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Theresa May wanted a mandate for her vision of Brexit; voters didn’t give her one

EUROPE IT MUST HAVE SEEMED LIKE A GOOD party commands enough seats to idea at the time. In April, British push through legislation on its own. Britain Prime Minister Theresa May called for Instead, May’s Tories must ally with a stumbles a snap election in hopes of consolidat- socially conservative party in Northern ing her power. Polls suggested that her Ireland, the Democratic Unionist toward exit Conservative Party would easily defeat Party, to get anything passed. It’s a the left-of-center Labour Party led by highly fragile base on which to build a talks with a Jeremy Corbyn, an unreconstructed government, and May is vulnerable to socialist estranged from many of his a leadership challenge if she falters. reinvigorated parliamentary colleagues. The vote, What’s more, only days after the Europe May said, would give the country the result, the weakened Prime Minister chance to unite behind her leadership must begin the most daunting task a By Dan Stewart/London as she guides the United Kingdom out U.K. leader has faced in generations: of the European Union. forging a Brexit that will satisfy May’s gamble now looks like a grave not only her fractured Parliament political miscalculation. Far from and divided country but also the gaining a mandate, the Conservatives 27 other E.U. member states. And lost their parliamentary majority in she hasn’t much time to do it. May the June 8 election, in part thanks triggered the formal mechanism for to a resurgent Corbyn’s attracting leaving the E.U. in March, setting in younger voters to the polls. Now no motion a rigid two-year period of EPA PHOTOGRAPH BY WILL OLIVER 7 TheBrief

negotiations over the terms of withdrawal. Those talks were due to begin on June 19, almost exactly a year after Britain voted to leave TICKER the E.U. Doing so will not be a simple task. Britain FACTS VS. must first settle financial commitments already made to the bloc, worth perhaps as much as Democrats take ALTERNATIVE FACTS $112 billion, and clarify the future of 3 million E.U. Trump to court CLAIM citizens who currently reside in the U.K. as well as Nearly 200 Democrats the 900,000 Britons living in the E.U. Once it has After James Comey testified that a in Congress sued Trump tweet had inspired him to leak left, it can begin the knotty renegotiation of at least President Trump for memos to the press, the President’s 759 trade treaties with 132 separate entities. improperly accepting lawyer Marc Kasowitz claimed the The election was framed as an opportunity to payments from foreign material had been quoted by the governments, claiming New York Times before the tweet. choose one of two ways to move forward. May’s his actions violated an Tories led the charge for a so-called hard Brexit, emoluments clause of REALITY pulling Britain out of the E.U.’s single market the U.S. Constitution. The Times story that mentions completely so it could attempt to build new trade It’s the third such the memos was published days links with the world. The Labour Party and others lawsuit Trump faces. after the tweet, not the day before, corroborating Comey’s testimony. advocated a soft Brexit, keeping trade and customs FDA to drugmaker: agreements intact. Crucially, a hard Brexit would stop selling opioid allow the U.K. to control migration of E.U. citizens. Under a soft Brexit, those citizens might live and The Food and Drug CLAIM “In just a short period of time, we’ve work freely in the U.K., much as they do now. Administration asked the maker of opioid already added nearly 1 million new But voters had other things on their minds. An medication Opana ER jobs,” Trump said on June 8. exit poll found that only 28% considered Brexit the to take it off the market, election’s most important issue. Among Labour because of the risks of REALITY abuse. The drug was The Bureau of Labor Statistics voters, the share was only 8%. Instead, the national found that the economy has added debate centered on the role of the state in provid- featured on TIME’s cover in June 2015, 594,000 new jobs since January, ing public services and, after the terrorist attacks where it was blamed when Trump took office. in London and Manchester, national security. for “creating the Meanwhile, the E.U. looks only more focused worst addiction and confident. Since the shock of Britain’s exit crisis America has CLAIM vote a year ago, it has been buoyed by the defeat ever seen.” In a tweet on June 12, Trump welcomed the opening of the “first of populist nationalists in the Netherlands Panama shifts new coal mine of [the] Trump era” and the election of the unabashedly pro-E.U. allegiance to China with a link to a Fox News story about Emmanuel Macron as President of France. Then the Acosta mine in Pennsylvania. there’s the seeming indomitability of German Panamanian President Chancellor Angela Merkel. Polls suggest that Juan Carlos Varela REALITY announced his country The owner of the mine, Corsa Coal Europe’s strongest champion will win a fourth would establish Corp., decided to open it in August— term in September. The talk in Brussels is of closer diplomatic relations months before Trump’s “era,” or integration over defense and security, not the with China and break presidential term, began. threat of dissolution. Britain looks increasingly like ties with Taiwan, claiming it was the an outlier when it comes to pulling out. “right path” for the Yet that process is bound to continue, whether country. Taiwan said DIGITS or not talks begin on June 19 and even if May is Panama was ignoring chucked out of 10 Downing Street. The U.K. will “years of friendship.” leave the bloc in April 2019 even if negotiations Study: more than collapse—which would be the hardest Brexit of 1 in 10 are obese all. At that point, Britain could face steep tariffs $326 on monthly exports of more than $15 billion to Around 604 million E.U. nations, unleashing what the Confederation adults and 108 million for British Industry called a “Pandora’s box of children are obese, MILLION according to a study by economic consequences.” the Institute for Health Trade value of Brazilian soccer star There was talk, in the aftermath of the surprise Metrics and Evaluation, Neymar, who has been ranked as 2016 referendum result, that E.U. negotiators might or more than 10% of the world’s most valuable player; be especially hard on the U.K. as a warning to other the global population. the study by the CIES Football Observatory used an algorithm that member states that might be considering exits. But The U.S. has the highest rate of obese analyzed 2,000 transfers and six other given the U.K.’s miserable experience even before children, at 12.7%. factors such as age and performance talks begin, that might look like piling on. □ to determine his dollar value

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TEENS AND OPIOIDS

U.S. teenagers today are using fewer illicit substances, but the overall opioid epidemic shows no signs of slowing, according to data compiled by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Of the 12 million– plus Americans over age 12 who take prescription pain relievers, here’s how many take the four drugs that are RUSSIA IN REVOLT Russian police officers detain a protester during an anticorruption rally in Moscow on June 12, one most misused. of more than 100 rallies in towns and cities across all 11 of Russia’s time zones. More than 1,000 demonstrators were detained, including protest organizer and opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Russians took to the streets on the national holiday Russia Day. Photograph by Sergei Chirikov—EPA

ENVIRONMENT 7.2 million Ways to rid the world’s WEAR IT Designer Stella McCartney announced Hydrocodone oceans of plastic trash this year that she will use ocean plastic in lieu of woven or recycled polyester in some of her THE COUNTRIES IN ASIA RESPONSIBLE FOR MUCH products. She has previously worked with Adidas of the plastics choking international waters prom- to create a sneaker made with materials recovered ised at a U.N. summit on June 8 to clean up their act. from the sea. She’s not alone. In 2014 musician The pledge from China, Thailand, Indonesia and the Pharrell Williams worked with Dutch fashion 4.3 million Philippines is a promising move from a region that brand G-Star RAW on a denim collection made Oxycodone produces up to 60% of marine plastic waste. But from plastic waste. others are coming up with innovative ways to clear or recycle what already exists: TIDY IT UP Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat has invented a system of floating barriers and an REPACKAGE IT More than 86 million metric tons underwater screen to extract plastic and wants of plastics is thought to be in the oceans right to test it on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a now, clogging reefs, killing wildlife and littering huge expanse in the ocean off California where 1.7 million shores. As a response, computer company litter has concentrated. But scientists say Tramadol Trash from Dell is beginning to create laptop packaging Midway there’s no quick fix to this ever growing recycled from litter found on Haitian Atoll’s problem. The real solution lies in better beaches. The company estimates that it will shores waste policies by nations and in persuading

COMEY, TRUMP: AP PLASTIC: (2); JONATHAN ERNST—REUTERS; OPIOIDS: GETTY IMAGES (4) keep 16,000 lb. of plastics out of the ocean. ▽ people to cut down on the use of plastics. —TARA JOHN 700,000 Morphine

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THE RISK REPORT one in which Washington was willing to Middle East rifts are assert its power to bolster regional stability, TICKER U.S. officials could solve this problem by widening amid a telephone. In a G-7-dominated international global power vacuum system, diplomatic mediation could be Michigan official coordinated among like-minded, cooperating faces Flint charges By Ian Bremmer governments. Instead, everyone is positioning and pushing, and no one is listening. The Michigan’s director of health and human THE LACK OF CLEAR, UNCONTESTED Kuwaitis, Omanis and Russians have all services Nick international leadership is everywhere established separate tracks, but their interests Lyon was charged we look these days. This power vacuum is don’t align, and their efforts aren’t likely to with involuntary evident in the hollowing of the Western succeed. The U.S. is involved as well, but manslaughter for failing alliance, Europe’s fragmenting politics, the Trump publicly contradicted a call by his to alert the public about an outbreak of fast-shifting balance of power in Asia and the Secretary of State Legionnaires’ disease impotence of governments in Latin America Nowhere Rex Tillerson for linked to contaminated and Africa. Yet nowhere is the destabilizing is the the Saudis to ease water in Flint in 2015. impact of this trend more obvious, and tensions, and no one pressing, than in the Middle East. destabilizing in the region knows U.S. student freed impact of from North Korea Last week’s unprecedented move by whom to listen to. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain our lack of Turkey will try to Otto Warmbier, a U.S. to sever all ties with nominal ally Qatar leadership tighten diplomatic college student who over its more accommodating approach more obvious and military ties was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor to Iran and support for Islamist group the than in the with Qatar, but that for allegedly trying to Muslim Brotherhood has already inflicted Middle East will only anger the steal a poster in North irreversible damage. Saudi Deputy Crown Saudis. Korea, arrived home in Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a likely future This disorder Ohio. He had been in King, has again demonstrated his willingness bodes ill for how the region’s major powers a coma for more than a year before being to aggressively assert Saudi leadership in the will compete in Iraq and Syria once ISIS has released and was region while trying to isolate Iran. President been defeated, especially now that the group rushed to a hospital, Donald Trump has jettisoned Barack Obama’s has proved itself willing to attack inside Iran, his parents said. attempt to balance the region’s rivalries as its foot soldiers did on June 7. The Saudis Trump travel ban and is fully onboard with the Saudi show of will continue to fear an alliance of Shi‘ite- blocked again strength. Qatar, a member of the Saudi-led led Iraq with Iran, and Iran will work harder Gulf Cooperation Council, is now isolated to counter Saudi-led Sunni dominance The U.S. court from its Arab partners. The tiny emirate throughout the region. The result of all this of appeals in is wealthy enough to get by, but it’s still will be more uncertainty, more assertive San Francisco became the latest court to home to the largest U.S. military base in the behavior, more lines crossed and rising fears block President Middle East and can’t fully partner with Iran. that no one has the power to contain the risk Trump’s revised In a superpower-dominated world, of new forms of Middle East conflict. □ travel ban on people from several mainly Muslim nations. The judges said Trump FOOD had made national- security judgments The longest meals without “sufficient Beating a record set by the Italian city of Naples, chefs in California justification.” made the longest pizza on the planet on June 10. The pie stretched 1.2 miles, weighed more than 7 tons and could feed 10,000. Here, E.U. court threat other foods of record-smashing length. —Tara John over refugee snub SUNDAE SAUSAGE SANDWICH The E.U. threatened Nashville, Mich., Retailer Carrefour Four movable ovens legal action against built a 3,656-ft. and meat producer were used to bake the Czech Republic, ice cream sundae, Aldis made the bread for a 2,411-ft. Hungary and Poland made of 5,400 lb. of world’s longest sandwich in Beirut for refusing to take in ice cream, berries, sausage in Ploiesti, in May 2011. The any refugees under an syrup and cream in Romania, in sub was then filled E.U. plan to relocate September 2016, December 2014. with chicken breast, beating a record set 160,000 migrants. The months earlier by The 38.9-mile wurst tomato, pickles three countries face nearby Ludington. weighed 45 tons. and spices. fines and sanctions. Milestones DIED DIED Actor and model Adam West Anita Pallenberg, a muse to the TV icon Rolling Stones LONG BEFORE and former Michael Keaton or girlfriend of Brian Jones and Keith Christian Bale donned Richards, at 73. somber bat ears, Adam ▷ Andimba West, who played Toivo ya Toivo, Batman in the TV series Namibian of the same name from independence leader who was 1966 to 1968, defined jailed for 16 years the character for a in South Africa’s generation of comic- Robben Island book fans. West, who prison, at 92. died June 9 at 88, was ▷ Actress Glenne Headly, known for a pop-art superhero, starring in Dirty perfect for his era. His Rotten Scoundrels Caped Crusader could (1988) and defend Gotham City Dick Tracy one minute and segue (1990), at 62. ▷ Sam into a discotheque Panopoulos, shimmy the next, widely credited always keeping a sense as the inventor of humor about his of the Hawaiian character’s tortured pizza, at 83. soul. Later in his career, STEPPED he won acclaim as the DOWN voice of Mayor Adam General Electric’s West on Family Guy. Jeffrey Immelt, after 16 years as But mostly he’ll be the corporation’s remembered as the CEO. He will be screen’s first great replaced by John Batman. Wham! Flannery, who has Pow! And goodbye. been at GE since 1987. —STEPHANIE ZACHAREK COMPLETED Sale of tech giant Yahoo to Verizon, for $4.48 billion. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced her resignation. CROWNED NAMED THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS AS 2017 NBA CHAMPIONS Ariana Grande This past NBA season will be remembered not for the hard-fought as an honorary duels but for the unrelenting excellence of the Golden State Warriors. citizen of After barreling through the opening rounds of the playoffs without Manchester, U.K., losing a game, the sweet-shooting Warriors met the Cleveland following the singer’s One Love Cavaliers in the title bout for the third consecutive year. On June 12, benefit concert Golden State avenged last year’s loss to LeBron James and Co. with that raised money a 129-120 win: Stephen Curry (above) scored 34 points, and Kevin for victims of the Durant was named Finals MVP, having averaged 35.2 points for the May 22 terrorist series en route to the first title of his storied career. Golden State’s attack. 16-1 postseason record is the best in NBA history.—SEAN GREGORY PIZZA: MARK RALSTON—AFP/GETTY IMAGES; WARRIORS: MONICA DAVEY—EPA/POOL; WEST: SILVER SCREEN COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES

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CRIME take the fields to practice as often as Five people, including Representative A shooting and three days a week, as early as 6:30 a.m. Steve Scalise, were injured during the They’re not particularly good, but that’s Alexandria, Va., shooting the risks of not the point. political outrage So when a deranged gunman opened fire on a baseball diamond in own practice, learned of the shooting, By Michael Scherer Alexandria, Va., June 14, he was taking they gathered together in prayer for aim at more than the GOP members their colleagues. CONGRESSIONAL BASEBALL IS A of Congress who had risen at dawn to “We may have our differences,” quaint throwback of a sport, not just practice on the far side of the Potomac President Trump told the country, in for the aging players who take the field River. He targeted the notion that the a hastily arranged statement that set but for the country they have been country could still be more than the aside the belligerent tone of his tenure. elected to represent. It is anchored in political furies that increasingly define “But we do well, in times like these, to the unfashionable idea that political it, and that had allegedly come to remember that everyone who serves leaders serve a single American public, consume him. in our nation’s capital is here because, one united more by its pastimes than On that score, at least, his attack above all, they love our country.” divided by its politics. Democrats and was a failure. He wounded five and In the U.S. Congress, members from Republicans play for the fun of it. briefly unified the nation’s political both sides of the aisle gave a standing Since the first pitch in 1909, the leaders. When Democrats, at their ovation when House Speaker Paul Ryan scrimmage had evolved and expanded declared, “An attack on one of us is an into its current form, as a fundraiser attack on all of us.” House Democratic for local causes played at the stadium ‘An attack on one of us is leader Nancy Pelosi then rose, for the used by the Washington Nationals. first time ever, she said, to associate For months, without public notice or an attack on all of us.’ herself with Ryan’s remarks. fanfare, Democrats and Republicans PAUL RYAN, Speaker of the House The alleged shooter, James

12 TIME June 26, 2017 Hodgkinson, 66, a home inspector WHITE HOUSE from Belleville, Ill., was killed by the Trump taps his personal returned fire of law enforcement. Two Capitol Police officers were wounded lawyer for Russia probe trying to bring him down, along with By Alex Altman a congressional staffer and a lobbyist. House majority whip Steve Scalise, who JAMES COMEY HAD BARELY FINISHED company accused of manufacturing was playing second base when the shots speaking in the Senate on June 8 when faulty polybutylene pipes in one of the started, took a bullet in the hip, crawled Marc Kasowitz appeared at Washing- largest consumer class actions in his- into the outfield and was airlifted to a ton’s National Press Club to hurl the tory. He leveraged that case to build a hospital by helicopter. brushback pitch. Kasowitz, Donald firm with a client roster that counts in- South Carolina Representative Jeff Trump’s personal lawyer, claimed his surance and tobacco companies, hedge Duncan said afterward that he believes client had been vindicated by the tes- funds and celebrities. “He’s the finest he had exchanged a few words with the timony, slammed unauthorized leaks choice I can think of,” says James Mori- gunman minutes before the shooting and castigated Comey for disclosing arty, a Houston lawyer who was oppos- started. The man asked who was “privileged” conversations with the ing counsel in the class action and calls playing and from what political party. President. The six-minute performance him “frighteningly brilliant.” “I told them they were Republican,” was as pugnacious as Comey’s had Kasowitz’s most important asset is Duncan remembered. “He said, ‘’K., been precise. a long history with his client. He has thanks.’” Then the man walked away. It was vintage Kasowitz. gone to bat for Trump in Hodgkinson was known in his Trump has turned to the ag- ‘The office a range of complex cases, hometown as a political activist, and gressive Manhattan litigator of the from an attempted takeover Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said in high-stakes disputes for President of his Atlantic City casinos his name appeared in the volunteer more than 15 years and has is entitled to attempts by reporters to rolls of his presidential campaign. tapped him now to represent to expect unseal his divorce records. Hodgkinson had a history of violent him in the widening probe of loyalty.’ Kasowitz sued a New York behavior, and his social feed was a Russian interference in the Times reporter in 2006 MARC KASOWITZ, dark parody of the dismal state of the 2016 election. That makes criticizing leaks for allegedly defaming nation’s political discourse, where Kasowitz an important new from government Trump (the case was later disagreement is personal and anger voice inside and outside the officials during dismissed) and during the his June 8 press is visceral. He had joined groups White House. conference 2016 campaign threatened called Terminate the Republican Presidents often hire out- to sue the paper for libel after Party and The Road to Hell Is Paved side lawyers to protect their personal it published two women’s claims that With Republicans. interests in the face of legal challenges, Trump had groped them. (The Times In this way, Hodgkinson was though rarely so early in a first term. declined to retract the story, and the just another symptom of a creeping George W. Bush enlisted Jim Sharp in lawsuit never came.) national disease. Rarely a week goes 2004 when top aides became ensnared Kasowitz’s work for Trump in the by these days without new evidence in a criminal investigation into the leak past has involved civil matters; the spe- that the debate over ideas and policy of a CIA officer’s identity. Bill Clinton cial counsel’s Russia probe could even- is giving way to violence. Opposing turned to David Kendall to defend him tually have criminal implications. As it protesters attack one another from the during the Whitewater inquiry and happens, Kasowitz is also representing streets of St. Paul or Berkeley. A soon- later during his impeachment proceed- OJSC Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank. to-be elected Congressman in Montana ings. Both men were seasoned Wash- And his firm is something of a Trump body-slammed a reporter for asking ington operators, cautious and dis- bull pen: Trump picked David Fried- an unwelcome question the day before creet. Kasowitz, on,a the other hand, is a man, a Kasowitz partner, as his ambas- the election. Vile comments once mirror of his swaggggeringg client. sador to Israel and considered tap- considered unfit for public discourse A civil litigator -with swept- ping the firm’s senior counsel, are common currency online. back white hair, Kasowitz z former Connecticut Senator Joe Most days, partisans benefit by reportedly once got into a Lieberman, to replace Comey stoking the political outrage. But few in fistfight in a lawyers’-leage gue atop the FBI. Kasowitz and his Washington now doubt that anger has basketball game. Thefa son of a team are “phenomenal law- gone too far, crossing from passion to scrap dealer from New Haven, yers,” Trump once declared. But danger, from appropriate to irrational. Conn., he attended he has never had a case “This has to stop,” said Illinois Yale and Cornell Laww quite like this. □ Republican Rodney Davis, still dressed School, then earnedd in his baseball uniform and cleats, a reputation as a ◁ Kasowitz has when he returned to the U.S. Capitol. rainmaker while de- - represented Trump

SHOOTING: ALEX BRANDON—AP; KASOWITZ: JUSTIN GELLERSON—THE T. NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX “And it has to stop today.” □ fending a chemicall for more than 15 years 13 LightBox

14 TIME June 26, 2017 SPORTS A perfect 10

OF TENNIS’ TWO GREAT AGING rivals, Rafael Nadal was supposed to wear down first, his body seemingly unable to sustain more than a decade of playing every point as if it were his last. Roger Federer’s game was graying, sure, but Nadal appeared all but busted. Last year the clay-court wizard pulled out of the French Open, his favorite tournament, and shut down his season early with a bum wrist. Knee and back injuries seemed to flare up more often. The last Grand Slam tournament he won was in 2014— and a betting man wouldn’t have been foolish to wager there would be no others. And then the 31-year-old Spaniard blitzed through the field in Paris to win his record 10th French Open with the ease of youth—he didn’t drop a single set, even in the final against third-ranked Stan Wawrinka— and the joy that comes only with experience. The day before, on June 10, Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia won her first Grand Slam title, becoming the first unseeded woman to win at Roland Garros since 1933. For Nadal, his long sought La Décima was particularly sweet. He now owns 15 Grand Slam titles, one more than Pete Sampras and just three fewer than Federer, 35, who skipped the French to rest up for Wimbledon, which begins on July 3. Will Rafa and Roger meet again on grass? In January they reached the Australian Open final, which Federer won in a five-set thriller. Yet another unlikely encore for one of the greatest rivalries in the history of the game would be something for all fans to savor. —SEAN GREGORY

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The Public Theater’s new production of Julius Caesar casts a Trump-like figure in the title role

CULTURE THE ELECTION RETURNS WERE STILL raged right-wing media, which reck- coming in when Oskar Eustis, artistic oned the play made a case for assassina- Never mind director of New York City’s famed Pub- tion, while most Shakespeare scholars Trump. lic Theater, knew what he must do. say quite the opposite. Together, the Seven months later, the deed is transgressive artists and the defenders We need done: the first play of the season at of decency collected enough headlines Shakespeare in the Park features the to hold them until the next round of Shakespeare assassination of a Donald Trump look- their dreary symbiosis, which is as stale alike in a gender-blind adaptation of as Popeye vs. Bluto. more than Julius Caesar. Never dreary, never stale, is Shake- ever The quick turnaround shows that speare himself. As long as there is lust this was low-hanging fruit. If your job and longing, ambition and indecision, By David Von Drehle is to bring Elizabethan drama to masses fear and courage, callowness and mad- of 21st century New Yorkers, a little ness, jealousy and benevolence, frip- scandal and titillation is your friend. pery and intrigue, grief and mispercep- With Trump in power, dressing a blond tion, guile and hope and love, the Bard actor in a long necktie and calling him will be up to date. Caesar is, for an impresario, as obvious This is why his work is so easily as Wonder Woman 2. moved through space and time. Romeo Equally predictable were the stagy and Juliet take new shape as Tony and howls of protest from supposedly out- Maria in West Side Story. The Taming of THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX YORK NEW THE PHOTOGRAPH BY SARA KRULWICH 17 The View

the Shrew becomes a John Wayne western. Twelfth BOOK IN BRIEF Night meets Channing Tatum’s abs at a posh high VERBATIM The inevitability of school. Caesar has been plopped by various direc- ‘I didn’t know the iPhone tors into fascist Europe, contemporary Africa and a that I did it simulacrum of the Obama Administration. wrong until I THE IPHONE IS COMMONLY REFER- John Keats spoke of Shakespeare’s “negative heard people enced as a first-of-its-kind device that capability”—his gift for feeling another’s feelings revolutionized the way we navigate the and seeing through another’s eyes without imposing saying I did it world. But in his new book, The One his own personality. No quality could be more use- wrong. And Device, Brian Merchant argues that ful today, when so much of our culture urges us to sometimes Apple’s breakthrough product was less exaggerate differences. Look through our own eyes that’s what it a stroke of genius and more a “container only and it’s easy to divide the world into friends takes.’ ship of [pre-existing] inventions.” By and foes, to deny the flaws of allies while magnify- the time the iPhone KATY PERRY, singer, ing the blemishes of the enemy. apologizing for her debuted, in 2007, Not that Shakespeare ignored the gory fact of criticized acts of cultural FingerWorks had fig- appropriation, like faction. “Stoop, Romans, stoop/ And let us bathe performing in a geisha- ured out multitouch our hands in Caesar’s blood/ Up to the elbows, and style outfit at the 2013 keyboards, Nokia’s besmear our swords,” Brutus cries after the assas- American Music Awards phones were playing sination. But the same poet also gives voice to Cae- music and running sar’s avenging followers and to the mixed-up mob apps, and IBM had of ordinary Romans pushed and pulled between birthed and buried the rival camps. its own smartphone, Shakespeare’s nuanced world is peopled by com- the Simon. So what plicated individuals who grow and change. Mac- set the iPhone apart? beth’s hunger for power winks out like a “brief can- Steve Jobs’ insistence on intuitive de- dle” upon news of his wife’s death. Prince Hal’s fear sign was a huge factor. So was timing. of duty plays out in an endless adolescence—until In 1992, when IBM unveiled the Simon, duty calls and he grows into fearless King Henry V. hardware was bulky and wi-fi was es- Falstaff is broad and bawdy right up to the moment sentially nonexistent. By 2007, that of death, which finds him tenderly whispering the landscape had shifted, paving the way 23rd Psalm. Shakespeare gives us the ardor and for the iPhone’s success. “The point error of teen love and the nakedness of an old man’s isn’t that Apple ripped off the Simon,” broken dreams, the emptiness of power and the hol- Merchant writes. It’s that something lowness of revenge. He is the epitome of that vanish- like the iPhone was inevitable. Jobs was ing virtue, the genuinely open and seeking mind. just the first to make it a mass-market Which brings us back to the Delacorte Theater reality. —SARAH BEGLEY in Central Park. Though he wrote Julius Caesar as a tragedy, Shakespeare might have done the current controversy as borderline farce. He would see the pedantry behind plopping a faux Trump into a CHARTOON golden bathtub with his wife Calpurnia cooing Everyday-foodie menu in Melania’s heavy accent. He would revel in the hypocrisy of Trump’s shocked, shocked defenders. He would squeeze laughs from the flustered tail covering of Delta Airlines and Bank of America as the Public Theater patrons scrambled away from the tempest. But underlying all of these characters would be his conviction that they are more alike than different and we too share their human nature. “All the world’s a stage,” he wrote. “And all the men and women merely players/ They have their exits and their entrances/ And one man in his time plays many parts.” In our blinkered era, Shakespeare asks us to fling open the doors of our own minds—a true act of resistance to the wall-building spirit of us against them. □ JOHN ATKINSON, WRONG HANDS

18 TIME June 26, 2017 ▶ For more on these stories, visit time.com/ideas

BIG IDEA Electronic play dough How do you entice kids to learn about electronics? By updating a classic toy that most people DATA already love. That’s the idea fueling London-based Tech Will Save Us and its Dough Universe THIS modeling clay, a Play-Doh-like substance designed to help kids create working electronic circuits. JUST IN Thanks to the clay’s conductive makeup—including lemon, salt and water—it can be mashed together to make car motors whir, musical instruments play sounds or fantastical creatures light A roundup of new and up, depending on the kit. Tech Will Save Us is now running a Kickstarter campaign for Dough noteworthy insights Universe and expects the $50 kits to be widely available by the end of 2017. —Julia Zorthian from the week’s most talked-about studies:

1 EATING FRENCH FRIES MAY INCREASE MORTALITY RISK An eight-year study of 4,400 older people in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that those who ate fried potatoes, such as hash browns or french fries, more than two times per week were at least twice as likely to die prematurely as those who did not. Unfried versions like baked or mashed potatoes weren’t linked with increased mortality.

2 STAYING UP LATE ON WEEKENDS IS BAD FOR YOUR HEART A study presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual HISTORY meeting found that each hour of “social The forgotten origins of Father’s Day jet lag”—staying up late and sleeping in on weekends—was linked THESE DAYS, FATHER’S DAY SEEMS LIKE upon [fathers] during these trying times.” with an 11% higher risk an inescapable part of American culture. Some of those burdens and responsibili- of heart disease, along But it didn’t become a national holiday ties were coming from inside the home with fatigue and worse until President Nixon signed a bill in 1972— as well. Whereas mothers used to be moods. almost 60 years after the U.S. recognized seen as the primary caregivers, the rise of Mother’s Day. So, what drove the decision? women’s liberation gave way to a so-called 3 Some historians credit the Vietnam War. new fatherhood movement, in which men IT’S HEALTHIER TO BE The prolonged, increasingly divisive conflict were expected to step up and “take on CLOSE WITH FRIENDS had uprooted American fathers from their more of the routine tasks of [child rearing], THAN FAMILY A report in Personal families, and there was a sense that their like changing diapers, in the interest of Relationships that public service needed to be recognized, gender equality,” says LaRossa. Meanwhile, included 270,000 according to Ralph LaRossa, author of a rise in no-fault divorces—sparked by the people worldwide The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social sexual revolution—raised new questions found that having close and Political History. Montana Senator Mike about the roles of both parents at home. friends in old age was a stronger predictor of Mansfield even appeared to say as much And as modern fatherhood started to take physical and emotional when he declared—during a debate on the shape, so too did what we now know as well-being than close 1972 bill—that Father’s Day deserved the Father’s Day. —OLIVIA B. WAXMAN family connections. same legal status as Mother’s Day “in view —J.Z.

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When is a bubble not a bubble? Why this tech- stock boom is different By Paul J. Lim

DESPITE A MID-JUNE SWOON, TECHNOLOGY STOCKS ARE off to the races again. And many investors believe that 15 years after the tech wreck that ended in 2002, things really are different this time. They may well be. For one thing, “today’s tech companies do have earnings and sales,” says Pankaj Patel, head of quantitative research at Cirrus Research. “We’re not just valuing businesses on eyeballs.” That’s true. And yet ... investors did recently make Tesla, a profitless Silicon Valley company, the most valuable automaker in the country, surpassing the $52 billion market cap of General Motors. O.K., but stocks haven’t soared to ridiculous heights as they did in the late 1990s. This is true too. Following a pullback after Apple shares were downgraded, tech stocks have returned about 17% a year for the past five years—well shy of the 50% annualized gains they posted in the late 1990s. And yet ... the four sexiest names in the sector—Facebook, THE Amazon, Netflix and Google (now Alphabet), known as the FANG GANG FANG stocks—have soared 1,200% on average during this bull market. And those four stocks plus Apple and Microsoft 288% Increase in the are now collectively valued at more than the gross domestic price of Facebook product of the United Kingdom. stock since “If you look at the world today, most Nevertheless, “we’re not seeing anywhere near the froth the company of the leaders have lots of recurring that we’ve had in bubbles past,” says Kevin Landis, CEO of went public in revenues” based on the services they Firsthand Capital Management. May 2012 provide, he says. These companies Again true. In 2000, just before the dotcom bubble burst, include Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Nasdaq stocks traded at a staggering price-earnings ratio 1,306% Alphabet, which are among Lippert’s Increase in of 175. Today it’s 56. the price of top holdings. And yet ... several of the most popular tech names Amazon stock Even after their recent sell-off, sport triple-digit P/E ratios, including Netflix at 197 since the start tech shares represent nearly one- and Amazon at 182. “Valuations aren’t as high as they of the current quarter of the S&P 500. (During the were in 2000, but that doesn’t mean they’re sustainable,” bull market in dotcom bubble, they represented more March 2009 says Rob Arnott, chairman of the investment firm than one-third of the broad market, Research Affiliates. 2,593% according to Howard Silverblatt, senior Well, at least tech stocks aren’t playing games by Increase in the index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.) constantly splitting their shares to make themselves more price of Netflix In real terms, though, tech is just as appealing to small investors. In fact, the opposite strategy is stock since influential as ever. So far this year, the in vogue today. Hot stocks build buzz not by splitting but by March 2009 FANG stocks, plus Apple and Microsoft, allowing their shares to grow to lofty heights. Just recently, accounted for one-third of all the gains TIME FOR MEYER EBEN ALEX BY ILLUSTRATION Alphabet and Amazon became two of a dozen or so U.S. 491% of the U.S. stock market. Increase in the companies trading at more than $1,000 per share—joining price of Google As for the longer-term concerns Priceline, which is approaching the $2,000 mark. stock since about tech, here’s one indicator to To be fair, there are legitimate differences between the March 2009 watch closely: the 10-year anniversary late ’90s tech run and today’s market. “Back then, we were in of Apple’s iPhone. “What happens if the earliest stages of the Internet and it was unclear who the the next iPhone that gets released is winners were going to be,” says Michael Lippert, manager of a snoozefest?” asks Landis.“That will the Baron Opportunity Fund, which holds more than 40% be one of the signs that you should of its assets in tech shares. start worrying.” □

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MATT VELLA

PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN VOSS Silicon Valley

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has reveled in confrontation. A growing set of scandals has forced him out— for now DESPITE SCANDALS, UBER’S VALUE CON

January 2014 September 2013 Uber is hit with its After a driver is first wrongful-death accused of assaulting suit after a driver kills a passenger, Uber a 6-year-old girl. It argues that it’s not denies responsibility responsible. No and later settles the charges were brought. lawsuit.

O August 2013 $3.8 B (Valuation)

mother, who recently died, ture. It’s that it happens to be as well as a time to grow as a one of the most valuable. CEO. It was an acutely hum- bling turn for a founder who IF THERE HAS been one con- had cultivated an aura as a stant for Uber, it has been brawler. “If we are going to extraordinary timing. With work on Uber 2.0,” Kalanick shocks of gray on either side wrote in a message to the of his spiked hair, Kalanick firm’s 14,000 workers, “I also is, at 40, considerably older need to work on Travis 2.0 to than many ambitious found- become the leader that this ers in the Valley. He was born company needs and that you in Los Angeles and studied deserve.” engineering at UCLA before ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 13, UBER EMPLOYEES SHUFFLED More is at stake in Uber’s dropping out in 1998 help to into an all-hands meeting at the company’s San Francisco crisis than one company’s fu- found his first company. His headquarters. They came to hear the results of an investigation ture, no matter how much Napster-like file-sharing ser- that, like many in Silicon Valley, they had been anxiously venture capital it has raised. vice ended when some of the awaiting for months. In February, a former female engineer at Because Uber is the defin- world’s biggest media com- the company wrote an exposé describing a workplace plagued ing technology success story panies sued the startup, forc- by sexism and mismanagement; the explosive allegations led of this era, its woes—and ing Kalanick to take the firm Uber to hire former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s law firm how it weathers them—are into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. to find out how far harassment and retaliation had gone at the a wake-up call for all of Sili- He called his next company a world’s fastest-growing startup. “The process, as you all know, con Valley. This place, hav- “revenge business” because it was longer than we thought and more painful than we thought, ing made itself the hope for provided technology to some but it comes to an end today,” board member Arianna Huffington the future of the U.S. econ- of the very companies that told employees during a presentation in which executives’ voices omy, is also producing a fair had targeted him. It sold for at times sounded brittle with emotion. amount of anxiety. Even be- $18.7 million in 2007. Over the past eight years, the hard-charging ride-hailing fore the Holder report, Uber’s By 2009, Kalanick had company has grown into a global powerhouse worth nearly unraveling had undermined moved to the hills of San $70 billion, disrupting the taxi industry in 76 countries and some of the Valley’s credos: Francisco’s Castro neighbor- creating an app relied on by millions both for rides and for in- the cult of the founder, the hood. His townhouse there come. The wildly successful company has also been plagued rabid pursuit of growth, the became an entrepreneurial by scandal from the start. Class-action lawsuits, driver re- virtue of disruption. Nor was salon and techie hangout he volts, cringeworthy faux pas by its brash CEO, you name it. Uber’s failure to address is- once described on Twitter as But the past few months were something else: the Febru- sues of workplace inclusive- a “church of creative capital- ary exposé was followed by a string of revelations so relent- ness unusual; it was simply ism.” A friend, Garrett Camp, less, many started to wonder if Uber was in the midst of an spectacular. had become enamored with existential crisis. In the end, the Holder report didn’t recom- In the end, what makes the idea for an app to hail mend reform so much as exorcism. The biggest change: CEO Uber a cautionary tale is not private luxury cars after he Travis Kalanick announced he would be taking a leave of ab- that it’s the only tech com- was unable to catch cabs in sence, of undetermined length, and would eventually return pany with a winner-take-all the city. UberCab, as it was to a diminished role. He described it as a time to grieve for his worldview or toxins in its cul- then known, started its ser-

24 TIME June 26, 2017 TINUED TO GROW ... July 2015 $51 B

January 2015 January 2016 October 2014 Novembb20er 2014 An Indian woman sues Uber, alleging that New York’s attorney Uber comes under Emil Michael, then she was raped by one general fines Uber fire for a promotion in Uber’s SVP of business, of its drivers in Delhi $20,000 over its “God France that promised proposes doing in December 2014. View” tool, which to match riders with opposition research on She later ended the allows it to covertly “hot chick” drivers. critical reporters. lawsuit. track users.

June 2014 December 2014 December 2015 $18.2 B $41.2 B $64.6 B

vice in San Francisco in May up to the new world of apps. less cars. fore rubbing up against reg- 2010. By the end of the year, Using it had that magic “it Kalanick’s approach was ulators, Uber was born into Kalanick had taken over as just works” element common brazen and nakedly capital- conflict. “Everything this chief, and the company had to revolutionary technology: istic. Unlike Google or Face- company has almost ever changed its name to Uber open the app, press a button, book, which famously brought done has been a battle,” says in order to dodge legal com- and in a few minutes a chauf- in “adults” Eric Schmidt and Avi Savar, CEO of Dreamit, a plaints that it was advertis- feur appears. Customers were Sheryl Sandberg to help man- startup accelerator and ven- ing itself as a taxi firm, the also getting familiar with the age a growing enterprise, Ka- ture-capital firm. That made first of many squabbles with so-called peer-to-peer econ- lanick remained the face of Uber successful going up regulators. omy, renting out people’s the firm, which he referred to against comparatively scle- The firm was aggressive. private homes on sites like as “Boob-er” in a 2014 inter- rotic municipal governments Because taxi companies held Airbnb. The idea of getting in view with GQ because it had in cities like New York, but monopolies in many cities, a car with an unprofessional made him more popular with also encouraged what some Kalanick cast them as the vil- stranger didn’t sound as crazy women. Traits often ascribed employees have described lains in a big-guys-vs.-good- as it once would have. to Steve Jobs—pique, occa- as a bunker-like paranoia guy drama. The big guys— The year 2010 also turned sional churlishness—were in among executives. which he once referred to as out to be a fine time to start Kalanick married to the mis- “When you have a value a collective “asshole”—were a company. After the finan- sionary zeal of an engineer system that is in some ways heavily regulated, with laws cial crisis and the subsequent who would make the world a benefit to you in the early varying greatly from city to dearth of exciting tech firms more efficient if only obstruc- days when you’re charging city. And the good guy, Uber, to invest in, Uber came onto tionists would let him. “He’s really hard, it can turn into ignored these rules in order the scene promising the kind a fighter. He is against insti- a tragic flaw,” says Stephen to bring consumers a better of world-changing big pay- tutional structures,” Schmidt Beck, founder of consulting service—like rides that actu- day investors craved. The told TIME in 2015. “He can be firm cg42. “‘Run fast, break ally showed up when it was company continually rolled disagreeable in that sense that, things, and we can pick up raining or that showed up at out flashy new services from well, he disagrees.” the pieces later’ is O.K. until all. Ignoring the rules also al- helicopter rides to puppies Kalanick’s readiness to it’s not O.K.” lowed almost anyone to make on demand. Executives made fight—with lawmakers, com- Even as his penchant for money by ferrying around plans not only to expand petitors, reporters—was at public arrogance increasingly people as Uber drivers. That worldwide, including China, first an asset. Compared to made Kalanick a bête noire to was attractive to many work- but also to remake everything firms like Google, which flew some, it worked for Uber. Be- ers, but caused several cities from food delivery to driver- under the radar for years between 2009 and today, the to ban or suspend the service. company raised more than Even amid turmoil— $15 billion, eventually becom- strikes by angry taxi drivers, ing the most valuable venture- unresolved questions of legal Because taxi companies backed company in history. In liability—Uber expanded an era of “unicorns”—startups fast. Smartphones had be- held monopolies in many valued at $1 billion—Uber was come common, and consum- cities, Kalanick cast them the decacorn. Until it looked ers, especially the urbanites liked it was on the way to be- with disposable income that as the villains in a big-guys- coming the first hectocorn,

MICHAEL: GETTY IMAGES Uber catered to, were waking vs.-good-guy drama valued at $100 billion. 25 February 2017 February 2017 March 2017 May 2017 Amit Singhal is asked Susan Fowler, a former to resign as SVP of President Jeff Jones The Department of Uber engineer, writes a engineering for not quits after less than Justice starts an blog post about sexual disclosing sexual- a year at Uber over investigation into Uber’s harassment at the com- harassment allegations differences in “beliefs Greyball software, used pany; Uber launches an against him at a and approach to to evade municipal “urgent investigation.” previous firm. leadership.” authorities.

June 2016 $68 B

SOME OF UBER’S problems advances and feeling they and promised an investigation. INSIDE TECH were on public display. Driv- don’t have the opportunities The next day the company CULTURE ers sued over their legal clas- of male counterparts. retained Holder’s law sification, saying Uber should “Tech has a culture that firm to look into claims of Like other Silicon treat them as employees— is worse than many other in- harassment, discrimination Valley companies, Uber with the attendant benefits— dustries. And that culture in and retaliation as well as lacks diversity if it was going to do things like the past has been promoted “diversity and inclusion at set the price they could earn and been a badge of honor,” Uber more broadly.” WOMEN IN per mile. Some complained says Ellen Pao, a venture cap- As Holder’s firm launched THE WORKFORCE they weren’t even making italist at Kapor Capital who into its work—interviewing minimum wage. Among its sued her previous VC firm for hundreds of current and for- millions of riders, horror sto- gender discrimination and mer employees, reviewing 47% 33% ries of being assaulted or kid- lost. She would know, hav- millions of documents, hold- napped made news, and legal ing previously tried to rein in ing anonymous focus groups— battles ensued over who bore machismo-fueled culture as the bad news kept coming. Share of Share of responsibility when people got CEO of Reddit. Kalanick was caught dress- women in women at the labor Uber (U.S. hurt or mistreated. Competi- After her experience ing down an Uber driver on a force (U.S.) and Canada) tor Lyft accused Uber of un- working at Uber, where the dash-cam video. The company derhanded tactics like calling cultural pillars included became embroiled in a lawsuit for and canceling rides to jam “Always Be Hustlin’” and about the theft of self-driving WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP up the smaller rival. “Principled Confrontation,” technology from rival Google. Based on each company’s Inside Uber, gender and software engineer Susan The widow of an employee global workforce diversity problems festered Fowler decided to write tied her husband’s suicide to Twitter 30% as they have at other tech the February blog post that the company’s aggressive work Apple 28% firms. Silicon Valley, for all became the epicenter of environment. Facebook 27% its ingenuity and economic Uber’s shake-up. In a 2,900- Bernard Coleman, Uber’s Google 24% clout, maintains a reputation word essay, she described a head of diversity who joined for inhospitability to women, workplace that was not only the company in January after Uber 22% people of color, anyone who Darwinian but profoundly doing the same job for Hillary Microsoft 18% didn’t go to an Ivy League sexist. Her experiences Clinton’s presidential cam- school or is older than a ranged from being sexually paign, jokes that the chaos WHITES IN LEADERSHIP graduate TA. There are the propositioned by a male made him feel like he was back Based on each company’s accounts of misbehavior manager—who was allegedly on the trail: “The only differ- U.S. workforce at startups like Tinder and never disciplined because he ence between Uber and a cam- Uber 77% Snapchat. But there are also was a “high performer”—to paign is campaigns end.” plenty of studies: one found enduring a counterproductive During the drumroll that Twitter 74% that women leave tech jobs “game-of-thrones political preceded Holder’s recommen- Facebook 71% at twice the rate men do. In war” and “organizational dations, a separate investiga- Google 70% another, half or more reported chaos” as managers tried to tion by another law firm led to Microsoft 69% being asked to do menial one-up each other. Kalanick the firing of more than 20 Uber Apple 67% tasks men aren’t expected to, tweeted that the behavior she employees. That probe looked dealing with unwanted sexual described was “abhorrent” into more than 200 claims of

26 TIME June 26, 2017 June 2017 June 2017 Uber fires Eric Alexander, June 2017 its president of business Uber board member in Asia, following reports An email from 2013 David Bonderman he obtained and shared leaks showing Kalanick June 2017 resigns after making medical records of the advising employees on a sexist remark during Indian rape victim because how to have sex and Kalanick announces the all-hands meeting he did not believe the take drugs during a he is taking a leave of announcing the Holder incident had occurred. company retreat. absence. investigation results.

SOURCES: NEWS REPORTS; WSJ (VALUATIONS)

infractions like sexual harass- Jeff Bezos’ disregard for epic as proper contrition is made, ment, discrimination and re- losses, Elon Musk’s flouting of forgiveness comes easily. UBER’S taliation. It also made it possi- the status quo. Being a founder The tech industry subsists STUMBLES ble to read between the tightly means having the moral flex- on a virtuous cycle of con- spaced lines of Holder’s 13- ibility to promote (and raise sumer trust in exchange for In addition to sexism page report, offering a point- money for) things that don’t continually improving and and harassment claims, by-point blueprint for disman- quite exist yet. When Steve mostly free services. It’s the Uber has had to address a tling the culture that made a Jobs first showed the iPhone price of living in a permanent series of other blunders juggernaut. Its recommenda- in 2007, his demo was mostly future tense. Plus, who re- tions ranged from increasing artifice; the device barely ally wants to read a 50-page the board’s oversight to chang- worked. Which didn’t mean terms-of-service agreement ing the time of staff meals to it wouldn’t change the world or wait more than two days $84 MILLION accommodate employees with when it came out. for a package? Amount paid to families. On their way to epic suc- That bargain may be fray- Massachusetts and When asked for comment cess, companies like Google ing, though. Lately it seems California drivers in legal on the report, Uber directed and Facebook broke the rules that Silicon Valley has started settlements last year TIME to an email the compa- and made their own. Most of to reach the limits of its old ny’s HR chief, Liane Hornsey, us went along with it so long maxims. Uber, with its adher- had sent to workers. “There’s as we were getting better stuff, ence to a Cro-Magnon corpo- 200,000 lot of incredibly hard work smarter search, faster phones. rate culture and obsession for ahead, but I have never felt Occasionally mistakes are breaking rules, is just the case Number of customers who more confident in a compa- made, such as when it was re- of the moment. Recently, once deleted their accounts— about 0.5% of Uber’s ny’s ability to change,” it read vealed Facebook data scien- high-flying firms like Ther- active users—in protest of in part. “Together, I want us tists had run social-psychology anos, Hampton Creek and the company’s response to to show the world what a truly experiments on unsuspecting Magic Leap have been brought President Trump’s January incredible redemption story users or when a local paper re- low by being shown to have travel ban looks like.” ported that instead of provid- perverted the old rules—over- ing air-conditioning at one of promising or underdisclosing. SILICON VALLEY’S heroes its fulfillment centers, Ama- The more tech companies 14,000 have always been rule break- zon simply stationed ambu- dressed in Valley values— Number of documents ers: Bill Gates’ willingness lances outside to resuscitate grand ambitions to innovate allegedly stolen from to “borrow” a good idea, downed workers. But so long and revolutionize—turn out Google’s self-driving-cars to disappoint, the faster the division, Waymo, which compact unravels. filed a trade-secrets It’s not just a matter of mis- lawsuit against Uber in February The tech industry subsists on sion statements. The Valley’s a virtuous cycle of consumer money culture has changed drastically in the last decade. SOURCES: DEPARTMENT OF For one, there’s more cash LABOR; COMPANY WEBSITES trust in exchange for (WORKFORCE STATISTICS); continually improving and in the system: some $73 bil- NEW YORK TIMES; FORTUNE; lion in venture capital was LOS ANGELES TIMES

JONES, ALEXANDER, BONDERMAN: GETTY IMAGES FOWLER: (3); SHALON VAN TINE; SINGHAL: REUTERS; KALANICK: AP mostly free services injected into U.S. startups in 27 ble proves anything, it’s that in the absence of any rule makers that can keep up with them, the architects of the new economy—which may be another way of saying, the new world—must hold themselves accountable. And consumers need to be able to trust them to do that well. It’s possible the Valley has never had a trust-testing moment △ quite like this one. Uber, headquartered in San Francisco, expanded its operations to 76 countries in eight years It’s also possible that what we’re witnessing is the birth of a new Silicon Valley value, the concept of responsible 2016, compared with $45 bil- ter,” as CEO Tim Cook likes to tween Xerox Parc and Uber, disruption—one that incorpo- lion at the peak of the dotcom say. And Uber is not just a car Silicon Valley achieved es- rates inclusion and diversity, boom, according to researcher service for millennials when cape velocity. Technology is unsexy and difficult as they PitchBook. For another, there’s they’re too sauced to drive advancing so rapidly that, at may seem, alongside think- considerably less transparency home. It’s on a mission, as Ka- this point, it is always going to ing differently. as more companies stay pri- lanick said in a 2016 TED talk, outpace the law, the govern- All of which Uber seems vate longer to avoid pesky old- to have such an impact on U.S. ment or the public’s capacity to have at least begun to economy stuff like oversight infrastructure that Americans to fully understand its rami- grasp. The company’s board and governance—174 private can “reclaim our cities.” fications. The genie is never unanimously voted to accept companies are each worth at So far, Valley companies going back into its flip phone. every recommendation of the least $1 billion. have mostly delivered on How else could history’s most Holder report. Kalanick will “There’s a general sense in promises to change our lives valuable startup, however go on leave. As the executives Silicon Valley, and there has and make them better in ways troubled, emerge from noth- who remain work to imple- been for five to 10 years, that that other industries gener- ing in eight years? Future ment the changes, other busi- it’s all about growth,” says Dan ally can’t. But if these prom- startups are going to make nesses will be watching to see Lyons, a longtime journalist ises start falling through—if a decisions that will impact the what happens, how easy it is who has written for two sea- company like Uber begins to lives of millions, defining the or isn’t for Kalanick’s “Uber sons of HBO sitcom Silicon look like a naked grab at mo- world the way religions and 2.0” to come into being. “The Valley. “Not just reasonable nopoly rather than an earnest empires used to. iPhones and key here is to recognize that growth, but hypergrowth. Do attempt to make life easier to tweets and more convenient we all unequivocally condemn anything you can to get that navigate—the faster the Val- taxis were one thing. But the the past,” Huffington told em- growth. That in itself causes a ley will appear out of touch. wave on the horizon now— ployees in the all-hands meet- lot of problems.” There’s another reason artificial intelligence, genetic ing, “but we need to judge Then there’s the Valley’s these questions are likely to engineering, nanotechnol- ourselves going forward from self-image. It has always seen matter more in the coming ogy—will be something else today on what we are doing itself as the outlier where years rather than less. The re- entirely. right now.” engineers can improve the ality is that, somewhere be- If Uber’s stunning stum- Right now turned out to world. Its promises have been mean immediately. During commensurate: Facebook the meeting, board member

isn’t just a place to post your David Bonderman, a part- IMAGES JUSTIN SULLIVAN—GETTY vacation photos, it’s work- Future startups are going to ner at private equity firm ing “to give people the power TPG, interjected with a sex- to share and make the world make decisions that will ist quip which quickly made more open and connected.” impact the lives of millions, the rounds on social media. Apple isn’t just churning out Within hours, he resigned. gadgets, it’s on a quest “to deﬁning the world the way —With reporting by LISA change the world for the bet- religions and empires used to EADICICCO □ 28 TIME June 26, 2017 VIEWPOINT governance, weak accountability, a Uber’s Travis Kalanick shows founder-dominated board and values, the very tenets Kalanick treasured, that how growing up is much encouraged bad behavior. harder than simply growing Tellingly, Holder recommended that Uber seek top-management “candidates By Adam Lashinsky with experience dealing with organiza- tions that have complicated labor and ON A BRISK NIGHT LAST JULY, I TOOK A LONG WALK operational structures.” That would not through the streets of San Francisco with Travis Kalanick, describe leaders at the typical Silicon from Uber’s headquarters in the gritty Mid-Market Valley startup Kalanick so badly wanted neighborhood to the Ferry Building on the waterfront and Uber to remain. In fact, startups were all nearly to the Golden Gate Bridge. Kalanick likes these walking Kalanick had ever known. meetings. It’s how he got to know Anthony Levandowski, a former Google self-driving-car engineer, whose company UBER AND ITS ERSTWHILE CEO are by Uber bought, only to have Google parent Alphabet sue Uber no means finished. In a letter to employ- MEASURE for Levandowski allegedly stealing its technology. OF THE MAN ees, Kalanick implied he’s not letting go On that summer evening, Kalanick was in an expansive completely, noting that he’ll “be avail- mood. We talked about how he raised billions for Uber, about able as needed for the most strategic the perils of being in the media’s glare and about how Uber decisions.” Presumably he’ll continue was changing as it grew. In fact, toward the end of our three- to have a hand in hiring the critically hour-plus conversation I asked him how he liked running important chief operating officer he a big company. He’d been around since Uber was a mere committed to finding earlier this year. handful of employees. Now it had many thousands, not all of The company has suffered departures whom Kalanick knew. at all levels, and filling those positions His answer spoke volumes, especially in light of the Lashinsky’s is an urgent task. Meanwhile, the com- scandals that would rock the company months later, new book, pany keeps operating around the world, culminating in Kalanick’s June 13 announcement that he’d Wild Ride: though not in China, which it abandoned take a leave of absence of undetermined length. “The way I do Inside days after Kalanick and I walked and it, it doesn’t feel big,” he said. “You constantly want to make Uber’s Quest talked along the San Francisco Bay. for World your company feel small. You need to create mechanisms and Domination Fresh blood and a smoothly cultural values so that you feel as small as possible.” This was (out now), functioning business will help. But a familiar refrain among the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley. chronicles Uber’s existing woes won’t vanish. Late- Startups move fast; big companies plod. Steve Jobs, the Kalanick’s to-the-party investors who valued Uber ultimate authority on the art of staying nimble, used to brag rocky rise. at nearly $70 billion might reasonably “I don’t that Apple was the world’s largest startup. think I’m an want their money back, a potential asshole,” financial headache of epic proportions. LAUDABLE INTENTIONS ASIDE, Kalanick’s unwillingness Kalanick tells Uber’s legal battle with Alphabet’s self- to grasp the magnitude of what Uber had become—a global him. “I’m driving-car unit, called Waymo, could be behemoth that touches the lives of millions of drivers, riders pretty sure I’m perilous if it heads to trial in October as and employees—may have proved his undoing. Depending on not.” planned. Uber does not want allegations how his company can quickly adapt to the demands of being of fraud aired in public. Similarly, the big, akin to asking a man-child to become an adult, Uber’s Justice Department is investigating a future hangs in the balance. practice called “grayballing” that Uber Kalanick’s departure from Uber’s executive suite coincided used to deceive authorities. Criminal with the release of a damning report by former U.S. Attorney charges against the company or its senior General Eric Holder based on a months-long investigation into managers would be devastating. the company’s corporate culture. Hiring Holder was Uber’s re- Uber isn’t finished. But solving its sponse to the public criticism by a former female engineer of problems is a tall order—befitting the systemic sexual harassment as well as the refusal by the com- giant and troubled company it has pany’s human-resources department to take her complaints become. seriously. Holder’s conclusions and recommendations were consistent with a eight-year-old startup that had failed to Lashinsky is the executive editor of

LASHINSKY: KIMBERLY WHITE—FORTUNE/GETTY IMAGES KIMBERLY LASHINSKY: grow up. He revealed an undisciplined company with poor Fortune 29 A lone firefighter directs water toward a burning wellhead outside Qayyarah

30 TIME June 26, 2017 World THE BURNING SANDS OF IRAQ Firefighters try to put out what terrorists have started Photographs by Edouard Elias

31 WHEN ISIS RETREATED FROM THE BROKEN PLAINS south of Mosul last August, its militants did what defeated armies do in these parts: they scorched the earth. Saddam Hussein’s soldiers set alight some 700 oil wells on their way out of Kuwait in 1991, and after the 2003 U.S. invasion, Iraqi fighters torched wells outside Basra and, a year later, in Kirkuk. A burning oil field serves many functions: it impedes the view of attacking warplanes, deprives the victor of treasure and, not least, summons visions of apocalypse. For Iraq’s weary oil-fire brigade, however, it’s just another day’s work. When French photojournalist Edouard Elias visited Qayyarah in January, the firefighters—actually engineers for the Iraqi government–owned North Oil Co.—had been fighting the blazes for months. They were still at it come spring, their pace dictated by the extraordinary difficulty of the work. In Kuwait, American oil-well firefighter Paul “Red” Adair put out fires with dynamite, extinguishing the flames with a well-placed charge that deprived the fire of oxygen. The Iraqis must work more slowly. First, water hoses are trained on the flames to mitigate temperatures that can reach 1,000°C, which would melt plastic helmets. Firefighters then advance behind a three- sided portable shack, nudging toward and back from the source of the inferno as conditions shift. The most delicate work is done from an excavator manned by two men. One shouts instructions to the other as they try to maneuver a cap onto the wellhead. Sometimes they must do it by feel. After two or three minutes the otherworldly heat forces them to retreat, and the process begins all over again. The smoke blackens everything, from the wool of sheep in adjoining fields to the insides of refugees in nearby camps. There, doctors report tar in the lungs of people who have never smoked. Iraq’s oil is sulfurous and plentiful. When prospectors came looking for it a century ago, their search began at a field of rocks outside Kirkuk that had been burning for at least 2,500 years. The ancient pyre might have been the same “fiery furnace” into which the Book of Daniel says King Nebuchadnezzar threw Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego for worshipping a golden idol. Oil has brought mixed blessings to Iraq ever since. And as the fire brigade wearily extinguished one well after another—the last of the batch shown here was snuffed out in March—and prepared to resume their duties at working wells, they harbored no illusion that their work was complete.—KARL VICK

32 TIME June 26, 2017 Firefighters wear helmets without plastic masks, which melt under the searing heat

A passing shepherd said that 200 sheep of his flock had died inhaling the toxic smoke

Iraqi firefighters take shelter in a Members of the three-sided shack brigade man- handle a hose 33 34 TIME June 26, 2017 A firefighter pauses during the effort to extinguish Well No. 77, near Qayyarah

35 President Trump touts his accomplishments in office as he convenes his first full Cabinet meeting on June 12

PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG MILLS CANNation HE BE TAMED? Inside the uphill fight to bring order to Donald Trump’s White House BY ZEKE J. MILLER

IN A WHITE-WALLED SUITE ON THE second floor of the West Wing, about a dozen of Donald Trump’s top aides gathered with their early-evening coffees on a recent Monday to map out the President’s midsummer message. Most people in the country now know that that task is akin to staging an opera in a hurricane. But for a handful of senior aides, imposing order on the chaotic nature of the Trump presidency has become something of an obsession. Just a few weeks earlier, White House aides had christened June “Jobs Month” only to find the story line’s launch upended by a misfired May 31 midnight tweet from the President featuring the nonword covfefe. “Infrastructure Week” largely fell victim to the testimony of former FBI director James Comey, prompting mockery from no less than Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who returned from a trip to the gleaming airports of China to ask, “How did ‘Infrastructure Week’ go?” And “Workforce Development Week” might have had more success had Trump’s visit to Wisconsin not been overshadowed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ raising his right hand and taking an oath to tell the truth to the Senate 37 Intelligence Committee about the Russia investigation. Yet this group—including chief of staff Reince Priebus, staff secretary Rob Porter, legislative and policy aides, and press secretary Sean Spicer—has stayed focused on its task, plotting from the second floor where Trump seldom wanders. They tout accomplishments their predecessors have pulled off with greater ease, albeit under relatively easier circumstances. Trump’s overseas trip, organized by Jared Kushner and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, proved that a well- scheduled and prepared President could avoid major missteps. Since then, they have pointed to the months of meetings and meticulously staged announcements around Trump’s decision to quit the Paris climate accord and to privatize the air- traffic-control system as emblematic of the more ordered West Wing. “What people don’t see is that this stuff doesn’t just happen by accident,” says one senior official involved, who, like most of the 11 White House officials TIME spoke with for this article, asked not to be named △ participation—of all appropriate senior in order to speak freely. “You can’t take Attorney General Jeff Sessions aides, Cabinet secretaries and Capitol 52 cards and throw them down and have is sworn in before the Senate Hill liaisons. Dissenting voices are them fall into a neat stack.” Intelligence Committee on June 13 channeled in brief memos and organized Neat is not a word most people meetings for the President, who likes would use to describe anything about confident in his abilities as he was to take in the differing views as if he’s the Trump Administration to date. unprepared for the task of managing the watching a judges’ table on a reality Most of the men and women working government. In marked contrast to other show. Aides often don’t agree, but there in the West Wing didn’t work with the Administrations, just one senior staffer, is a growing recognition that they’re President on the campaign before they deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, had prior heard regularly. “Increasingly, everyone took over the Executive Branch on White House experience in a senior role, has more ownership of it,” said Porter. Jan. 20, and many had never worked in and his new job was primarily logistical. “There’s a lot more discipline now.” government before. Their politics ran A reluctant delegator, Trump initially The White House has also fallen into from far-right nationalist to centrist, and believed the White House was just a a set rhythm of weekly meetings, despite internal disagreements were frequent and larger-scale version of Trump Tower, with regular disruptions from the President, noisome. Arguments became public, and him seeking counsel from a wide circle. who still surprises top aides with in- senior advisers tried to circumvent one As ever, he expected aides to jockey for flammatory tweets, impromptu gather- another for short-term advantage. The his favor. ings and unscheduled announcements. leaks seldom resulted in punished, even Some things have changed. In late The goal is modest: one out-of-town trip when the offenders were easily identified. April, Priebus and Porter imposed a and one agency visit a week, bolstered And Trump’s open-door policy left aides strict flow chart for every decision by a handful of White House round- vying to be the last voice in his ear, heading the President’s way, requiring tables and meetings with stakeholders undermining the finality of his decisions. the buy-in—and, most important, the and Capitol Hill lawmakers. The team His aides have since pledged to no longer had already set aside the last two weeks try to outmaneuver the policymaking of June for the themes of “technology” process by stealing private moments with and “energy.” July is set to have a “Made the President to make their case. “We’ve ‘THERE’SA LOT MORE in America” theme, playing the nation- all been burned,” explains one West Wing alist strings that helped Trump win the staffer. “You can win today, but you pay DISCIPLINE NOW.’ White House in the first place. for it tomorrow.” WHAT NO ONE CONTROLS Trump’s self-assurance made things ROB PORTER, assistant to the President for policy is Trump worse. He entered the Oval Office as coordination and White House staff secretary himself, who has encouraged the new

38 TIME June 26, 2017 of his control. “When his numbers go down to 30%, he has got to listen,” said one Republican with prior White House experience. “And they are starting to decline.” On June 12, Trump hit 60% disapproval in the Gallup daily poll.

THOSE DECLINING NUMBERS may explain why, inside the West Wing, an alternative mood is sometimes the order of the day. Trump’s entire Cabinet gathered steps from the Oval Office for its inaugural meeting in a classic Trump style, with effusive public praise of the President himself. “It is just the greatest privilege of my life to serve as Vice President,” Pence began, after which each officer followed. Priebus called the chance to serve Trump’s agenda a “blessing.” The televised performance offered a rare public glimpse to the sort of praise aides often give Trump in private as they seek to win his favor. But such tactics won’t solve the many headaches that still shadow the President. Dozens of key positions throughout the federal structure but also takes the opportu- △ government—like deputy Cabinet nity to regularly disrupt it or work out- The President’s visit to Wisconsin secretaries, independent agency side the process. Trump continues to be was overshadowed by Sessions’ heads and U.S. Attorneys—have still critical of many of his senior staff, creat- testimony in Washington not been appointed, in part because ing internal tensions and fraying levels of disagreement at the White House. of trust. The President punctuates meet- is little sign that he trusts his team to Congress is still waiting to be briefed ings and visits with allies with ques- steer him in the right direction. Trump on strategic plans for the wars against tions about the performance of every- has prevented Priebus from assuming Islamic extremism, and there is little one, from Vice President Mike Pence to the traditional chief-of-staff role as first hope of passing any of Trump’s big- Spicer. The result is a West Wing staff among equals. If an aide’s profile grows ticket legislative priorities before the that functions with an unspoken motto too big, the President has a tendency end of the summer. akin to the Serenity Prayer, the medita- to publicly shoot that person down, Hours after the Cabinet meeting, tion common among 12-step program or privately raise the specter of a staff White House aides returned to the participants: aides focus on changing change. (Even son-in-law Jared Kushner second floor to focus on the task at what they can, seeking to accept what drew the President’s ire over his elevated hand: cobbling together a message to they cannot and trying to keep a level- public profile and contributions to the incorporate disparate agenda items enough head to know the difference be- internal discord.) like the budget, health care reform and tween the two. As a result, the careful planning infrastructure investment. Then, as Trump advisers now talk about the in the White House is often upended the group was heading out, the careful self-inflicted wounds of the first five from within. On June 7, when Trump planning was thrown off again as a friend months as largely out of their hands— tweeted that he would pick Christopher of Trump’s said in a television interview forced upon them by an instinctual, Wray to be his new FBI director, his that the President was considering impulsive President. They believe their communications operation was left in firing the Russia investigation’s special advice will best position the President the dark, rushing to craft a response counsel, Robert Mueller. The White for success—if he chooses that path. “He without forewarning. The same was true House team quickly rushed out denials, has his own opinions as far as reading when he announced the firing of Comey, but for many top aides—even those the tea leaves and watching the news or the dozens of times he has redirected central to the planning process—the and trusting his gut on how things need the news cycle with an early-morning news had struck a nerve. No matter to be done,” the senior official says. tweet. how much they prepare, they just can’t Maybe so, but Trump has yet to Several senior Republicans expect be sure what the President will do next. empower any single person to speak that a breaking point will come, which —With reporting by MICHAEL SCHERER/

PREVIOUS PAGES: THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX; SESSIONS: ALEX WONG—GETTY IMAGES; TRUMP: SCOTT OLSON—GETTY IMAGES authoritatively in his stead, and there will force the President to cede more WASHINGTON □ 39 Movies

Sofia Coppola returns with The Beguiled, which builds on 18 years of careful work By Stephanie Zacharek W WHAT HAPPENS WHEN, AS A KID, YOU watch a Kurosawa film—or any Fellini con- fection, or Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless— from the corner of your eye, drifting in and out of the room according to whim? Whims govern kids, and even if we think we can mold their minds by sitting them down in front of the things we think they ought to watch, there’s no way to know what’s going to make an impression. What if just a few frames’ worth of tattered samurai desperation or the sight of an impishly captivating Jean Seberg hawking newspapers along the Champs Élysées should open a side door big enough for a whole sensibility to eventually rush through? Sofia Coppola grew up mostly in Cali- fornia’s Napa Valley as well as wherever her father Francis Ford Coppola happened to be shooting a film. As a kid, she engaged in that kind of osmotic half-watching. “We didn’t have TV reception where we lived,” she says, “so we watched videocassettes and laser discs. And my dad was always screening movies. I don’t know if I was paying much attention. He had a screening room in San Francisco, and we would just end up

In one way or another, Coppola, here in New York City, has been studying the art of film since she was a child PHOTOGRAPH BY LISE SARFATI FOR TIME watching whatever they were watching.” because of its visual style. This is a gauzy Even the way Coppola tells that Southern world, where feminine dreams story—during breakfast at a café in New are as visible and as easily crushed as York City’s West Village, just days before moths fluttering around at dusk. But it bringing her new film, The Beguiled, to also nods in the direction of Coppola’s the Cannes Film Festival—reveals some- debut film, The Virgin Suicides—based thing about her: she seems vaguely apolo- on Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel—about five getic that she didn’t pay closer attention pensive, shadowy sisters who are virtually to all that cinematic greatness at the time. imprisoned by their ultrareligious parents But she also seems to know that the real in 1970s suburban Detroit. value of that kind of childhood was the The similarities between the two freedom to just be around the grownups, stories aren’t coincidental. Coppola quietly. You can become a good enough says her friend Anne Ross, a production filmmaker by watching. But you can’t be- designer with whom she frequently works, come a great one without observing. saw Siegel’s version of The Beguiled and, as a joke, dared her to remake it. “So I just TO BE SOFIA COPPOLA is to have grown watched it,” Coppola says. “I would never up with certain advantages. The Cop- dream of remaking a movie, but it stayed pola family tree is a verdant one: Sofia’s in my mind. It reminded me of The Virgin grandfather was composer Carmine Suicides. There was some connection, as Coppola; actors Jason Schwartzman if The Beguiled were the other half. It felt and Nicolas Cage are her cousins; and darker, almost like a mature version.” her brother Roman produces her films The making of movies is such a high- through the family-run production com- stakes gamble these days—even for pany American Zoetrope. But lineage white male filmmakers, but especially for alone doesn’t determine who we grow women and minorities—that the notion up to become. At 46, Coppola, who has of a movie growing out of a tongue-in- made six delicately distinctive feature cheek dare is particularly audacious. But films over the past 18 years, has built that’s the Sofia Coppola way, to take the something of a stealth career. One movie small thing you’re not sure anyone can at a time, she has established the kind of relate to and discover that, in reality, résumé you can’t possibly pull together plenty of people can. without having a definitive idea of what Coppola has always been drawn to with their genteel, prewar lives a thing you want and some finely tuned in- stories about groups of women and the of the past, were cut off from the world. stincts about how to get it. dynamics within. Pre–Virgin Suicides, “I loved the idea of the Civil War South, The Beguiled—which she adapted, she made a smart, lively short called and those trees with the moss,” she says. with a light, discriminating touch, from Lick the Star, set amid a clique of schem- “I would read these guides for women a 1966 novel by Thomas Cullinan—is ing middle-school girls. After watching about manners and grooming. Every- set in 1864 at a Virginia boarding school Siegel’s movie—essentially a macho vi- thing was about being appealing and not for young women. To the dismay of the sion in which a bunch of crazy women too strong for men. I was fascinated by school’s mildly repressed headmistress, undo one man’s life—she wondered the idea that they were raised that way— played superbly by Nicole Kidman, one what the story would be like if it were the extreme version of that. And there of the girls finds a wounded Yankee sol- told from the women’s point of view. She are no men around.” dier (a rakishly intense Colin Farrell) was drawn to the fact that these women, That empathy, brought to bear with in the woods and brings him in for care the kind of gossamer lightness that de- and nurturing. The soldier is charming mands precise thinking and definitive but duplicitous, and he proceeds to toy YOU CAN BECOME decisionmaking, is also part of the Sofia with the affections of the women, draw- touch. In person, she’s small and delicate, ing out their complex desires, anxieties A GOOD ENOUGH though not exactly shy. She answers ques- and jealousies. tions in looping, thoughtful sentences The Beguiled has been adapted FILMMAKER BY that sometimes trail off, a common trait for film before: Clint Eastwood and WATCHING. BUT YOU among people with a vivid, rigorous visual Geraldine Page starred in the seedily imagination who are called upon to ex- pleasurable version made by tough-guy CAN’T BECOME A plain a thing that’s simply in their blood. director Don Siegel in 1971. But even The day we met, Coppola had just had a FOCUS FEATURES though this new Beguiled retains some GREAT ONE WITHOUT birthday, and a friend had given her the of the earlier film’s plot details, it’s very gift of a quote from artist Barnett New- much a Sofia Coppola film. That’s partly OBSERVING man: “I’m a bird, not an ornithologist,”

42 TIME June 26, 2017 is very demure and elegant, so there is an elegance to the filmmaking and the experience on the set. You just sort of want to do anything to make her happy.” Kidman notes something else: “Dur- ing the middle of shooting, my mother had a heart attack, and Sofia was so warm, kind and gentle with me. I am devoted to her because of that.” Coppola clearly protects her actors, though she’d tell you that’s simply what all good directors do. “I feel like part of my role is to be protective,”she says. “I’m also grateful to actors. They’re exposed— they have to be vulnerable.” Yet there’s no doubt that Coppola always gets what she wants, and she slyly admits as much. “Maybe it’s being not aggressive, and petite,” she says. She is also, you sus- pect, adept at the fine art of asking people to help, instead of just ordering them around. She says that Bill Murray calls her the Velvet Hammer, which she loves. Murray was one of the stars, with Scarlett Johansson, of Coppola’s 2003 film Lost in Translation. She pursued him, with comically stalker-like persistence, until he agreed to do the film. Coppola’s screenplay won an Oscar, but it’s a story she almost didn’t write, one loosely based on her own experiences as a visitor in △ Japan that folds in hints of personal she paraphrased. Flying sure beats talk- Coppola’s actors say her ability to loneliness. (Coppola was married to ing about flying. create a supportive environment on fellow filmmaker Spike Jonze at the set, like on that of The Beguiled, time. The two separated shortly after the BOTH SLIGHTLY MYSTERIOUS and easy above, earns her their devotion movie’s release. Coppola is now married to talk to, Coppola is like a Zen koan in to Thomas Mars, of the French rock band a simple sweater and jeans, a kind of up to Sofia as kind of an older sister, Phoenix.) Coppola’s movies don’t have becalming puzzle. It’s easy to see why someone I admired,” Dunst says. “Now dazzling plots. In fact, they sometimes she tends to work with the same people our ages have caught up to each other and have next to no real plot at all. repeatedly—or, rather, why they’re so we’re more like girlfriends.” The set on And because Coppola’s filmmaking often happy to come back and work with a Sofia Coppola film is an environment style is so understated, her critics have her. Some, like casting director and pro- Dunst is always happy to return to. “The often failed to see how deep she’s willing ducer extraordinaire Fred Roos, she met vibe is very relaxed,” Dunst says. “She al- to go. Her 2013 film The Bling Ring, based through her father. Others, like Kirsten ways sets a unique tone that lends itself to on the true story of a bunch of SoCal teens Dunst, have practically grown up mak- the film that she’s making. And she really who broke into celebrities’ houses to steal ing movies with her. Dunst was 16 when creates an environment that lends itself to stuff and got away with it for a surpris- she starred in The Virgin Suicides as the all the people creating around her.” ingly long stretch of time, may not be her poetically doomed teen-dream princess Kidman, who worked with Coppola strongest film. Even so, Coppola under- Lux Lisbon. In 2006 Dunst returned to for the first time on The Beguiled, no- stands the way young people yearn for play a real teenage princess—eventually a ticed the same thing. She says she had things they can’t have, and their crush- queen—in Coppola’s gorgeous and deeply “desperately wanted to work with Sofia” ing desire to be perceived by their peers sympathetic Marie Antoinette. And now for years. Coppola went to see Kidman as cool. In Somewhere (2010), which won Dunst returns—as luminous, fragile and perform onstage in London, in Photo- the Golden Lion in Venice that year, the complex as a porcelain cup—to play a graph 51, and gave her the script for her festival’s top award, Coppola assayed the frustrated teacher overcome with roman- new film. Kidman loved it. “She has such quicksilver flash between girlhood and tic dreams in The Beguiled. a strong vision, and she knows exactly womanhood. Her lead actor in that film, a “When I was younger, I always looked what she wants,” Kidman says. “Yet she magnetic, expressive Elle Fanning—who 43 also returns in The Beguiled—captured FILMOGRAPHY Coppola is aware, of course, that she that elusive ray of light as if it had been had an entrée into the film business written into the script. Coppola’s four most important that most others do not. But when she films of the past two decades But then, of course, it pretty much talks about her father, she stresses—and had. Although Coppola acknowledges seems to most greatly value—the practi- that she feels comfortable writing only cal advice he has given her, advice that about the world she knows, she realizes could really come from any good dad. He that deeply personal ideas are often the always told her that having a personal most universal. “I’m always surprised by connection with the material is para- that,” Coppola says. “When I was writing mount. “That was something to strive for Lost in Translation, I thought, Nobody’s when I was learning about filmmaking,” going to want to hear about an affluent Coppola says. Again, she deflects any girl who can’t find herself. It’s the most special pleading for the idea that she, as unrelatable thing ever. And just about a female filmmaker, has had it especially my experiences in Japan—it was just THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999) hard. “My dad was always fighting to something I wanted to express. What it Five doomed sisters grow up in a make movies,” she says. “I never saw it was like to be there at that moment in repressive household in the 1970s as being easy for a filmmaker. So I never life. It’s always very surprising that other thought, Oh, it’s harder for me. I always people connect to things that you find saw it as being a fight to make the movie very small and specific.” that you want to make.” There are two kinds of filmmakers in COPPOLA HAS BEEN making films for the world: those who want viewers to nearly 20 years. And while, in 2017, be dazzled by how hard they’ve worked, there is suddenly a clamoring for better and those whose hard work melts into the opportunities and more visibility for fe- film. At Cannes, Coppola won the Best male filmmakers, it’s worth remembering Director prize for The Beguiled. that Coppola’s work, particularly her early LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003) Afterward, in a phone conversation, movies, made her the target of all kinds of Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson she says she is happy about the prize— accusations, many of them outright sex- star as a pair of lost Americans but even so, she seems less happy for ist: She was bad, as an actor, in her father’s wandering around Tokyo herself than for what the award could 1990 film The Godfather: Part III—a role mean for other female directors. “I was she took on, she has said, largely because surprised that I didn’t know that only she was a kid, willing to try things out— one woman had gotten the award, in the and therefore nothing she did afterword 1960s,” she says, referring to the only could be any good. Or, if she did manage to other female Best Director winner, So- make something good, it was only because viet filmmaker Yuliya Solntseva, for her father had helped. Her stories, shallow Chronicle of Flaming Years. That was in and “fashiony,” were all about rich peo- 1961. “I just didn’t know about the his- ple, and look, she’s rich too. Those charges tory of that,” Coppola says, as if this aren’t leveled at her as much today, though stark, almost incomprehensible fact was they’ll always be part of her story. MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006) somehow common knowledge. Meanwhile, then as always, white The story of the young French Queen Coppola has always had deep feeling male filmmakers stream out of schools (Kirsten Dunst) and her demise told for young people, and for women whose like NYU, certain that the world will from her own perspective problems seem small but cut right to the be fascinated by their latest neurotic heart of what humans want out of life. If exercise in self-examination. Yet Coppola she has made films about privileged peo- isn’t bothered much by any perceived or ple, she’s also gently critical about the even real double standard, and you get the bubbles they live in: “Making a movie idea she never has been. Only once does about someone who’s cut off and out to she sound a mild note of defensiveness: lunch doesn’t make me out to lunch,” she “I remember when I made my first film, says. She fills big, lustrous canvases with interviewers were asking me, ‘Oh, the small emotional details. casting was so good, did your dad help And every now and then she wins a COLLECTIONEVERETT (4) you?’ I can’t imagine they would ask a prize. But beyond winning, she’s busy man that.” Still, she casts it off, saying, THE BLING RING (2013) thinking about what that prize really “People like to be dismissive. I try not to Emma Watson stars as part of means. Hear that whoosh? It’s the sound pay too much attention. I just keep doing a squad of teens who burglarize of a hammer coming down, so soft you my thing.” celebrities’ homes can barely hear it. □

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TELEVISION ABC’S TWIN REALITY SHOWS most recent season of The Bachelor. The Bachelor and The Bachelorette (She was not selected for love by a gent The trouble are putatively about romance. But himself in his fourth appearance on a with The their real subject is infatuation, that Bachelor-branded series.) This alone first blush when one falls in love with speaks to what the show has become: Bachelorette the idea of love, and all the associated like Survivor, General Hospital and drama. Each installment—in which the WWE, it relies on long-running, (this time) a protagonist picks from a dating repetitive plotlines. But Lindsay’s star By Daniel D’Addario pool (a term not meant in this case to turn was greeted with cheers from fans imply depth)—is about loud fights, because she is not merely charming exotic vacations and ostentatious, if and witty but also the show’s first justified, body confidence. Not many woman of color to be the lead. (One relationships last more than a TV former Bachelor, Juan Pablo Galavis, season: 34 iterations of the shows since is Latino.) And the cast of suitors for 2002 have yielded far more breakups Lindsay’s heart is substantially more than marriages. diverse than in years past. I can only hope for better luck The show has taken a step forward. for the current Bachelorette, Rachel And yet those looking for any sort Lindsay, 32. Lindsay is a charismatic of insight into what it is like for a attorney from Dallas who was, more black woman to date will have to look crucially, a rejected competitor on the elsewhere. Lindsay is so helpful to a ABC (29) ABC 47 Time Off Reviews

production dependent on her good humor that her reaction to a white suitor saying “I’m TV’s silly season: a guide ready to go black, and I’m never going to go back” is charmed giggles. The rest of us are The tube goes lowbrow this summer with competition and reality shows as fun and ephemeral as the first Popsicle of July. (All times in E.T.) D.D.— left to cringe. The real problem is that this season’s Remake or Started as Audience Hosted by Bachelorette plays by the same script it spin-off an app votes Steve Harvey always has. There’s fighting among the Heavy Celebrity Weird Hosted by someone dating pool and demonstrations of strength. makeup guests talents with another job But a black contestant chastised by a white one for aggressiveness or promiscuity takes Beat Shazam (Fox, airs Thursdays at 8 p.m.) Actor and singer on a different valence given historically Jamie Foxx puts his charisma to the test as host of this game show racist stereotypes. As did a mud-wrestling in which competitors try to name tunes faster than the music- match in which a white man dragged a black recognition app. It’s like IBM’s Watson playing Name That Tune. man to the ground. It’s difficult, from the Love Connection (Fox, airs Thursdays at 9 p.m.) Andy Cohen’s revival first three episodes, to distinguish between of the dating-show standard, in which the studio audience helps pick mere tone-deafness on the producers’ among suitors, will feature gay, lesbian and interracial pairings. Romance part and ignorance. But little thought or is likely a nice break from the bickering Real Housewives he works with sensitivity seems to have gone into what on Bravo. would happen when the Steve Harvey’s Funderdome (ABC, airs Sundays at 9 p.m.) This usual fare was acted out by TAPING HALTED show asks the audience to vote on business ideas. It’s a return a largely nonwhite cast. Season 4 of spin-off to commerce for superproducer Mark Burnett (The Apprentice) The best reality TV has Bachelor in Paradise and another day at the office for entrepreneurial host Harvey. was suspended a way of pulling insight on June 11 amid from ugly impulses and Superhuman (Fox, airs Mondays at 9 p.m.) Fox promises that allegations of sexual competitors on this game show (hosted by Kal Penn) will exhibit generating discussion of misconduct after an extraordinary sensory abilities. It’s an inspirational, cuddly gloss on the social issues. Survivor, for interaction between network’s bread and butter from the early 2000s, when it aired freak- instance, provoked frank two contestants. show specials like Man vs. Beast. One had been conversations in a 2006 a competitor on season in which tribes Lindsay’s season of Emogenius (GSN, airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m.) Debuting the month were racially segregated The Bachelorette. before The Emoji Movie hits theaters, this game show challenges teams to decode messages written in the ubiquitous pictogram code. and this year, when a trans Humanity’s postverbal future begins on the Game Show Network. contestant was outed. In both cases the story became messily real. Among dating shows, Little Big Shots: Forever Young (NBC, premieres June 21 at 8 p.m.) the same is true of Finding Prince Charming, Harvey returns with a spin-off of his kid-performer show—this time a same-sex competition that leaned into its spotlighting would-be stars in their golden years. Naturally, Betty White, just about the only TV star who works as hard as Harvey, makes an novelty last year by showing different ideas appearance. of how gay men should be, in public and in private. The Bachelor franchise, by contrast, The Gong Show (ABC, premieres June 22 at 10 p.m.) Mike is so tightly produced that only marketable Myers dons prosthetics to play Tommy Maitland, a British drama—nothing that might actually provoke comic hosting the revival of the classic talent show. Myers’ high-wire act on the edge of sanity befits a franchise that made viewers—makes it to air. its name on oddballs. That drama is the sort that keeps fans loyal long past the point where they could Battle of the Network Stars (ABC, premieres June 29 at 9 p.m.) Fighter expect a Bachelor pairing to last forever. Ronda Rousey and NFL star DeMarcus Ware are “team captains” on this The fights—fueled by undatable contestants revamp of the playground-games spectacle—joining The Gong Show, IMAGES GETTY JENNER: MYERS, HARVEY, FOXX, TNT; CLAWS: specifically cast to create manageable The Match Game and The $100,000 Pyramid as self-consciously retro contests on ABC’s air. problems—have gotten louder. The locations have gotten more exotic. The muscles have Life of Kylie (E!, premieres July 6 at 10 p.m.) Kylie gotten less proportional. But the script Jenner—Kim Kardashian West’s sister and Caitlyn Jenner’s hasn’t, so far, changed with the times, even daughter—continues to make a name for herself with this if the casting has. Which is too bad. A show slice-of-life series. Expect moments of deep introspection, with this devoted a fan base owes viewers executed as brand-building exercise. more than a retelling of its own story. Real Candy Crush (CBS, premieres July 9 at 9 p.m.) Competitors toggle love, after all, is supposed to lead you away colorful bits of pixels in order to—well, if you own a smartphone, you from narcissism, not deeper into it. know the drill. What’s different from the popular app? Players are put through their paces on a physically demanding set. Mario Lopez THE BACHELORETTE airs on ABC on Mondays sweetens the deal as host. at 8 p.m. E.T. 48 TIME June 26, 2017 TIME PICKS

MOVIES Cult members, crazed cannibals and acid-fueled dance parties abound in The Bad Batch (June 23), starring Suki Waterhouse, Keanu Reeves and Diego Luna.

▽ BOOKS Daring to Drive (June 13) is clear-eyed memoir about how Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi, led a women’s- rights movement in her home country. No guff taken: Nash (center) and Tran (far left) have their talons out TELEVISION On TNT’s new soap, utopia among the manicurists By Daniel D’Addario

“HAPPY NEW YEAR,” READS THE SIGN drunkenly in a Creole accent. His violent outside the Nail Artisan of Manatee County. impulses seem, at first, like slapstick. But soon Our gels last till Black History Month. The his malevolent power oozes off the screen like salon, run by bighearted Desna (Niecy Nash), a dripping bottle of Revlon ColorStay. TELEVISION carries that tone through each stroke of Claws walks a tightrope throughout. Ten kitchen warriors varnish. Its employees, even as they might Its outlandish Spring Breakers–esque go spatula to spatula wish for a more upscale shop, take pride in the story, nourished by the heat of its setting, for the best-amateur- quality of their work, to which they bring wit is bolstered by real and committed baker crown on the and flair. On Claws, TNT’s new soap, performances. It’s a step forward for BAFTA-winning reality TV MVP show The Great British set on Florida’s Gulf Coast, this beauty an increasingly ambitious network Bake Off (June 16). shop is the ultimate refuge. Nash, twice previously known for procedurals. Emmy-nominated It’s a necessary one as, for HBO’s Getting Nash, overdue for a role that will vaunt ▽ unsurprisingly, men begin to cause On, was the ablest her onto TV’s A-list, brings humanity MUSIC problems. Desna, who launders performer on Fox’s to a story that too easily could have Terror Jr’s Bop Scream Queens City 2 (June 16), money for the local mob, is having been featherlight. When she’s caring the alt-pop group’s an affair with one of its junior capos and appeared on for her special-needs adult brother The Mindy Project second album, is a (Jack Kesy)—as is one of her junior and in the 2014 (Lost’s Harold Perrineau), you see synth-heavy meditation beauticians, the haughty Virginia film Selma. she’s gaming the system for something on capitalism and (Karrueche Tran), who lives on more important than profit or thrill. relationships that has vending-machine pork rinds and contempt. Indeed, the most virtuosically applied a summery bounce. Despite this vexed love triangle, the salon’s color in Nash’s palette is weariness. “There’s entanglement with the mob forces cooperation nothing in this world quite as useless,” she between the two women. It’s a pairing of tells a client, “as a useless man.” Not only convenience that nevertheless shows how do useless men sow the violence Desna and powerful it can be when women team up. Virginia survive with appealing wiliness, they Kesy’s Roller isn’t much of an adversary. also don’t understand the artistry that goes But playing his boss, Uncle Daddy, Dean into a great manicure. Norris brings real menace to a cartoonish role. Uncle Daddy wears big chains and slurs CLAWS airs on TNT on Sundays at 9 p.m. E.T. Time Off Reviews

QUICK TALK Lightning Mandy Moore McQueen: longer in the The actor, 33, stars in the survival thriller tooth, but wiser 47 Meters Down, about two sisters trapped in shark-infested waters after a cage-diving trip goes awry. What’s the scariest part about filming a shark movie? It was a cumulative challenge of shooting a movie that takes place 95% underwater and having no diving training. But I was looking for something like that—I was ready to sort ON MY RADAR of take a deep dive. SILICON VALLEY What attracted you to the role? I have “How did I miss never been thought of for a thriller this for so long? I love it. before, and I have never done anything Everyone’s like, MOVIES in this genre. And I was craving Aren’t you Cars 3 makes career something really challenging and watching The weird and different. I was in the middle Handmaid’s anxiety (almost) fun of a divorce. I just [wanted] to have Tale? And I’m By Stephanie Zacharek something that would get my mind off like, I can’t go all of that, quite frankly. there yet. I need levity.” THE FIRST PART OF CARS 3 IS A LITTLE LIKE All About Eve, but with cars. In the middle, it’s more You also star on This Is Us, whiichch like Sunset Boulevard, but with cars. By the end, you has become NBC’s biggest hit iinn may detect a few aromatic base notes of The Karate years. Why do you think it resonates s Kid, but with cars. Still, what’s most notable about with so many people? I think there ’ss the third entry in Pixar’s Cars franchise—the first something to be said for timing. We’re e was released in 2006, and there are legions of kids, in a really divided world these dyay. s. many now practically in college, who have probably Our show is escapist in one sense, , watched it 2,006 times each—is that a female car but it’s also hopeful. It is bringinng features prominently in the story. Cruz Ramirez people together and making us feel (Cristela Alonzo) is a sporty little millennial number like there’s more that unites us than who has always dreamed of being a race car, though divides us. she’s had to settle for being a trainer. As a woman, she found pushing her way into an almost all-male field You first became famous as a impossible. Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) is the singer in the late ’90s. How has veteran—in other words, aging—racer in danger of the entertainment industry being pushed out of his profession by younger, faster changed since then? The impact cars. He resents Cruz, until he realizes that helping that social media has had on the her might be the best way to help himself. world can’t be overstated. I’m so If, as an adult, you go to the movies to escape your glad it came to prominence once workplace anxieties, Cars 3 may not be your best bet. I was an adult. I think I got out of Then again, while all Pixar movies are fine-tuned to my teen years relatively unscathedd keep adults as well as kids engaged, it’s still fascinating because I was boring and there wasn’t to see workaday grownup fears addressed so openly. a camera in my face all the time. Plus, the modest pleasures of Cars 3, directed by Brian Fee and featuring an agile but unobtrusive score by This year marks the 15th anniversary y Randy Newman, are hardly negligible. I, for one, am of your first movie, A Walk to always happy to see the recurring character Luigi, the Remember. What was the mostst vintage Fiat voiced by Tony Shalhoub. His comically memorable part of filming it? uI dturned exaggerated “That’s-a spicy mittball” accent is 17 on [the set of] that movie. It wasy my practically an art form unto itself. None of this answers first leading role, and I felt like Itdidn’t the question of how your kids will feel about Cars 3, but know how to do anything. It was elike you don’t even have to ask that one: they’ll probably summer camp—I cried when it was end up watching it 2,006 times. □ over. —MAHITA GAJANAN

50 TIME June 26, 2017 MUSIC Three alt-country stars align with new albums By Mike Ayers

NASHVILLE HAS KEPT BUSY AND PROFITABLE since the 1990s with artists like Toby Keith, Shania Twain and Carrie Underwood ascending to pop-country royalty. All the while, though, another genre has quietly gained traction in rock clubs and indie circuits and on college radio: alt-country, a country-rock hybrid, with roots in the ’60s folk scene. Never favored on mainstream radio, the alt-country success stories have a few things in common: nonstop touring; a cerebral, sensitive approach to lyrics; and a willingness to experiment in the studio. Three of its top practitioners have new albums this month, each taking a distinctive approach to the form. Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy has been playing solo shows on and off for the past 20 years, turning Isbell has gained the band’s songs, which can be loud and abrasive, a passionate into acoustic ditties. Together at Last, out June 23, following for his finds him exploring 11 sparse numbers, mostly from guitar skills and the Wilco catalog, though a few rarities from his songwriting chops side projects show up too. Here, Tweedy’s intimate versions of rocking fan favorites like “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,” from Wilco’s acclaimed 2002 breakout Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and “I’m Always in SUMMER The Nashville Sound, out June 16, has Isbell Love,” from 1999’s Summerteeth, make the case that SOUNDS reuniting with his current band, the 400 Unit, new spins on oldies can be a welcome change. with many moods on display in both sound and Crack-Up, out June 16, is the third album from subject. The album opens with “Last of My Kind,” indie-folk band Fleet Foxes, a five-piece group that an acoustic ballad about a guy feeling out of place broke out in 2008 with a self-titled debut album. in the world. From there, Isbell wonders about This decade they’ve proceeded with caution. Front the emotions one has when a life partner dies first Crack-Up, man Robin Pecknold relocated from the Pacific Fleet Foxes on “If We Were Vampires,” and he examines his Northwest to New York City, where he’s spent time Lush and lavish post-Trump election blues on the dirgy-rock song studying English at Columbia University. Musically, folk rock “White Man’s World.” And if anything depicts the Crack-Up sounds a lot like its predecessors, with state of the world today, it’s Isbell’s ode to mental a bit of a Byrds-meets-Crosby, Stills & Nash vibe health, “Anxiety,” on which he sings, “Even with running throughout. But dig deep and you’ll hear my lover sleeping close to me, I’m wide awake and new little flourishes, like gentle waves, background I’m in pain,” amid fiery guitar chords. chatter and handclaps in the multipart opener Overall, these aren’t albums making any points “I Am All That I Need/Arroyo Seco/Thumbprint about today’s rough-and-tough cultural climate. The Nashville Scar.” The music here is familiar, but the stories Sound, Jason Isbell It’s not a red-state-vs.-blue-state approach, or are the most challenging of the band’s career to Simultaneously mainstream-vs.-alternative. These are products date. And Pecknold has put those English classes to poignant and revved up of songwriting veterans who know their way use: the album’s title is inspired by a 1936 F. Scott around the studio and are able to create a timeless Fitzgerald essay published in Esquire. feel in their music. Nashville songwriter Jason Isbell has gained Alt-country is not a clear-cut genre in the a passionate following as a triple threat: he’s a way it was years ago, but these three acts have gifted songwriter, with an angelic voice, and a continued down the path that they (and their fans) killer guitar player. Isbell, a former member of are comfortable with. Those who haven’t adapted Together at Last, Drive-By Truckers, has begun racking up awards. Jeff Tweedy to the playlist era will be especially stoked— His 2015 release, Something More Than Free, won When Wilco because these are albums made for listening to

CARS 3: DISNEY; MOORE: NBCUNIVERSAL/GETTY IMAGES; ISBELL: ERIKA GOLDRING—GETTY IMAGES two Grammys, including Best Americana Album. goes acoustic from start to finish, like in the good ol’ days. □ 51 Time Off Reviews

FICTION Double homicide By Sarah Begley

“WHY IS IT THAT WE HAVE SUCH A NEED FOR murder mystery,” asks Susan Ryeland, the narrator of British author Anthony Horowitz’s new novel, Magpie Murders, “and what is it that attracts us—the crime or the solution? Do we have some primal need of bloodshed because our own lives are so safe, so comfortable?” If anyone should be able to answer these questions, it’s Susan. As an editor at a publishing kLike any ma house, she works with the massively successful hAg athaChristie Alan Conway, a writer of Agatha Christie–style lnovels, , Magpie whodunits. Magpie Murders is one mystery novel dMurders s wrapped in another: we the readers peruse Alan’s rreferenc f es a latest manuscript alongside his editor, while nnursery rhyme r another crime plays out in Susan’s life. Evidence mounts that finding the guilty party in the book will shed light on the case in real life. Horowitz has spent a long career thinking up suspense stories in the vein of the genre’s greats. In addition to creating the popular British detective shows Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War, he has written screenplays for the Poirot TV series, a James Bond novel commissioned by the Ian Fleming estate and a number of successful YA thrillers. Much like his character Alan, he is both prolific and a bona fide student of the golden

age of detective fiction—and his knowledge shines 2: ACTIVISION DESTINY EA; 18: NFL MADDEN SONY; UNCHARTED: NINTENDO; ARMS: IMAGES; BARSON—GETTY TONY HOROWITZ: through in this book, which is catnip for classic mystery lovers. As a Christie disciple, he is near mimixedxed emotiemotions about our crime-fiction addiction. equal to his master. Speaking of mixed emotions, the novel arrives The novel within the novel, also titled Magpie in the U.S. at an interesting time for Horowitz. ▽ Murders, has all the fixings of a murder in the MURDER, He recently got in hot water for saying he’d been English countryside, with a fussy detective, a HE WROTE warned off writing black characters as a white daft sidekick, a meddling busybody, a peculiar Horowitz has written author. And he previously drew ire for calling vicar and a bombastic aristocrat. In addition to dozens of novels and black actor Idris Elba “too street” to play James was made an Officer referencing Christie mysteries like 4:50 From of the Order of the Bond, for which he apologized. On the other hand, Paddington, Horowitz name-drops his own British Empire for his his own 007 novel introduced a gay best friend for oeuvre: “I thought it sounded too much like services to literature. the spy, and many of his stories, including Magpie Midsomer Murders,” says one character of the Mur d,ers, ffaeturea gay narratives. With one foot in manuscript’s title. In fact, the plot of the book theand presentone in the a past, his public persona bears a certain resemblance to the 19t97 pilot i s perhaps a bit like his fiction. of Midsomer Murders, which is itself based on But back to the story. As Susan digs into Alan’s the 1987 Caroline Graham novel The Killings at personalf , she learns life that he’s been inventing Badger’s Drift—a kind of in-joke for Horowitz z hisokes own in his in-j novelo plotting: hidden fans. But even as Horowitz pays homgage to the anahematicgrams, character th names and other greats and teases his own ego, he manaoges to rhetoricalevices to keep de the writing process skewer our obsession with homicide. t“I don’t i nteresting for himself. It turns out the master understand it,” says one character. “Alle these of imysterysn’t as smitten i with the genre as his murders on TV—you’d think people readers.d But the readers get the last laugh would have better things to do with as these games lead to the ultimate twist. their time.” The combination of With its elegant yet playful plotting, reverence and irreverence makes the Magpie Murders is the thinking mystery book irresistible for those of us with fan’s ideal summer thriller. □

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SETH STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZ IS A BRILLIANT, THOUGHTFUL data scientist who studies the complexities of human behavior, which is why no one has heard of him. I, meanwhile, exclusively study my own very simple behavior, which is why I have a Wikipedia page and he doesn’t. As you can deduce from the title of Stephens-Davidowitz’s recent book, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, he struggles with brevity in naming things as much as his parents did. But his fascinating, funny work uses online data (Google searches, lower back to pleasure themselves. porn views, Wikipedia entries, Facebook ad data) to prove that Then Stephens-Davidowitz said something we are far more horrifying that we let on. That’s because we lie upsetting: 5% of the time after I search the name of a all the time: in person, online and even to anonymous pollsters. female celebrity, I try to see her naked. I denied this, What we type privately when we want information reveals but he said that most people forget their own Google sadness, anger and desperation. He shows that huge swaths searches, and 5% is totally normal for a guy. What is not of our country, both Democratic and Republican, are overtly normal is this: “The celebrity you searched for naked racist; tons of people search for racist jokes. Many people most was Joel Stein.” Although I insisted that this must regret having kids. Women are twice as likely to search for tips have been for a column about how viewing hacked on performing oral sex as men, and half of men’s searches on photos is wrong, I could tell Stephens-Davidowitz now that topic are about performing it on themselves. thinks I’m admirable only for not liking racist jokes.

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Patty Jenkins The director of the blockbusting Wonder Woman talks about her military dad, fantasy superpowers and how she’s still waiting for her first big payday

Wonder Woman became the first wanted to be a hero. He went to the ‘New kinds of film directed by a woman to make Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, heroics need to be more than $100 million in its opening and then he found himself strafing vil- weekend. Are you surprised? I’m celebrated, like love, lagers in Vietnam in a war he didn’t thoughtfulness, stunned by the success of the film. But want to be in and didn’t understand. He I’m also surprised how rare it’s been. was extremely conflicted about the line forgiveness, where he went from being the good guy diplomacy, or we’re How long until we can stop pointing to possibly being the bad guy. not going to get out women’s achievements because there. No one is they’re not surprising anymore? What did you do with your first big coming to save us.’ I can’t wait till enough women film- paycheck? I’ve yet to have one. One makers have had a chance to make day. I’ll tell you when that day comesmes.. movies of this size and scale and those movies have been successful. There Your last film was Monster, about a will still be conversation about smaller female serial killer. Is there a through issues. But it will be nice that they can line here? I’m as interested in excep- just be filmmakers making films. tional characters as men are. It’s veryy easy for me to be curious about whats it’s It’s not like we haven’t seen female like to be [killer] Aileen Wuornos, just action heroes before in Divergent or as I am about what it’s like to be Wonder The Hunger Games or Tomb Raider or Woman. And in both cases, I think it’ss Underworld. Why Wonder Woman? about what you do with power. There was a very difficult time when a female hero was a man in a woman’s You have a reputation for being body. Hunger Games really changed that: very exacting. How do you a woman leading a non–woman’s film in get the best out of people? the action genre. I think Wonder Woman I want greatness. To me, aim- does that on a very big scale. ing for greatness in a day might mean you work 20% harder, Wonder Woman has always been a but you make that day worth it proxy for America: scarily powerful, 10 times over. but a force for good. Did you make love her superpower with current Why have you banned the affairs in mind? She always has stood word cheesy? When artists, for truth and love. Her genesis was who are supposed to speak based on Artemis. However, I do think freely, are afraid to be earnest that it’s very important right now to and do beauty and sincerity, celebrate exactly that quality. you’ve got a serious problem on your hands. Cheesy makes peo- Why? Our fantasy of a hero is that he’s ple afraid to be emotional. And I the good guy who is going to shut down won’t have it. the bad guy. That has got to change if we want to deal with the crisis that we’re in. Your husband [Sam Sheridan] There is no bad guy. We are all to blame. is a martial-arts fighter? New kinds of heroics need to be cel- He fought as his way in, but then ebrated, like love, thoughtfulness, for- from there he’s really become giveness, diplomacy, or we’re not going known as a writer about fighting. IMAGES MICHAEL TRAN—GETTY to get there. No one is coming to save us. If you had to settle a duel, what ystyle Your dad was an Air Force F-4 fighter would you choose? Boxing or mixed pilot who won a Silver Star in Viet- marital arts, probably. I’d rather not do nam. Did his experience of war it, but at least I understand those. color your thoughts? Yeah. My father —BELINDA LUSCOMBE

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