Islamabad
Top journalist held: Pakistan was facing an international outcry
this week after it put a travel ban on Cyril Almeida, a prominent
columnist in Dawn, the country’s most respected English-language
newspaper. Almeida is being investigated over a story in which he
alleged that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently told the mili-
tary it must act against jihadist terrorist groups operating inside
the country or Pakistan would face international isolation. The
story was most likely leaked from within the Sharif administra-
tion, so the government’s expression of outrage at its publication
is seen as disingenuous. Almeida has been put on the Exit Control
List, which effectively suspends his passport.

Sanaa, Yemen
Saudis bomb funeral: Saudi-led
coalition jets bombed a funeral for
a Houthi rebel commander in the
Yemeni capital this week, killing
more than 140 people, including
children, and enraging the local
After the Saudi attack population. The Saudi coalition
is backed by the U.S., and shortly after the funeral attack, two
missiles were fired from Houthi-held territory at a U.S. Navy
destroyer in the Red Sea. The Pentagon said it was investigating
the source of the missiles. “Anybody who puts U.S. Navy ships at
risk does so at their own peril,” said Defense Department spokes-
man Capt. Jeff Davis. The Obama administration said it had “ini-
Getty, Tomas Munita/The New York Times/Redux, Jane Hahn/The New York Times/Redux, Getty

tiated an immediate review of our already significantly reduced

Maiduguri, Nigeria support” to the Saudis in light of the funeral attack. More than
Jihadists’ wives detained: The 4,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed since the Saudis began
wives and children of Boko launching airstrikes against Houthi rebels in March 2015.
Haram fighters, who were
left behind when the militants Canberra, Australia
fled a Nigerian army raid last No vote on gay marriage: Australia has scrapped a long-planned
May, are being held in a forti- referendum on legalizing same-sex marriage. The opposition
fied compound because the Labor Party refused to support the government’s proposal, saying
government says they are too Wives of Boko Haram fighters that a vote would be costly and divisive. It cited research from
brainwashed to be released Ireland, the only country to legalize gay marriage by popular vote,
into society. Some of the wives had been kidnapped by Boko which showed that the referendum campaign there increased hate
Haram—a radical Islamist group that holds sway over much speech against gays and lesbians. All political parties and a major-
of Nigeria’s northern Borno state—but many joined freely and ity of Australians support legalization, and the opposition wants
said their husbands treated them well. One girl, 11, was forced the national legislature to approve same-sex marriage without
to marry a fighter and says she still loves him. The women are a public referendum. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he
supposed to be held only until they can be deprogrammed, but won’t let the matter be decided by Parliament, so marriage equal-
counseling is sporadic. “It’s OK to be a suicide bomber,” one ity will likely be off the agenda until 2019, when the next general
woman told AlJazeera.com. “It’s normal.” elections will be held.
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
10 NEWS People
Beatty’s legendary love life
Warren Beatty doesn’t consider himself a wom-
anizer, said Judith Newman in AARP The Mag-
azine. Back in the day, Beatty was notorious for
bedding scores of women, ranging from long
passionate romances with Joan Collins, Julie
Christie, Natalie Wood, and Diane Keaton to
short-lived flings with Cher and Madonna. In
fact, a biographer once counted the damage and
estimated that Beatty had slept with a total of 12,775 women.
That’s ridiculous, says Beatty with a grin. “Think about it, sleep-
ing with 12,775 people. That would mean not just that there were
multiple people in a day, but that there was no repetition.” Not
that Beatty, 79, denies romancing lots of women. “I waited a long
time to be married. When you don’t get married until you’re 54...
well, as Arthur Miller said, ‘It comes with the territory.’” He insists
he treated every lover respectfully. “Look, I never misled anyone.
And...I’m a nice guy.” Beatty splits his life into two periods: “BA”
and “AA,” or “Before Annette” and “After Annette”—as in
Annette Bening, his wife of 24 years. He was drawn to her because
she was one of the few women who didn’t immediately succumb
to his charms. When Bening finally agreed to have dinner with
him, he was lovestruck, and decided then and there to settle down.
“I thought it would be a good time to get smart.”

A personal quest to find MH370

Blaine Alan Gibson is obsessed with finding Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370, said Elle Hunt in The Guardian (U.K.). The Seattle-
based lawyer and amateur “adventurer” has spent more than two
years hunting for the wreckage of the mysterious plane, which
vanished from the skies with 239 people on board in March 2014.
“I’ve always liked travel to have a purpose,” says Gibson, who was
in Red Square on the last day of the Soviet Union. While scouring
the beaches on the African coast and nearby islands, Gibson has
so far located 14 of the 22 potential fragments of MH370 debris.
He looks where debris might wash up from MH370’s estimated
flight path, talks to locals about what’s been found on beaches, and
checks to see if any large pieces of metal have been used to build
shacks. He doesn’t buy the theory that the plane’s pilot, Zaharie
Ahmad Shah, crashed the plane in an act of suicide. “The only evi-
dence against him is the absence of any other explanation,” Gibson
says. “That’s not enough.” He vows to keep looking until the plane
is found. “It’s not just for the families, it’s for the flying public. We
need to know that when we get on a plane, yeah, it may crash. But
it’s not going to just disappear.”
Beckham’s surprise talent
Victoria Beckham got a chilly reception when she tried to enter the
fashion industry, said Claudia Winkleman in The Sunday Times
(U.K.). The former Spice Girl decided she wanted to become a
designer back in the early 2000s, but was immediately dismissed
by people in the business, who only knew her as “Posh Spice”—
the one with the theatrical scowl, the fake tan, and the plastic
catsuit. “Everyone thought I was going to be rubbish,” says Beck-
ham, 42. “I was friends with [designer] Marc Jacobs, and I didn’t
tell him that I was going to be doing a fashion line, because he’s
Marc Jacobs, and I was in a pop group. I wasn’t exactly going to
turn around and say, ‘Hey, I’m creating a line of frocks.’” Beck-
ham’s line was a shock success, though—and today, she’s one of
the hottest designers in the industry. Still, after all the concerts
and catwalks, she isn’t comfortable in the spotlight. “I look at pic-
tures of people smiling on the red carpet and they are properly
loving it. I just can’t wait to get down the carpet and be done with
it. I don’t know if it’s the years of being photographed and the
criticism, but I just feel exposed and vulnerable. I can’t wait till I’m
off it and we can all just have a drink.”

QToday show co-host Billy Bush lost
his job this week after the leak of a
bombshell 2005 video in which he
and Donald Trump carried on a
lewd conversation about women.
The video, shot in a van as Trump
was en route to tape an Access
Bush and he was reported to be negotiating
a separation deal with the network. “There
is simply no excuse for Billy’s language
and behavior,” said Today producer Noah
Oppenheim. Bush, 44—a cousin of former
President George W. Bush and the married
father of three daughters—said he was
“ashamed’’ of his behavior and that he was
“less mature” at the time.
was guarding two of her sisters at a Parisian
night club when the robbers broke in, tied
her up with tape, and stole her jewelry.
QBrad Pitt will not face prosecution after an
incident involving his estranged wife and his
son aboard a private jet last month. Pitt, 52,
and Angelina Jolie, 41, were flying with their
six children from Nice, France, to Burbank,
Calif., when they got into an argument. After
Robert Fairer/The New York Times/Redux, Getty (2)

Hollywood segment, shows Bush
giggling as Trump recalled his
attempt to seduce married TV
host Nancy O’Dell and bragged of
forcing himself on women—including
“grabbing them by the p----.” When
actress Arianne Zucker came to meet
Trump in the studio lot, Bush called
her “hot as s---” and then encouraged
her to hug Trump. NBC suspended
QKim Kardashian has beefed up security
after a gang of thieves robbed her of $10 mil-
lion in jewelry at gunpoint in a Paris hotel. In
assembling her new team, Kardashian, 35,
met with Israeli army veterans and former
agents of the CIA and Secret Service, TMZ
.com reports. She plans to have two armed
guards at all times and travel in an armored
car. Kardashian will also continue to employ
her main bodyguard, Pascal Duvier, who
their son Maddox intervened, Pitt was seen
on security cameras “looking drunk” and
yelling at the 15-year-old, Us Weekly reported.
Jolie subsequently filed for divorce, and a
tipster called authorities with allegations of
child abuse that were referred to the FBI. But
the agency has decided not to pursue any
charges. “[Pitt] certainly could have behaved
better,” a source tells the New York Daily
News. “But there was no physical abuse.”

THE WEEK October 21, 2016

 Briefing NEWS 11

A jihadist’s deadly ghost

Five years after the U.S. killed American-born imam Anwar al-Awlaki, he is still inspiring jihadists at home and abroad.

Who was he? magazine he helped launch.

Anwar al-Awlaki was originally Syed Rizwan Farook, who along
the face of moderate Islam in with his wife killed 14 people
America. He was born in New in a 2015 rampage at his work-
Mexico to Yemeni immigrant par- place in San Bernardino, Calif.,
ents, but his parents moved back watched Awlaki sermons; so did
to Yemen when he was 7, and the Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez,
family didn’t return to the U.S. who killed four Marines and
until he was in college. He was a a Navy sailor in Chattanooga,
young imam at a large mosque in Tenn., also in 2015. The
the Washington suburb of Falls Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed
Church, Va., when the 9/11 attacks the Boston Marathon in 2013,
propelled him into the spotlight. were fans of the videos, and
The media needed Muslim lead- plans for the pressure-cooker
ers to respond to the attacks and bomb they used can be found in
explain Islam to viewers, and the Inspire’s article “How to Make
articulate and charismatic Awlaki Awlaki at his mosque in 2001, and in a 2010 propaganda video
a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your
was a natural. He gave numer- Mom.” Ahmad Khan Rahami,
ous TV and newspaper interviews and even addressed an audience the man accused of planting a bomb that injured two dozen
at the Pentagon, condemning terrorism while also criticizing U.S. people in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood last month, may have
foreign policy in the Muslim world. “We are the bridge between followed the Inspire plans as well, and his father spoke to the FBI
America and 1 billion Muslims worldwide,” he told his followers. in 2014 because he was concerned that his son was spending so
much time watching Awlaki videos.
Why did he turn on the U.S.?
The FBI started following Awlaki soon after it learned that two What’s so seductive about these videos?
of the 9/11 hijackers had prayed at both his Virginia mosque and Awlaki’s lectures are smart and accessible. Speaking idiomatic
a San Diego mosque where he had preached years earlier. They English with just a trace of an Arabic accent, he comes across as
found no evidence that Awlaki had any direct involvement with an engaging, thoughtful preacher—not ranting, but backing up his
terrorism. But they did discover his frequent visits to prostitutes, assertions with scholarly analysis of the Quran and ample refer-
and they kept an extensive file on those visits. Scott Shane, author ences to modern life and current politics. Most importantly, he
of a book on Awlaki called Objective Troy, reports that the man- taps into the anger many Muslims feel over the enormous civilian
ager of one of the escort services called the imam in 2002 to warn death toll stemming from the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan,
him that the FBI knew everything. Awlaki was outraged the FBI portrays Muslims as victims of Western oppression, and chan-
had been surveilling him, and feared he would be exposed as a nels this resentment into a call for vengeance. In the notorious
hypocrite; a married man, he’d often lecture “Call to Jihad,” Awlaki calmly
denounced “the moral decay” of the Assassinating a U.S. citizen explains why it is the duty of every
West. So he quickly fled to London and Yemeni intelligence found Awlaki’s hideout in Muslim to kill Americans.
later to Yemen, where he was further that country’s tribal badlands in 2011, but the
radicalized. By 2007, he had declared Obama administration decided it would be Can his lectures be banned?
loyalty to al Qaida there and become impossible to take him alive. Instead, President There are thousands of hours of
the terrorist group’s chief propagandist, Obama ordered a drone strike, making Awlaki Awlaki lectures on YouTube alone. In
recording sermons denouncing the U.S. the first American citizen to be targeted and 2010, under pressure from Congress,
and calling on Muslims to massacre killed by the U.S. government without due pro- YouTube voluntarily removed hun-
Americans. In 2011, he was killed in a cess since the Civil War. Two other U.S. citizens, dreds of Awlaki videos, but many
targeted U.S. drone strike (see box). But New York native Samir Khan, editor of Inspire, people have copies, and a few months
Awlaki’s death didn’t end his influence. and Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, later they were all back up. Software
were also killed by drone strikes in Yemen. exists to find and delete child porn,
Who has been influenced by him? Obama said the killing of Awlaki was both mor- and experts say a similar bot could
Just about every Islamist who has ally and legally justified, on the grounds that be deployed against Awlaki’s image
attacked the U.S. since 9/11. He had he was fighting for the enemy during wartime and voice, but the government hasn’t
and posed “an imminent threat” to Americans.
direct email contact with Nidal Malik taken that step, fearing it would be
“When a U.S. citizen goes abroad to wage war
Hasan, who killed 13 people in a 2009 a violation of the First Amendment.
against America,” said Obama, “his citizenship
shooting attack at Fort Hood, Texas. He should no more serve as a shield than a sniper
“It’s not a technical problem,” says
helped recruit and train Umar Farouk shooting down on an innocent crowd should computer scientist Hany Farid. “It’s a
Abdulmutallab, who in 2009 tried to be protected from a SWAT team.” The American policy issue.” So even in death, Awlaki
blow up an airplane over Detroit with Civil Liberties Union sued, saying Awlaki had continues to haunt the country where
a bomb in his underwear. Awlaki died not been convicted of any crimes, and that the he was born. “The half-life of Awlaki’s
before the rise of ISIS, but nearly every killing violated the Constitution’s guarantee of message is amazing,” said Patrick M.
Skinner, a former CIA counterterror-
Newscom (2)

ISIS adherent who speaks English has due process. But a federal court dismissed the
seen his lectures on YouTube or read his case on national security grounds. ism officer. “It really is like plutonium.
articles in Inspire, the online al Qaida It’s toxic, and it doesn’t go away.”
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12 NEWS Best columns: The U.S.
Seven years later, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is an embar-
Obama’s rassment, said Sohrab Ahmari. When Obama accepted the honor after It must be true...
premature less than a year in office with trademark eloquence, “the philosopher-
president was the toast of Europe.” The Nobel Committee swooned over
I read it in the tabloids
Peace Prize Obama’s lofty “transnationalism,” whereby all states would submit to
“norms drawn up by law professors and global organizations” and the
QA suspected drug dealer
drew the police’s attention by
Sohrab Ahmari U.S. would retreat from its dominant role on the world stage. The results sticking a handwritten note
The Wall Street Journal of “a humbler Washington” are on brutal display in Aleppo, where Syria’s to the front door of her West
genocidal president Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies—emboldened Virginia home complaining
by American inaction—are “setting women and children alight with about “snitches.” April Lynn
incendiary ordnance.” Millions of refugees fleeing Syria’s violent disinte- Lavender piqued the cops’
gration have flooded into Europe, shattering the EU’s unity. As Russian curiosity by posting a sign
dictator Vladimir Putin expands his influence, his pilots brazenly menace that read, “Due to snitches
everyone entering my home
the airspaces of France, Norway, Spain, and the U.K. Obama and his ad-
is subject to being searched.”
mirers on the Nobel Committee thought that if the U.S. stopped its med- When police entered the
dling, the world could deal with evil through diplomacy and negotiation. house, they allegedly found
Now, thanks to Obama’s “endless patience for rogues,” Europe is being heroin, methamphetamines,
destabilized and Syrians are being slaughtered. Some peace. and other drugs, and arrested
Lavender. “Sometimes the
criminals make our job pretty
Donald Trump is right: “Famous men can do whatever they want to
Celebrities do women,” said Lovia Gyarkye. When Trump boasted in the now in-
easy,” said an officer.

get away with famous video that he could “do anything” to women and get away
with it because he’s “a star,” he was just revealing a sad reality. Roman
Q A 9-week-old British baby
with an exceptionally full

sexual assault Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl, escaped prosecution,
and later won “an Academy Award to a standing ovation.” Kobe Bry-
head of hair is
causing a sensa-
tion wherever he
Lovia Gyarkye ant’s reputation took only a brief hit after he paid off a civil suit from goes. Chelsea
NewRepublic.com a 19-year-old hotel employee who said he’d raped her. For decades, Bill Noon’s son,
Cosby got away with numerous sexual assaults, dismissing his accusers Junior, was
as unstable women who were after his money. “The list goes on and born with an
on.” Right now, New York Knicks guard Derrick Rose is embroiled in unusually thick
a civil suit for allegedly gang-raping an unconscious ex-girlfriend with mane, which
two buddies. His defense: She wanted it. The main concern of the team maternity
and its fans “appears to be how this will affect Rose’s play.” In our nurses told her
culture, allegations of sexual assault against a male celebrity are viewed would soon fall out. “But he
as an “inconvenient obstacle” to be overcome, “rather than the gravest hasn’t lost any of it,” she said,
of accusations.” Trump’s boast about how famous, powerful men can “and it has grown.” Junior’s
treat women “is a reflection of who we are.” fluffy, towering bouffant has
earned him the nickname
“Baby Bear,” and made him
After Donald Trump goes down to defeat, how do Republicans rebuild a celebrity in his hometown.
The GOP’s their party? asked David Frum. Many conservatives are arguing that the “Usually it takes me about
40 minutes to do my weekly
future after GOP needs to return to its pre-Trump principles of small government,
tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, free trade, and deep cuts in shop in [the supermarket],
and now it takes two hours,”
Trump entitlement programs. But Trump’s takeover of the GOP “exposed the
weakness” of this 1980s-style conservative ideology. As awful as Trump Noon said.
David Frum is “as a candidate and human being,” he accurately saw that “millions QIraq’s Transport Minister
The Atlantic of Americans who do not deserve to be dismissed as bigots were sick of has claimed his country’s
the happy talk” about immigration, globalization, and trickle-down eco- new airport will be built
nomics, and had become deeply pessimistic about their future. He saw on the site of a Sumerian
that working-class voters felt abandoned by the big-money elites in both spaceport built by aliens
7,000 years ago. At a press
parties who control Washington. After the election, Trump voters will
conference, Kazem Finjan
not suddenly decide they were wrong about all this, so Republicans had told stunned journalists that
better find a way to address the real anxieties the billionaire showman ancient Sumerians were ex-
cunningly exploited—which have also given rise to the Brexit and na- traterrestrials who interbred
tionalist movements in Europe. “The way to respond to a political tide is with earthlings and used
not to command it to halt, but to divert and channel it.” the site in southern Iraq for
trips to and from the stars.
“When the Sumerians settled
Viewpoint “A decade ago almost no one had a smartphone. Now the average American
here, they knew full well that
spends five and a half hours a day with digital media, and the young spend
the atmosphere here was
far more time. A lot of this traffic is driven by the fear of missing out. The apps generate small
suitable for flying to outer
habitual behaviors, like swiping right or liking a post, that generate ephemeral dopamine bursts. Any
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second that you’re feeling bored, lonely, or anxious, you feel this deep hunger to open an app and space,” he said. Finjan also
get that burst. You can have a day of happy touch points without any of the scary revelations or the stated that the Sumerians
boring, awkward, or uncontrollable moments that constitute actual intimacy.” had discovered Pluto and a
—David Brooks in The New York Times mythical planet called Nibiru.

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It’s not just Americans who fear being ruled by
NETHERLANDS a populist demagogue, said Bert Schriever. In the
Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party—
Locking up which pledges to halt immigration from Muslim
countries, close mosques and Islamic schools,
the Dutch and ban the Quran—is ahead in the polls and
could become the country’s largest party after
Trump national elections next March. But unlike Donald
Trump, Wilders hasn’t been allowed to get away
Bert Schriever
with his inflammatory rhetoric. He is due to ap-
De Volkskrant
pear in court later this month on charges of hate
speech, stemming from a televised 2014 rally
where he called Moroccans “scum.” If found
guilty, he could face a year in prison. Wilders is
now “wallowing” in the attention, presenting
himself as a martyr to the cause of free expres-
sion and claiming to be the victim of a politi-
cal frame-up. Five years ago he faced similar
charges, and then as now he warned that the
Dutch would lose faith in the judiciary were he
to be convicted. Nonsense. Most of us are sick-
ened by his insults and don’t feel that free speech
is an excuse for being “offensive and hurtful.”
Last time he was acquitted; let’s hope that the
charges stick this time. He has gotten away with
his “deviant” behavior for far too long.

POLAND “We’ve got a revolution on our hands,” said
Edwin Bendyk. The problem for Law and Justice
Our defiant leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, though, is that it’s not
the cultural revolution he desperately wanted.
women Since taking office last November, his right-wing,
staunchly Catholic party has tried to topple our
in black secular democracy and put the Church back in the
center of public life. But the government pushed
Edwin Bendyk
too hard when it recently announced that it was
Polityka considering new legislation that would have
banned abortion in all circumstances—even if
the pregnancy put the mother’s life at risk—and
that would have imprisoned women for up to
five years for seeking an abortion. “In a collective
outburst of anger against an attempt to limit their
basic rights,” tens of thousands of women put on
black clothes, boycotted work, and staged street
protests in cities across Poland. Eager to quell the
rage, lawmakers rejected the proposed law 352-58
just a few days later. But by that point, a progres-
sive opposition movement had already been born.
Polish women now understand that, united, they
can force change. Newly emboldened, they may
seek to loosen Poland’s existing abortion law—
already one of the most restrictive in Europe—or
oust politicians who support misogynistic policies.
The revolution against the Law and Justice party
and all it stands for is only just beginning.

How they see us: Locked in a new Cold War with Russia
The Cold War is officially back, said Baltic region’s own “Cuban missile
Mark MacKinnon in The Globe and crisis”—but in 1962, the Soviets were
Mail (Canada). “Not since the 1980s forced to turn back the weapons. In
has the hostility between East and this case, the missiles are there, in
West bubbled over on so many fronts the heart of Europe, and they could
at the same time.” Last week alone, be used to take out Berlin. The ter-
armed Russian fighter jets flew over rifying part is that a mishap could
Finland and Estonia, and Russia moved easily trigger a hot war, said Ugo
nuclear-capable missiles to Kalinin- Tramballi in Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy).
grad, a tiny Russian territory wedged “Never before have there been so
between Poland and Lithuania. Then many warships on the Baltic Sea or
Washington and Moscow began “a so many aircraft in the sky above it.”
dangerous war of words.” U.S. Secre- The situation is even more danger-
tary of State John Kerry said Russia A Russian Su-27 fighter in Finnish airspace last week ous in Syria, “where the Russians
should be investigated for war crimes and the Americans are fighting right
for its merciless bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo, next to each other, on the same battlefield.” If Russian forces ac-
where thousands of civilians have been killed. The Kremlin cidentally killed American troops, or vice versa, we could face an
quickly fired back, accusing the U.S. of plotting to attack its unprecedented international crisis.
military base in Syria and saying that it was considering reopen-
ing bases in Vietnam and Cuba. The U.S. government capped Listen to these paranoid Westerners! said Dmitry Olshansky in
off the week by formally accusing Russia of hacking and leaking Komsomolskaya Pravda (Russia). U.S. and European headlines
emails from the Democratic National Committee in an attempt rant about “Putin’s attack on the free world,” accusing him of
to influence the presidential election. Moscow, it seems, has been manipulating a Manchurian candidate and preparing to march
trying to ensure that Republican candidate Donald Trump—who into Estonia. Honestly, if any of it were true, I might feel “a
has repeatedly called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “strong sense of pride,” thinking, “Wow, what a formidable country I
leader”—moves into the Oval Office. live in!” In reality, of course, it is “complete nonsense.” The mis-
sile deployment in Kaliningrad, for example, was not a secret,
This is worse than the Cold War ever was, said Hanno Kautz nor a threat, but a routine part of military training exercises.
in Bild (Germany). Back then, Moscow and Washington “knew Here’s what Russia really wants: compromise on Ukraine and
their red lines and respected them,” says German Foreign Min- Syria, sanctions lifted, trade, and dialogue. That amounts to a
ister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “These new times are different, “defensive, conservative plan to keep the status quo in a more or
Reuters

more dangerous.” Some are calling the Kaliningrad situation the less peaceful state.” Can’t we all live with that?

THE WEEK October 21, 2016

 Best columns: International NEWS 15

Haiti: Reeling from another natural disaster

Haiti can’t take any more, said Emmanuel Haiti will take charge of the relief effort
Saintus in Haiti-Progres.com. Hurricane this time, said Frantz Duval, also in Le
Matthew hit as a Category 4 monster last Nouvelliste. We refuse to “fall into the
week, with winds of 142 mph and torrential trap we did after the earthquake, when
rains that lashed the country for days. More everything was imported, from the
than 1,000 people were killed and hundreds smallest bottle of water to the largest
of thousands made homeless. Among the shelters.” That well-intentioned foreign
victims were many of the 80,000 Haitians aid undercut our nation’s businesses
who have been living in makeshift shelters and wrecked our economy. Fortunately
since the catastrophic 2010 earthquake, this time, our capital, Port-au-Prince,
which killed more than 220,000 people and was largely spared, and it still has its
flattened countless homes. A week after Mat- production capacity. Acting President
thew struck, some 1.4 million people still Jocelerme Privert is prepared to “make
need emergency shelter, food, and water. “A it compulsory” for international aid
massive response is required,” said United groups to “use local suppliers first.”
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Haitians are already showing “a spirit
A woman weeps in front of her wrecked home.
“Some towns and villages have been almost of solidarity,” with local telecom com-
wiped off the map.” But the devastation is so great that getting panies offering free service and ordinary people opening their
aid to those who need it is extraordinarily difficult. “You have no homes to the displaced. “Each initiative deserves our encourage-
means of communication, no radio, no telephone, no roads, and ment, deserves to be celebrated, in this society that does not say
even a helicopter can’t land,” said Jean-Luc Poncelet of the World often enough, ‘Thank you!’”
Health Organization. Many towns are entirely cut off.
Will our leaders “heed the message of the hurricane”? asked
Now “the bruised population” has to grapple with a resurgent Berthony Dupont in Haiti-Liberte.com. The Haitian government
cholera epidemic, said Edrid St. Juste in Le Nouvelliste. Cholera “always acts as a firefighter,” in panic mode, struggling to cope
has killed 10,000 Haitians and sickened more than 800,000 with each natural disaster. Why can it never create any infra-
since 2010, when it was brought here by U.N. peacekeepers structure to prevent or at least plan for these emergencies? This
from Nepal. The flooding from Matthew has sent raw sew- hurricane, coming as it does right before an election, may be
age coursing into waterways across the country, contaminating the shock the political class needs. Candidates always “promise
drinking water for thousands of people. Dead bodies float in riv- mountains and marvels” and then forget the poor once they get
ers. Authorities have begun burying the dead in mass graves, but in office. Haiti’s real curse is not earthquakes or hurricanes. It is
getting the sewage situation under control will take weeks. “the cruel reality of a recurring electoral sham.”

Incredible but true: It’s now officially a crime to
AUSTRALIA expose your derriere in public in the Australian
state of Victoria, said James Norman. For many
Demanding the Aussies, the sight of partygoers mooning in the
street or the occasional streaker interrupting a
right to bare cricket match “is almost an expected spectacle.”
It might irritate some prudes, but we’ve never felt
our buttocks the need for a specific law “to police such lar-
rikin behavior.” Yet thanks to a new amendment
James Norman
to Victoria’s Summary Offenses Act, people who
The Sydney Morning Herald
indulge in these relatively harmless displays of
public nudity could now face up to two months in
prison. Repeat offenders risk six months behind
bars. The law also bans the singing of obscene
songs or ballads in public, which means most of
the great Australian songbook. It’s a ridiculously
over-the-top piece of legislation. More than
100 people have pledged to flaunt their naked
backsides outside the Victorian Parliament House
at the next full moon in protest, but police have
warned them to keep their pants on or face “crim-
inal charges.” It’s bonkers. If you go to Germany,
it’s not uncommon to see whole families picnick-
ing naked in city parks, but here we’re cracking
down on mooning. Our “Victorian morality” has
made us “the laughingstock of the world.”

ISRAEL Have we done something to offend the House of
Windsor? asked The Jerusalem Post. In the 68
Why don’t years since Israel was established on land once
ruled by the U.K., no member of the British royal
British royals family has visited the Jewish state in an official
capacity. In that time, the royals have toured Saudi
ever visit? Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and other Arab states. But
the Middle East’s only democracy has yet to make
Editorial
it onto their itinerary. It’s true that Prince Charles
The Jerusalem Post has attended two state funerals here: Prime Minis-
ter Yitzhak Rabin’s in 1995, and former President
Shimon Peres’ last month. But on both occasions,
Getty
senting his mother, Queen Elizabeth II—not the
government. So why won’t the royals officially set
foot on Israeli soil? Some argue that they’re biased
against the Jewish state. Others claim that the U.K.
doesn’t want to damage ties with Gulf Arab states,
which are major buyers of British arms. Whatever
the reason, the royals will soon “have an opportu-
nity to make amends.” Next year marks the 100th
anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in which
His Majesty’s Government first supported the
creation of a national home for the Jewish people.
“After 100 years, it is time for the current majes-

Buckingham Palace stressed that he was repre- ties to show where they stand.”
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16 NEWS
Noted
QPeople who still live in
their hometown are much
more likely to vote for Re-
publican presidential nomi-
nee Donald Trump than
for Democratic rival Hillary
Clinton. Forty percent of
Trump’s likely voters live in
the community where they
spent their youth, com-
pared with just 29 percent
of Clinton voters.
TheAtlantic.com
QNearly half of men ages
25 to 54 who’ve given up
looking for a job take pain
medication on a daily
basis, a new Princeton
University study found.
In two-thirds of those
cases, they take highly
addictive prescription pain
medication.
Bloomberg.com
QThe weight of the aver-
age American reaches an
annual low this time of
year, ac-
cording to a
new Cornell
University
study. Most
people then
experience a long weight
climb through Thanksgiv-
ing, Hanukkah, Christmas,
and New Year, peaking on
New Year’s Day. This 10-
week pound pile-on takes
an average of five months
to lose.
The New York Times
Q Democrats employ at
least 4,200 people working
to elect presidential nomi-
nee Hillary Clinton from
campaign headquarters
and in battleground states,
compared with 880 paid
staffers working for the
Republicans.
NBCNews.com
Q New York officials are
installing special cameras
at 10 bridges and tunnels
into Manhattan to read
license plates and capture
images of drivers’ faces.
The license-plate read-
ers and facial-recognition
cameras will be connected
to databases of suspected
terrorists and criminals.
TheVerge.com
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
Talking points
Bill Clinton: Behind the rape claim
“Republican nominee Don-
ald Trump told the world he
would make former President
Bill Clinton’s sexual history an
issue in the 2016 presidential
campaign,” said Jonathan
Cohn in HuffingtonPost.com,
and this week, “he did it.”
Before and during the second
presidential debate, Trump put
a spotlight on three women
Broaddrick: Are her allegations credible?
who have accused Clinton of
sexual assaults—including Juanita Broaddrick, a
retired Arkansas nursing-home operator who says in his memoirs that Hillary’s response to all Bill’s
Clinton raped her in 1978. Is her claim credible?
Broaddrick says the assault occurred when she
was serving as a volunteer for Clinton’s guberna-
torial campaign, and Clinton lured her to a hotel
room. There, she says, he raped her. Broaddrick
made no report at the time, and two decades later I’m a loyal Hillary supporter, but right now “I’m
signed an affidavit stating that rumors she’d been furious with Bill,” said Heidi Stevens in Chicago
assaulted were “untrue.” But during Kenneth
Starr’s investigation, she reversed herself.
What makes Broaddrick’s claim more credible,
said Dylan Matthews in Vox.com, is that several
of her friends and her ex-husband all say that
she told them in 1978 Clinton had raped her.
But another of Broaddrick’s allegations cited by
Trump—that Hillary threatened her—is far more terribly ironic it would be for Broaddrick to get
questionable. Broaddrick says that a few weeks
after the alleged assault, she ran into Hillary, who nist predator like Trump as our president.
Obama: Enjoying a second honeymoon
“If you watched either of the first two general-
election debates,” said Steve Benen in MSNBC
.com, “you saw a Republican ticket that’s
absolutely convinced President Obama is a spec-
tacular failure, creating an appetite for dramatic
national change.” But the American people seem
to disagree. Obama’s job approval rating just hit
a second-term high of 55 percent, making him
“more popular now than Ronald Reagan was at
this point in the Republican icon’s second term.”
Obama’s late surge “is due, in no small part, to
Donald Trump,” said Sarah Wheaton in Politico
.com. Voters are feeling wistful about the classy
“No Drama Obama,” thanks to the belliger-
ent businessman’s “steady stream of derogatory,
inflammatory, and downright shocking state-
ments.” Obama also shines in comparison with
the unpopular Democratic nominee, Hillary
Clinton. The improving economy has also helped.
Seven years after his first-term honeymoon period,
it looks like “the American public is falling back
in love with President Barack Obama.”
Obama may be popular in comparison with Clin-
ton and Trump, but his legacy is “stillborn,” said
Charles Krauthammer in The Washington Post.
His presidency’s “two central pillars are collaps-
grabbed her hand, looked at
her very seriously, and said,
“I want you to know that
we appreciate everything
you do for Bill.” Broaddrick
says she interpreted that as
a warning. Well, Hillary
does have a history of going
after her husband’s accusers,
said Ian Tuttle in National
Review.com. ABC anchor
George Stephanopoulos, a
former spokesman for President Clinton, wrote
accusers—including Gennifer Flowers, Paula
Jones, and Monica Lewinsky—was to “stand by
her man” and participate in his aides’ efforts to
destroy the accusers’ reputations.
Tribune.com. Hillary has been “an ardent
champion of women and children’s rights since
the ’80s,” but thanks to Bill’s inexcusable track
record with women, her historic campaign is
being dragged through the muck by Trump. Even
worse, Bill’s sexual past has given Trump a means
to distract the country from his own long history
of womanizing, harassment, and groping. How
her revenge on Bill by helping to install a misogy-
ing before our eyes.” Obamacare is such a mess
that “even Democrats are running away” from it.
Obama’s foreign policy shift toward “lofty speech
and cynical abdication” has led to chaos in the
Middle East and an emboldened Russian President
Vladimir Putin. “If the 2016 campaign hadn’t
turned into a referendum on character,” right now
Obama’s party “would be 20 points behind.”
In the real world, however, Obama’s popular-
ity surge is “horrible news for Donald Trump,”
said Paul Waldman, also in The Washington
Post. “Only twice has the incumbent president’s
approval been over 50 percent at this point and
his party not won the election.” Obama’s popu-
larity also directly contradicts the foundation of
Trump’s entire presidential campaign—that our
country is a disaster “where nobody has a job,”
crime is soaring, and “terrorists are probably
going to kill your children on the way home from
school today.” Trump has had to paint this “post-
apocalyptic hellscape” because without it, nobody
would take the crazy risk of electing a reality-TV
star with “no experience in government or interest
Reuters, Getty
in policy.” A majority of Americans seem to think
that while life could be better, overall, “things are
going pretty well.”
 Talking points NEWS 17

Scary clowns: A national panic attack Wit &

The fever broke out in August,
when a Columbia, S.C., apart-
to the cops, who are wasting time
on scary-clown sightings. In a
Wisdom
ment manager told authorities country full of guns, police also “Television has made
“men dressed as clowns had been fear an outbreak of vigilantism, dictatorship impossible but
seen beckoning local children said Suzanne Zuppello in Rolling democracy unbearable.”
Shimon Peres,
into nearby woods,” said Tim Stone.com. What if spooked quoted in Ha’aretz.com
Walker in Independent.co.uk. gun owners decide to “end the
“Beware of all enterprises
Other reports cropped up around clown problem on their own”? that require new clothes.”
the city, including one of a clown An outraged Randy Christensen, Henry David Thoreau,
“with a blinking nose” seen near a president of the World Clown quoted in TheBrowser.com
dumpster. The claims were unsub- Association, says faux clowns and “Helplessness, when
stantiated, but the news went viral, hoaxers “are taking something fear and dread have run
and around the country pranksters innocent and wholesome and per- their course, as all
donned clown costumes to spook verting it to create fear.” passions do, is the most
people. Now “a clown panic has rewarding state of all.”
Painter Agnes Martin,
gripped the U.S.” In recent weeks, Actually, the idea of a “good” quoted in The New Yorker
authorities have been forced to clown is fairly new, said Olivia
The stuff of nightmares “You can get much farther
investigate “scary clown” sightings Waxman in Time.com. In the 17th
with a kind word and a
in 39 states. Some were credible: In 18 states, century, clowns and jesters were troublemakers; in gun than you can with a
perpetrators in clown garb have been arrested The Pickwick Papers, Dickens famously portrayed kind word alone.”
for menacing people or making threats. Still, the a clown as a sinister, white-faced drunkard with Al Capone,
vast majority of reports have been the product of florid hair. During the Cold War, clown historians quoted in Men’s Journal
either hysteria or hoaxes. “People who are genu- say, widespread anxiety fueled a demand for jolly “The task of the modern
inely intent on malice don’t want to be caught,” clowns like Bozo and Ronald McDonald, but educator is not to cut
says clown historian Ben Radford. “If you’re things took a dark turn in the 1980s. A panic over down jungles, but to
dressed as a clown, you stand out. Cops just have a few high-profile child abductions fueled fears of irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis,
to follow the size 38 footprints.” strangers in disguise, and Stephen King’s horror quoted in Bustle.com
novel It enshrined the evil clown in pop culture.
“The modern city is a place
“This is no laughing matter,” said Andrea Peyser Now King is trying to ease the very terror he
for banking and prostitu-
in the New York Post. Certainly not for the 12 per- helped inspire, tweeting, “Time to cool the clown tion and very little else.”
cent of U.S. adults who suffer from crippling hysteria— most of ’em are good, cheer up the kid- Frank Lloyd Wright,
coulrophobia—fear of clowns. It’s also not funny dies, make people laugh.” quoted in The Economist
“Remembering that you
are going to die is the best
Policing: Is the ‘Ferguson Effect’ real? way I know to avoid the
trap of thinking you have
Finally, we have evidence the fabled “Ferguson tract” between law enforcement officers and those something to lose.”
Effect” may actually exist, said Juleyka Lantigua- they serve, making black citizens unwilling to pro- Steve Jobs, quoted in
Williams in TheAtlantic.com—but not in the vide tips or cooperate with police. In Milwaukee, Telegraph.co.uk
way most people think. Conservatives claim the the 2004 beating stirred up anger and distrust
recent spike in violent crime in several large cities going back decades, reminding citizens of many
is the result of Black Lives Matter protests over other ugly incidents in which black men died after Poll watch
high-profile police shootings. Officers are now so they were shot, suffocated, or beaten by cops. QAfter a recording of
wary of being accused of doing something wrong, “Each new tragedy contributes to and reawakens Donald Trump’s lewd com-
according to this theory, that they’re afraid to the collective trauma of black communities,” ments about women was
make arrests and do their jobs. But a new study which deeply fear “state-sanctioned assaults.’’ released, 69% of women
suggests a different explanation. Researchers said they did not think
found that after a 2004 incident in which several Yes, a lack of “community cooperation” with Trump respects women.
off-duty Milwaukee cops stomped and beat an police is a problem, said Neil Gross, also in The 55% of men agreed.
innocent unarmed black man almost to death, New York Times, but so is a decline in police 81% of Republicans and
911 calls to report crimes in the city “dropped morale. Another recent study found that after Republican-leaning likely
precipitously, especially in black neighborhoods.” protests in Baltimore last year over Freddie Gray, voters said Trump’s com-
Homicides then jumped 32 percent. What the who died in a police van, the city’s arrest rate ments would not change
study suggests is that the rise in crime has less plunged—and crime “went through the roof.” their vote, but 31% of
independents said they’re
to do with “proactive policing” than with com- For proof that cops are now afraid to do their
less likely to vote for him.
munities “losing faith in those who are sworn to jobs, consider what just happened in Chicago,
NBC News/SurveyMonkey
protect them.” said John Kass in the Chicago Tribune. A female
police officer severely beaten by an assailant Q70% of American voters
“Our findings confirm what the people of Fergu- high on PCP. From a hospital bed, she admitted believe that this year’s
son, Baltimore, and other cities have been saying she should have shot her assailant, but hesitated presidential campaign
has “brought out the
all along,” said study authors Matthew Desmond because she didn’t want to become “the next big
worst in people.”
Newscom

and Andrew Papachristos in The New York story on national news.” Battered, bloodied, and
Monmouth University
Times. Police brutality “rips apart the social con- bruised, hers is “the face of the Ferguson Effect.”
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
18 NEWS Technology

Surveillance: Yahoo’s email snooping

Once again, Americans have had to find out
about government surveillance the hard way,
said Margaret Sullivan in The Washington
Post. According to a bombshell Reuters in-
vestigation, Yahoo built a custom tool last
year to allow the National Security Agency
and the FBI to secretly scan all of its users’
incoming email for specific characters or
words. The “ready compliance” of Yahoo
CEO Marissa Mayer was apparently so
disturbing to senior executives that at least
two of them left the company, including the Facilitating mass surveillance?
chief information security officer. Ironically,
Yahoo was one of the many technology companies making “lav-
ish promises of public debate and transparency” in the wake of
Edward Snowden’s initial revelations. “Well, that was then.”
Hundreds of millions of Yahoo users were potentially subject to
warrantless searches of their email, “the equivalent of searching
every house in a city block to look for a missing gun,” said Rus-
sell Brandom in TheVerge.com. Is that legal? Privacy advocates
would say, under the Fourth Amendment, absolutely not. Nev-
ertheless, the government has become very adept at interpreting
vague laws designed to surveil foreign citizens, even if U.S. citi-
zens are swept up in the dragnet. If a company decides to fight
a surveillance order, “that fight will take place in secret courts
friendly to intelligence agencies.” Yahoo likely felt it had no
choice in the matter. “That’s a scary thought.”
Intelligence agencies are playing hardball
with Silicon Valley, said Andy Greenberg
in Wired.com. Yahoo, along with many
other tech companies, actually beefed up
its encryption practices after the Snowden
revelations, forcing the likes of the NSA to
change its playbook. “Stymied by uncrack-
able crypto, [agencies] increasingly respond
by demanding that tech companies perform
intrusive operations themselves.” But un-
like Apple, which vigorously fought back
against government demands that it help
break into the San Bernardino shooter’s
iPhone, Yahoo apparently caved to the feds “and built exactly the
sort of security-compromising software that Apple refused to.”
Encryption is all well and good, but it’s useless if tech companies
don’t display some backbone.
Yahoo, for its part, is being “cagey,” said Robert Hackett in
Fortune.com. The company has said the Reuters story is mislead-
ing, and that no such mail-scanning program currently exists, but
otherwise, it’s not denying the report. These revelations couldn’t
come at a worse time for Yahoo, said The Economist. Just last
month, the company suffered the biggest data breach of a single
site in history. Verizon, which agreed to buy Yahoo in July for
$4.8 billion, could now “have the right either to walk away or
to ask for a lower price.” Meanwhile, rest assured plenty of users
are asking, “How do I delete my Yahoo account?”

Innovation of the week Bytes: What’s new in tech

Your T-shirt
could one
day be used
to power
the smart-
phone in
your pocket,
said Maria
Gallucci in
Mashable.com. New “smart” fibers
developed by Chinese researchers
“can be tailored and woven like
cotton—but can also produce and
store solar energy, like tiny clean
power plants.” Energy-generating
cloth could potentially solve the
conundrum of keeping our devices
fully charged without burning harm-
ful fossil fuels. Unlike other smart
textiles, the solar cloth can be cut,
sewn, and tailored to a designer’s
specifications. The technology still
A rocky start for Facebook Marketplace would be a seismic change for the site, “which
“Illegal drugs. Dogs. Guns. Sexual services.
Baby hedgehogs.” All of these and more were
available for purchase on Facebook last week,
just hours after the social network rolled out
its newest e-commerce feature, said Jonah
Engel Bromwich in The New York Times.
Marketplace, a new section on the Facebook
mobile app, lets users buy and sell things from
friends and strangers, similar to Craigslist and
other online bazaars. But the site was almost
immediately flooded with items in clear viola-
tion of Facebook’s commerce policy. Facebook
laid the blame on a technical glitch preventing
its reviewing system from vetting posts. The
company says it’s working to fix the issue and
to remove any offensive items. Marketplace is
being rolled out gradually, with a desktop ver-
sion to be released in the “coming months.”
has long been almost entirely unregulated.”
4Chan has been hugely influential in shaping
internet culture, spawning “countless memes”
as well as the hacktivist movement known
as Anonymous. But it’s equally famous as a
“home to racism, sexism, and otherwise vile
discussions.” 4Chan has been linked to the
Gamergate movement and to the release of
stolen nude photos of actresses.
Your AI language tutor
“Today’s chatbots, for the most part, aren’t all
that useful,” said Frederic Lardinois in Tech
Crunch.com, “but what if you could use them
to learn a new language?” Duolingo, a free
language-learning app, now features artificially
intelligent conversation partners with whom
users can practice their newly acquired skills.
Online language learners can text back and
Alamy, Getty, courtesy of Chongqing University

has a long way to go before it’s
ready to wear. The “environmentally
unfriendly” dye currently used in its
solar cells, for example, is a poten-
tial health hazard, and the fabric
isn’t waterproof. But experts say
the first commercial products using
solar-generating textiles could be
available in “the next five years.”
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
Trouble in the troll den
“The infamous message board 4Chan is strug-
gling to stay afloat,” said Jacob Kastrenakes
in TheVerge.com. The site’s owner posted last
week that 4Chan hasn’t brought in enough ad
revenue to continue paying for the cost of run-
ning the site. To survive, 4Chan may have to
close message boards, slow upload speeds, or
reduce the size of images that can be posted. It
forth with bots featuring different personali-
ties, like “Chef Robert, Renée the Driver, and
Officer Ada.” Each bot reacts differently to
what users say and will correct them when
they make a mistake. The feature is currently
available only on the Duolingo iPhone app, in
French, Spanish, and German, but more lan-
guages are coming. Duolingo eventually hopes
to add spoken conversation as well.

Doctors’ political views affect their advice
Doctors are supposed to base their medi-
cal advice on test results, physical exams,
and other empirical evidence. But new
research suggests that when it comes to
certain hot-button health issues, such as
abortion and firearms safety, they may
also be strongly influenced by their politi-
cal beliefs. Researchers at Yale University
selected more than 200 physicians—half
of them Democrats, half Republicans—and
asked them individually to examine fic-
tional accounts of patient encounters. For
the scenarios linked to politically neutral
issues, such as alcohol abuse and obesity,
there was little divergence of opinion
among the doctors on both the serious-
Ishigaki shows the size of the fossilized print.
Enormous dinosaur footprint
Paleontologists have unearthed one of the
largest dinosaur footprints ever recorded.
Found in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia,
the print measures 42 inches long and 30
inches wide—a 104 in U.S. shoe sizes. It is
believed to have been made by a member
of the titanosaur family, a group of four-
legged, long-necked herbivores that roamed
the Earth during the late Cretaceous period,
about 70 million to 90 million years ago.
Researchers cannot determine the dino-
saur’s exact size, but estimate it was nearly
70 feet tall and 100 feet long. While there
is no shortage of dinosaur tracks scattered
across the Earth—more than 20,000 have
been discovered in the Gobi alone—this
one is particularly large and well preserved.
“It shows us the posture of the dinosaur—
that it has a broad trackway,” Shinobu
Ishigaki, one of the paleontologists who
found the print, tells BBC.com. “If we con-
tinue to excavate more, we’ll be able to find
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out more about its walking style.” Three
prints belonging to a different dinosaur spe-
cies were also found nearby—a discovery
that could help researchers understand the
titanosaur’s social behavior.
Roman coins found in Japan
Ancient Roman coins have been discovered
in the ruins of a medieval Japanese castle—
Health & Science
ness of the problem and how it should be
treated. But on more sensitive topics, their
reactions differed substantially. Republican
doctors were particularly concerned about
the scenarios involving cannabis use and
abortion: They were more likely to tell
patients about the dangers of weed use
and to advise women against having an
abortion, warning that they might regret it
and suffer depression. Democrats, on the
other hand, were more likely to encourage
patients not to store guns at home, espe-
cially if they had children. “Doctors need
to think through these kinds of issues,
because if they are dealing with politically
sensitive issues, this [bias] is unavoid-
and no one knows how they got there.
Engraved with a portrait of the 4th-century
Roman emperor Constantine the Great, the
five copper coins were found in Katsuren
Castle, which was built on Okinawa in
the 13th century. Archaeologists don’t
believe there was any direct link between
the Roman Empire and the kingdoms that
controlled Okinawa, reports The New York
Times. They speculate that the coins were
brought to the island in the 14th or 15th
century, when the Kingdom of Ryukyu
had bustling maritime trade with other
Asian nations—many of which had once
had contact with the Roman Empire. An
Ottoman coin was also found at the site,
with inscriptions that dated it to 1687. “I
couldn’t believe they’d found coins from the
Roman Empire in Katsuren Castle,” says
archaeologist Hiroyuki Miyagi. “I thought
they were replicas that had been dropped
there by tourists.”
Caffeine curbs dementia risk
Coffee lovers probably don’t need any
more encouragement to indulge in a cup of
joe. But a new study suggests caffeine may
help stave off dementia and other forms of
cognitive impairment among older women,
reports HuffingtonPost.com. Researchers
tracked the brain function and caffeine
consumption of 6,467 women ages 65 and
older, for 10 years. After considering other
risk factors—including depression, smok-
ing, heart disease, and alcohol intake—they
found the women who drank the caffeine
equivalent of about three
8-ounce cups of coffee
a day reduced their
risk for dementia by
36 percent. The
findings don’t
establish a cause-
and-effect rela-
tionship, and it
NEWS 19
The physician’s worldview matters.
able,” study author Eitan Hersh tells The
Guardian (U.K.). “As a patient, it’s useful to
ask, ‘Is my doctor telling me this because
it’s what the medical evidence says, or is it
because of their worldview?’”
remains unclear how caffeine might help—
the stimulant may block certain chemical
receptors in the brain that could malfunction
and impair learning and memory as people
age. But Ira Driscoll, the study’s author, was
nevertheless encouraged by the results. “The
mounting evidence of caffeine consumption
as a potentially protective factor against
cognitive impairment is exciting,” she says.
“Caffeine is an easily modifiable dietary
factor.” An estimated 5.4 million Americans
suffer from Alzheimer’s; one in three seniors
dies with some form of dementia.
Health scare of the week
NSAIDs boost heart risks
Evidence is mounting that common pain-
killers such as ibuprofen and naproxen may
be tied to greater risk for heart problems,
reports The Independent (U.K.). Doctors
have long been concerned that non-
steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
may play a role in heart failure, because
they reduce the body’s ability to metabolize
salt. To investigate that link, researchers
in Italy examined the health records of
7.6 million people who had recently been
treated with NSAIDs, and compared them
with data on 8.2 million people who didn’t
use the drugs. They found that with the
exception of celecoxib (Celebrex), NSAIDs
raised the relative risk of heart failure by
19 percent. The higher the dosage of these
drugs, the greater the risk. The research-
ers said the fact that these drugs could
be bought over the counter fueled the
misconception that they were harmless
in high doses. Peter Weissberg, from
the British Heart Foundation, said
the study “serves as a reminder
to doctors to consider carefully
how they prescribe NSAIDs, and
to patients that they should only
take the lowest effective dose for
the shortest possible time.”
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
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 ARTS
Review of reviews: Books
Book of the week
Trainwreck: The Women We
Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear...
and Why
by Sady Doyle (Melville House, $26)
We have all borne witness to the trainwreck
syndrome, said Lisa Shea in Elle. A young
woman rises to fame only to be publicly
shamed after a brush with drugs, mental
instability, or perceived sexual infraction.
The phenomenon long predates even super-
market tabloids. In Sady Doyle’s “fiercely
brilliant, must-read exegesis on the sub-
ject,” Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte
Brontë stand shoulder to shoulder with
Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, and Whitney
Houston as exemplars of the type. If those
latter-day celebrities seem less worthy of
a spirited defense, “this book invites you
to reset your thinking.” Every trainwreck,
Doyle writes, is “a signpost pointing to what
‘wrong’ is, which boundaries we’re currently
placing on femininity, which stories we’ll
allow women to have.”
Subjecting women’s private lives to pub-
Novel of the week
Today Will Be Different
by Maria Semple (Little, Brown, $27)
Maria Semple has emerged in the past
four years as “one of America’s best
living comic novelists,” said Michael
Schaub in NPR.org. Though her follow-
up to Where’d You Go, Bernadette is a
mere day in the life of one 49-year-old
ex-cartoonist, it “packs in more twists,
jokes, and genuinely moving dialogue
than anyone has the right to expect.”
Eleanor Flood greets the morning with
a string of resolutions—to be calmer,
to be kinder, to buy local produce—but
fate has other plans. Her son feigns a
stomachache; she learns her husband
hasn’t shown up at his office. And
“things only get weirder from there.”
Halfway through, Eleanor recalls a
painful memory, and the mood shifts,
said Elinor Lipman in The Washington
Post. Eleanor’s hand-drawn wedding
gift to her sister—a 16-page comic-
book tribute that’s reproduced within
the novel—long ago triggered a still-
painful estrangement. But emotional
baggage is part of what makes Eleanor
such a “Semple-esque” heroine: She’s
X17online.com
“a delightful danger to herself and oth-
ers, sympathetic, and so very smart.”
Spears in her hot-mess phase
lic scrutiny has long been an effective
way to keep women from being heard,
said Salamishah Tillet in The New York
Times. “Consider, as Doyle does, Mary
Wollstonecraft.” The proto-feminist
British writer initially garnered favorable
reviews for her landmark 1792 treatise, A
Vindication of the Rights of Women. But
when a biography written by her widower
revealed her two premarital affairs and
two suicide attempts, the news rendered
her ideas morally suspect for more than a
century. Doyle treads shaky ground when
she tries to include the former slave Harriet
Hero of the Empire: The Boer
War, a Daring Escape, and the
Making of Winston Churchill
by Candice Millard (Doubleday, $30)
“The powerful
really are different
from you and me,”
said Jennifer Senior
in The New York
Times. In this thrill-
ing new account of
a formative adven-
ture in Winston
Churchill’s life,
the future bulldog
of World War II
Britain is only 24
and reporting on a war, not fighting one.
But the young upstart exhibits a belief in
his own greatness that’s as breathtaking as
it is endearing, and author Candice Millard
makes his experience of the Second Boer
War “as involving as a popcorn thriller.”
Millard performed a similar service for
Teddy Roosevelt in The River of Doubt,
and for James Garfield in Destiny of the
Republic. Here, her hero is already a failed
candidate for Parliament when he heads to
South Africa in 1899, hoping to finally win
the fame he regards as his destiny.
21
Jacobs in the trainwreck pantheon, suggest-
ing that sexism, rather than racism, was the
reason Jacobs’ 1861 autobiography was
discredited. More persuasive is the brief
Doyle offers for Britney Spears. Spears went
from pop princess to pariah, Doyle argues,
largely because she had the misfortune of
undergoing a rocky personal stretch in her
mid-20s just as new media platforms had
made her every move fodder for public
consumption.
The book’s “primary weakness”—its blind-
ness to more recent shifts in the culture—is
also the best reason for readers to take hope,
said Megan Garber in TheAtlantic.com.
Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Shonda Rhimes,
and Rihanna are ascendant as celebrities
precisely because each has seized control of
how her story will be told. These days, in
fact, “it’s refreshingly difficult to imagine
one of our current role models following the
path that Spears has.” And meanwhile, a
woman is perhaps weeks away from being
elected our next president. Trainwreck,
for the moment, offers a deep analysis of
American culture that a wide audience
should read. If we’re lucky, though, it will
“soon prove to be out of date.”
In this book, Churchill’s celebrated exploits
prove “as farcical as they were courageous,”
said Lynne Olson in The Washington Post.
He arrives in Cape Town with a valet
and $4,000 in liquor, and never gets the
chance he expected to see Britain crush the
Boers. Instead, the former cavalry officer
is riding a train two weeks later when
a Boer ambush forces him into action:
He saves many lives but is captured and
imprisoned—and then attempts a foolhardy
solo escape. Somehow, he succeeds, and is
duly celebrated back home. At the time, the
British public “needed a hero as much as
Churchill wanted to be one.”
In hindsight, Churchill’s hubris looks more
earned than Britain’s, said Roger Lowen-
stein in The Wall Street Journal. Most
British forces had assumed that the Boers—
descendants of earlier Dutch and German
settlers—would be vanquished quickly.
Instead, the 1899–1902 war “exposed the
British Empire at its vulnerable apogee—
a point that Millard brilliantly conveys.”
She has taken “a well-known piece of
Churchilliana” and skillfully turned it into
a snapshot of Africa on the cusp of a trans-
formative century, said Lucy Lethbridge in
the Financial Times. “Her keen awareness
of the realities (and surrealities) of war” has
yielded a “truly fascinating” book.
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
22 ARTS
Author of the week
Riad Sattouf
Riad Sattouf is the product of
worlds that no longer exist,
said Anna Diamond in The
Atlantic. The Paris-based car-
toonist, now 38, is half French,
half Syrian. When he was a
child, his family emigrated
from Paris to Libya because
of his father’s
enthusiasm
for Muammar
al-Qaddafi’s
pan-Arab
rhetoric; once
disillusion-
ment set in,
it was on to
the Syrian
village where his father had
grown up. Sattouf, who
decided to revisit that odys-
sey in The Arab of the Future,
his award-winning ongoing
series of graphic novels, has
been surprised how easily
he can transport himself to
the pre–civil war Syria of his
teenage years. “Sometimes I
am surrounded by memories
of smell, details, colors,” he
says. “It’s strange to see that
a part of the world still lives
somewhere in our brain.”
Sattouf was taught to expect
a better fate for the 21st-
century Middle East, said
Angelique Chrisafis in The
Guardian (U.K.). His father
wanted to raise his only boy
as an “Arab of the future,” an
enlightened man free of the
distorting influences of tribal-
ism and colonial oppression.
But the older Sattouf, a failed
scholar and authoritarian par-
ent, rarely lived up to his own
ideals, and he’s shown in the
series’ second book trying at
one point to justify a family
honor killing to his school-age
son. Today, Riad Sattouf’s
disgust with such misplaced
loyalty has inspired him to
request that he not be labeled
as French-Syrian. He prefers
to describe his nationality
as “cartoonist.” “It’s down
to chance where a person is
born,” he explains. “And the
fact that I’m of dual national-
ity means it’s difficult for me
to be proud on one side or
the other.”
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
The Book List
Best books...chosen by Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis is a child of Hollywood and an award-winning screen actress who
currently appears in the Fox comedy-horror series Scream Queens. Her 12th children’s
book, This Is Me, asks readers what they’d pack if leaving home for a new country.
King Rat and Shogun by James Clavell (Dell,
$10 each). When I was 13, I was stranded on
the island of Sardinia with my father, his young
wife, their baby son, a nanny, my older sister,
and our two younger half-sisters who didn’t
speak English. I found a copy of King Rat on a
bookshelf and it saved me. Historical fiction then
became my favorite genre. Shogun was the first
book I devoured as an adult.
Stoner by John Williams (NYRB Classics, $15).
A perfect book. This tale of a Missouri farmer’s
embrace of a life of letters is spare and yet full of
emotional detail and longing.
Dalva by Jim Harrison (Washington Square,
$17). Another gem, this 1988 novel is set in the
world of Native American rights and wrongs and
loss and foundlings. The description of the land
is gorgeous.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Penguin, $18).
The tale of two brothers and their families is
played out in riveting form and provides a plat-
form for some of the finest op-eds I have ever
Also of interest...in games and puzzles
Play Anything
by Ian Bogost (Basic, $27)
“Part personal meditation, part guide
to living a happier life, Play Anything
is a Walden for the 2010s,” said
Douglas Heaven in the New Scientist.
Instead of offering a contemplation
of nature, author and video game
designer Ian Bogost makes a case for rethinking
our approach to everyday activities—grocery
shopping, commuting—so that we recognize how
each one resembles play. “The fun of play,” he
writes, lies not in being able to do what we want
but “in doing what we can with what is given.”
The Tetris Effect
by Dan Ackerman (PublicAffairs, $26)
This history of an iconic 1980s video
game “upends the standard Silicon
Valley technology-creation myth,”
said Ethan Gilsdorf in The New York
Times. Tetris, the shape-stacking game
that’s still a global phenomenon, was
developed in 1984 by a Soviet computer scientist,
and its Iron Curtain origins had a ripple effect
on the spread of digital entertainment. Ackerman
sometimes loses the train in “endless minutiae
about licensing negotiations.” But when he focuses
on the game’s early years, “the story shines.”
read: “And this I believe: that the free, exploring
mind of the individual human is the most valu-
able thing in the world. And this I would fight
for: the freedom of the mind to take any direc-
tion it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight
against: any idea, religion, or government which
limits or destroys the individual.”
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Vintage,
$17). I once attended a lecture series called “How
the West Was Written” that included discussion
of works by Willa Cather, Raymond Chandler,
John Fante, and Stegner. Stegner’s Pulitzer-
winning 1971 novel is presented as the attempt
of a wheelchair-bound historian to capture the
lives of his settler grandparents. It’s all here: the
bravery and adventure of those who explored the
West; the sacrifice and the love. Amazing!
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Vintage,
$17). Mistry’s novel is gutting. Set in 1970s
India, it introduced me to a world of hardships
and class boundaries that I never knew. It’s a
reality too hard to imagine, and yet it is happen-
ing, every second.
The Perfect Pass
by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner, $27)
Hal Mumme is probably the most
influential football coach you’ve never
heard of, said Will Leitch in The Wall
Street Journal. In this entertaining
account of the strategic revolution he
triggered, the most amusing passages
describe the befuddlement suffered by rivals when
Mumme’s 1989 Iowa Wesleyan team launched a
pass-happy, fast-paced, improvisational offense—
like the one most NFL teams use today. Mumme
never landed a big-time job, but he got the satis-
faction of seeing his “crazy” ideas proved right.
The Hidden Keys
by André Alexis (Coach House, $18)
A summary of this clever Treasure
Island tribute “reads much more like
a parody of Dan Brown’s The Da
Vinci Code than a homage to Robert
Louis Stevenson’s classic,” said Brian
Bethune in Maclean’s. But accept the
Andrew Eccles, Olivier Marty
goofy character names and albino villain as part
of the novel’s fun, and you’ll be swept up in this
tale of a deceased billionaire’s hidden treasure
and the five clues he possibly left behind. In the
end, it’s “a wonderful story about fate and fam-
ily.” And “the puzzle is pretty good, too.”
 Review of reviews: Art & Music
Exhibit of the week
Jerusalem 1000–1400:
Every People Under Heaven
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
through Jan. 8
Jerusalem always has been “as much an
idea as a locale,” said Peter Schjeldahl in
The New Yorker. If you need proof, visit
the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s compel-
ling new exhibition focused on the city in
the era of the Crusades. Most of the 200
artifacts on display were made outside of
Jerusalem, but “their association with the
city isn’t strained.” Instead, they evince
the palpable tug that Jerusalem had on
members of the three Abrahamic faiths,
in places as far-flung as Iceland and India.
There are manuscripts, maps, paintings,
sculptures, architectural fragments, reli-
quaries, astrolabes, weapons, and books—
all of which express how Jews, Christians,
and Muslims revered and laid claim to
the polyglot city where their leaders and
prophets had lived, preached, and died. It’s
easy to lose yourself in the objects’ beauty.
But “message, not medium, is the motive of
even the most decorative work.” And the
intent of every message was to reinforce or
promote a particular religious faith.
The show opens not with a holy relic but
with a pile of ancient solid-gold coins that
Norah Jones
Day Breaks
++++
Finally, “the Norah
Jones we were sup-
posed to know” has
commenced her
recording career, said
Andy Langer in Texas
Monthly. The singer-
songwriter’s first album
in four years may sound at first like a back-
to-basics collection, since she’s set aside her
guitar and returned to the piano. But Jones
isn’t trying to replicate the jazz-tinged pop
of Come Away With Me, the 2002 album
that made her a star. Day Breaks is instead
a true jazz record, one that shows off the
chops Jones began honing during her first
New York club gigs 16 years ago. Joined by
“an all-star jazz wrecking crew”—including
saxophonist Wayne Shorter and organist
Lonnie Smith—she combines nine origi-
nal songs with covers of Duke Ellington’s
“Fleurette Africaine” and Horace Silver’s
“Peace.” Jones “still operates on slow burn,”
said Jim Farber in Entertainment Weekly.
Her tempos remain measured, her voice
hushed. But she’s playing more openly,
improvising freely over adventurous chord
progressions. “Not since her entrancing
debut has she sounded this engaged.”
A Dome of the Rock–inspired incense box
were discovered last year and establish
Jerusalem’s bona fides as a global market-
place, said Jason Farago in The Guardian
(U.K.). For wealthy pilgrims of all creeds,
the city was a giant mall: Shopkeepers who
could speak a dozen languages sold such
keepsakes as gold wedding rings topped
with a likeness of the destroyed Temple of
Jerusalem, or exquisite diptychs of Jesus
with his Virgin Mother. All three religions
made exquisite objects, “but if you had to
pick a winner for aesthetic sophistication
before 1400, it’s Islam in a landslide.” In
Green Day
Revolution Radio
++++
“Punk needs a struggle
if it’s going to mean
something,” said Aaron
Burgess in Alternative
Press. Fortunately,
Green Day’s first album
since frontman Billie
Joe Armstrong’s 2012
stint in rehab is the band’s angriest, most
personal album in years. Across 12 tracks,
the past-40 pop-punkers confront mortality,
class warfare, racial strife, gun violence, and
our divisive presidential election. “Bang
Bang,” the album’s “propulsive” first single,
finds Armstrong contemplating mass shoot-
ings in the age of Instagram. Unfortunately,
his politically minded writing “has got-
ten increasingly ham-fisted,” said Jeremy
Winograd in SlantMagazine.com. “Give me
cherry bombs and gasoline,” he rages on
the title track, contradicting the nonviolent
ethos of the Black Lives Matter movement
the song claims to support. His more per-
sonal songs prove “far more endearing.”
On “Too Dumb to Die” and “Youngblood,”
Armstrong derides youthful rebellion and
young love, and his snarky one-liners “suit
his stuffed-nose sneer better than stone-
faced political proclamations ever have.”
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an elaborate, seven-volume Quran, com-
pleted in the early 1300s, one calligrapher
intertwined golden words with spiraling
patterns of stars and hexagons. Elsewhere,
mosque lamps of brass, or of glass and
enamel, are ringed with calligraphic orna-
mentation. “God is in the details.”
The curators don’t attempt to hide that this
era that produced so much beauty also gen-
erated great horrors, said Holland Cotter
in The New York Times. When European
crusaders captured cosmopolitan Jerusalem
in 1099, they slaughtered thousands of
Muslims, Jews, and local Christians. Later,
Muslim warlords inflicted similar barbarities
on Christians. An unknown artist’s water-
color of a battle in progress could be the
work of an embedded war photographer:
“We see exactly what he saw—not power
and glory, but a crazy cartoonish salad of
sliced and diced heads and limbs.” In the
time period covered by the exhibition, the
fight for Jerusalem cost more than 1.7 mil-
lion lives, said Liel Leibovitz in TabletMag
.com. The objects insist on telling that tale,
and “it’s a story of people who flocked to
Jerusalem to transcend the world, and then
got there and realized that, for mortals,
transcendence just wasn’t in the cards.”
Instead, they suffered sad, violent deaths,
and all because they persisted in believing
that only one city was divinely blessed.
Shovels & Rope
Little Seeds
++++
Cary Ann Hearst and
Michael Trent have
just made their “most
unabashedly rocking
record so far,” said
Jim Allen in NPR.org.
The South Carolina
husband-and-wife duo
“have always known how to bash it out
when the mood struck,” but the “back-porch
folk feel” of past albums has become a side
note in the first set of songs that they’ve
released since having their first child. The
record opens with “I Know,” a thumping
blues tune driven by fuzzy guitar and “junk-
yard” percussion. And the momentum
builds right through the raucous “Invisible
Man,” a song about Trent’s father and his
battle with Alzheimer’s that comes across
“like a collision between the Black Keys and
the White Stripes.” Still, Shovels & Rope
“know exactly who they are,” said Sam
Sodomsky in American Songwriter. In
their take on Americana, an album always
has room for an acoustic ballad, and every
track sounds better when vocal duties are
shared: Hearst and Trent take “palpable
delight” in singing together—and in finish-
ing each other’s sentences.
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
24 ARTS Review of reviews: Film
Certain Kelly Reichardt’s latest slow-
burning drama “confirms her
brings her “trademark tender
humanism” to her portraiture,
Women status as the quietest of great and the result is one of her
Directed by Kelly Reichardt American filmmakers,” said “richest, most refined” works.
(R)
Guy Lodge in Variety. In a “The performances are under-
triptych of character studies stated across the board, but
++++ based on short stories by Maile deeply felt,” said Nigel Smith in
A four-way portrait of Meloy, Certain Women peers The Guardian (U.K.). Dern and
quiet strength into the lives of a handful of Williams play women frequently
Montanans: a lawyer (Laura Williams: Attuned to silences met with small-town sexism,
Dern) dealing with an unhinged and they “simmer under the
client; a young mother (Michelle Williams) deter- surface with palpable anger.” All four characters,
mined to build a family cottage; and a lonely horse though, are creatures of the vast, open terrain they
rancher (Lily Gladstone) who forms a bond with inhabit, and they “seem carved out of rock, sunk
a night-school law instructor (Kristen Stewart). into the land” and its silences, said Tim Grierson
Thrilling plot twists are scarce, but the director of in PasteMagazine.com. Certain Women “seeps into
the indie gems Meek’s Cutoff and Wendy and Lucy the skin and expands in the mind.”

Newtown This powerful documentary

“very early on breaks your
calls; we hear a doctor describe
what assault-rifle bullets do to
Directed by Kim A. Snyder heart,” said Stav Ziv in News- a child’s body; we hear parents
(Not rated) week. “And then it breaks your of victims talking about attend-
++++ heart hundreds more times ing multiple funerals in a day.
before it ends.” Made by a film- Still, the movie is “defined by its
A mass shooting,
four years later
maker who has returned again sense of quiet,” by its interest in
and again to Newtown, Conn., the challenge of living with hor-
since the 2012 school shooting rible memories of the shooting
that left 20 children and six A family photo of victim Daniel Barden and fading memories of the sons
adults dead, the movie insists and daughters lost that day. The
that we look closely at the grief still racking the lawmakers who most need to see it probably won’t,
town. “It is a necessary film, one that anyone who said Neil Genzlinger in The New York Times. But
lives in America must watch.” Newtown isn’t coy though Newtown never stridently argues for sensi-
about what happened on the day of the shooting, ble gun restrictions, “its sentiments are clear, under-
said Bilge Ebiri in NYMag.com. We hear the 911 scored with heartache eloquently expressed.”

Blue Jay Blue Jay “carves a unique lane times harrowing to watch,” said
for itself” among the year’s Mike D’Angelo in AVClub.com.
Directed by Alex Lehmann best movies, said Joey Nolfi in Unfortunately, the reason for
(Not rated) Entertainment Weekly. Shot the pair’s breakup is revealed
++++ in black-and-white, and driven late, in “clumsily melodramatic
largely by improvised dialogue, fashion.” But Paulson is so good
Two adults revisit it follows former high school to the end that she even sells the
an ill-fated romance.
sweethearts across a single night story’s slight stumble, said Brian
as they meet by chance and Tallerico in RogerEbert.com.
spend the next hours getting Ex-soulmates Paulson and Duplass
Coming off her Emmy-winning
reacquainted and revisiting a turn as prosecutor Marcia Clark
once magical relationship that clearly ended badly. in HBO’s The People v. O.J. Simpson, she here cre-
Its energy comes from the spectacle of watching two ates a spirited married woman with “so many subtle
“master” performers “feeding on mutual chemis- layers” that it’s hard to think of a better 2016 screen
try.” Sarah Paulson gets a rare chance to show her performance. Paulson’s Amanda is still the sweetly
playful side, while Mark Duplass, who also wrote romantic kid she was 20 years earlier; “adulthood
the script, exhibits “a raw vulnerability that’s some- just got in the way.”

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Korean director Na Hong-jin is a talent to be
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His latest hit, about a bumbling detective
trying to solve a rash of murders, “starts out
as a comedic police procedural, morphs into
shades of The Exorcist, and then arrives at a
place that is wholly its own.”
This “crass-on-paper” bikini flick turned out
to be “one of the more cleverly constructed
B movies in quite some time,” said The
Guardian.com. Blake Lively gives “an all-or-
nothing performance” as a surfer babe who
must fight off a shark to save her life, and
“arresting” cinematography does the rest.
This exceptional 1988 series of 10 linked short
films is “finally getting its moment in the
sun,” said the Los Angeles Times. Created
by Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, each
drama is inspired by one of the Ten Com-
mandments, and all are so rich “they seem to
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Movies on TV
Monday, Oct. 17
Alice
Mia Farrow is an uptown
Manhattanite who uses
an herbalist’s tinctures to
shake up her routine, in
Woody Allen’s reworking of
Federico Fellini’s Juliet of the
Spirits. (1990) 5:50 p.m., Epix
Tuesday, Oct. 18
October Sky
A coal miner’s son is
inspired by the Sputnik 1
launch to study rocketry.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Chris
Cooper co-star. (1999)
6:10 p.m., Movieplex
Wednesday, Oct. 19
Presumed Innocent
Harrison Ford is a prosecu-
tor suspected of murder-
ing his office lover, in a
taut thriller based on Scott
Turow’s breakthrough novel.
(1990) 7:50 p.m., Cinemax
Thursday, Oct. 20
Election
In this dark campaign sat-
ire from Alexander Payne,
Reese Witherspoon is Tracy
Flick, a teen overachiever
bent on becoming her
school’s student body presi-
dent. (1999) 8 p.m., Epix
Friday, Oct. 21
Eyes Without a Face
A surgeon guilt-ridden over
his daughter’s disfigure-
ment attempts a transplant
using another woman’s
face. And things get worse
from there in this surreal
horror classic from French
auteur Georges Franju.
(1960) 10 p.m., TCM
Saturday, Oct. 22
North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock followed
Vertigo with another instant
classic, this one starring
Cary Grant as an ad exec
forced to run when he’s
mistaken for a spy. (1959)
5:30 p.m., TCM
Sunday, Oct. 23
Steve Wilkie/FOX, David Dettmann/Netflix
The Last of the Mohicans
Director Michael Mann
delivers a stylized adapta-
tion of James Fenimore
Cooper’s classic novel, with
Daniel Day-Lewis as the
rugged hero. (1992) 9 p.m.,
Sundance
• All listings are Eastern Time.
Television
The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
Chance
Yes, Hugh Laurie is playing a doctor again. Just
don’t expect cantankerous old Dr. House. In this
promising neo-noir series, the two-time Golden
Globe winner plays Eldon Chance, a San Fran-
cisco neuropsychiatrist who recklessly enters
into a relationship with a patient, and is lured
into a clash with the woman’s abusive husband
that pushes him into the city’s darker corners.
Gretchen Mol co-stars. Available for streaming
Wednesday, Oct. 19, Hulu
2016 Presidential Debate
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump meet to slug
it out in a third and final televised debate. Chris
Wallace of Fox News referees. Wednesday, Oct. 19,
at 9 p.m., most major networks
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do
the Time Warp Again
Laverne Cox claims she’s been preparing all her
life to reprise the Tim Curry role in The Rocky
Horror Picture Show, and now she gets her
chance. In this energetic remake of the midnight
cult phenomenon, the Orange Is the New Black
star aims to turn a new generation on to the
antics and song stylings of Dr. Frank-N-Furter,
a mad scientist who’s also a “sweet transvestite
from Transsexual, Transylvania.” Curry pitches
in as the narrator, in a cast that also includes Vic-
toria Justice, Adam Lambert, and Reeve Carney.
Thursday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m., Fox
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Yes, it was crazy for Rebecca Bunch to turn down
a promotion at her prestigious Manhattan law
firm and move to suburban Los Angeles to stalk
an old teen crush. And to break into a song about
her adventure a couple of times an episode. But
Rachel Bloom’s musical-comedy series was a sur-
prise critics’ darling, and now the star-creator is
back for a second season, in which Rebecca will
have to figure out if being with Josh is really what
she wants. Friday, Oct. 21, at 9 p.m., the CW
Hamilton’s America
How did Lin-Manuel Miranda do it? Docu-
mentary filmmaker Alex Horwitz began follow-
ing the creator of Hamilton two years before
Howard: A new breed of social butterfly
ARTS 25
Laverne Cox bedazzles in the new Rocky Horror.
his hip-hop musical became a smash Broadway
hit, trailing Miranda as he researched Alexander
Hamilton’s life and composed songs in Aaron
Burr’s old bedroom. As the production takes
shape, Horwitz engages the performers in a dia-
logue about the Founder’s legacy and the show’s
impact, weaving in commentary from George
W. Bush, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Stephen
Sondheim, Questlove, and more. Friday, Oct. 21,
at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Elijah Wood has fallen down a rabbit hole.
In this new series based on novels by Douglas
Adams, the Lord of the Rings and Wilfrid
star plays a punk rocker turned bellhop who
stumbles upon a penthouse murder and thus into
the disorienting web of a singular private eye.
Samuel Barnett plays the title character. Saturday,
Oct. 22, at 9 p.m., BBC America
Other highlights
American Experience: Tesla
The genius of Nikola Tesla, the godfather of
alternating current and “patron saint of geeks,”
gets a proper documentary tribute. Tuesday,
Oct. 18, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings
The Walking Dead
Season 7 of the blockbuster zombie series opens
with an answer to the show’s biggest cliffhanger:
Which beloved character was bludgeoned to
death by the baddie Negan? Sunday, Oct. 23, at
9 p.m., AMC
Show of the week
Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker’s chilling anthology series is
ready again to mine our deepest fears about
technology’s growing reach. The six-episode
third season delivers some of Black Mirror’s
most riveting alternative realities yet. In “San
Junipero,” two young women cross paths in a
creepy coming-of-age tale set in 1987 California.
In “Nosedive,” Bryce Dallas Howard plays an
office worker unhealthily obsessed with being
liked. This is a batch of shows to be taken in
slowly. If you binge, your worldview could crack
faster than a smartphone screen. Available for
streaming Friday, Oct. 21, Netflix
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East Carolina fish stew: Better than candy this Halloween?
When I think back on my childhood
Halloweens, I see the dark yard
behind our Baptist church, a big
fire, and “a cauldron of fish stew
bubbling red with an exciting and
scary mix of fish heads, spiny bones,
and speckled skin,” said Vivian
Howard in Deep Run Roots (Little,
Brown). In tiny Deep Run, N.C.,
we didn’t do trick-or-treating; we
did the East Carolina fish stew, an
event with a particular set of rites
and rules.
Some parts of the recipe below
are not optional. To begin with,
you need the right type of fish—
“something meaty and full-flavored,
like rockfish, sheepshead, or drum.”
Fish heads are optional, as are additions
like garlic and sausage. But there can be no
omitting the blanket of hard-poached eggs,
the thing that makes the stew memorable
and unique. And finally, you must remem-
ber that the Deep Run Baptist community
frowns on muddled fish stew, and no mat-
ter what, “not even if Jesus Himself walks
on water over to you and asks nicely,” will
you ever stir the stew before serving.
Recipe of the week
East Carolina fish stew
1 lb sliced smoked bacon
Sake: A partial glossary
When choosing sake, “distinctions
are important,” said Jim Clarke in
Bloomberg.com. You wouldn’t order a
scotch without knowing its provenance,
and sake has more subcategories to
consider. If you’re new to premium
sakes, start with junmai—pure rice sake.
Those labeled daiginjo have the
silkiest inish, because they’re made
from the most highly milled rice.
Dassai 50 Junmai Daiginjo Sparkling
Nigori ($20/360 ml). Nigori sakes are
uniltered, resulting in fruity flavors
and a milky hue. Here, carbonation
puts “a fun spin” on the style.
Taiheizan Tenko Kimoto Junmai
Daiginjo ($72/720 ml). A kimoto
sake is fuller bodied, and gets its
“yogurt-like tang” from acids cre-
ated by indigenous bacteria.
Cowboy Yamahai Ginjo Genshu
($30/720 ml). Designed to pair with
meat dishes, a genshu sake isn’t
diluted with water, and delivers
the heft and acidity of red wine.
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
LEISURE
Food & Drink
in an 8- to 10-quart Dutch oven or
cast-iron pot. When bacon is crisp,
remove and reserve. Whisk tomato
paste into bacon fat, scraping up
all the scattlings from browning the
bacon. Turn off heat.
Begin layering ingredients. Spread
1/3 of the potato slices on the bot-
tom of the pot, followed by 1/3 of
the onions (and garlic, if using),
and top with 1 lb of the fish.
Sprinkle fish layer with 22/3 tsp
salt and ½ tsp chile flakes. Repeat
with two more layers. Fill pot
with water so it’s just level with
top layer of fish. Cover with tight-
Without the fish heads, it’s a pretty meal too. fitting lid and bring to boil slowly
over medium heat. Once stew
1 6-oz can tomato paste boils, reduce heat and let cook at a high
3 lbs white or red potatoes, peeled and simmer until potatoes are barely tender,
sliced into ½-inch rounds about 15 minutes.
2 lbs yellow onions, peeled, halved, and cut
into ¼-inch slices Taste broth; add more salt if needed. Then,
6 garlic cloves, sliced (optional) with stew at a good simmer, add eggs one
3 lbs fish steaks, about 3 oz each, with by one in a single layer over top. Once eggs
bones are cooked through, use large ladle to por-
8 tsp salt tion stew. A proper serving is at least one
1½ tsp chile flakes piece of fish, two potatoes, some onions,
1 dozen eggs and an egg swimming in broth. Shower
1 loaf white bread each bowl with crumbled reserved bacon
and set up with a slice or two of white
Cut bacon slices into 1-inch squares. Brown bread. Serves 12.
Food-hall heaven: A surprise reason to explore the O.C.
Orange County hasn’t traditionally been a destina-
tion for L.A.-based gourmands, said Jenn Harris in
the Los Angeles Times. But the food-hall scene in
that vast swath of suburbia is “taking off like no-
where else in California,” and the delicious plates
and bites on offer should inspire more Angelenos
to brave regular excursions down the freeway.
The OC Mix Costa Mesa. You could spend an entire
day roaming around this popular destination,
a hybrid of food hall and interior design center.
After a brewed-to-order coffee at Portola, grab an The grilled cheese at Shuck Oyster Bar
Instagram-worthy grilled cheese at Shuck Oyster
Bar or try a smoked sturgeon taco or posole with abalone at chef Carlos Salgado’s Taco
Maria, one of the best restaurants in Southern California. 3313 Hyland Ave., (949) 375-0749
Union Market Mission Viejo. No place needs a food hall more than a community that’s
little but suburban tract homes, which is why this one became an instant family hangout.
Created by the husband-wife team who started the Union Market in nearby Tustin, it of-
Rex Miller, Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times
fers a build-your-own-poke bowl restaurant; the Milk Box, serving gourmet boba tea; and
a standout hummus joint whose Hamshuka bowl, with spicy shakshuka sauce, is “both
hearty and beautiful.” 27741 Crown Valley Parkway
4th Street Market Santa Ana. Besides offering an array of food stalls, this 18-month-old
market also incubates culinary talent by renting out small kitchen spaces to chefs who are
just getting started. At Sit Low Pho, the pho French dip banh mi sandwich is like “a big,
comforting bowl of brisket pho you can eat with your hands.” The market’s bar, Recess,
serves wine, craft beers on tap, and house-made sodas too. 201 E. 4th St., (714) 486-0700

This week’s dream: A pilgrimage to a private Welsh castle
There are few medieval ruins in the
world “as unspoiled and naturally
beautiful” as Manorbier Castle,
said Stephen Barry Brookes in The
Washington Post. Unlike the 600 or
so other ancestral piles in Wales, this
12th-century manor is also privately
owned—which in this case means that
legions of tourists don’t trudge through
the grounds every day. What really
sets Manorbier apart, though, is the
guest cottage within the castle walls,
available for renting on a weekly basis.
When I discovered that my 26th great-
grandfather, a Norman knight named
Odo de Barri, was the man who built
Manorbier, I had to visit, and the castle’s
charming owner, Dame Emily Naper, oblig-
ingly squeezed my wife and me in for one
magical night. The entire castle was ours,
she said, then put the key into my hand.
As we strolled the ruins, the atmosphere
“felt forgotten and almost dreamlike, as
if we’d stumbled into a place undisturbed
Travel
The view from a guard tower at Manorbier
for centuries.” Everywhere we turned we
noticed remnants of a vanished world—“a
kitchen fireplace large enough to roast an
ox, limestone floors worn smooth with
time, and narrow staircases spiraling up
through battle-scarred towers.” Then
we pushed open an exterior door, and a
landscape appeared that “nearly took my
breath away: meadows of wildflowers
sweeping down to the glittering sea, with
LEISURE 27
the cliffs of the rugged Welsh coast-
line stretching off into the distance.”
Manorbier is located in Pembroke-
shire, a southwestern corner of Wales
that is both “steeped in history and
spectacularly beautiful.” On Tenby’s
North Beach, a local artist named
Marc Treanor had us join him as
he carved a vast, intricate geometric
pattern in the sand while a crowd
of onlookers gathered on the cliffs
above to watch. Later, after dinner in
the village, we returned to the castle
and wandered the silent ruins, sit-
ting briefly in the great hall to imagine my
ancestors’ lives before climbing an ancient
tower to watch twilight fall. “And when the
stars finally came out over the crenellated
walls, we said good night to the ghosts we’d
conjured up, took a last look around, and
went into the cottage to dream.”
A week at the cottage (manorbiercastle.co
.uk) costs $4,160 in the summer, and half
that in winter.

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A seaside guest room
Castelbrac
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This 25-room seaside man-
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in The New York Times.
Originally an English lord’s
private manor, Castelbrac
was converted into a marine
research center in the 1930s,
and now its mismatched
buildings have been com-
bined to create a unique bou-
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The world’s largest passenger ship The Prince tribute tour
Everything about Royal Caribbean’s new Prince passed away six months ago, but in his
Harmony of the Seas cruise ship “sounds over- hometown of Minneapolis “his fans are still
whelming and over-the-top,” said Christopher going crazy in memoriam,” said Elaine Glusac
Muther in The Boston Globe. “And it absolutely in the Chicago Tribune. Since April, a new tour-
is.” Taller than Mount Rushmore, this 18-deck ism trail has organically sprung up in honor of
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holds 23 pools, a casino, a park, an arcade, a to Prince’s favorite record shops and clubs,
rock-climbing wall, and a carousel. Those who’ve and travel to his suburban home and studio
sailed on big ships might shrug—but this was Paisley Park, where “a purple profusion of
“sensory overload.” Watching a robotic bartender emotion” adorns the fence. The official open-
mix, shake, and muddle my cocktail was almost ing of the Paisley complex has been delayed
as entertaining as the “Cirque du Soleil meets until December, said Chris Riemenschneider in
extreme synchronized swimming” routine staged the Minneapolis Star Tribune. But this week, a
at the ship’s 1,400-seat theater. Somewhat regret- few lucky fans got to take a peek inside Prince’s
tably, I later befriended some bawdy older British studios and offices—complete with the audio
women at the bar, and they coaxed me into notes and luggage left in the room the day he
attempting the FlowRider—a pool for simulated died. There was “an unsteady mix of celebration
surfing where I promptly fell and lost my swim- and sadness,” but with the music legend’s tunes
suit. Thankfully, it was easy to slip away. That’s pumping and his grandiose outfits on display, it
the joy of traveling on “a massive resort at sea.” was “hard not to have a little fun.”
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28 LEISURE
The 2017 Infiniti Q60: What the critics say
Thrillist.com
Now that Nissan’s luxury brand has aggres-
sively restyled its only coupe, “cameras
don’t do it justice.” A gorgeous vehicle, the
new Q60 also distinguishes itself by riding
more like a grand tourer than a sports
coupe. “This is a straight-up comfortable
car,” with deep bucket seats, a hushed
cabin, and, in its Red Sport 400 edition,
serious power. Punch the accelerator while
cruising a highway and the 400-hp V-6 “will
get you to speeds punishable by jail time
with effortless alacrity.”
New York Daily News
“It’s still tough to get excited about the new
Consumer
Q60.” It’s a style leader, for sure, “arguably
the most beautiful in the luxury coupe
segment.” But optional adaptive steering,
while accurate, is “seemingly weightless,”
and the car hustles through corners “brisk-
ly but dispassionately.” Rival coupes from
Audi, BMW, Cadillac, and Mercedes deliver
a more holistic sport experience. The Q60
was made for cruising, “not canyon roads.”
Jalopnik.com A coupe that loves cruising, from $38,950
That wasn’t our experience. Though perfor-
mance in the $51,300 Red Sport 400 isn’t weight. The engine is a bit too quiet and
yet perfect, “you’d be hard-pressed to ind the paddle shifters too slow. Still, “it’s actu-
a more capable car to bomb through the ally quite refreshing to have a car that gets
canyons with”—at least at this price and so much right out of the gate.”

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moldings, and a wine cellar. The 48-acre property has old-growth
trees, an herb garden, walkways, and a fountain. Many notable
families have lived here, and George Washington visited numerous
times. $850,000. Karin Andrews, Howard Hanna, (804) 445-5500

3 X Weens Sitting on a bluff above

Carter’s Creek, this five-bedroom
house offers 180-degree views
of the Rappahannock River. The
interior features two fireplaces, a
chef’s kitchen with a Wolf range,
and a media room. Exterior
amenities include a gazebo and
stairs to a private pier. $1,950,000.
Carrie Dorsey, Engle & Völkers,
(804) 767-7850
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 Best properties on the market 31

4 X Middletown Built
in 2004, this two-
bedroom modern
home boasts views of
the north fork of the
Shenandoah River
and the Blue Ridge
Mountains. The house
has concrete and steel
details, two fireplaces,
floor-to-ceiling win-
dows, and multiple
patios. The 23.4-acre
property features a pri-
vate beach, a hot tub,
an outside shower, and
a one-bedroom guest-
house. $2,400,000.
Ron Mangas Jr., TTR
Sotheby’s International
Realty, (703) 298-2564

5 W Leesburg This six-bedroom estate is set on 49 acres with

views of the Potomac River. Built in 1920, the house includes
an oversize dining room, hardwood floors, multiple decks, and
a living room with an ornamental fireplace mantel. The prop-
erty features a
three-bedroom
gardeners’ cot-
tage, a barn, and
expansive lawns.
$2,849,000. Kim
Kroner, Long &
Foster/Christie’s
International
Real Estate,
(703) 946-2526

Steal of the week

6 T Franktown Ware Point is a four-bedroom contemporary home
that was built in 2000. The house has a three-story foyer with
clerestory windows, a second-floor interior wraparound balcony,
and a master bedroom with a sitting area and a fireplace. The
3.25-acre property
lies on the edge of
Warehouse Creek,
which feeds into
Chesapeake Bay.
$899,000. Jane Bu-
lette, Weichert Real-
tors, (757) 710-0319

7 S Tangier This four-bedroom Colonial-style house overlooks

Tangier Sound. The interior features a two-story foyer, a kitchen
with cherry cabinets, and a great room with cathedral ceilings
and water views. The property includes water frontage on Canton
Creek, a tool house with a garage, and a large, fenced yard.
$350,000. Daniel A. Eskridge, Bay River Realty, (804) 450-6039
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The bottom line
QRoughly half of World
War II veterans went on to
own or operate their own
business, as well as 40 per-
cent of Korean War veterans.
So far, only 4.5 percent of the
more than 3.6 million people
who have served in the U.S.
military since Sept. 11, 2001,
have launched their own
company.
Inc.com
QDespite data showing
that companies with a high
percentage of female board
directors routinely outper-
form their peers, a recent
survey found that just 24 per-
cent of male directors believe
board diversity improves
a company’s performance.
Eighty-nine percent of female
directors believe that it does.
The Washington Post
QJust one in five
Millennials has
tried a Big Mac,
according to
a memo writ-
ten by one of
McDonald’s top
franchisees. The
number of hamburg-
ers sold at McDonald’s U.S.
restaurants has been flat
for the past several years,
according to high-ranking
company executives.
The Wall Street Journal
QAbout two-thirds of Mil-
lennial employees swear
at work, according to a
new survey, and more than
40 percent said they prefer
working in an environment
where colleagues swear.
About a third of Millenni-
als said cursing can help
strengthen a team.
Bloomberg.com
QBetween 20 and 30 percent
of the working-age popula-
tion in the U.S. and Europe,
about 162 million people,
are independent workers,
according to a new study
from McKinsey. People who
choose to work indepen-
dently and those who earn
freelance income alongside
a 9-to-5 job report being
happier and more satisfied
professionally than workers
in traditional jobs.
WSJ.com
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
BUSINESS
The news at a glance
Tech: Samsung pulls exploding Note 7s
Samsung said this week that This unprecedented fiasco “will
it is ceasing production of its change the smartphone indus-
explosion-prone Galaxy Note 7 try,” said Will Oremus in Slate
smartphone just six weeks after .com. Samsung’s reputation for
the devices went on sale, said reliable products is now in tat-
Brian Chen and Choe Sang-hun ters, with customers receiving
in The New York Times. “The special fire-resistant boxes and
drastic move is highly unusual in gloves with which to return
the technology industry, where their devices, and the company’s
companies tend to keep trying to shares lost some $17 billion in
improve a product rather than A flaming disaster value this week. This disaster will
pull it altogether.” But after two hopefully lead other companies
months of trying to fix the device, which was to be more careful about rushing products to mar-
meant to be an iPhone rival, Samsung engineers ket in order to best rivals. Samsung in particular
have been unable to figure out exactly why some has developed a reputation for jamming as many
Note 7s spontaneously catch fire. It’s a devastating features as possible into its phones with tight pro-
blow for the South Korean company, which makes duction deadlines. Maybe, just maybe, the “insane
nearly half its revenue from smartphones. smartphone hype race” will finally slow down.
Why moms might
Economy: Job creation remains steady be the best workers
“U.S. companies maintained their steady pace of hiring in September,”
said Chico Harlan in The Washington Post, with the economy adding “Kids, it seems, are
156,000 new jobs, according to data released last week. The unemploy- the ultimate efficiency
hack,” said Jenny
ment rate ticked up from 4.9 to 5 percent, but “largely because the Anderson in Qz.com.
labor force swelled with scores of new would-be workers.” Although
Despite the fact that
the new jobs figures were slightly below analysts’ expectations, the women with children
September report continues a long stretch of reliable hiring, with the receive 10 to 15 percent
nation adding an average of roughly 182,000 jobs per month this year. less pay than peers
without kids, a work-
Courts: Consumer watchdog ruled unconstitutional ing paper from the
The government’s independent consumer protection agency, created Federal Reserve Bank
in the wake of the financial crisis, now has a shorter leash, said Kevin of St. Louis suggests
McCoy in USA Today. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals parents are actually
for the D.C. Circuit ruled this week that the structure of the Consumer the superior perform-
Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional, because its chief is ers. The study, which
only “loosely accountable to the president,” a setup the judges called looked at the published
a “gross departure from settled historical practice.” The ruling makes work of nearly 10,000
CFPB Director Richard Cordray removable by the president at any time economists, found
and for any reason. The agency has not yet said whether it will appeal. that women with chil-
dren produced more
Food: Amazon plans convenience stores work than their child-
“Amazon is pushing deeper into the grocery business,” said Greg Ben- less colleagues “at
singer and Laura Stevens in The Wall Street Journal. The e-commerce nearly every stage”
of a typical 30-year
giant plans to build its own convenience stores selling “produce, milk,
career. This proved to
meats, and other perishable items,” according to people familiar with be true despite dips in
the matter. The company is also looking to introduce curbside pickup productivity of 15 to
locations for online grocery orders, and is even developing license-plate 17 percent while rais-
reading technology “to speed wait times.” The grocery stores will be ing toddlers, compared
open to customers of the AmazonFresh grocery delivery service, avail- with those with no
able to Amazon Prime members for $15 per month. kids. But the women
studied made up for
Energy: OPEC keeps pumping oil despite cap deal that lost output “by
OPEC oil production hit a record high in September, even though being hyperproductive”
members struck a deal that same month to cut supply and end a crude before having children
glut that has depressed prices for two years, said Ivana Kottasova and then again while
in CNN.com. The energy cartel’s crude production soared to nearly they were growing. The
33.4 million barrels a day last month, some 1.3 million barrels above crash course in extreme
Getty, McDonald’s
last year’s daily production average. Member states Libya, Iran, and multitasking that comes
with kids probably
Nigeria were exempted from the cap, and they are now eager to boost
doesn’t hurt, either.
production after recent oil-industry woes.
 Making money BUSINESS 33

Retirement: How much should Millennials save?

Prepare to have your day ruined, Millen- they don’t expect to receive anything from
nials: “Even if you’re saving for retire- Social Security when they retire. Despite
ment, it’s probably not enough,” said the program’s “well-known funding is-
James Dennin in Mic.com. Nearly a third sues,” this is overly pessimistic. The Con-
of Americans ages 18 to 34 report sav- gressional Budget Office estimates that
ing 10 percent of their annual income today’s highest-income younger workers
or more for retirement, but a new study would still collect roughly 20 percent of
from personal finance website NerdWallet their pre-retirement income in benefits
.com estimates that it will probably take from payroll taxes that flow into the sys-
more than twice that for them to achieve a tem. In all likelihood, Millennials won’t
comfortable post-work life. A 25-year-old have to fund their retirement entirely
currently earning $40,000 a year will need from personal savings.
to save 22 percent of his pay throughout
Time to devote more cash to your 401(k).
his career to retire by age 67, according “The fact is, any calculation of a retire-
to NerdWallet’s calculations. That assumes a salary increase of ment savings goal makes a number of assumptions about the
2 percent each year, and a goal of being able to replace 80 per- future,” said Steve Vernon in CBSNews.com. Any prediction
cent of one’s income in retirement. The reason for the higher about the future of Social Security, your assumed retirement
contributions is that most retirement experts now expect lower age, or average return on investment “is, at best, a guesstimate
average annual stock market returns in the decades to come, and more often is simply a shot in the dark.” That’s especially
something like 5 percent as opposed to the 7 percent many re- true for workers who won’t be retiring for decades. “Your best
tirement forecasts use today. All together now: “Ugh.” bet would be to pick a reasonable savings target that fits your
outlook for the future.” As you get older, you can adjust as nec-
“If you’re starting out and can somehow afford to save 22 per- essary. All the same, Millennials are clearly anxious about their
cent a year and still live an acceptable lifestyle, hey, go for it,” retirement prospects, said Suzanne Woolley in Bloomberg.com.
said Walter Updegrave in Time.com. But for most young people, Some 60 percent of those ages 18 to 34 in a recent Willis Towers
many of whom are already struggling with housing costs and stu- Watson survey said they’d be willing to give up some pay today
dent loan debt, 22 percent just isn’t a realistic target. Here’s the “if it meant a more secure retirement.” It just goes to show that
good news: NerdWallet’s study doesn’t include Social Security in- even though Millennials are often portrayed as “entitled slack-
come, which was left out because roughly half of Millennials say ers, many surveys show they are smart about money.”

What the experts say Charity of the week

How to start a charitable fund
There is no minimum financial requirement
to start a foundation, charity, or memorial
fund in honor of a friend or loved one, but
“the process can be laborious,” said Abby
Ellin in The New York Times. Costs and re-
sponsibilities often include setting up a board
with regular meetings. However, there are
ways to streamline the process. Crowdfunding
platforms like Deposit a Gift and GoFundMe
can be used to raise the initial donations, and
organizations like Scholarship America “will
design and manage scholarship programs and
memorial funds.” Another option is to create a
donor-advised fund, administered by a charity
like the New York Community Trust that “will
file paperwork, direct the money to a chosen
charity, and simplify the process, for a fee.”
New rules for prepaid debit cards
More protections are coming for prepaid debit
card users, said Darla Mercado in CNBC.com.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(CFPB) announced new regulations last week
that require more transparency around fees
and forbid excessive overdraft charges. The
new rules, which go into effect Oct. 1, 2017,
require card providers to disclose “all of the
Getty
their opening an account. “In a bid to make
comparison shopping easier for customers,”
the CFPB also requires companies to post their
card agreements online. The new rules cap
the total amount of overdraft coverage fees
that can be charged in one year at 25 percent
of the card’s credit limit. About 23 million peo-
ple use prepaid debit cards, which are a popu-
lar alternative to traditional checking accounts,
“particularly for those who are unbanked.”
Car insurance favors wealthy drivers
You’d think having a clean driving record
would mean paying less for car insurance,
but “earning a fatter paycheck may make
more of a difference,” said Jonnelle Marte in
The Washington Post. In a recent study, the
Consumer Federation of America requested
quotes for two hypothetical drivers: one with a
high-paying job and a master’s degree who had
either caused an accident or been arrested for
a DUI, and the other a middle-income person
with a high school degree and a clean driv-
ing record. In 20 out of 38 cases, the higher-
income driver received a lower rate, despite a
troubled driving history. Industry representa-
tives say insurance companies do not request
income when issuing quotes, but they “are not
In the U.S.,
80 percent
of all fourth-
graders from
low-income
families read
below proficiency levels, which can lead
to kids dropping out early and earning
less in future. The Children’s Scholarship
Fund (scholarshipfund.org) works to
expand educational opportunities for
children in need, helping them attend
the elementary school that best fits their
requirements, regardless of their fam-
ily’s ability to pay or where they live.
Since 1998, the fund, which has active
partnership programs in 23 cities across
the country, has provided scholarships
worth a total of $695 million, changing
the educational path of 158,000 children.
Students receive an average of $1,700
each, allowing them to seek alternatives
to often underfunded and underserved
public schools in their neighborhood.
This past academic year, the fund offered
6,000 new scholarships to students.
Each charity we feature has earned a
four-star overall rating from Charity
Navigator, which rates not-for-profit
organizations on the strength of their
finances, their governance practices,
and the transparency of their operations.
Four stars is the group’s highest rating.

fees that may apply to consumers” prior to required to disclose the statistics they use.”
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
34 Best columns: Business

Issue of the week: Too wealthy to pay taxes?

Serious question: “How rich does in MarketWatch.com. That means
someone have to be to not pay federal cutting out the morass of provisions
income taxes?” asked Alexia Fernández designed to curry favor with “every
Campbell in TheAtlantic.com. If Donald imaginable constituency.” Ideally, it
Trump’s leaked tax returns are any in- would also mean taxes low enough to
dication, the answer is very rich indeed. erase the incentive for individuals and
Leaked portions of the Republican companies to shift or shelter income
presidential nominee’s tax returns show to avoid paying. Just don’t get mad at
Trump reported a loss of $916 million Trump. He’s only “doing what most
on his business ventures in 1995, losses of us would do if we were wealthy
that could have been used to avoid pay- real estate tycoons with a cadre of tax
ing federal income taxes for 18 years. lawyers paid to ferret out every last
That’s perfectly legal under the U.S. tax loophole and deduction.”
code, which allows business owners to The rich are different from you and me.
deduct financial losses from their per- Actually, “Americans do not think it’s
sonal income, and to apply past losses to future earnings. Theoret- smart to avoid your taxes; they think it’s unethical,” said Vanessa
ically, the average small-business owner could do the same thing Williamson in The New York Times. In poll after poll, roughly
Trump apparently did, but “it would require a level of financial nine in 10 Americans say they believe “it is every American’s civic
devastation that nobody would wish upon themselves.” Clearly duty to pay their fair share of taxes.” Even when tax avoidance
these are “deductions that not every American can claim.” is legal, most people think those gaming the system should be
punished. Ordinary Americans actually take very few liberties
“Donald Trump has done America a great public service,” said with their taxes, even though the risk of being audited is ex-
Fareed Zakaria in The Washington Post. By gaming the system tremely low. About 83 percent of the nation’s total tax liability is
in such a spectacular fashion, he’s exposed the corruption and paid to the IRS on time every year, a cultural phenomenon social
economic inefficiency of the U.S. tax code. For years, legislators scientists call high “tax morale.” Contrast that with troubled
have doled out patronage in the form of loopholes and tax cred- nations like Greece, “where everyone who can evade tax does,”
its that benefit specific industries, often rewarding businesses with said Nick Cohen in The Guardian (U.K.). But Americans’ shared
expensive giveaways for activities the firms might have pursued civic commitment to taxpaying depends on the integrity of the
anyway. It’s no accident that, at 3.8 million words, our tax code system. “The surest way to destroy morale is to make the people
is the longest in the world. This byzantine nightmare needs to be who pay taxes believe that the government is taking them for
replaced with a radically simplified tax code, said Caroline Baum fools by penalizing them while sparing the wealthy.”

Our silly “Why are politicians so obsessed with manufactur-

ing?” asked Binyamin Appelbaum. Donald Trump re-
obsession cently visited Pittsburgh, where he vowed to revitalize
the U.S. steel industry. Perhaps he doesn’t realize that
with factories more than 80 percent of Pittsburgh’s jobs “are now
in the service sector, roughly on par with the national
Binyamin Appelbaum average.” Tech, health-care, and financial firms are
The New York Times putting down roots in the city. Nostalgia in politics is,
Magazine of course, “nothing new.” For the better part of the
20th century, politicians tripped over themselves to
promise aid to farmers struggling with urbanization,
just as they vow to help factory workers today. But
instead of trying to “turn back time” and put people
back to work in factories, politicians should focus on
improving the conditions of jobs Americans actually
do now. There were 64,000 steelworkers in the U.S.
last year, and 820,000 home health-care aides. Many
of these aides live close to the poverty line, making an
average of $22,870 annually, and they struggle along-
side tens of millions of other workers in retail, fast
food, and caregiving who receive meager benefits. We
will likely never re-create the conditions that made
the post–World War II manufacturing boom possible,
but we can try to replicate the “formula that created
the middle class.” Higher wages and better worker
protections are a good place to start.

America’s World travelers agree: American airports are terrible,

said Adam Minter. To find a U.S. city on the SkyTrax
abysmal annual customer rankings of the world’s best airports,
“you’d need to scroll all the way down to No. 28,
airports where Denver International is slotted.” That’s easy to
understand if you’ve ever traveled through the gleam-
Adam Minter ing airports of Singapore, Dubai, or Kuala Lumpur,
Bloomberg.com where travelers enjoy “butterfly gardens, jungle trails,
and soundproofed, WiFi-enabled snooze cubes.” Part
of the problem is money. Even as air travel has surged,
spending on aviation infrastructure in the U.S. has
actually declined, from $21 billion in 2004 to $13 bil-
national hubs, like Singapore Changi, Seoul Incheon,
and Tokyo Narita, if only because of geography. Un-
like those airports, which compete for “wealthy long-
haul passengers” who shop and spend freely on inter-
national layovers, most U.S. airports primarily serve
domestic travelers. But “that doesn’t mean there’s no
room for improvement.” Privatization of airports,
which has lagged in the U.S., might bring in investors
willing to make improvements in exchange for long-
term leases or even ownership. Encouraging public-
private partnerships, like the recently inked $4 billion
revamp of New York’s infamously bad LaGuardia
Newscom

lion in 2014. But even with more investment, most Airport, is another option. Anything to make traveling
airports here will never match the best-loved inter- in the U.S. “a less miserable experience.”
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
 Obituaries 35

The reclusive composer who wrote ‘Thriller’ The speed-loving

Rod Rod Temperton was
Temperton known as music’s
1949–2016 Invisible Man. The
Briton wrote some of
the most wildly successful funk and
R&B songs of all time, including
“Boogie Nights” and the Michael
Jackson hits “Thriller,” “Off the
Wall,” and “Rock With You.” But
in an industry often marked by
exhibitionism, Temperton craved
anonymity and was rarely photographed or
interviewed. One exception was a 2006 BBC
radio documentary, in which he recalled com-
posing the spooky, funky title track of Jackson’s
1982 Thriller, history’s best-selling album at
65 million copies and counting. Temperton
explained how he’d finished the music, but still
needed to name the tune before writing the lyr-
ics. After some 300 tries, he had an epiphany.
“Something in my head just said, ‘This is the
title,’” Temperton recalled. “You could visualize
it on top of the Billboard charts. So I knew I had
to write it as ‘Thriller.’”
He was born in the English seaside town of
Cleethorpes, where his parents ran an auto shop,
said The Times (U.K.). Temperton taught himself
drums while playing truant from high school,
and learned to play keyboards while working as
a fish filleter at a frozen-food factory. After mov-
writer who created
ing to Germany, “he formed a band, the Cannonball Run
playing soul covers on a second-
hand Hammond organ” in clubs and In the early 1970s, Brock
bars. In the mid-1970s, Temperton Yates was ranting to his fel-
joined Heatwave, a disco-funk band low writers at Car and Driver
led by American singer Johnnie magazine about the immi-
nent introduction of a 55 mph
Wilder, and became the group’s prin-
national speed
cipal songwriter. “Boogie Nights,” Brock limit when
the band’s third single, reached Yates he came up
No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, 1933–2016 with an idea
said The Guardian (U.K.). Another for a new
hit, 1978’s “The Groove Line,” caught the ear motor race. Named after
of producer Quincy Jones, who hired Temperton cross-country driver Erwin
to work with him on Jackson’s first adult album. “Cannonball” Baker, the Can-
The two became immediate friends. “We’ve nonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-
Sea Memorial Trophy Dash
got the same junkie work ethic,” Temperton
would see competitors race
explained. “We’d smoke 160 cigarettes a night from New York to Los Angeles
[in the studio].” at any speed they deemed
practical. There was no prize
That collaboration, 1979’s Off the Wall, sold
money, just bragging rights.
20 million copies and enshrined Jackson as the
At midnight on Nov. 15, 1971,
King of Pop. On Thriller, Temperton also com- eight vehicles—including a
posed “Baby Be Mine” and “The Lady in My motor home—set off from
Life,” said RollingStone.com, and he later wrote Manhattan on the first com-
for Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, George petitive Cannonball Run.
Benson, and many other artists. A wealthy man Yates drove a Ferrari Daytona
who owned several homes around the world and coupe with auto racer Dan
an island in Fiji, Temperton claimed to enjoy Gurney, at times hitting
simple pleasures. “When I’ve finished a record,” 172 mph. The pair won the
race in 35 hours and 54 min-
he said, “I watch telly, catch up on the news, and
utes, thought to be a new
maybe the phone will ring.” coast-to-coast record. The
motor home came in last.

The PR executive who transformed cheerleading
Suzanne In the NFL’s early days,
Mitchell most teams’ cheerlead-
1943–2016 ers were wholesome
high schoolers who led
the crowd in collegiate-style chants.
Suzanne Mitchell changed all that.
She was working as an assistant to
the Dallas Cowboys’ general manager,
Tex Schramm, when the team was
inundated with calls after one of its
cheerleaders winked suggestively into
a TV camera at the 1976 Super Bowl. Sensing an
opportunity, Schramm tasked Mitchell with sex-
ing up the squad. She gave them skimpy costumes
and hip-shaking dance routines, creating a pop
culture phenomenon. The Cowboys cheerleaders
appeared on TV’s The Love Boat and in shampoo
ads, and inspired the 1978 porn movie Debbie
Does Dallas, which led to a lawsuit from the
team. “Sports has always had a very clean, almost
puritanical aspect,” Mitchell said in 1978. “But by
Getty, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
Post. “He asked me what I wanted
to be in five years,” she recalled. “I
said, ‘Well, your chair looks pretty
comfortable.’” She was hired on the
spot. After taking over as cheerleader
director, Mitchell doubled the squad’s
size to 32 and implemented strict hir-
ing criteria, said TexasMonthly.com.
An applicant had to be 18 to 26
years old and a married mother or in
full-time employment; if chosen, she
was forbidden from dating players or being seen
in costume with cigarettes, gum, or alcohol. The
squad soon became “international sex symbols
as well as football’s foremost goodwill ambassa-
dors,” going on morale-boosting trips to visit U.S.
troops stationed around the world.
“They were not without their critics,” said The
New York Times. In 1978, Oakland Raiders
coach John Madden complained that too much
sports coverage focused on “choreographers
After the success of the first
Cannonball Run, the Lockport,
N.Y.–born Yates organized
four more coast-to-coast
races, said The Washington
Post. In one event, he and his
co-driver “were at the wheel
of a specially painted van out-
fitted as an ambulance—and
capable of going 130 mph.”
Three other drivers dressed
as priests, hoping to secure
leniency from traffic cops. “It
didn’t help.”
Yates tapped his experiences
to write the screenplay for
the 1982 Burt Reynolds movie
Cannonball Run, “a massive
moneymaker” that grossed
$72 million in the U.S., said
HollywoodReporter.com. The
following year, he published
The Decline and Fall of the
Automobile Industry, an
influential book that berated
Detroit executives for churn-

the same token, sex is a very important part of our
lives. What we’ve done is combine the two.”
Born in Fort Worth, Mitchell began her career
working in journalism and public relations in
New York City. She went for a job interview with
Schramm in the mid-’70s and “impressed the exec-
utive by force of personality,” said The Washington
instead of coaches.” Mitchell left the Cowboys in
1989 when businessman Jerry Jones bought the
team. She took branding jobs “far from football,”
but remained fiercely proud of her years with
Dallas. “Where little girls used to dream of being
Miss America,” she said, “now they dream about
becoming a cheerleader for the Cowboys.”
ing out boring, bloated vehi-
cles. “There is nothing that
ails the American auto indus-
try,” he wrote, “that cannot be
rectified by the presence of a
few lions, preferably hungry
ones, in Detroit.”
THE WEEK October 21, 2016
36
Exposing the Sandy Hook hoaxers
Lenny Pozner used to believe in conspiracy theories—until his son’s murder became one, said journalist Reeves
Wiedeman. Now he’s taking on the people who say the Sandy Hook massacre never happened.
O
N DECEMBER 14, 2012,
Lenny Pozner dropped off
his three children, Sophia,
Arielle, and Noah, at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown,
Conn. Noah had recently turned 6,
and on the drive over they listened
to his favorite song, “Gangnam
Style,” for what turned out to be
the last time. Half an hour later,
while Sophia and Arielle hid nearby,
Adam Lanza walked into Noah’s
first-grade class with an AR-15
rifle. Noah was the youngest of the
20 children and seven adults killed
in one of the deadliest shootings in
American history. When the medi-
cal examiner found Noah lying face
up in a Batman sweatshirt, his jaw
had been blown off.
It didn’t take long for Pozner to find out
that many people didn’t believe his son had
died or even that he had lived at all. Days
after the rampage, a man walked around
Newtown filming a video in which he
declared that the massacre had been staged
by “New World Order global elitists” intent
on taking away our guns. A week later,
James Tracy, a professor at Florida Atlantic
University, wrote a blog expressing doubts
about the massacre. By January, a 30-minute
YouTube video titled “The Sandy Hook
Shooting—Fully Exposed,” which asked
questions like “Wouldn’t frantic kids be a
difficult target to hit?” had been viewed
more than 10 million times.
As the families grieved, conspiracy theo-
rists began to press their case in ways that
Newtown couldn’t avoid. State officials
received anonymous phone calls at their
homes, late at night, demanding answers:
Why were there no trauma helicopters?
What happened to the initial reports of
a second shooter? A Virginia man stole
playground signs memorializing two of the
victims, then called their parents to say that
the burglary shouldn’t affect them, since
their children had never existed. At one
point, Pozner was checking into a hotel out
of town when the clerk looked up from
his driver’s license and said, “Oh, Sandy
Hook—the government did that.”
Lenny and Veronique Pozner moved to
Newtown in 2005, partly to send their kids
to better schools, but after Noah’s death
they saw no choice but to leave. “What
happened just weighed on the town like a
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The last word
Lenny Pozner with his son, Noah, in 2008
Chernobyl-like cloud,” Veronique told me
from her home in a state far from Newtown
that the Pozners prefer not to identify, given
the threats that conspiracy theorists have
leveled against some Sandy Hook families.
The Pozners’ marriage had been falling
apart before the shooting, and though
Noah’s death briefly brought them back
together, the couple eventually divorced.
Lenny lives by himself a few miles from
Veronique. Since relocating, he has moved
apartments four times and gets his mail
delivered to a P.O. box on the other side of
the state.
There is no universal Sandy Hook hoax
narrative, but the theories generally cen-
ter on the idea that a powerful force (the
Obama administration, gun-control groups,
the Illuminati) staged the shooting, with the
assistance of paid “crisis actors,” including
the Pozners, other Sandy Hook families,
and countless government officials and
media outlets. The children are said to have
never existed or to be living in an elaborate
witness-protection program.
Lenny may have been the first Newtown
parent to discover that conspiracy theo-
rists didn’t believe his son had been killed,
because he used to be a serious conspiracy
theorist himself. “I probably listened to an
Alex Jones podcast after I dropped the kids
off at school that morning,” Pozner said,
referencing the fearmongering proprietor
of InfoWars. Pozner had entertained every-
thing from specific cover-ups (the moon
landing was faked) to geopolitical intrigue
(the “real” reasons why the price of gold
sometimes shifts so dramatically),
and saw value in skepticism. For
him, the appeal of conspiracy theo-
ries was the same as that of a good
science-fiction movie. “I have an
imaginative mind,” he said.
Lenny had worked for two decades
as an IT consultant, but after Noah
was killed, he found the crisis man-
agement that the job required to
be overwhelming. In the year after
Noah’s death, Lenny’s mother died,
and he and Veronique separated.
“People tell me it’s supposed to get
easier,” Lenny said on the shoot-
ing’s first anniversary. “We’re wait-
ing for that to happen.”
But in the spring of 2014, as he
watched the hoaxer movement
bloom, Pozner decided to try fighting back.
He released Noah’s death certificate, to
convince those who believed he had not
been killed, and his report card—“Noah
is a bright, inquisitive boy”—for those
who believed he had never lived at all.
One Friday night, a year and a half after
the shooting, he joined a Facebook group
called Sandy Hook Hoax, one of the more
prominent hoaxer meeting grounds. Pozner
told the group he was there to answer ques-
tions, and he expressed his empathy with
their mind-set. “I used to argue with people
about 9/11 being an inside job,” he wrote.
Some members of the group asked earnest
questions about inconsistencies in the offi-
cial account. Others simply lobbed bombs.
Pozner chatted for more than four hours,
but his patience wore thin as the questions
grew more absurd.
Pozner was kicked out of the group, but sev-
eral people contacted him with more ques-
tions. “All they know is what they’re seeing
online,” Pozner said, “the buzz of all of this
disinformation.” Pozner had found his mis-
sion, and the next day he started a group
called Conspiracy Theorists Anonymous,
dedicated to debunking hoaxer theories.
He also took his fight public, writing an
op-ed in The Hartford Courant in which
he called out hoaxers by name, including
Wolfgang Halbig, a 70-year-old retired
school administrator in Florida. Halbig had
Courtesy of Lenny Pozner
become the hoaxers’ lead investigator, fil-
ing Freedom of Information Act requests
for documents relating to the shooting and
posting his findings on a website called
Sandy Hook Justice Report. In May 2014,

Halbig spoke at a public meeting of the
Newtown Board of Education. “These
are your children,” Halbig told the board,
which sat in silence. “We want truth.”
After the meeting, Pozner emailed Halbig
saying that he’d like to talk to him. Halbig
didn’t respond, but Pozner says another
hoaxer sent a reply: “Wolfgang does not
wish to speak with you unless you exhume
Noah’s body and prove to the world you
lost your son.”
H
ALBIG LIVES 45 minutes northwest
of Orlando in a gated golf-course
community. Halbig says that, ini-
tially, Sandy Hook horrified him. He had
worked in school security for a number of
years, and it was only after he was asked
to give a presentation to the Florida School
Boards Association about preventing such
an attack that he began seriously investigat-
ing the shooting.
Two months after Sandy Hook, Halbig sent
an email to an employee of the Newtown
school district suggesting that the full story
of the massacre had not been told and
offering his services as a school-safety con-
sultant to investigate. The board, flooded
with such emails, never responded, which
Halbig took as an affront. He began mak-
ing FOIA requests and peppering people in
Newtown with questions. In one email, he
asked Sally Cox, the school’s nurse, who
hid in a closet when Lanza opened fire,
“Why close your eyes when you have seen
blood before?”
Not long after he emailed Cox, Halbig
says, two Florida police officers visited his
home to relay a message from police in
Connecticut that he risked being charged
with harassment if he continued contacting
people in Newtown. The incident made him
a celebrity in the hoaxer world: Here was a
real example, they believed, of the authori-
ties trying to silence their investigation.
Halbig was far from the only active hoaxer.
In 2015, James Tracy, the Florida Atlantic
University communications professor,
sent a letter to the Pozners demanding
proof that they were Noah’s parents, and
James Fetzer, an emeritus professor at the
University of Minnesota, published a book
called Nobody Died at Sandy Hook. In
November, at a memorial run honoring
Vicki Soto, a teacher killed at Sandy Hook,
a Brooklyn man named Matthew Mills
walked up to Soto’s sister, wearing an offi-
cial T-shirt from the run, and demanded
that she tell him whether a family photo
had been photoshopped to include Vicki,
whom he believed didn’t exist.
Jeff Ridel
But Halbig has been the most persistent,
and over the past two years, he has gone to
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Connecticut more than 20 times to examine
documents, speak at public meetings, and
attend hearings. The investigation has been
financially costly to both sides. Halbig says
he has raised more than $100,000 from
supporters through fundraising sites, while
state and local governments have had to
devote significant resources to dealing with
his visits and ceaseless document requests.
“This is my adventure,” Halbig told me in
July at a diner in Newtown. Halbig was
in town to review insurance claims he had
requested, hoping they would show there
had been no actual damage done by the
shooting. By this point, he had narrowed
his 16 main questions for authorities
Wolfgang Halbig inspects records in Newtown.
to five. “The questions that I’m asking,
they’re not disrespectful to the families,”
Halbig said. “This is my big one—who
ordered the port-a-potties?” The vast con-
spiracy could be cracked, Halbig believed,
if he could prove that toilets brought to
the scene after the shooting had not been
delivered by a local port-a-potty company
hoping to be useful during a tragedy but
had instead been ordered in preparation for
a staged event.
I
F THE HOAXERS were going to make
Pozner’s life even more of a hell than it
had become when his son was killed, he
might as well make their life hell too. He
filed a complaint with the Florida attorney
general against Halbig and built a website
on which he posted the personal informa-
tion of various hoaxers. Last November, the
HONR Network, an organization Pozner
established in 2015 to take down online
hoaxer content, published The Hoax of a
Lifetime, a 165-page ebook that treated
Halbig’s life, much as Halbig had treated
Pozner’s, as a hoax to be exposed. The
book noted inconsistencies in Halbig’s
record, pulled out salacious details from his
personal life, and demanded that he answer
the types of trivial questions he had been
asking people in Newtown, like one asking
why his wife’s name appeared with a differ-
ent middle initial on several documents. The
trolled had become the troll.
37
Pozner knew that by prodding the hoaxers,
he had perhaps brought more vitriol upon
himself. But he denied kicking a hornet’s
nest. “People don’t understand what trolls
are,” he said. “If you don’t feed them, they
don’t just go away.”
One day, in Newtown, I was sitting in a
Starbucks when a middle-aged man—he
asked me to refer to him by his email han-
dle, Vlad the Impaler—walked up and told
me he was part of a group of Newtown
men, mostly fathers, who have taken it
upon themselves to keep track of the hoax-
ers. None of the 18 men had lost a child in
Newtown, and they weren’t in touch with
Pozner, but Vlad said that he and many oth-
ers privately supported Pozner’s crusade.
Vlad said he felt that Newtown had been
too polite in dealing with the hoaxers, and
there was also part of him that found satis-
faction in being able to retaliate. The only
viable strategy, he believed, was to disrupt
the hoaxers’ lives. In March, a friend of
Vlad’s sent Halbig an email from realivanka
trump@gmail.com, inviting him to a meeting
at Mar-a-Lago where he could present the
findings of his investigation for possible use
in the campaign. Halbig, who is a Trump
supporter, drove three hours to Palm Beach
only to be turned away by confused security.
By late August, however, it was unclear
whether Halbig’s campaign would last
much longer. After another FOIA hearing
in Hartford, in which he unsuccessfully
demanded the release of police dash-camera
videos, Halbig lost his temper and said he
was prepared to go to jail. His sit-in lasted
70 seconds, but he seemed distraught. “You
have to understand—my family, they can’t
even go to work anymore,” Halbig said.
“They’re scared to death.” For several
weeks, Vlad had been sending anonymous
emails to Halbig’s wife and sons and their
employers, insisting that they were complicit
in his harassment of grieving families. It was
the first time anyone from Newtown had
reached out to Halbig’s family, and a few
days later, Halbig shut down his website.
But Pozner was skeptical that Halbig would
truly go away. The hoaxer problem was
one the victims of tragedy would be deal-
ing with well into the future: When I visited
Halbig in June, just after the Pulse shooting
in Orlando, he pulled up a blueprint of the
club and asked why no security footage had
been released. “It’s the same players, the
same method,” Pozner said of the conspir-
acy theories that now erupt after every trag-
edy. “The hoax thing is like a brush fire.”
Excerpted from an article that origi-
nally appeared in New York magazine.
Reprinted with permission.
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