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6 Editor’s Desk THE CULTURE 8 Conversation 58 Art A visual biography BRIEFING of Icelandic pop 11 Verbatim singer Björk opens at MOMA 12 LightBox Snow in Afghanistan 62 Reviews triggers avalanches The Netflix debut of Unbreakable Kimmy 14 World Schmidt, co-created The fight to recapture by Tina Fey; a history Tikrit; the murder of professor corrects Russian opposition Shakespeare with The leader Boris Nemtsov Death of Caesar 18 Spotlight 64 Pop Chart Assessing the Pope’s Quick Talk with progress on his Kelly Clarkson; reform agenda America’s craziest 20 Nation Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush speaks at CPAC. He placed fifth in the conservative reality shows; Foundation donors conference’s annual straw poll. Photograph by Mark Peterson—Redux for Time the Rich Dogs of and private emails Instagram cast a pall over Hillary Clinton FEATURES 66 The Amateur 22 Vitals 36 The Second Son Kristin van Ogtrop FCC chairman How the Bush family’s political dynasty on the “Three Tom Wheeler Pregnant Dads” has shaped Jeb—and his 2016 presidential campaign 24 Health chances by Alex Altman and Zeke J. Miller A new initiative for 68 10 Questions Photojournalist mental well-being 46 Putin’s Reality TV Lynsey Addario 28 Business The state-funded global news network RT Same-day-delivery has become the Kremlin’s main weapon in startups its propaganda war with the West 30 Milestones by Simon Shuster Remembering Leonard Nimoy 52 Web Heavyweights

COMMENTARY Who wields the most inﬂuence online? 32 The Curious Our list of the activists, celebrities, hackers Capitalist and Vine and YouTube maestros who Rana Foroohar on tech’s effect on jobs make virality happen

34 In the Arena Joe Klein on Netanyahu’s D.C. visit

Björk’s album art, page 58 on the cover: George H. W. Bush, Jeb and George W. in 1970. Photograph: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/Corbis

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The Family Business back in january, as voters were coming to grips with the reality that Campaign 2016 was upon them, pollster Peter Hart conducted a focus group with a bipartisan array of voters in Colorado. No set of 12 people can count as a representative sample of the voting public—but focus groups do help campaigns map the truths and traps of the national mood. So even as the money rolls in and the armies muster on both sides, it poses a challenge to both Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton that one voter suggested there be an act of Congress forbidding anyone named Bush or Clinton to run again—and that half the room agreed. As someone with a long-standing interest in these two political dynasties—particularly their relationships with each other—I admit to feeling challenged as well. On the one hand, at a moment a greater distance, first with his father, then his Republican voters, when the U.S. faces sharp choices about our priori- brother, represents an entry on his résumé unique like the one above, ties both at home and abroad, a presidential cam- among candidates in all of American history. This showed their colors paign is a chance to debate in depth the problems is not to say that Hillary and Jeb aren’t their own at the Conservative Political Action we face and the solutions that might work. On the woman and man. We know that we can both love Conference in early other hand, we’ve watched the Bushes and Clin- people and disagree profoundly with them. Only March tons so closely for so long that the personal is as with these two candidates, we all have larger win- interesting as the political is important. dows into the worlds that shaped them. And that speaks to a larger truth: the essential Our cover story this week, by Alex Altman and qualities of leaders—courage and humility, justice Zeke J. Miller, explores the experiences that paved and mercy, the ability to bear unbearable pres- Jeb’s path to the Florida governor’s mansion and sure and to hold competing views in one’s head at now potentially to the White House. It comes in a BONUS the same time—can be as key to their success as week when the Clintons have encountered their TIME the plans they bring to the office, because the only own family issues, which Washington bureau certainty in any presidency is the assurance of sur- chief Michael Scherer reports on. In weeks to prise. George W. Bush envisioned a humble foreign come, on Time.com and in the magazine, we will Subscribe to The Brief for policy; Barack Obama promised a new era of bipar- be examining the journeys of other candidates as free and get a tisan comity. Things have a way of not working they settle into the starting blocks. As an editor, daily email out the way you’d like. I relish the prospect of this race as much for what with the 12 So character counts. And instinct and tempera- it tells us about them as for what it tells us about stories you ment. How many of us would deny that family ourselves: What are we looking for, as we encoun- need to know secrets can be the most revealing? The dynamic of ter new threats in the world, new opportunities at to start your this miniature state in our own homes, our sibling home, a rolling reassessment in light of technolo- morning. rivalries, our marital understandings, our parent- gies that are changing everything about the way For more, visit ing instincts all speak to core values. And while we live and work and play and engage as citizens? time.com/email. we’ve always been interested in what a candidate’s We look forward to hearing from you as our re- personal history tells us—Richard Nixon’s Quaker porters travel around the country, looking out for mother, Ronald Reagan’s alcoholic father, the the next surprise. essential fatherlessness of both Bill Clinton and TIME FOR PETERSON—REDUX MARK Obama—in the case of these two candidates the legacies are especially relevant. It’s hard to argue that Hillary’s experience as First Lady, her eight years witnessing the Oval Of- fice from the closest possible vantage point short of occupying it, didn’t shape her understanding of the job. Likewise Jeb’s experience watching from Nancy Gibbs, editor

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WALMART WAGES Rana Foroohar’s column “The Real 456 Meaning of $9 an Hour” hailed Walmart’s decision to raise its base wage for workers around the world. The piece was widely shared on Twitter, where Damon Silvers of the AFL-CIO called it “the one story u have to read on walmart.” Labor activist Jamie Way found it a “great read” and added, “Thanks for speaking with a Walmart worker.” Reader Billie Trahin of Baxter Springs, Kans., meanwhile, lamented the rise of big- box stores. “I can tell Rana the REAL meaning of $9 an hour,” she wrote. “Corporate heads decided to close our little store, putting 60 people out of work.”

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Rand Paul ‘THERE IS ‘I know that He won a closely NOTHING STRANGE, watched presidential straw CREEPY OR no matter on poll of conservative activists INAPPROPRIATE ABOUT JOHN which side of the TRAVOLTA.’ SCARLETT JOHANSSON, ﬁnally aisle you sit, you commenting on an awkward-looking and much discussed kiss the actor gave her on the red carpet at the Oscars in February stand with Israel.’ GOOD WEEK BAD WEEK 33 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Israeli Prime Length in feet (10 m) of a mystery Minister, addressing Congress about his tunnel built by two Toronto men, not opposition to an emerging U.S. nuclear for any criminal purpose but simply accord with Iran, which he called a because they wanted a “man cave” “very bad deal”

Hillary Clinton She caught ﬂak ‘The country for using only 1,000 personal email relationship as Secretary of Number of tickets is sure to State purchased by NBA star Kevin Garnett stand. The to give away to people Minnesota relationship, Timberwolves fans as a thank-you for that’s a the warm response different ‘I was to his return to the story.’ team after eight DIANNE FEINSTEIN, expecting seasons California Senator, on the fallout of the ball.’ Netanyahu’s speech for his relationship with 15 President Obama MARSHAWN LYNCH, Seattle Seahawks Tons of marijuana conﬁscated by running back, breaking his silence on the federal authorities in Southern controversial pass play that led to a Super California, the second largest drug Bowl–clinching interception for the New seizure ever at a U.S. border England Patriots; many criticized the decision not to hand Lynch the ball at the one-yard line

‘If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.’ SCOTT WALKER, Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential contender, comparing his battle with protesters in his home state to taking on the militant group ISIS; he later backtracked from the comparison GETTY IMAGES ILLUSTRATION (6); BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME (2)

time March 16, 2015 Sources: New York Times (2); AP (2); ESPN; Washington Post; the Guardian; NTV Spor; Los Angeles Times; Facebook; CNN Brieﬁng LightBox Deadly Snow Heavy blizzards have triggered Afghani- stan’s worst avalanches in three decades, resulting in roughly 250 deaths and stranding residents of the mountainous Panjshir province, including those seen here waiting for an army helicopter to distribute supplies on Feb. 28.

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Iraqi Forces Advance Mosul is ISIS’s key Iraqi redoubt, and as long as it controls the city it DATA Against ISIS With will hold sway over much of north- Mosul on the Horizon ern Iraq. Tikrit is an important transit center between Baghdad THE COST OF A force of 30,000 Iraqis launched a and Mosul and would give the cen- LIVING large-scale offensive on March 2 to tral government an important lo- push ISIS out of Tikrit, Saddam gistical hub from which to fuel its The Economist Hussein’s hometown 80 miles Mosul offensive. Intelligence (130 km) northwest of Baghdad. The The battle will not be easy. The Unit ranked more than 130 approach was slowed by roadside Iraqi military was driven out of cities from 3 ESSENTIAL FACTS bombs and snipers, but by March 4 both Mosul and Tikrit by ISIS last most to least the Iraqi army said it had seized a summer, and two previous at- expensive, &KLQD V%R[2èFH key ISIS supply route as it aimed to tempts to retake the smaller city according to encircle the city. have failed, even as U.S.-led air a survey of Boom The battle carries political as well strikes have helped halt ISIS’s mo- prices across China’s box-office revenue in Feb- 160 goods as military risks, with Iran-backed mentum. But Iraqi Prime Minister and services. ruary hit $650 million, exceeding Shi‘ite militias operating in a Sunni Haider al-Abadi communicated a Here’s a the monthly total in the U.S. for area where some welcomed ISIS. If new urgency when he visited Iraqi sampling: the first time, according to re- sectarian passions are held in check, forces on the eve of the operation, search firm Entgroup. Here’s a the Tikrit campaign could be a mod- saying “zero hour” for taking back look at how China’s domestic box el for a later, far larger battle to re- the city had arrived. For some office is growing at a rapid pace: take Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. the operation will be personal, 1 as ISIS massacred hundreds of Singapore IT’S HIGH SEASON Because of the Iraqi recruits at a nearby base Chinese New Year holiday, the last summer. country’s biggest month at the The U.S. has so far stayed out of box office is typically February, the fight for Tikrit, as reports sug- when revenue reached $318 mil- gest its antagonist Iran is helping lion in a single week this year. The steer the offensive with airpower, U.S. usually sees among the low- artillery and commanders on the est tallies in February. 2 ground advising Shi‘ite militias. Paris But Pentagon officials know the DOMESTIC FILMS ARE HITS China city must be retaken if the planned restricts foreign films during the assault on Mosul is to go ahead. holiday season, so the record num- With the future of Iraq hinging on bers were fueled by domestic hits Volunteer Shi‘ite fighters backing Iraqi participation of its angry Sunnis, 9 like Dragon Blade, a period action forces fire a cannon near the city of Tikrit Tikrit will be a crucial test. Seoul flick that made $95 million in Feb- ruary. Last year, Chinese-made films took in $2.6 billion, making up more than half of total receipts in the country and around $1 bil- U.S. lion more than all box-office revenue in movie-loving India.

C0D\EHLWLVQ WDEDGIRUP 22 A ROSY FUTURE Fifteen film New York City screens go up in China every day, and total revenue surged by 34%, RIGLSORPDF\WRVHQG to $4.7 billion, in 2014. That figure is expected to surpass $10 billion DFRPHGLDQRYHU by the end of the decade. CONAN O’BRIEN, host of the TBS late-night talk show Conan, speaking to reporters after a trip to Cuba to film an episode 132 that aired March 4; Washington and Havana moved to Bangalore restore ties in December, and President Barack Obama said on March 2 that he hopes the U.S. will open an embassy in Cuba ahead of an Americas summit in Panama in April.

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POLLUTION The European Union’s environmental agency said targets to curb pollution and climate change by 2050 would be missed without “profound changes” in technology, lifestyle and policy. The agency said poor air quality in Europe causes hundreds of thousands of early deaths a year.

SANITATION An Ivory Pyre Human waste from KENYA A Kenya Wildlife Service security officer stands near a burning pile of 15 metric tons of contraband elephant ivory the roughly 700 climbers who scale lit by President Uhuru Kenyatta on March 3 to mark World Wildlife Day. The Kenyan leader vowed to destroy the country’s Mount Everest entire stockpile of ivory, estimated at 100 metric tons, by the end of the year as his government combats rising poaching every year poses rates. About 30,000 elephants are poached every year across Africa. Photograph by Carl de Souza—AFP/Getty Images a serious health issue on the slopes, the head of Nepal’s mountaineering association warned THE EXPLAINER on March 3. He urged UKRAINE the government to push climbers India Sets Sights on Growth to dispose of their On Feb. 28, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government unveiled its first full-year waste responsibly. budget since taking power in May. Here are the main points in what Finance Minister Arun Jaitley called a “road map for accelerating growth” in the world’s second largest nation: MYSTERY Australia’s Deputy 842Number of people Prime Minister said the international who were killed in search for Malaysia eastern Ukraine in Airlines Flight 370, the month leading up which vanished on to the Feb. 15 cease- March 8, 2014, Tax Social Security Infrastructure Yoga fire, according to the cannot go on forever. Australia, The budget set out The government India’s poor road The budget U.N.; the death toll China and Malaysia a corporate-tax cut unveiled an and rail networks classifies yoga as a has surpassed 6,000 are in discussions from 30% to 25% ambitious have hampered charitable activity, since the fighting over whether to over four years, universal-social- industry’s ability to making it eligible began in April cancel efforts, one year after the intended to spur security proposal, move goods around for tax exemptions. disappearance. inward investment including subsidized the country. The Modi, an advocate and bring the accidental-death budget pledges an of the discipline, country’s rate more insurance for the extra $11.3 billion last year appointed in line with those in poor if they pay an in annual spending a minister to Southeast Asian annual premium of on infrastructure promote alternative nations. 20¢. projects. medicine.

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Breaking Point Boris Nemtsov’s murder reveals Russian weakness—not strength By Ian Bremmer

growth was a one-trick pony, driven by revenue from high oil and gas prices. In 1999, oil and gas accounted for less than half of Russia’s export revenue. By 2013, it was more than two-thirds. That same lack of diversification sty- mied political change. Putin used the economic windfall and the popularity that came with it to hollow out political in- stitutions and silence competing voices, consolidating power under one-man rule. He squeezed out any room for political plurality, leaving alternative levers of power brittle and irrelevant. He cast supporters of the West as dangerous enemies of the state. That’s why figures like Garry Kasparov fled the country. Boris Nemtsov stayed. Was it bravery? Not exactly. Call it hopefulness and an inability to stop himself: he was a rest- less man of emotional impulse. In recent months, he was looking into evidence of Martyr Marchers at a memorial rally in Moscow on March 1 hold photos of Nemtsov Russian troops in Ukraine and was about to release a scathing report. thebrazenmurderofrussian reform on the political side. We thought Do I think Putin had him killed? No. opposition figure Boris Nemtsov is the Putin had the best chance to make that The murder is embarrassing for Putin latest confirmation that the relation- happen. In January 2000, Boris and I and actually reveals weakness rather ship between the West and Russia is wrote a joint op-ed for the New York than strength. In recent months, Putin irretrievably broken—and will remain so Times, dubbing Putin “Russia’s best bet.” has used a different tactic, releasing from as long as Vladimir Putin is in power. Given his “commitment to the national prison dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky I knew Boris very well. He was brash interest,” we argued, “it is difficult to see and members of Pussy Riot. He wanted and good-natured, always speaking his how to do better.” to reflect the magnanimity that comes mind. He believed in the Russian people, Over the decade to come, the Russian with absolute power. Nemtsov’s murder with a hunger for real democracy and a economy rebounded, enriching a broad projects the opposite. free market. I agreed. So when Putin took swath of the population (and a handful of Yet on many levels, Putin is to blame. power in 2000, we were torn. oligarchs at the top, who reaped stagger- He created a system in which the mur- On the one hand, it was clear that ing rewards). In 1999, per capita income der of a major opposition figure became Putin was no democrat. But could you was $1,300. Today, it’s $14,600. thinkable. Boris’ killing is the most blame him? Mikhail Gorbachev’s com- So what went wrong? Just about every- dramatic indication that the Kremlin bination of political and economic lib- thing else. strategy of boosting its political power by eralization helped precipitate the Soviet Some of the mistakes were Washing- demonizing the West and Western sym- collapse. Putin wasn’t going to repeat ton’s. There was a legitimate perception pathizers is working. Putin can’t back that failed experiment. But neither did in Russia that the U.S. didn’t care about down, and things will only worsen. YURI KOZYREV—NOOR FOR TIME YURI KOZYREV—NOOR he seem intent on restoring the Soviet Russian preferences and core principles. Boris’ death confirms just how mis- empire. As a little-known outsider, Putin But the fundamental failures came from placed our bet on Putin was. We’ll miss wasn’t stained by the shortcomings and within Russia. Our hope that economic you, Boris Efimovich. ■ corruption of the Russian political class. strength could lead to political reform Boris and I believed that if you im- wasn’t meant to be. The economy may Foreign-affairs columnist Bremmer is the proved the Russian economy enough, it have surged, but without underlying president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk would ultimately pave the way for real resilience and diversification. Economic consultancy

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Papal Report Card A veteran Vatican watcher sizes up Pope Francis BY JOHN L. ALLEN JR./ROME since his surprise election two years ago, pope francis has electrified and baffled the world in roughly equal measure. He’s launched Roman Catholicism on a reform path— though without altering its traditional teaching—and he’s tried to put a more compassionate and attractive face on its message. He has moved to address scandals and meltdowns that plagued the church under his predecessor and has done so in such a far-reaching and unexpected fashion that some of the Cardinals who elected him may be getting more than they bargained for. But on some fronts, the ultimate impact remains unclear. Here’s where Pope Francis’ reform campaign stands on five key issues.

XINEQUALITY: A TOUGH STAND The rhetoric is pointed, ON BEHALF OF THE POOR and controversial to some, Before he became Pope Fran- like Rush Limbaugh, who has cis, Cardinal Jorge Mario accused the Pope of dishing Bergoglio of Argentina was up “pure Marxism.” While known for his commitment to it may be impossible to show the villas miserias, or “villages that Francis has actually re- of misery”—the vast slums duced poverty and inequality that ring Buenos Aires. As around the world, many ob- Pope, he has said his dream servers credit him for putting is to lead a “poor church for the poor front and center. the poor.” Which makes Francis’ XWOMEN IN THE CHURCH: be tone-deaf in talking to or means. He has also urged a PROGRESS WITH A CEILING November 2014 text Evangelii about women, using terms “deeper theology” of women Gaudium, or “Joy of the Gos- Francis is the first Pope ever to like old maid, for instance. without explaining what that pel,” the Magna Carta of his have worked for a woman— He has ducked questions would look like in practice. papacy. In it, the Pope blasts his Paraguayan communist about when a woman might the inequities of free-market boss at an Argentine chemi- be named to head a Vatican XSEX ABUSE: PROMISING BUT INCOMPLETE capitalism. “We have to say, cal lab in the 1950s. Perhaps department, and in general ‘Thou shalt not’ to an econo- that’s part of the reason he has he has been vague about what Pope Benedict XVI left be- my of exclusion and inequal- appeared passionate about his pledge of “greater roles” hind a mixed legacy on Ca- ity. Such an economy kills,” giving greater attention to for women in Catholicism tholicism’s child-sexual-abuse Francis wrote. “Some people women’s voices. scandals. He was the first Pope continue to defend trickle- So far, Francis has named a to meet victims and the first down theories which assume handful of women to power- to embrace a zero-tolerance that economic growth, en- ful Vatican positions, includ- FRANCIS HAS policy. He moved aggressively couraged by a free market, ing Mary Ann Glendon, a RESTORED to weed abusers out of the will inevitably succeed in Harvard law professor and priesthood, removing more bringing about greater justice former U.S. ambassador to the THE PAPACY than 400 in his final two years and inclusiveness. This opin- Holy See, as a member of the TO A POLITICAL alone. Yet critics say Benedict ion ... expresses a crude and supervisory board for the Vati- fell short of holding bishops naive trust in the goodness can bank. RELEVANCE around the world accountable of those wielding economic Yet he has also firmly for failing to deal with the power and in the ... prevailing excluded the idea of female NOT SEEN IN scandals. economic system.” priests, and critics say he can DECADES Francis has taken steps to 18 time March 16, 2015 Briefing

Giving the word Pope Francis at a Vatican to a level of political special audience on Feb. 21 for an relevance not seen since the Italian diocese, where he called on 1970s and ’80s, with the role Mafia members to repent John Paul II played in the collapse of communism. A few accountant indicted by Italian examples: On Feb. 16, Francis authorities as part of a cash- condemned the beheading of smuggling scheme. 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians Francis began his reform by in Libya by ISIS-affiliated creating an ambitious three- militants and called the slain part structure: a Secretariat hostages martyrs. Both U.S. for the Economy with power President Barack Obama and to impose fiscal discipline Cuban leader Raúl Castro and accountability; a Council credited Francis with paving for the Economy composed the way for a deal to end ten- of heavy-hitter Cardinals as sions between their nations. well as business professionals And in 2013, Russian Presi- to oversee operations; and an dent Vladimir Putin praised independent auditor general Francis for helping to slow to keep everyone honest. a rush to war in Syria by the To run it all, Francis Western powers. brought in a tough-as-nails While few doubt Fran- Australian prelate named cis’ political punch, some George Pell. In mid-February, question how he exercises Pell reported to all Cardinals it. His line on Ukraine, for that his team had discovered instance, has been faulted by $1.5 billion in hidden assets many Ukrainians, including and a shortfall of almost members of the Pontiff’s own $1 billion in the pension fund. Eastern Catholic flock there, Pell and his team have their for being overly deferential critics. Some members of the to Moscow and the Russian Vatican’s old guard believe it’s Orthodox Church. And a reform in the spirit of the hawks on Syria wonder if the try to complete Benedict’s has been halfhearted and classic Italian novel Il Gattopar- Pope’s main accomplishment unfinished business, includ- slow. In 2014 he approved an do: “Everything must change there has been propping up a ing the creation of a Pontifical investigation of Bishop Robert so that everything can stay the thug. That’s the problem with Commission for the Protec- Finn in Kansas City—to date same.” More will become clear acquiring political capital: ev- tion of Minors, which is led the only American bishop when the secretariat submits eryone now has an opinion on by Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley found guilty of a crime for its first audited financial state- how Francis ought to spend it. of Boston and includes two failure to report a charge of ment later this year. survivors of clerical abuse as child abuse. Until victims see Allen, a former senior cor- members. a prelate like Finn disciplined, XDIPLOMACY: A RETURN TO respondent for the National RELEVANCE He has also launched a Vati- many will argue that the Catholic Reporter, covers the can criminal trial for a former Pope’s efforts deserve a grade Late in Benedict XVI’s Vatican for the Boston Globe papal diplomat charged with of incomplete. tenure, one of Italy’s best- and its website devoted to Cath- abuse in the Dominican Re- known political writers olic coverage, Crux. This article public, insisting that there XVATICAN FINANCES: compared the Vatican to the is adapted from his new book THE NUMBERS WILL TELL will be no special privileges Republic of Venice in the late The Francis on his watch. In early Febru- Over the years, money has 18th century—a nation-state Miracle: ary he dispatched a letter to all been a recurrent source of Vat- with a proud history, reduced Inside the bishops saying “everything ican scandal. The roll call runs to diplomatic and political ir- Transforma- possible must be done to rid through the Vatican bank relevance and standing on the tion of the the church of the scourge of crises of the 1970s and ’80s brink of extinction. Pope and the sexual abuse of minors.” all the way up to the arrest in Nobody’s making that the Church, Critics nevertheless charge summer 2013 of “Monsignor comparison today. Francis has published by

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20 time March 16, 2015 Foundation, they do want something in return. They want to see lives improved; they want to see the circle of opportunity extended around the world; they want to see communities, businesses and governments working together to address problems that we all face,” said Craig Minassian, a foundation spokesman. Promoting donors is not the only way the Clintons have pressed the boundaries as current and former federal officials. In early March, Clinton advisers acknowledged to the New York Times Off the record Secretary Clinton checks that as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton her PDA while en route to Libya in 2011 exclusively used a private email account run through a personal server at her nies like Goldman Sachs, Dow Chemical, home in Chappaqua, N.Y., for govern- Toyota Motor Corp. and Britain’s Stan- ment business. That decision did not vio- dard Chartered Bank, which was fined late the law, but it contradicted ethical $300 million by regulators last year for guidance from the Obama White House, weak money-laundering safeguards. which called for officials to use govern- Among the recent donors were ment accounts both for security reasons businessmen who may in part owe their and to maintain a public record. Veteran professional success to their access to operative John Podesta, who is likely to powerful people. Vinod Gupta, a long- lead Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, time political benefactor who hired Bill criticized the Bush Administration in Clinton as a consultant to his company 2007 for a similar practice of using pri- as recently as 2005, has given between vate email. “At the end of the day, it looks $1 million and $5 million to the founda- like they were trying to avoid the records tion, including donations in 2014. Inves- act,” he told the Wall Street Journal. tors in his former company InfoUSA Clinton aides have recently turned sued Gupta for allegedly wasting com- over about 55,000 pages of emails to the pany money on the Clintons. According archives of the State Department. But to legal filings, InfoUSA estimated that that will not be the end of the issue, as Re- Clinton’s consulting work may have publicans have promised further investi- led to business in excess of $40 million. gations, including possible subpoenas for Gupta declined to comment through documents that were not yet handed over spokesmen. to the department. Delos Living, meanwhile, has contin- Such controversies have stirred con- ued to announce new projects. Among cern among Democrats in Washington, them are a WELL-certified Los Angeles who worry about harm to her reputation office for the multinational real estate before the general election. “There is this firm CBRE, whose board members in- whole dark part of the Clinton world, clude Laura Tyson, a former Clinton Ad- and nobody wants it to come back,” said ministration official who has worked on one former Clinton adviser, who did not several foundation projects; and Mickey want to be named criticizing the party’s Kantor, a former Commerce Secretary likely heir. who chaired Bill Clinton’s 1992 cam- THE CLINTON In 2014, with Hillary Clinton out of paign. CBRE consultants helped repre- office and planning a presidential cam- sent the Clinton Foundation in 2011 real FOUNDATION LEANS paign, the foundation redoubled efforts estate negotiations for their New York HEAVILY FOR ITS to build a $250 million endowment. That offices. Lately, the firm has been helping same year, according to the foundation’s Hillary Clinton’s staff find New York– FUNDING ON THE disclosures, it raised money from more area office space for the 2016 race. —with than 1,000 donors and event sponsors. reporting by sam frizell/new york FAMILY’S WEB OF Contributions of at least $500,000—and city; pratheek rebala and haley CONNECTIONS possibly far more—came from compa- sweetland edwards/washington ■ 21 Briefing Vitals

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idea that goes beyond any particular religion, even beyond religion itself. Part of the reason Spock’s counsel was so effective was not just his intelligence, loyalty and logic but also his ability to see beyond the ego—the self-subjectivity that drove Kirk—to focus on a larger and more eternal whole. (Or, as he put it in his death scene in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few—“or the one.”) To say that Spock had no emotion wasn’t true. He was in fact part human, constantly wrestling to keep his emotion in control. This gave drama to his very being, and Nimoy, with his careful cadence, showed how being Spock was a job that required constant mental effort. Watch clips of Star Trek and you quickly see that Nimoy’s performance is in fact full of emotion: there are knowing smiles, rapt pauses of concentration, deliberate speeches that play musically like prayers. A Most Human Alien What Nimoy did was to strip his perfor- How Leonard Nimoy mance not of emotion but of feelings— went boldly into our hearts the little flailings of affect that most By James Poniewozik actors (and nonactors) rely on. The cliché is to say that this made as an acting challenge, mr. spock another actor, Spock’s rigid reserve might Spock more human than any of us, but was—to borrow an adjective from the have played as an absence—the cold noth- again, he was partly human in ancestry. Enterprise’s science officer himself—a ingness of logic in place of a human heart. He occupied a space between us and the curious one: a central figure in a drama As Nimoy interpreted it, it was a presence, purely alien, giving us perspective on whose chief characteristic was not show- the suggestion of greater currents of wis- ourselves. That job, honestly, probably re- ing emotion. And yet he became the dom beyond the electrical jolts our hearts quired an actor who was a bit of an eccen- character that Star Trek’s audience loved and brains pump out. tric, in the best, unashamed way; beyond most of all. That owes much to his creator, Combined with Nimoy’s mellifluous his acting work, Nimoy recorded music Gene Roddenberry, of course, but also to voice and wry stage presence, this gave and spoken-word albums, took photo- Leonard Nimoy, who died Feb. 27 at age 83, Spock a kind of hipster Beat-poetry graphs and composed free-verse poetry. and who invested in Spock every ounce of character that was oddly in step with the Artistically, he was an explorer. his own humanity. times in the fiery, spiritually questing Many actors who become so wholly Though Spock was the embodiment ’60s. The idea of subordinating one’s pas- identified with single characters spend of logic—the counterweight to swag- sions to the larger universe is a spiritual a lifetime running away from them. gery Captain Kirk and hotheaded Bones Not Nimoy, who embraced Spock (and McCoy—Nimoy felt a spiritual, mystical reprised him many times) and welcomed bond to the alien character. Nimoy cre- the hold the character had on genera- ated Spock’s signal gesture, the Vulcan sa- WATCH CLIPS OF tions. And why shouldn’t he have? In his lute, from the Jewish priestly gesture that quizzical alien, he created something represented the letter shin and thus Shad- STAR TREK AND YOU bigger than himself—a figure of friend-

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Hard Math in the New Economy Tech is disrupting traditional work. Is that really a bad thing? technology has always been a net stuff, not a 21st century economy generating bytes job creator. So why do so many of us and ideas,” says Zachary Karabell, whose book The feel that the robots (or algorithms) Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That are about to take our jobs? A recent Rule Our World examines what our current system Kaiser Family Foundation poll of un- does and doesn’t tally. employed Americans ages 25 to 54 found that 35% Academics like the Massachusetts Institute of believed that they’d been displaced by technology. HUMAN Technology’s Erik Brynjolfsson, who believes we VS. It’s true that software can do more work that hu- MACHINE vastly underestimate the productivity created by man beings used to do. But it’s also true that Silicon the “free goods of the Internet,” would agree, as Valley hasn’t dealt particularly well with growing would Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Airbnb fears about tech-related job displacement, at least CEO Brian Chesky. His company may have 30 mil- from a public relations standpoint. lion users and only 1,600 employees, but Chesky The truth is that technology has long served as says it creates many more “21st century jobs” by an easy target for employment alarmists—in no helping generate extra income for hosts who mon- small part because innovators tend to tout new ef- etize their homes and for local businesses and such ficiencies and cost savings foremost. But as a recent service providers as cleaners who benefit from the Brookings Institution analysis put it, “Historically, influx of vacationers. For New York City alone, 44% technological progress has created winners and los- Percentage of U.S. Chesky puts the value of that additional income at ers, but over the long run, [it] has tended to create firms since 2008 $257 million annually, which the company claims more jobs than it has destroyed.” that have reduced supports 6,600 jobs. Of course, those are “jobs” with- If you look at the shift from an agrarian to an their head counts in out the health care, 401(k) or other benefits that a part because of industrial society, that’s certainly true. From 1900 automation traditional position might provide. to 2000, the proportion of the workforce working on farms fell from 41% to 2%, yet agricultural out- hich underscores a disturbing truth put increased and farmers eventually found jobs about the new economy: it’s all on you. Peo- in factories or, later, in cubicles. That’s not to say W ple who are smart, well educated and entre- that periods of technological change aren’t fraught. preneurial may well do better in this paradigm. But There’s a reason the textile artisans who came to what about those who aren’t as well positioned or at be known as Luddites started smashing knitting least need help in tooling up? machines in 19th century England. The obvious answer is for government to provide more help through a reformed educational system, obody has started smashing their lap- workforce training and a social safety net to pick tops or iPads yet. But it is disturbing to see how 47% up slack. That’s what I consistently hear tech titans unevenly the gains from the past 20 years of Share of U.S. jobs and other CEOs calling for. The hitch is that they N that are at high risk technological innovation have been shared. Many are calling for it even as they pay a smaller share of becoming economists associate the middle class’s shrinking automated in the of the tax pie to fund it all. (About a third of all the partly with the fact that technology is displacing next 20 years, corporate profit sitting in overseas bank accounts people. Increasingly, there are jobs for Ph.D.s and according to Oxford is from technology-driven firms.) Certainly some hands-on laborers like, say, home health care aides, University research companies are making big private contributions to but more and more of what’s in between can be auto- educational reform; Google, Microsoft and IBM are mated. Self-driving cars are coming for chauffeurs; prime examples. But more will be needed. ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARTIN GEE FOR TIME FOR GEE MARTIN BY ILLUSTRATIONS drones threaten delivery drivers. A recent National For now, the power divide between the public Bureau of Economic Research paper co-written by and private sectors is only growing. The public economist Jeffrey Sachs hypothesized that software sector holds most of the world’s debt, as well as re- developers themselves might someday be replaced sponsibility for the welfare of those who are being by the very programs they create. “disrupted.” Big Tech has the profits but could stand There is a strong counterargument that the jobs to do some creative thinking about how better to and value technology create just aren’t being counted share—or at least account for—the rewards of in- properly. “GDP was designed to measure the output novation. Otherwise it risks breeding a whole new of 20th century industrial nation-states making generation of Luddites. ■

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The Art of the Deal %HQMDPLQ1HWDQ\DKXRçHUVVWDUNZDUQLQJV DQGSHUKDSVDQDVVLVW RQDSDFWZLWK,UDQ is there anybody here from tex- walk away, even though this is a deal they desper- as?” the Prime Minister of Israel asked ately need. The Iranian people, not just the Ayatul- the 16,000 assembled for the annual lah’s regime, are extremely sensitive to perceived American Israel Public Affairs Com- humiliation by the West; a certain, often justified, mittee’s annual policy conference. paranoia is part of the Persian DNA. “They think Of course there were. Whoops and cheers erupted. they invented bargaining,” a South Asian diplomat It is one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s conceits that he told me. “They push it too far.” knows how to do American politics, how to both So Netanyahu’s speech was, at least, a useful represent himself in a user-friendly way to the Ameri- minder about the art of the deal in the Middle East. ALLIES AT can public and play the back alleys of power in ODDS It was also a useful reminder that Iran’s extremist Washington. He has had some success with this, Shi‘ite leaders are no picnic, though nowhere near but not always. His attempt to intervene in the 2012 the threat to American security that Sunni radicals presidential campaign on Mitt Romney’s behalf was SEEKING like ISIS are. It is easy, in the midst of the current near disastrous. His strong speech on March 3 to mem- SUPPORT embrace, to overstate the case for Iran. It is the most bers of Congress, assailing the ongoing nuclear ne- On March 3, middle-class, best-educated country in the region, gotiations with Iran, may be better received, both Netanyahu aside from Israel and Turkey, with the best-educated addressed Congress in America and, more to the point, in Israel, where for the third time, and most professional women; it also has a cheerily he faces a difficult re-election campaign. “People are matching the record pro-American populace. But it is, along with Cuba, tired of Bibi. I’m tired of Bibi,” said an Israeli attend- of British Prime the greatest mismatch between a people and a gov- Minister Winston ing the AIPAC meeting. “But I have two sons in the Churchill, who spoke ernment of any country in the world. The regime’s military, and I have confidence that Netanyahu will before and after support for Hizballah, the Houthis in Yemen and make decisions that will keep them as safe as possi- World War II. other Shi‘ite militant organizations is indefensible. ble. I don’t feel the same about any of the opposition A nuclear deal with Iran might grease the way for leaders.” Certainly no other potential Israeli leader the diminution, through democracy, of the Supreme could have made so powerful an appeal to Congress. CAMPAIGN Leader’s regime—or it might further empower the RALLY Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, which controls nd despite the cheesy political context Netanyahu and his Likud party face a at least 20% of the economy and would be enriched of the moment, there are aspects of Netan- tough election on by the lifting of sanctions. yahu’s speech that should be cheered even March 17, especially A with his approval ut here is what netanyahu cannot argue: by those of us who believe that President Obama rating around 40%. is pursuing the right course in seeking a nuclear Many expect his that his position represents a step forward. In- deal with Iran. Netanyahu’s bluster and bombing speech to give his deed, it is in fact the exact opposite. Right now, campaign back home B threats have been invaluable to the negotiating a boost. under the interim agreement negotiated by the U.N. process. He’s been a great scary-tough cop to Presi- and U.S., Iran has stopped—in fact, it has reversed— dent Obama’s sorta-tough constable. And Obama the enrichment of highly enriched (20%) uranium. has needed all the help he can get. “The Persians It has allowed extensive inspections of all its facili- believe that the time to get really tough is just be- ties. It has agreed to stop plans for a plutonium reac- fore a deal is cut,” an Israeli intelligence expert who tor. There is a good chance, if the deal is made, that favors the deal told me in December. “So tell me it will continue in this mode, in compliance with why your President is sending nice personal letters the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Netanyahu’s to the Supreme Leader at exactly the wrong time?” rhetoric that a deal would “pave” the way toward On the very day that Netanyahu spoke, Iranian an Iranian bomb is a ridiculous overstatement; his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif “rejected” “plan” would guarantee an Iranian rush to arms. the 10-year restrictions on Iran’s nuclear-energy Revolutions grow old. It is difficult to sustain fa- program that he’d spent the past few months nego- naticism. The Iranian people are tired of their global

tiating. If the haggle were taking place in the bazaar isolation. It may be that their semi-democratically AFP/GETTY IMAGES in Tehran, this would be the time for the U.S. to elected leaders, as opposed to the theocratic mili- “call their bluff,” as Netanyahu said, and perhaps tary regime, are ready to rejoin the world. There is even counter with a 15-year deal. There would be nothing to lose by testing that proposition—if the danger in hanging tough; the Iranians could easily Iranians stop playing around and make the deal. ■

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BY ALEX ALTMAN AND ZEKE J. MILLER

Photograph by Andrew Nelles Handshakes and selfies Bush with a fan at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in February

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his campaign—which could be as soon as Robin died of leukemia at age 3. Soon af- mid-April—allies believe his fundraising ter, the family moved to Houston, where tally may approach $100 million, smash- his father was prospering as an oil execu- ing the records set by Romney and Barack tive. In 1967, Jeb’s parents pulled him out Obama four years ago. of a private high school in Texas to repeat And only a Bush could have done it. ninth grade at Phillips Academy, the posh Jeb, 62, was bequeathed a standing army boarding school in Andover, Mass., where of elite operatives and rainmakers, a generations of Bushes have prepped. J birthright nurtured by three generations Bush was adrift at Andover. He notched of trench warfare and thank-you notes. lousy grades and strolled the verdant It’s easy to grasp why the GOP’s grandees grounds in a haze of pot smoke. At the are lately smitten with the second son of height of Vietnam, he skirted the political George H.W. and Barbara Bush. A two- turmoil roiling the campus. “I was a cyni- term governor of the ultimate swing state, cal little turd,” he said later, “in a cynical Bush earned high marks for ushering in school.” jeb bush is running for the white sweeping conservative reforms. He’s a That changed one warm Sunday eve- House exactly 55 minutes at a time. That’s Spanish-speaking wonk with a multi- ning in the winter of 1971. It was the how long it takes him to march through cultural family that mirrors the nation’s middle of his senior year, and Bush was quickie fundraisers that can rake in metamorphosis, and he may be the only sitting in a manicured public square in $150,000 an hour. Bush has the art of the Republican with the mix of money, moxie León, Mexico. Along with nine other stu- ask scripted to the minute: he strolls into and policy mastery to match Clinton. dents, he was spending 10 weeks living a friendly law firm or lobbying shop with But only if his surname doesn’t sink with a host family, teaching English and a lone aide in tow, holds forth for 15 to him first. After two Bushes in the Oval Of- building a schoolhouse. His friend John 20 minutes, takes questions for 10 more, fice, even many Republicans are leery of Schmitz had started dating a local girl, snaps a few photos and complains about a third. Dynasty has vaulted him to the and the couple pulled up to the curb of the the indignities of his paleo diet and his front of the field, yet its handicaps could Plaza Principal in his car to find Jeb. need for new suits. Then he ducks out just as easily trip him up. Peering into the backseat, Bush laid the door and back into a car that whisks John Ellis Bush is so fundamentally a eyes on 16-year-old Columba Garnica him to a new batch of benefactors. He can member of political royalty that the Bush Gallo, the younger sister of Schmitz’s girl- repeat this routine four or five times a brand is in his name twice. (His nickname friend. Bush likened the sensation to be- day, a pace that most of his competitors is an acronym coined during his infancy ing struck by lightning. “Maybe it was just have neither the network nor the hustle by his mother, in deference to an older raw animal magnetism,” he told a reporter to match. cousin also named John Ellis.) Since birth, for the Miami Herald in 1986. “I can tell Since jumping into the race in mid- he has been burdened, blessed and shaped you the symptoms. Not being able to sleep. December, Bush has often netted a mil- by this legacy. The grandson of a Senator, Not having an appetite. She was the first lion bucks a day and sometimes more. He the son and brother of Presidents, he expe- girl I ever felt that way about.” raised $2.3 million in Tampa on Jan. 26 rienced the kind of expectations that come Love transformed the aimless adoles- and $4.2 million in Chicago on Feb. 18. from sharing dinners with two people cent into a disciplined student. Jeb and At least six gatherings have come with who would run the free world. Forging his Columba exchanged letters almost daily. $100,000-per-head price tags, including a own identity was neither easy nor linear. Every six months, he returned to central soirée at a Park Avenue triplex in Manhat- He rebelled as a teenager, then found love Mexico to visit. His academic performance tan. During a Feb. 17 trip to Washington, young in central Mexico. In business, the brightened: he made honor roll in his final several hundred donors packed a house in family name helped him make millions. trimester. He enrolled at the University of the suburb of McLean, Va., paying up to In politics, the determination to avoid old Texas in the fall of 1971 to be closer to Co- $25,000 apiece. The hosts ran out of name family mistakes contributed to an early lumba. Like his father, Jeb raced through tags. “It’s incredible,” marvels a longtime defeat before he found his footing as a college, majoring in Latin American stud- GOP bundler working for one of Bush’s ri- powerful governor. ies and graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 21⁄2 vals. “It’s just an ass kicking.” Now, on the biggest stage of all, he years in order to speed up the wedding. Already this gusher of cash has chased must once again balance the best and The pairing of a son of privilege and Mitt Romney from the field, crushed worst parts of being a Bush. “It’s an inter- a girl from Mexico who spoke almost no Chris Christie’s momentum and sent a esting challenge for me,” he told a crowd English was a new twist for the Bush fam- message to Hillary Clinton that Bush’s su- crammed into a Detroit ballroom on ily. Jeb’s father married the daughter of a per PAC will set the pace in the dynastic Feb. 4 for the first speech of his unofficial publishing executive, a descendant of for- clash looming next year. The former Flor- campaign. “I’m going to have to do it on mer President Franklin Pierce; his grand- ida governor is taunting Clinton in other my own.” father came from money and married ways as well. He coughed up gigabytes But for Jeb Bush, it has never been that into more. “How I worry about Jeb and Co- of government emails and hints that he simple. lumba,” Barbara Bush wrote in her diary will release up to 10 years of tax returns, in 1973, shortly after helping Jeb pick out creating a standard for transparency that A Father’s Shadow an engagement ring. “Does she love him? I Clinton is struggling to match. By the from the beginning, bush was groomed know when I meet her, I’ll stop worrying.” time Bush abandons the pretense about for success. He was born in Midland, Tex- George H.W. Bush did not meet his exploring a run and officially launches as, in 1953, a few months before his sister son’s bride until the night before the 38 Family business Jeb, third from left, at age 13, poses for one of his father’s campaign photos in 1966, with sister Dorothy, brothers Marvin, George W. and Neil and mother Barbara

wedding, in 1974, when they had dinner The Matter of Money The alliance with Codina led Bush into at an Austin restaurant called the Green the desire to escape did not last long. an unusually broad array of business ven- Turtle. Jeb’s brother Marvin served as the It is a Bush-family precept that anyone tures over the next 15 years. Bush leased photographer at the bilingual ceremony called to public service must make his for- office space and sold everything from golf the next day, held in a small chapel on tune first. “I’d like to be very wealthy,” Jeb courses to industrial sites to footwear. the UT campus. Only one image from the told a reporter from the Miami News in Some of these deals reaped huge returns, wedding survives, of a mustachioed Jeb, 1983, “and I’ll be glad to let you know when including a $1,000 investment in a down- grinning in his tux and gray bow tie and I’ve accomplished that goal.” town office tower in 1984 that Bush cashed towering over his bride. (The rest were Where his brother and father started in six years later for $346,000. As his repu- ruined when Marvin mistakenly used re- as oilmen before turning to politics, Jeb tation grew, he joined a series of corpo- rolled film from a Frank Zappa concert, jumped into the biggest bonanza South rate boards, including one for the Miami superimposing images of the Mothers of Florida offered: real estate. In 1979, while branch of a secretive Swiss-based bank Invention over the Bush and Gallo clans.) working as a traveling aide for his father’s whose office was a one-story home and After graduation, Bush took a job at first presidential bid, Jeb met Armando that refused to accept deposits and never a commercial bank in Houston, but the Codina, a Cuban-American developer made loans. (Five years after Bush left the culture was an uncomfortable fit for Co- who served as the Miami co-chair of the board, the bank was shut down by federal lumba. When he was asked to open a new campaign. Codina began courting Jeb as a regulators for making investments con- branch in Venezuela, the couple jumped business partner, offering 40% of the pro- trary to its clients’ wishes.) Like his broth- at the chance, living there for two years. ceeds in a fledgling real estate brokerage er George, he would become a part-owner Following his father’s 1980 presidential with no up-front investment. Jeb, who had of a sports franchise, the NFL’s Jackson- campaign, Jeb and his wife relocated to Mi- no real estate experience up to that point, ville Jaguars, cashing out his small stake ami, where Columba’s mother and sister- made around $40,000 his first few years. in the team in 1997 after four years. “Jeb in-law had settled. The move had benefits But in Miami a young man with nerve is a very strong, insightful businessman,” for Bush as well. “I left Houston to get out and connections could climb income Codina wrote in an email to Time. “He has

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At the net Jeb, second from right, with his teammates in 1971 as captain of the Phillips Academy varsity tennis team

Brothers in arms George W. Bush, left, and Jeb in 1955 Grand old family From left: Dorothy, Marvin, Neil and Jeb pose with a baby elephant in 1963

credit for the success of our real estate bro- health-maintenance organization. Recar- good but not great by family standards. kerage and management company.” ey asked Bush to call a Medicare official “His record in business shows two things,” As his father had done in Houston, who had worked under his father to urge says a party veteran who otherwise praises Bush moonlighted as a local Republican “fair treatment” for the company. Bush’s Bush. “He hasn’t had great success. And a chairman in Miami. The South Florida real estate firm was paid a $75,000 fee by couple of things he did raised questions GOP was then divided between a moder- Recarey, though it never leased the office about his judgment.” ate establishment and a more conservative space. Within two years, the company was band of Cuban Americans. Bush mar- shut down for insolvency; its owner fled King Jeb shaled the support of both, raising money the country to avoid federal fraud charges. if few were surprised when bush de- and displaying a willingness to pepper his Later, Bush drew unwanted attention cided to run for governor in 1994, the edgy father’s staff in Washington with requests when a company he was affiliated with chords he struck in that race were another for small favors. His reputation and con- came under federal indictment for alleg- story. It was the year of the Newt Gingrich nections earned him an appointment by edly concealing payments made to grease revolution, and Jeb, who had watched Governor Bob Martinez as Florida’s secre- a deal to hawk irrigation pumps in Nige- much of his party’s base abandon his fa- tary of commerce. ria. Bush was never accused of any wrong- ther two years earlier, positioned himself Bush was soon besieged by business- doing. But as he later told the St. Petersburg as a “headbanging” conservative who men who wanted to make government Times, “I have to have better radar.” wanted to “club this government into sub- contacts and thought the son of a Vice Pres- By the time he ran for governor in 1994, mission.” He ran ads criticizing the Demo- ident could provide them. That role was Bush was worth more than $2 million— cratic incumbent, Lawton Chiles, for not fraught with peril. Miami was a frontier signing enough death warrants; called for town in the 1980s, the de facto business the abolition of the Florida department capital of Latin America. In a state known of education; and carped about gay-rights for flamboyant figures, it was often hard to activists and other “modern victim move- discern which moguls were spotless and ments” seeking special entitlements. which were seamy. “Florida is Florida, and BUSH Asked what he would do for the state’s Miami is even more Florida,” explains Mac RESHAPED black population as governor, his answer Stipanovich, a Republican lobbyist in Tal- FLORIDA INTO included the phrase “probably nothing.” lahassee who ran Bush’s first gubernatori- A MODEL OF Bush lost by 64,000 votes, a margin of al campaign. “It’s hard for almost anybody CONSERVATIVE less than 2%. At 41, with three kids, he to do business there without occasionally had missed a chance to win the governor- finding out that one of your partners is not GOVERNANCE ship of his adopted state. The defeat echoed who you thought he was.” the missteps of his father, who lost in his In the mid-1980s, a Cuban-American campaign debut in part by veering too far businessman and GOP fundraiser named right. Meanwhile, his older brother sur- Miguel Recarey hired Bush to find office prised even his parents by winning the space in South Florida for his fast-growing Texas governorship that same year. 40 Poll watcher Surrounded by his wife and parents, Jeb studies vote returns on election night 2002

Surrogate When his father ran for President in 1980, Jeb was interviewed by a Miami radio station Brand-new start Jeb and Columba on their wedding day, in 1974

Jeb never stopped running. The day Florida into a model of conservative gover- objections of her husband. The brawl made after the election, he woke at 6 a.m. on nance. He pioneered “stand your ground” him a hero to the right-to-life movement; three hours’ sleep to stand at a Miami in- gun laws, slashed taxes and battled the critics christened him King Jeb. But even tersection and thank passersby for their state’s public-sector unions. “Before Scott some opponents describe the man who support. Biding time for a second try, he Walker was fighting public unions, the steamrolled them with grudging respect. created an education think tank called the public unions in Florida couldn’t stand “Every time I hear about him being a mod- Foundation for Florida’s Future and helped Jeb,” says Matthew Corrigan, a political erate, I start to laugh,” says Dan Gelber, a launch the state’s first charter school in a scientist at the University of North Florida. former Democratic state senator. “Jeb is blighted section of Miami. “This guy had big ideas, got them through not a populist. And he’s not a demagogue. Bush has been telling audiences this the legislature, got the money appropri- Some of his policies were very unpopular, year that the 1994 defeat taught him the ated for them and then followed up on and he pursued them anyway. He’s not importance of empathy. “I had these deep- them. He sent emails to low-level bureau- one of those guys who wants or needs to ly held views about education, for exam- crats telling them to do things this way.” be loved. He knew what he wanted, pro- ple, but people didn’t connect with me,” Bush promoted school choice and moted it aggressively and rarely lost.” he told the audience in Detroit last month. pushed through a controversial plan to Part of the reason was the sheer amount He spent the next four years visiting more end affirmative action in public universi- of time Bush spent hunched over his lap- than 250 schools in Florida, almost always ties. He whittled away at the state’s sprawl- top. If his father’s leadership style was without staff or press in tow, and kept a ing bureaucracy, privatizing everything rooted in relationships and his brother journal of his encounters, emailing ex- from prison meals to the Florida human- governed from his gut, Jeb put his faith in cerpts to advisers. He spent so much time resources department. In his second in- his ability as a manager. “If you give him in the classrooms that he became a godfa- augural address, in 2003, the governor a report that was commissioned a year ther to a young black boy. rhapsodized about his fantasy of gutting ago, he actually reads the damn thing,” When he ran again, in 1998, he spent government. “There would be no greater says Stipanovich. “If you’re staff, it can be hours on the stump talking about how tribute to our maturity as a society,” he very unnerving.” Friends describe a fam- school choice could remedy the plight of declared on the steps of the capitol, “than ily man with bottomless drive and a taste the poor. He became a smoother public if we can make these buildings around for competition. “He would have events speaker and skirted the controversies that us empty of workers—silent monuments from 7 a.m. till 10 p.m.,” says his longtime ensnared him four years earlier. “He took to the time when government played a friend Al Cardenas, a former chairman of that time to reflect on how he spoke and larger role than it deserved or could ad- the Florida Republican Party. “Then he how he articulated his positions,” says equately fill.” would get on phone calls and write per- Florida state senator Anitere Flores, who Dubbing himself the “most pro-life sonal notes.” On Sundays, Bush often races worked on both Bush campaigns before governor in modern times,” he probed through a morning round of speed golf (a becoming his top education-policy advis- the limits of executive authority in an at- habit he picked up from Dad), then heads er. “He came back the next campaign a lot tempt to curtail abortions. He convened a home to read reports and tackle his email. stronger.” He won the race in a rout. special session to pass legislation restoring As governor, Bush sent so many emails

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governor’s mansion includes his ubiqui- the obstacles to a campaign went beyond And so a year ago, Bush asked his top po- tous BlackBerry in its cradle. A trove of the foreign policy misadventures of his litical advisers to map out a role in the 2014 correspondence, released this winter in brother, his father’s failing health and his midterms with an eye toward a possible response to public-records requests, draws mother’s seeming doubts. There were also presidential run. As he campaigned for Re- a portrait of a leader who rose early, stayed the complications of the family he created. publican candidates, he met privately with late and relished the minutiae most gover- His daughter Noelle had struggled with policy bigwigs. He had his fundraisers gin nors delegate. He made his address public drugs. And the long journey from León, up cash for key governors, always a good ([email protected]) and devoted about 30 hours Mexico, to the statehouse in Leon County, way to test the waters around the country. each week to thanking well-wishers, Florida, had long been rocky for Columba. Brother George began to lobby him private- soliciting policy ideas, even sparring “No one prepares you for a life in poli- ly and for him publicly, telling one gather- with hecklers. tics,” she wrote in a 2003 essay for a book ing of family retainers that the brand name Jeb has always been more substance about Latina mothers. “We live under so was no longer an obstacle. “What’s the dif- than style, a technocrat who doesn’t of- much pressure ... we have crisis after crisis ference if it’s Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, ten display his brother’s gift for gab. “He after crisis after crisis.” During Jeb’s first Clinton,” he asked, “or Bush, Clinton, Bush, doesn’t like the backslapping of politics,” gubernatorial run, their marriage nearly Obama, Bush?” says T. Willard Fair, the CEO of the Mi- buckled under the stress. In an effort to There is little doubt which President ami Urban League and a longtime friend mend things, Bush converted to Catholi- Bush Jeb prefers. “Imagine what it would who teamed with Bush to build Florida’s cism in the mid-1990s and scaled back be like to be Michael Jordan’s son going charter-school network. “If you could put his travel schedule. Never a fan of the out to play basketball,” he told Esquire in him in the corner with a book, he’d rather limelight, Columba had receded further 2008. Just last month, Bush declared his do that.” Even close friends say he doesn’t since being stopped at customs in 1999 dad “the greatest man alive” and joked that kibitz much, charging through pleasant- with $19,000 worth of undeclared luxury he would step outside to fight anyone who ries on the phone to cut to the heart of goods picked up while shopping in Paris. disagreed. the matter. But he has mastered the nice- She prefers meals or margaritas in Miami The relationship with his brother is ties that count in campaigns, like enter- restaurants to the stuffy galas typically more complicated. The two have never ing donors’ numbers into his personal required of a political spouse. But friends been close. Separated by 61⁄2 years in age cell phone so he can greet them warmly say the partnership works, however un- and a similar gulf in temperament, they when they call. conventional it may seem. “Other people grew up in different places (W. in Mid- For a politician who operates as a solo- may have doubted Columba’s support,” land, Jeb in Houston), made their fortunes ist, Bush has built an ensemble of allies says Ana Navarro, a Florida Republican in different states and gravitated toward with rare devotion. The ardor was clear operative. “But I don’t think Jeb ever did.” different religious traditions. Nor was it on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-February, As Bush sought his wife’s blessing, the any secret which son the parents expected when 300 longtime supporters showed family brand was slowly rising from the to carry the family’s political torch. “The up at a Tallahassee hotel with a view of ashes. The 43rd President’s biography of heir,” says one longtime family friend and the state capitol for a fundraiser to benefit the 41st, coupled with a hagiographic HBO adviser, “was clearly Jeb, not W.” Bush’s super PAC. Lobbyists and former documentary, formed the core of a quiet The scars of sibling rivalry aren’t hard aides wearing circular red jeb! ’16 stickers campaign to stoke nostalgia for the first to spot. On election night in 2000, when on their chests scribbled out checks on Bush presidency and thaw opposition to a word came during dinner in Austin that tall cocktail tables as they waited to enter third. At the same time, Obama’s struggles George W. appeared to have lost to Al a ballroom with baubly glass chandeliers. to tame Islamic extremism refired the Res- Gore a battle that Jeb was supposed to “There are a lot of us who would do almost toration instincts in Republican politics. have wired in Florida, the younger brother anything for him,” says former Bush polit- By June 2014, George W. Bush’s approval tearfully apologized. Jeb has boasted about ical director David Hart, pulling from his rating trumped Obama’s in Gallup poll- staying faithful to his brother when other pocket an index-card-size printout detail- ing, breaking the 50% threshold for the Republicans turned their backs. “Until ing the state’s education gains since Bush first time in nearly a decade. death do us part,” he told CNN in 2010. But took office. “There’s a million moments as Jeb mulled a presidential campaign last that I hope I’ll never forget.” year, George W. was left to interpret the smoke signals from the outside, like most (Not) Enough Bushes everyone else. Politics is complicated, fam- dynasty may seem like destiny for ily even more so. Bush now, but it didn’t always look that POLITICS IS From his townhouse outside Miami way. When Jeb left Tallahassee eight years and his nearby office suite at the palatial ago, the Bush brand was in tatters as his COMPLICATED, Biltmore Hotel resort, Jeb watched rivals brother’s presidency limped to its conclu- FAMILY like Christie and Marco Rubio slip and sion. Until recently the prospect of a politi- EVEN stumble through 2014. Soon he was telling cal resurrection looked bleak. “We’ve had MORE SO key donors to “keep [their] powder dry.” enough Bushes,” Barbara Bush declared By early summer, longtime political allies in 2013. If Jeb ran, she noted, he would in- began quitting their day jobs or taking un- herit “all our enemies, half of our friends.” planned sabbaticals. His family, including That was probably a bit of sly misdi- Columba, came on board. “I hope he runs,” rection by Barbara, who is no slouch at George W. Bush told CBS News in Novem- political messaging. But it is true that ber, pegging the odds at 50-50.

42 time March 16, 2015 photo: darcy kiefel UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY STEPHEN TREWIN and JOSEPH ) Civ. No. 3:12-CV-01475 (MAS) (DEA) FARHATT, On Behalf of Themselves ) - Legal Notice - And All Others Similarly Situated, ) Plaintiffs, Authorized by the vs. ) United States District Court, CHURCH & DWIGHT CO., INC., ) For the District of New Jersey Defendant. ) - This is not a solicitation from a lawyer - IF YOU PURCHASED ARM & HAMMER® ESSENTIALS™ DEODORANT, A CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT COULD AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS A proposed settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit alleging that the labeling, advertising and marketing of the Arm & Hammer® Essentials™ deodorant with labeling containing the words “Natural Deodorant” and “Natural Protection” (hereinafter “Old Label”) sold by Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (“Defendant”) was misleading to consumers because not all of the ingredients are natural. Defendant denies that the Essentials™ deodorant with Old Label was misleading and it denies that it did anything wrong. The Court has not decided which side was right, but both sides agreed to the settlement to resolve the case. The proposed settlement will pay a cash refund to eligible class members who purchased the Essentials™ deodorant with the Old Label for personal use, and not for re-sale. If you qualify, you may send in a claim form to get benefits, or you can exclude yourself from the settlement, or you can object to it. The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey authorized this notice. The Court will have a hearing on June 4, 2015 to decide whether to approve the settlement. Any request to be excluded from the settlement must be postmarked or received by May 5, 2015 and sent to the Settlement Administrator at Strategic Claims Services, Attn: Trewin v. Church & Dwight Settlement, P.O. Box 230, 600 N. 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the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS)—gently conceded during a recent appearance in Chicago that his brother had also made mistakes in Iraq. But the muscular foreign policy vision he laid out left audiences wondering exactly how his approach would differ. On the last Friday of February, Bush fi- nally waded into his first actual campaign scrum. It was no lovefest. The Conserva- tive Political Action Conference, held at a hotel on the frozen banks of the Potomac outside Washington, is an annual con- fab dominated by the party’s young and libertarian-leaning activists. The event is a bad forum for picking Presidents but a good gauge of the grassroots zeitgeist. And the verdict was clear: Bush wasn’t one of them. Before he spoke, talk-radio host Laura Ingraham inveighed against the resurrection of the dynasty. “The idea High school sweethearts Columba Bush, pictured with her husband in 2004, that we should be conducting any type of has avoided the spotlight, but she gave Jeb the green light for 2016 coronation in the Republican Party today because 50 rich families decide who they think will best represent their interests? No way,” she said. When he took the stage, But even before then, friends had be- voters. He is a longtime champion of a cluster of Tea Partyers clad in revolution- gun to prod him privately to make up comprehensive immigration reform in ary garb started a “No more Bushes!” chant his mind, lest he earn a reputation as the a party suspicious of amnesty. He sup- out in the hallway. Hamlet of Coral Gables. Inside the family, ports Common Core education standards, Jeb offered a glimpse of how he will try the advice got more specific: Don’t wait which have emerged as a grassroots bug- to disarm his doubters. He rattled off his too long. In the official version of events, bear. His refusal to sign antitax pledges conservative reforms in Florida, defended Bush made the final call over food and calls up for skeptics the “read my lips” his support for immigration reform and football on Thanksgiving weekend, sur- promise broken by his father, and his re- tougher education standards, and joked rounded by family—including his oldest cent statement that conservatives should about killing so many spending bills son George P., the Texas land commis- respect gay couples who marry made so- he earned the nickname Veto Corleone. sioner who is viewed in the family as the cial conservatives skittish. And most important, he weathered the great political hope of the next generation. Then there are the liabilities of his lin- intermittent heckling and boos with Jeb told his political advisers the following eage. The conservative base came to re- good cheer. “For those who made an ooo Monday. “When you look back, you can gard George W. Bush as a Big Government sound—is that what it was?” he asked. see that he knew,” says a longtime friend. Republican, a profligate spender who ran “I’m marking you down as neutral, and “But at the time, he kept it hidden.” up big deficits, passed now-unpopular I want to be your second choice.” He had Once Jeb committed, the Bush clan was policies like No Child Left Behind and walked into the lion’s den and emerged “all in,” says a family member. Its vast uni- Medicare Part D and presided during unbowed. verse of operatives, retainers and money- the greatest economic crash since the When it was over, he repaired to a men responded as if the bat symbol had Depression. Many presume Jeb is much smaller ballroom to greet supporters, been beamed into the sky. On cue, Barbara the same. And polls and party operatives who had been bused in from D.C. by for- Bush sounded the all clear: “What do you agree that in the coming battle against mer aides of his brother’s. Fans in Bush mean there are too many Bushes?” she Clinton, the party would benefit from a regalia handed over their information to said. “I’ve changed my mind.” fresh face. his PAC as they lined up to enter the room. Few people outside Florida know The soon-to-be candidate entered through His Own Man much about Jeb, and his advisers ac- a black curtain to the soaring theme from and so the bush money machine is knowledge that the campaign’s success Rocky. “That was raucous and wild,” he cranking back up again, the seventh go- may hinge on its ability to distinguish declared from the rickety stage, “and I round in 35 years. It is virtually certain to the new family man from the Bushes who loved it.” win the GOP check-writing contest; there have preceded him. (It is no accident that It was an early glimpse of how Bush remains the matter of proving that the the candidate’s signage and swag don’t will fulfill his promise to run the grind- candidate can win votes. From temporary include his last name.) But at some point ing marathon of a presidential campaign offices vacated by a law firm in Tallahas- this may require a public break from his “joyfully.” Surrounded by friends of the see, advisers are plotting his path to the brother. Jeb—who supported George W.’s family, he shook hands and snapped self- nomination. As his team sees it, Bush has wars and has argued that Obama’s troop ies, smiling like a man who was exactly

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time March 16, 2015 45 PUTIN’SWORLD ON-AIR ARMY THE GLOBAL NEWS NETWORK RT IS THE KREMLIN’S MAIN WEAPON IN AN INTENSIFYING INFORMATION WAR WITH THE WEST BY SIMON SHUSTER/MOSCOW

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t was just past midnight on feb. 28 For him this project is about much more in the Moscow studios of RT, Russia’s RT’S REACH than vanity in an era when digital media state-funded international television YouTube subscribers are, as he unabashedly put it in October, “a news network, when word of the as- in millions formidable weapon enabling the manipu- sassination reached the staff: Boris lation of public opinion.” RT INTERNATIONAL 1.466 INemtsov, a leading figure in the fractious It has proved formidable enough to put opposition to President Vladimir Putin, VICE NEWS 1.248 the West on the defensive. U.S. Secretary of had been shot dead a short walk from Red ABC NEWS 1.013 State John Kerry denounced RT last April Square. Later that morning, Putin’s spokes- CNN 0.732 as a “propaganda bullhorn” for Putin, ac- man set the tone for RT’s coverage. “What AL-JAZEERA ENGLISH 0.664 cusing it of “distorting what is happening, goes without saying,” said Dmitri Peskov, BBC NEWS 0.377 or not happening, in Ukraine.” Western “is that this is a 100% provocation.” His im- policymakers have increasingly debated plication was clear: the Nemtsov shooting the need for a more vigorous response, was staged by Russia’s enemies, not to si- either with fresh funding for their own lence the victim but to discredit the regime Annual Budget media outlets, such as Voice of America, or he opposed. (2013–14) a new Russian-language channel to fight Thus began the latest marathon of spin in millions Putin on his own turf. from the Kremlin’s most sophisticated pro- BBC WORLD SERVICE GROUP $367 But experts warn that getting into a paganda machine, beamed out in a variety RT $300 propaganda war with Russia will be self- of languages—including English, Spanish defeating. The only way to counter mis- and Arabic—to the potential audience of information, they say, is to doggedly stick 700 million people that RT (formerly Rus- Sources: YouTube, BBC, RT to the facts. The aim of RT is to “inundate sia Today) claims to reach in more than 100 the viewer with theories about Western countries. In the hours after the shooting, plots, to keep them dazed and confused,” RT anchors and pundits cast the killing says Peter Pomerantsev, a British expert variously as a “huge gift to Putin haters”; on Russian propaganda. Trying to counter possibly the work of “foreign assassins” to that RT-type spin with Western counter- provide a “beautiful propaganda shot” for spin would only serve to legitimize RT. Western officials and media; and, repeat- That would only play into Putin’s hands. ing Peskov’s line, “a provocation against propaganda war that has intensified since the Russian government.” the conflict in Ukraine flared up more Behind the Camera The coverage did not mention the fears than a year ago. With RT in particular, Pu- margarita simonyan, the editor in Nemtsov, 55, had expressed in an interview tin has created an alternate reality on TV chief of the RT network, places her head less than three weeks before his murder and online—RT generates more YouTube in her hands and lets out a groan at the that Putin could have him killed. It ignored views than any other news channel in question she has heard so many times the fact that Nemtsov was preparing to pub- the world—that resolutely casts Russia as before: Does the Kremlin influence her lish an investigation into Russia’s support victim and the West as villain. For Putin’s coverage? She admits that her network for separatist rebels waging war in eastern opponents, whether in Moscow, Kiev or shows a worldview that is “defined by cer- Ukraine. It sidestepped the pattern of more Washington, the Kremlin media machine tain principles expressed by the state, by than a dozen murders and violent attacks has real-world impact. It shores up sup- representatives of the Russian state.” But against Kremlin critics in the 15 years since port at home and creates dissent abroad. she claims not to see how that makes RT Putin came to power. And on March 1, In the U.K., the channel is the fourth most any less objective than an independent when a massive march began in Moscow watched 24-hour news station in the coun- Western broadcaster. “No one shows ob- to protest Nemtsov’s murder—with many try, beating rivals like Fox News. jective reality,” she says, sitting in her of- carrying signs that read propaganda Putin founded RT in 2005 with a budget fice in Moscow, just across the river from kills—RT was showing a documentary of about $30 million and gradually ramped the Kremlin. “The Western media are not about American racism and xenophobia. it up to more than $300 million per year objective, reality-based news sources.” In his death as in his life, Nemtsov’s by 2010. (By comparison, the BBC World Simonyan has spent her career at the in- attempts to promote democracy and plu- Service Group, which includes TV, radio tersection of journalism and propaganda. In ralism in Russia were nearly drowned out and online news distribution, has a budget 2002, she got a job as a reporter for state TV in by the barrage of conspiracy theories and of $376 million for 2014–15. The BBC’s In- Moscow, assigned to the Kremlin pool, the misinformation that has turned RT and ternational Service is the biggest broadcast huddle of journalists that follows and trans- the Kremlin’s other media outlets into newsgathering operation in the world.) mits Putin’s every public utterance. Within one of the most powerful arms of Putin’s The network has already gone a long way a few years, she had distinguished herself government—at home and abroad. As dis- toward “breaking the Anglo-Saxon mo- enough in that role to be given the top job— sidents in Russia have been demonized by nopoly on global information streams,” as at the age of 25—at the newly established its relentless on-air attacks, so too has the Putin instructed it to do during a visit to Russia Today network, which changed its West suffered in an increasingly one-sided RT’s brand-new studios in Moscow in 2013. name to RT four years later. 48 Newsmakers Editor in chief Margarita Simonyan gives Putin a tour of RT’s new studio complex in Moscow in 2013

In 2012, when Putin announced his plan the information industry, including news to return to the presidency after a four-year wires, radio stations and, as of last Novem- term as Prime Minister, Simonyan became ber, an international multimedia agency directly involved in politics, joining the called Sputnik, which puts out news in 12 staff of Putin’s election team in Moscow languages, among them Chinese, Hindi and helping campaign for his landslide and Turkish. Of all those brands, RT is by victory—while remaining in her job at RT. far the most powerful in delivering the Asked the following year how she avoided Kremlin’s version of news to the world. a conﬂict of interest between her campaign Simonyan, now 34, bristles at sug- role and her position as a journalist, she gestions that her media empire is not told an interviewer that she wasn’t sure, ‘NO ONE SHOWS OBJECTIVE editorially independent. Is it possible, for adding, “I’ve managed.” REALITY. THE WESTERN instance, that someone from the Kremlin At the end of 2013 she was awarded the might call her up and demand that she not job of editor in chief of Rossiya Segodnya, MEDIA ARE NOT OBJECTIVE, broadcast a particular story? “How can you the Kremlin’s newly formed media con- imagine such a thing?” she asks, looking glomerate. Headquartered in a sprawling REALITY-BASED NEWS genuinely hurt. complex of gray concrete on Moscow’s SOURCES.’ And yet on her desk sits an old yellow Zubovsky Boulevard, the agency consoli- —margarita simonyan, telephone, a government landline, the sort

MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV—ITAR-TASS/LANDOV dated some of the state’s vast holdings in editor in chief of rt with no dial pad, the sort usually seen in

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the offices of senior Russian officials. It is ton, less than half a mile from the White her secure connection, she admits, directly House. RT says it has been the most popu- to the Kremlin. What’s it for, then, if not to lar foreign news network in seven of the talk shop? “The phone exists,” she says, “to largest cities in the U.S. since 2011, citing discuss secret things.” research it commissioned from Nielsen, a global TV ratings firm. That puts it ahead, Conspiracy TV in those markets, of the BBC and al-Jazeera central to the rt worldview is the America, which is funded by the govern- conviction that Western plotting is be- ment of Qatar but has faced fewer accusa- hind most of the world’s political violence. tions of anti-American bias. Though some The terrorist attacks of 9/11? “Probably an U.S. conservative groups have called for inside job,” ran the title of an RT series on both RT and al-Jazeera to register as “for- the subject in 2009. The Boston Marathon eign agents” with the Justice Department, bombing in 2013? “Preparation for new the U.S. Constitution ensures them the wars and martial law in America,” said same free-speech protections as any other British RT host Daniel Bushell on his now media outlet. discontinued show The Truthseeker. In the U.K., RT is looking to build on its Along with RT’s frequent coverage of success, including an audience that regu- UFO sightings, this type of material at- lar reaches more than 2 million people tracts a lot of eyeballs online. The videos per quarter, according to the Broadcasters’ on RT’s English-language YouTube chan- Audience Research Board. In October the nel have racked up nearly 1.4billion views, network launched a U.K. channel based in thanks in large part to RT’s knack for post- London that provides local news along with ing raw footage of violence and natural di- the broadcasts beamed in from Moscow. sasters that tends to go viral, drawing more RT is seeking—and winning—fans viewers to its political offerings. farther afield also. In Latin America, Ar- In many Western countries, the net- gentina became the first country last fall work has found a loyal following among to connect RT’s Spanish-language chan- viewers—from both the left and the nel into its free-to-air network, making it right—who are mistrustful of their own available to anyone in Argentina with a governments and wary of prevailing functioning TV set. During a video confer- takes on world events. The right-wing ence with Putin to mark the occasion in fringe in Germany, for instance, has plen- October, President Cristina Fernández de ty of RT fans, especially among the anti- Kirchner summed up the partnership this immigrant movement named Pegida that way: “We are achieving a communication around the world. “But they believe us. sprang up last year in the eastern city of without intermediaries, in order to trans- They believe that our picture of the world Dresden. During Pegida’s marches against mit our own values.” is closer to reality.” what it calls the “Islamization of the West- Many states have tried to match RT’s ern world,” Russian flags flew alongside success. Both China and Iran, for in- War Wounds German ones. stance, have launched their own English- reality, however, is not always sub- “We like Russia here,” the movement’s language, 24-hour news networks, but ject to loose interpretation, as RT has leader, Lutz Bachmann, told Time after its they don’t have nearly the same reach or found amid the conflict in Ukraine. The biggest ever rally in January. “For a stable broad appeal as RT, which Putin has also U.S. and its allies have imposed sanctions Europe, you need a friendship with Rus- turned into a way to strengthen his global to punish Putin’s annexation of the Ukrai- sia. If we are getting into a war with Rus- alliances. Along with favorable oil deals nian region of Crimea and his support for sia in Europe, you in the States will laugh and shipments of Russian weapons to separatists in eastern Ukraine. Combined about it because you are far away. But we countries like Syria and Venezuela, Putin with a sharp drop in the price of oil, the will have destroyed cities.” It was a line can now invite his friends to plug into his sanctions have pushed the Russian petro- that could have come straight from RT’s media insurgency against the West. state to the edge of recession. Worst of talk shows, which Bachmann and many This is a relatively easy sell for the all for RT, the value of the ruble, the na- of his followers prefer to the mainstream many nations fed up with what they see as tional currency in which its budget is de- TIME FOR TAYLOR-LIND ANASTASIA channels in Germany. pervasive U.S. influence in world affairs. nominated, has collapsed by almost half, Among U.S. audiences, the network Simonyan calls it a search for alternatives forcing the network to shelve its plans to boasts of being available to 85 million in an era of American decline. “People launch channels in German and French people, largely through RT America, a U.S.- don’t believe you anymore,” she says flat- this year. focused channel RT launched in 2010 and ly, scanning the wall of TV screens that The conflict in Ukraine has also oc- has staffed mostly with American jour- dominates her office, showing CNN and casionally made it hard for some RT em- nalists. Its headquarters are in Washing- BBC alongside her own broadcasts from ployees to stick to the Kremlin line. One 50 ing uncensored local news in places where it’s hard to find. “We are trying to counter Russian propaganda—and that of our adversaries throughout the world—with one hand behind our back,” said Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as he urged President Barack Obama to support the legislation. Closer to the front line in the information war with Russia, European states are considering an even more direct approach: a Russian-language news channel to counter the Kremlin’s domestic networks. Lat- via has championed this project within the European Union, largely because ethnic Russians make up more than a quarter of its population and get most of their news from Kremlin-backed TV. The Latvian government’s worst nightmare? An ethnic-Russian uprising like the one in eastern Ukraine, fueled by Kremlin propaganda. “What happens now is that these channels somehow resonate with people’s feelings and emotions and exploit it,” says Viktors Makarovs, an adviser to the Lat- vian Foreign Ministry. “Our population has been influenced by this.” But even Latvian policymakers seem to realize the futility of trying to outspin the Kremlin, as critics have cautioned Voice of Hot seat Anchor Bill Dod presents the news at RT’s London studios America against doing if it strays too far. “The easy way would be to create a media financed by the E.U. that would be a Brus- sels mouthpiece,” says Makarovs. “Which particular challenge for the network came “When there is an ‘accepted truth’ out would be the stupidest thing to do.” in March 2014, when Putin sent his troops there and you’re the only ones challeng- At best such a channel would get to occupy Crimea. RT broadcast the Presi- ing it, providing alternative perspectives, shouted down by the Kremlin’s loyal cho- dent’s implausible assertion that no occu- it can be hard,” says Laura Smith, a Briton rus of media outlets, including RT, and at pation had occurred and that the Russian and the network’s chief correspondent in worst it would degrade the standards of soldiers fanning out across Crimea were in London. “Some colleagues haven’t been Western broadcast journalism, eventual- fact pro-Russian locals who had somehow able to ride it out.” ly making it hard to distinguish between gotten their hands on Russian uniforms legitimate journalism and RT-like state- and military vehicles. Talking Back sponsored spin. No one understood that That proved to be a distortion of reality what is the west to do in the face better than Nemtsov. Last summer, about too great for some of RT’s journalists. On of a form of richly endowed propaganda eight months before he was assassinated, March 3, 2014, one of RT’s American hosts dressed up as journalism that has broad ac- he appeared on a Ukrainian talk show in Washington, Abby Martin, condemned cess to international audiences? In Wash- where one of the guests proposed combat- Russia’s “military aggression” in Crimea ington, London, Brussels, Berlin and other ting the likes of RT with an array of West- during a live broadcast; two days later, her capitals, policymakers are rushing to find ern counterpropaganda. colleague Liz Wahl resigned on air, telling answers as the war in Ukraine worsens Nemtsov objected. “This would be viewers she could no longer be part of a and Russia shows no sign of ending its re- a road to nowhere, a road to dictator- network that “whitewashes” Putin’s ac- gional bellicosity. ship,” he said. “You can’t do what Putin tions. At about the same time in Crimea, In a direct response to Russia’s propa- does, calling journalists to the Kremlin an RT reporter told Time that he knew, ganda efforts against Ukraine, the U.S. and giving them orders.” For now, the of course, where the invading troops had Congress passed a bill in July to make the West seems likely to stick to its journal- come from, but he feared for his job in a state-funded Voice of America a more di- istic traditions—and trust the viewers to shrinking industry if he identified them rect mouthpiece for U.S. foreign policy, decide. —with reporting by charlotte as Russian soldiers in his reports. shifting away from its mission of provid- mcdonald-gibson/brussels ■ time March 16, 2015 51 The 17-year-old from North Carolina is the NASH GRIER most-followed person on Vine, where his @NASHGRIER six-second comedy videos—with titles like “Really ... green beans?”—have been played more than 2 billion times. TECH

THE MOST >> THE VIGILANTE THE JESTER INFLUENTIAL @TH3J35T3R a hero to some and a criminal to others, the Jester is one of a growing army of anonymous cyber- PEOPLE warriors, or “hacktivists,” who push the boundaries of THE JESTER’S the law in the name of their causes. In his case, that means targeting terrorists and hate CLAIMS groups. Since he assumed his persona five years ago, TO FAME ON THE the Jester says he’s taken down more than 180 websites, including some associated with ISIS, and played virtual NOVEMBER pranks on groups like the Westboro Baptist Church, 2010 which is known for anti-gay rhetoric. Of course, it’s im- Shut down INTERNET possible to verify such claims with certainty. But if true, WikiLeaks they make him one of the most powerful stand-alone shortly after it hackers in the world. started posting The Jester knows this is risky business. “If they’ll classified U.S. murder cartoonists, they’ll have a field day with me,” documents he tells Time of hacking a site linked to al-Qaeda. That’s why anonymity is paramount. During our interview, MAY 2013 If we’ve learned anything which was conducted via email and the Jester’s officially Hacked a from the white-gold (or was it recognized Twitter account, he would not confirm per- Westboro blue-black?) Dress That Broke sonal details or give proof of his nationality (American, Baptist Church the Internet, first posted to he says), gender (male) and employment (“I have a day site to post an Tumblr by a 21-year-old singer job!”). Over the years, dozens of people tried to unmask obscene image from Scotland, it’s that anyone him. None succeeded. “Hence,” he says, “I’m still here.” of Jesus After each hack, the Jester sends a tweet: “TANGO with a web connection can JANUARY 2015 make worldwide headlines. DOWN.” It’s military shorthand for “enemy elimi- nated.” (He says he used to serve.) Soon after, the Jester’s Hacked an Yes, it helps to be famous in al-Qaeda real life. But the rise of social 66,500 Twitter followers erupt in congratulations. To them, he is a hero—defending his country, as he puts it, propaganda site networks like Vine and Tumblr to post Charlie and the growth of stalwarts “in any capacity I am able to with maximum effect.” But technically, under U.S. cyberlaws, the Jester is an Hebdo like Facebook and YouTube outlaw. Although hackers are rarely prosecuted—and covers and have leveled the playing several law-enforcement officials told Time they agree “Je Suis field, allowing unknowns to with the Jester’s motives—it is still illegal for a private Charlie” command audiences rivaling citizen to hack a server. Look no further than the Sony those of real-world leaders, even attacks to understand why. if by accident. With that in For now, the Jester is probably safe. One of his laptops mind, Time set out to identify even sits behind glass at the International Spy Museum the 30 most influential people in Washington, where it raises questions about what, on the Internet, based on social- in the Wild West of the digital world, constitutes mis- media followings, site growth chief, warfare or an act of patriotic duty. and traffic, and overall ability —haley sweetland edwards to drive news. Here, a sampling from the full list available at time.com/webwinners. The reality star has mastered the art of virtual self- —DAN MACSAI KIM promotion: her selfies get millions of likes on Instagram KARDASHIAN (she’s one of the app’s most-followed users), and her candid tweets routinely make headlines (“Can I live?!?” she posted @KIMKARDASHIAN after being criticized for cropping her daughter out of a photo).

GRIER, MOCK, HARI: GETTY IMAGES; ILLUSTRATION BY STANLEY CHOW FOR TIME The transgender writer and activist is The pop star’s engagement with fans— JANET MOCK a ﬁerce advocate on Twitter; she once TAYLOR SWIFT she personally replies to many of their @JANETMOCK sparred with Piers Morgan after his @TAYLORSWIFT13 Instagram posts and makes comments show dubbed her “formerly a man.” on their Tumblrs—generates news on a (Mock has always identiﬁed as female.) weekly basis.

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VANI HARI ANHEUSER-BUSCH @THEFOODBABE Agreed to publish Budweiser’s ingredient list, per Hari’s petition companies whose foods contain chemical additives would do KRAFT well to watch out for Vani Hari. Plans to nix artificial dyes from The former management con- some macaroni-and-cheese products sultant, 35, commands an army of amateur nutritionists who look PANERA BREAD to her blog, Food Babe, to see Will get rid of artificial additives in which “unsafe” ingredients its food by the end of 2016 WANT MORE? they should protest next. Visit She bills herself as an inves- foodbabe.com tigator, posting exposés under headlines like general mills or generally toxic? Those tactics may sound crass, but they’re remarkably effective. Last year, Hari demanded that Sub- way stop using azodicarbonamide, a dough conditioner she branded the “yoga mat” ingredient. (It’s used to make them too.) Within a day, WANT MORE? her petition had 50,000 signatures; Visit shortly thereafter, the sandwich jesterscourt.cc chain jettisoned the compound. Naturally, Hari has critics. They say she’s underqualified and irre- sponsibly alarmist in her attempt to build her brand. (The yoga-mat compound was ruled safe by the FDA.) Although Hari does sell ads on her site, she contends that her cause is noble. Growing up, she says, she suffered health problems because “everything I was eating was pro- cessed.” She ultimately changed her diet and started her blog to encour- age others to do the same. So far at least, they’re listening: Food Babe logged a record 54 million visits last year, and Hari’s first book, The Food Babe Way, is in stores now. —mandy oaklander

The world’s most-followed leader (he has 45 million The author has given Harry Potter new BARACK OBAMA Facebook likes) has been known to meme himself for a J.K. ROWLING life online, revealing überviral plot extras @BARACKOBAMA cause—snapping selﬁes with BuzzFeed, for example, to @JK_ROWLING via her site, Pottermore.com, and Twit- remind millennials to sign up for health insurance. ter. (Turns out Fluffy, the three-headed guard dog, was “repatriated to Greece.”) time March 16, 2015 53 TECH

The Russian blogger, 38, won a loyal Some 1 million people subscribe ALEXEI following by exposing corruption in GWYNETH PALTROW to Goop, the actor’s lifestyle site NAVALNY the Putin regime. That doesn’t sit @GWYNETHPALTROW (it’s where she called her divorce a well with the Kremlin, which recently “conscious uncoupling”), which has @NAVALNY accused Navalny of embezzlement. spawned many celebrity imitators.

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FOOD Cho makes pear nachos (topped with Nutella and dried mango) as an indulgent yet wholesome TSANG BONNIE CHO: IMAGES; GETTY KJELLBERG: OSTROVSKY, FALLON, NAVALNY, TWITTER; SARKEESIAN: snack for her daughter

FITNESS >> THE ENTREPRENEUR nels. The most-followed user on Pinterest, Cho can drive In lieu of going small-business sales by posting a single product shot. to the gym, What’s her secret? “It’s a combination of being she’ll strap JOY CHO aspirational and accessible,” says Cho. In other words, her baby into @OHJOYSTUDIO while Paltrow’s Goop might recommend an $800 jump- a carrier and suit, Cho would post a $70 romper—a bit of a splurge do simple to succeed in the world of lifestyle blogging, but still within reach. And she tests most if not all of her exercises at it helps to be blond, rich and famous. (See: Gwyneth recipes on her own family. “She just seems superauthen- home Paltrow, Blake Lively, Lauren Conrad.) tic,” says Valerie Keinsley, 24, who has followed Cho’s In the mid-2000s, Cho was none of the above. She postings for years. HOME had just moved to Philadelphia to land a new job in It’s no wonder, then, that the Oh Joy! brand is getting Cho built her graphic design—her major at Syracuse University—but bigger. Last year, Cho partnered with Target to design own “family “I just wasn’t ﬁnding what I wanted,” Cho says. So she several party-decor items (which quickly sold out), and check-in launched a blog, Oh Joy!, as a way to showcase her skills. soon she will debut a line of Band-Aids with Johnson & station” with Today that blog anchors an empire. Now 35 and liv- Johnson. “As a designer, I love making beautiful things,” boxes for hats ing in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids, Cho she says. “So to be able to reach more people—that’s and shoes and posts cutesy design tutorials, recipes and style guides been one of my ultimate goals, realized.” hooks to hang that reach some 14 million fans across her social chan- —sarah begley kids’ art

YouTube’s most-subscribed personality The Indian PM has long used social FELIX ARVID uploads clips of himself playing video NARENDRA MODI media to rally his country’s 200 million- ULF KJELLBERG games with charismatic narration. @NARENDRAMODI plus web users; he announced All told (so far), they’ve logged roughly President Obama’s January visit on @PEWDIEPIE 8 billion views. Twitter, bypassing traditional outlets.

54 Amid last year’s #GamerGate contro- The social-media-born pop star hasn’t ANITA versy, the Canadian feminist became JUSTIN BIEBER released an album in three years but SARKEESIAN perhaps the most public critic of sexism @JUSTINBIEBER nonetheless makes media waves via in the gaming community, via her blog, Facebook (78 million fans), Twitter @FEMFREQ YouTube channel and Twitter account. (61 million) and Instagram (23 million).

>> THE ENTERTAINER JIMMY’S JIMMY FALLON GREATEST @JIMMYFALLON CLIPS DANIEL CHRISTINA WILL.I.AM’S when jimmy fallon ascended to nbc’s late-night RADCLIFFE’S AGUILERA’S “EW!” SONG throne, one question loomed large: Could he—or any- “ALPHABET BRITNEY 23 million one—make The Tonight Show relevant again, especially AEROBICS” RAP SPEARS views IMPRESSION among cord-cutting millennials? 37.7 million 26.9 million One year later, the skeptics have been silenced. And views views ironically, Fallon’s edge comes from making it easier than ever not to watch The Tonight Show (on TV, at least): almost every week, one of his segments goes viral online. This is no fluke. Whereas his predecessor, Jay Leno, traded in bits that were fun but ultimately dispos- able, 40-year-old Fallon—who came of age with the JENNIFER MORGAN Internet—creates can’t-miss moments. He reunited the LOPEZ’S FREEMAN’S cast of Saved by the Bell nearly 22 years after the finale TIGHT-PANTS HELIUM CHAT and coaxed actress Emma Stone into lip-synching to CHALLENGE 17.9 million “All I Do Is Win.” Both segments were promptly up- 20.6 million views loaded to The Tonight Show’s website and YouTube chan- views nel and then covered by every major entertainment outlet. “Time slot doesn’t matter to me,” Fallon has said. “If people want to see you, they’ll find you.” That verve has made The Tonight Show a virtual powerhouse. Fallon himself touts 22 million followers on Twitter, more than quadruple the number of rival host Jimmy Kimmel. And his show has 6 mil- WANT MORE? lion subscribers on YouTube, dwarfing figures from The Late Show With David Letterman (170,000) and Visit youtube Comedy Central (3.8 million), which posts clips from .com/latenight The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. It’s no wonder NBC estimates that 70% of The Tonight Show views are happening online. Fallon’s web success hasn’t saved NBC’s overall late- night ratings or ad revenue (though The Tonight Show is now outdoing its ratings under Leno’s final run). And Stephen Colbert, who’s taking David Letterman’s spot this fall, could steal some of Fallon’s thunder. But it’s hard to imagine that the perpetually smiling host is worried. He’s seemed uncomfortable on air only once, after prompting Nicole Kidman to tell her story about her failed attempt to date him. That clip got 26 million views on YouTube. —daniel d’addario

JOSH The raunchy comedian is the Internet’s SHAKIRA The Colombian singer isn’t as web- court jester, posting funny photo memes obsessed as some of her contemporaries, OSTROVSKY and wacky images of himself to the @SHAKIRA but there’s no denying her reach: she has delight—or chagrin—of his 3.2 million 107 million Facebook fans, more than any @FATJEW Instagram followers. other person on the site.

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By Eliana Dockterman VIDEO STILL FROM “WANDERLUST” (2008) Directed by Encyclopedia Pictura “I was living on a boat at the time, trying to ﬁgure out what country we were going to live in. I wanted to make this nomadic shaman voodoo Icelandic woman, who was a feminist. It was Encyclopedia’s idea immediately to go for the Himalayas and this kind of aesthetic.”

WANDERLUST: ENCYCLOPEDIA PICTURA/WELLHART LTD & ONE LITTLE INDIAN; SWAN DRESS: GETTY IMAGES The Culture Swan Song A temple of art welcomes Björk’s eccentric vision By Isaac Guzmán

new york city’s museum of modern art wasn’t designed to The swan dress readily accept the life’s work of Björk Guðmundsdóttir—a trait it designed by Marjan shares with most of the world. So when curator Klaus Biesenbach Pejoski that Björk set out to exhibit the Icelandic iconoclast’s voluminous portfolio wore to the Oscars of visual and sound art, he had to modify the building. To ac- in 2001 will be commodate the bass notes in a specially commissioned video for shown at MOMA “Black Lake,” a song from Björk’s latest album, Vulnicura, “we had to build a new floor,” Biesenbach says, “to keep our Picassos from falling off the walls.” The installation at MOMA, on display from March 8 to June 7, spreads over three floors, encompassing the photographs, music videos, costumes and custom-made instruments that have helped make Björk, 49, a singular pop presence since she emerged from Iceland with the Sugarcubes in 1987. Biesenbach pursued the singer for five years before she agreed to the retrospective. “It’s tricky for a musician to be in a visual museum,” she says. “To take someone on a musical journey, like a musician’s development, how you change in 20 years’ time. That’s the experiment.” Despite her hugely influential catalog of music and her collabo- rations with some of the most respected artists in film and photography, Björk is still most widely known for what she wore to the 2001 Oscars ceremony. When she sat with Time to talk about some of the images on display at MOMA, we asked if her notorious costume would also be there. “The swan dress? Yes—with the eggs,” she says. “They were almost going to put a red carpet, but then somebody talked us out of that.” Here, Björk weighs in on the most arresting elements of her visual biography that made the cut. The Culture | Art

1. VIDEO STILL FROM “HUMAN BEHAVIOR” (1993) Directed by Michel Gondry

2. HOMOGENIC (1997) Album cover by 3. THE FACE MAGAZINE (1993) Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen Photograph by Glen Luchford

1. “When [Michel 2. “I pretty much walked ‘I asked for a big Gondry and I] ﬁrst met, into a relationship be- Music and Memory we did a song that was a tween Nick Knight and orange Afro, and I From a bear to a black little bit about my child- Alexander McQueen. asked if we could lake, Björk’s take on hood. It took me 10 years They had already done bring crystals. I just her career in images to work it out that we had a few images that were almost similar moms and quite feisty. For a lot of made up this nutty really similar childhoods. people, this image passed music teacher All the videos we’ve done, off as a Japanese thing, they’re always about but we were trying to who’s trying to unite my childhood, nostalgic make up a person that music and nature.’ inaway.” was from every culture. —björk I didn’t come up with this. It was Alexander McQueen’s idea.”

HOMOGENIC, 1997: NICK KNIGHT—WELLHART LTD & ONE LITTLE INDIAN; THE FACE, 1997: GLEN LUCHFORD; ALL IS FULL OF LOVE, 1999: CHRIS CUNNINGHAM—WELLHART LTD & ONE LITTLE INDIAN; BIOPHILIA, 2011: INEZ & VINOODH—M/M 4. VIDEO STILL FROM “ALL IS FULL OF LOVE” (1999) Directed by Chris Cunningham

6. ONSTAGE AT BONNA- ROO FESTIVAL (2013) Photograph by Danny Clinch

5. BIOPHILIA (2011) 7. VIDEO STILL FROM “BLACK LAKE” (2015) Photograph by Inez and Vinoodh Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang

3. “I was 27 when this 4. “This song is about 5. “I’ve got a really 6. “For me, this photo is 7. “Andrew Huang came was taken. It’s when where love and lust meet. amazing relationship very much about forgive- to Iceland, and we were I moved to London. I It’s in heaven, so every- with Inez and Vinoodh, ness. What’s nice about looking for this scene, try- was a bit crazy, a single thing has to be white. who I’ve worked with [the spines] is that they’re ing to ﬁnd cliffs shaped mom. And I found that [Chris] sent me a treat- for 17 years. I’m able to very light, very easy to like a wound so I could all the people who were ment where he included mirror myself in them. wear. I also like that it be inside the wound. Iris exciting me musically all this work he had done I asked for a big orange connects with something van Herpen designed were living in London. on robots, and he’s like, Afro, and I asked if we quite spiritual or saintly. this dress that is metallic That white ﬂuffy ‘I think these two could could bring crystals. I A lot of saints through the and kind of like lava. mohair, like a bomber meet.’ It took a year, but just made up this nutty ages, their theme is if you The story is told in the jacket, I wore all the time. he showed me this, and it music teacher who’s manage to forgive, it’s landscape. And then we Very rave.” was next level.” trying to unite music liberating, the only way try for some healing and and nature.” to salvation. And it’s be- liberation.” tween you and yourself at the end of the day.”

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TELEVISION Must-Stream TV Netflix rescues Tina Fey’s new show from NBC By James Poniewozik when they prepare the in-memoriam reel for the next Emmy Awards, let’s hope the Academy sets aside some space for NBC’s Thursday-night comedy block, God rest its soul. It was born in 1981, when the network aired the first in a set of comedy lineups that would eventually include Cheers, The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, Friends, The Office and many more TV legends. It died of old age and neglect on Jan. 22, 2015, with the little-mourned expirations of Bad Judge and AtoZ. (Parks and Recreation outlived its cohort slightly, ending its days in Feb- ruary, exiled to Tuesdays.) It is survived by the night’s current occupants, espionage dramas Allegiance and The Blacklist, as well as The Slap, the bourgeois-parenting- angst miniseries that is a comedy only unintentionally. NBC euthanized its comedy block, but it is not solely guilty. The Must-See-TV brand once promised a kind of sitcom that was both sophisticated and popular. But as cable outlets for niche comedy multi- The deal was a sad statement about the show interview (a relic of cross-promo- plied, audiences shrank. The finale of the potential for comedy at the new NBC. obsessed NBC), after which Kimmy finds urbane, witty Cheers drew over 80 million (Earlier last year, the network canceled herself on the street, trying to figure out viewers; the finale of the urbane, witty the inventive Community, which will what to do with her life. She stumbles 30 Rock, not quite 5 million. stream its sixth season on Yahoo starting across a roommate share with broke actor The first season of Unbreakable Kimmy March 17.) But it was probably the best Titus (30 Rock’s Tituss Burgess) and eccen- Schmidt, which premieres March 6 on Net- thing possible for the delightful, strange tric landlady Lillan (sitcom legend Carol flix, might have aired on NBC’s Thursday Kimmy, which could have easily, quickly Kane). Alien in every way and still 14 at in a distant era—like last spring, when died on network TV. Netflix committed to heart, Kimmy sets out to explore the ter- the network first picked up the comedy, two full seasons of the show before the rae incognitae of the big city, the 2010s about an escapee from a doomsday cult first even premiered. and adulthood. making a new life in New York City. It had The pilot opens in an underground Kemper and Kimmy are one of TV’s a Must-See Thursday pedigree, with bunker, where Kimmy Schmidt (Kemper) most natural matches of actor and charac- 30 Rock’s Tina Fey and Robert Carlock as is decorating a Christmas tree. She’s cele- ter since Lou Ferrigno became the Hulk. co-creators. It had a Must-See Thursday brated the holiday with the same three She’s a terrific physical comic and conta- star, Ellie Kemper of The Office. women since the ’90s, when she was 14 giously joyous, as if Lucille Ball had a baby But by 2015, there was no Must-See and was kidnapped by an Indiana cult with a rainbow. Kimmy knows almost Thursday to schedule it on. So NBC, leader who claimed to be saving them nothing about today’s world, which whose parent company produces Kimmy, from a nuclear apocalypse. After a SWAT means she doesn’t know enough to be jad- (2) NETFLIX essentially precanceled the show and sold team raids the bunker, the “Mole Wom- ed about it. When she spies a costume in it to the streaming service. en” are whisked to Manhattan for a Today the corner of Titus’ apartment—his day 62 job is handing out arcade flyers wearing a BOOKS copyright-violating faux–Iron Man Sic Semper Tyrannis costume—she squeals with amazement: “Is that a real robot? Do people have ro- Caesar’s death revisited bots now?” We may be watching a sitcom, By Lev Grossman but she’s living a sci-fi story. Fey doesn’t appear in the series, but It’s not often a writer can war. Pompey lost, but one Kimmy’s cartoon-NYC zaniness, broad claim the privilege of cor- of Caesar’s go-to tactics characters and rapid-fire jokes are pure recting Shakespeare, but was to pardon and even The Death of Caesar promote his defeated 30 Rock, as is its overall aesthetic. (It even in Barry Strauss, a professor rivals. (This worked bet- has similarly jaunty incidental music, of history and classics at ter for Abraham Lincoln, composed by Fey’s husband Jeff Rich- Cornell, does exactly that. though regrettably the mond, who also wrote 30 Rock’s.) When For example: nobody ever outcome was the same.) Kimmy finds a job as an under-the-table said “Beware the Ides of Brutus and Cassius need- nanny, her vacuous one-percenter boss March.” Rather, a sooth- ed a man on the inside, Jacqueline Voorhees is played by Jane Kra- sayer named Spurinna and that was Decimus. kowski, who for all intents and purposes told Caesar he ought to A member of Caesar’s is doing Jenna Maroney 2.0, right down to be extra careful for the inner circle, Decimus had the plastic-surgery connoisseurship. next 30 days, a period spent too long in Caesar’s that ended on March 15. shadow. He was also (“Feet are the new butts, Kimmy!”) On that day Caesar ruthless: “Decimus was But Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt also has remarked to Spurinna, a liar,” Strauss writes, “a a dark core. Kimmy’s bunker experience “The Ides of March have flimflam man, a brazen is played for laughs (she “made a pet cat come.” Spurinna, evi- and audacious snake. In out of dryer lint”), but it was also abuse by dently no fool, shot back: short he was much like a misogynistic cult leader who convinced “Aye, they have come but Caesar.” the women their “dumbness” brought on not gone.” Strauss deploys his the world’s end—all but Kimmy. Each The major point on sources judiciously: he character is a survivor of something that’s which Strauss differs explains their biases and blind spots and when tried to break them: Mrs. Voorhees, des- from Shakespeare in this compelling, clarify- and how they disagree. perate to please her always absent, philan- ing account of one of (Eight sources say Caesar dering husband; and Titus, grappling history’s most dramatic was stabbed 23 times, with growing older as a struggling actor assassinations is the but Nicolaus of Damas- and single gay man. role of Decimus Junius cus puts the number at If Kimmy would have been too odd for Brutus Albinus, known as 35.) Although he’s an NBC, it’s oddly conventional for Netflix. Decimus. (Shakespeare academic, Strauss has, When Netflix revived the Fox comedy Ar- calls him Decius.) Shake- like Caesar, the common Burgess plays Kimmy’s would- rested Development, it was as a complex, speare focuses on Brutus touch: he conveys the be-actor roommate, who nonlinear narrative. Kimmy is structured and Cassius instead, but complexity of late repub- suffers through a series of those two were relative lican Roman politics while humiliating jobs like a typical network sitcom—22 min- outsiders who had sided keeping up a lively pace. utes or so an episode, no swearing—with with Pompey against He’s also a deft por- one notable difference. After the pilot, the Caesar in the recent civil traitist. Roman history end of most episodes introduces the plot can read like an endless of the following episode, the better to get parade of marble statues, binge viewers to click “Play Next.” (This, but in The Death of curiously, even though NBC produced the Caesar, the players are first season before handing off the show.) all vibrant individuals, For the six installments sent for review, and none more so than Caesar himself, “dark- anyway, it worked on me. In the end, I eyed and silver-tongued, can’t blame NBC for not taking a chance sensual and violent.” on a story that could have been a weird Though it was Cato the subplot on 30 Rock. But I’m glad that Kim- Younger who evoked his my the show, like Kimmy the character, towering, fatal ambition found itself in 2015, where Netflix could Strauss compares most neatly: “Caesar,” he pull an odd misfit out of the bunker of Rome to “Al Capone’s said, “is the only man to network-TV limbo and bring it, blinking, Chicago and Boss try to overturn the Repub- into the light of day. ■ Tweed’s New York” lic while sober.” time March 16, 2015 63 The Culture Pop Chart

LOVE QUICK TALK IT Kelly Clarkson The 32-year-old original American ON MY Idol and new mom (to daughter “RADAR Video site River Rose Blackstock, born last XTove Lo, Sohu will team Queen of the June) just released a new album, Clouds with Lorne Piece by Piece. —nolan feeney Michaels to “It’s such a produce a Chinese version You’re famous for fiery breakup good record.” of Saturday songs like “Since U Been Gone,” X Learning Night Live. VERBATIM but there aren’t any of those on French this album. Has motherhood mel- “So I can teach lowed you out? I’m a woman—at Lady Gaga ‘It was a horrible my daughter!” announced any given moment I might get up- that she will set! But I’m human. The older you star in the fifth nightmare, because get, the more reflective you get, season of FX’s American Horror the more forgiving of human error Story, airing in I like to be amazing.’ you get. Older and wiser! I hope I’m October. It will be subtitled MADONNA, describing her fall at the Brit Awards wiser than when I was singing Hotel. “Since U Been Gone.” But I love a good anthem. I love angst. And I still love empowering songs. THE DIGITS It’s been years since American Idol has produced a major star. Do you think singing- competition shows have run their course? No, STaco Bell is $16.7 testing Cap’n because more keep Crunch–coated coming out. People doughnut are always asking holes at one of its California me, Why did you locations, much million make it? Or Carrie Amount that Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I. to the delight of made from their 2013 hit “Blurred Lines,” according to [Underwood], why did the Internet. court filings; such numbers are rarely made public she make it? We were early on! We weren’t competing as much, except for the fact that people hated talent shows, and now they like them. So the shows are here to The sound- track for Clueless stay. They’ll last as long (featuring as people keep watch- artists like ing them. People don’t Coolio and the Mighty Mighty even realize Frank Sinatra Bosstones) will got into the business through a be reissued competition. I don’t think it mat- on vinyl to celebrate the ters how you got here. It matters film’s 20th if you’re good enough to hang anniversary. around. At what age will River Rose get to watch From Justin to LOOK AGAIN “On the Internet people only look at Kelly [the Grease knockoff Clark- pictures of kittens,” writes Banksy on his website. So son made after winning Idol]? to highlight the destruction in the Gaza Strip from last Never! We don’t have to show summer’s 50-day war, the mysterious street artist her that! You’re going to pretend covered building walls and rubble in the territory with it doesn’t exist? That’s what I do images of cats and amusement-park rides. [anyway]. So why not?

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A Little Bit Pregnant Will the English guys wearing fake baby bellies help or hurt the sensitive-dad revolution? dear three pregnant dads, If you watched the Super Bowl this year, thing deeply silly about your stunt First, a question: Am I you know that it was all about “dadvertis- drunken lark tribute. Not that I am the only person who thinks ing.” Meaning dads are no longer a clue- opposed to the silliness of dads. To para- there is something Napole- less subhuman species who can’t change phrase Dr. Johnson, if a woman can’t onic about your quest? After a diaper or remember the name of the laugh at her father, she can’t laugh at life. all, Napoleon is the man who famously pediatrician. Now dads are intelligent, In fact, there would have been 45% less said, “There is but one step from the sub- feeling men who can adjust a Halloween laughter in my childhood if not for my lime to the ridiculous.” So what if you’re costume, potty train a child and even father. Yes, he is a funny man, intention- not invading Russia? You are invading pick up a teenager at school in a shiny ally and not. (He once got his hand caught the realm of women the world over. new sedan. in the ice machine in our freezer, and For those who aren’t familiar with even though it was scary and painful at your story, it goes like this: You are three You may have missed this during your the time, we drag that old story out again 40-something British dads—Jonny Big- period of confinement, as it were, but whenever we need a good laugh.) gins, Jason Bramley and Steve Hanson— three weeks after the Super Bowl, the Second, with all that blogging about who have hatched a (possibly bonkers) fourth annual Dad 2.0 Summit was held pregnancy, you verge on narcissistic, plan to honor moms. For a month, you’re in San Francisco. The Dad 2.0 Summit is clueless, first-time-mom behavior. You each wearing a 33-lb. belly-breast suit, also very much about taking dads seri- know, when a woman of your acquain- 24/7, to simulate as best you can the sen- ously. Absolutely no bumbling allowed tance has a baby and acts like she invent- sation of being nine months pregnant. in this annual, increasingly popular ed childbirth. Super annoying. Call it sensitivity training for the modern dadfest, which was cooked up four years And you three are, well, a bit like that. father, just one part of a larger revolution ago by a blogger and an entrepreneur who Oh: it’s really hard to tie your shoes! Your in which dads are very, very involved. thought their kind were getting a bad back really hurts! You can’t get a good And—let’s be frank—it’ll be a traffic driv- rap in the media. They also knew dads night’s sleep! Next time, have a doctor er to your website, 3pregnantdads.com, could monetize their ever larger digital give you an injection of progesterone and which has convenient links to your footprint. Luckily, you Three Pregnant throw in a little third-trimester heart- e-commerce operation that sells person- Dads are prepared for this new audience, burn, and then let’s talk about discomfort alized books. thanks to your sophisticated blog, com- and sleep deprivation. I’ve decided—even though you used plete with frequent video entries. But now all of that is nearly behind to work in advertising and are promoting But now for the ridiculous. First, you, because you’re almost full term. On a book for Mother’s Day, celebrated on you’ve got to admit that there is some- March 15 you will all “give birth.” My March 15 in the U.K.—that I’m not going question is: Then what? Will you be able to be cynical about your motives. There is to keep the movement alive? something sublime in your pursuit. You are all sons, and husbands of women who I have two suggestions. The first is gave birth to your children. So indeed, sublime: Take an extra-long paternity you have much to be thankful for. leave, while convincing your co-workers What you’re doing is even a bit heroic, that you do really care about your job. if it yields some understanding of how Don’t believe them when they say you are uncomfortable pregnancy can be. Giving not leaning in. birth is its own kind of amazing torture And second: Learn to French-braid that you won’t experience, but being hair. It sounds ridiculous, but trust me. ILLUSTRATION BY FOR TIME LUCI GUTIÉRREZ pregnant lasts a lot longer and doesn’t get Mastering a French braid is a small much play in the whole miracle-of-life accomplishment that represents the narrative. million insignificant-seeming things And you’re helping take dads to a we do for our children throughout the whole new level, in accordance with the course of our lives. And—like pregnancy zeitgeist. As savvy marketers, you know itself—it isn’t easy. Only the very best that we’re in the midst of rebranding dads can pull it off. “men who have children.” This means Respectfully yours, we must all now take dads very seriously. Kristin van Ogtrop ■

66 time March 16, 2015 Started my Camry. Wanted tacos for lunch. Crossed down into Baja. Joined a soccer game. Lost my passport to a seagull. Hitched a ride on a cargo ship. Got boarded by pirates. Freed some livestock. Retook the ship. They were really good tacos.

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Photojournalist Lynsey Addario lays Have you had to tone down Neither. It has made me more your adrenaline-junkie side? realistic and pragmatic about out the risks, rewards and heartbreak I don’t have the adrenaline- what goes into a war and what of reporting from war zones junkie side. People who do this comes out on the back end of a for a living don’t do it for the war. And who the victims are. rush, or I don’t. I do it because I Generally not the combatants. Why did you call your book as a result of working with believe the work is important. It’s WhatIDo? you. How do you live with that? So much of this job is lonely, Were you surprised at the Because so many people asked It’s very difficult. I think it’s grueling and difficult. negative response to your de- me, Why do you do this job? very important to take owner- cision to keep working when Why risk your life? Why sub- ship. Especially in the case of Has seeing so much war made you were pregnant? ject yourself to these scenes of Libya, it was definitely our you more hawkish or dovish? I fully expected to be criti- brutality? I’ve realized that it’s fault. Our driver wanted to cized. But in order to discuss not just how I make a living leave, and we were slow in de- these issues, someone has to but it’s what I do. ciding. But anyone who works be honest about them. And I with journalists in a war zone think women are often am- Do female photojournalists understands the risks. bivalent about being pregnant shoot war differently? and what will happen to our On the front lines it doesn’t While captive in Libya, you de- lives. Also, I worked in places matter if you’re a man or a cided to have a baby after not where there are women get- woman, so long as you keep wanting one. What clicked? ting pregnant and giving up. But I think that in the Mus- It seemed like the most logical birth every single day. If peo- lim world, where I work a lot, response. At that point in my ple are so up in arms about the I have better access to women life I had escaped death several conditions for pregnant wom- and children because the soci- times. I thought, Maybe it’s en in Somalia, they should do ety is segregated by gender. time I start a life rather something about it. than spending my life Can you remember when you documenting death. Your two grandmothers were most afraid? are 97 and 101. Is it Definitely in Libya. We Does having a son because you think you stopped at a checkpoint, and make it harder to have a lot of time left Gaddafi’s troops were full of leave home? that you can toler- hatred and adrenaline and so Of course. I try to ate danger? amped up at having caught limit my assign- I don’t live the Western journalists. They ments to two lives that made us lie down, and they weeks. I don’t my grand- put guns to our heads and necessarily mothers were about to execute us. I re- work on the lived. I’d

member being more terriﬁed front line be sur- ADDARIO LYNSEY OF COURTESY FAMILY: SOBECKI; NICHOLE ADDARIO: than I’d ever been. anymore. I prised try to cover if I live What did you think about? refugees or to 80. I’ve It was a series of almost non the civil- seen so many sequiturs: What am I doing ian toll. people die, and here? Do I really care about I’ve lost a lot of Libya? Why do I do this job? friends and col- Will I see my parents again? leagues. It’s important Will I see my husband again? to take advantage What will my Italian grand- of the time that we each mothers think? Will I get my have. —belinda luscombe cameras back? FOR MORE INTERVIEWS LIKE THESE, GO TO time.com/10questions You survived, but people died

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