Too young to wed? Free cars, free gas, In Rizzo we trust Thousands of lots of tickets P.G. After building a American children Council members winner, Nats GM could $262 face forced marriages enjoy perk, taxpayers be facing a decisive each year OUTLOOK foot the bill METRO two-year stretch SPORTS ABCDE Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan Washington. K RE V1 V2 V3 V4 Showers 69/39 • Tomorrow: Sunny 48/30 details, C14 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2017 washingtonpost.com . $3.50 A key engineer for Trump’s agenda Democrats seek to convert Miller, 31, began building a conservative foundation in liberal California activism into a movement BY ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN Miller penned a column, titled “Santa Monica High’s Multicul- As a young conservative in tural Fistfights,” in which he BY DAVID WEIGEL active and aggressive base. They liberal Santa Monica, Calif., Ste- ripped his alma mater as a “cen- AND KAREN TUMULTY Restive, aggressive base are hopeful that the new activism phen Miller clashed frequently ter for political indoctrination.” more closely resembles the tea with his high school, often calling “The social experiment that A super PAC formed to reelect presents set of challenges party movement, which em- in to a national radio show to Santa Monica High School has Barack Obama in 2012 is driving braced electoral politics, than the lambaste administrators for pro- become is yet one more example activists to congressional town Occupy Wall Street movement, moting multiculturalism, allow- of the dismal failure of leftism halls. Veterans of Bill Clinton’s Liberal tea party: Will a new rising which did not. ing Spanish-language morning and the delusions and paranoia administration are joining topple Democratic leaders? A2 The pace of the activists, and announcements and failing to of its architects,” Miller wrote in marches and plotting bigger ones the runaway-train approach of require recitation of the Pledge of the 2005 article for the conserva- for the spring. Democratic sena- Three weeks into President Trump’s administration, have giv- Allegiance. tive magazine FrontPage. tors who had befriended Jeff Ses- Trump’s term, the Democratic en them little time to puzzle it Miller’s outrage did not appear CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES In the years before he became a sions in the Senate voted — 47 to 1 Party and progressive establish- out. to subside after he graduated. As Stephen Miller’s clashes in high top adviser to President Trump — against his nomination for ment have almost entirely adopt- “He has a strategy to do so a Duke University sophomore, school had a national audience. MILLER CONTINUED ON A8 attorney general. ed the demands of a restive, DEMOCRATS CONTINUED ON A15 SIRIO MAGNABOSCO/ARCTIC TIMES PROJECT Greenland’s uranium dilemma s principal of the primary passionately opposes the govern- landers themselves are struggling to annual block grant of more than school in this once-prosper- ment’s proposed solution: an open- Is the income from an solve a very different problem: how $500 million from Denmark. ous fishing town near the pit mine for rare-earth minerals and open-pit mine worth to tap their wealth of natural re- The question is what to do about southern tip of Greenland, uranium near town financed by a sources without inviting the envi- it. Many in Greenland, including IvaloA Motzfeldt has a clear view of pair of Australian and Chinese min- the risk to health and ronmental and political problems Prime Minister Kim Kielsen, view what unemployment and shrinking ing companies. She fears that the the environment? that have devastated other develop- resource development as the na- opportunity can do to families: Chil- mine will poison South Greenland’s ing nations. tion’s best chance for self-sufficien- dren arriving at school hungry and pristine environment with radioac- BY MICHAEL ONEAL With a territory larger than Mexi- cy. The issue is tightly intertwined traumatized by domestic violence. tive waste and open the tiny nation IN NARSAQ, GREENLAND co and a population that could fit with Greenland’s fervent movement Recurrent waves of suicides. Flag- of 56,000 to foreign meddling. “We inside a football stadium, Green- to win independence from Den- ging motivation and stubbornly low need money, but we can’t sacrifice land badly needs new sources of mark, which began colonizing the rates of academic advancement. the land for money,” she said. The Greenland town of Narsaq income to provide jobs and combat sprawling territory almost 300 Motzfeldt knows that breaking While the world focuses on the lies near a plateau where the chronic social ills. Its economy leans years ago. Greenland negotiated the this pattern is critical to Narsaq’s potentially disastrous effects of extraction of uranium and heavily on one major export — right to self-rule in 1979 and has future and to Greenland’s. But she Greenland’s melting ice cap, Green- rare-earth minerals is planned. shrimp — and is propped up by an GREENLAND CONTINUED ON A12 2 black burial grounds The Islamic State’s new threat: Child terrorists in Va. on path to justice The militant group is cultivating adolescents in the West, either by direct contact or inspiration The grave of Mitchell’s great- BY ANTHONY FAIOLA grandfather, Thomas Mitchell, is AND SOUAD MEKHENNET Delegate’s bill would somewhere nearby, hidden under fund upkeep Confederate vines and tree roots on the hill- essen, germany — The package ordered side. All around the violated online arrived at his second-floor apartment on cemeteries have long had crypt, mounds in the ivy mark a brisk Saturday morning, a cardboard box fallen tombstones, piles of col- packed with magnesium, potassium nitrate lapsed iron fencing, granite and aluminum powder for a homemade bomb. BY GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER blocks that once outlined family Weeks ahead of the attack, police said, the plots. terrorist cell’s leader — an Islamist his com- richmond — John Mitchell This is Evergreen Cemetery, rades called the Emir — had issued picks his way down the path burial ground for some of the elite precautionary orders. through the woods, avoiding the citizens of Richmond in the late “Delete ALL pictures and videos of the Is- thick brush on either side, step- 1800s and early 1900s. Bankers, lamic State,” the Emir warned via WhatsApp. ping gingerly over a slab of fallen publishers, doctors, lawyers — “Delete your chats.” granite, until he gets to the bro- the type of upper crust who are “Everything that is weapon-like or similar ken crypt. usually lionized in this city of (also bombs) must be immediately disposed of. A jagged hole exposes caskets monuments. Except that all of . Sell it, give it away, move it or destroy it.” to the sky, their metal fixtures these people were black, and the And then one night last April, officials said, rusted, covers ajar. English ivy city’s grand cemeteries wouldn’t the Emir — a Muslim title for an exalted leader cascades down the sides of the have them when they died. — led two cell members to a Sikh house of crypt, and a cross and a strange Founded 126 years ago, the worship in this industrial city and hurled the symbol have been drawn in black 60-acre Evergreen has no on- bomb toward its door. A deafening boom rang over the opening, possibly by going means of support. Only a out. Orange flames lit a mosaic of blood and someone who broke in. CEMETERIES CONTINUED ON A6 ISIS CONTINUED ON A16 ILEANA SOON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST APARTMENTS............INSERT CLASSIFIEDS.....................L1 LOTTERIES........................C3 STOCKS............................G6 DAILY CODE CONTENT © 2017 ARTS.................................E1 COMICS.....................INSERT OUTLOOK..........................B1 TRAVEL ............................. F1 Printed using recycled fiber 8 2 5 7 The Washington Post BUSINESS NEWS .............. G1 OPINION PAGES...............A17 OBITUARIES......................C9 WORLD NEWS.................A10 Details, C2 Year 140, No. 69 A12 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2017 SIRIO MAGNABOSCO/ARCTIC TIMES PROJECT The Kuannersuit Plateau, the planned location of a mining project to extract uranium and rare earth minerals near the town of Narsaq. The fishing harbor would be developed into an industrial export center. Greenlanders wrestle with cost-benefit of uranium mining GREENLAND FROM A1 making sure the mine doesn’t contaminate his adopted home. since built the institutions of a “We have the institutions. We modern democratic society. have the transparency,” he insist- The next step, pro-develop- ed. “Greenland needs to have one ment interests think, is to good experience and develop launch large-scale mining proj- from there.” ects to jump-start a diversifica- So far, GME has spent tion of the economy. Opponents $65 million studying the mine’s counter that courting foreign feasibility and will soon submit mining interests amounts to final environmental- and social- swapping one form of depend- impact studies. To help defray ency for another, with the added costs, it brought in Shenghe as a risk of environmental degrada- 12.5 percent partner in Septem- tion. ber. The agreement included the The policy debate is playing possibility of increasing that out in Nuuk, Greenland’s capi- stake to 60 percent in the future. tal, but the struggle is more Standing on a hill near the palpable in Narsaq, where min- mine site made barren by natu- ing companies propose digging rally occurring high levels of into a treeless mountain called toxic fluorine in the soil, Laursen Kvanefjeld that rises imposingly explained that Kvanefjeld was just outside of town. The mine formed when magma forced its would produce 3 million tons of way into Earth’s crust eons ago, ore per year when at full pro- then slowly cooled in place in- duction. It would be the world’s stead of spilling over as a volca- second-largest rare earth mine; no.