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Editor’s letter Mark Zuckerberg swears he doesn’t want to run for president. When he started a social network for college guys to meet girls, Even if that’s true, the Facebook CEO’s downtime looks an Zuckerberg could not have dreamed it would one day make him awful lot like politicking. For the past few months, Zuckerberg one of the world’s richest and most influential people. Facebook’s has been on a 50-state charm tour of America, getting to know spectacular success has thrust upon him roles and responsibili- average Joes outside of his Silicon Valley bubble. (See Business ties he never really sought. He’s insisted for years that Facebook columns.) He’s visited a rodeo in Texas, a church in South Car- wasn’t a media company, only to see it become the most influ- olina, and a fire station in Indiana. He’s met with a host of cam- ential player in global news. He swears the platform is nonparti- paign mainstays—military spouses, recovering opioid addicts, san, only to be caught up in controversies involving the suppres- and former mill workers—and all of his meet and greets have sion of conservative content and accusations that rampant fake been artfully photographed and posted to his Facebook page. news helped sway the 2016 election. Zuckerberg surely now un- Zuckerberg earnestly insists he simply wants to get to know derstands that because of Facebook’s unprecedented reach, his cre- some of his social network’s 2 billion users, and to think about ation doesn’t just enrich people’s lives—it shapes them. So when how to carry out his 2015 pledge to give away the bulk of his he says progress depends on building a “global community,” he $60 billion fortune. But such denials have done little to tamp may not be campaigning, just grappling with the forces he’s set in down speculation that he’s planning to throw his hoodie into the motion. His platform will influence elections for Carolyn O’Hara political ring before long. years to come—whether he’s running or not. Managing editor

NEWS 4 Main stories An embattled White Editor-in-chief: William Falk House goes on the Managing editors: Theunis Bates, Carolyn O’Hara offensive; GOP health- Deputy editor/International: Susan Caskie care plan’s diffi cult path Deputy editor/Arts: Chris Mitchell Senior editors: Harry Byford, Alex in the Senate Dalenberg, Richard Jerome, Dale Obbie, Hallie Stiller, Frances Weaver 6 Controversy of the week Art director: Dan Josephs Photo editor: Loren Talbot Was President Trump’s Copy editors: Jane A. Halsey, Jay Wilkins European trip a success Chief researcher: Christina Colizza Contributing editors: Ryan Devlin, or a disaster? Bruno Maddox 7 The U.S. at a glance VP, publisher: John Guehl VP, marketing: Tara Mitchell Alleged white supremacist Sales development director: kills two in Portland, Samuel Homburger Account director: Steve Mumford Ore.; U.S. missile defense Account managers: Shelley Adler, system tested Alison Fernandez Detroit director: Lisa Budnick Midwest director: Lauren Ross 8 The world at a glance Trump meets with his European counterparts. (pages 6, 14) Southeast director: Jana Robinson Investigating the West Coast directors: James Horan, Rebecca Treadwell Manchester bombing; ARTS LEISURE Integrated marketing director: Jennifer Freire torture allegations in Iraq Integrated marketing managers: 21 Books 26 Food & Drink Kelly Dyer, Caila Litman 10 People Marketing design director: Joshua Moore Claire Dederer reckons Three small-town eateries Marketing designer: Triona Moynihan Zoë Kravitz grapples Research and insights manager: Joan Cheung with desire after 40 that are worth the road trip Marketing coordinator: Reisa Feigenbaum with her biracial identity; Digital director: Garrett Markley 27 Travel Senior digital account manager: David Lynch on the many 22 Author of the week Yuliya Spektorsky mysteries of Twin Peaks W. Kamau Bell fi nds Desert delights in seldom- Programmatic manager: George Porter delight in diversity visited Saudi Arabia Digital planners: Jennifer Riddell, Talia Sabag 11 Briefi ng Chief operating & financial officer: 28 Consumer Kevin E. Morgan How Congress can 23 Art & Stage Director of financial reporting: impeach a president Touches of genius in Tips for parents swamped Arielle Starkman with childrens’ artwork EVP, consumer marketing & products: 12 Best U.S. columns the works of a Sara O’Connor forgotten proto- Consumer marketing director: Time for Trump to re- Leslie Guarnieri impressionist BUSINESS HR manager: Joy Hart discover populism; to woo Operations manager: Cassandra Mondonedo voters, Democrats need a 24 Film 32 News at a glance Adviser: Ian Leggett policy shake-up Wonder Woman Uber’s self-driving dispute Chairman: John M. Lagana U.K. founding editor: Jolyon Connell 14 Best European joins the Great with Google; the end of the restaurant lunch Company founder: Felix Dennis columns War; the A continent wonders if the Rock sinks in 33 Making money Baywatch U.S. is still a reliable ally What to do with your Visit us at TheWeek.com. 401(k) after switching jobs For customer service go to www 16 Talking points .TheWeek.com/service or phone us Jared Kushner’s ruthless 34 Best columns at 1-877-245-8151. streak; the world meets Zoë Facebook’s CEO gets Renew a subscription at www political; why we need .RenewTheWeek.com or give a gift Melania Trump; macho Kravitz at www.GiveTheWeek.com.

AP (2) politics in Montana (p.10) German cars THE WEEK June 9, 2017 4 NEWS The main stories... Trump’s new ‘war room’ What happened Trump definitely needs to reorganize his The White House went on the offensive chaotic administration, said The Wall over the Russia investigation this week, as Street Journal. Priebus has too little pow- a frustrated President Donald Trump be- er to be effective; Bannon’s allies “leak gan a staff shake-up and top aides set up a relentlessly”; and press secretary Sean “war room” to handle the political, legal, Spicer has an impossible job, because and media consequences of the mush- Trump constantly contradicts him. The rooming scandal. The administration’s resulting “chaos” is making legislative alarm grew when press reports last week progress impossible. With the window identified Trump’s senior adviser and closing to enact health-care and tax son-in-law Jared Kushner as “a focus” of reform before the 2018 midterms, Trump the federal investigation by special counsel is “wasting the precious asset of time.” Robert Mueller, because of Kushner’s attempt to create a secret back channel Gorkov, Kushner: A secret meeting at Trump tower What the columnists said with Moscow in December. The war Diplomatic back channels “have been room, which is modeled on the team President Bill Clinton created used by every modern president,” said David Ignatius in The during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, is reportedly being set up Washington Post. It’s also “fairly routine for incoming administra- by chief strategist Steve Bannon, chief of staff Reince Priebus, and tions to have get-acquainted talks with foreign governments.” But Kushner. White House communications director Michael Dubke it’s not routine or acceptable to “undermine the policies” of the in- resigned under pressure this week; Trump is reportedly considering cumbent president, such as the sanctions President Obama imposed other staff changes, and bringing in former campaign chief Corey on Russia for meddling in the election. It’s also not normal for Lewandowski and other loyalists to form a “crisis team” to defend U.S. citizens to want to use “the communications tools of a foreign him on cable TV news. intelligence service.” Kushner could be in big trouble.

The investigators’ focus on Kushner centers on a December The congressional committees’ focus on Cohen “is a very bad meeting he had in Trump Tower with Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s sign for Trump,” said Josh Marshall in TalkingPointsMemo.com. ambassador to Washington, and Michael Flynn, who was later Cohen is far more than just a lawyer. A businessman and major fired as Trump’s national security adviser. At the time, the Obama real estate player here and abroad, he has close ties to several “émi- administration was still in office. Kushner reportedly suggested to grés from the former Soviet Union”—some of whom, such as the Kislyak that Trump aides could talk directly with the Kremlin using former mob-backed businessman Felix Sater, have been involved Russia’s secure communications equipment at its U.S. embassy in Trump projects. If the president has any financial connections to or consulate. Kislyak, whose description of the meeting for his Russia, Cohen knows about them. superiors was intercepted by U.S. officials, was taken aback by the suggestion, and the back channel was never set up. Two weeks It’s possible there’s a fairly innocent explanation for all this, said later, Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, chairman of the Russian Ross Douthat in The New York Times. The evidence available government–owned bank Vnesheconombank—a meeting he failed thus far is “still perfectly compatible” with a president and his later to report. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said back aides trying—however clumsily—to fulfill a campaign promise to channels were “both normal, in my opinion, and acceptable.” reset relations with Putin. Trump has been suggesting making an alliance with Moscow since the 1980s, and during the campaign, In other developments, Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, “he did not act like a man with a dark secret” when he openly and became a focus of the congressional investigations into the cam- repeatedly pledged to negotiate with Putin on Syria, ISIS, and other paign’s possible collusion with Russia. And intelligence sources told issues. The president has allowed himself to be “trolled,” said Rich CNN that Russian officials had been heard discussing “deroga- Lowry in NationalReview.com. Obsessed with “slights over his tory” information about Trump, possibly financial in nature, status,” he’s interpreted his critics’ focus on Russia as an insulting that could give them leverage over the attack on the legitimacy of his election administration. What next? victory. His “ham-handed attempts” to Kushner’s defenders have seized on the fact that squelch the story, most notably by firing What the editorials said unlike Flynn, he hasn’t been interviewed by the FBI Director James Comey, have only The Kushner revelation is deeply poured fuel on the flames. FBI, said Ryan Lizza in NewYorker.com. But that troubling, said The Baltimore Sun. “could actually be a bad sign.” During wide- Kushner’s allies claim the transition ranging probes like this, investigators tend to A staff shake-up won’t save Trump team was merely “seeking Russian help save their juiciest targets until last—when they’ve from himself, said Jennifer Rubin in with Syria.” But the only plausible rea- built up a really solid case against them. Here’s WashingtonPost.com. The most talent- son he would want to use the Russians’ more bad news for Kushner: The Washington ed Republican operatives want nothing equipment would be to “avoid U.S. Post says it first learned about his back-channel to do with this dumpster fire of an ad- intelligence monitoring.” So what was request to Kislyak through an anonymous letter, ministration, which faces a grave threat he hiding? With new secret contacts said Jonathan Chait in NYMag.com. The story from the Mueller investigation. More and connections being revealed every subtly but pointedly suggested that this letter importantly, Trump has an inherent week, “collusion between the Trump also contained other allegations—which the inability to listen “to those who know campaign and allies of Vladimir Putin Post’s reporters are no doubt working hard to more than he does.” That’s not going no longer seems out of the realm of corroborate. Clearly, “there is more to come.” to change—which means “debacles will

possibility.” continue to unfold.” (2) Newscom Illustration by Fred Harper. THE WEEK June 9, 2017 Cover photos from AP (2), Newscom ... and how they were covered NEWS 5 Republican health-care plan struggles in Senate

What happened grade assault on American health care.” The Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act faced new ob- The CBO score merits “a serious grain of stacles this week as Senate Majority Leader salt,” said NationalReview.com. For one Mitch McConnell struggled to balance the thing, many of those 23 million people competing demands of GOP moderates and would happily “choose not to purchase conservatives, and President Trump added health insurance” because they would complications by calling for more govern- no longer be compelled to do so by ment health-care spending. Senate Repub- Obamacare—which fines the uninsured. licans are now writing their own version of And the CBO has gotten its figures wrong the House GOP’s American Health Care before: In 2010, it projected that 24 million Act, which narrowly passed the House last people would have signed up to Obam- month. But Senate efforts suffered a setback acare’s insurance exchanges by 2017. The last week when the nonpartisan Congressio- actual number? “About 11 million.” nal Budget Office issued its analysis of the McConnell: Can he pull off the balancing act? AHCA, forecasting that the measure would What the columnists said leave 23 million more Americans without insurance by 2026 and Senate Republicans “are caught in a trap,” said Paul Waldman in The substantially raise premiums for older and sick people. Although Washington Post. A health-care plan “built on conservative principles Republicans have a 52-48 Senate majority, moderates and conser- of minimal regulation and minimal government-provided insurance” vatives in the chamber are divided over numerous issues, includ- will never offer sufficient coverage for poor, sick, or old people. ing how much money to spend to provide subsidies, and whether “Only government can do that.” That means GOP senators have Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid should be rolled back. “I don’t a choice: write a politically toxic plan like the AHCA, or one “that know how we get to 50 [votes] at the moment,” said McConnell. In looks a lot like the ACA.” If they’re brainstorming for something true a 50-50 tie, Vice President Pence would cast the deciding vote. to their beliefs that the public will embrace, “it doesn’t exist.”

Back from his overseas trip, President Trump tweeted that lawmak- “The GOP health-care bill is fixable,” said Avik Roy in The New ers should add “more dollars to healthcare and make it the best York Times. The plan’s big problem is its “one-size-fits-all tax anywhere.” He appeared to reverse course in a follow-up tweet, credit,” meaning a couple earning $150,000 a year gets the same urging GOP senators to “add saved $’s.” So far, Republican health- assistance “as people barely reaching the poverty line.” But if care proposals are deeply unpopular with voters: 55 percent view Senate Republicans scrapped that universal tax credit and directed the AHCA negatively, and 31 percent favorably, according to a more money to those who need help with premiums—“whether be- Kaiser Health poll. The poll found 55 percent want the Senate to cause of old age, ill health, or low income”—their legislation would significantly change or reject the legislation. almost certainly get a better CBO score and more public support.

What the editorials said Liberals would be foolish to assume that Obamacare repeal “The senseless cruelty” of the Republican health-care agenda has will die in the Senate, said Perry Bacon Jr. in FiveThirtyEight never been more apparent, said The New York Times. By letting .com. McConnell is following the same strategy House Speaker states waive many of the coverage requirements mandated by Paul Ryan used to squeeze through the AHCA: He’s formed a Obamacare, the AHCA would massively hike premiums for people 13- member group that’s heavy on conservatives and light on mod- with pre-existing conditions and leave “millions of others with erates to write the legislation. Once conservatives are on board, policies that offer little protection from major medical conditions.” McConnell, like Ryan, will dare moderates to block the bill and All of this would be done to cut taxes for the wealthy: The top incur Trump’s wrath. Will any senator really risk becoming “the 1 percent would save an average of $37,200 a year. Now only a key vote that stops the repeal of Obamacare, the kind of move that handful of moderate GOP senators “stand in the way of this retro- could draw a challenger in a GOP primary”?

It wasn’t all bad QOne 6-year-old boy is helping the U.K. city of Manchester QAn anonymous Londoner may smile again. When Joseph Griffiths heard that his friend’s have scored the deal of a century at QThanks to the kindness of a sister and mother were caught up in the recent terrorist a local flea market. In the 1980s, the stranger, U.S. Army mechanic attack at the Manchester Arena, he begged his mother to unidentified woman bought what Keaton Tilson was able to spend let him give blood. But doctors at the local Wythenshawe she thought was a gaudy costume Memorial Day with his family. Hospital told him that he was too young to donate—so a ring at an outdoor second-hand ba- Tilson was stationed at Fort Hood, tearful but determined zaar for 10 pounds—the equivalent Texas, when he received last- Griffiths helped out of $13. She wore the ring every day, minute leave before the holiday. the best way he knew and never thought much about it He spent two days at a Dallas how: by showing up until a local jeweler told her it might airport, hoping for a standby flight with tons of chocolate be worth something. It turned out home to Illinois, when Josh Rainey and other snacks for to be a vintage 19th-century ring set offered up his seat. When the air- the medical staff. “The with a genuine 26-carat diamond, line wouldn’t allow an exchange, nurses all started to get and the piece is now expected to Rainey bought Tilson a $341 ticket upset,” said Joseph’s fetch up to $450,000 at an upcoming instead. “If it wasn’t for him,” said mother, “and were so Sotheby’s auction. “This is a one-off Tilson from a family lake house, “I grateful for this small windfall,” says Jessica Wyndham of wouldn’t be here right now.” Joseph and his treats act of kindness.” Sotheby’s, “an amazing find.” Newscom, Cavendish Press Cavendish Newscom,

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 6 NEWS Controversy of the week Trump in Europe: A frayed alliance

“Expectations were low for the European leg of Trump made something else clear, said Max Boot President Trump’s first trip abroad,” said Fred Kaplan in USA Today. He “clearly prefers” the company in Slate.com, “but it turns out they weren’t low of tyrants to elected leaders. On his first stop in enough.” At last week’s NATO summit in Brussels, Saudi Arabia, he basked in the red-carpet flattery Trump rudely shoved aside the prime minister of of its reigning royal family, telling the autocrats he Montenegro in order to preen at the front of a group wouldn’t “lecture” them over their execution of photo—but the worst was yet to come. In a speech political prisoners or contempt for human rights. that left European leaders snickering to one another He then treated European leaders with cold dis- behind their hands, Trump lectured them for their dain, even complaining that Germany was “bad, “chronic underpayments”—that is, the failure of some very bad” for selling so many cars in the U.S. We NATO members to spend 2 percent of their GDP now have a president who views “the Saudis as on defense. In other words, he treated members of truer friends than the Europeans,” who “is less this crucial alliance, whose troops fought and died in offended by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine than by Afghanistan alongside ours after 9/11, as if each was Germany’s sale of luxury cars to Americans.” As “a Trump Tower tenant delinquent on his rent.” More Russia’s Vladimir Putin watched Trump under- shocking still was Trump’s refusal to affirm America’s mine and divide NATO, said Jennifer Rubin in commitment to Article 5 of the NATO treaty, which WashingtonPost.com, he must have been thrilled calls for members to defend one another if attacked. that his “intervention in the U.S. election paid off Later, a sober German Chancellor Angela Merkel Trump chiding NATO leaders so handsomely.” responded by saying, “The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over.” Trump represents “everything Europeans hate about America,” said Yascha Mounk in Slate.com: the swagger, the vulgarity, the “Everyone needs to calm down,” said Kevin Drum in MotherJones lowbrow disdain for history and intellectuals. But the truth is that .com. Trump may have not mentioned Article 5 as a bargaining Trump “makes them, well, happy” by confirming their sense of cul- chip to pressure European nations to spend more money on defense. tural superiority. Trump’s visit left Europeans “aghast,” said Natalie In the end, he “was clear enough” about his support for NATO. Nougayrède in TheGuardian.com, but it also helped them “focus Standing before a pile of twisted steel from the twin towers, Trump their minds on what they had in common and how they could vowed the U.S. would “never forsake the friends who stood by our protect it,” at a moment when the project of European integration side” after 9/11. The president deserves credit, not liberal whin- seemed to be faltering. After Trump flew home, shaken NATO ing, for having the guts to remind Merkel and other “deadbeats” leaders joined to say they’re united by common “values,” not just that they’re not meeting their financial obligations to NATO’s joint interests, and would stand together with or without the U.S. In the defense, said Michael Goodwin in NYPost.com. His “clarity on the long run, Trump’s presidency could serve as the “binding agent” global stage” was a stirring “reminder of why he was elected.” that ends up holding Europe together.

Good week for: Only in America Boring but important Mysteries, after President Trump launched thousands of jokes QA Portland, Ore., tortilla on Twitter by sending out a tweet at 12:06 a.m. that read only, Rolling back civil-rights prosecutions shop run by two white women “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” He went silent until was forced to shut down over The Trump administration accusations of “cultural appro- the morning, when he followed up with “Who can figure out the true meaning of covfefe???” signaled this week that it plans priation.” Owners Kali Wilgus to reduce the role of the federal and Liz Connelly had trav- Covering all bases, after two Washington state entrepreneurs government in protecting mi- eled to Mexico to study the announced plans to open a legal marijuana store and a craft brew- norities, proposing to disband techniques of the local “tortilla ery in the same building. the Labor Depart ment division ladies.” But activists claimed Saving for old age, after an expert on aging at Oxford Univer- that has policed discrimina- that was equivalent to stealing sity calculated that average life expectancy is increasing at a rate tion by federal contractors for recipes and exploiting their 40 years. The move, outlined creators’ already “marginal- of 15 minutes each hour, suggesting that babies born today can expect to live to an average age of 104. in the department’s fiscal ized identities for the purpose 2018 plan, would fold the of profit and praise.” Bad week for: 600-employee-strong Office of QA police officer in Florida Kathy Griffin, after the comic posted a picture of herself on Federal Contract Compli ance demanded to know if an Programs into another agency. Twitter holding a bloody prop of President Trump’s severed head. The White House has also injured cyclist was an illegal “I sincerely apologize,” Griffin said after facing a widespread back- immigrant before offering moved to eliminate the Envi- assistance. “You illegal? Speak lash, including from Trump himself, who called her “sick.” ronmental Protec tion Agency’s English? Got ID?” the Monroe Millennials, after doctors said they’d seen a surge in a form of ten- environmental justice pro- County sheriff asked Marcos dinitis they’re calling “smartphone thumb.” Typing rapidly on small gram, which seeks to mitigate Huete as he was lying next to keyboards causes “abnormal motion of bones in the thumb,” doc- pollution in minority communi- his bicycle after being hit by tors say, “causing pain onset and eventual osteoarthritis.” ties, and proposed significant staff cuts at the Educa tion a pickup truck. Huete, who is Flying fish, after a Nashville Predators fan was arrested for Depart ment’s Office of Civil from Honduras, was issued throwing a dead catfish onto the ice during Game 1 of the Stanley a $75 fine for causing the ac- Rights, which has investigated cident, hospitalized, and later Cup finals in Pittsburgh. Throwing catfish is a rallying cry for thousands of discrimination detained by border officials. Predators fans, but unamused police charged Jacob Waddell with complaints in school districts.

disorderly conduct and possession “of an instrument of a crime.” Newscom

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Portland, Ore. Washington, D.C. Richmond, Va. Good Samaritans Paris deal decision: President Trump was Travel ban ruling: A federal appeals court killed: An Army poised to withdraw the U.S. from the refused to rein- veteran and a Paris climate change accord this week, state President recent college according to reports, following his refusal Trump’s travel graduate were to express support for the landmark deal ban last week, fatally stabbed on during last week’s G-7 summit in Italy. ruling that the a light-rail train Trump met this week with EPA head Scott revised order in Portland last Pruitt, who has said that carbon dioxide “drips with reli- Mayor Ted Wheeler week when they is not a primary contributor to climate gious intolerance, intervened as an alleged white suprema- change, to reportedly iron out the with- animus, and cist yelled anti-Muslim slurs at two drawal. The 195-nation pact was negoti- discrimination.” Protesting outside court young women. Jeremy Joseph Christian, ated under President Obama in 2015 and The Richmond- 35, has been charged with the aggra- requires signatories to commit to reducing based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals based vated murder of Ricky John Best, 53, greenhouse gas emissions. The Obama its 10-3 decision on Trump’s repeated and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, administration proposed to cut U.S. emis- promises during the 2016 campaign to 23. Christian was allegedly hurling sions by 26 to 28 percent by 2025. Under implement a “Muslim ban.” The revised abuse at two female passengers, one of the pact, a withdrawal would take three order cites national security in its restric- whom wore a Muslim head covering, years; the Trump administration could tions on travel from six majority Muslim when the strangers jumped in to help. speed up the process by withdrawing countries, but in a 205-page ruling, the The suspect stabbed both men in the from the underlying U.N. Framework court’s majority said they “remain uncon- neck and slashed another passenger, who Convention on Climate Change. Only vinced” that the order’s primary purpose has since been released from the hos- two other countries, Syria and Nicaragua, is anything other than “to exclude persons pital. The attack caused shock have refused to support the accord. from the U.S. on the basis of their waves in Portland, and the city’s religious beliefs.” In a dissent, mayor, Ted Wheeler, called on Judge Paul Niemeyer predicted federal authorities to revoke that the Supreme Court— permits for an upcoming which is expected to ultimately “Trump Free Speech Rally,” decide the case—would “shud- organized by a conservative der” at the 4th Circuit’s decision, group, on a downtown gov- which he said transformed criticism ernment plaza. At a previous of a candidate’s “campaign statements rally held by the same group, into a constitutional violation.” Christian was photographed giving a Nazi salute. Bogue Chitto, Miss. Shooting rampage: A sheriff’s deputy and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. seven other peo- Warning shot: The Pentagon successfully ple were killed destroyed a mock in southwestern intercontinental Mississippi last ballistic missile Austin week when a thousands of miles Lawmakers clash: A heated scuffle gunman carried over the Pacific erupted on the Texas House floor this out an over- for the first time week after a Republican state repre- night shooting this week, in a sentative claimed he had called U.S. spree on three show of force Immigration and Customs Enforcement separate proper- Victims’ relatives mourn. aimed largely at (ICE) on a group of protesters. The dem- ties. Willie Cory North Korea. The onstrators had gathered in the Capitol Godbolt, 35, is accused of fatally shoot- mock ICBM was rotunda to protest Senate Bill 4, the sanc- ing Deputy William Durr as the officer launched from tuary city legislation signed last month responded to an emergency call regard- The intercepting missile a test site in the that punishes local governments for refus- ing a domestic dispute at a house in Marshall Islands ing to comply with federal immigration Bogue Chitto, a small community about and intercepted an hour later by a missile laws and detention requests. Republican 70 miles south of Jackson. Godbolt is deployed from a silo at the Vandenberg Rep. Matt Rinaldi said he called ICE also accused of killing three females at Air Force Base, about 4,200 miles away. when he spotted some protesters holding the same house—his mother-in-law and The Vandenberg rocket released a 5-foot- signs that read “I am illegal and here to her daughter and sister. The gunman long device called a “kill vehicle” that stay.” When he told Democratic represen- then allegedly drove to the house of his steered into the path of the incoming tatives what he had done, one legislator wife’s best friend in Brookhaven, where warhead, destroying it by force of impact. “physically assaulted” him and another he shot the woman’s teenage son and his The missile defense program has been threatened to “get me on the way to my cousin, before moving on to a nearby hampered by setbacks; just four of the car,” Rinaldi claimed. “I made it clear property and shooting two others. $40 billion system’s nine previous tests that if he attempted to, in his words, ‘get Godbolt was arrested the next morning have been successful. Days before, North me,’ I would shoot him in self-defense.” and told reporters that he intended to die Korea launched a short-range ballistic Democrats denied the assault claims, call- during his rampage. “Suicide by cop was

AP (4) missile that landed off the coast of Japan. ing Rinaldi a “liar.” my intention,” Godbolt said.

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 8 NEWS The world at a glance ...

Versailles, France Manchester, U.K. Macron, alpha: French President Lone wolf: British police believe that suicide Emmanuel Macron boldly confronted bomber Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people at a Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Manchester pop concert last week, acted alone in meeting in Versailles this week, accus- the buildup to the attack. In the atrocity’s after- ing Russia of meddling in the French math, authorities said they were investigating a terrorist “network.” But detectives now say the election through state “propaganda Abedi outlets” such as RT and SputnikNews 22-year-old, a Briton of Libyan origin, bought the .com. Ahead of the May vote, Russian main components for his bomb and assembled it by himself. Still, Macron and Putin: Tough talk hackers targeted Macron’s campaign, 11 people are being held in the U.K. in connection with the inves- and Kremlin-owned media spread tigation, and Abedi’s father and younger brother are in custody in rumors about him. Standing at a podium next to Putin at a press Libya—where Abedi is thought to have received terrorist training. conference, Macron also said the French military would avenge any Manchester police temporarily stopped sharing information with use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime—a Russian ally—and U.S. intelligence after crime scene photos were leaked to The New vowed to monitor the persecution of gays in Chechnya. Last week, York Times; President Trump vowed to prosecute the leaker. Macron engaged in a prolonged, vigorous handshake with President Trump in Brussels, in which the two men appeared to clench and strain. “You have to show you won’t make small concessions,” Macron said of the handshake, “even symbolic ones.” Ottawa Papal apology sought: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Pope Francis to apologize to Canada’s indigenous people for the abuse of aboriginal children at schools run by the Catholic Church. From the 1880s to the 1990s, some 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in so-called resi- dential schools in an attempt to strip them of their native culture and languages. Many of those institutions were run by Catholic clergy, and many children were physically and sexually abused by staff. Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said in a 2015 report that the practice amounted to “cultural genocide.” Trudeau, a Catholic who met the pope at the Vatican this week, said Francis seemed open to the idea of an official apology. Panama City Noriega dead: Panama’s former dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega, a sometime CIA asset who was ultimately ousted by a U.S. military invasion, died in a Panama hospital this week at age 83. As a young military officer, Noriega studied at the U.S. Armed Forces’ School of the Americas and helped the U.S. in various operations in the region, from spying on Cuba to funneling money and weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras. He became de facto leader of Panama in 1983, but the U.S. ally, enemy U.S. eventually turned on him, fed up with his drug smug- gling and political repression. After Panamanian troops killed an unarmed U.S. soldier in Panama City in 1989, President George H.W. Bush authorized an invasion. Noriega spent the rest of his life in prison, first in the U.S., then France, then Panama. Caracas Fury at Goldman Sachs: Venezuelan activists are raging at Goldman Sachs after the investment bank bought $2.8 billion in Recife, Brazil Venezuelan bonds—a windfall for the cash-strapped government Massive flooding: At least seven of President Nicolás Maduro. In a letter to Goldman CEO Lloyd people were killed and more than 40,000 fled their homes this Blankfein, Julio Borges, the president of Venezuela’s opposition- week after heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides across dominated National Assembly, called the deal a “lifeline to an northeastern Brazil. Officials in the states of Pernambuco and authoritarian regime.” Weeks of protests Alagoas each declared a state of emergency, and the federal over repression and crippling shortages of government sent troops to help set up shelters and supplies for food have been violently put down, and displaced residents. In some cities, floodwaters were waist-high, more than 59 people have been killed in and at least one hospital had to send patients sloshing out into clashes between police and demonstra- the street to be rescued. In the community of Santa Edwiges, tors in the past few months. Opposition residents picked through the mangroves along the banks of the leader Henrique Capriles said he and his Rio Formoso, looking for furniture and other belongings that had aides were beaten by security forces this washed into the branches. “Thanks be to God, we saved the chil- week. The bond money, he said, will pay dren,” said Pernambuco farmer Márcia de Lima. “Everything else

Capriles: Beaten by regime for “bombs and war supplies.” was lost in the flood.” (2) AP (2), Newscom

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Moscow Kabul Shakespeare martyr: Russians were left aghast Deadly blast: A devastating truck this week by viral footage of a 10-year-old bomb destroyed an entire city block boy being violently arrested for reciting in the diplomatic quarter of Kabul Shakespeare on the Arbat, a popular Moscow this week, killing at least 90 people pedestrian boulevard. Cellphone video aired and maiming and wounding more on Russian TV showed three officers shoving than 400 others. The bomb, hidden the child into a squad car as he shouted “Save in a water delivery truck, exploded me!” Police said the boy was panhandling, during the morning rush hour on The walking wounded but his father, Ilya Skavronski, said he had Guilty of reading a busy street near multiple foreign been publicly reciting lines from Hamlet on embassies and blew out windows miles away. Nearly all the dead the advice of a speech therapist. His stepmother, who was sitting were Afghan civilians heading to work, and traumatized survi- nearby, tried to intervene with the police, only to have her clothes vors broke down weeping over their burned and bloodied bodies. ripped and her tablet computer broken. The boy was eventu- “How can the people who did this call themselves Muslims?” said ally released to his father. Children’s rights commissioner Anna office worker Ahmed Mohibzada as he donated blood at a nearby Kuznetsova said she would investigate the incident. hospital. The Taliban denied responsibility, and many suspect the atrocity was the work of ISIS, acting on its vow to stage attacks during the holy month of Ramadan, which began this week.

Pyongyang, North Korea Missile advance: North Korea successfully launched a new short-range, Scud-class ballistic missile this week that landed 280 miles away in Japanese waters. Missile experts believe the latest launch could have been an attempt to perfect a missile guidance system. Combined with the regime’s longer-range missiles, it could allow Pyongyang to stage precise attacks on targets up to 2,800 miles away. Meanwhile, South Korean President Moon Jae-in demanded an explana- Scud launch tion from his Defense Ministry as to why four more launchers for the U.S. THAAD missile-defense battery were allowed to enter the country without his knowledge. Moon, elected last month, campaigned on a pledge to revisit the deploy- ment in March of two THAAD launchers in South Korea. Marawi, Philippines ISIS siege: President Rodrigo Duterte has placed the southern Philippines island of Mindanao under martial law after ISIS-linked militants seized control of Marawi City. The Abu Sayyaf group launched its attack after police and military staged a raid to cap- ture its leader, Isnilon Hapilon. The operation failed and militants from Abu Sayyaf and another ISIS affiliate, Maute, retaliated by storming Marawi, sending tens of thousands of residents fleeing. Philippine troops started clearing jihadists from the city, but mili- tants released a video showing they were holding a priest and some 200 of his parishioners. “Please give what they are asking for,” the Rev. Teresito Suganob says on the video, addressing Duterte. “To withdraw forces.” At least 129 people have died in the fighting. Mosul, Iraq Torturing suspects: An Iraqi pho- Canberra, Australia tographer embedded with an elite Pedophile travel ban: The Australian legislature is set to pass new Iraqi special forces unit battling laws that will ban convicted pedophiles from traveling overseas ISIS in Mosul has documented or holding an Australian passport—measures intended to stop the gruesome torture and execu- offenders from visiting Thailand and other countries where child tion of Sunni Muslim detainees by sex tourism is prevalent. Up to 20,000 registered sex offenders will the mostly Shiite commandos. Ali have their passports canceled under a bill that was introduced this Brutalizing a captive Arkady has fled to Europe, where week and is supported by the governing he is now seeking asylum, fearing reprisals by the Emergency majority. “Australia is leading the way Response Division soldiers who perpetrated the torture. Arkady’s when it comes to protecting vulnerable photos, published by ABC News and the Toronto Star, show guns children overseas from the actions of and live electric wires held to detainees’ heads as well as gloved pedophilia,” said Foreign Minister Julie fingers pressed into eye sockets. He took video of suspects hanging Bishop. “We are ensuring that child sex with their arms bound behind them, screaming their innocence. offenders are not able to take part in the Some of the detainees were civilians. The unit’s commander, growing child sex tourism trade.” Some Capt. Omar Nazar, said the treatment was justified because the 800 registered child sex offenders trav-

Screenshot, Reuters (2), Ali Arkady/VII Mentor Program/Redux, Getty Arkady/VII Mentor Program/Redux, Ali (2), Screenshot, Reuters prisoners were linked to ISIS, a Sunni extremist group. eled abroad last year. Child prostitutes in Thailand

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Lear’s life lessons Norman Lear’s model for All in the Family’s bigoted Archie Bunker was his own father, said Michael Paterniti in GQ. An absent father, to be exact, imprisoned for fraud when Norman was a boy. “You know, you realize the human condi- tion when you’re 9 years old and your father is going to prison and your mother is selling his red leather chair, from which you listen to the Friday-night fights and Saturday college football games,” says Lear, 94. “While all of this is going on, some a--hole places his hand on my shoulder and says, ‘Well, Norman, you’re the man of the house now.’ I knew that was funny in the most terrible way. That’s a gift from the gods.” Lear’s sense of the absurd has powered a seven-decade career, yielding some of TV’s most influential, socially conscious comedies. The secret to Lear’s longevity? “Living in the moment. I’ll give you a perfect example: I’m coming in from San Diego the other day on the train—I love trains!—and they had a café car. I went in there, and I had a Hebrew National hot dog— you know, a hot dog on a train.” He’s been to five-star restaurants in Paris, he says, but “I’m telling you, nothing is better than that hot dog on the train!” Lynch on the meaning of Twin Peaks David Lynch remains Hollywood’s most enigmatic auteur, said Richard Godwin in The Times (U.K.). The director has made a career of marrying the macabre and the mundane, and never more Kravitz’s identity crisis successfully than in 1990’s Twin Peaks, the phantasmagorical cult Zoë Kravitz makes no apology for her interest in “identity poli- TV drama about a small-town murder that became a national tics,” said David DeNicolo in Allure. America in 2017 is hardly a obsession and spawned countless imitations. “I don’t think anybody postracial society, the singer and actress argues, and identity knows what thing Twin Peaks had that caused it to resonate like it is not something to be dismissed as irrelevant. “Racism is very did,” says Lynch, 71. “It’s an abstract thing.” Now his Showtime real, and white supremacy is going strong,” says Kravitz, 28. She sequel, which reunites several leading cast members, has prompted has grappled with her own identity as the daughter of singer- feverish speculation. Can it recapture the sublime strangeness of songwriter Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet, both of whom are biracial—part African-American, part Jewish. “I’m definitely the original? And what did it all mean in the first place? Not much, mixed,” Kravitz says. “It’s been a really interesting journey, apparently. “They say if you want to send a message, go to the because I was always one of the only black kids in any of my Western Union,” Lynch says. “I’m not trying to say anything about schools—I went to private schools full of white kids. I think a lot anything. I’m throwing out a lot of ideas—ideas that I fall in love of that made me want to blend in or not be looked at as black. with. I say they’re like gifts. It wasn’t there, and oh! Suddenly it’s The white kids are always talking about your hair and making you there.” And if there are unanswered questions or loose threads—so feel weird. I had this struggle of accepting myself as black and much the better. “I love mysteries—I think every human being does. loving that part of myself.” With maturity and experience, how- I always say that people are like detectives. We live our lives not ever, Kravitz has grown to embrace the entirety of her heritage. knowing a lot of things. Where were we before? What’s the pur- “I am identifying more and more with being black and what that pose? When you lie in bed at night and think about these things, means,” she says. “Now I’m so in love with my culture and so you realize it’s a mysterious thing we’re all involved with.” proud to be black. It’s still ongoing, but a big shift has occurred.”

medications.” He said he understood “the source said Ryan “is hopeful that a deal can severity of what I did.” In 2009, Woods drove be reached, given his affection for the show.” into a tree in front of his home, allegedly QTiger Woods this week was QFormer House Speaker John Boehner arrested in Jupiter, Fla., on under the influence of Ambien—an incident doesn’t miss Washington one bit. “I wake up suspicion of driving under the that led to the revelation that he’d been every day, drink my morning coffee, and say, influence. A police report re- unfaithful to wife Elin Nordegren. The couple ‘Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,” the Ohio veals that officers found Woods, divorced the following year. Republican, 67, told an energy conference 41, asleep at the wheel of his QRyan Seacrest may not host ABC’s Ameri- in Houston last week. Boehner, who served Mercedes with the motor run- can Idol reboot after all, the New York Post as speaker from 2011 until his retirement in ning at about 2 a.m. The car had two reports, because he’s offended that first-time 2015, now works as a “strategic adviser” to flat tires and its bumpers were dented. When judge Katy Perry is earning more than twice a Cleveland-based law firm. Once second questioned, Woods “had extremely slow what the network offered him. Perry, who is in line for the presidency, he harbors no and slurred speech,” and didn’t know where said to be pulling down $25 million, boasted White House ambitions. “I drink red wine; I he was, police said. He took and passed a last week that she “got paid, like, more than smoke cigarettes; I golf; I cut my own grass; Breathalyzer, but told police he was taking like pretty much any guy that’s been on that I iron my own clothes,” he said. “And I’m not two anti-inflammatory medications and show.” Sources say ABC initially presented willing to give all that up to be president.” Vicodin, an opioid painkiller. In a statement, a $10 million–plus deal to Seacrest, 42, who As for President Trump—his longtime friend the golf legend, who is recovering from back emceed Idol for 15 years on Fox and was re- and golf buddy—Boehner praised his missile surgery, apologized and blamed the incident cently tapped to co-host the New York–based attack in Syria, but added, “Everything else on “an unexpected reaction to prescribed morning show Live With Kelly & Ryan. A he’s done has been a complete disaster.” Getty, Newscom, Reuters Newscom, Getty,

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 Briefing NEWS 11 How impeachment works With scandals swirling around the White House, the ‘I-word’ is already being mentioned in Congress.

Has any president been impeached? quipped then–House Minority Leader Only two presidents have ever been Gerald Ford in 1970, “an impeach- impeached by the House, and both able offense is whatever a majority were acquitted by the Senate. Andrew of the House of Representatives con- Johnson was targeted in 1868 because of siders it to be at a given moment in a power struggle over policy in the post– history.” Civil War South; Bill Clinton, in 1998, over his affair with White House intern How does the process work? Monica Lewinsky. Richard Nixon faced First, the House must vote by a sim- impeachment, but quit first. (See box.) ple majority for impeachment pro- Impeachment chatter is rife again follow- ceedings to begin. Any member of the ing the appointment of a special counsel House can introduce a resolution to to investigate potential collusion between do so, as can a committee, a petition, President Trump’s campaign and Russia, a special prosecutor, or the president. and Trump’s legal team has reportedly If a simple majority approves one Johnson, Clinton: The only two so far begun researching how to defend him if or more articles of impeachment, he’s impeached. The odds of Trump being impeached before the the president has officially been impeached—a process similar to end of his first term have risen to 60 percent, according to bet- indictment. It is then up to the Senate to hold a trial. ting house Paddy Power, and at least 26 Democrats and two Republicans have dropped the I-word. But the impeachment How does the trial proceed? process is long, complicated, and heavily influenced by parti- The House designates certain representatives, known as “manag- san considerations. If it happens, says Bill McCollum, a former ers,” to serve as prosecutors and argue the case for conviction. Republican member of Congress who voted to impeach Clinton, The president selects lawyers to serve as a defense team. The “it’s not going to happen overnight.” senators serve as the jury, presided over by the chief justice of the Supreme Court—though senators also get to determine certain Where did impeachment originate? procedural rules, such as whether to hear live-witness testimony. The process dates back to 14th-century England, where it was “Impeachment is a creature unto itself,” says former Rep. Bob used to prosecute lords and royal advisers who were beyond Barr, one of the House managers during Clinton’s trial. “The jury the reach of the courts. The framers of the U.S. Constitution— in a criminal case doesn’t set the rules for a case and can’t decide mindful of the possibility of tyranny—borrowed that concept what evidence they want to see and what they don’t.” There is for our founding document as a peaceful way of removing rogue also no defined standard of proof; the bar for conviction is what- presidents, as well as vice presidents, Cabinet secretaries, federal ever each senator wants it to be. If more than two-thirds of sena- judges, and Supreme Court justices. There was vigorous debate tors find him guilty, the president is removed from office—and the over whether to give the power to impeach to the Supreme Court, vice president takes his place. but in the end, the Constitution gave the House of Representatives the “sole Power of Impeachment,” and the Senate “sole Power to Could Trump be impeached? try all Impeachments”—that is, to decide The ongoing investigation by special whether to convict or acquit. Nixon’s almost-impeachment counsel Robert Mueller certainly Richard M. Nixon was implicated in the biggest raises that possibility. Rep. Al Green What are impeachable offenses? political scandal of the 20th century: Watergate. (D-Texas) says he has already begun “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes The evidence against him was so damning drafting his own articles of impeach- and Misdemeanors,” according to the that he would almost certainly have been ment, arguing that Trump is guilty Const itu tion. But the definition of “high impeached and convicted, but he managed to of obstruction of justice for allegedly crimes and misdemeanors” remains avoid that indignity by resigning. The House pressuring then–FBI Director James highly contentious. Some constitutional Judi ci ary Com mit tee in July 1974 had already Comey to drop his investigation into scholars believe the term should apply approved three articles of impeachment against possible collusion between Trump’s only to a violation of written law; others “Tricky Dick” for obstruction of justice, abuse team and the Kremlin, and then fir- argue it applies to any abuse of power or of power, and contempt of Congress involving ing Comey in hopes of ending that behavior that demeans the presidency. the break-in at the Democratic Na tional Com- probe. Clinton and Nixon were both In practice, the interpretation is almost mit tee headquarters in 1972. Six days later, a cornered over obstruction of justice; entirely political. Clin ton was impeached “smoking gun” tape emerged proving Nixon but unlike Trump, they faced a hostile for perjury and obstruction of justice had authorized the Watergate cover-up from the Congress controlled by the opposition because he’d lied under oath in testimony beginning. When Repub li can leaders told him party. For Republicans to turn against before a grand jury and in a deposi- he’d lost most of his support in the House and their own president and provide Senate, Nixon decided to resign. “There is no tion about whether he’d had an affair the votes to impeach him, Trump’s longer a need for the process to be prolonged,” with Lewin sky. During impeachment he said in a dramatic speech. A month later, he approval ratings would have to tank proceedings, press reports revealed that was pardoned by his former vice president and to the point where he represented a several Republican leaders were guilty of successor, Gerald Ford, for any and all crimes liability for the entire party. “Ninety- their own adulteries, but they argued— he may have committed. Nixon, said Ford, had nine percent of the game,” says former unsuccessfully—that it was the lying, not “suffered enough.” Justice Department official Bruce Fein,

Getty, AP Getty, the affair, that most mattered. In reality, “is how popular is the president.”

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“The early Trump administration has been many things,” said Ra- Abandoning mesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry, “but ‘populist’ hasn’t truly been one It must be true... of them.” Except for the tweeting, daily melodrama, and controversy, I read it in the tabloids populism was “it has been a fairly conventional Republican administration.” The a mistake health-care and tax proposals have come from the standard conservative QA Colorado bear mauled a playbook, whereas President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies— doughnut shop’s delivery car Ramesh Ponnuru and including The Wall and a Muslim ban—are meeting stiff resistance from while trying to get at the lin- Rich Lowry Congress and the courts. What’s he given the working-class voters who gering smell of sweet treats National Review put him in office? Not much, except rhetoric. There is no real “Trumpist coming from the vehicle’s wing” in Congress, and the president himself “isn’t a reliable Trumpist.” trunk. Kim Robertson of the Rather than delve into the weeds of policy, he has “defaulted” to the Moose Watch Café said she conventional Republicanism of Congress and his Wall Street aides. That came out to find her car’s includes proposing big tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, and rear bumper ripped off and a bear print on the dented paying for them with massive spending cuts to health care and other paintwork. Although no safety-net programs that could “harm, or at least not help, millions of glazed goodies had been left Americans.” In 2016, Trump and the GOP won the chance to build “a in the vehicle, she knew what new governing majority” of traditional conservatives and former Demo- attracted the bear: “It always crats from the working class. “So far, they are squandering it.” reeks of doughnuts in there.” Responding police officer “Imagine a Manchester-style attack in the U.S.,” said Zack Beauchamp. John McCartin said he and How Trump “Now imagine President Trump handling it.” After a suicide bomber fellow officers also noticed the car’s distinctive odor. “I killed 22 people at a pop concert, British Prime Minister Theresa May might handle guess if anyone is an expert urged calm, striving “to reassure an anxious public without demon- about this, it’s us.” izing Muslims.” In so doing she emulated presidents Barack Obama Manchester and George W. Bush, whose measured, inclusive language after terrorist QA 73-year- Zack Beauchamp attacks—including 9/11—was designed “to tamp down panic.” Both men old Australian Vox.com fisherman was understood that incendiary rhetoric can only “supercharge the terrorists’ knocked off narrative of a war between the West and Islam” and serve as a jihadist his feet when recruitment tool. Would the mercurial President Trump act so prudently a 9-foot great after a terrorist strike on his watch? Probably not. At various times, white shark Trump has suggested banning Muslim visitors, shutting down mosques suddenly and setting up a Muslim registry, and subjecting terrorist suspects to “tor- leaped out of ture ‘much worse’ than waterboarding.” He’s also surrounded himself the ocean and with aides, such as Steve Bannon, who openly hate Islam and who would into his boat. be eager to exploit an attack to distract from Trump’s legal and political Terry Selwood problems. If there were an attack like Manchester, millions of Americans was fishing when “I just saw would be “baying for blood”—and Trump “would likely join in.” a blur coming in the corner of me eye.” The 440-pound shark crashed onto the deck, Hillary Clinton is still taking almost all the blame from fellow Demo- knocking him down and Democrats crats for losing an election she should have won, said William McGurn. slicing his left arm with a fin. “As flawed a candidate as she might have been,” it’s unfair—and “The thing was beside me, can’t blame delusional—for Democrats to assign her full responsibility for the and I thought, ‘Oh, a bloody thumping the party took last November. In truth, the party itself and its shark.’” As the fish thrashed Hillary alone policies contributed mightily. Don’t forget that ever since she was elected wildly, Selwood ran to the William McGurn to the U.S. Senate, Clinton has faithfully adhered to nearly all main- back of the boat and radioed The Wall Street Journal stream Democratic policy positions. Like most Democrats in the Senate, the coast guard, which found him clinging to a gunnel. she originally supported the Iraq War, then turned against it only when it became unpopular. She opposed gay marriage until the party supported QA teenage driver could be it and supported free-trade deals until Bernie Sanders came out against hit with a $10,000 bill after he them. As a presidential candidate, she ran on identity politics, arguing steered his car into freshly in effect: “Who could be more deserving to succeed the first African- poured concrete on a Nebras- American president than the first woman president?” That argument fell ka road. Shadrach Yasiah, 19, was trying to evade a flat. But she was hardly alone in her failure: Democrats lost congressio- traffic jam when he wove nal and state races all across the country because of what they offer vot- through some construction ers: vague, wishy-washy liberalism and identity politics. Clinton was “a cones, only to realize his car flawed messenger,” but “there’s a problem with the message, too.” was sinking into the road. It took two hours for a tow Viewpoint “The chasm between elite liberals and middle America is liberalism’s big- truck to pull the car free. City gest problem. It’s one of the reasons a lot of middle Americans didn’t vote for engineer Thomas Shafer said Hillary. And bridging the gulf is on us, not them. It requires that we accept certain realities. A person Yasiah would be billed for the can still be ‘on the team’ even if they think the minimum wage should be raised only to $10, or don’t rescue and road resurfacing, consider the placement of the crèche on the courthouse square for two weeks in December a consti- but offered the teen some tutional crisis, or haven’t yet figured out how they feel about transgender bathrooms. If we don’t find free advice: “Pay attention to a way to welcome them, they’ll go to the other side.” Michael Tomasky in NewRepublic.com the cones out there.” AP

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UNITED KINGDOM After an atrocity like the Manchester bombing, it’s MI5’s 4,000 staffers can investigate, which is why tempting to blame security agencies for failing to they focus on the 500 or so most pressing threats. protect us, said Fraser Nelson. Acquaintances of “The idea that we either can or would want to Impossible suicide bomber Salman Abedi say they repeatedly operate intensive scrutiny of thousands [of people] warned MI5 about his dangerous beliefs before is fanciful,” says MI5 head Andrew Parker. “This to prevent he blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert is not East Germany, or North Korea—and thank last week, killing 22 people. So why wasn’t he goodness it’s not.” Our security services know every attack stopped? Simple: There are literally “thousands of that even though they can foil many plotters, they potential Islamic terrorists on the books of MI5.” can’t catch them all. That’s why a terrorist attack Fraser Nelson Only a police state could monitor them all. Before is not synonymous with a security failure and why The Daily Telegraph 9/11, our agencies had about 250 people on their passing new laws to curb civil liberties would be list of possible terrorists; a few years ago, that list a mistake. The depressing truth is that “we are as had grown to 3,000. There are only so many cases safe as we are likely to get.”

ITALY Italy’s most beloved TV star has just revealed his “I could easily tell you,” he said, “this one will nasty side, said Chiara Maffioletti. Flavio Insinna, be s--- and that one is s--- and that one.” It was When a actor and host of Italy’s version of Deal or No a prolonged rant, not one unfortunate comment Deal, that “gentle and kind man” who recently taken out of context. Insinna, 51, has been justifi- private rant spoke out so eloquently for tolerance and equality, ably pilloried, not only for his demeaning com- was exposed by the muckraking Italian show Strip ments about the people who have made him a star goes public the News as a profane jerk who hates his audience but also for losing his temper at work and behav- and his guests. The show aired a behind-the-scenes ing like a prima donna. I won’t defend him. But Chiara Maffioletti tape of Insinna from 2015, in which he railed we should all ask ourselves: Isn’t it possible that Corriere della Sera against the stupidity of one petite guest—that any of us might have had some private conversa- “idiot dwarf,” in his words—and shouted that he tion or altercation that, “if recorded and aired, ought to be able to choose contestants rather than would bring us tremendous shame?” Just be glad have them randomly selected from the audience. you’re not famous. How they see us: Europe loses faith in America Is this the end of the Western alli- shortsighted policies of the Ameri- ance? asked Tom Peck in Independent can government stand against the .co.uk. German Chancellor Angela interests of the European Union,” Merkel seems to think so. During his said Sigmar Gabriel, the SPD for- first European trip last week, President eign secretary in Merkel’s coalition Trump repeatedly spurned America’s government, citing Trump’s climate longtime allies. At a NATO meeting in change denial, his militarism, and Brussels, he harangued other member his travel ban on citizens from nations for not spending enough on selected Muslim-majority nations. defense and failed to affirm Article 5, Merkel is now calling on EU the alliance’s mutual-defense clause. members to “shoulder emotionally Trump even physically shoved aside charged challenges such as a com- the Montenegrin prime minister as mon defense and security policy.” NATO leaders gathered for a photo, Can they step up? It’s an open displaying the “diplomatic grace of question, said Christoph Schiltz an orangutan.” Then at a meeting in Die Welt (Germany). The EU is Merkel and Trump: Going their own way? with senior European Union officials, far from united—eastern European he called Germany “bad, very bad” for selling cars to the U.S.— nations like Poland and Hungary have balked at accepting their never mind that most of those cars are made in U.S. plants by share of the refugees Germany has welcomed into the union. But U.S. workers. When Trump was back on American soil, Merkel Trump’s obvious tilt toward Russia frightens the easterners, who spoke out. “The times in which we can fully count on others are on the front lines, and Merkel is betting that she can “unite are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days,” Europeans in their skepticism over Trump.” Merkel told an election rally in Munich. She added that while Europe would remain “friendly” with the U.S. and post-Brexit Merkel is playing a dangerous game, said Gideon Rachman in Britain, “we have to fight for ourselves.” It’s now clear that the the Financial Times (U.K.). Is she really ready to trash an alli- era of 1945 to 2016, “when the Western nations of the world ance that has kept Europe safe for 70 years after only four dif- were reliable partners, dependent on one another,” is gone. ficult months of a Trump presidency? It’s possible that he’s “an aberration and will soon be out of office.” And by suggesting There was “a certain amount of campaigning” in Merkel’s that the alliance is coming apart, Merkel is effectively encourag- speech, said Annett Meiritz in Der Spiegel (Germany). After all, ing Russia to ramp up its efforts to shatter Western unity. Some parliamentary elections are set for September, and the Christian commentators and anti-Trump activists have proclaimed Merkel Democrat is seeking a fourth term as chancellor. But even the op- the new “leader of the Western world.” The sad reality is that position Social Democrats (SPD) agree with her assessment. “The she has “little interest in fighting to save the Western alliance.” Newscom

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Russia: Cheering Trump’s NATO policy Russia had every reason to dread last Ultimately, “there is always only one week’s NATO summit, said Nezavi- man running the show in NATO—the simaya Gazeta in an editorial. Since U.S. president,” said Alexander Rahr 1997, when NATO and Russia signed in Izvestia. His priorities are the alli- a pact establishing mutual relations, the ance’s priorities. Sure, Trump briefly problems between the two sides have mentioned that Russia was a threat, all come from NATO’s actions. NATO but he was clearly forced to do so by expanded into former Warsaw Pact ter- domestic considerations, given that ritory and bombed Russia’s ally Yugo- his staff is being investigated for al- slavia, while the U.S. withdrew from the leged ties to the Kremlin. In fact, with Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and overtly Trump in charge, Russia has a unique and covertly supported anti-Russian opportunity to improve relations policies in Ukraine and Georgia. Yet, with NATO, particularly on “com- with breathtaking presumption, many of Trump and fellow NATO leaders in Brussels mon ground such as the fight against NATO’s 28 members still want to paint ISIS.” The test will come in July, Russia “as a potential enemy threatening military aggression when Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet at the against Eastern Europe.” In Brussels, though, President Trump G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. That’s when we’ll know wasn’t having it. His main priority was getting other member na- “whether Trump has truly reformed the alliance,” and whether tions to properly fund their armed forces and meet NATO’s goal NATO-Russia cooperation can finally resume. that each country spend at least 2 percent of its gross domestic product on defense. Russia was, if anything, an afterthought. Trump won’t be able to dominate the G-20 as he did NATO, said Maxim Makarychev in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Look at last week’s In fact, Moscow is no longer NATO’s focus, said Mikhail Koros- G-7 meeting of Western leaders, held in Italy just after the NATO tikov in Kommersant. Trump has prevailed in his insistence on summit. It was “almost a total failure” because of Trump’s re- a fundamental shift in the alliance “from countering Russia to luctance to listen to his foreign counterparts. On climate change countering terrorism.” Trump’s speech to the alliance focused and the European migration crisis, two issues the rest of the on Islamist violence, and he got NATO to formally join the group desperately wanted to address, Trump showed “complete U.S.-led coalition battling ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The supposed indifference.” Back when Russia used to attend those summits, Russian threat, which had been the most important issue for alli- before the annexation of Crimea, some wags called the group ance members since the Ukraine crisis began in 2014, “has now the G-7 + 1 to indicate Russia’s outsider status. Now, thanks to moved to second place.” Trump, we can call it “the G-6 + 1,” with the U.S. as the outcast.

More U.S. airstrikes will result in more dead another air raid in the same province, one man AFGHANISTAN Afghan children—and more support for extrem- lost three of his children, including a baby, and all ists, said Maseer. President Trump’s new strategy his livestock. “After that, nothing was left for us,” Troop surge in Afghanistan appears to be to boost U.S. troop he said. Afghan officials welcome increased U.S. numbers and to give them greater latitude to call involvement in the war, so they remain “silent will only in airstrikes. That means the Americans “are about these crimes.” We’ve been down this road going to repeat their past crimes by attacking before. As more civilians die at American hands, backfire women, children, and other innocent people.” It’s grieving survivors will throw their support behind already happening. Last week, after the Taliban the Taliban instead of the government in Kabul. Editorial clashed with Afghan security forces in the eastern “They will take up arms to take revenge.” If the Maseer Nangarhar province, a U.S. aircraft responded government is genuinely committed to stability in by bombing civilians instead of the insurgents, Afghanistan, it should “ask its strategic allies to killing at least two children and three women. In stop these barbaric acts and crimes.”

SOUTH AFRICA South Africa is no longer a democracy, but a busi- placed him with Malusi Gigaba, who as public en- ness run for the profit of President Jacob Zuma and terprises minister almost a decade ago gave Gupta- The families the Gupta family, said Ranjeni Munusamy. Broth- linked companies preferential access to government ers Ajay, Atul, and Rajesh Gupta relocated from contracts, paving the way for a Gupta empire that own India to South Africa in 1993 as apartheid was stretching from mining to media and IT. Everyone ending and the country was opening to the world. was outraged by Gordhan’s dismissal: businesses, our nation They became friendly with the Zumas, and in the churches, unions, academics. Now, the independent past few years it has become apparent that a net- State Capacity Research Project—a team of leading Ranjeni Munusamy work of companies linked to the two families is re- academics from four universities—has produced a DailyMaverick.co.za ceiving virtually all government contracts. But this definitive report showing step-by-step how South relationship has backfired on Zuma, who recently Africa fell victim to “a silent coup by an organized committed his most “overt act of betrayal” of the criminal network.” The next step is clear: We need South African people. In March, the president fired a judicial inquiry into “corruption, fraud, money

AP respected finance minister Pravin Gordhan and re- laundering, racketeering, and, possibly, treason.”

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 16 NEWS Talking points Kushner: What lies behind his placid exterior? “He was supposed to be the calm one, cool columns to “strike back” against business and unflappable under his Ray-Bans and rivals and “those he said had crossed him.” beltless blue bespoke suits,” said David Freedlander in Politico.com. If White House Kushner also has served as a “slumlord” chief strategist Steve Bannon was the fiery over another, less well known real estate anti-globalist disrupter, then President empire, said Alec MacGillis in The New Trump’s handsome son-in-law and senior York Times Magazine. His subsidiary com- adviser, Jared Kushner, 36, was the moder- pany, JK2 Westminster, owns some 8,000 ating influence: a soft-spoken Manhattan old, run-down properties from Baltimore to liberal who would temper Trump’s worst Toledo, and its employees have filed hun- instincts. “Except that isn’t quite how it has dreds of lawsuits against poverty-stricken gone in the White House.” Last week, as we tenants for breaking leases or missing rent discovered that Kushner is now “a focus” Kushner with the president in Saudi Arabia payments. Kushner stepped down as chief of the investigation into possible collusion executive of Kushner Companies in Janu- between the Trump campaign and Russia, a picture of “the ‘real’ ary, but remains a stakeholder in the firm, with trusts worth an Jared” began to emerge. It was Kushner who tried to establish a estimated $600 million. When one of his old tenants was told his secret communications channel with the Kremlin while President landlord was the president’s son-in-law, he replied, “That Jared Obama was still in office. It was Kushner who urged Trump to Kushner? Oh, my God. And I thought he was the good one.” fire former FBI Director James Comey over the Russia investiga- tion. People who know Jared from his cutthroat real estate days By the media’s telling, Kushner is a cold-hearted, “sinister” say ruthless risk-taking has always been “part of the Kushner manipulator, said Howard Kurtz in FoxNews.com. But maybe he’s Way: unfailingly polite and urbane on the surface while searching just a target of resentment for people inside and outside the White for the soft underbelly to stick the knife in.” House who see him as “a rich kid” with “a glamorous wife” who doesn’t deserve his powerful position. If Kushner erred, it was To understand Kushner, said Ted Sherman in NJ.com, you have to probably from “naïveté,” said Andrew McCarthy in National look at the family drama that forged him. In 2004, “a family feud Review.com. The “young princeling,” as West Wing rivals call of epic proportions” brought down Kushner’s father, real estate him, has been given a ridiculously broad policy portfolio, includ- mogul Charles Kushner. The scandal morphed from a federal tax ing “the holy grail of Middle East peace”—even though Kushner investigation into something from TV’s The Sopranos: Charles has absolutely no experience in diplomacy or government. His Kushner paid a prostitute to trick his brother-in-law into making worst crime is probably being completely “out of his depth.” a sex tape, so as to blackmail his brother-in-law and sister into ending their cooperation with federal investigators. Kushner’s Nonetheless, Kushner now represents a major liability for Trump, father pleaded guilty to 18 felony counts, in a case spearheaded said David Brooks in The New York Times. Our nation’s found- by then–U.S. Attorney Chris Christie. His imprisonment weighed ers purposely tried to “build a government of laws, and not of heavily on Jared—who took over the family business, Kushner hereditary bloodlines.” But Kushner and Trump share a “clan- Companies, and visited his father’s Alabama prison weekly. Deter- nish mentality” in which there is no right or wrong—just fierce mined to restore the Kushner reputation, said Michael Kranish loyalty to family. When your clan is under attack, you fight, and in Washington Post.com , Jared made an incredibly risky move seek vengeance against the enemy. “It’s an intensely personal and that almost sank the family business, paying a record-breaking feud-ridden way of being.” That clannishness motivated Kushner $1.8 billion for a 41-story office building on Manhattan’s Fifth to defend his father and seek to expand his empire, and it will Avenue. Kushner has spent years searching for investors to save prompt Trump to stick by the husband of his beloved daughter the overleveraged deal—including Chinese and possibly Rus- Ivanka no matter what—even to the point of damaging himself. sian ones. He went out and bought a newspaper, The New York As federal and congressional investigators focus on Kushner, it Observer, and editors there said Kushner sought to use its news could lead to the Trump administration’s undoing.

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QAbout 400,000 U.S. veterans are buried reception at the end of the monthlong hol- family, that of Joseph Edward Davies, at Arlington National Cemetery. With iday. Tillerson declined to host the former whose wife, Marjorie Merriweather Post, 30 burials and internments taking place last week, when Ramadan began, and built the Mar-a-Lago resort Trump later every weekday, the historic cemetery will has failed to schedule the latter, usually bought. Trump replaced the Latin word be filled to capacity in 25 years. planned weeks or months in advance. “integritas”—integrity—on Davies’ coat USA Today CNN.com of arms with “Trump.” British authorities QSecretary of State Rex Tillerson has QThe coat of arms on have refused to let Trump use the coat of broken with a nearly two-decades-long flags that fly at President arms at his Scottish golf courses. bipartisan tradition of hosting an event Trump’s golf courses The New York Times commemorating the Muslim holy month across the U.S.—three QMelania Trump revealed last week on a of Ramadan. Since 1999, Tillerson’s five lions and two chevrons presidential visit to the Vatican that she’s Republican and Democratic predecessors on a shield, with a gloved Roman Catholic, making her the first Cath- have hosted either an Iftar dinner to break hand gripping an arrow— olic first lady since Jacqueline Kennedy. the fast during Ramadan, or an Eid al-Fitr actually belongs to another CNN.com Reuters, Newscom Reuters,

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Melania: A global coming-out party Wit & It was the wrist flick “viewed ’round the The Washington Post. Barack and Michelle world,” said Michael D’Antonio in CNN Obama made their romance “a central Wisdom .com. At Israel’s Ben Gurion International part of their story,” and they very pub- “People are united Airport last week President Trump licly teased one another, kissed, and by questions. It is the reached for wife Melania’s hand and held hands. Yet at times, “the Obamas answers that divide them.” Elie Wiesel, qu oted in “she rebuffed him,” batting his hand seemed to be performing,” just like BrainPickings.org away. Melania’s snub—and a sec- the Clintons, dancing on a beach in ond one in Rome—might well be a 1998—the year a sex scandal engulfed “It’s good to be idealistic. But be prepared to be response to “innumerable acts” of Bill’s presidency. “If every marriage is misunderstood.” Trumpian unkindness to her. On a mystery, political marriages are the Mark Zuckerberg, quoted in Inauguration Day and in Israel, he Twilight Zone.” Fortune.com walked far ahead of her, leaving her “A jackass can kick down a awkwardly alone; he made her “the Besides, the first lady’s “subdued star barn, but it takes a carpen- butt of his best jokes” at last fall’s Al power” was well received abroad, said ter to build one.” Smith dinner; and then there was that Mark Landler in The New York Times. Former House Speaker Sam humiliating Access Hollywood tape. Glamorous and often sphinx-like, she Rayburn, quoted in The Wall Street Journal Stuck with “a boor,” the first lady “must, intrigued the Saudis and Europeans, made out of respect for the American public, an otherwise glum Pope Francis grin, “In difficult times, carry grin and bear it.” But sometimes—when and seemed warm and thoroughly at ease something beautiful in your heart.” she delays her move to the White House, or snapping selfies with admirers and speak- Blaise Pascal, quoted in slaps away her husband’s hand—“it’s hard to ing Italian to patients at a Vatican children’s TheBrowser.com believe she’s not sending signals.” hospital who hollered “Ciao, Melania!” In “My father always told me Sicily, she made a stir by wearing a Dolce that all businessmen were The frenzy over a split-second hand motion & Gabbana jacket retailing for $51,500 sons of bitches.” is absurd, said Cheryl Chumley in The Wash- —slightly less than Americans’ median John F. Kennedy, quoted in The New York Times ington Times. It’s a classic case of In Dolce & Gabbana household income—but defenders confirmation bias: Trump’s enemies, said the garment was carefully cho- “How much larger your desperate for evidence of marital discord, have sen because of Dolce’s Sicilian roots. For Melania, life would be if your self found “the negative conclusion” they want. the trip “was a coming-out party,” suggesting she could be smaller in it.” “Who knows what goes on in the confines of will no longer be “a spectral presence” in her hus- G.K. Chesterton, quoted in any relationship?” asked Krissah Thompson in band’s presidency. LAReviewOfBooks.com “The truth will set you free, but not until it is fin- ished with you.” Gianforte: Body slamming to victory David Foster Wallace, quoted If there was any doubt that Donald Trump took uphold certain basic standards of decency or you in The Times (U.K.) Republicans into “another moral realm,” said don’t.” Alas, with Trump in the Oval Office, Charles Blow in The New York Times, it ended many conservatives have grown so used to with last week’s election victory of Greg Gian- “defending the indefensible” that they have com- Poll watch forte. The Montana tech millionaire won a spe- pletely lost their moral compass. Beating up peo- Q55% of all registered cial election to fill his state’s lone seat in the U.S. ple you don’t like is not what real men do, said voters—and 83% of House of Representatives, just one day after he Josh Barro in BusinessInsider.com, but the kind of Democrats—say that assaulted reporter Ben Jacobs of The Guardian. angry, emasculated men who voted for Trump are the Russia investigation When Jacobs asked Gianforte how he stood on thrilled by “cruel dominance displays” over liber- and other controversies his party’s unpopular health-care bill, the Repub- als, women, journalists, and so-called elitists. As a surrounding President lican grabbed Jacobs by the throat, slammed him result, Republicans either cheer or pretend not to Trump’s presidency are into the ground, and punched him, shouting: “I’m notice when Trump and Gianforte display all the making them “feel ner- sick and tired of this!” The astonishing attack, swaggering immaturity of “a junior varsity high vous about the country’s recorded on audio and witnessed by a Fox News school football player.” future.” 38% say they do camera crew, left Jacobs bruised and needing not feel nervous. 70% are checking the news at least new glasses. Though charged with misdemeanor We are entering into uncharted territory, said once or twice a day, in- assault, Gianforte refused to apologize until Brian Beutler in NewRepublic.com. Trump’s suc- cluding 78% of Democrats after winning the election, and many prominent cess has taught Republicans “they will face no and 72% of Republicans. conservatives actually praised him for giving a consequences for poor or unprincipled behavior.” Politico–Morning Consult “snowflake” reporter a beating. Radio host Rush They no longer see themselves as playing by the Limbaugh hailed the “manly, studly” candidate old rules—and they just write off criticism of even QOnly 24% of Americans for taking down a “pajama boy journalist,” while physical assaults as “the impotent complaints think Trump is making progress toward his Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) said the attack of political losers.” Congratulations, my fellow promise to “drain the wasn’t “appropriate behavior...unless the reporter Republicans, said Jonah Goldberg in National swamp” in Washington. deserved it.” Review.com. By rallying around Gianforte, you just 32% believe he is making gave President Trump one more vote in the House. the “swamp” worse. There should be no “gray area” here, said Mona “What did you have to give up?” All credibility in Monmouth University

AP Charen in NationalReview.com. “You either “condemning political violence” in the future.

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 18 NEWS Technology

Bitcoin: The digital currency’s latest wild ride “A little over two months ago, bitcoin achieved I wouldn’t convert your savings just yet a symbolic milestone,” said Stan Schroeder in though, said Klint Finley in Wired.com. Mashable.com. For the first time, a single unit of “Bitcoin has crashed before.” In November the digital currency became worth more than an 2013, for example, bitcoin surged from about ounce of gold, then about $1,200. But the rally $200 to more than $1,200, before falling to didn’t end there. The price of bitcoin continued less than $600 within three months, after the to surge, nearly doubling since early March, and implosion of the bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. the cryptocurrency is now trading well above The currency’s price has reached record highs $2,000. This is an asset known to be “highly vol- of near $2,800 in the past few weeks, only atile, with wild price swings,” said Arjun Kharpal to plummet nearly 20 percent in the space of in CNBC.com. But for once, I understand all a few days. “When it comes to bitcoin, the those folks who say to me, “I wish I’d invested in only real rule is volatility.” We’re also talking bitcoin.” If you bought $100 of the currency in A record-breaking rally about a small-bore market here, said Matthew May 2010, when a single bitcoin was worth 0.003 cents, “you’d Lynn in MarketWatch.com. The world’s roughly 16 million bit- now be sitting on around $75 million.” coins currently have a combined value of $35 billion, compared to $8.2 trillion for the world’s gold supply. In the grand scheme Why is bitcoin rocketing now? asked Timothy Lee in Vox.com . of things, “bitcoin is hardly that important.” Soaring demand from Asia is one reason. International money- transfer services using bitcoin are catching on there, because The real game changer isn’t bitcoin—it’s the technology under- digital currencies are faster and cheaper than traditional wire pinning it, said Jeff John Roberts in Fortune.com. The block- transfers. The Japanese government also moved to formally chain is the open, distributed online ledger that makes bitcoin recognize the currency in April, “giving it greater legitimacy in trans actions secure, reliable, and anonymous. Its powerful Asia’s richest major economy.” Bitcoin is also untraceable, and a authentication features are already being used to create a whole wave of high-profile ransomware attacks by criminals demand- new generation of internet technologies that could prove im- ing the currency has raised its profile. But above all, bitcoin’s pervious to hackers and protect our web-browsing habits from price is climbing because more people are piling in, convinced the likes of Facebook and Google. In the future, we might all be that the price has room to run. And so the increase in value “has using a blockchain-based internet “superior to the broken web become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” we use today.”

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

“Despite Sell your house with a click devices, and builds on Apple’s “Everyone Can places like A real estate startup called Opendoor wants to Code” curriculum, which covers kindergarten Australia make buying and selling homes as easy as any through 12th grade and is geared toward being bathed other online transaction, said Farhad Manjoo students “with little to no prior coding ex- in sun, in The New York Times. After you register perience.” Apple says six community college the cost of your address on the site and answer a few systems have already committed to teaching traditional the material this fall to an estimated 500,000 silicon-based solar cells hasn’t basic questions, Opendoor will make an offer inspired people to buy, buy, buy,” on your home within 24 hours. Once you’ve students. The course materials are available said Johnny Lieu in Mashable .com. accepted the offer, the company can close on online in the iBooks store. But new superthin, printable solar the sale in as little as three days following a panels could bring the price of home inspection. Opendoor then sells your Warby Parker’s optometrist rooftop solar power down dramati- house on its own online marketplace. Unlike “Warby Parker wants to get you the right cally. Researchers at the University traditional real estate agents, who typically prescription glasses without forcing you to of Newcastle in Australia are testing charge a commission of between 5 and 6 per- get an in-person eye test,” said Josh Constine solar cells that use electronic inks cent, Opendoor charges an average of around in TechCrunch.com. The low-cost eyeglasses printed on plastic film to conduct electricity. The panels are less than 7.5 percent. Right now, Opendoor operates in retailer is testing a new app that uses your one-tenth of a millimeter thick and Dallas, Las Vegas, and Phoenix, with plans to smartphone and computer to administer a can be printed quickly in large expand to new markets by the end of the year. 20-minute, at-home eye test. Warby Parker’s quantities. Eventually, the panels Prescription Check app has users stand back could cost as little as $8 per square Apple drops some coding knowledge from their computer screen, where the test is meter, says Newcastle professor Paul Apple wants to help high schools and colleges displayed, while reading instructions from their Dastoor, who is leading the project. train the next generation of app developers, smartphone. When the test is done, results are That’s considerably less than Tesla’s said Greg Toppo in USA Today. The tech sent to a doctor who signs off on the final pre- new solar roof shingles, which run scription. For now, the app is only available to around $235 a square meter. “We giant recently unveiled a free app-building expect in a short period of time the curriculum, including 180 hours of lesson existing Warby Parker customers between the energy we generate will be cheaper plans and instructional projects “designed to ages of 18 and 40 who live in California, Flor- than that generated via coal-based stretch out over the course of a school year.” ida, New York, and Virginia and can only be fire stations,” Dastoor said. The course focuses on Swift, a programming used to confirm existing prescriptions; updated

language used to create apps for Mac and iOS prescriptions will be available in the future. Newscom

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A drink a day raises breast cancer risk As little as one s mall alcoholic drink a day gen levels, two factors that have been could significantly increase a woman’s linked to increased risk for the disease. risk for breast cancer, a major new study “[The study] suggests there is no level has found. Scientists at the American of alcohol use that is completely safe in Institute for Cancer Research and the terms of breast cancer,” lead author Anne World Cancer Research Fund analyzed McTiernan tells The Washington Post. “If data from 119 previous studies, involving a woman is drinking, it would be better if 12 million women and 260,000 cases of she kept it to a lower amount.” In better breast cancer. They found that premeno- news, the researchers found that vigor- pausal women who drink an average of ous exercise can help protect against 10 grams of alcohol each day––equal to a breast cancer. The study showed that the small glass of wine or an 8-ounce beer–– most active premenopausal women had New study provides reason for concern. have a 5 percent greater risk for breast a 17 percent lower risk of developing the cancer. For postmenopausal women, disease than the least active; postmeno- also confirmed that women who are the risk jumps to 9 percent. Alcohol can pausal women who did regular exercise overweight or obese have a higher risk of trigger DNA mutations and raise estro- had a 10 percent reduced risk. The report developing the disease after menopause.

for Alzheimer’s. They concluded beyond characteristics that they say are unique a doubt that older people who exercise to humans and their ancestors, reports regularly have a significantly lower risk of TheSmithsonian.com. If correct, that would developing the progressive brain disorder make the Europe-based “El Graeco” our than those who are inactive. The study oldest human ancestor. Their claim has been also found that people with Alzheimer’s widely disputed, however. Critics argue that who keep physically active are better able sweeping conclusions about human evolu- to perform routine daily activities than tion cannot be made on the basis of two those who are sedentary, MedicalDaily.com poorly preserved dental fossils and that the reports. “After evaluating all the research preponderance of evidence still suggests available,” says study author Kathleen the evolutionary split between apes and An increasingly common scene Martin Ginis, a professor at the University human ancestors took place in Africa. Study of British Columbia, “our panel agrees that leader David Begun, a paleobiologist at the More coastal flooding coming physical activity is a practical, economical, University of Toronto, says he is “the first The effects of rising sea levels on coastal and accessible intervention for both the to admit” that his evidence “is less than flooding could be worse than previously prevention and management of Alzheimer’s ideal” and that more fossils are needed. thought, reports the Los Angeles Times. A disease and other dementias.” The study’s new study has found that if oceans rise by authors recommend that older people Health scare of the week 4 to 8 inches—which is expected to hap- adhere to current federal guidelines: at least Beware of pool parasites pen by 2050, under current estimates—the 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic With summer fast approaching, the Centers frequency of severe coastal flooding around activity each week and muscle-building for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the world will likely double. Whereas pre- strength training at least twice a week. has issued a warning about a parasitic vious global-scale projections accounted infection linked to swimming pools and only for storm surges and tidal fluctua- Earliest humans from Europe? water parks. Cryptosporidium, known as tions, this new report also factored in the Controversial new research has suggested “crypto,” causes diarrhea, cramps, nausea, impact of waves. Researchers say Pacific that humans evolved from apes in Southern and vomiting. The hardy parasite—which islands and vulnerable tropical cities will Europe, not Africa—a claim that, if true, is protected by an outer shell—can survive be the first affected, because sea-level rises could fundamentally change our under- in properly chlorinated water for up to 10 are proportionally more significant in areas standing of human evolution. The theory days; swallowing even one mouthful of where tidal ranges are smaller. But as sea is based on a new analysis of two fossils: water contaminated with the parasite can levels rise, they warn, higher-latitude cities a jawbone found in Greece and a tooth result in about three weeks of dehydration like New York, Los Angeles, and London discovered in Bulgaria. They belong to and gastrointestinal misery. The CDC says will also see more severe floods. “It is Graecopithecus freybergi, an ape-like crea- there were at least 32 outbreaks caused pretty much inevitable that we are going to ture that lived between 7.18 million and by crypto in the U.S. last year—up from see increased frequency of extreme water 7.25 million years ago— just 16 in 2014. Overall, crypto cases in levels,” says lead researcher Sean Vitousek about 200,000 years the U.S. have roughly tripled since 2004, of the University of Illinois at Chicago. before the earliest reports CBSNews.com. Federal health “There is no way around this.” known human ances- officials aren’t sure whether infections are tor. Using advanced on the rise or if greater awareness has led Exercise prevents Alzheimer’s new imaging tech- to more diagnoses, but they are urging A landmark study has confirmed what niques to examine parents to be extra vigilant. “Do not swim many neurologists have long believed: the specimens, or let your kids swim if sick with diar- Exercise is good for the brain. Researchers research- rhea,” advises the CDC’s Michele Hlavsa. analyzed data from more than 150 studies ers found “Protect yourself from getting sick by not

Newscom, AP, Reuters AP, Newscom, on how physical activity affects the risk dental-root swallowing the water in which you swim.”

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THE WEEK June 9, 2017 For more political cartoons, visit: www.theweek.com/cartoons. ARTS 21 Review of reviews: Books

Book of the week engages in an email flirtation with a man who kissed her in a car. She fantasizes about Love and Trouble: other men—though she doesn’t act on that lust. In two chapters addressed to “Dear A Midlife Reckoning Roman Polanski,” she suggests that her by Claire Dederer sexual personality possibly was shaped by (Knopf, $26) an unwelcome encounter at age 13 with an adult acquaintance. But she refuses simple So much for achieving inner peace, said cause and effect. And she decides she’s not so Claudia Rowe in The Seattle Times. In the different from a lot of the women she knows. opening pages of Claire Dederer’s “fero- ciously honest” new book, the author is 44 At a crucial point, Dederer’s scattershot and just coming off the success of Poser, style frustrates, said Heather Havrilesky in her wry, best-selling memoir about embrac- The New York Times. Addressing Polanski ing yoga despite its derisible cultural trap- and his 1977 rape of a 13-year-old girl lets pings. But Dederer, a married mother of Dederer work through certain emotions. two, is far from content. She feels restless, Desire after 40: Why shouldn’t it be unruly? But when she adds a flippant mention of depressed, and surprisingly hungry for the the time her mother’s friend “got in the ol’ kinds of sexual adventures she pursued in “Sentence for sentence, a more pleasure- sleeping baggerino,” the joke “seems like her youth. The teenage self she remembers yielding midlife memoir is hard to think an attempt to evade her discomfort with the was, as she puts it, “a disastrous pirate slut of,” said Laura Kipnis in The Atlantic. subject.” Dederer doesn’t think of herself as of a girl,” and that girl’s not dead. What Dederer has a talent for spiky metaphors, a victim, though, said Christopher Frizzelle follows is a “daring high-wire act,” as and she “embeds them in her sentences like in the Seattle Stranger. The woman who Dederer tries to make sense of the source shrapnel.” An old couch her kids play on is, emerges in this “vivid, hilarious, daring” and meaning of such recurring desires—as she writes, “as stained with s--- and vomit book is “a person who has achieved clarity well as her current despair. Though she’s a and blood as the backseat of Travis Bickle’s about her own contradictions—or at least “delightfully mordant” self-portraitist, “you taxi.” She’s also not afraid of coming off has figured out how to use those contradic- couldn’t ask for a better guide to the center badly. She admits to meeting with friends tions as an excuse to bring lively writing of yourself.” to indulge in pointless crying sessions. She into the world.”

Aliens: The World’s Leading On this the contributors agree: Extra- Novel of the week Scientists on the Search for terrestrials would look nothing like those Augustown Extraterrestrial Life we’ve seen in movies, said Jennifer Senior in by Kei Miller edited by Jim Al-Khalili The New York Times. Instead, aliens most likely resemble extremophiles, the bacteria (Pantheon, $26) (Picador, $25) that somehow thrive in Earth’s salt lakes “Augustown feels like a novel that its “Whither the space and volcanoes. Cobb’s essay provides the author enjoyed writing,” said Claire beasts, and where counterargument that since we only know Hopley in The Washington Times. are they hiding?” of one moment in Earth’s 4.5 billion–year Regardless of how well you know its asked Jason Rhode in existence when life sprang from inert mat- Jamaican setting, it’s also “a serious PasteMagazine.com. ter, the odds that such an event occurred pleasure to read.” Set in a down-at-heel In this “delightful, village in the island’s interior, the novel on one of the universe’s merely 1 billion punchy” anthology, Earth-like exoplanets is small to begin with. stirs into action as a schoolboy walks 20 scholars tackle home in shame, shorn of his dreadlocks A survey of science fiction aliens is a rare what has long seemed by an uptight teacher. That unwarranted dud among these essays, the best of which punishment escalates local tensions, but the most unserious are “far out in more ways than one.” it also opens a window on the country’s of questions—that is, Cosmologist Martin Rees suspects that, if fraught history. “To a non-Jamaican, the before recent discover- inhabitants of Earth ever do make contact novel sometimes gives the impression ies about the universe’s with alien intelligent life, the envoys won’t of eavesdropping on a family quarrel,” true vastness enticed scientists to revisit it. be human: We’ll be sending robots. said Laura Miller in The New Yorker. The Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili and the villagers complain of being thwarted team he’s assembled offer conflicting opin- Still, this “always lucid” and “sometimes by “Babylon,” their term for the pow- ions, said Rayyan al-Shawaf in CSMonitor unexpectedly beautiful” book is most inter- ers that be. But author Kei Miller makes .com. Evolutionary biologist Matthew Cobb esting on the subject of life on Earth, said clear that each character suffers from an is certain there’s no life on other planets, Oliver Moody in The Times (U.K.). Look inner Babylon. Occasional loose ends while astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol just as around, and you’ll find about 5 million aside, Augustown is the work of “an forcefully rejects the idea that we’re alone Americans who claim to have once been expansive talent.” It exemplifies a belief common in great literature, that a small in the cosmos. “This, perhaps counterintui- abducted by aliens, while a highly educated backwater can reveal a multitude about tively, stands as one of the book’s strongest cohort spends billions of dollars just listen- humanity writ large—“as long as you suits,” demonstrating how many ways there ing for the faintest echo of another type pay it sufficient attention.” are to add scientific rigor to a conversation of mind. “The real lesson is, the aliens are

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THE WEEK June 9, 2017 22 ARTS The Book List

Author of the week Best books...chosen by Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood, known as the poet laureate of Twitter, is a Pushcart Prize winner W. Kamau Bell and the author of Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. In her new memoir, W. Kamau Bell might be Priestdaddy, she recalls moving back in with her eccentric Catholic priest father. the bridge builder America needs right now, said Amy The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Sutherland in The Boston (New Directions, $13). Everyone always picks Kingston (Vintage, $15). Still the finest answer Globe. The 44-year-old The Passion According to G.H., the Lispector we have to the question, What happens to the comedian and host of CNN’s book where the main character eats a bug. But life of the mind under the small dullnesses and United Shades of America you know what? I’m going with the one where large oppressions of household routine? What has always had his ears open she says things like “And may angels flutter as happens to the helpless and horsepowered genius to diverse transparent wasps around my hot head because in a family? What happens to her in a classroom, viewpoints this head wants finally to transform itself into in a culture, in a country? like those he an object-thing, it’s easier.” Not really a novel— pursues on Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry more an autobiography of nerve endings. his nomadic Like Christmas by Maya Angelou (Random interview Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz (Future Tense, House, $16). Singin’ and Swingin’ contains all show. Back $15). An example of a story that the writer the usual delights, challenges, and philosophies in middle handled for a long time almost as an object— of Angelou’s other autobiographies, but with the school, when turned, saw in different lights, wrote from added bonus of letting us see her on tour with a his asthma frequently kept several opposing angles, before arriving at the company performing Porgy and Bess, chased by him indoors, Bell devoured finished version we see. It has stayed with me wizened European groupies writing her nightly the young-adult novels of Judy Blume even though he ever since I read it. letters about her beautiful legs. knew well that they were pri- How I Grew by Mary McCarthy (Harvest, $15). D.V. by Diana Vreeland (Ecco, $17). Please, I marily aimed at white teen- Again, I might be expected to pick Memories of do not want you to die and go to hell before you age girls, not a black nerd, a Catholic Girlhood, but instead I’m going to go read this book, which is 1,000 percent perfect or “blerd,” as he calls his with the one that contains the improbable scene in its way—except for the part where she starts younger self. “If I liked the of a young Mary McCarthy holding a used con- collecting something called blackamoor heads, writing,” he says, “I didn’t dom up to a street lamp and thinking, “I recog- which you already know is gonna be weird care that it didn’t reflect on nize it as jism.” My God, but she was a broad. before you look it up. my life.” In The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell, a new Also of interest...in graphic nonfiction memoir, Bell demonstrates how much farther he’s since The Best We Could Do Hostage ventured out of his comfort by Thi Bui (Abrams, $25) by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly, $30) zone, said Steven Zeitchik in the Los Angeles Times. Thi Bui, a former child refugee from For three months in 1997, French aid Parts of the book recount his Vietnam, has produced “one of the worker Christophe André was impris- United Shades of America first great works of socially relevant oned by Chechen kidnappers in a travels, which across two comics art of the Trump era,” said single dark room. “This is extremely seasons have allowed him to Abraham Riesman in NYMag.com. challenging territory for a cartoonist, engage in conversations with Years in the making, Bui’s “visually to say the least,” said Rachel Cooke Standing Rock activists, pris- stunning” memoir about her family’s uncertain in TheGuardian.com. But Guy Delisle is “one oners in San Quentin, and journey to a new life in America zigzags across of the greatest cartoonists of our age,” and he’s Syrian refugees in suburban time as it weaves together the historical and politi- turned André’s ordeal into a gripping visual nar- Washington, D.C. He even cal. Many times a single page or moment contains rative about a mind left alone to run on fear. visited a Ku Klux Klan cross “more insight and empathy about the people of “All this darkness and claustrophobia shouldn’t burning. “People may not like this, but I felt empathy Vietnam than all of Apocalypse Now.” be exhilarating.” But it is. for the Klan when we shot Imagine Wanting Only This Everything Is Flammable that episode,” he says. “They bought the myth of white by Kristen Radtke (Pantheon, $30) by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized, $26) supremacy, and now they’re Kristen Radtke’s remarkable debut Each page of Gabrielle Bell’s poignant not supreme.” Awkward is “one of the most haunting memoir is composed of a six-panel Thoughts also gathers Bell’s graphic memoirs I’ve ever read,” grid that’s “as tidy as an ice-cube musings on race, fatherhood, said Beth Kephart in the Chicago tray,” said Laurie Hertzel in the marriage, his own childhood, pop culture, and the need for Tribune. It chronicles the author’s Minneapolis Star Tribune. But the all of us, at this moment in burgeoning obsession with ruins as emotions the story dramatizes are particular, to listen to people she’s mourning a favorite relative, and the impulse messy. Bell rushed to California after a fire there unlike ourselves. “The book sends her on quiet tours of empty streets and left her estranged mother homeless, only to learn probably feels a little hectic,” desolate buildings in Cambodia, Myanmar, and that even playing hero isn’t a simple role. Past he says. “But, then, so does Gary, Ind. As a character, she is both vulnerable wounds are revisited, new roles tried on. “The the country.” and audacious, “her unease growing ever more overall sense is not of despair, but of hope.”

seductive with each unsystematic page.” From a fire’s ashes rises a stronger relationship. Novak Grep Hoax, John

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 Review of reviews: Art & Stage ARTS 23

Exhibit of the week 1867’s The Family Gathering, 11 Frédéric Bazille and the figures, including the tall, bearded art- Birth of Impressionism ist, give the viewer “a look of nervous stillness and focused intensity that is National Gallery of Art, Washington, common enough in 19th-century pho- D.C., through July 9 tography but new to the diapason of Frédéric Bazille will always be a tragic human expression.” And then there’s footnote in the history of early impres- the sunlight: blazingly real in a way that sionism, said Philip Kennicott in The was new to painting. Washington Post. A “huge talent” who died in war at 28 just as his peers Bazille’s “most fascinating” painting were beginning to rewrite the rules of carries “a psychological charge that picture making, Bazille could have been may have frightened him,” said Peter a major force if he had followed his Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. Whether muse down the right path. But in the he was gay or not is unknown, but in summer of 1870, less than a month Summer Scene (Bathers), which he into the Franco-Prussian War, Bazille finished and exhibited in 1870, eight shocked his friends Claude Monet and young men congregate by a river, all Pierre-Auguste Renoir by enlisting in of them either undressing or in swim- the French army. He was killed that ming trunks. Two playfully wrestle as November. Because his art to that point another lounges in the grass. Bazille’s had fluctuated between marketable con- Bazille’s Summer Scene: Glimmers of genius? composition obviously borrows from ventionalism and avant-garde daring, “we’ll bathers seen in art since antiquity, but never know if mediocrity was his ultimate passion for art while studying to be a doctor, “there’s an intensity to the scene that indi- calling.” Instead, he left teasing glimpses of and he had much to learn about drawing cates a coming oneness of aesthetic vision greatness in “bold, sun-drenched” canvases and handling paint. But the 20-year-old and personal truth.” He didn’t pull off every that anticipate 1870s Monet. “The best of Bazille put himself under the tutelage of detail, but the work inspires thoughts about Bazille is almost surreal, growing stranger Charles Gleyre, who also taught Monet and what might have been. Was Bazille’s eager- the longer you look at it.” Renoir, and he made enormous progress in ness to join the French army born of a desire a short time. Indeed, “there is every reason to prove his manhood? If he had survived, Bazille was not a natural, said Karen to believe that he, too, would have devel- would he have infused impressionism with Wilkin in The Wall Street Journal. When oped a signature style as instantly recogniz- sensuality? The paintings he left behind he arrived in Paris in 1862, this son of a able as theirs,” said James Gardner in The “tantalize like an orchestra tuning up for a wealthy Montpellier merchant pursued his Magazine Antiques. In his masterpiece, concert that is abruptly canceled.”

The Whirligig On other stages... Pershing Square Signature Center, New York City, (212) 279-4200 ++++ Ideation Jackalope Theatre, itors will include a high school friend (Zosia Chicago, (773) 340-2543 ++++ Mamet) and a bartender (Alex Hurt), and some of the younger people do a little chat- Aaron Loeb’s tense, “blisteringly smart” ting while sitting on a tree branch outside new one-act is not the hospital room’s window. In the end, The a typical business Whirligig “achieves a tragic theatrical force, drama, said Chris Sullivan, Balaban all on its own messy, sprawling terms.” Jones in the Chicago Tribune. When five consultants gather to Linklater, best known as a film and TV brainstorm, we learn quickly that the chal- actor, has whipped up a true feast for the lenge before them involves the disposal show’s eight performers, said Ben Brantley Butz (left) and Wells talk parenting. of bodies and preventing the spread of in The New York Times. Grace Van Patten panic. But are these MBA types anticipat- One of the great strengths of Hamish is an “uncannily graceful” Julie, and Mamet ing a natural disaster? An act of ethnic Linklater’s new play about a dying young is excellent as a pothead occasionally cleansing? Even the characters don’t woman is it “has the nerve to be only startled by her own perceptiveness. Butz, as know exactly how to read their client’s itself,” said Dan Callahan in The Village Julie’s mercurial father, “combines idiosyn- intent. “Loeb’s vision of corporate life is Voice. In the first scene, set on a revolving cratic specificity with textbook exactness.” as funny as it is terrifying,” said Kevin stage, Julie, a 23-year-old ex-junkie, already But the play is overstuffed with characters Greene in NewCityStage.com. As para- lies in a hospital bed. But Linklater is inter- who figure in Julie’s story, and “connecting noia descends, Rachel Sullivan, Japhet ested in characters, not pathos, and his the dots of culpability among these folks is Balaban, and the other actors handle wrenching emotional turns with impres- script “scorns easy tears” while cutting back a laborious process.” The title references sive dexterity, and it’s difficult for the and forth across time to reveal the ways Shakespeare’s “whirligig of time,” a cosmic audience to tell whom to trust. Ideation Julie’s friends and family contributed to her construct that becomes a distraction from “begs to be seen for its impressive grasp troubles. From the moment Julie’s parents the many fine scenes that play out among of power structures.” If nothing else, “it (Norbert Leo Butz and Dolly Wells) reunite these instantly recognizable characters. will give you something to talk about at over their daughter’s sick bed, “we can tell “Most of us have met them before; we may the watercooler the next day.”

Monique Carboni, Jackalope Theatre Monique Carboni, Jackalope they are difficult people.” Other bedside vis- even have seen them in the mirror.”

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 24 ARTS Review of reviews: Film

Wonder Our current decade’s first big- tiple movies,” mixing romance, budget movie about a female fish-out-of-water comedy, and Woman superhero “isn’t just a triumph screen-filling comic-book action. Directed by for women,” said Rafer Guzman A lot of bleak superhero movies Patty Jenkins in Newsday. “It’s a triumph, have darkened our recent sum- period.” Emerging star Gal mers, said Kelly Lawler in USA (PG-13) Gadot gives audiences a Wonder Today. This one “makes you ++++ Woman who’s not just sexy but feel good while you watch it,” A warrior princess “dignified and fearless,” and mostly thanks to the “fantas- joins the Great War. the movie she’s carrying proves Gadot: Ready for a long reign tic” chemistry between Gadot to be rousing female-focused and co-star Chris Pine. Wonder entertainment. Gadot’s Amazon warrior princess has Woman doesn’t reinvent the superhero genre, said never seen a man before when a U.S. pilot crash- Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune. It’s simply lands near her island home, delivering the news that “a much better than usual” riff on the form, even World War I is underway. Our heroine chooses to given its formulaic climactic battle. I walked away join the U.S. cause, and at that moment Wonder from this superhero movie “feeling ready for a Woman “rather beautifully manages to become mul- sequel,” and that’s “the first time in a long time.”

Restless The power of this portrait of a of midlife crisis into a hearten- dance legend “can sneak up on ing tale.” Following surgery and Creature: you,” said Brian Seibert in The a trying period of rehab and New York Times. As the film training, said Kenji Fujishima Wendy Whelan opens, Wendy Whelan is 46 and in PasteMagazine.com, Whelan Directed by Linda Saffire battling an injury that could end delivers a final City Ballet per- and Adam Schlesinger her remarkable 30-year career formance, and “we find our- (Not rated) with the New York City Ballet. selves catching our breath during ++++ The down-to-earth Kentucky her every movement, genuinely native isn’t joking when she Whelan in flight afraid for her well-being.” She A world-class ballerina says, “If I don’t dance, I’d rather never does retire, instead mak- confronts the end. die.” Still, she knows an end is nearing and lets the ing a transition to contemporary dance, said David cameras chronicle how she confronts a stark reality. Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter. In this moving By the final scenes, Whelan seems like an extremely documentary, “the loveliest touch” might be the talented friend. “More remarkable, though, is how images that run with the end credits, because they the film, without falsification, turns an extreme form show Whelan still dancing at 49.

Baywatch “It’s official,” said Chris in drugs. “But, wait, you didn’t Nashawaty in Entertainment come for the plot,” said Megan Directed by Weekly. “We’ve now entered Garber in TheAtlantic.com. You Seth Gordon the critical, Code Red phase of came for the glistening, sun- (R) Hollywood’s remake epidemic.” tanned bodies and for the jokes, ++++ Though it was perhaps inevi- and there are, “it must be said, table someone would eventu- a lot of good jokes.” Johnson, A spoof of the ally make a feature-length Zac Efron, Kelly Rohrbach, kitsch-TV classic satire based on the hit 1990s Ilfenesh Hadera, and the rest TV series about scantily clad Hadera and Johnson: Only half-baked of the cast “seem to be having lifeguards fighting crime, the the time of their lives,” and result didn’t have to be so lazy and unfunny that it the audience’s enjoyment is diminished mostly by qualifies as “the rare movie that even the thousand- lingering sexism and the movie’s determination to watt charisma of Dwayne Johnson can’t save.” secure an R rating by loading up on puerile penis Johnson fills David Hasselhoff’s old role, here lead- jokes. “So which is it—winkingly sly, or flat-out ing a Florida lifeguard team that learns that a local silly?” asked Tom Russo in The Boston Globe. This developer, played by Priyanka Chopra, is smuggling Baywatch “never can decide.”

New on DVD and Blu-ray Get Out My Life as a Zucchini The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Universal, $30) (Universal, $23) (Lionsgate, $20) If you haven’t seen Jordan Peele’s directo- “‘Magical’ is not an oversize word for this “Know how everything in a nightmare just rial debut, “please fix your life,” said the exquisite film,” said WSJ.com. A stop- feels vaguely…off?” said AVClub.com. Los Angeles Times. When a young white motion animated feature about a blue- That’s the vibe in this stately, chilly horror woman brings her black boyfriend to her haired orphan, it’s mostly set in a group movie about two teenage students left parents’ house for a weekend, the horror tale home full of damaged but resilient kids and alone at an isolated boarding school during that unfolds proves so original and “wildly is “one of the most touching, surprising, winter break. With Lucy Boynton, Emma entertaining” that it deserves an Oscar nod. slyly funny films in recent memory.” Roberts, and a “superb” Kiernan Shipka. Clay Enos, Paul Kolnik, Frank Masi Frank Kolnik, Enos, Paul Clay THE WEEK June 9, 2017 Television ARTS 25

Movies on TV The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Monday, June 5 Orange Is the New Black Christine Season 5 of Netflix’s hit comedy-drama will start A high school nerd restores with a bang, as an inmate training a gun on one a 1958 Plymouth Fury and of the guards is urged by the other prisoners to unleashes its haunted per- push their burgeoning revolt to the next level. sonality in a horror fantasy The three days that follow promise to be more adapted from a Stephen intense than any we’ve seen before at Litchfield King novel. John Carpenter Penitentiary, and the new episodes will track the directs. (1983) 10:30 p.m., action minute by minute in real time. Available Sundance for streaming Friday, June 9, Netflix Tuesday, June 6 Shakespeare in Love Le Mans: Racing Is Everything Young William Shake- In America, we like our auto races to be over in speare falls for a wealthy an afternoon. In France, 24 hours is the measure merchant’s daughter of adrenaline-junkie greatness. This Amazon Star, mirage, and acidhead Cary Grant while writing Romeo and series goes behind the scenes with six racing Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and Juliet. Joseph Fiennes and teams as they prepare for competition, reflect the Rise of ISIS Gwyneth Paltrow co-star. on the race’s 84-year history, and then test their The cruelty and complexity of the war in Syria (1998) 8 p.m., HBO nerves, skills, and hardware in front of one of the almost defy comprehension. To explain it all, Wednesday, June 7 biggest crowds in sports. Available for streaming author-journalist Sebastian Junger and co- The Man With the Friday, June 9, Amazon director Nick Quested spent a year compiling Golden Arm 1,000 hours of ground-level footage, getting Frank Sinatra garnered an Becoming Cary Grant up close with Kurdish and al Qaida–affiliated Oscar nomination play- His name will forever conjure debonair sophisti- fighters, and following an Aleppo family’s har- ing an ex-con struggling cation. But screen legend Cary Grant fashioned rowing flight to Turkey. The filmmakers’ conclu- to stay off drugs in a noir his public persona to mask deep anxieties and sion: The rise of ISIS can be squarely blamed on adaptation of Nelson insecurities that stemmed from his virtual aban- Syria’s war on its own people. Sunday, June 11, Algren’s novel. (1956) donment in childhood. This evocative documen- 8 p.m., TCM at 9 p.m., National Geographic Channel tary tells the story from the actor’s perspective, Thursday, June 8 using the words of an unpublished memoir, as Other highlights Minority Report spoken by actor Jonathan Pryce. Among Grant’s State of Undress Tom Cruise is a cop fingered fascinating stories: his discovery in his 50s that Actress-model Hailey Gates uses fashion as a for a murder that’s not yet therapeutic amounts of LSD could vanquish his lens to explore the world’s cultures in a new been committed in a sci-fi demons. Friday, June 9, at 9 p.m., Showtime season of her provocative, globe-trotting series. crime drama adapted from Tuesday, June 6, at 10 p.m., Viceland a Philip K. Dick story. (2002) Orphan Black 9:45 p.m., Cinemax Shimmer Lake The clone wars are coming. The fifth and last Rainn Wilson of The Office stars in a dark Friday, June 9 season of this fabulous sci-fi thriller series about a comedy that begins three days after a bank rob- Old School group of sister clones promises a final showdown bery and tracks backward to the holdup itself. Three stunted men try to between Sarah, the heroine who in Season 1 Available for streaming Friday, June 9, Netflix relive their college days learned she was a biological copy, and the most by starting a frat near menacing of her doppelgängers. Actress Tati ana 71st Annual Tony Awards their alma mater. Will Mas lany, who’s played nearly a dozen of the Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! Groundhog Day Ferrell, Luke Wilson, and clones and won a 2016 Emmy for her efforts, as a musical! A Tolstoy novel as pop opera! Vince Vaughn star. (2003) will be tasked with bringing several of her char- Broadway didn’t have a Hamilton-size hit this 9:45 p.m., Cinemax acters’ stories to resolution. Saturday, June 10, at year but has plenty of successes to celebrate. Kevin Saturday, June 10 10 p.m., BBC America Spacey hosts. Sunday, June 11, at 8 p.m., CBS The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder’s drama about an alcoholic writer won Show of the week four Oscars, including Best If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast Picture. With Ray Milland Comedy legend Carl Reiner is 95 and thriving. and Jane Wyman. (1945) Excited that so many friends of similar vintage 8 p.m., TCM have thus far avoided the obituary page—and remained remarkably active—Reiner decided to Sunday, June 11 find out what keeps them going. Betty White, Saving Private Ryan Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett, fashion icon Iris A stunning re-creation Apfel, and 100-year-old Kirk Douglas offer in- of the D-Day assault on sights and jokes as they chat with Reiner; Van Omaha Beach opens Steven Dyke says he exercises at 91 “out of defiance.” Spielberg’s powerful war As if that weren’t inspiration enough, Reiner drama. With Matt Damon also talks to a D-Day vet who still parachutes at and Tom Hanks. (1998) 95 and to Ida Keeling, a 101-year-old track-and- 9 p.m., IFC Reiner with White: Why not keep joking? field athlete. Monday, June 5, at 8 p.m., HBO Showtime, HBO Showtime,

• All listings are Eastern Time. THE WEEK June 9, 2017 26 LEISURE Food & Drink Critics’ choice: Three small-town stunners worth the road trip

Single Thread Healdsburg, Calif. Lachowicz dabs with a mustard sauce I’ve awarded several restaurants four stars at the table, “working his spoon like before, but this Sonoma County gem is an artist’s brush.” 64 Green Bay Rd., the first that earned the rating right from (847) 562-6105 the start, said Michael Bauer in the San Francisco Chronicle. Husband and wife The Restaurant at Patowmack Farm Kyle and Katina Connaughton put years Lovettsville, Va. into the planning, and “every detail has Now there’s a second compelling reason been rigorously considered.” Diners pay for Washington, D.C., food lovers to in advance for the $225 tasting menu, and make a 50-mile drive into rural Virginia, when they arrive at a handsome build- said Tom Sietsema in The Washington ing in downtown Healdsburg, they are Post. The Restaurant at Patowmack whisked to the roof for champagne before Farm doesn’t offer the Rolls-Royce car being called to dinner. Then an 11-foot- Patowmack Farm: A ‘rock star’ chef with the day’s catch service diners get at the Inn at Little tall redwood door swings open, and they Washington. But it does offer a welcome get their first eyeful of the “dramatic, even degree than any restaurant I can recall,” getaway, and its chef, Tarver King, is “cook- awe-inspiring” dining room. You choose said Phil Vettel in the Chicago Tribune. In a ing like a rock star these days.” In a green- your own cup for sake, and the Japan-meets- “stunning” white room that’s tucked inside house-like building overlooking the Potomac Sonoma tasting begins: bite-size appetizers, Lachowicz’s larger Restaurant Michael, River and surrounded by a 40-acre farm, malted potatoes with flakes of black cod, this son of a restaurateur family is paying guests sit at bare oak tables and begin the yellowtail sashimi with barrel-aged ponzu. tribute to blood forebears as well as profes- tasting menu experience with corn dump- Each dish seems straightforward, “but the sional mentors, including some true masters lings or other quietly pleasurable snacks. A techniques that bring them to the plate are of French cuisine. George Trois has just luxurious Thai soup might follow, then an complex” and backed by an “unwavering five tables, double-draped in white linens, elegant garland of the first carrots of spring dedication to seasonality.” In fact, the farm but it makes small suburban Winnetka and vermilion snapper paired with a vinegar- the Connaughtons run nearby operates by a worthy dining destination. Lachowicz based blueberry switchel. After a shared the standard set in a Japanese almanac that himself delivers many of the tasting menu’s entrée of roast duck served on a wooden lists 72 seasons a year. The results are “flaw- courses, assisted by a maître d’ and a gen- plank and, finally, dessert, your enthu- less,” a three-hour meal that restores the eral manager. Lachowicz’s late-winter menu siastic server will present the menu. The spirit. 131 North St., (707) 723-4646 included a truffle and foie gras ravioli (an gesture helps fix in your mind all the tastes, homage to Pierre Orsi) and a scallop-filled aromas, and sounds of the meal you’ve George Trois Winnetka, Ill. puff pastry (inspired by Jean Banchet just enjoyed. An evening at this bucolic Chef Michael Lachowicz’s intimate tasting- and Daniel Boulud). The spring menu spot “calls attention to a lot of things.” menu venue “honors the past to a greater includes bacon-wrapped loin of rabbit that 42461 Lovettsville Rd., (540) 822-9017

Wine: Robust rosés Recipe of the week “The rosé world is vaster than most Burrata, mozzarella’s creamy-centered cousin, “really needs no adornment,” people realize,” said Elin McCoy in said David Tanis in The New York Times. Bought fresh and eaten within a day or two, Bloomberg. com. As pink-wine season the soft Italian cheese is marvelous served just with bread and perhaps a rolls in again, one welcome trend is the drizzle of olive oil. But it can also be the highlight of festive seasonal salads, rising availability of rosés rich enough like this one, made with fennel and springy green fava beans. to stand up to grilled steak. Often made Burrata with fava beans, fennel, and celery from exotic grapes, “they’re for people 3 lbs fresh fava beans in the pod • 1 small shallot, finely diced • 3 tbsp lemon juice who want pink wine with muscle.” • salt and pepper • ¼ cup fruity extra-virgin olive oil • ½ cup thinly sliced 2016 Idlewild ‘The Flower’ ($22). An celery (tender inner stalks) • 2∕3 cup thinly sliced fennel • 8 oz burrata • a handful of Italian-inspired rosé from Northern small arugula leaves • mint or basil, for garnish California, this “super juicy” blend of dolcetto, barbera, and nebbiolo is • Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil. • In a small bowl, cover diced shallot with perfect with salumi. Fill a large bowl with ice water. Shuck fava lemon juice. Add a good pinch of salt. Let Bonavita Terre Siciliane Rosato beans from pods. Plunge beans into boil- stand 5 to 10 minutes. Whisk in oil. Place ($23). Two of Sicily’s native grapes ing water for 2 minutes, then drain and beans, celery, and fennel in a mixing combine forces in this “spicy,” cool in the ice water to stop the cooking. bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Add rub-colored rosato from an up-and- Blot beans on a kitchen towel. dressing; toss well. Place coming vintner. • With a thumbnail or paring burrata in the center of a 2014 Annona Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo knife, pierce the gray skin of platter. Arrange arugula ($30). Italy’s Abruzzo region and its each bean and squeeze to leaves at platter edges. montepulciano grapes produce the pop the bean free. (Beans can Spoon fava mixture and world’s darkest rosés. “This one se- be peeled a day in advance dressing over and around duces with wild strawberry scents and refrigerated, then re- burrata. Garnish with mint and flavors.” turned to room temperature.) or torn basil. Serves 4. The Washington Post, Karsten Moran/The New York Times York New Karsten Moran/The Post, Washington The

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This week’s dream: Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of contrasts

Saudi Arabia is “one of the very least painted doors, coffee pots, swords, vin- traveled countries in the world,” and tage rifles, and, of course, gold.” for good reason, said John Sherman in The Boston Globe. The kingdom still After sampling the kingdom’s cities, I doesn’t give out foreign tourist visas to headed into the desert to spend two anyone but Muslims traveling to Mecca nights at an eco-encampment. My and Medina for the Hajj. But that may nomad’s tent had sides protected by change in the near future. The govern- goat hair, and its floor was covered ment recently announced that it will with bright Persian carpets. It also lift the ban sometime this year as part came with a modern bath. Here, far of a plan to diversify the country’s oil- from city lights, the night sky is “one dependent economy. In advance of this of the world’s great marvels.” The grand opening, I was allowed to visit planets were intensely bright, and the kingdom for 10 days in January and A Nabataean tomb, carved from sandstone the Big Dipper “seemed studded in venture where other foreign travelers neon.” Another natural wonder is the can’t. I knew it wouldn’t be a pleasure trip. the skyway bridge of the 99-story Kingdom desert’s array of massive rock formations. Under the kingdom’s strict interpretation of Center just before sunset and you can watch “Together they eclipsed all of Arizona— Islam, women must wear head-to-toe black lights come on in the city and bathe it in “all and throw in Utah.” At Madain Saleh, I gowns, alcohol is prohibited, and public manner of neon hues.” Riyadh’s past sur- explored 1st-century tombs carved into beheadings of criminals are routine. vives at the 19th-century Masmak fortress, the towering outcrops by the Nabataeans. an imposing clay and mud-brick structure Unlike other ancient sites in the Middle My journey began in Riyadh, where much with four conical towers and massive doors East, Madain Saleh has few tourists. There of the old city has been demolished to make 14 feet high. A stone’s throw away sits the were no camel rides, no postcards, or base- way for opulent malls and skyscrapers. But Souk al-Zal, an old artisan market. “Its ball hats, either. “Just sand, cliffs, silence— modernity brings its own delights. Trek to narrow passages are crammed with carpets, and the spectacular tombs.”

Hotel of the week Getting the flavor of... California’s resurgent waterfalls Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright Trail For years, California’s “unforgiving” drought To understand Frank Lloyd Wright, visit his home “shrunk once-rushing waterfalls to thin streams,” state, said Lori Rackl in the Chicago Tribune. said Sammy Caiola in The Sacramento Bee. But The pioneer of organic architecture was born in after record winter snowfall in the northern Sierra Richland Center in southwestern Wisconsin in Nevada, the region’s falls are “looking fuller 1867, and the influence of the surrounding lush and more photogenic than ever.” Some dwindle farmland and the dramatic limestone bluffs of before July, so now’s the time to see them at full the Driftless Area courses through his work. To A stylish, eco-friendly suite gush. Breathtaking falls are scattered throughout celebrate his 150th birthday, the Badger State the El Dorado and Tahoe national forests: The has created a 200-mile driving tour that con- Proximity Hotel 500-foot-high Grouse Falls lies at the end of a nects nine key Wright sights. The “crown jewel” Greensboro, N.C. half-mile-long path, while 3-mile-long Pyramid is Taliesin—“the home, studio, and school that The greenest hotel in America Creek Trail provides stunning views of crashing sports designs from almost every decade of his “shouts its environmental Horse tail Falls. Short walks in the Auburn State life.” Another highlight is SC Johnson’s head- bona fides from the rooftop,” Recre a tion Area will bring you to Canyon Creek quarters in Racine. Its slender, Wright-designed said Brady Dennis in The Falls, Devil’s Falls, and the 500-foot Knicker- 15-story Research Tower is “the vertical yin to the Washington Post. And I’m not bocker Falls, “the most spectacular waterfall in horizontal yang of the stunning Administration just referring to the 100 solar the park.” You can combine your waterfall view- Building,” where 43 miles of Pyrex tubes serve as panels perched atop the building. The Proximity also ing with a beach trip at Alamere Falls, 35 miles windows and let light flood into the open work- boasts high-efficiency plumb- north of San Francisco, where water plunges space. When the building opened in 1939, it “must ing, electricity-generating 30 feet off a cliff before splashing onto the sand. have looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.” elevators, and locally sourced furniture. Yet sitting in the cozy bistro, I paid scant atten- Last-minute travel deals tion to the salvaged walnut Berkshires in bloom Caribbean getaway Adventurous savings bar and “spent much more Enjoy New England in full Stay five nights in a luxury Adventure tour operator time savoring the perfectly flower at the Red Lion Inn in cliff-top suite and pay for Intrepid Travel is taking 20 per- seared hanger steak and a Stockbridge, Mass. Its Bloomin’ only four. At the British Virgin cent off all trips departing in beer from a nearby brewery.” in the Berkshires two-night Islands’ Oil Nut Bay Resort, the June. A 15-day safari in Kenya The true joy of the Proximity deal starts at $576 and includes Cliff Sweet package starts at and Tanzania, for example, isn’t its small carbon footprint breakfasts and tickets to the $3,000, a $750 savings. Book now starts at $6,296 a person, but “its undeniable charm.” Berkshire Botanical Garden. by June 29 for stays from down from $7,870. Book by proximityhotel.com; doubles Available through June 29. July 8 through Dec. 18. June 16. from $239. redlioninn.com oilnutbay.com intrepidtravel.com Getty

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The 2018 Honda Odyssey: What the critics say CNET.com screen, while Cabin Talk broadcasts the “The minivan wars are heating up again,” driver’s voice through the rear speakers and that’s good news for families. Answer- and through the headphones the kids might ing the challenge presented by Chrysler’s be wearing while streaming a movie on the award-winning 2017 Pacifi ca, Honda has overhead screen. The driver enjoys other re- overhauled its own three-row people wards too, because this Odyssey “handles hauler. The new Odyssey is not just stron- brilliantly,” and its 280-hp V-6 engine makes ger and signifi cantly quieter than the top- it “the quickest minivan we’ve tested.” selling model it replaces. It’s “packed to the gills with family-friendly technologies.” Car & Driver It has some nifty second-row seats too. Motor Trend Though they don’t fold fl at like the Paci- A ‘family space capsule,’ from $29,990 In its higher trim levels, the Odyssey “be- fi ca’s, they slide left or right to allow easy comes a futuristic family space capsule.” A third-row access. “In a beauty contest,” feature-rich, and exceptionally quiet” new feature called Cabin Watch lets the driver our eyes gravitate to the Chrysler. But Odyssey offers plenty of reasons why it keep an eye on the kids via the dashboard the “practical, comfortable, confi gurable, deserves to remain the sales champion.

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1 W Pottsboro, Texas This four-bedroom modern house provides direct lake access with a boat slip. The open- layout home features a wall of windows, roll-up doors, and water views from most rooms. A deck off the main living space has low-profile wire railings and overlooks the water. The 2-acre lot includes a lawn with a fire pit, mature trees, and a stone wall. $1,600,000. Lainie Ramsey, Homes by Lainie Real Estate Group, (903) 624-0688

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1 2 2 W Duck Key, Fla. Designed in the style of a Mediterranean villa, this three-bedroom oceanfront estate has a 138-foot concrete dock. The living room includes cantilevered wood stairs, a wet bar, and ocean views. The outside boasts a kitchen gazebo along with a pond, a pool, and a hot tub on multiple ocean-facing decks. $2,995,000. Ginger Hen- derson, American Caribbean Real Estate, (305) 731-5751

3 X Cooperstown, N.Y. Set along Otsego Lake, this arts-and-crafts home and boathouse was built in 1915. The three-bedroom house has been updated, and its restored original details include a stone fireplace, chestnut wainscoting, beamed ceilings, and all the light fixtures. The boathouse has a guest suite and a great room, with space below for a pontoon boat. Mature spruce and maple trees cover the 0.4-acre lot. $2,500,000. Robert Schneider, Coldwell Banker Timberland Properties, (607) 547-1884

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4 X Charleston, S.C. Next to a marsh less than 10 minutes from downtown Charleston, this property offers a dock and a boat ramp. The five-bedroom contemporary home has an open concept, hard- wood floors, a master suite, and three upstairs guest suites. The exterior features a deck with a pool and a hot tub, and the lot is surrounded by mature oaks and other plantings. $3,395,000. Ruthie Ravenel, Daniel Ravenel Sotheby’s Interna- tional Realty, (843) 696-8858

5 W Fremont, Ind. Lying on 24 acres along a lake, this three-bedroom, post-and-beam log home features rustic stone de- tails, hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings in the great room, and views of the water throughout. The property includes a deck, a dock, a cabana, barns, and a garage with a two-bedroom guest suite. $2,649,000. Mark Bock, Mike Thomas Associates, (260) 668-1552

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6 T Seattle Built in 1967 and since renovated, this Lake Wash- ington house is just steps from a beach with a dock in water deep enough to moor a sailboat or powerboat. The open-concept home has wood-paneled vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, high-end appliances, and floor-to-ceiling windows that frame lake and mountain views. Outside, there’s a yard, an ipe wood deck, and a hot tub. $4,275,000. Gordon Stephenson, Real Property Associ- ates, (206) 999-1982

7 S Priest River, Idaho With two sand beaches, this 1970 cabin has 100 feet of frontage on the Pend Oreille River. The two- bedroom home comes fully furnished. The property includes a yard, a dock, a jet-ski lift, a hot tub, and a fire pit. $395,000. Jenna Nicol, Century 21 Beutler-Waterfront, (509) 290-3698

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 32 BUSINESS The news at a glance

The bottom line Tech: Uber fires its chief of self-driving cars QAmericans’ average credit Uber has fired “the star engi- “Ultimately, Uber firing Levan- score hit a record high of neer” at the center of its high- dow ski does not protect the 700 in April. The share of stakes legal fight with Google’s company from the explosive consumers with subprime scores below 600 hit a new self-driving-car company, said charges” of Waymo’s lawsuit, low of roughly 40 million, or Russ Mitchell in the Los Angeles said Aarian Marshall in Wired 20 percent of U.S. adults who Times. Anthony Levandow ski, a .com. Uber’s lawyers haven’t have FICO scores—down former Google employee accused pushed back against allegations from a peak of 25.5 percent of stealing the search giant’s self- that Levan dow ski stole 14,000 in 2010. driving technology and taking it documents from Google serv- The Wall Street Journal to Uber, was fired by Uber this Levandowski and a driverless Uber ers, “asserting instead that no QThe seven highest-paid U.S. week after he refused to hand record of those documents had CEOs in 2016 were all media over documents requested by a federal judge. made it to Uber’s system.” But even if Uber didn’t executives. Thomas Rutledge Uber is being sued by the startup Waymo, which knowingly use stolen technology, the company’s of Charter Communi ca tions was spun out of Google last year, for allegedly negligence could still “be grounds for a loss in led the list, making $98 mil- using stolen trade secrets to build its own self- court.” The case has also been referred to the lion, followed by Les Moon- driving cars under Levandow ski’s leadership. Department of Justice, which could mean a pos- ves of CBS with $68.6 million “Uber has insisted that it developed its driverless sible criminal investigation. “Either way, this very and Walt Disney’s Robert Iger technology independently.” messy self-driving tech case just got way messier.” with $41 million. BusinessInsider.com Airlines: British Airways hit by massive outage The lunch rush QThe median British Airways resumed full service this week after a “catastrophic is over out-of-pocket cost for a IT failure” over the holiday weekend that temporarily stranded “The U.S. restaurant prescription 75,000 passengers, said Danica Kirka in the Associated Press. The air- industry is in a funk. drug purchased line’s computer systems suffered a total meltdown last Saturday after a Blame it on lunch,” said through Medi- power surge, forcing the airline to cancel all flights from Heathrow and Julie Jargon in The care Part D was Gatwick airports in London; flights finally resumed on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal . $117 in 2015, up incident “has raised questions about some older airlines’ focus on costs Americans increasingly nearly half from to the detriment of investment in new computer systems.” A similar aren’t eating out during the workday, resulting $79 in 2011. outage in August led to hundreds of Delta flights being canceled. There were 220 in 433 million fewer Part D drugs Manufacturing: Carrier announces layoffs lunchtime restaurant with annual out- Carrier will lay off more than 600 workers despite striking a deal with trips last year and of-pocket costs President Trump to keep jobs in the U.S., said Danielle Paquette in $3.2 billion in lost busi- of $1,000 or The Washington Post. The manufacturer of air conditioners and fur- ness for eateries. That’s a significant blow for more, up from naces announced last week that it will begin laying off workers from 118 drugs in 2011. an industry that “has The Wall Street Journal its Indianapolis factory starting on July 20, until about 800 employees had little or no growth remain. On a visit to the factory in December, Trump boasted that he’d for a decade.” Cost is QThe five best jobs in persuaded Carrier to keep at least 1,100 jobs in the U.S. in exchange one factor. The aver- America, based on earni ng for $7 million in state tax credits. The manufacturing jobs will be age restaurant lunch potential, job satisfaction, moved to Monterrey, Mexico. now costs $7.59, up and number of openings, are almost 20 percent since data scientist, DevOps engi- Real estate: Home prices surged in March the recession, while neer, data engineer, tax man- “These are heady days for American home sellers,” said Paul Davidson falling grocery prices ager, and analytics manager, in USA Today. Home prices increased 5.8 percent year over year in have made bringing a according to a survey by jobs March, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national brown bag more eco- site Glass door. It’s the second index. It is the largest annual increase in nearly three years, though “well nomical. Work habits year in a row that data scien- short” of the double-digit surges experienced during the mid-2000s hous- are also changing. The tist has ranked No. 1. growing ranks of tele- USA Today ing bubble. The increase was driven by a shortage of new and existing homes, “combined with steady job and income growth that’s prompting commuters simply eat at home. Other time- QNine percent of Americans more Americans to buy houses for the first time, or trade up.” who sold or changed cars pressed workers now over the past year have Health care: Ohio sues drugmakers over opioid crisis see sneaking out of begun relying solely on Ohio is suing five drugmakers for allegedly fueling the state’s opioid the office for a midday ride-hailing services like crisis, said Jeanne Whalen in The Wall Street Journal. The lawsuit meal as a luxury—and Uber and Lyft instead of buy- targets Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, Teva Pharmaceutical, a remnant of a different time. “I put [restaurant] ing a new vehicle. Another Allergan, and a division of Endo International. Ohio Attorney General 9 percent purchased a new lunch right up there Mike DeWine accused the companies of being “dishon est with doctors with fax machines and vehicle, but say they plan to about their painkillers’ risks” and of targeting general practitioners with switch to ride services over pay phones,” said Jim the next year. aggressive marketing that downplayed the drugs’ addictive qualities. Parks, a 55-year-old Qz.com Johnson & Johnson, which sells a fentanyl patch called Duragesic, called sales director in Detroit.

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Retirement: The good and bad of 401(k) rollovers “If you are moving on from your employer, shielded from lawsuits and creditors; “IRAs shouldn’t your money move on as well?” don’t offer that same level of protection.” asked Peter Lazaroff in The Wall Street Jour- However, if you’ve changed jobs frequently, nal. Rolling a 401(k) into an individual retire- consolidating your plans in an IRA “could ment account when you leave a job is an “au- help you streamline your investments.” tomatic move for many investors,” but there IRAs also tend to offer more flexibility are times when it makes more sense to leave when it comes to making withdrawals or your money where it is. The most important selling investments. thing to consider is expenses. It could be that your current 401(k) plan is cheaper than an Take your time with the decision, said Jeff IRA. If the company you’re leaving has more Rose in Forbes.com. There’s no deadline to than 50 employees, there’s a “good chance” roll over your 401(k) plan, and your for- that your plan’s all-in cost—which includes mer employer can’t tell you how to handle fund expenses, adviser fees, and adminis- the cash inside your account. “Even if your tration costs—is less than 1 percent. This employer sends a letter suggesting you con- information is listed in your plan’s quarterly sider your options, they cannot compel you statements. If a financial adviser recommends to do anything you don’t want.” There’s rolling over your 401(k) into an IRA, “you one big exception, said Ron Lieber in The should ask what the all-in cost is to you.” New York Times. Employers can automati- cally roll over any 401(k) account that ac- A 401(k) plan also comes with some perks cumulated $5,000 or less in savings while that an IRA doesn’t, said Sandra Block in the employee worked at the company. Reg- Kiplinger.com. Sticking with your current It can pay to leave money where it is. ulations stipulate that the money be moved 401(k) plan might make sense if you’re going into “safe” investments, often a low-yielding to retire early. Generally, retirees have to pay a 10 percent early- money-market account. Over time, the fees on these low-earning withdrawal penalty for taking money out of an IRA or 401(k) accounts can easily eat up a small investment. “So if you’re leav- before age 59½. But “workers who leave their jobs in the calen- ing a job and you get a letter from your 401(k) administrator dar year they turn 55 or later can take penalty-free withdrawals telling you that your money will end up in one of these IRAs if from that employer’s 401(k) plan.” Your 401(k) assets are also you don’t act—well, act.”

What the experts say Charity of the week Who pays for tree damage? exclusion policy covers a “limited range of The Amazon If your tree falls on a neighbor’s property, events and scenarios” and usually runs 5 to Conservation whose insurance pays for the damage? asked 7 percent of the cost of your trip. Cancel-for- Team (amazon Kimberly Lankford in Kiplinger.com. In most any-reason coverage is just that, and usually team.org) was founded on cases, it’s your neighbor who files the insur- costs 8 to 10 percent. You may also want to the principle ance claim. Homeowner’s insurance should consider insurance with medical coverage if that rain forest cover any damage to the house or other struc- you’re headed abroad, or to a remote area ecosystems tures, while comprehensive auto insurance where getting to a hospital would require and traditional cultures must should pay for repairs on any vehicles. “How- evacuation. Also remember: Many credit be protected together in order for either ever, if your neighbor can prove that you were cards offer some form of insurance on travel to thrive. Since 1996, the group has negligent—if, for example, he had sent you a arrangements purchased with the card. worked to preserve indigenous lands in letter asking you to remove a dead tree that the Ama zon by partnering with local lead- Doing a midyear financial review ers, creating sustainable food systems, an arborist had determined posed a safety and increasing access to health care in hazard—he may try to get you to pay for the June is an “ideal time” for a comprehensive remote communities. ACT has ethno- damage.” If you own your home, it’s a good financial checkup, said Kimmie Greene in graphically mapped 36 million acres of idea to have an arborist conduct a tree survey USNews.com. Start by taking a look at all of rain forest across Brazil and Suriname to help indigenous groups preserve their every year so you can deal with any problem your fixed and discretionary spending. “Check unique customs, ancestral medicinal trees before they fall over. out a budgeting app to begin tracking ex- practices, and sacred sites. ACT has also penses,” if you aren’t using one already. Then, trained more than 150 indigenous peo- Considering travel insurance move on to savings. “All too often, savings are ple to become Amazon park rangers and lead school groups to ecologically and “If you’re spending big for a vacation this considered to be whatever is left over after bills culturally significant sites. summer, it’s worth weighing another pur- and expenses are paid.” But it’s better to have chase: travel insurance,” said Kelli B. Grant a deliberate pla n that addresses small and large Each charity we feature has earned a in CNBC.com. Before buying, add up the goals. “Midyear is also a great time to check in four-star overall rating from Charity change and cancellation fees for your various and make any changes to optimize investment Navigator, which rates not-for-profit travel arrangements and activities, like flights returns.” Finally, do “some soul-searching on organizations on the strength of their and theme park tickets. “If that total is more income.” If you’re not making enough to cover finances, their governance practices, and the transparency of their operations. than you’re willing or able to lose, then travel expenses, it might be time to start a side hustle. Four stars is the group’s highest rating.

Getty insurance is worth a closer look.” A named- “Even a garage sale may go a long way.”

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Issue of the week: Mark Zuckerberg gets political “Mark Zuckerberg has said he’s not running and NASCAR drivers. He’s planted a com- for president. And maybe he’s not,” said munity garden in Texas and fed a calf at Alex Kantrowitz in BuzzFeed.com. But no- a family farm in Wisconsin. “It’s hard to body would blame you for thinking that he imagine that any of that was by accident.” has aspirations for higher office after hearing the 33-year-old Facebook CEO’s Harvard To critics, Zuckerberg’s road trip “is a commencement speech last week. The stunt,” said Mike Isaac in The New York university’s most famous dropout used the Times. Pit stops like an addiction center in occasion to outline an unmistakable politi- Ohio have been meticulously documented cal platform, “preaching a form of compas- by handlers and posted to Zuckerberg’s sionate globalism.” Perhaps most radically, Facebook page. Zuckerberg himself says Zuckerberg proposed that the U.S. explore his travels are a way to connect with a universal basic income, an unconditional A 2020 presidential contender? Facebook’s users. Those who know Zuck- stipend distributed to all Americans to pro- erberg say he’s serious about escaping the vide a cushion against globalization and technological disruption. Silicon Valley bubble, especially as his company grapples with Dressed in a suit and tie instead of his signature gray T-shirt, the questions “about its responsibilities and its role in the lives of usually wooden Zuckerberg was surprisingly emotive, even chok- its users.” That includes a string of murder videos posted to the ing back tears while describing an undocumented student he once social network, as well as charges that it influenced the 2016 elec- mentored. If candidate Zuckerberg ever happens, he “will almost tion through the spread of fake news. The trip, Zuckerberg’s col- certainly” look like the man we just saw at Harvard. leagues say, has “plunged him into self-reflection.”

“If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want people to think he’s running If Zuckerberg wants to make the world a better place, he should for president, he hasn’t been all that convincing,” said Maya start closer to home—with Facebook, said Nitasha Tiku in Kosoff in VanityFair.com. Last year, he pressed the Facebook Wired.com. Fewer than 4 percent of the social network’s U.S. board to approve a clause that would allow him to retain con- employees are Hispanic, and just 2 percent are black. Sure, Face- trol of the company if he ever took a leave of absence to serve book’s hiring practices might not seem as “world-changing” as in government. He hired David Plouffe, President Obama’s ending poverty. But Zuckerberg is the respected leader of one of 2008 campaign manager, to help run his philanthropy, the Chan the world’s most powerful companies, and other firms will fol- Zuckerberg Initiative. But “perhaps the most obvious sign of his low his lead. “Change starts local,” Zuckerberg said in his Har- potential ambitions was his decision to challenge himself to meet vard speech. “Even global changes start small—with people like ordinary Americans in every U.S. state.” Zuckerberg has spent the us.” In his new do-gooder crusade, the CEO should take care past few months rubbing shoulders with farmers, factory workers, not to “skip over the simplest solution.”

If President Trump wants a trade fight, “Germany American economy—in manufacturing, finance, German cars is about the worst target one can pick,” said Jen- and insurance, among other industries. German nifer Rubin. On his recent trip to Europe, Trump direct investment in the U.S. tripled between 2012 are good for reportedly decried the fact that Germany sells and 2014, and was worth $255 billion in 2015. “millions of cars” in the U.S., vowing that “we’re U.S. direct investment in Germany, by contrast, was America going to stop that” and adding that “the Germans just $108 billion. German firms and their affiliates Jennifer Rubin are bad, very bad” on trade. This is “ridiculous” employ more than 670,000 Americans. And those The Washington Post for a number of reasons. For starters, Germany is German cars Trump wants to target? Most of them our fifth-largest trading partner. The U.S. sold ap- are built at factories in the U.S. by American work- proximately $50 billion in goods and services to ers, including BMWs in South Carolina, Mercedes- Germany over the past year, and our trade deficit Benzes in Alabama, and Volkswagens in Tennessee. with the country actually decreased by $10 billion The Germans are efficient manufacturers, and they in 2016. Germany also plows billions of dollars it benefit from a cheap euro. But that doesn’t make receives from American consumers back into the them trade cheaters.

Claustrophobic planes, endless security lines, and In the “good old days,” you may have had “more Air travel boarding snafus have people longing for the days legroom and a hot meal,” but it also took three stops “when people actually looked forward to flying,” said to go from Albany, N.Y., to St. Louis, and 14 hours never had Patrick Smith. But while it’s true that air travel used to to fly coast to coast. If you missed a flight, you didn’t feel a little more special—I remember when men wore wait an hour; you could be stranded for days. Nowa- a ‘golden age’ suits on the plane and cheesecake desserts were served days, “pretty much any two major cities in the world Patrick Smith in coach—you wouldn’t actually want to fly like are now connected through at most one stop.” As The New York Times people did in the 1960s. For one thing, flying “has for safety, there hasn’t been a major crash involving a become such a melee because so many people now legacy American carrier in more than 15 years. Dur- have the means to partake in it.” The average cost of ing the 1960s, the U.S. had an average of four major a ticket, adjusted for inflation, has declined 50 per- crashes every year. “No, you don’t have to love fly-

cent over the past 35 years, including add-on fees. ing. But you shouldn’t take it for granted, either.” AP

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The suave actor who charmed as James Bond The cold warrior who guided Carter’s Roger Roger Moore was returned to Britain and scored foreign policy Moore in many ways the his breakthrough on TV’s The 1927–2017 antithesis of James Saint, playing “the rakish Simon As President Carter’s national Bond, the fearless Templar, a modern-day Robin security adviser, Zbigniew British spy he played from 1973 to Hood who targeted wealthy vil- Brzezinski played a pivotal 1985. A self-confessed “coward,” lains.” The series, which ran from role in U.S. foreign policy. the actor was a hypochondriac and 1962 to 1969, established Moore He helped facilitate the 1978 Camp David scared of heights, and he hated as a credible leading man, and in Zbigniew peace accords loud bangs. “Every time I had 1973 he debuted as Bond in Live Brzezinski between to fire a gun, I blinked,” he said. and Let Die. Moore brought a 1928–2017 Egypt and “They always had to go through fresh sense of comedy to the role, Israel, and the film and edit out the frame said the Los Angeles Times. He was instrumental in normal- where I closed my eyes.” He didn’t dispatched thugs with nonchalant izing relations with China. But even like vodka martinis, shaken one-liners—“He had no head for Brzezinski’s four-year tenure or stirred. But with his debonair charm, witty heights,” he says after kicking a baddie off a cliff was ultimately defined by his one-liners, and trademark raised eyebrow, Moore in For Your Eyes Only (1981)—and treated lov- hawkish views on the Soviet Union. He encouraged Carter became a hugely popular 007—a role he played ers to “one bad double-entendre after another.” to arm the Islamist militants more times than any other actor. Unlike his pre- Moore called it a day after his seventh Bond film, fighting Soviet troops in decessor, Sean Connery, Moore wholeheartedly 1985’s A View to a Kill. There are only so many Afghanistan. He permanently embraced Bond’s inherent absurdity. “You can’t young women a 58-year-old actor can kiss, he delayed implementation of be a real spy and have everybody in the world the 1979 SALT II treaty to limit said, “without looking like a perverted grand- know who you are and what your drink is,” he the superpowers’ nuclear father.” In his post-007 days, Moore “appeared said. “That’s just hysterically funny.” arsenals. Even his support in a half-dozen largely unexceptional movies” for the failed 1980 Special Born in South London, Moore got his start in and became a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, Operations mission to rescue acting when his policeman father “investigated said The New York Times. Mostly, he enjoyed U.S. hostages held by Iranian a robbery at the home of film director Brian a life of leisure and remained self-deprecating radicals was based on his Desmond Hurst,” said BBC.com. An introduc- about his own success. “I only had three expres- belief that negotiations would tion was made, and Hurst took Moore under his sions as Bond,” he joked. “Right eyebrow raised, “deliver Iran to the Soviets.” wing, paying for his drama studies. After a failed left eyebrow raised, and eyebrows crossed when Brzezinski developed his attempt to make it big in Hollywood, Moore grabbed by [bad-guy] Jaws.” “deep distrust of the Soviet Union” at a young age, said WSJ.com. Born in Warsaw to a diplomat and his wife, The soulful singer who shaped Southern rock he was stranded with his family in Canada by the 1939 Gregg Gregg Allman focused on keyboards. The invasion of Poland by Nazi Allman enjoyed the perks of duo formed blues-rock group and Soviet forces. Brzezinski 1947–2017 rock ’n’ roll stardom. the Allman Joys and in 1969 moved to the U.S. to study at The singer and key- launched the interracial Allman Harvard, and soon became boardist with the Allman Brothers Brothers Band. Allman would an authoritative voice on for- Band was married six times, includ- “write some of the band’s most eign policy, working for the ing to Cher from 1975 to ’78, and enduring songs,” said The State Department and Vice President Hubert Humphrey. routinely visited four or five women Washington Post, including the Appointed Carter’s national in different hotel rooms after a gig. moody “Midnight Rider” and security adviser in 1977, Allman’s other appetites were just as the delicate “Melissa.” The Brzezinski immediately “jock- vast—when he boarded the band’s band broke through with their eyed for power,” said The private jet for a 1972 tour, he was delighted to 1971 live LP, At Fillmore East, which featured New York Times. He insisted find the words “Welcome Allman Bros” spelled sprawling, electrifying jams. But six months later on personally giving Carter out in cocaine on the bar. At times, his wild life- Duane, then 24, died in a motorcycle accident, his daily intelligence briefing, style threatened to eclipse his prodigious musical and “Allman sank deeper into alcohol and drug and “froze out” Secretary of talents. With his dusky, bluesy voice and nimble abuse.” More hit albums followed, including Eat State Cyrus Vance, who quit in 1980. keyboard work, he shaped the sound of Southern a Peach (1972) and Brothers and Sisters (1973), rock—a mix of soul, rock, and country that before the group split acrimoniously in 1976. After leaving the White would influence Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Marshall House, Brzezinski “continued Allman spent most of the ’80s “drunk, stoned, Tucker Band, and others. “I would like to be to be an influential voice,” and adrift,” periodically recording solo albums said NPR.org. He was a vocal remembered,” he said, “as somebody who could or performing with a re-formed Allman Brothers, opponent of the second Iraq rock your soul or make you cry with a song.” said The Daily Telegraph (U.K.). He sobered up War and faulted President Born in Nashville, Allman and his older brother, in the 1990s but was diagnosed with hepatitis C Obama’s lack of “strategic Duane, were raised by their mother after their and had to undergo a liver transplant in 2010. determination.” “I have never believed in flattery or father, an Army captain, “was murdered by a Still, Allman kept touring until this year. “If I died lying as a way of making it,” hitchhiker in 1949,” said The New York Times. today, I’ve had me a blast,” he wrote in 2012. But Brzezinski said. “I have made At 13, Gregg bought a Sears guitar, but Duane “if somebody offered me a second round, I think it on my own terms.”

Newscom (2) Newscom proved more adept at the instrument, so Gregg I’d have to pass.”

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 36 The last word A day at the exotic pet hospital New Yorkers keep plenty of odd pets: ducks, prairie dogs, even alligators, said journalist Andy Newman. When the animals get sick, there’s only one place to take them.

R. ANTHONY PILNY started the removed most of her day shorthanded: A colleague at reproductive hardware Dthe Center for Avian and Exotic but left her ovary Medicine was bitten by an iguana while because taking it out making her morning rounds. could make her bleed to death. An iguana’s mouth contains about 100 tiny serrated teeth. The other vet, Dr. Jessica “Most birds, when Grodio, went off to the urgent-care clinic you take out the repro- to get stitches, leaving Pilny to do an enor- ductive tract, they stop mously messy piece of gynecological sur- ovulating,” Pilny said. gery on a duck without an assisting doctor. “This duck decided to break the rules.” The duck was out cold on the table in a basement operating room, a breathing tube Dino has other health stuck down her bill. Pilny sliced open her issues. Her egg prob- abdominal cavity and rooted around. lems led to calcium deficiency, weak bones, “What is this?” he asked. “I’m seeing some and a fractured leg. sort of fluid-filled saclike structures. I see She could no longer free egg yolk in her body.” walk. “She can crawl There was little time to ponder the situa- around on towels, but otherwise we have tion. On this Thursday morning not long to carry her everywhere,” said her owner, ago, patients were stacked up in their E.J. Orbe, a ballroom dance instructor cages: a guinea pig with hair loss, a rabbit from Paterson, N.J. unable to move its bowels, and the irascible Some people might hesitate to invest iguana, now relaxing behind a sign that $1,200 in gynecological surgery on a lame said “Use Caution Lunges.” Others waited duck. But Dino has a job: She’s a seeing-eye in recovery: a hedgehog newly minus one duck for another of Orbe’s ducks, Penguin, eyeball and a chinchilla who sacrificed a leg who is blind. “She finds food and water to the bars of her cage. and makes noises, and Penguin would The center, on the Upper West Side of come over and start eating,” Orbe said. Manhattan, is New York City’s only exclu- Inside Dino, Pilny was hacking his way sively exotic animal hospital. “Exotic” in through a sea of yolky blobs. “It’s just a Dino during surgery (top); Elphaba the hedgehog the veterinary trade simply means all pets very extensive, severe amount of schmutz except cats and dogs. The center treats in here,” he said to the veterinary techni- He wears a tropical-theme surgical cap anything else that comes in the door and cian, Kristine Castillo. A clamp on Dino’s with parrots and green leaves on it. He weighs less than 50 pounds. Most of the webbed foot fed her vital signs to a moni- is particularly fond of birds; he has 15 of patients are rabbits, rodents, lizards, or tor. Her heartbeat pounded through the them. He saves brightly colored feathers birds, but they can get pretty exotic: kinka- cheap speaker like a tom-tom drum: from his patients in a desk drawer in the jous, alligators, flowerhorn fish, and prairie thwap-thwap, thwap-thwap. hospital office and periodically sends them dogs. So can their problems. to the Pueblo of Zuni in New Mexico, The surgery ground into its second hour. where molted plumage is required for “I’ve been an avian and exotic vet since The hospital’s practice manager, Lorelei headdresses. 2004,” Pilny said, “and every day I say, Tibbetts, poked her head into the small, ‘What the hell is this?’” beeping, thumping operating room. It was The center sees about 10 patients on a Many of the center’s patients are not legal about Snorri, the constipated white rabbit. typical day. While there are no statistics in New York City, sometimes for good “He’s looking at me miserably, like he has on ownership of exotic pets in New York reason. “I’m not a big fan of people keep- a balloon in his belly,” she said. “Should (especially illegal ones), Tibbetts said that ing a lot of the animals that come in here,” we try laser?” more owners seemed to be seeking medi- cal care. Pilny said. But the center asks no ques- Pilny told her to hang on. A blood vessel tions and passes no judgments. It is not the burst. “That wasn’t good,” he said. He cut “In the past, they were just considered pet police. and sewed, cut and sewed. The bleeding ‘caged pets’ and most people didn’t even “We don’t report anybody,” Pilny said. stopped. Pilny decided he had done all he consider taking them to the vet,” she said. “We just provide medical care.” could for one day. Most owners do not carry insurance, though it is available, Pilny said. Dino, the 3-year-old white duck on the ILNY, 44, IS one of three veterinar- operating table, was a longtime patient. In ians at the center. He has a tattoo of Pilny’s next surgery was an ovariohyster- 2015, she lost her ability to form eggshells, Pa crane on one arm, a finch on the ectomy on a guinea pig. Her owners had and unlaid eggs built up inside her. Pilny other, and a puffin on the back of his leg. brought her in because she was losing fur Times (4) York New Karsten Moran/The

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this is the real problem,” Pilny said. The quickly taken by the body of Snorri. Pilny rabbit was tested and treated for a pro- had recommended a necropsy because the tozoan infection. owners had two other rabbits. Meanwhile, the owners of Snorri the Snorri’s large intestine looked like an over- constipated rabbit came to visit him. inflated tire tube. Pilny explained that it While they were holding him, Snorri had stopped moving food along, and the became agitated, moved his bowels food had fermented and filled the intestine violently, and collapsed. Pilny could not with gas. revive him. “He got so severely bloated that the intes- Snorri’s owners sobbed loudly behind tines leaked bacteria into the abdomen and a closed door, but the staff was a little he went into sepsis,” Pilny said. A techni- shaken, too. Snorri had been born at cian lit an odor-eliminating candle and laid the center six months ago. His parents it by Snorri’s head. were the pair of bunnies munch- Why Snorri’s intestines stopped working ing hay in the reception area. “It’s was a mystery. Pilny took tissue samples to a young rabbit,” Pilny said. “It send to the lab. A custodian made a clay shouldn’t happen.” heart with Snorri’s paw prints on it to give By now, Pilny had a headache. to his owners. The veterinary technician brought HE DAY WOUND down. People came out the iguana. Her name was to pick up their pets. A tech brought Spot. She was 9 and had a his- up Elphaba the hedgehog, whose tory of lesions and fungal infec- T eye had to be removed after it became tion. Her tail was amputated a infected. while ago. Now she had a crusty lesion on the top of her head that “Hi, beautiful,” said her owner, Daniel needed to be biopsied. Rodriguez. Elphaba wiggled her snout and sniffed enthusiastically. “Definitely better The technician held Spot, tightly than yesterday,” he said. wrapped in a towel. Pilny gave her Pilny gowns up for surgery (top); Spot the iguana a shot of lidocaine. He took the tissue sam- Then Spot’s owner, Chris St. John, came to on her flanks. Pilny noticed that the fur loss ple and then stuck a hemostat in the hole in get her. St. John, an illustrator who lives in was identical on both sides. Symmetrical her head to feel around. He expected to hit Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, alopecia is caused by a hormonal imbal- bone. He did not. “It feels like I’m passing conceded that she could be a handful. ance, which was probably in turn caused it through beach sand,” he said. “She’s a tough one, and she can have a by ovarian cysts. Cut, snip, slice, sew, done. Pilny prospected a bit inside Spot’s skull. little bit of attitude, too,” he said. “She Fifteen minutes. Soon he had reached her sinus. Some blood can be a diva.” Still, he said, he loved her Tibbetts poked her head in again. “What came out of her nose. “I could dig around very much. in here all day,” Pilny said. did you find?” she asked. Tibbetts brought up a taped-shut card- “Nothing too exciting,” Pilny said. “A little The grim jokes began to flow, like some- board box and set it on the table. She cyst on the left ovary, a little inflamma- thing out of M*A*S*H crossed with All showed the X-ray to St. John, pointing out tion.” He admired his handiwork. Creatures Great and Small. the missing chunk of bone: “And these “Did she just blow air out of that hole?” are her teeth, which found their way into “The thing that matters most to the owners Dr. Grodio’s finger today.” is how they look when they pick them up Pilny asked. “Did I make a blowhole and from surgery,” Pilny said. “No matter how turn it into a whale? I did—I turned an “Oh, I’m sorry,” St. John said. iguana into a whale.” lifesaving or complicated the surgery, what “It’s all right,” Tibbetts said with a laugh. matters is when they pick the pet up and Tibbetts came over to inspect. “This whole St. John unboxed his iguana. “Baby,” he say, ‘Look at that incision.’” thing—it has no tail!” she said. “We had to said softly as she extended her long green chop its whole tail off. It’s like rotting from Pilny ate lunch at his desk. He called the legs. He caressed her dewlap. duck’s owner and told him the surgery had the inside, and we can’t stop it.” “Hey, cutie patoots!” Tibbetts said brightly. gone reasonably well. “That’s like what the clients say: ‘Is it rot- Tibbetts told St. John to get Spot eating ting from the inside out?’” Pilny said. “Maybe it buys her a good eight months again. “I’m worried about her weight loss.” or a year or something,” he told Orbe. “I “It is!” Tibbetts said. “This one the answer don’t necessarily think she’s cured, but I is yes.” “I’ll do it,” St. John said. “She’s been think this helped a lot.” through a...” his voice faltered. Pilny wrapped Spot’s toothy mouth shut After lunch, things got weird. with four layers of tape and took her off “Been through a lot,” Tibbetts said. A rabbit was brought in for a dental issue, for an X-ray. It showed a large gap in the St. John kissed Spot’s spiny back. “OK, but during the exam, its eyes began jerking nasal bone. The sinus was filled with pus girl,” he said, “you’re heading home.” back and forth, a condition called nystag- and exudates. The cause turned out to be mus. Then it started running around in a bone infection that required surgery and Excerpted from an article that origi- circles on the treatment table. “I told the long-term treatment. nally appeared in The New York Times. owner it’s either a bizarre coincidence or Spot’s place on the prep-room table was Reprinted with permission.

THE WEEK June 9, 2017 38 The Puzzle Page

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