THE RISKIEST SHOW on EARTH TRUMP’S IMPULSE DIPLOMACY by BRIAN BENNETT

JUNE 25, 2018

THE RISKIEST SHOW ON EARTH TRUMP’S IMPULSE DIPLOMACY by BRIAN BENNETT

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2 | Conversation The View Features TimeOf △ 3 | For the Record James Gaither, 48, Ideas, opinion, Trump’s Global Gamble What to watch, read, TheBrief innovations  see and do with sons Elijah, The President’s foreign policy is 5, and Jasir, 8, in News from the U.S. 15 | The 43 | Book publishers Gwynn Oak, Md. and around the world unreliability redeining America’s role in the world seek a jolt from By Brian Bennett18 5 | The wrenching of outward celebrity imprints Photograph by toll of separating appearances Plus: Analyses by Ian Bremmer, Ruddy Roye for 46 | Season 2 of families at the U.S.- Charlie Campbell, Beatrice Fihn and TIME 17 | When Queer Eye Mexico border consumers will start James Stavridis 51 | Incredibles 2 8 | What the noticing the end of gets incredibly deep Supreme Court’s net neutrality A Woman’s Place ruling on voter-roll 17 | A World Democratic women are 53 | Christina purges means for Cup clouded by disproportionately winning Aguilera voting rights corruption congressional primaries reintroduces herself with a new album 9 | Anthony By Molly Ball30 Bourdain’s legacy 54 | The case for eating more 10 | TIME with ... Dear Son mushrooms humorist David A portfolio of black fathers and sons Sedaris and their lessons about race, success 56 | 6 Questions for constitutional-law 12 | A horse for the and survivalByEddie S. GlaudeJr.; expert Laurence ON THE COVER: ages photographs and interviews by Tribe Photograph by Ruddy Roye 34 Kevin Lim—The Straits Times/ Getty Images

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IMMIGRATION the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, federal agents appear to have taken children away A parent’s nightmare from their parents even when the parents have followed at the U.S. border legal protocol for seeking asylum. Mirian, for example, was never charged with a crime, says Steglich. By Haley Sweetland Edwards The new “zero tolerance” policy also marks a profound break from past Administrations, when parents traveling ARLIER THIS YEAR, A YOUNG HONDURAN with children were usually either released wearing woman named Mirian gathered her 18-month- tracking devices, detained with their children or admitted old son into her arms and walked across the to case-management programs in an efort to keep families Ebridge between Matamoros, Mexico, and intact. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Brownsville, Texas, where she presented herself to U.S. defended the Trump Administration’s hard-line policy on border agents to ask for asylum. Mirian and her son spent the grounds that the government regularly incarcerates the night in a detention facility. The next day, oicials American-born criminals with children. “If you commit told her to put her son into a car seat in the back of a a crime, the police will take you to jail—regardless if you government vehicle. Her hands shook as she buckled him have a family or not,” the spokesperson said. He declined in. The oicials wouldn’t tell her where they were taking to address questions about pending litigation involving him, she wrote in a personal statement later published immigrants who were separated from their children by CNN.com—only that she would not be allowed to go despite not being charged with a crime. with him. As the car pulled away, she could see her baby Immigrants’ advocates ofer wrenching accounts of looking back at her through the window, screaming. how, exactly, federal authorities remove children from For the next 2½ months, Mirian was detained at an their moms and dads. On some occasions, advocates told immigration center, unable to speak with or visit her son, TIME, kids are pulled, sobbing, from their parents’ arms. according to her lawyer Elissa Steglich. Mirian wondered On other occasions, agents have allegedly lied. “They if her son would forget the sound of her voice. say, ‘We’re just going to take your kids to have a “The separation is very harsh,” says Denise ‘If people don’t bath,’” Gilman says. “But then they don’t bring them Gilman, who heads the Immigration Clinic at the want to be back.” The American Academy of Pediatrics recently University of Texas School of Law, and who met separated published a letter noting that taking a child from a with Mirian. “It often means not knowing where from their parent can do “irreparable harm, disrupting a child’s the other is.” brain architecture and afecting his or her short- and children, they AP/SH SESSIONS: PAGES: THESE IMAGES; MOORE—GETTY JOHN PAGE: PREVIOUS Mirian and her son were eventually reunited, should not long-term health.” but a version of her parental nightmare has Reuniting families once parents are released is now become U.S. policy. On May 7, the Trump bring them also a complicated process, fraught with delays. Administration announced a “zero tolerance” with them.’ Because it requires that Customs and Border agenda on the U.S. border. The policy seems JEFF SESSIONS, Protection, the Department of Health and Human simple: anyone who crosses the border without U.S. Attorney General Services and the Oice of Refugee Resettlement, authorization is now subject to prosecution for among other federal agencies, communicate with a federal misdemeanor, which can result in a one another, not all families have been reunited, sentence of 180 days for a irst ofense. Because advocates say. In some cases, they say, parents have children can’t be jailed alongside adults, minors been deported while their children remain in the U.S. must be separated and kept in juvenile facilities Whether a policy that results in the mass while their moms or dads are incarcerated. separation of children and parents violates the The crackdown on prosecutions has Constitution’s guarantee of due process remains an triggered an explosion of family separations. open question. In June, a federal judge appointed by While ICE has not released oicial numbers, George W. Bush refused the Trump Administration’s Reuters reports that as many as 1,800 families request to dismiss an ACLU lawsuit challenging have been separated since late 2016. Regional the policy. The government’s conduct, if true, RIVAS—REUTERS OSWALDO NICARAGUA: UTTERSTOCK; public defenders report that some 400 children appears “brutal, ofensive, and fails to comport with were separated from their families during a traditional notions of fair play and decency,” the two-week stretch in May and June in McAllen, judge wrote. He is expected to rule on the case this Texas, alone. “This is deinitely new,” says summer. The Texas Civil Rights Project and other Diane Eikenberry, an associate director at groups have also iled an emergency injunction with the National Immigrant Justice Center. “It’s the Washington-based Inter-American Commission something we haven’t seen.” on Human Rights. Gelernt, who argued the ACLU case last month, said the question of whether the THE NEW POLICY has extended not only to policy is legal looms large. But beyond that, he said, those crossing the border illegally. In a number there’s a question of what’s humane. “Why be so of cases, says Lee Gelernt, deputy director of mean-spirited?” he said. “So gratuitously cruel?” 

6 TIME June 25, 2018 NEWS TICKER Antarctic ice loss tripled in past decade

Antarctica is losing ice at a staggering rate, dumping about 2 billion tons of ice into the ocean every year, scientists found in a study published in the journal Nature on June 13. And it’s getting worse: of the nearly 3 trillion tons of ice loss since 1992, 40% occurred over the past ive years.

Ex–Senate aide charged in leak case

Demonstrators behind a barricade at an antigovernment protest in Managua on May 30 James Wolfe, a former Senate Intelligence THE BULLETIN Committee staffer, was arrested June 7 in Clinging to power amid violent protests, an investigation into Nicaragua’s President faces a crisis point classiied-information leaks. He was charged with three felony AS PROTESTERS CONTINUE TO CALL FOR Nicaragua’s last dictator, Anastasio counts of lying to the his ouster, Nicaragua’s embattled President Somoza—has become increasingly corrupt FBI about his contacts Daniel Ortega is digging in his heels. At least and authoritarian since he was re-elected with journalists. 146 people have been killed since April in in 2006. In January 2017, his wife Rosario Prosecutors in the case also secretly seized clashes there. Some worry that the Central Murillo, a mystic poet, became Vice years’ worth of phone American country is heading down the same President. Many suspect Ortega is preparing and email records from path as Venezuela, where a dictator refuses her to be his successor. For his part, Ortega one of the journalists. to bend as his country is battered by an has blamed “opposition political groups economic and humanitarian crisis. with speciic political agendas” for the violence and even suggested that protesters North America A NICARAGUAN SPRING The crisis started had killed one another to undermine him. wins World on April 18 when pro-government gangs Cup bid violently crushed a small student-led PROOF OF STRIFE With roads blocked, demonstration against planned reforms universities occupied and many businesses The U.S., Mexico and to the pension system. The government open only a few hours a day, Nicaragua Canada will jointly responded with force, and the protests has ground to a halt. Economists say the host the 2026 soccer World Cup, FIFA escalated; dozens were killed over the next crisis has cost the extremely poor country announced on the eve few days. Ortega, 72, has since dropped his upwards of $600 million. Some are calling of 2018’s tournament. original plan for pensions, but opponents on the U.N. to step up its response, while The joint bid’s success are now calling for his resignation, as well others have suggested a national strike. But came in the irst vote as for democratic reforms and justice for talks between the two sides have broken since the allegations of corruption that victims of the crackdown. down, leaving Ortega with a choice: risk his surrounded Russia’s position by holding early elections—which and Qatar’s being CONFRONTATION Opposition igures say the Catholic Church and business leaders awarded the 2018 and Ortega—who had previously governed have called for—or refuse, and conirm his 2022 World Cups. from 1979 to 1990 after helping topple opponents’ worst fears.—CIARA NUGENT 7 TheBrief News

GOOD QUESTION (Many studies, including a 2014 report by What does the Supreme the nonpartisan Government Accountability NEWS Oice, have found no evidence of widespread TICKER Court’s Ohio decision voter fraud in the U.S.) Meanwhile, liberals say mean for voting rights? the ability to vote is what needs protecting— Salmonella and that obstacles to doing so are meant to outbreak WHEN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT UPHELD disenfranchise their constituencies, as tactics sickens dozens Ohio’s method of cleaning up its voter that make it harder to register disproportion- At least 60 people have rolls in a 5-4 decision on June 11, the ately hurt poor and minority voters. fallen ill and dozens ruling focused in large part on technical Harmon’s lawyers noted that 7,500 eligible have been hospital- interpretations of federal voting law—but Ohioans would have been unable to vote in the ized with salmonella it also represented a broader debate about 2016 presidential election without an earlier linked to precut melon partisan visions of democracy. decision in his favor. Ohio’s secretary of state sold in U.S. grocery stores. The Centers for The case centered on Larry Harmon, a said on June 12 that voters won’t be purged Disease Control and software engineer who found he’d been taken from the rolls before November’s midterms, Prevention traced the of the voter-registration list when he showed but now that the Supreme Court overturned outbreak to a facility up to cast a ballot in 2015. In Ohio, his home the previous ruling, voting-rights advocates in Indiana, and the com- state, election oicials can send residency- fear the decision’s impact could spread beyond pany issued a recall notice for eight states. conirmation notices to anyone who skips one Ohio in future elections. federal election cycle. If a voter fails to respond At least six other states have similar laws— and doesn’t vote in the next four years, that although Ohio’s process moves quickest—and person is purged from the rolls. Ohio sent others are watching the case. “There’s a real A Brexit- Harmon such a notice, but he said he never got risk that other secretaries of state will see Russia link it. So, unable to vote, he went to court. this as an excuse to kick people of the voting revealed All states have systems for clearing rolls,” says Daniel Tokaji, a co-counsel on Arron Banks, a registration lists of people who move away. the lawsuit for Harmon and a voting-rights millionaire who The question here was whether failing to vote expert at Ohio State University. bankrolled a campaign could trigger this process. Justice Samuel Alito Some advocates said the ruling presents for the U.K. to leave the wrote in his majority opinion that, even if a good opportunity to push for Election Day E.U., held previously Harmon never got the message, Ohio’s attempt registration, which could provide a “fail-safe” undisclosed meetings with Russia’s to contact voters meant the state didn’t violate if voters are accidentally purged. But until ambassador to the the National Voter Registration Act. then, “some people are going to fall through U.K. before the vote, The case exposed a deep divide in how the cracks,” says Lonna Atkeson, an expert according to emails Americans interpret the idea of safeguarding on voting rights and election law at the seen by British the vote. Conservatives tend to argue that the University of New Mexico. “Those are going newspapers. Banks also admitted to giving vote needs to be protected from fraud, and to be disproportionately Democratic voters.” a phone number for call for more intensive scrutiny of voter rolls. —ABIGAIL ABRAMS the Trump team to the Russian government.

SURVIVAL Trump critic loses in GOP Lost in the wilderness primary A South Korean hiker who was rescued on June 7 after six days lost in the Australian bush said she survived by drinking from a waterfall. Here, other unlikely survival stories. —Ciara Nugent South Carolina Representative Mark STUCK IN THE MUD INTO THE WOODS RESCUE DOGS Sanford, who has been An 11-year-old girl Inn 2016, a 3-year-old A Canadian critical of President with Asperger’s boy wandered into dog walker was Trump, lost his House syndrome survived a Siberian forest stranded in the race on June 12 to a four days in Florida’s populated by wolves British Columbia pro-Trump challenger, alligator-infested anda bears and was backcountry in 2017 state representative swamps in 2010 lost for three days. after she fell, hurt Katie Arrington, after after wandering The chocolate he herself and lost her Trump urged voters to away from her home wasw carrying in his phone. But her three punish him. Sanford to see nature. She poocket sustained him dogs helped keep is the second sitting ate plants and slept unntil he was found by her warm during the House Republican to inside a hollow log. his uncle. three-day ordeal. lose a congressional primary this year.

8 TIME June 25, 2018 Milestones

DIED DIED British actor Eunice David Douglas Gayson, who was the irst Bond girl, on Duncan June 8 at 90. Camera man ▷ Gena Turgel, a Holocaust survivor By John Loengard known for comforting Anne Frank, on June 7 at 95. DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN, the LIFE photographer who CELEBRATED died on June 7 at 102, was The 94th birthday of in Tokyo in 1950 when the George H.W. Bush— the irst former U.S. Korean War began. He had President to hit that been a Marine oicer during age—on June 12. World War II, so his pictures of war had the breathtaking WON The French Open clarity and intimacy of a lover. women’s and men’s He was not a lover of war but singles titles, by of the Marine Corps. He knew Simona Halep what a Marine was doing on and Rafael Nadal, the front line, what he was respectively. thinking and why—and he APPOINTED showed it. His pictures were Eleven female law- collected in the best-selling makers, to Spain’s book This Is War! The photos 17-member Cabinet, have no captions. None are the most in the nation’s history. Their needed. June 7 swearing-in It wasn’t just war. He was gave Spain the most Bourdain, pictured in Hanoi, in 2016 alone with Richard Nixon proportionally female the night Nixon was writing Cabinet in Europe. DIED his acceptance speech for the CHARGED Anthony Bourdain 1968 Republican presidential Former Trump Culinary ambassador nomination. He made some campaign chair Paul of the best pictures of Nixon Manafort and his By René Redzepi I’ve ever seen—unguarded aide Konstantin Kilimnik, with and understandable. Our witness tampering, NO ONE IN OUR INDUSTRY WAS BIGGER THAN ANTHONY perception of a subject often by special counsel Bourdain, who died on June 8 at 61. There’s Auguste Escoier and depends on a photographer Robert Mueller. The then there’s Tony. Actually, he was more like our Elvis Presley. recording a telling gesture. June 8 indictment Famous, but also personal. Everyone felt like they knew him. He did that with Nixon. is the case’s irst to involve an American The irst time I met him was in Tokyo in 2011. We met for DDD brought you into the and a Russian dinner at a kaiseki restaurant, and although the crew for his TV room and, as he did in all his

HER—THE LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES together. show No Reservations was there, it was otherwise just the two of pictures, brought you along us. We immediately hit it of and the conversation just lowed. on his adventures. APPROVED For three or four hours we talked about food, about Japan—just Loengard AT&T’s $85.4 billion is a photographer and was purchase of Time the kind of easy conversation that makes you feel good. a picture editor for LIFE magazine Warner, on June 12. We met up again a few days later in Ishikawa, where he and A judge ruled that the his crew were shooting at Cook It Raw, a gathering where a group federal government of chefs is introduced to the local food culture and then prepares had failed to prove a meal. On the last day, we were all in the kitchen, working really the deal violates antitrust law. hard to prep our dishes for dinner. Tony stepped in and made us lunch. It was on the porch, and he grilled some meat. He was RESOLVED like the barbecuing dad, standing there with a beer in his hand. A 27-year dispute That was a stand-up move. That was a real chef thing to do. over use of the word Macedonia, I’ve never seen anything like the response to his death. by Greece and the Everyone in the industry felt it. We were all in awe of him. He nation to be known was like the Milky Way, and we’re all just small specks. as the Republic of Redzepi is a chef who runs the two-Michelin-starred restaurant Noma North Macedonia. HELICOPTER: GETTY IMAGES; BOURDAIN: WILLIAM MEBANE; DUNCAN: RAY FIS TheBrief TIME with ...

Writer David Sedaris is Sedaris feeds a benign tumor he had removed from his body to a sea turtle—just because. But there are readytofacemiddleage. many downsides to growing old. Sedaris’ body is If only he could ind the slowly deteriorating, which perhaps has led to his fanatical obsession with his Fitbit. perfect outit When Sedaris and I meet in the late morning, By Eliana Dockterman he has already logged almost 9,000 of the recommended 10,000 steps for the day. “If I were a lazy person, I would just walk another 1,000 steps and say I’m done,” he says. “But I’m not a lazy DAVID SEDARIS IS ON THE HUNT FOR A SPECIFIC person.” His record is 91,000 steps in one day. At type of shirt. “I’m old now and can’t wear home in England, he meets his goals by wandering anything too thin,” he explains to a store clerk. through his neighborhood for hours at a time, “It accentuates my man-breasts.” picking up litter on the side of the road as he goes. Sedaris has led me to 45R, a Japanese boutique SEDARIS Sedaris is the irst to admit that he easily becomes he irst shopped at in Tokyo before discovering QUICK consumed by routines. As a student in Chicago, he QUESTIONS a stateside outpost here on Mercer Street in used to arrive at the same IHOP and sit in the same New York City. The front of the store smells like booth to drink the same cup of cofee at the exact soothing incense, but toward the back there’s Have you same time every day. Now he has channeled his a statue of a naked child clutching a piece of ever tricked self-described obsessive-compulsive disorder into fruit in one hand while throwing the other hand your Fitbit? a green, if dangerous, project: as we walk alongside victoriously into the air. It’s just the kind of Sometimes busy Houston Street, Sedaris spots a trash bag playfully bizarre decoration that Sedaris loves. my friend illed with Styrofoam tumbling into the road. He “Is your father still alive?” Sedaris asks the Dawn will runs into oncoming traic to grab it. wake up young clerk. Yes, the clerk says. He just turned 58. before me, Sedaris doesn’t exaggerate his peculiarities on “So he has breasts, doesn’t he?” asks the writer. take my Fitbit paper to earn a few laughs. In person, he’s the same The clerk nods and laughs. and get in my neurotic and charming guy that his faithful readers When Sedaris, 61, shares intimate details of his steps. I go so know so well. And yet in Calypso, he occasionally life, he forges a bond with millions of readers and far over the drops his trademark humor in favor of meditations recommended audience members, including now this clerk who amount most on regret and mortality. busies himself inding a lattering shirt. In his early days that I Sedaris has previously written about his mother essay collections, Sedaris wrote about the homo- think it’s O.K. in reverent tones: her six children vied for her phobic speech therapy he was forced to endure as a attention, and she held court at the dinner table Why do you child, his experimentation with drugs and his stint hate having every night. She even coached a young Sedaris on working as a Santaland elf at Macy’s. He recorded your picture how to tweak his anecdotes to make them funnier. his unusual obsessions with taxidermied owls and taken? But in the considered and brutally honest Calypso foreign swear words. He always carries a notebook So many essay “Why Aren’t You Laughing?,” Sedaris admits with him, and scribbles down observations that he photographers that he regrets that he never confronted his mother later crafts into humorous stories. (He even tests went to about her alcoholism. the Annie out the notebook in various shirt pockets during our Leibovitz In an essay titled “The Spirit World,” Sedaris shopping trip to make sure it will it.) school of remembers his last interaction with his sister Sedaris has mined his past for eight memoirs’ photography Tifany before she died by suicide. The two had a worth of material, including a collection of old and think diicult relationship and had not spoken for four diary entries published last year under the title if you’re years when she appeared unannounced at one not being Theft by Finding. But in his newest essay collection, humiliated of his readings in Boston. She called to him from Calypso, out now, he looks to the present and physically, the stage door to the theater. Sedaris ignored her, the future. “Though there’s an industry built on then you’re turned to a nearby security guard and asked him to telling you otherwise, there are few real joys to not revealing shut the door. He never saw her again. middle age,” the book begins. He has found some your true “I feel the audience giving me the appropriate self. I’ve been perks: he spent his 20s broke but now lives in the asked to reaction when I talk about shutting the door in her English countryside with his boyfriend Hugh, stuff things face,” says Sedaris of reading that essay aloud on his in a house with a guest room, the kind Sedaris in my mouth book tour. “They didn’t expect that, and then they fantasized about as a younger man. and get into have to recalibrate their feeling toward me. When The couple also recently purchased a cottage a swimming I read that the irst time, I thought, Do I really want pool with my by the seaside in North Carolina and named it the clothes on. to admit this? But it seemed false not to. If you try to Sea Section. Much of Calypso takes place in this make yourself look better than you are, that’s bad. new beach home. There, he and his siblings clash Especially if you’re making other people look bad, with their father over politics, and at one point you have to be up-front about how bad you are.”

10 TIME June 25, 2018 Sedaris says he doesn’t regret anything he’s ever He also taps his audiences for material, chatting written. But he does dislike his early work. Back with every reader who stands in the book-signing then, he didn’t have the luxury of reading stories line. A week before we spoke, a woman in Calgary, aloud in front of an audience dozens of times and Alberta, claimed that her boyfriend was planning then tweaking the language before publication. ‘If you’re to get a tattoo of a corn dog on his face, which might “Everything in my irst four or ive books I would making make for a good anecdote in an essay if Sedaris completely rewrite,” he says. “I sign those books other could conirm it was true. A doctor he met at a sometimes, and I think, Whatever is in here people reading in El Paso, Texas, volunteered to remove cannot be good.” that benign tumor he later fed to a turtle. Sedaris look bad, happily took her up on the ofer, and in the wee SEDARIS’ PERFORMANCES are essential to his you have hours of the morning he drove with her to a clinic craft. During his years at the Art Institute of to be for the surgery. He never goes to Apple’s Genius Bar Chicago, he reveled in the laughs he would get up-front anymore; he simply asks from the stage whether from his fellow students during workshops. about any attendees can ix a MacBook and ofers them a These days, he reads essays aloud on tour, how bad chance to skip the line in exchange for tech support. marks down the audience’s reactions to certain you are.’ That’s no small ofer. The longest Sedaris book sentences, returns to his hotel room to revise signing lasted over 10 hours. As we stroll through the story and then adjusts the delivery the next DAVID SEDARIS Manhattan, he shows of the Band-Aids covering night. He read each of the essays in Calypso his arms. He was signing books for so long the onstage at least 50 times before the book was night before that his elbows began to bleed published. He loves performing for an audience through his shirt. “Maybe that’s what I need,” he and even schedules tours when he doesn’t have says. “A fatty shirt that also has elbow pads.” He

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12 TIME June 25, 2018 SPORTS Triple Crown history at Belmont, once again

AS THE CHISELED COLT WITH THE pleasing white blaze approached the last furlong of the June 9 Belmont Stakes with his wire-to-wire lead intact, trainer Bob Bafert inally let his arms ly. The New York crowd roared as Justify clinched horse racing’s 13th Triple Crown, although not, it’s fair to say, quite as loudly as in 2015, when another Bafert-trained horse, American Pharoah, ended a madden- ing 37-year Triple Crown drought by winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. On that day, nearly four decades of pent-up frustration poured out of the crowd. At the track, it’s nice to be spoiled by so much winning for a change. Few saw Justify coming. The chestnut phenom is the irst horse since 1882 to win the Kentucky Derby without racing as a 2-year- old, defying the so-called Curse of Apollo. There was a whif of contro- versy after the Belmont, when a rival owner questioned whether Bafert instructed his other horse in the ield to block Justify’s opponents. The win, however, was ruled clean, and it’s clear that Justify has earned his place among the all-time greats. Since Justify began his magical run, Bafert has often been asked to rate him against American Pharoah. He won’t take the bait. “I don’t really have to compare them, because if they make this wall,” he says, looking at pictures of other Triple Crown winners hanging in a Belmont Park theater, “that’s all you need to say.” —SEAN GREGORY

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Bourdain’s June 8 suicide, coupled with that of fashion designer Kate Spade, was a one- Spade and READING two punch to our belief that there are some Bourdain LIST people who are living the perfect life. That ▶ Highlights each of them chose to end an existence that, from stories on to outsiders, seemed idyllic and enviable is time.com/ideas a mystery to most of us—especially because these were not teenagers or lost 20-somethings, The best but two people who might reasonably be books of 2018 expected to have reached some sort of self- so far knowledge, or to have made peace with their demons. So many spectators of Bourdain’s and that were once considered vices—greed, sloth, TIME staffers review Spade’s lives saw in them relections of the lives lust—envy relects a miscalculation in the and recommend their favorite novels and they would have liked to have lived. relative worth of things. When we look at lives nonfiction books Spade created what many women would like Spade’s and Bourdain’s, it can make our that have come out consider the ideal situation. Her world was own feel wanting. We haven’t started our own this year, including a illed with creativity, beauty, family and companies, or turned our work experience ictional account of a meaningful work. Having brought into being into a book and TV show. Sometimes, we can marriage confronting a wrongful conviction, a fashion line alongside her husband, she barely get through the day. They’re happier and an unnervingly sold it and was able to take years of to raise and more fulilled, because we are not as timely analysis of her daughter. She had a successful, artistic, hardworking or talented as they are. Their Shakespeare’s family-centric business that gave her time lives look better than ours, therefore they must portrayals of tyrants. to be a parent and that brought joy to many. be better people than we are. After she died, many women spoke of how she Our desire to turn Bourdain’s and Spade’s made them feel seen; how her upbeat, quirky, successes into a judgment on our own is The invisible feminine handbags and style made them rooted in a lawed comparison because of ethics of realize they were not alone. incomplete data. Many lives are not as they body hair Bourdain managed to be masculine without appear. Happiness is not the end result of a being swaggeringly macho. He was rugged and sum of accomplishments. The people whose Moral philosopher adventurous and knew how to use big knives, wealth/wardrobe/job/talent we wish we had and author of the recent book Perfect but he had his own literary imprint. Tall and have their own struggles. Bourdain seemed Me: Beauty as an handsome, he got to travel to exotic locales to hint at his when, during a particularly Ethical Ideal, Heather and he won awards, fame and wealth. Plus, he halcyon episode of Parts Unknown, he asked Widdows details how ate so well. He was also seen as a rare male hero in a voice-over, “What do you do after your our constant shaving in the #MeToo movement for championing dreams come true?” and plucking and waxing have changed his girlfriend Asia Argento’s claims against If our envy is misplaced, maybe there’s also our views of “natural” Harvey Weinstein and for siding with women a case to be made for having more compassion. bodies and explains over fellow chefs. After his death, Bourdain If people’s lives aren’t as amazingly blissful why there are deeper, was almost universally praised for his ability as they appear, perhaps people are not as evil insidious costs. to meet people just about anywhere and fairly or stupid as they appear, either. Bourdain portray their culture to viewers who might once lew small-town newspaper columnist otherwise fail to appreciate its oferings. What Marilyn Hagerty, whose sweet review of Restoring more could a person want? her local Olive Garden had been mocked on trust across Yet these two could not bear to live their the Internet, to New York City to dine at the America lives any longer. restaurant of the moment, Per Se, and then published a book of her columns. Spade Former TIME editor- APART FROM YEARNING for more help for donated boxes of new clothing and bags to the in-chief Nancy Gibbs writes that, as the those who struggle with depression and men- PowHerful Foundation, which helps young public says it has lost tal illness (Spade’s husband Andy said she had women succeed by ensuring that a lack of faith in the media, fought depression for years), what do we do business attire doesn’t obscure their talent or “unless you believe with the information that those whose lives we undermine their conidence. that the country has admire cannot bear to live? How do we process It seems both Spade and Bourdain already gotten better and stronger and fairer as the reality that all that they’d had and done knew that outward impressions of people’s trust has declined, were not bulwark enough against darkness? lives are often wildly of-base. then we all have a What hope is there for the rest of us? stake in rebuilding It’s not much of a solace, but perhaps one If you or someone you know may be contem- some measure of faith thing these deaths could remind us of is the plating suicide, call the National Suicide in each other and our core institutions.” uselessness of envy. As with many behaviors Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255

16 TIME June 25, 2018 TECH The need for vigilance after net neutrality Before its June 11 death, supporters of net neutrality argued that ending the rule that Internet providers must treat trafic equally would mean everything from the mundane (higher bills) to the bombastic (the end of free speech online). This may distract consumers from what they should actually look for in its wake. Yes, companies like Verizon or Comcast may rework how they charge for services like Netlix, driving up prices for some—though Then FIFA president Blatter endures a lurry of fake bills thrown by a comedian on July 20, 2015 potentially reducing them for others. But users are SPORTS unlikely to feel those effects immediately. Service The beautiful game’s ugly side providers won’t want more By Ken Bensinger public outrage so soon. The more troubling JUST OVER THREE YEARS AGO, THE tournament in person—even though outcome could accumulate U.S. Department of Justice shocked the FIFA gave Blatter a six-year ban in 2016 over time: power may concentrate further in the world by initiating a predawn raid in from attending any event. Blatter wasted hands of a small group of Zurich, arresting several international little time in accepting the Russian digital giants. Companies soccer oicials. To date, nearly four dozen leader’s ofer, and it will be interesting like Facebook, Google and people have been indicted in the case to see where he will be seated at critical Netlix arose because they for exchanging hundreds of millions of matches. Putin is expected to occupy replaced something inferior, dollars in bribes. Many once untouchable a box with new FIFA president Gianni like MySpace, Yahoo and administrators have been banned from the Infantino, who has already been subject to Blockbuster Video. sport, including longtime FIFA president two ethics complaints. But without net Sepp Blatter. And countless fans have While FIFA has implemented a number neutrality rules preventing had to confront the grim knowledge that of reforms, its changes have been derided favoritism, the existing rampant corruption has seeped into the as half measures in combatting a deep- tech titans—even if they

TY IMAGES game they loved. Their stomachs will not seated culture of corruption. Its June 13 grow inferior—will face be settled this summer. decision to award the 2026 World Cup to fewer ights from upstarts. Take the fact that the World Cup is Mexico, Canada and the U.S. over Morocco Service providers could cut being held in Russia. Many questions may have averted another public relations deals incentivizing users hang over the 2010 decision to award the disaster. But three years after the Zurich to opt for existing services tournament to the nation—ones that may arrests, there’s still plenty to suggest it’s instead of smaller rivals. remain unanswered, as FIFA’s attempt largely the same old FIFA. While it may That could leave us with to investigate the choice was stymied not ofer the joy of a beautiful run by fewer alternatives when the giants behave badly. This when Russia’s bid team claimed that all its Lionel Messi, the ongoing scandal adds does not bode well for our computers were destroyed after the vote. another dose of drama to the spectacle, tendency to ignore troubling FIFA, working on the dubious principle and a measure of shame. actions—say, allowing that if there are no records, there is no shady third parties to crime, cleared Russia of any wrongdoing. Bensinger is an investigative reporter for access our most personal As if to thumb his nose at critics, BuzzFeed News and the author of Red data—until it’s too late. Vladimir Putin last fall made a public Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on —Alex Fitzpatrick

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THE ‘DA D President Trump’s President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet in Singapore on June 12

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Kim Jong Un had a request. As Donald Trump stunned protest from Ottawa to London to Paris. But that’s how things work now. wooed the North Korean leader inside a former With each feat of showmanship or it of British garrison in Singapore, Kim asked Trump pique, Trump is redeining America’s role on the world stage. to suspend military exercises by U.S. and South Korean forces on the Korean Peninsula, long a EARLY ON, Trump heeded his top aides when they urged caution. But in the past source of concern for Pyongyang’s hair-trigger six months, he has taken increasingly dra- military. It wasn’t something that had been matic risks—especially in foreign policy. In December, Trump committed to mov- negotiated by their stafs, and some of Trump’s ing the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Je- rusalem, overriding the dire predictions aides were concerned that the concession would about Middle East chaos. In March, he irritate allies. But he calculated that it was worth threatened to impose stif trade tarifs on China and Europe, then enacted them two the risk, and without consulting anyone further, months later after global markets gener- he told Kim on the spot that he’d do it. ally bounced back from initial losses. In May, he withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, even though Eu- rope, international agencies and some of It was exactly the kind of shoot-from- destroying a missile-engine test site his own senior aides said Iran was com- the-hip move they hate in the pin-striped and Kim’s “unwavering commitment plying with it. conines of the State Department. But to complete denuclearization of the The populist has famously bristled the moment was classic Trump. “I’ll do Korean Peninsula.” Trump also secured at convention. “If you go into a meeting whatever it takes to make the world a safer the return of the remains of 5,300 and say we can’t do that, or that’s not the place,” he said ina press conference after service members who died during the way it’s been done, you can be assured the summit, in response to a question Korean War. But experts pointed out he’s going to want to do it,” says one from TIME. “If I can save millions of that Kim had made only vague promises senior National Security Council oicial. lives by coming here, sitting down and of the kind that Pyongyang had violated “He thinks the way it’s been done is establishing a relationship with someone multiple times before. wrong and stupid and won’t work.” But who’s a very powerful man, who’s got irm The summit theater was the latest lately Trump has become increasingly control of a country and that country has and most dramatic example of how the energized by the idea that he’s shattering very powerful nuclear weapons, it’s my impulsive President is upending the precedent, and feels vindicated by the honor to do it.” global order. Three days earlier, as he results of his risky moves, according The war-game concession was just lew to Singapore aboard Air Force One to interviews with more than a dozen the latest in a series of surprising turns after a testy, two-day economic summit friends, aides and former oicials. in what may ultimately prove to be a with six of the U.S.’s closest allies, Trump “He recognizes that people always are historic moment. Since inspectors from had grown livid as he watched Canadian running around, it seems, with their the International Atomic Energy Agency Prime Minster Justin Trudeau declare hair on ire,” senior White House aide were blocked from visiting North Korean that the new U.S. trade tarifs were Kellyanne Conway told TIME. “He nuclear sites during the irst term of Bill unfair. Scowling at the lat-screen TV in sees that all those attempts [by past Clinton’s presidency, the U.S. and its allies the plane’s private oice, according to Administrations] have been failures, and have struggled with the growing threat a White House oicial, Trump ordered they have been aborted promises. So he of a nuclear-armed North Korea. Multi- his aides to back out of the summit’s says, ‘Let’s just try it a diferent way.’” party agreements, crippling sanctions inal communiqué, which had already There may be short-term beneits and threats of military intervention have been publicly released after two days of in abandoning the U.S.’s decades-old failed to prevent the totalitarian state negotiations. The move was met with commitment to strategic predictability. from approaching the ability to strike the But foreign-policy experts at both ends of U.S. with a nuclear-tipped missile. the political spectrum are worried about Now, in less than a year, Trump ‘IF YOU GO INTO A the costs. “Rattling allies undermines has gone from threatening Kim with decades of strategic certainty” in annihilation to the irst face-to-face MEETING AND SAY international afairs, says Mark Dubowitz, talks between a sitting U.S. President WE CAN’T DO THAT ... CEO of the hawkish Foundation for and a North Korean leader. The result [TRUMP’S] GOING TO Defense of Democracies. Already, other was mixed. Trump touted his “terriic countries are retaliating with trade tarifs relationship” with Kim, a verbal WANT TO DO IT.’ that could boost prices at home, slow the promise Kim gave him that he was SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL global economy and spike unemployment.

20 TIME June 25, 2018 Trump’s backing of Sunni and Israeli △ Minister Shinzo Abe called Trump on moves against Iran, in addition to his Kim and Trump sign documents on his personal cell phone. Trump was in withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, June 12 saying their countries commit his oice with a handful of senior aides are encouraging a dangerous proxy war in to resolve the nuclear standof and put Abe on speakerphone. After ex- the Middle East, where over 25,000 U.S. changing pleasantries, Trump said what troops remain deployed. he often tells acquaintances: if Abe were Nowhere are the stakes are higher of presidential campaigns and politi- ever in New York, he should look him than in North Korea, where diplomatic cal organizations and committees, ac- up. Abe said he would be in New York failure could set the course for renewed cording to a person at the dinner. Later the following week. So Trump agreed military confrontation. If Trump mis- in the evening, Trump sat stone-faced to meet him, violating a long-standing plays his hand, it could endanger mil- as comedian Seth Meyers skewered tradition that a President-elect doesn’t lions of lives. Trump for his questions about President meet with foreign leaders until they’ve Obama’s birthplace and said he was sur- taken the oath of oice. The Obama FOR THOSE who have known the Presi- prised Trump was running as a Republi- White House was apoplectic. But Trump dent for years, his handling of the sum- can because “I just assumed he was run- wouldn’t cancel the meeting. The sit- mit was trademark Trump: casting aside ning as a joke.” down with Abe initiated what would be- strategic prudence for a theatrical ges- Five years later, in July 2016, Ayers was come Trump’s closest relationship with ture, with an impulsiveness rooted in swept into Trump’s campaign efort as a world leader and set the tone for his

AFP/GETTY IMAGES AFP/GETTY the belief that he alone could cut the big part of Pence’s team. The day after Trump engagement with Asian powers. — deal. This conidence was visible seven won the election, Ayers asked Trump if Trump’s irst year in oice was years ago, at the 2011 White House Cor- he recalled their conversation that night, marked by running battles between respondents’ Association dinner, when according to a person close to Trump who his instincts and his aides. Some Trump was already thinking about was in the room. Trump said it was one White House stafers appealed to the launching a campaign for the presi- of two or three moments that convinced President’s gut, while others tried to dency, according to those who saw him him to launch a full-ledged bid for the outmaneuver or wait out the President’s in action that night. White House. He heard the punch lines as impulses. In order to manage Trump’s During a 10-minute conversation a challenge. “Oh yeah, you think I can’t do behavior in brieings, for example, at a table in the center of the ballroom, it?” the person said, describing Trump’s his second National Security Adviser, Trump asked Nick Ayers, who was then reaction. “Watch me do it.” H.R. McMaster, began having aides a young Republican strategist and is now Trump wasted no time tossing diplo- prepare cards that answered four basic Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of matic conventions overboard. The day questions: Why are we doing this? What

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A HISTORY SHORT- MID- OF BROKEN RANGE RANGE ICBM NUKE K North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests PROMISES IM doing? And what happens next? IL For a while, it worked. In the summer The Kim regime has repeatedly agreed SUNG 1984 of 2017, Trump repeatedly demanded to stop developing missiles and nuclear to know why the U.S. was still in weapons. Every time, it reneges on the deal Afghanistan after toppling the Taliban government in 2001, but ultimately agreed to boost troop levels there, in AN ESCALATING line with Establishment thinking. He COLD WAR groused in response to the litany of North Korea’s military concerns voiced by aides about moving arsenal can now strike the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, which the U.S. and allies his transition staf had prepared for Punggye-ri him to do on his irst day in oice. But Sea of Tonghae Japan he deferred action on the move. He CHINA Yongnim–up complained that bureaucrats were overstating the potential fallout of Due to the North’s ditching the Iran nuclear deal, but put underground systems, Sohae Yongbyon not all missile and of pulling out of it as he had promised Sinpo nuclear capabilities to do during the campaign. are publicly known When aides like Tillerson, Defense Wonsan Secretary James Mattis and Trump’s former economic adviser Gary Cohn Pyongyang Many of the North’s succeeded in suppressing his instincts, estimated 20,000 artillery pieces run along it came at a cost. Trump railed against the DMZ, targeting Seoul his Cabinet secretaries and staf. The Singye–kun Iran deal was a source of particular USAG RED frustration. Thanks to the checks CLOUD Demilitarized zone U.S. support Republicans placed on the deal when USAG YONGSAN Seoul Obama signed it, Trump was required in South OSAN AIR BA Korea every three months to certify that Iran Nuclear test includes and research was complying with the agreement. CAMP 28,500 Advisers predicted that European Missile base HUMPHREYS troops, markets would tank if Trump didn’t. and test sites hundreds of tanks and Feeling boxed in, the President U.S. forces KUNSAN AIR BASE dozens of demanded other options. In July 2017, ighter jets with another three-month certiication looming, Trump’s national-security 50 MILES staf had none to ofer. Trump exploded. 50 KM “This is never f-cking happening again,” In a declaration TIME GRAPHIC he said, according to two people familiar BY EMILY BARONE with President AND LON TWEETEN with the meeting. Trump, Kim Jong Against this backdrop, the President Un agrees to shook up his inner circle, iring chief of work toward staf Reince Priebus and replacing him denuclearization with Homeland Security boss John Kelly. In exchange for imposing discipline, the retired Marine general demanded tight China gradually agrees control over the White House decision- to sanction North Korea, leaving it with virtually making process. For a while, Kelly’s no trade partners guardrails constrained Trump. But over ’18 time they, too, have failed. Much of the slippage came on the domestic front, with Trump lashing out ’16 ’14 more frequently and harshly at special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation The North and South sign a North Korea promises to into his campaign’s contacts with commitment to formally end suspend nuclear tests if the U.S. Russian officials, demanding the the Korean War and pursue and South Korea call off joint military deployment of National Guard troops a nuclear-free peninsula exercises. The U.S. rejects the offer

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to the border and announcing pardons with little input from the Justice Department or his staf. But arguably the biggest breaks have come on foreign policy. When Trump took office, the State Department sent a document to the White House predicting that dozens of U.S. embassies would be overrun with protesters if Trump decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Tillerson stuck to that line so hard that around the West Wing he become known as the Doomsayer, according to a White House oicial. The issue came to a head near the end of the year, when Trump pushed the case and Tillerson demurred. Diplomats from △ existing consular oice and transferred Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia warned Trump came under pressure from some staf from the existing embassy in the White House that their leaders world leaders at the G-7 summit in Tel Aviv to populate it. would issue forceful objections if Trump Charlevoix, Canada By the time Trump walked away from went forward, citing fears that formally the Iran deal, it was clear that the dam had acknowledging Jerusalem would spark broken during the previous ive months violent clashes over the ownership of a him it would cost $1 billion and take and that a two-week period in early March city that has long been a lightning rod years to complete. He said he called had been particularly telling. On March 1, for religious and nationalist passions. the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Trump announced new aluminum and But on Dec. 6, Trump announced that Friedman, who told Trump he could move steel tarifs on Europe and China. On the embassy would move, and now the embassy into an existing building in March 13, he replaced Tillerson with his many White House oicials feel that the Jerusalem for $150,000. “David, you hawkish CIA director, Mike Pompeo. dire warnings were overblown. can do that from $1 billion to $150,000. It was right in the middle of this period The jockeying wasn’t done. Oicials You know what? Spend $200,000 or that a special envoy from South Korea tried to stall the move. At a rally on May 10 $300,000—that’s O.K. too,”Trump said. arrived in Washington on March 8, with a in Elkhart, Ind., Trump himself described Friedman’s move was largely symbolic: he message so urgent and sensitive, it needed one such attempt, saying advisers told had a large stone plaque installed on an to be delivered in person.

VIEWPOINT It is time to unravel the anachronistic from nuclear weapons, millions more security framework of the constant threat would die from radiation exposure and ONE REAL of mass extinction. Last year, 122 states resulting famine. at the U.N. voted to adopt the Treaty on That’s why the solution must also SUMMIT WIN the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. That cross borders. It is not enough for North By Beatrice Fihn means most of the world agrees that Korea to give up its weapons program. To any nuclear weapon, anywhere, is an fully denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, unacceptable threat to all nations. South Korea would also have to leave the “A stunning concession.” That was the I was in Singapore for the summit protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella. consensus of the world’s media gathered to advocate for the treaty as the most Starting that process with the in Singapore, where President Trump appropriate instrument used for Korean cessation of U.S.–South Korea war announced that the U.S. would halt all denuclearization. The treaty doesn’t games—or rather, practicing the mass military exercises with South Korea. tweet, it doesn’t change its mind on the murder of innocents—is a good step But by saying he would discontinue the plane home, and it can’t have its ego toward ending nuclear weapons. It is not war games, Trump is in effect offering to bruised. It’s the only comprehensive, a concession. There is no weakness in stop the simulated mass murder of North veriiable and irreversible way to achieve giving up something that the majority of Koreans. Don’t let military language meaningful nuclear disarmament. nations have decided is illegal. sugarcoat this: when you send a nuclear More than that, it is an international bomber on a “dry run,” you are practicing solution. Nuclear war does not respect Fihn is the executive director of the indiscriminate murder of civilians. borders. Any “limited” nuclear attack on the International Campaign to Abolish Each year, that’s exactly what South Pyongyang would blanket Seoul in deadly Nuclear Weapons, which won the Korea and the U.S. have been doing. radiation. Beyond the immediate deaths 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

24 TIME June 25, 2018 THE DOOR to the Oval Oice clicked shut. The South Korean envoy had told Trump that Kim Jong Un wanted to ANALYSIS meet him as soon as possible. Would Trump accept? The President turned to THE MACHIAVELLIAN the handful of senior advisers and jut- ted out his chin in what aides have come MR. KIM to recognize as a sign that he’s about By Charlie Campbell/Singapore to say something provocative. “I’m inclined to do it,” Trump said. “What do Kim Jong Un was anything but dissenters are silenced, and border you think?” formidable when he irst stepped onto guards are ordered to shoot attempted There were a million reasons to say the world stage in 2011. With head defectors on sight. Kim ordered the no, and as the South Korean envoy cooled bowed, the 27-year-old wept before gruesome public execution of his half his heels across the hall in the Roosevelt the casket of his late father Kim Jong brother Kim Jong Nam with the toxic Room, Trump’s aides took turns list- Il. Rumors suggested the scion was nerve agent VX in the Kuala Lumpur ing them, according to two U.S. oicials a hard-partying libertine, while a CIA airport in February 2017. Kim presided briefed on the meeting. For years, the psychological proile painted him as over the death, possibly by torture, of U.S. had refused to reward North Korea’s an egotist who lashed out savagely at American student Otto Warmbier. And treaty-violating pursuit of nuclear weap- perceived insults. Intelligence oficials he has boosted his regime’s cyberwar- ons and intercontinental ballistic mis- doubted his rule would last longer than fare program, launching the WannaCry siles; a face-to-face meeting would seem a few years and, if it did, only at the ransomware attack that caused billions to do just that. Moreover, with little time pleasure of North Korean elites who of dollars of damage in 150 countries. to plan tactics and strategy, or to demand would control him from the shadows. concessions, there was no way to tell what But the young dictator has turned Trump looked past all that at the Kim might give up in return. Worst of all, out to be anything but a puppet. Kim Singapore summit, talking up instead if talks proved that there could be no dip- defanged the powerful military by purg- the potential for condos on North lomatic solution to the standof, then mil- ing hundreds of top brass, including Korean beaches. But experts see a different future, based on Kim’s itary conlict—even nuclear war—could his powerful uncle Jang Song Thaek. He transformed the North Korean moves so far. They ind Kim’s pledge in become more likely. economy by ceasing collectivization and Singapore of “unwavering commitment But in a matter of minutes, Trump had allowing the marketplace to thrive. The to complete denuclearization” not made up his mind. By quickly saying yes famines that claimed some 500,000 much more convincing than the similar to a meeting, the President thought, he lives between 1993 and 2000 are agreements he and his predecessors would test Kim’s intentions and put him no more. And he turned a ledgling signed and subsequently violated in of-balance, explains a close aide. Trump nuclear program into President Donald 1992, 1994, 2005 and 2012. summoned the South Korean diplomats Trump’s top foreign policy problem. He Instead, Kim appears to be into the Oval Oice and beamed. “Let’s is estimated to have enough material exploiting the rivalry between the U.S. do it, fellas,” the President said. for up to 60 nuclear bombs and has and China. “North Korea wants to be Trump wasn’t done surprising his long-range missiles that can reach any the Pakistan of East Asia,” says Bruce staf or his South Korean guests. He had, U.S. city. “If your objective is to maintain Klingner, an analyst with the Heritage in some ways, internalized the concerns a dictatorship, the last ive years under Foundation. Pakistan was sanctioned of his aides. The South Koreans assured Kim couldn’t have been scripted better,” for nuclear tests in 1998, but improved Trump that Kim was open to giving says Daniel Pinkston of Troy University relations with the U.S. by aiding the up his nukes, wouldn’t object to U.S.- in Seoul. ight against Islamic terrorist groups. Korean military exercises and promised The payoff for that Machiavellian Kim may hope the summit is the irst to stop nuclear and missile tests. But maneuvering came when Trump met step in that direction. And indeed, none of that was in writing. Trump Kim in Singapore, giving the North Beijing has already loosened sanctions Korean a degree of legitimacy his father enforcement at its long border with wanted to protect himself. So as he sat and grandfather never achieved. Trump North Korea, fearing the U.S. might be with the South Korean envoy, national- added to Kim’s win by nixing the joint gaining inluence in Pyongyang. security adviser Chung Eui-yong, in U.S.–South Korea military drills that Achieving de facto recognition as the armchairs before the Oval Oice Pyongyang loathes, and by praising a nuclear state and joining the global ireplace, Trump made an unusual Kim effusively. Said Trump, “He’s a very community as a peer would be an auda- proposal. “Here’s an idea: how about talented man [and] he loves his country cious, unlikely transformation for long- you make the announcement,” Trump very much.” suffering North Korea. But Kim wanted said, according to the oicials. That might be news to the estimated nuclear capabilities and he has them. BUNDESREGIERUNG/GETTY IMAGES BUNDESREGIERUNG/GETTY

— It went against long-standing diplo- 100,000 North Koreans in forced-labor He wanted a date with Trump and he got matic protocol for an ally to speak camps who are subjected to abuses it. The hated military drills are no more. on behalf of the U.S. President. But that the U.N. has declared crimes Don’t bet against what Kim sets his

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a statement for Chung to read, the jet- lagged diplomat called his boss, South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Just after 7 p.m.—two hours after delivering the message from Kim—Chung walked into the West Wing driveway and announced that Trump had agreed to meet the brutal dictator. It was only the beginning of a diplomatic dance that would stun foreign- policy experts. Pompeo made two surprise trips to Pyongyang and brought back three freed American prisoners. Asked on May 9 if he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump replied, “Everyone thinks so, but I would never say it.” It was clear that he was beginning to enjoy himself. But it turned out that dealing with North Korea might not be so easy. Late one Wednesday night at the end of May, Trump’s national-security team told him a North Korean oicial had called Pence a “political dummy” and threatened a nuclear “showdown.” On top of that, the delegation the President had sent to Singapore two weeks earlier to hammer out the summit details had been stood up. North Korea had gone radio-silent for more than a week. △ Naftali, a presidential historian at New It was starting to look like the sum- Kim and Trump depart the York University. “There are no stafers mit would be a diplomatic and public re- signing ceremony at the end of their between his impulses and his Twitter lations disaster. meeting in Singapore on June 12 inger.” Trump is burning up political Trump decided to sleep on it. The next capital in the process. “The White morning, after iring of two tweets alleg- House is historically designed in order ing without proof that the FBI had sent anchor and early campaign supporter to limit the risk of embarrassment,” a spy to iniltrate his campaign, Trump who regularly speaks to Trump and be- Naftali says. “If he would use his staf personally dictated a letter to Kim that lieves the President’s unpredictability better, he wouldn’t ind himself in these announced he was canceling the summit. keeps foreign leaders of guard. embarrassing positions.” The letter, equal parts wistful and threat- Of course, Trump is hardly the There costs are mounting. In the ening, called Kim “His Excellency,” but first President to make decisions wake of Trump’s break with the other pointedly noted that the U.S. President spontaneously. President George H.W. G-7 countries ahead of the Singapore was hoping not to have to use America’s Bush surprised his staf in 1990 when he summit, the French government “massive and powerful” nuclear capabili- drew a red line after Saddam Hussein’s suggested Trump had acted rashly ties against the young dictator. invasion of Kuwait, telling reporters on and out of anger, and criticized his Just over a week later, North Korea’s the South Lawn of the White House that inconsistency. Canada’s Parliament No. 2 oicial, Kim Yong Chol, walked Iraq’s aggression “will not stand,” and unanimously condemned Trump’s into the Oval Oice and personally pre- setting the stage for the irst Gulf War. criticisms of Trudeau and backed the sented Trump with a letter the size of a President Richard Nixon unexpectedly legal pad. The summit was back on. created what is now a long-standing U.S. policy of not negotiating with terrorists ‘IF HE WOULD USE TO HIS FANS, Trump’s growing interna- when, faced with questions from reporters HIS STAFF BETTER, tional disruptions are a welcome devel- about two U.S. diplomats and three others opment. “That’s exactly what we were held hostage in Sudan in 1973, he said the HE WOULDN’T FIND hoping for when he was a candidate— U.S. “will not pay blackmail.” HIMSELF IN THESE someone who acts less like a politician But in previous Administrations, EMBARRASSING and more like a businessman, someone these types of incidents were rare. “This who sees the ield and makes a decision,” President is interacting on an hourly POSITIONS.’ says Eric Bolling, a former Fox News basis, and there is no ilter,” says Timothy TIMOTHY NAFTALI, presidential historian

26 TIME June 25, 2018 TRUMPVIEWPOINT SWAPS FRIENDS FOR FOES By Ian Bremmer

Every nation, even a superpower, exercises with South Korea—to the needs friends. Whether a leader apparent surprise of Seoul. No doubt, identiies terrorism or climate change Japan will be wondering about its own or protectionism or nuclear proliferation war games with the U.S. post-summit. as a priority challenge, allies are Japan’s Defense Minister cautioned needed to meet them. Once again, that “we should be careful about Donald Trump sees things differently. lowering our guard until we can conirm For evidence, look no further than that speciic steps have been taken.” the fallout from the worst G-7 summit in memory. The U.S. now has tariffs Still, Trump seems to have developed in place against the E.U., Canada and an interest in what high-level summits Japan. In Quebec, Canada’s Justin with global pariahs can achieve. He Trudeau and France’s Emmanuel has suggested a similar meeting with Macron set aside the buddy approach Russia’s Vladimir Putin, which could with Trump that has so far yielded few take place in Vienna. “President Putin results to try some carefully worded is ready for such a meeting,” Russia’s straight talk. That appears to have Foreign Minister said. On his way to infuriated Trump, who tweeted that ight with the G-7 allies, Trump told Trudeau was “dishonest & weak” from reporters he thought Russia should be re-admitted to that club, even though its government’s hardening stance over the his plane bound for Singapore. There, Trump met with the North troops still occupy parts of Ukraine. NAFTA negotiations. Korean leader he once derided as But Trump may be hemmed in by And while the Middle East hasn’t “Rocket Man” and with whom he now his own government. As he traveled to yet blown up over Trump’s Jerusalem hopes to cut a deal. Kim Jong Un is meet Kim, the Treasury Department embassy move or his departure from the believed to have ordered the execution sanctioned ive Russian companies Iran deal, both are proving destabilizing. of at least 340 people since 2011, and and three Russian individuals for Protests along Israel’s border with Gaza has bragged of his ability to hit the U.S. supporting state cyber-aggression have claimed more than 100 lives, and mainland with a nuclear weapon. Trump against the U.S. There will be more have raised concerns in Cairo that the hailed him as a “very talented man.” such penalties, and members of unrest could spread to the border with Of course, we don’t make peace Congress will continue to denounce neighboring Egypt. European and with our friends but our enemies, as Russia and Putin. Chinese attempts to salvage the Iran deal former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak A strategy of treating friends as are faltering, and Iran says it will increase Rabin once noted. And to be sure, the enemies and enemies as friends its uranium enrichment capacity now U.S. President deserves credit for also risks empowering those who are that the U.S. has abandoned the pact. a bold move that has made conlict not quite either—principally, China. In the case of another potential sum- less likely. Since Trump assumed Here, Trump’s main challenge is to win mit with North Korea, embarrassment ofice, China has tightened sanctions concessions while averting a costly could prove even more costly. Trump against North Korea, Pyongyang has trade war. Economic interdependence billed the Singapore meeting as just the suspended nuclear and ballistic and mutually assured economic missile testing, North Korea has destruction will help limit the damage, irst of several. But longtime U.S. intel- released U.S. prisoners, and Kim has but the U.S. President’s ist-shaking ligence analysts are concerned that Kim begun reaching out diplomatically to and threats are creating opportunities may use drawn-out talks to further ad- countries like South Korea, Russia for China to forge new ties with the vance his nuclear program, as North and the U.S. Those are serious allies Trump continues to antagonize. Korea has done in the past. accomplishments. Trump is a talented politician. He There’s also a concern that talks may Yet lasting peace with North Korea knows his “America irst” message implode if Trump feels slighted, as he did remains beyond the horizon. And in the plays well with his most loyal backers. after the G-7 meeting. This time the fall- meantime, U.S. allies in the region are Perhaps his deiance and an “us vs. out would do more than bruise the U.S.’s being left on the sidelines. In exchange the world” approach will again inspire relationships with its steadiest allies; it for vague promises of denuclearization, his supporters to vote. Is it good for his

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Korean Peninsula. In addition to an arsenal of atomic bombs secreted away in underground tunnels across the country, VIEWPOINT North Korea has approximately 11,000 pieces of artillery aimed at Seoul from ‘WAR GAMES’ ARE the mountains north of the demilitarized zone. Destroying those positions would NOTHING TO TOY WITH take days, during which bombs would be By James Stavridis raining down on the Seoul metropolitan area’s population of 25 million. At the inal press conference of Morale will also drop within the “The danger is that he is approaching his whirlwind summit, President U.S. forces themselves if they are not this almost as a reality show,” says Jefrey Trump announced offhandedly that allowed to practice for war. Nobody Prescott, a former senior National the U.S. would end what he called knows better than our soldiers, sailors, Security Council oicial under Obama. its “provocative war games” with airmen and Marines the importance “He’s thinking about the short-term South Korea. But “war games” is a of these exercises. As the military beneit he could get from the pageantry misrepresentation. Trump is sacriicing saying goes, “The more you sweat of the summit itself and could lose sight joint operational military exercises in in practice, the less you bleed in of the substance of the threat.” Kim wants which ships, aircraft, ground forces and war.” Additionally, the announcement to be seen on equal footing with the U.S. special operators practice executing seemed to catch the Pentagon by and, ultimately, secure a guarantee that deined war plans. To have forces surprise, and the cavalier way in which the U.S. won’t attack and will eventually forward deployed without the beneit of Trump rolled it out will diminish the leave the Korean Peninsula. this practice could lead to major losses conidence that the troops—and the There is another possibility: that in a real ight. After decades as a Secretary of Defense—have in the through chance, shifting interests and senior military oficer, I cannot imagine Commander in Chief. the mix of Kim’s strategy and Trump’s stopping them without irst seeing spontaneity, the Singapore summit will tangible progress in not only North What is particularly troubling is that represent a real breakthrough. When Korean denuclearization, but also we’ve offered up this bargaining chip Trump took oice, Washington elites demilitarization by that nation, which seemingly without getting anything in return other than vague promises were arguing over two options for dealing ields the world’s fourth-largest army. America does these exercises from Kim Jong Un on eventual with Kim’s nukes: military intervention or constantly, often on a weekly basis, denuclearization and the return of learning to live with a nuclear North Korea with larger events monthly and truly remains of 5,300 U.S. servicemen through deterrence. This summit, for all grand-scale exercises a couple of killed in the Korean War. Even if that its showmanship, may very well leave the times a year. A weekly exercise might happens—and it has been promised U.S. better positioned than either of those be a U.S. engineering company before with almost no lasting effect— oferings. Trump’s “diplomacy, however working alongside our South Korean North Korea’s conventional force unconventional, has pierced the isolation partners to practice clearing battleield would still pose a signiicant threat bubble of the North Korean leadership, obstructions. Each month might to the South. Without a U.S. military which no previous President could do,” see our ighter jets in mock combat presence and these exercises, North wrote Victor Cha, President George W. over the skies of South Korea. A big Korea would become the dominant Bush’s director for Asian afairs at the semi-annual event would include actor on the peninsula, especially with National Security Council from 2004 to warships from the U.S., Japan, Chinese backing. 2007, in the New York Times on June 12. Australia, Singapore and other allies Trump seems to see all of this— On his way back to the White House operating together off the coasts of military exercises, consulting with from Air Force One after departing from the Korean Peninsula, with tens of allies, stationing troops overseas—as Singapore, Trump was in a deiant, even thousands of troops involved. If we expensive and troublesome. What he ebullient, mood. In defense of his cancel- were to unilaterally stop all of those misses is that these efforts are part lation of the military exercises, for exam- exercises, our readiness would suffer of a coherent whole that creates a considerably, given all they do to network of allies and coalition partners ple, he tweeted at his critics, “We save a prepare us to “ight tonight”—the around the world who are willing to fortune by not doing war games, as long motto of U.S. Forces Korea. stand with us on the big issues. Snap as we are negotiating in good faith—which This will have a highly negative decisions to stop our exercises, even both sides are.” A few in Washington impact on the seriousness with which when in the cause of moving a peace agreed, including some Democrats. But our allies—notably South Korea, but process forward, can hurt us badly there were plenty who saw in Trump’s lat- also other Indo-Asian partners—view around the globe. est impulsive moves a dangerous trend. our military capability. They prize and The President rolls the die, breaks diplo- seek out our professionalism and Stavridis was the 16th Supreme matic norms and relishes the fact that pre- preparedness. This announcement Allied Commander at NATO and is dicted catastrophe doesn’t come to pass. shocked them. They may hesitate to dean of the Fletcher School of Law Which is ine unless it does. □ align with us going forward. and Diplomacy at Tufts University

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The Women Are Winning Why female candidates are dominating the 2018 Democratic primaries By Molly Ball

LIKE A LOT OF LIBERAL WOMEN, KATIE PORTER DIDN’T like what she was seeing in Washington. So the Southern California law professor decided to run for Congress to do something about it. In April 2017, the Democrat announced that she would challenge Republican incumbent Mimi Walters, who represents the 45th District in historically conservative Orange County. Porter, 44, is a consumer-protection attorney who co-authored a book with Senator Elizabeth Warren. But just a few days after she launched her campaign, a younger male colleague at the same law school—whom Porter helped land his job—got in the race too. He warned that she was too liberal to win. The California Democratic Party endorsed him over her. On June 5, Porter won the primary anyway, and in November, she’ll be on the midterm ballot in a district that Hillary Clinton won by 5 points. “People here are ired up,” Porter tells TIME. “If we want to stand up to Trump’s agenda, we need a Congresswoman who represents our values.” Her victory highlights a dominant theme of this year’s primary season. After running for oice in record numbers, Democratic primary winners women are now winning Democratic nominations at a this year include, record rate. In Democratic primaries that have featured at clockwise from top right, least one woman and one man but no incumbent, women Kara Eastman, have won the most votes 71% of the time, according to Madeleine Dean, Dave Wasserman, an analyst for the Cook Political Report, Stacey Abrams, Amy McGrath, a Washington-based newsletter. The situation is diferent Susan Wild, on the Republican side, where women have won 35% of Katie Porter, Deb Haaland and those scenarios. In Democratic primaries, Wasserman has Michelle Lujan calculated a “gender bonus” of 15% for female candidates. Grisham ILLUSTRATION BY ELEANOR SHAKESPEARE FOR TIME 31 Nation

On June 5, the biggest primary day of the year, 42 of the 48 candidates endorsed by Emily’s List, which supports pro-choice Democratic women, prevailed in races up and down the ballot in eight states, from governor to state legislature. Overall, 104 of the group’s 123 primary candidates have triumphed this year, well above its usual success rate in what are often heated intraparty contests. Far more than any ideological trend, Wasser- man wrote, “the drive to elect women is deining 2018’s Democratic primaries.” The trend shows no signs of abating. On June 12, women dominated Demo- cratic congressional primaries in Virginia, while Maine attorney general Janet Mills led narrowly in the state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, which was too close to call. “It’s exhilarating,” Mills, who would be the state’s irst female governor, says of being part of this prospective vanguard. The result is that women, many of them new to politics, will be the face of △ group’s president, Stephanie Schriock, the Democratic Party in the irst national Eastman won a Nebraska primary sitting in her spacious oice decorated election of the Trump era. That wasn’t over a former Congressman with campaign memorabilia. This year, necessarily the party’s plan. Many suc- the group has “bundled” $6.5 million cessful female candidates have, like Por- as health care and education, on which from individual donors on behalf of can- ter, needed to overcome the Democratic polls show female candidates tend to be didates, and its independent-expenditure establishment to win their primaries. In more trusted. “With so many women arm has spent $12.2 million. California, the state’s Democratic Party running this cycle, especially Democrats, While the number of women in did not endorse a female challenger for I am conident that any ‘blue wave’ will politics has grown steadily over time, the 10 Republican-held House seats the wear lipstick and high heels,” Democratic parity remains distant not because voters party is targeting in the state. strategist and former national party chair dislike female candidates—they tend to Why are all these women winning Donna Brazile tells TIME. win elections at the same rates as men, in spite of such obstacles? One reason It’s too early to say whether this bet according to political scientists—but is that other women are campaigning, will pay of. But if it does and Democrats because not enough women ran in the irst organizing and voting for them. The rack up big electoral gains, 2018 could be place. That’s what the 2016 presidential inchoate rage of the 2017 Women’s March a truly historic year for women in politics. outcome changed. The loodgates opened has been channeled into thousands of Currently, women account for just 107 of after Election Day, and the Women’s activist cells across the country. Women the 535 members of the House and Senate, March accelerated the trend. Since then, dominate the so-called resistance groups, or 20%. Advocates say an inlux would Emily’s List has heard from more than like Indivisible, that have sprung up all help balance policy debates routinely 36,000 women interested in running for over the U.S. These organizations, in turn, dominated by white males. As Madeleine oice, compared with less than 1,000 have been relentless in staging protests Dean, who won a congressional primary over the previous two years. The number and fundraisers and canvassing for local in Pennsylvania in May, put it at a forum, of women from both parties running for causes and candidates. “Indivisible “We are in this pickle because we have the House, Senate and governor this year and the resistance and the #MeToo too many of the same type of person is a record high, according to the Center movements,” Mills says, “have brought representing a diverse population.” for American Women and Politics at these issues to the fore.” Rutgers University. “This is all coming Democratic strategists hope this crop THE NATIONAL NERVE CENTER for this out of a moment of realization that of fresh-faced women will give the party year’s groundswell is the downtown-D.C. elections have consequences and women an advantage in November, primarily headquarters of Emily’s List, which has can’t aford to leave politics to someone by providing a contrast to President raised more than $500 million over three else,” says the center’s director, Debbie Trump. Female candidates, they say, will decades to help bridge the gender gap in Walsh. But it’s the Democrats who have appeal to voters looking for change and Democratic politics. “We’ve been prac- been the success story: only 20% of be natural messengers for issues, such ticing 33 years for this moment,” says the nonincumbent Republican women have

32 TIME June 25, 2018 won primaries, lower than the rate for OVER THE FIRST endgame,” Schriock says. “They’ve got to GOP men, according to Walsh. HURDLE get on the general election ballot to make Many of the women who have emerged a diference. That’s where we come in.” Seventy-three Democratic women have been from contested primaries thus far have, nominated for House seats so far in 2018, like Porter, run against male candidates including these eight PART OF THIS SUCCESS, of course, is supported by local or national power driven by the President. Backlash against brokers. In Pennsylvania, a state whose Trump is the deining dynamic in the 16-person congressional delegation Democratic Party, and a Democratic is currently all men, local honchos woman qualiies as the anti-Trump. In supported male candidates over Susan an NBC News and Wall Street Journal Wild and Dean, both of whom won poll released in early June, 48% of voters anyway. Amy McGrath, in Kentucky, and Abby Finkenauer Mikie Sherrill nationally said they’re inclined to vote for Kara Eastman, in Nebraska, beat male IOWA NEW JERSEY a candidate who promises to be a check At 29, the state rep The former Navy congressional candidates supported by wants to become helicopter pilot is on the President, vs. 23% who said they’d the Democratic Congressional Campaign the youngest gunning for a seat be less likely to. The feeling is especially Committee (DCCC). woman ever elected being vacated intense among college-educated women: Organizations like the DCCC tend to Congress. by a retiring 72% disapprove of Trump, according to to prefer candidates with political Republican. NBC and the Wall Street Journal, while experience—which may incline them just 27% support him. against rookies like McGrath—or those There’s no guarantee that these women who are independently wealthy, a group will be the face of a Democratic wave. dominated by businessmen. Schriock Halfway through the 2018 primaries, argues that irst-time female candidates the party’s prospects remain somewhat can gain an edge this year by positioning uncertain. The economy is going strong, themselves as outsiders with real- Gina Ortiz Jones Kara Eastman and the proportion of voters who say they world knowledge who can shake up TEXAS NEBRASKA want Democrats to control Congress has The former Air Force A nonproit exec run- Washington. Some female candidates narrowed in some national polls. Many

N WILD; THESE PAGES: EASTMAN: NATI HARNIK—AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; oficer would be the ning on single-payer COURTESY OF MADELEINE DEAN; WILD: COURTESY OF SUSAN WILD say it’s unfair that the political experience irst lesbian, Iraq health care, she of the women who’ve gotten through they’ve worked to build gets called a War vet and Filipina topped the party’s primaries still face uphill battles in negative. “Now, men say, ‘Well, you have to represent Texas preferred candidate November in Republican-leaning states a great résumé, but you’re kind of an in Congress. in the primary. and districts, where the qualities that insider,’” Mills, the Maine gubernatorial endeared them to a Democratic primary candidate, told a campaign rally. “Really? electorate might not translate. For decades, men were telling women, Hillary Clinton and many of her ‘Just a little more experience and you’ll allies called persistent sexism part of be qualiied.’ Well, goddamn it, I am the explanation for her 2016 defeat. qualiied!” (Her opponent was a business- Some Democratic strategists wondered man billing himself as an outsider.) Amy McGrath Madeleine Dean if it wasn’t too risky to run women at For women running against the KENTUCKY PENNSYLVANIA the top of the ticket, but Schriock insists A viral campaign The state rep establishment, which in many places video helped launch beat a former Democratic voters haven’t been blindly

: GETTY IMAGES; EASTMAN, HAALAND: AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; DEAN: can resemble an old boys’ club, Emily’s the former ighter Congressman in picking the woman’s name on the ballot.

RISHAM, MCGRATH, PORTER: GETTY IMAGES; WILD: COURTESY OF SUSA List can serve as a counterweight. pilot and mother of the primary for a “These women candidates are putting The group sent staf and funding to three to a primary Democratic-leaning together a case that voters are hearing candidates it deemed competitive, victory. seat. and supporting,” she says. There are helping tip the scales in some races. In plenty of states yet to hold primaries, New Mexico, for example, the group which continue into September. But so funded advertisements on behalf of far, the clear-cut trend is not for Bernie two female congressional candidates in Sanders–style liberals or safe centrists. order to counteract other national groups, It’s been women. With Honor and No Labels, which were Just don’t call it their year. “Year of the supporting a male candidate. It was an Susan Wild Deb Haaland Woman” was the celebratory label coined unusual move not to pick one candidate PENNSYLVANIA NEW MEXICO to describe 1992, when the number of The city solicitor A primary winner in and back only her, but it helped boost Deb beat ive other a blue district, the women in Congress doubled—and then Haaland, a community activist who would Democrats in a community activist inched upward for the next quarter- be the irst Native American woman in primary for the will likely become century. Schriock insists that dispiriting Congress, to a primary win in the state’s newly drawn the irst Native history will not be repeated in 2018. First District. “Having a historic number Seventh district. American woman “I don’t think this is a moment,” she says. in Congress. PREVIOUS PAGES: EASTMAN, HAALAND: AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; ABRAMS, DEAN, G FINKENAUER: REUTERS; SHERILL: THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX; JONES, MCGRATH of women run in primaries was not the “It’s a sea change.”  33 34 TIME June 25, 2018 Society

Words to Live By

Across the U.S., black fathers talk with their sons about the normal things: being kind, getting an education, nding a job. But they also must confront how they and their sons are seen as they go about their lives. To capture the wide range of experiences of black men and their sons, photographer RUDDY ROYE, a father of two boys, traveled the country to learn what these dads are teaching their children about race, success and survival

I know that I have a special boy. But my reality as a father is, one day, this 10-year-old could not come home—at the hands of foolishness or hatred or misunderstanding. And if I can give him anything, I would say, “Take your life one day at a time. Don’t let this world suck you into it with the illusions of happiness and the illusions of self-worth. Be your own man. Make your own mind. Have your own decisions. And above all, don’t be afraid of anything.”

Dame Drummer, 40 Damon, 10 Oakland, Calif.

Interviews have been edited and condensed

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ESSAY 2015 book, All In, showed that the majority of black BYEDDIES.GLAUDEJR. men do live with their children. A 2013 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found that My son Langston came into the black fathers are more likely than their white and Hispanic counterparts to bathe, read to, talk with house visibly angry. His jaw was and review homework with their children on a daily basis. Of course, there are black men who have clenched, and his eyes were red turned their backs on their children. But they are no and narrowed. “What’s wrong?” diferent than other men who have done the same. THE PERSISTENCE of the stereotype, however, I quickly asked. “I was just trying sheds light on the context within which we must raise our children—especially our sons. They to park and get to work,” he said. will grow up, and we must raise them in a world that has a host of assumptions about who they are and what they are capable of. I remember my Last summer, Langston was an intern for a own father, a hard man who weathered brutal progressive organization in New Jersey. They had Mississippi summers to deliver mail, telling me, been lobbying at the capitol in Trenton that day. He “I am not here to be your friend. I have to prepare left home hoping they could make a diference. But you for the world out there, and it ain’t a friendly as he attempted to park at the statehouse, a police place.” As if raising children isn’t hard enough, we oicer stopped him and roughly told him to park have to do so with the added burden of preparing elsewhere. As Langston searched for a diferent them for a racist world. That fact alone often spot, another oicer stopped him, drilled him interrupts intimacies. It can make private, black with questions and told him to ind somewhere spaces hard and sometimes appear unloving. else to park. He stood still in the kitchen, not really Even in We comfort our sons when their hearts are looking at me as he spoke. And then, “I got stopped broken. Encourage them after a crushing defeat. again, Dad. Again! And the cop asked me, ‘Who is the most Criticize their lack of efort. Prod them to do better your P.O.?’ And I said, ‘What’s a P.O.?’ and the cop intimate in school. We urge them to dream big—but with yelled, ‘Parole oicer!’ I was in a suit, Dad! A suit!” moments, the refrain that, if they are going to achieve their A single tear fell down his face. black dreams, they will have to be twice as good and This was the latest in a string of incidents. As fathers work twice as hard as everyone else. And there it is: father and son, we’d had “the talk.” Not the one even in the most intimate moments, black fathers about sex that all parents have. The one about have to have to remind their children that this world is not being black in America. He had told me of his remind organized in their favor. encounters with the police before. I longed to their Ruddy Roye’s photographs ofer a glimpse protect him. But here he was in front of me again, children into those interrupted intimacies. With these 21 years of age, full of rage. I felt helpless as a that this images, “we see the disparate range of the father. I shouted, “F-ck!” and poured us a stif relationships between fathers and sons,” Roye drink. I didn’t know what else to do. world is not told me. Throughout, we see fathers pulling their I am sure I am not alone. Black fathers through- organized sons close: their arms draped around them, the out this country struggle to raise their sons in a in their boys snuggled tight, trying to approximate a space world where they seemingly have bull’s-eyes on favor of safety. their backs. We work hard at striking the delicate But these images are haunted by the reality of balance between unconditional love and providing what lies beyond the reach of our arms. My son the discipline our sons and daughters will need came home angry and in tears. Thank God he came to survive in America. We watch them as they home. Think about the blank stare of Trayvon take their irst steps. Teach them how to ride their Martin’s dad or the rage in the eyes of Michael bicycles without training wheels. We attend their Brown Sr., or listen to the unimaginable grief of basketball games. Tend to their scratches and Alton Sterling’s son as he wept for his late father. bruises. Argue and ight with them when they Black fathers are here. Roye’s photographs bear become teenagers. Worry about their choices and witness to that fact. We are trying desperately to their futures. raise our children, to shower them with love, to We do so while much of the country—well, allow them to dream big—and to keep them alive. much of white America—believes we are absent ▼ For more photos from our children’s lives. The stereotype of the and stories, visit Glaude, a TIME columnist, is the chair of the absent black father has masqueraded as common time.com/ department of African-American studies at Princeton sense, even if the data suggest otherwise. Josh Levs’ black-fathers University and author of Democracy in Black

36 TIME June 25, 2018 I teach my sons that when life gets hard, Fredrico Don Broom, 41; never give up. There was a time when I Vincent, 7, in lap; was going to lose it all. It was on Father’s Diego, 12 Day. I work as an engineer, in my father’s Catonsville, Md. footsteps. I got a call from my job: to come in, stabilize the boiler room. Before I could leave, one of the stabilizer tanks exploded. I got cracked across the head. I was out for 2½ years. I sold everything I had just to keep a roof over our heads. To keep things aloat, I started my own business. It’s always good to show a physical example of strength, determination. 37 I realized at an early age that he was a very spiritual guy. But he had his own mind. He would have to learn from observing me. We used to bowl, and people said, “I didn’t know Muslims had fun?” He was taking all this in—how people responded to us, respected us. Also, my wife was a [gang] violence interrupter, so he and his siblings knew what was happening in the community and were aware of certain things not to be involved in. He saw the distinction between right and wrong.

Shaykh Abdur Rashied, 70 Malcolm Matthews, 20 Chicago

I’m sherif of Hinds County. When I became an oicer in law enforcement in the early ’80s, I knew how the environment was here, so I didn’t want my son to be a victim. I wanted him to be a vessel. I was very protective of my sons, but I let them get their knees skinned. I would take him to the funeral home. I would let him see bodies in the back that were shot up because guys were trying to commit crimes, and let him know this was just one-way; there are consequences.

Victor P. Mason, 62 Christopher Mason, 35 Jackson, Miss.

38 TIME June 25, 2018 I cannot protect my son. I cannot protect my daughter. When a black teen does something, it’s like, “We’re gonna teach him a lesson.” When a white teen does something, it’s like, “Oh, he’s a kid. It’s a phase.” The irst time I spoke to him about this, he was about 10. And his response to me was, “Dad, I’m half-white.” And I was like, “I get that. But in everybody else’s world, you’re not. They think you’re black.” He’s having a hard time having to compute that.

Kamau Preston, 39 Dayne, 12 New York City

Every day, we talk about how our day was and about being a leader, a good listener and a good helper. His school is African-centered and teaches the greatness of precolonial kings and kingdoms, rather than him learning about slavery as if that were our irst entry point into history. My father is Nigerian, so we make sure that’s a part of his understanding of who he is— that when he enters in the room, he has that greatness that he carries within him.

Remi Bereola, 38 Kaden, 4 Oakland, Calif.

39 I was fortunate enough to be able to Jesse Starr III, 50 be raised around a father that was in Jesse Starr IV, 28 the workforce, and he was a teacher. Jackson, Miss. So I saw a work ethic early. And then I have a bloodline of just hustlers and entrepreneurs, so I’ve always been fortunate enough to understand that you’d make two dollars, you turn it into four. When I saw that, it gave me the work ethic to know that you’ve got to have your own business—all black men in America and beyond need to have their own business. My son picked that up.

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QUEER EYE IS BACK: A NEW DOCUMENTARY GOES BIG-VOICED CHRISTINA WHY THE SHOW MATTERS INSIDE THE LIFE OF KIDS’-TV AGUILERA GETS LIBERATED NOW MORE THAN EVER ICON MISTER ROGERS ON HER LATEST ALBUM

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BOOKS THE PROTO–CELEBRITY EDITOR might be Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who Publishing gets a boost took on a consulting editorship at Viking from celebrity editors Press in 1975. (In ’77, a Viking spokesperson told the Washington Post that By Lauren Mechling Onassis worked a two- or three-day week “except when she’s out of the country.”) N THE 14 YEARS SINCE THE FINAL EPISODE OF SEX AND The former First Lady oversaw titles on the City aired, Sarah Jessica Parker has become a real- Russian costumes and fairy tales. life fashion mogul with her own shoe line, portrayed a “Jackie Kennedy is one of the Isuburban corporate recruiter in the HBO series Divorce models Sarah Jessica and I discussed and played an actor in an of-Broadway production. But her when we started talking about the latest undertaking goes in another direction: literary lion. partnership,” says Molly Stern, senior Parker’s new publishing imprint, SJP for Hogarth, released vice president and publisher of Crown, its irst novel on June 12—within a week of when another Hogarth and Archetype books, who irst celebrity-run book imprint, Lena Dunham’s Lenny, published approached Parker about taking a shot a new novel of its own. The worlds of fashion and music have at publishing. “Jackie was a journalist long understood the power of celebrity collaborations, which before she was married to the President, count on high-proile partners to combine expertise and and Sarah Jessica was a lifelong reader star power. Now book publishers are breaking out of their before she became an actress.” bubble and looking to outsiders—people with name-brand SJP for Hogarth will publish literary cachet and stratospheric social-media followings, and who iction—Parker’s favorite genre— presumably also love books—to curate and helm boutique with an emphasis on multicultural lists. “Publishers want celebrity stardust, and, let’s face it, voices. “I’m focused on stories that most writers don’t have that,” says Claiborne Smith, editor in cultivate empathy and expose us to chief of Kirkus Reviews. people whose homes I’m not likely For Parker, it’s the realization of a longtime fantasy. “I to be invited into,” the newly minted never imagined at this point in my life I’d have the opportunity editorial director says of her mission. to turn my lifelong hobby of reading into my work,” she says. Fatima Farheen Mirza’s A Place Nearly every major publisher is now in the celebrity for Us, the imprint’s debut novel, business. Simon & Schuster has Jeter Publishing, a concerns the dynamics of an Indian- partnership with baseball legend Derek Jeter that launched American Muslim family in California. in 2013. Random House ofered Dunham and her producing Derek Jeter, Lena While Layla and Raiq try to uphold Dunham and partner Jenni Konner their own imprint in ’16, following Andy Cohen are their customs, their children Huda, on the success of Dunham’s best-selling ’14 memoir, among the big Hadia and Amar struggle to please Not That Kind of Girl. Henry Holt and Co., known for names who have their parents while also itting in elevated iction and news-breaking political titles such turned their with their new schoolmates. as Michael Wolf’s Fire and Fury, announced in 2016 that attentions to In polished prose that zeroes in on it had bestowed Bravo TV personality AnddyCohen book publishing domestic detail and, at its loveliest, with his own imprint. ▽ rerecalls Jhuumpa Lahiri, Mirza One of the trailblazers in this space wass delivers a portrait of a Anthony Bourdain, who died June 8 at agee 61. family sttraining to hold Daniel Halpern, president and publisher of its centere amid rebellions Ecco Books, gave his star author Bourdainn both quiiet and explosive. his own imprint in 2011. “It was his love of “I diddn’t even know what IMAGES GETTY COHEN: DUNHAM, JETER, AUGUST; PAGE: PREVIOUS literature that got him doing this,” Halpernn an imprint was when Sarah says. Anthony Bourdain Books has Jessica called me to published 13 works since its founding— discuss my novel,” thanks in large part to Bourdain’s says Mirza, a 27-year- ability to identify talent. Even before old graduate of he had his own imprint, Bourdain was the Iowa Writers bringing in new voices and insisting Workshop. “She Halpern publish them. Ecco will was so thoughtful, publish the few remaining under and the parts of the contract before closing in the wake of book she brought Bourdain’s death. “It’s devastating,” up were the ones Halpern says. “Nobody was so curious most precious to me. and committed, not even close.” It was uncanny.”

44 TIME June 25, 2018 Parker says she gets nervous in her in New York City, was a critical hit new role. Taking an approach that’s and landed on multiple best-of-the- part book nerd and part method actor, year lists. The imprint’s next ofering she travels to bookseller conventions, is Providence by Caroline Kepnes, a doodles book-cover ideas and attends Star-studded modern-day retelling of H.P. Lovecraft’s Penguin Random House’s launch shelves horror tale “The Dunwich Horror,” and marketing meetings—where she about a man who becomes a monster presents her selections in hopes of Celebrity-run imprints offer with destructive powers. winning over the internal support everything from literary With its campy feel, Providence iction to memoir. necessary to any book’s success. might not seem an obvious sibling for “I don’t want to look like a light- the literary Sour Heart—even more weight,” Parker says. “I don’t want so because it’s a co-product of the people to think I’m dabbling. I want author and the book packager Alloy them to know I take their work Entertainment, which created the seriously, and I try to learn about the Gossip Girl series. But the works have trade—I’ve spent a lot of time learning in common a pair of uniquely powerful about the importance of bookshelf champions in Dunham and Konner, placement.” (If it isn’t visible, she notes, who promote their books in their online it’s not going to be purchased.) THE GIFT OF ANGER magazine Lenny Letter. Kirby Kim, a literary agent with Jeter Publishing Even so, certain authors might prefer Janklow & Nesbit Associates, has The baseball star’s imprint the imprimatur of a literary institution irsthand experience with the soup-to- offers books for all ages, over a celebrity’s. “I could see why including an inspirational nuts nature of Parker’s involvement. In tome by Mahatma Gandhi’s celebrity imprints would be ripe for March, when he submitted a novel to grandson Arun Gandhi. derision—critics might say celebrities multiple houses ahead of the London are trying to look smart,” says Katherine Book Fair, Parker took a break from fair Fausset, a literary agent with Curtis events to read the manuscript, and her Brown Ltd. But, she adds, “maybe Sarah imprint wasted no time coming in with Jessica Parker has a greater chance of an ofer. “Instead of just networking sitting next to Meryl Streep at a dinner and schmoozing, she actually zoomed party than some other editor.” And through the submission,” Kim says. nearly every writer wants to see their Ultimately another publisher won the book turned into a movie. title. “You lose books—that has been As stars including Reese Witherspoon gutting,” Parker says. “It’s tough, but it’s PROVIDENCE and Emma Roberts have helped buoy been good for me. I don’t have a limitless Lenny writers to greater visibility with their budget. I have to be thoughtful about Dunham and Konner’s popular book clubs, the walls between how we’re spending our dollars.” imprint aims to give voice to publishing and ilm have only eroded the female experience. Its For their part, Dunham and Konner latest offering, Providence, further. “If you’re being positive about have also remained active in the is an emo-monster story. what’s happening now, exciting is the editorial process by keeping the Lenny right word,” says Smith. “If you’re being list small, with a manageable load negative, the word is parasitic.” of only a few books a year. “They’re It’s also a new take on an old tradition. reading right along with us and ofering Not long ago, the efort was to spin book ideas,” says Random House editor in editors into celebrities. Within the last chief Andy Ward, who is also Dunham’s decade or so, industry dynamos such editor. “They’re incredibly good with as Lee Boudreaux, Sarah Crichton and the cover stuf too, with type and Reagan Arthur were all given their own illustration and, in general, coming up imprints that featured their names with ideas to give these books a look on the spines. But those experiments A PLACE FOR US that feels a little diferent from what we SJP for Hogarth were short-lived. The only remaining might normally do.” Parker’s imprint debuts with of the three, FSG’s Sarah Crichton Fatima Farheen Mirza’s literary Books, is set to shutter next year. THE LITERARY WORLD seems largely novel about a fracturing Indian- Parker, meanwhile, is of to the races ready to embrace books from celebrity American Muslim family. promoting her irst novel. Two weeks imprints on their merits. Lenny’s 2017 before its release, she posted a picture debut, Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang, of herself hailing a cab with SJP for a collection of short stories about Hogarth’s debut book in her hand. It got Chinese-American girls growing up nearly 167,000 likes. □ 45 TimeOf Reviews

STREAMING Queer Eye returns more vital than ever By Ira Madison III

IN A SEA OF MOSTLY UNNECESSARY television reboots, it’s almost surprising to ind one as politically au courant as Netlix’s Queer Eye. The show aired its irst iteration on Bravo in 2003, and it was very much an artifact of that time, playing into broad caricatures of gay men to hook a straight audience. But 15 years later, a new version of the show, which debuted its irst block of episodes in February, proved Queer Eye could work in 2018—and be done with a lot of heart and charm, no less. In this version, a new “Fab Five”— Moving moments: the Fab Five work their magic on Queer Eye experts in the ields of grooming, food and wine, fashion, design and culture—travel to Georgia, where they onscreen. And it’s not just the Fab Five: racism and religious intolerance with encounter not just straight men in toxic masculinity tells us that men its plucky, heart-on-its-sleeve approach need of a place to shop beyond Eddie showing afection for other men is in- to crossing the aisle. As encouraging Bauer, but also women, gay men and, in herently gay, but Queer Eye shows how as it might be to watch the Fab Five Season 2, the show’s irst transgender men, both gay and straight, can be kind work warmly with conservative man, all of whom need a dose of life and open with one another. It’s a worth- folks, the show’s bigheartedness coaching alongside their makeovers. while message, and a rare one. can also make it feel anodyne. IMAGES GETTY JAMES: NETFLIX; STAIRCASE: THE NESS, VAN EYE, QUEER As fashion expert Tan France puts it: Happily, Season 2 exempliies Yet that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “The original show was ighting for this quality in the series, and ofers Queer culture is enjoying a rich media tolerance. Our ight is for acceptance.” a stronger batch of episodes than its renaissance right now, with series like The way Queer Eye does this is qui- irst season, which featured a few low Pose and RuPaul’s Drag Race earning etly clever and revolutionary: it’s a points—an unfortunate episode made critical acclaim and seminal plays in- show about friendship among gay men light of police brutality by having a cop cluding The Boys in the Band and Angels dressed up as a makeover show. The “jokingly” pull over the men as Karamo in America returning to Broadway. But warm banter and intimacy between the Brown, the series’ sole black star, was for audiences that just want to tune into show’s hosts present a side of queer cul- driving. (Later, during his makeover, something light and let out a good cry ture that most straight viewers would the men rummaged through another on their sofas, Queer Eye has the power never get to see; it’s so rare to see a cop’s belongings and found a MAKE to show them a side of gay culture that mainstream television series with more AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hat.) Queer Eye previously might never have existed to than one gay man on it, and rarer still is at its least efective when it pretends them. That makes the series more than to see those men embrace one another that it can combat complex issues like just entertaining—it’s vital. 

True-crime fans will get their What to ill for the summer when The stream now Staircase comes to Netlix. A documentary series By Mahita Gajanan that initially aired in 2004, The Staircase is back with three new episodes—in addition The Staircase to the 10 from the show’s original run—that offer an authoritative look at a murder case for a death that occurred

46 TIME June 25, 2018 QUICK TALK POP CHART TIME’S WEEKLY TAKE Jonathan ON WHAT POPPED Van Ness IN CULTURE Harry Potter and Van Ness, 31, is the the Cursed Child, efervescent grooming expert the staged sequel of Queer Eye. He returns to to J.K. Rowling’s Netlix for the show’s second seven-book series, took home the Tony season on June 15. Award for Best Play in addition to ive Did growing up in a small other awards. town help prepare you for shooting in rural locations? Shooting in rural towns didn’t feel new or scary. I was able to go into those situations without toning myself down. Growing up in Illinois and being a male cheerleader also prepared me. I’ve worn a 100% polyester cheer- leading outit in stadiums full of people—it is pretty hard to LOVE IT embarrass me. LEAVE IT

Have there been any unexpected outcomes from being on the show? I am shocked almost on a After the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the daily basis that my being Golden State Warriors me everywhere I go afects in the NBA Finals, people so deeply. There are Cavs star LeBron so many repressed feelings PRIDE IS A of all those who have come James said he “pretty in men and women about TIME‘ FOR US TO before us and made it possible much played the last being themselves and loving to celebrate our brothers and three games with a CELEBRATE THE broken hand” because themselves. Whether you are sisters who lost their lives to he had reportedly straight or gay, we are all in PEOPLE WHO HIV/AIDS and fought so hard punched a locker- this boat of not being quite LITERALLY LAID for us to be visible. It’s a time room whiteboard. sure if we are lovable, and DOWN THEIR for us to celebrate the people I didn’t realize how much who literally laid down their people were struggling. LIVES FOR US lives for us to be safe. Do we TO BE SAFE get to make out topless and go June is Pride month. What ’ on parades? Yes, but Pride is does Pride mean to you? I so much more than that. think it is really a celebration —WILDER DAVIES

nearly two decades ago. his life soon start to spill out. kicked off the recent wave In 2001, Kathleen Peterson Twists and turns happen in real of true-crime shows and was found dead in a pool time, under the documentary’s podcasts, from Serial to of blood at the bottom of a close watch: Peterson’s Making a Murderer, and at staircase in the North Carolina bisexuality and relationships A NEW TAKE Netlix whodunit fare has home she shared with her with other men come under The irst cut of the miniseries become a staple. But this won a Peabody Award in 2005; husband, the writer Michael scrutiny, and it later emerges the Netlix version includes particular series is worth Peterson, who was charged that Kathleen was not the irst three new hours taking the time to watch, with her murder. While the case woman in his life to have died especially to see how no one at irst appears to exonerate in a staircase-related incident. can truly escape the workings Peterson, sordid details from The Staircase arguably of the justice system. 47

The family that ights evil together stays together—baby included

MOVIES It’s also surprisingly scary in places, but still human riing on the fear that those we love Incredible, best could someday become strangers By Stephanie Zacharek who don’t even recognize us. The plot is worked out beautifully: superheroes THE KEY TO THE WONDERS OF BRAD BIRD’S INDISPUTABLY are still illegal, as they were in the irst wonderful Pixar features—irst The Incredibles, then movie. But they’re the world’s best hope Ratatouille and now the bold, rapturously entertaining against a new threat, a faceless villain Incredibles 2—is that he writes for cartoon characters as if called the Screenslaver. His plan is to they were human actors. Everything those characters do, control behavior through the things that every split-second decision they make—even a misguided already rule our lives. one—feels lived in, not drawn in. In Incredibles 2, when If Incredibles 2 harbors a current of superhero dad Bob Parr, a.k.a. Mr. Incredible (voiced by Craig seriousness, what really makes it work T. Nelson), is forced to stay home with the kids while his wife is that it is so purely delightful. Nearly Helen, a.k.a. Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), enters the workforce Baby Jack-Jack’s all the familiar faces have returned, to bring home the much-needed bacon, the ive-o’clock superhero powers including Lucius Best, a.k.a. Frozone shadow gracing his he-man lantern jaw is a kind of cartoon include, but are (Samuel L. Jackson), supercool both shorthand for exhaustion. But the weariness in his carriage— not limited to, laser in and out of his superhero togs, and the way his big-’n’-tall physique seems delated from within, eyes, the ability the imperious Diana Vreeland of the imprisoned by plain old dad cotton when it belongs in to slip into other cartoon world Edna Mode (voiced by dimensions and superhero Spandex—qualiies as Method-style brilliance. Bird himself), who proves that great at-will spontaneous Of course Mr. Incredible is tired: he’s been chasing after combustion style can also be functional. (It’s she wild-man baby Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile) all day and night, in ▽ who invents the most practical onesie addition to keeping the older kids (Sarah Vowell’s wildloweer- forf out-of-control baby Jack-Jack.) shy and sometimes invisible Violet, and Huck Milner’s ball oof But even in the midst of its many energy Dash) on track. In the modern world, dads and moms boundlessb pleasures, Incredibles 2 often strive to shoulder parenting burdens equally. Being more chargesc us with a mission that’s not for powerful than a locomotive is easier than that. thet faint of heart: to choose to look at The Incredibles was a great animated ilm about true one another instead of being ixated democracy, kind of a Howard Hawks–style reverie about on the screens all around us. It’s the what people can achieve when they preserve their only way to be alive and awake to individuality and work together. Incredibles 2 goes even every moment. Sometimes it takes a deeper, delving into the fragility of the male ego in a cartoon to show us what it really takes

DISNEY (2) DISNEY world where women are asserting themselves more every day. tot be human.  51 TimeOf Reviews

MOVIES Mister Rogers shows the way forward FRED ROGERS, THE ordained minister behind the long-running public television show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, built a career, and a life, out of speaking frankly to young children. In each show he would repeat comforting routines: changing out of loafers and into sneakers; giving a sprinkle of food to his tankful of ish. His gentle manner and willingness to address human fears head-on Oferman and Clemons: letting go is the only way to hold on helped several generations of kids through the bewildering MOVIES forest of childhood. Morgan Neville’s ilm Facing the empty nest, with a song about Rogers, Won’t You Be By Stephanie Zacharek My Neighbor?, is an act of tenderness in documentary NOT SO LONG AGO, PARENTS OLD in My Dreams, The Hero) makes modest form. It would be enough enough to send their kids of to college pictures about segments of life that if Neville did nothing more would wind down a hectic day by almost don’t seem consequential enough than tell Rogers’ story. But spinning Frank Sinatra and Doris Day on to be movie subjects, like inding love he pulls of something more the hi-i. Today’s version of those parents later rather than sooner, and sending a delicate and complicated, have Sonic Youth and Sleater-Kinney on kid of to college when you still feel like presenting Rogers’ way of their Spotify. a kid yourself. But movies don’t have to thinking as a balm for our In Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud, be bigger and bolder than we ourselves current climate of intolerance Nick Oferman’s Frank Fisher is one of are. Haley’s ilms are things we can reach and hatred. “Love is at the those parents, so much a teenager at toward—there’s an intimacy and candor root of everything,” Rogers heart that you’d think he wouldn’t have about them that feels welcoming. once said, “love or the lack of too much trouble letting go of his bound- And he always inds the right it.” He died in 2003, but this for-college daughter. A onetime singer performers for the job. Oferman, with radiant documentary ensures and musician who runs a record store— his rumpled-T-shirt of a scowl, is the that the seedlings of love he the vinyl kind—in the hip Brooklyn nabe quintessential half dad, half boy, though planted live on.—S.Z. of Red Hook, he thinks it’s time to start he’s more than ready to grow out of his third act, though he has no idea what the latter role. The always marvelous Rogers and friends make that should be. Meanwhile, his daughter Toni Collette plays Frank’s friend and the most of a Sam (Kiersey Clemons), whom he has landlady, Leslie, who gives him sound beautiful day raised alone in the years since her moth- advice when he needs it and shuts er’s death, is running toward her future. his nonsense down when that’s what She wants to be a doctor, and she’ll soon he deserves. And Clemons—a gifted be leaving for school on the West Coast. musician who does her own singing She’s also got some singing and song- here—is lovely as a young woman who writing chops, and one night, after Frank is eager to make her own way, even persuades her to lay of the books and though she has to tear up some roots to jam with him—a little routine of theirs do it. Kids grow up before we know it. that Sam seems to be outgrowing—the Sometimes it’s only after they leave the two come up with an accidental semi-hit. nest that parents can resume growing up Writer-director Haley (I’ll See You themselves. □

52 TIME June 25, 2018 MUSIC One of pop’s biggest Aguilera’s last album was voices gets a new style 2012’s Lotus, By Jamieson Cox though she’s been a frequent CHRISTINA AGUILERA HAS ALWAYS BEEN DRIVEN feature on other by reinvention. She shakes of a part of herself artists’ hits with each new album cycle, tapping into a character or concept that can house whatever is energizing her creatively. First she left her teen- pop roots behind and demanded respect on 2002’s Stripped, becoming a deiant adult star; four years later, she shedded that album’s raunchy persona and evoked Old Hollywood glamour on the overstufed Back to Basics. She has spent most of the last decade-plus trying to generate and maintain some momentum, but she’s struggled to ind musical relevance beyond a few booming features on hits including Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” and Pitbull’s “Feel This Moment.” On Liberation, her eighth studio album, she hits the reset button after almost 20 years in the public eye. It’s a reintroduction to the Aguilera behind all her personae: a mother of two with a cannon for a voice, unburdened by commercial expectations and half a lifetime away from the talent who broke out with “Genie in a Bottle.” In many respects, Liberation feels like Aguilera’s attempt to make a version of Rihanna’s critically acclaimed Anti—an eclectic collection of tracks that come together to reveal something new about a star we’ve known forever. It’s rooted in R&B and hip- hop, but Aguilera doodles through a wide range of genres, including swampy Southern rock, dancehall and dewy ballads. While she realizes her vision with help from some fresh songwriters and producers, the tracks that best encapsulate Liberation’s frenetic she’s complemented by arrangements that reward sound were written and produced with Kanye West. her for doing something other than belting. She’s “Maria” is a letter from Aguilera to her younger lirty on the glowing “Like I Do,” wriggling around self, one built around a chirpy sample of a young a delirious lute loop: “I’ve been doing this way be- Michael Jackson that’s swaddled in trap drums and fore you,” she winks. Late-album highlight “Pipe” stirring strings, while on lead single “Accelerate,” is a featherlight duet, and Aguilera works out the she indulges in come-ons and boasts over strobe- logistics of a hookup with surprising delicacy. lit synths. Neither song ofers much in terms of She can still howl, of course, and on the powerful structure, but they’re relaxed and dynamic. “Fall in Line” she rails against systemic misogyny △ in a pyrotechnic duet with Demi Lovato. It’s a NOT ALL OF NEW FRIENDS Liberation’s experiments ofer the On Liberation, reminder that Aguilera has endured new rounds same pleasures. “Sick of Sittin’” begins with a Aguilera worked of body shaming and malicious commentary with promising growl, but it’s formless and muddy, with a versatile each new album cycle, and that she took a stand and “Deserve”—Aguilera’s collaboration with hit- list of guests, against this kind of treatment before doing so had makers Julia Michaels and MNEK—underwhelms. including rappers permeated the culture, on hits like “Fighter” and Anderson Paak, (Hearing her navigate Michaels’ conversational GoldLink, Ty “Beautiful,” which has made her an inspirational verse is like watching an elephant rumble through Dolla Sign and igure for a generation of young singers like Lovato. an obstacle course.) The album’s second half de- 2 Chainz. “Fall in Line” is the kind of song that fully realizes volves into a collection of bland, midtempo vocal the promise of Liberation, as it shows Aguilera exercises. But there are a few moments in which free to say what she wants—and share what she’s

HEARTS BEAT LOUD: GUNPOWDER & SKY; ROGERS, AGUILERA: GETTY IMAGES Aguilera makes the most of her veteran savvy, and learned—after almost two decades of stardom. □ 53 TimeOf Food

Mushrooms get their moment By Micaela Young

MUSHROOMS ARE POPPING UP IN odd places all over the supermarket, from cofee and kombucha to snack bars. That’s because the humble fungus is nutritionally impressive: add it to any dish and you’ll impart loads of savory, meaty lavor for very few calories. Six white mushrooms clock in at a mere 28 calories. Mushrooms also deliver nutrients that many people lack, like potassium, which keeps blood pressure in check: a cup of white mushrooms has nearly 10% of your daily recommended target (4,700 mg), a goal only 2% of Americans meet. Mushrooms are brimming with phytochemicals, antioxidants and a iber called beta-glucan, all of which have anti-inlammatory properties. That means they can protect you from a number of diseases, says Dr. Lawrence WHITE MUSHROOM antiioxxididananttcoconcn entrations. (Meaea Cheskin, director of the Johns Hopkins The most popular mushrooms on the market porciinis, for exe ama plp e, are onee of the Weight Management Center. A 2017 are surprisingly protein-rich, with 6 g in ive most antioxidant-rich funggi.i )Butyou mushrooms—more than in some beans. study found fungi to be the best source can enhance the nutritional prowess of of two disease-ighting antioxidants, nearly any variety just by putting a pack ergothioneine and glutathione. Low of mushrooms in the sun. Mushrooms levels of the latter have been linked withh use sunlight to make vitamin D, yet higher risks of heart disease, diabetes most are grown in the dark. A cup and cancer. of white mushrooms contains little SHIITAKE vitaminit i D,D butb t one study t d foundf d thatth t THE NUTRITIONAL MERITS of some These have a deeper, more satisfying putting them in natural sunlight for of the latest mushroom-enhanced lavor than other varieties and also contain 30 minutes grew the vitamin D content calcium, which white mushrooms do not. products—like a chocolate drink spiked between 150 IU and 600 IU per cup, with mushroom extract—are less clear. or 25% to 100% of your recommended But mushrooms are increasingly being daily dose. If you chop them up used to replace red meat. This spring, irst, you’ll increase sun contact and the fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In maximize vitamin D production. You briely introduced a patty made with also can buy vitamin D–enhanced 75% beef and 25% cooked mushrooms, OYSTER mushrooms at certain grocery stores. resulting in a burger with less saturated These stay irm when cooked and If fungi turn you (or other picky fat and calories. Another recent have more iron and antioxidants than eaters) of, but you still want to pack in launch: mushroom jerky made with shiitakes and portobellos. extra vitamin D and antioxidants, grind shiitake stems, which has less protein air-dried and sun-bathed mushrooms but more iber than meat versions. into a powder. Mushroom nutrients When making your own mushroom are heat-stable, so they won’t degrade creations, shop for dry packages when cooked, notes Robert Beelman at the supermarket that are free of of the Center for Plant and Mushroom condensation. Store the mushrooms Foods for Health at Pennsylvania State

HEN-OF-THE-WOODS (5) IMAGES GETTY in a refrigerator in a sealed paper bag, These have an earthy lavor—perfect University. Toss the powder into foods and prep them by wiping them down for a stir-fry—and more glutathione such as pasta sauce, casseroles and immediately before cooking. than many other mushrooms. bread lour for a nutrient boost with a Mushroom types vary by their disguised taste. □ DELICIOUSLY HEART HEALTHY

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Laurence Tribe The Harvard law professor on his new book To End a Presidency, Trump’s pardon power and the trouble with impeachment

You write that sometimes discussion is so much above the law that he cannot of impeachment is reasonable, but be indicted, I think, is false. The notion most of the time it’s “needless and that you would have to go through an harmful.” Where does discussion elaborate impeachment process before of impeaching President Trump arresting and indicting a President is fall in that divide today? I think it’s a fantasy. certainly reasonable to be thinking about it. What I think is unreasonable Does the President have the power is expecting it to serve the purpose of to pardon himself? No. That’s so a magic wand. It is totally predictable profoundly inconsistent with the that—however justiiable it might be premises of the whole American system to remove this President—it simply of government that we should not allow isn’t going to happen through the ourselves to be distracted by it. impeachment process, at least not in the very near future. It’s premature to How do we strike a balance between call for it because it’s going to be like the harm of potentially living under the boy who cried wolf. This is not a tyrant and the chaos that could something that we can take lightly or do THIS IS NOT be caused by the irst successful more than once to any given President. SOMETHING‘ THAT removal of a U.S. President? If I could WE CAN TAKE answer that in just a few lines, there You have called for lawmakers to wouldn’t have been a need for this book. begin impeachment proceedings, LIGHTLY OR DO One of the main factors to take into though. Ever since [special coun- MORE THAN ONCE account is: Would we favor removing sel Robert] Mueller was appointed, TO ANY GIVEN the President through impeachment I’ve thought it important to basically PRESIDENT even if it happened to be a President chill out and wait until we know more. ’ we liked and had voted for? We have to keepp in mind that congressional Do you think people are overstating oversight can constrain a President who the threat that one man can pose to is otherwise a renegadee and can do it the Repuublic? No, I think the framers inways that are less likeely to leave lots knew, annd we are now seeing that even of people feeling disenffranchised. one man—if he is not dedicated to the country, but dedicated to his own fame Is there something aboout this political and weallth and backed up by a political moment that the founders failed to party thaat has signed on for the ride— anticipate when they ccreated a power can pose an existential threat. It’s, in a that could cause “natioonal trauma”? sense, onne man. It’s also, in a sense, one I don’t think they could have anticipated man and millions who backhim up. the rise of social media anda the tunnel vision it would generate. They didn’t Does it make sense for Trump’s anticipate the risse of political attorneyy Rudy Giuliani to discuss parties and thhe division they impeachhment as the only remedy represent. TheyT didn’t have for a Preesident’s illegal behavior? acrystal ball.b But it’s It makes sense from his PR interestting that those point of view. They know of us wwho’ve looked that impeachment is at what’sh happened very unliikely, and if sincce still can’t JARED SOARES—REDUX JARED it occurs, it’s very comme up with a unlikely to resultin bettter structure convictioon. But forr getting rid of a the ideat hat President.e a Presideent —KATIE REILLY

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