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ISIS Tussles in Brussels / Magic Mushrooms for Cancer 12.16.2016 DONALD TRUMP TAKES ON THE WORLD 12.16.2016 VOL.167 NO.22 + HARD TIMES: A woman walks past a liquidation sale in Plymouth, Pennsylva- nia. In Luzerne County, more than one in fi ve families with kids live in poverty—5 percent over the state average. 22 Media The Maestro of Media Manipulation 24 Trump Graft Expectations NEW WORLD 44 3-D Womb for Instagram 46 Medicine A Frigid Dare FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 48 Psychedelics The Emergency Shroom BIG SHOTS 52 Cancer 28 Enter the Donald Genetic Outlaw It’s possible for the U.S. to get tougher on trade 4 Cannon Ball, in a way that would benefi t U.S. workers without North Dakota triggering a trade war. But you need a stiletto, Water Windfall DOWNTIME not a blunderbuss. by Bill Powell 6 Rome Torn From 54 Books Today’s Headlines You’re Not All That 8 Vienna 34 Trumplandia, Pa. A Broken 59 Comedy Luzerne County was true-blue in 2012, Right Wing A Funny Thing but this November, it went for Donald Trump 10 Baire, Cuba Happened on the in a landslide. Want to know what it’s going to A Death Foretold Way to Dayton... take to keep them from turning on him the way they turned on Obama? Just ask ’em—they’re 60 Housing Tiny Housing still pissed off , and dying to tell you why. PAGE ONE by Josh Saul Bubbles 62 Cinema 12 Syria Drowning, A Giant Tomb Not Waving COVER CREDIT: ILLUSTRATION BY NATHAN FOX 17 Vodka 64 Rewind Russia’s Vodka 25 Years Newsweek (ISSN0028-9604) is published weekly except one week in January, July, August and Hangover October. Newsweek is published by Newsweek LLC, 7 Hanover Square, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10004. Periodical postage is paid at New York, NY and additional mailing offices. 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Native Americans and environmentalists have camped out in teepees and tents since July in an eff ort to block construction, arguing that a breach would contaminate drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux’s reservation. While the Army Corps of Engineers has refused to grant the pipeline company permission to tunnel under a res- ervoir on the Missouri River, the administra- tion of President-elect Donald Trump supports the project and could reverse the corps’ decision. DAVID GOLDMAN DAVID GOLDMAN/AP BIG SHOTS ITALY Torn From Today’s Headlines Rome—An anti- referendum poster shows Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on December 5, the day after voters soundly rejected his constitu- tional referendum in yet another massive blow to Europe’s po- litical establishment. The leader of Lega Nord, the country’s right-wing party, celebrated the results by tweeting, “Viva Trump, viva Putin, viva la Le Pen e viva la Lega!” The “Vota No” campaign appealed to voters unhappy with the establishment, globalization and the European Union. Renzi, a centrist, had promised to step down if he lost, and he did, throwing Eu- rope’s fourth-biggest economy into political and economic limbo. GREGORIO BORGIA GREGORIO BORGIA/AP GREGORIO BIG SHOTS AUSTRIA A Broken Right Wing Vienna—Just when it seemed as if Eu- rope’s populist revolt couldn’t be stopped, it was. On December 4, Austria’s Alexan- der Van der Bellen, a former Green Party leader who ran as an independent, defeated Norbert Hofer, his far-right counterpart, in the country’s presidential election. He won on a pro-European Union platform at a time when many voters seem to be angry at the EU’s bureaucracy in Brussels. His victo- ry, however, doesn’t mean moderates in France, Germany or the Netherlands are safe in a post-Brexit world. As Daphne Halikiopoulou, an analyst at Britain’s University of Read- ing, told Newsweek, “I wouldn’t put anything past anyone.” LEONHARD FOEGER LEONHARD FOEGER/REUTERS LEONHARD BIG SHOTS CUBA A Death Foretold Baire, Cuba—People declared him dead on dozens of occasions, but this time it was real: Fidel Castro, Cuba’s controversial leader, died Novem- ber 25 at age 90. For the next nine days, Cubans mourned his passing. Some, like this man, whose car sits next to a portrait of Cuban revolution- ary Ernesto “Che” Guevara on Decem- ber 3, took part in a fu- neral procession car- rying Castro’s ashes through cities where his rebels fought their way to power. Those ashes were then bur- ied in Santiago, the eastern city where his Communist revolu- tion began some six decades ago. RODRIGO ABD RODRIGO ABD/AP PAGE ONE TERRORISM SYRIA MEDIA TRUMP BANGUI VODKA A GIANT TOMB The Syrian Civil War has been a nightmare for Barack Obama. It might be even worse for Donald Trump THE LEAFLETS fell from the sky over Aleppo, This is not how the U.S. wanted the war to off ering dire warnings. “If you don’t leave these end—Washington once hoped that moderate areas quickly,” they admonished civilians, “you rebels would take over a democratic, post- will be annihilated. Save yourselves.… Everyone Assad Syria. That didn’t happen, and much of has left you alone to face your doom.…” the Sunni-dominated opposition has largely As Syrian government forces continue to morphed into a bewildering array of radical steamroll through eastern Aleppo, the rebel jihadi groups. Now, the White House has run opposition’s last stronghold in this war- ravaged out of options to challenge Assad, and for all city, the leafl ets aren’t just a warning for resi- its condemnation of the regime’s assault on dents; they’re also an indication that President Aleppo, the Obama administration has also Bashar al-Assad is poised for victory. It was only done nothing to stop it. “Essentially, U.S. policy a year ago that the rebels seemed on the verge has become to acquiescence in Assad’s retaking of taking Aleppo, once Syria’s bustling commer- of Syria,” says Joshua Landis, the head of the cial capital. But due to a massive Russian bomb- Center for Middle East Studies at the University ing campaign, the ophthalmologist turned of Oklahoma. “It’s clear that the Obama admin- strongman has held on to power—and reduced istration has decided that it cannot risk dislodg- the city to rubble. ing Assad from Damascus. The rebels are too Yet even with Aleppo under the regime’s con- Islamist, too radical.” BY OWEN MATTHEWS trol, the Syrian Civil War would still be far from Instead, over the past year, the U.S. and its @owenmatth over, and the confl ict promises to be as much of a allies have concentrated on two things: “fi ghting AND nightmare for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ISIS and avoiding starting a war with the Rus- SOPHIA SLATER as it has been for his predecessor, Barack Obama. sians by accident,” says one senior European @sophia_slater_ NEWSWEEK 12 12/16/2016 + DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON: A man cries next to the body of two girls who were killed by government air- strikes in Aleppo. JAWAD AL RIFAI/ANADOLU/GETTY AL JAWAD NEWSWEEK 13 12/16/2016 diplomat who asked for anonymity because he It was Hillary Clinton, as Obama’s secretary of was not authorized to speak on the record. state, who was pushing for “regime change and This position—leaving Assad in place and democracy promotion in the wake of the [2011] focusing on fi ghting the Islamic State group Arab Spring,” says the senior diplomat. But by (ISIS), in coordination with the Russians, if 2014, after the U.S. failed to fi nd democratic necessary—is precisely the one advocated by and secular allies on the ground in both Libya Trump during the 2016 campaign.