Gut Check for Trump, Intuition Beats Experience

JULY 25, 2016

Gut Check For Trump, intuition beats experience. What that would mean for the presidency By Jon Meacham After Dallas: Race, politics and the slow course of progress By Joe Klein

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Hurt and hope

“SCHISM, BITTERNESS, DEMANDS FOR VIOLENT solution, disenchantment with the way things are, fear of what may be—those are the forces, some would say the demons, that are loose in the U.S. ...” That was the opening of TIME’s cover story on the Democratic Convention of 1968, an agony of violence and division that became an all-purpose reference point for the summer’s confla- grations. Now the violence in Baton Rouge, La., St. Paul, Minn., and Dallas has challenged faith in the rule of law at a moment when such faith is already in short supply, further inflaming an already raw political season. How exactly does the U.S. conduct the stringent self- GOLF’S A-TEAM For his story (see page 56) on Jason Day, examination that yields our next President, when the Jack Nicklaus and Jordan Spieth (center left to right), TIME’s David public mood holds more hurt than hope? Which of the Von Drehle (far left) visited the trio at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. Von Drehle—whose last golf game with his late father took place candidates can speak to our common purpose, when the on that course—called the assignment “an unforgettable experience.” only things they have in common are red-carpet wealth TIME captured their conversation about the state of the game. Watch and epic unpopularity? Who can hear voices of peace the video, presented by Rolex, at time.com/golf-greats and reason over the din of emotional arsonists? The campaign of 1968, during which the country had to absorb the Tet offensive, the murders of Robert F. Subscribe to TIME’s health BONUS newsletter and get a weekly email Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., riots in our cities TIME and then the revolt in Chicago, left people wondering HEALTH full of news and advice to keep you well. For more, visit time.com/email what possible outcome on Election Day could heal so many deep wounds. Now as then, despair mutates into cynicism and weakens the muscles of citizenship. COLLEGE BOUND But it is the very process of political participation For its annual list of that, over time, tames demons and salves division. It is the best colleges painful because it genuinely matters. It can be polariz- in the U.S.—based ing because we don’t all think alike. The consoling para- on educational and dox of campaign 2016 is that voters may be disgusted financial value— Money magazine and disheartened, but they have not disengaged. They looked at how more are also watching, listening, voting. Primary turnout than 700 schools was close to a record; debate viewership blew past that stack up. See this of any previous cycle. For the past year we have been year’s rankings TRUMP SHOTS Harry Benson has exploring the stakes in this race and the issues on the (and why Princeton photographed Donald Trump since the University is No. 1) 1980s—for example, in a helicopter en route table, from immigration and opioids to ISIS and entitle- at money.com/ to Atlantic City in 1987 (above). See some of ments. As the political world descends on Cleveland best-colleges his memorable pictures on page 46. and then Philadelphia, TIME’s team of reporters, edi- tors, photographers and videographers will SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ▶ In “240 Reasons to Celebrate provide minute-to-minute coverage of America Right Now” (July 11–18), No. 37 inaccurately described Gordon Gee. He both conventions on TIME.com, includ- is president of West Virginia University. A caption in “Ali” (June 20) incorrectly ing 360 video from the convention floor, summarized Muhammad Ali’s record. He was the only boxer to have won the world heavyweight title three times when the 1966 photo was taken. DELANO JONATHAN BENSON: TIME; FOR COULTER DYLAN GOLF: daily Facebook Live streams and special TALK TO US convention editions of correspondent ▽ ▽ Zeke J. Miller’s politics newsletter; SEND AN EMAIL: FOLLOW US: sign up at time.com/politicsemail. [email protected] facebook.com/time Please do not send attachments @time (Twitter and Instagram)

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4 TIME July 25, 2016 I want to learn how to think, not what to think. So why does school prioritize memorization over creative thinking? Teach me to think outside the box so I can find answers to larger questions.

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‘Brexit means 7,500,000 Number of downloads of Pokémon Go in under a week, Brexit, and one of the biggest mobile-game launches ever we’re going to make a T. Swift The singer was named by success Forbes “the world’s top-earning of it.’ celebrity” THERESA MAY, leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, who replaced David Cameron as Prime Minister on July 13; she is the second woman to hold the position, after Margaret Thatcher

GOOD WEEK C,7+,1.+( BAD WEEK :$6-867 ‘Hillary %/$&.,1 Clinton will 7+(:521* How much more male 3/$&( doctors make, on T.I. VALERIE CASTILE, whose son average, than equally make an Philando was shot and killed by The rapper experienced female a police officer during a traffic ones, according to a was named by stop in Falcon Heights, Minn., new study outstanding his restaurant’s sparking national outrage; the TIME FOR DESIGN BIRD BROWN BY ILLUSTRATIONS IMAGES; GETTY WILLIAMS: T.I., CASTILE, AP; SANDERS: MAY, SWIFT, workers in a suit incident occurred a day after over unpaid police shot and killed another President.’ wages black man, Alton Sterling, in Baton Rouge, La. SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS, ending his campaign by endorsing Hillary Clinton after months of speculation ‘I prefer the word one of the greatest “athletes” of $10,900 all time.’ Price paid for 30 rare SERENA WILLIAMS, who won a record-equaling Ruby Roman grapes 22nd Grand Slam title at Wimbledon on July 9, replying at an auction in Japan; to a journalist who asked about her being “one of the the ping-pong-ball- greatest female athletes of all time” size fruits were from the first yield of the season, which is said to offer good fortune ‘I am not pregnant. What I am is fed up.’

JENNIFER ANISTON, actor, criticizing how tabloids objectify women in an editorial for the Huffington Post

SOURCE: CNN ‘POLITICS COULD DO WITH SOME BLOODY DIFFICULT WOMEN, ACTUALLY.’ —PAGE 14

SPECIAL REPORT Seven lives lost and a new reckoning on race By Karl Vick

Cameron Sterling and his mother Quinyetta, in Baton Rouge, La., on July 12. Cameron, 15, holds a composite image he made of himself and his father Alton, who was fatally shot by police on July 5. “The police took his phone, so all the pictures he took are gone,” Cameron says. “Today has been a peaceful day so far. There was less drama today.”

PHOTOGRAPHS BY RADCLIFFE ROYE FOR TIME TheBrief

IT LOOKED, AT FIRST, LIKE A PLACE WE HAD BEEN BEFORE. On the pavement outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, La., two white police officers wrestle a large black man to the ground. Shots ring out, the cell-phone video jumps, another fraught summer begins. It was just after midnight on Tues- day, July 5. The footage went up that afternoon; protests began the same day. What followed, however, was the furthest thing from familiar. The events of the next 48 hours took the country to a place so new and uncertain that, after more than a week of talking about almost nothing else, it’s still not clear where we are. But we do know the precise point of departure. The day after the shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, at about 9 p.m. at the curb of the eastbound lane of Larpenteur Avenue in Falcon Heights, Minn., a woman pressed an icon on her phone and began broadcasting live from the passenger seat of a white Oldsmobile. She panned to the driver’s seat, where Philando Castile was slumped and bleeding, and spoke with a controlled urgency and a careful courtesy that communicates, for one thing, a great deal about being African American at a traffic stop. But that’s not all that’s being communicated. During the 10 minutes that Diamond Reynolds’ phone streamed to Facebook Live, the matter of police shootings lurched out of the realm of the abstract issue and into the realm of shared experience. It was a jarring shift, and an epochal one. In the 24 months since cell-phone footage of Eric Garner’s death on a Staten Island sidewalk was uploaded and then amplified by events in Ferguson, Mo., something profound occurred: Americans who might never themselves have had a problem with police came to appreciate the complaints of those who too often do. That lesson was discerned from shaky phone cameras, or through low-res cameras mounted atop storefronts or police dashboards––sometimes clear, usually fuzzy, but always from the same vantage: outside, peering in. No more. As Reynolds narrates the death of her boy- friend––blood spreading across his T-shirt, the light in his eyes fading, the officer making his case through the open window, “I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand open”––the experience is, for the first time, a shared one. And when her guard finally comes down and Reynolds begins Dallas assistant Ferguson, was answered by hashtags to wail and pray, the consolation offered by her 4-year-old chief of police like #BlueLivesMatter and #racewar. daughter––“It’s O.K., Mommy. It’s O.K., I’m right here with Gary Tittle On a Sunday talk show, Rudy Giuliani you”––vaults any remaining barrier not only to empathy but comforts a man called the slogan “racist” because, he identification. in front of a said, its name implies that other lives By the next afternoon, the video had been watched memorial to the do not. Antennae went up for copycat 4 million times. Viewers were only beginning to register five slain officers attacks, and a new wave of polarization the implications when the bulletins began arriving from surged into a campaign season already Dallas: five police officers guarding a demonstration against driven by it. “It’s as if the deepest fault police shootings were assassinated by a black Army veteran lines of our democracy have suddenly apparently bent on the notion of racial vengeance. been exposed,” President Obama said, “I’m here to insist that we are not as divided as we seem,” “perhaps even widened.” President Obama informed the country at the July 12 memorial for the slain officers. It seemed a necessary assurance, at an AMID THE TURMOIL, no one was occasion billed as an opportunity for reconciliation, or at more compelling than David Brown. least sensemaking. The stunned silence that first greeted the The implacable, bespectacled African- Dallas killings had been filled soon enough by accusations. American police chief became the new Black Lives Matter, which emerged as a national force in face of the city. In 1963, the “city of

8 TIME July 25, 2016 Policing is largely a local matter, and VOICES the country remains a checkerboard. Fatal shootings in Baton A year after Obama’s task force on po- Rouge, Minneapolis and Dallas licing recommended steps to improve prompted a range of reactions relations with minority communities, only 15 of the country’s 18,000 depart- ‘The scars and ments have moved to adopt them. Brown embodies the tensions coiled stains of racism at the heart of things. Like many black are still deeply cops, he is both wholly of his city’s embedded African-American community and in American of the police force that many black residents say treats them unfairly— society. We have and yet they want to see more police to deal with it.’ because their neighborhoods can be so JOHN LEWIS, Democratic dangerous. Brown has suffered losses Congressman from Georgia and from both sides. A former partner was civil rights leader killed in the line of duty. A brother was murdered by drug dealers. Shortly after becoming chief, his own son, high on ‘WOULD THIS HAVE PCP, fatally shot two people, one of HAPPENED IF THE them a cop, before being killed by cops. DRIVER WERE WHITE, Asked how he bridged the two com- IF THE PASSENGERS munities, Brown explained, “I’ve been WERE WHITE? black a long time, so it’s not much of a I DON’T THINK IT bridge for me.” It fell to another of the city’s African-American professionals, WOULD HAVE.’ Dr. Brian Williams, to parse the contra- MARK DAYTON, governor of Minnesota dictions of serving an establishment not yet rinsed of racism. A trauma surgeon at Parkland Memorial, Williams was haunted by his inability to save every of- ‘When you ficer that night. “I support you,” he said, say Black of the police. “I will defend you, and I will care for you. That doesn’t mean that Lives Matter, I do not fear you.” that’s IF SOME OF THIS came as a point of awakening to white Americans, the inherently reality for black citizens was worn racist.’ hate” (so named for the rawness of its to the point of fraying. The Dallas racism) was where the assassination shooter, Micah Johnson, was an outlier, RUDY GIULIANI, former New York City mayor of a President was followed, thanks to tormented by failure in the military, the incompetence of its police, by the but some say they knew where he was televised assassination of his captured coming from. Schoolchildren are not killer. Now that force not only protected usually taught this on Martin Luther ‘If you are a normal the demonstrators marching against King Jr. Day, but much of the urgency white American, the it but also, amid the ensuing calamity, behind the civil rights movement was truth is you don’t displayed a calm that helped the provided by militants who argued that understand being country order its emotions. the only effective reply to state violence black in America It wasn’t the only department per- was what many blacks say they saw in forming under pressure. Police officers Dallas: retaliation. and you instinctively in St. Paul, Minn., showed notable re- “I have two words for you: black underestimate straint, taking injuries at protests with- rage,” said Oyinka Green, 47, an activist the level of out inflicting any. In Baton Rouge, on with the Dallas Action Coalition, which discrimination.’ the other hand, officers deployed ar- helped organize the July 7 march. NEWT GINGRICH, mored vehicles and chased demonstra- “Look up the term. It’s from the 1970s. former House Speaker tors as if Ferguson had never happened. Anger, frustration—we’re all feeling it. 9 TheBrief

Pilar Agpawa and Jacques Johnson A man prays before a in front of a tribute mural for Alton makeshift memorial to the Sterling in Baton Rouge slain Dallas police officers

Helplessness.” against drugs, and the violence that Much has changed since the days goes with them. when black militancy rose to challenge “We have to talk about it all at the a rigid, racist power structure. Today ‘We’re asking same time, because the same neighbor- the list of African-American leaders cops to do too hoods with the highest rates of violence runs from U.S. President to Attorney much in this have the highest rates of poverty, un- General to editor of the New York employment, substandard housing and Times. But that’s another way of country. We are. lack of education,” says Edward Flynn, saying that the next step, a “national Every societal Milwaukee’s chief of police. “We have conversation” about race, is not really failure, we put it been delegating America’s social prob- about who’s in charge. It has to be about off on the cops to lems to the police.” Obama concurred, institutions, procedures and habits put solve ... Policing echoing Brown: “We ask the police to in place before any of us were born. It do too much, and we ask too little of will be about squaring accounts with was never meant ourselves.” people brought to the continent in to solve all those chains, nominally emancipated 153 problems.’ THANKFULLY, ONE THING they years ago and long hobbled by official are no longer asked to do is control DAVID BROWN, chief of the Dallas decrees, including federal lending police department information. A few years ago, if a laws in the boom years after World reporter got a call from a citizen saying War II that confined African Americans the cops had killed her son, it was going to urban centers, where the most to come down to her word against the visible representatives of the state police. Smartphone cameras and the are uniformed officers enforcing laws Internet have plucked both the reporter

10 TIME July 25, 2016 Cooking for pilgrims outside the Triple S Food Mart, which has become a memorial to Sterling

and the cops from the equation and and support each other. We should all turns and falls into the arms of the men placed it directly before the public. Polls give cops a hug and stand with them,” standing behind him, wailing for his still show that African Americans see says Clarissa Pyles, 23, who marched for daddy. It is almost unbearable. race relations as more dire than white the first time in Dallas. “It can’t be ‘blue “At our best, we practice empathy, people do. “It’s because they don’t live lives matter’ or ‘black lives matter.’ You imagining ourselves in the lives and in same world with us,” says Damon can support both at the same time. And circumstances of others,” George Carter, 40, a welder in Cleveland, days the more we support each other, the W. Bush, the former President and a before the Republicans will convene in more we understand each other.” Dallas resident, said at the memorial his city. “Until they get a brother-in-law It can come in a sudden surge. A few service, with uncommon eloquence. or something, then they say, ‘Now I get hours before Diamond Reynolds reached Obama made the same essential point, it! I get it!’” for her phone, the mother of Alton Ster- with his own eloquence. And then But more may be getting it. This year ling’s son stepped before microphones there was Brown, explaining that Stevie 61% of Americans said more needed to in Baton Rouge. It was still a place we’d Wonder would do his talking for him, be done to assure racial equality, a fig- been before, a news conference for the before reciting 27 lines of lyrics from ure that has been growing steadily since outraged and bereft, survivors bravely the powerful 1976 song “As.” In a room the consciousness-raising summer of struggling for composure. But then of mostly cops and African Americans, 2014. Among whites, in another sign the camera pulls back to bring into the he paused just once to invite applause, of hope, it’s young people who express frame the dead man’s 15-year-old son, slowing to emphasize the line “Until the greatest concern. Whites routinely Cameron. He had thrown an arm around the day that you are me and I am you.” march with Black Lives Matter; in Min- his mother’s shoulder in a manly show The applause came. —With reporting by nesota, they accounted for most of the of support but was now trying to hide JAY NEWTON-SMALL/DALLAS; MAYA protesters. his own tears by tugging up the collar of RHODAN/WASHINGTON; and JOSH “The best thing we can do is to love his shirt. Shuddering with sobs, the son SANBURN/FALCON HEIGHTS, MINN. □ 11 TheBrief

THE RISK REPORT cient sectors and companies in an effort to Anxiety on China artificially boost growth. The anticorruption TRENDING drive and the planned leadership shift at By Ian Bremmer 2017’s Party Congress encourage officials to avoid taking risks—including those needed FIRST, THE (VERY) GOOD NEWS FOR CHINA. for reform. And too often the leadership is Though economic growth has slowed sharply, shifting blame to the country’s expanded fears of a “hard landing” have not been middle class—the very citizens who must realized. The official forecast of 6.7% growth power China’s economy forward. is surely inflated for political reasons, but There is also Beijing’s obsession with SPORTS reliable ground-level data gives the leader- threats from technology. The head of China’s Newly unsealed court documents ship confidence that the economy is strong Internet and surveillance division was sud- revealed a claim that enough to withstand needed reforms that will denly replaced, and there’s a new cyber- Penn State football hurt growth in the short term. Nor has Presi- security law that bans online anonymity. coach Joe Paterno dent Xi Jinping’s anticorruption drive yet There is also a broad redefinition of the coun- was told in 1976 provoked an open revolt among the country’s try’s “critical information infrastructure” that that his assistant Jerry Sandusky had elite. Though tens of thousands of officials makes it easier for the state to restrict online molested a boy but have been expelled from the party or jailed access and compromise privacy. ignored it. Paterno, and some of China’s most powerful have been But what China’s leaders don’t see is that who died in 2012, had caught in the net, Xi remains firmly in charge. the greatest threat posed by technology comes said he learned about But longer-term anxieties about China from the power of automation to decimate the abuse in 2001. persist. Some of Xi’s reform plans aren’t manufacturing jobs and the state’s inability being carried out, and he has warned party to control the flow of information in a world officials that they aren’t taking the country’s of leaks, cyberespionage and other forms of economic challenges seriously enough. They “forced transparency.” Those are the kinds of continue to direct resources toward ineffi- forces even Xi can’t control. □

HEALTH For the first time, LAW scientists have helped mice with destroyed The meaning of optic nerves regain their vision, by coaxing China’s defeat in the connections between South China Sea DEAL—REDUX DAVID WIESEL: IMAGES; DIGITALGLOBE/GETTY LAW: IMAGES; GETTY WILLIAMS: HEALTH, AP; WAR: SPORTS, the eye and the brain. Stanford University researchers say the A RULING BY AN OBSCURE TRIBUNAL findings could help in the Hague on July 12 has become a develop new tools for test of the ability of international law to humans suffering from check a rising power’s ambitions: glaucoma. WHAT DID THE COURT DECIDE? In a case lodged by the Philippines in 2013, the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that China’s historic claims to the South China Sea, a vital waterway also contested by Vietnam, Taiwan, Malay- △ WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? WAR sia and Brunei, had “no legal basis.” China has Tensions look set to build. A U.S. Secretary of Chinese-controlled reefs and rocks, built military wounded China may build a Defense Ash Carter which Beijing has turned into milita- installations on military outpost off the Phil- said on July 11 that rized artificial islands, cannot be used artificial islands ippine coast, while Japanese 560 more American troops would be sent to claim rights over the surrounding sea. in the contested Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Iraq to aid an waters aims to use a new electoral expected assault on HOW DID CHINA REACT? Beijing, which mandate to push for a consti- Mosul, the last urban boycotted the proceedings, called the tutional change that would stronghold of ISIS in tribunal a “political farce.” The U.S., allow for a stronger military the country. They will be stationed at long a keeper of peace in the Pacific, presence nearby. Regional Qayyarah air base, 40 urged China to heed the ruling. But the waters may remain troubled. miles south of the city. panel’s decision is not enforceable. —HANNAH BEECH Milestones ANNOUNCED WON By Tim Duncan, Serena that he would retire after 19 Williams seasons and five 7thWimbledon championships with the San title Antonio Spurs. The 40-year-old SERENA WILLIAMS two-time MVP collapsed onto the helped lead grass at Wimbledon his team to the playoffs every as if exhausted after year of his career winning her seventh in the NBA. title there and her 22nd Grand Slam sin- DIED Sydney gles crown on July 9; Schanberg, she’s now tied with 82, Pulitzer Steffi Graf for the Prize–winning most major victories New York Times in the Open era. But correspondent whose reporting don’t be fooled: Ser- on Cambodia and ena’s not tiring out. the Khmer Rouge Turns out that a de- inspired the film cade ago, when critics The Killing Fields. chirped that Williams ▷ Aaron J. Klein, 55, longtime acted indifferent to- Jerusalem ward tennis, she was just resting up for a correspondent for Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and the author of Night, died on July 2 at 87 TIME and author remarkable run in of Striking Back, her 30s, when many about the 1972 DIED Munich Olympics players take up golf. massacre. Elie Wiesel Heck, she returned to the court a few hours SUED Holocaust survivor after the final to win Fox News By Rabbi David Wolpe the Wimbledon dou- Channel CEO Roger Ailes, by ELIE WIESEL WAS A MAN OF MANY GIFTS. AMONG THEM WAS A bles with sister Venus. former anchor gift for friendship. All over the world, people tell me how close Next up: Septem- Gretchen they were to this extraordinary man. Hearing Wiesel speak was like ber’s U.S. Open, with Carlson, in a suit listening to the whisper of eternity. His voice had a haunting magic, the chance to pass alleging sexual speaking words that were wrung from the suffering of his own soul Graf’s mark. harassment and retaliation. and his indelible witness to the sufferings of others. Even when he —SEAN GREGORY discussed something lighthearted, it had gravity. As the scholar for Carlson says Williams has won nine Ailes made the 100th year of the Sinai Temple, he created many unforgettable Grand Slam singles sexual comments moments. Perhaps the most powerful was the last, when a teenager titles since turning 30 to her and fired asked if Wiesel could summarize his advice to live a good life. Wiesel her for speaking ▽ up about offered four words: “Think higher. Live deeper.” harassment. We have lost one of the most eloquent voices in the history of Representatives witness. Wiesel spoke for the millions slaughtered by the Nazis, and for Ailes deny continued to speak for the bereft all over the world—from Cambodia the claims and to the inner cities of our nation. His voice was as large as history, and say the network declined to as gentle as reaching out to a child and never forgetting him. Never renew Carlson’s forget—that was his creed. Elie Wiesel will never be forgotten. His contract because memory will endure as a spur to our conscience and a blessing to of poor ratings. this often benighted world. Wolpe is the Max Webb senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles

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SPOTLIGHT Britain’s Theresa May takes power with Brexit in her sights By Dan Stewart/London

IT TOOK A FEW OF THE MOST TURBU- lent weeks in the history of British politics, but Westminster’s own game of thrones finally has a winner. Theresa May, the former Home Secretary, suc- ceeded David Cameron as Prime Min- ister on July 13, little more than two weeks after he announced he would quit following the country’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union. Now it’s up to the new occupant of 10 Downing Street to figure out exactly how that will happen. The ascent of a second woman to the office of Prime Minister invites inevitable comparisons to Margaret Thatcher, who remade Britain during her 11-year rule, but May would seem to have more in common with another powerful female leader: Angela Merkel. Like the German Chancellor, May is a clergy- man’s daughter who is guarded about her private life, driven by duty rather than fierce ideology or an overt desire for the limelight. ‘Politics But unlike Merkel could do she is a hard-liner with some on immigration who bloody has long been skeptical of the E.U. difficult The 59-year-old women, first became a Mem- actually.’ ber of Parliament in 1997, just as her to lead the Home Office, the large Brit- Britons wishing to bring foreign fami- center-right Conservative Party entered ish ministry that oversees immigra- lies to the U.K. But she also introduced a MAY: HANNAH MCKAY—AP; CAMERON: MAX MUMBY—GETTY IMAGES MUMBY—GETTY MAX CAMERON: MCKAY—AP; MAY: HANNAH a 13-year period in opposition after tion, policing and domestic security. wave of police reforms and saw crime in running the country since 1979. She She would remain in that position— England and Wales fall during her time became the party’s first female chair- one of the most difficult in the British in office to its lowest point in three de- person in 2002 and made a name for government—for six years, becoming cades. People who worked with her at herself in a major speech that year urg- the longest-serving Home Secretary in the department describe her as a tough, ing the Conservatives to pursue a more six decades and one of the most power- sometimes ruthless boss who takes a compassionate approach. “Our base is ful people in Cameron’s Cabinet. keen interest in the minutiae of policy. too narrow and so, occasionally, are our May’s tenure at the Home Office During the E.U. referendum cam- sympathies,” she said. “You know what was not without controversy; she was paign, May backed remaining within some people call us: the nasty party.” heavily criticized for her immigration the bloc but deliberately kept a low pro- It would take eight more years for policies—including so-called Go Home file, split between her personal distrust the Conservatives to win back power, vans, which toured the country offering of the European project and her loyalty and when Cameron formed a coalition to help illegal immigrants self-deport— to Cameron, who was campaigning fu- government in 2010 he appointed May and minimum salary requirements for riously to keep Britain in. When the

14 TIME July 25, 2016 MAY DATA: THREE could take up to six years to complete. CAMERON’S LEGACY THINGS TO KNOW His July 13 resignation as Prime The biography of Britain’s It will certainly not be hasty; May has Minister is clouded by Brexit. new Prime Minister has a said repeatedly she will not trigger Ar- For better or worse, here’s what few unexpected details: ticle 50 of the E.U. Treaty, which starts a he’ll be remembered for formal two-year process of withdrawal, Diabetic at Downing until 2017. 1 May has Type 1 diabetes Rescuing the economy and maintains her blood- Preparation will still begin right Cameron, who took office in 2010, is sugar levels with regular away, however. May quickly appointed credited by some for rescuing the British insulin injections. One David Davis, an acknowledged Brexi- economy from the depths of the 2008 diabetes charity says teer, to lead negotiations with bureau- global financial crisis. But critics say she is the first world crats in the E.U.’s Brussels headquarters. many of the jobs created were insecure leader known to have the and low paid, while government spending condition. The goal will be to maintain the U.K.’s access to the single European market cuts hurt the most vulnerable. Meeting her match but gain the ability to set limits on E.U. She was introduced migration—the so-called “Norway plus” 2 to her husband Philip option modeled on that country’s rela- Same-sex marriage at Oxford University tionship with the E.U. That won’t be an Cameron has called his gay-marriage in 1976 by another bill, which came into effect in 2014, one future Prime Minister, easy sell—Europe will certainly insist of his greatest achievements. The act Pakistan’s Benazir on free movement as a condition of ac- faced strong opposition from religious Bhutto. cess to the market, and hard feelings re- groups and party members before it was main after Brexit. But European Coun- passed by Parliament in 2013. Big shoes to ﬁll May is resolutely cil President Donald Tusk sounded a 3 unflashy in all but positive note as May took office, saying one department: her July 13 that “after this so-called divorce Libya intervention footwear. Her high- procedure, the U.K. will remain our Britain joined the NATO-led coalition heeled and brightly closest partner.” against then Libyan leader Muammar patterned shoes have Gaddafi in 2011. But Cameron and become a trademark. Whether a compromise can be his allies did little to fill the vacuum forged will rest on May, especially since created by Gaddafi’s removal. Libya has any deal with Brussels will have to be essentially been in a state of civil war approved by her 27 counterparts still in ever since. the union. She has pledged to be a firm negotiator but also to maintain stability 4 as the discussions begin. “We cannot let 2014 Scotland referendum [Brexit] consume us,” she said. “There Cameron led a cross-party coalition are a lot of other things the government and a star-studded cast, which included ◁ May, speaking after J.K. Rowling and President Obama, to has to do as well.” persuade Scotland to stay in the U.K. her appointment on Chief among those is repairing the July 13, promised It worked: the Scotland referendum in rift in British society exposed by the 2014 was a win for the status quo when to make Britain a referendum. The decision to leave was 55% voted to remain with the U.K. country that works influenced as much by lack of opportu- “for every one of us” nity and distrust of government as by 5 animus toward the E.U. She has signaled E.U. referendum country went the other way and Cam- a shift toward economic populism with His biggest failure was of his own eron announced his resignation, other plans to overhaul corporate governance making. In an attempt to heal internal party division over the E.U., Cameron candidates quickly self-immolated. May and narrow the gap between the rich pledged in 2013 to renegotiate Britain’s emerged as the unity candidate—she and the poor. Speaking moments after relationship with the bloc through a even appointed Boris Johnson, a major her appointment, May said Britain was referendum. He gambled that U.K. figure in the Brexit campaign and a at a “time of great national change” but voters would opt to stay. He was wrong. leadership rival, as Foreign Secretary. pledged to “forge a bold new positive —Tara John She is an ally of Cameron’s who has the role for ourselves in the world.” trust of the modernizing wing of the May may not be another Iron Lady, party, and an instinctive Euroskeptic but she is content to be considered a who could be counted upon to bring the “bloody difficult woman”—a term used U.K. out of the E.U. by a senior Tory to describe her that she May’s premiership will be defined by has reclaimed as a badge of honor. “Pol- how she manages that departure from itics could do with some bloody difficult the European Union, which Foreign women, actually,” May said. The E.U. Secretary Philip Hammond has warned had better get ready. □ LightBox

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JULY 9 WAS THE FIFTH ANNIVER- sary of the world’s youngest country, but the citizens of South Sudan had no cause for celebration. Heavy fighting between the government forces of President Salva Kiir and troops loyal to his rival, Vice Presi- dent Riek Machar, broke what had been an uneasy peace. Hundreds of people in the capital of Juba were killed, and tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes. Though a tentative cease-fire was put into place on July 11, it is at best a temporary reprieve for what has been a two-year civil war. That conflict has divided the country along ethnic lines—Kiir is Dinka, while Machar is from the minority Nuer— and has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people. Over 2 million South Sudanese have been dis- placed, while rape and other atroci- ties have become far too common. South Sudan has silently become a human-rights nightmare, one of the worst in the world. It didn’t have to be this way. South Sudan’s independence in 2011—achieved with the help of the U.S.—was considered a diplomatic landmark. The country is blessed with plentiful oil reserves. But its leaders have repeatedly let South Sudan down. As U.N. Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon said after the latest round of violence, “Rarely has a country squandered so much promise so quickly.” —BRYAN WALSH In this photo released by the U.N. Mission in South Sudan, women rest as they take cover from the fighting on the perimeter of a U.N. compound in Juba on July 8

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A crowd of Pokémon Go players gathers to catch and collect digital creatures in New York City’s Union Square

TECHNOLOGY ON A RECENT SUMMER EVENING, Using the built-in camera, creatures something strange happened in pop up onscreen, integrated within The Pokémon Prospect Park, in Brooklyn. As usual, the real world around them. Different joggers zipped along the edge of types of Pokémon, which range from fad shows the Long Meadow and dog owners did two-headed ostriches to plushy drag- unnerving their postprandial duty. But this time ons, manifest at different times of day they were joined by a dozen people in public places—parks, museums, future of shuffling about haphazardly, their monuments—encouraging outdoor ex- zombie eyes fixed on glowing phone ploration. The game is free to download augmenting screens. This ad hoc crowd was but charges for optional digital items busy catching Pokémon, the virtual that can speed up players’ progress. reality creatures at the heart of the latest out- Even in an era of viral fads and By Matt Vella of-nowhere smartphone craze. Internet-breaking stunts, Pokémon Go Pokémon Go, released on July 6 for became a thing at record pace. It shot Apple iOS and Google Android de- to the top of the app charts, the fastest vices, is the first game in the 20-year- mobile game ever to reach No. 1 in old franchise specifically designed terms of revenue, according to tracking for mobile gadgets. Go, developed by firm App Annie. Investors cheered by San Francisco–based Niantic, employs the game’s sudden popularity added a phone’s GPS to make Pokémon ap- $7.5 billion to Nintendo’s market value pear near players’ physical locations. in two days. (The Japanese firm partly EPA; ANIMATIONS COURTESY NINTENDO (5) NINTENDO COURTESY ANIMATIONS EPA; PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN LANE 19 The View

owns the series’ creator.) And according to Google BOOK IN BRIEF Trends, “Pokémon” searches even surpassed those VERBATIM America: more for porn, if only temporarily. ‘I can’t imagine socialist than it seems? Pokémon Go represents something well beyond what this previous hits like Candy Crush Saga or FarmVille. It place would FOR DECADES, U.S. LAWMAKERS HAVE is a milestone for so-called augmented reality (AR), be—I can’t dismissed the possibility of bringing the practice of overlaying digital images on the real Nordic-style social democracy, with its world via smartphone screen or head-mounted imagine what robust and diverse welfare programs, display. Companies from Ikea to Lockheed Martin the country to America. Conservatives say it goes have been experimenting with the concept for would be— against our bootstrapping ideals, while years. In March, Microsoft released a developer with Donald liberals lament that it’s too progressive version of HoloLens, a prototype AR headset Trump as our to catch on. But in his new book Viking that can provide instructions for fixing a busted President.’ Economics, George bathroom sink as well as play Minecraft in 3-D on Lakey argues that RUTH BADER GINSBURG, your coffee table. Florida-based startup Magic Leap, Supreme Court Justice, both objections one of the most hyped ventures in tech these days, to the New York Times; are flimsy. While has raised over $1 billion in funding, based largely Trump replied that it was it’s true that many “highly inappropriate” on demos of its own AR technology that look like for a Supreme Court Americans balk Pokémon Go on methamphetamine. Justice to get involved in at the idea of so- But Go successfully uses AR as a sweetener a presidential campaign cialism, polling to a mix of nostalgia for Pokémon, which peaked reveals strong bi- in popularity during the late ’90s, when many partisan support millennials were preteens, as well as elements of for socialist-style long-gone Internet-age fads from geocaching to programs like flash mobs. While technologists have been trying Medicare, and more than two-thirds to perfect how AR works, Pokémon has provided of Americans believe the government one early answer for why you’d want it to. should help the needy get food and shel- The basic goodness or badness of AR—like ter. (Among the under-30 set, support any technology that proposes tinkering with the for socialism and capitalism is roughly material of our reality—will be long debated. In equal.) Of course, fully embracing science fiction, at least, the results are decidedly Nordic-style policies—and in turn up- mixed. Star Trek’s holodeck is a (mostly) beneficent ping access to health care, education and tool for shared understanding; in Pat Cadigan’s 1991 more—would require something Ameri- classic Synners, the augmentation of reality takes cans are categorically allergic to: tax on a macabre, nightmarish quality as it enables hikes. Then again, Lakey concludes, you corporate interests and human sensualism to run get what you pay for.—SARAH BEGLEY amok. Advanced AR could allow you to experience the world from another person’s perspective—or lock you permanently into your own. STATE UNIVERSITY SUBRAMANIAN—OREGON MAS IDEA: BIG DWYER—AP; MICHAEL GINSBURG: For now, it’s mostly weird. Go has generated CHARTOON dystopian headlines, like the one about the teen Xenophobic world map girl in Wyoming who ran across a dead body while hunting Pokémon, or the man in Holyoke, Mass., who found himself besieged by players when the game randomly designated his home a prime gathering spot. There were just as many reports of gamers rejoicing at having a reason to exercise, strangers bonding over a shared interest and parents finding new ways to play with their kids. These early anecdotes suggest how AR could reshape notions of public space, for example, or make it more difficult to opt out of new technology. The fundamental question AR asks of us will likely be: How do you coexist in a world where people literally see things you cannot? Whether it is ironic or merely to be expected that this future dilemma has crept into our present by way of cloying collectible pets is another matter. □ JOHN ATKINSON, WRONG HANDS

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QUICK TAKE How to save the world’s forests—with tires By Carter Roberts DATA LOVE MOST TALK ABOUT CONSERVATION AND region to design wildlife-friendly plantations AND travel tends to revolve around reducing that offer sustainable income for local com- TELEVISION emissions: fewer pollutants means fewer munities. The move comes on the heels of the As part of a promotion harmful climate changes. U.N.’s 2014 Climate Summit in New York City, for its first original But protecting the environment isn’t where 53 of the world’s largest companies— streaming series, just about tailpipes; it’s about tires and the sans the rubber industry—pledged to elimi- Glued, Xfinity teamed rubber that’s used to make them. Right now, nate deforestation from their supply chains. up with research firm most of it comes from exotic tree plantations To be sure, plenty of work lies ahead, Propeller Insights to survey almost in Southeast Asia. Since the 1980s, its pro- especially in the Tanintharyi landscape 2,000 adults ages duction has led to the loss of hundreds of (along the border of Burma and Thailand), 25 to 49 about their millions of acres of natural forest, threatening where rising rubber production could wipe relationships. Perhaps the species that call those places home. out some of the richest mammal populations not surprisingly, It doesn’t have to be that way. Last month, in Asia. But that work must be done. Our tires the cable company concluded that TV Michelin, the world’s largest buyer of natural should support the wheels of progress—not plays an outsize role: rubber, announced a new zero-deforestation leave behind a path of destruction. policy, setting the bar for the rest of the industry. Its goal is to produce rubber responsibly, Roberts is the president and CEO of working in places like Indonesia’s Thirty Hills World Wildlife Fund 66% BIG IDEA of couples said watching TV together A new blue made their relationship stronger; that number If this color seems familiar, grew to almost 75% for look again. It’s a never- millennial couples before-seen shade of blue, accidentally discovered by researchers at Oregon State University who were testing compounds for uses in electronics. In the heat of their furnace, 55% one mixture turned from of parents said they dark brown to a vivid hue had sent their kids of blue—which, it turns to bed earlier or later out, was an entirely new so they could watch a pigment. “I thought, Wow,” favorite show recalls Mas Subramaniam, the professor who led the OSU research team. The researchers named the pigment YInMn Blue after its three elements: Yttrium (Y), Indium (In) and Manganese 50% (Mn). But there’s more to it of couples said they than good looks: the mixture had “TV cheated,” absorbs UV light and resists or watched a show high temperatures, making without their partner it a promising color option for cooling roofs. YInMn is expected to be commercially available before 2017 (for now, printed photos can’t fully reproduce the hue). Subramaniam says he 28% hopes it will eventually be of single millennials Paint, by numbers used to make “a painting in said they had nixed a The pigment will be sold exclusively by the Shepherd Color Co., a museum.” —Julia Zorthian potential relationship likely for a pricey $1,000/kg (thanks to its rare elements). It can be over TV preferences mixed into paint, plastic and more. The View Sports

How the NBA stole the summer spotlight By Sean Gregory

JUST HOW DEEP ARE THE NBA’S HOOKS IN THE CONSCIOUS- ness of American sports fans? Consider July 4, when social media and sports talk radio were lit up not by the on-court action at Wimbledon or debate over pennant races in America’s notional national pastime but by a business decision in a sport whose season won’t begin until late October. When free-agent basketball star Kevin Durant used America’s birthday to de- clare his own independence from the Oklahoma City Thunder and join the greatest regular-season team in NBA history—the 73-win Golden State Warriors—the sports world lost its mind. After eight years without a title in Oklahoma City, Durant was called a traitor for ditching a passionate small-market fan base in favor of a talent-packed supersquad. That he fled to the War- riors, against whom the Thunder blew a two-game lead in the Western Conference finals, only added to the criticism. So yes, sympathize with OKC, whose future prospects are bleak. But take a moment to recognize what it all means for the larger sports landscape. Thanks to a combination of economic, technological and cultural forces, professional basketball is hotter than ever. The comings and goings of free-agent players are commanding more attention than the results of in-season sports, and the eight-figure contracts they’re signing would give Warren Buffett sticker shock. This may sound like a bad thing. But it actually bodes very well for the future of America’s marquee sports export. The roots of this go-go moment in the NBA date back to △ story lines emerged that no one had 2010, when LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers to join Superteams— seen coming in 2010, like the rise of the fellow stars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami. Much like Wade, Warriors, 26-56 that season, and their like the new-look Warriors, this squad formed a supposedly James and Bosh skinny, shoot-from-the-parking-lot villainous “superteam” that would destroy all semblance of in Miami; and point guard, Stephen Curry. competitive balance. Those Heat teams, however, didn’t stomp Curry, Durant all over the league like some sort of high-topped Godzilla. They and Thompson EVER SINCE JAMES famously took his won two championships but also lost in the finals twice: to the at Golden talents to South Beach and then back sweet-shooting Dallas Mavericks in 2011 and to the beautifully State—produce to Cleveland, the NBA’s popularity has unselfish San Antonio Spurs in 2014. Further, intriguing big ratings surged. The 2010–11 regular season,

LIVING WITH ALZHEIMER’S. DVR-proof live events that attract MONEY BALLING A $24 billion TV contract extension—a an engaged mass audience, the cost 180% increase over the NBA’s previous of airing NBA games has soared. In deal—has inﬂated the 2016–17 salary October 2014, the league re-upped cap, enabling non–All-Star players to sign with ESPN and Turner, signing a astronomical contracts. Here are three of nine-year, $24 billion extension that the luckiest: represented a 180% increase over the TIMOFEY MOZGOV, previous deal. The new money starts $64 MILLION (Los Angeles flowing this upcoming season. As a Lakers, 4 years) result, the league’s per-team salary cap Mozgov, a 7-ft. 1-in. center spiked from $70 million in 2015–16 to from Russia, will make more than two-time defending $94 million in 2016–17, a 34% increase. NBA MVP Stephen Curry in Because of this good fortune, the 2016–17 ($15 million, to Warriors could afford to add 2014 Curry’s $12.1 million). At NBA MVP Durant, for $54 million that salary, Mozgov needs over two years, to a team that already to score more than the 6.3 points per game he did includes two-time reigning MVP for the Cavs last season. Curry and All-Stars Klay Thompson and Draymond Green. But it’s not just elite players who are benefiting. MATTHEW DELLAVEDOVA, $38.4 MILLION (Milwaukee Under the NBA’s labor agreement, Bucks, 4 years) teams must spend 90% of their salary Aussie-born Delly was a cap on their roster. As a result, role crowd pleaser in Cleveland. players like Timofey Mozgov and He’s a pesty—some say dirty—defender and can Matthew Dellavedova are being paid make an open 3-pointer. But more than the GDP of the Pacific island in no rational market does nation of Tuvalu. a player with Dellavedova’s Plenty of these deals could backfire ability make nearly on teams, Durant’s included. But they $10 million a year.

PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN MCCABE; GETTY IMAGES (9) won’t slow the NBA’s ascent. This year’s Cavaliers-Warriors finals drew, on aver- MIKE CONLEY, for example, was the most viewed ever age, 20.2 million viewers, making it the $153 MILLION (Memphis on ABC, ESPN and Turner. Average most watched series since Michael Jor- Grizzlies, 5 years) Conley, a nine-year veteran, viewership on ABC spiked 38% over dan’s last go-around with the Chicago is a fine NBA point guard. one year. Dynamic players like James, Bulls in 1998. Another rematch next But he’s never made an Durant and Chris Paul expanded year, with Durant on his quest for a first All-Star team. His player the league’s appeal as pitchmen for title in the mix, would deliver spec- efficiency rating ranks 46th Fortune 500 companies. tacular basketball—and an even bigger in the league. So he wasn’t on anyone’s short list to And the NBA has cashed in. In an ratings boost. sign the richest contract in era when TV networks are willing Unless you live in Oklahoma City, NBA history, which he did to pay a premium for supposedly that’s something worth cheering. □ with Memphis this summer.

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The healing power of nature By Alexandra Sifferlin

IT SOUNDED MORE LIKE A LARK THAN a scientific study when a handful of Japanese researchers set out to discover whether something special—and clini- cally therapeutic—happens when people spend time in nature. They were inspired by a new recommendation from the Forest Agency of Japan, which in the early 1980s began advising people to take strolls in the woods for better health. The practice was called forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, and it was believed to lower stress—but that hadn’t been proved. Since then, a large body of evidence has shown that spending time in nature is responsible for many measurable beneficial changes in the body. In one early study, Yoshifumi Miya- zaki, a forest-therapy expert and researcher at Chiba University in Japan, found that people who spent 40 minutes walking in a cedar forest had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which is involved in blood pressure and immune- system function, compared with when phytoncides that, when inhaled, can immunity and lower blood pressure. they spent 40 minutes walking in a lab. spur healthy biological changes in a Recent studies have also linked “I was surprised,” Miyazaki recalls. manner similar to aromatherapy, which nature to symptom relief for health “Spending time in the forest induces a has also been studied for its therapeutic issues like heart disease, depression, state of physiologic relaxation.” benefits. In his studies, Li has shown cancer, anxiety and attention disorders. Another researcher, Dr. Qing Li, that when people walk through or stay “The quiet atmosphere, beautiful a professor at the Nippon Medical overnight in forests, they often exhibit scenery, good smells and fresh, clean air School in Tokyo, found that trees and changes in the blood that are associated in forests all contribute to the effects,” plants emit aromatic compounds called with protection against cancer, better says Li. □

LOST SOMEONE TO ALZHEIMER’S. 1 IT CAN LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE Spending time outside is good for the heart, research shows, and since high blood pressure costs the U.S. approximately $48.6 billion per year and affects 1 in 3 Americans, visiting green spaces may be a simple and affordable way to improve heart health. A large June 2016 study found that nearly 10% of people with high blood pressure could get their hypertension under control if they spent just 30 minutes or more in a park each week. “If everyone were to make time for nature, the savings on health care costs could be incredible,” says study author Danielle Shanahan, a research fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia. The fresh air could be one factor, since air pollution has been linked to a higher risk for heart attacks, but since the study participants lived in cities (and therefore were also being exposed to air pollution), that likely isn’t the only driver. Scientists think stress reduction also plays a part. “Nature is undemanding,” says Shanahan. “It requires effortless attention to look at the leaves of a tree, unlike the constant emails at work or the chores at home.” Trees’ natural fragrance may also play a role, as some studies have shown that phytoncides lower blood pressure by quelling the body’s fight-or-flight response, which stresses the body.

2 EXPOSURE TO IT CAN INCREASE AWE Looking at a stunning waterfall or undulating countryside can do more than enrich your Instagram feed: it can also elicit feelings of awe that bring a number of health benefits. In a 2015 study, researcher Paul Piff of the University of California, Irvine, found that people who spent 60 seconds looking up at towering trees were more likely to report feeling awe, after which they were more likely to help a stranger than people who looked at an equally tall—but far less awe-inspiring—building. “Experiences of awe attune people to things larger than themselves,” says Piff. “They cause individuals to feel less △ entitled, less selfish, and to behave in more generous and helping Plants and trees release compounds ways.” The benefits of awe are physical too: regularly experiencing that protect them from pests; when moments of awe has been linked to lower levels of inflammatory humans inhale those compounds, it compounds in the body. promotes healthy—and measurable— Everyday interactions with nature can also benefit. An April 2016 study of 44 cities found that urban areas with more parks scored biological changes higher on measures of community well-being. That’s likely because parks give people opportunities to socialize and be active with their neighbors, which could improve health, the researchers say. People in cities with lots of green space were more likely to report having COREY HENDRICKSON—GALLERY STOCK; ILLUSTRATIONS BY PETER RYAN FOR TIME more energy, good health and a sense of purpose too.

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4 IT CAN HELP WITH DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY 3 IT PROMOTES CANCER-FIGHTING CELLS Not surprisingly, urban dwellers are far more likely to An April 2016 study published in the journal have anxiety and mood disorders than people who Environmental Health Perspectives reported that live in rural areas. That’s the bad news, since about women living in areas with a lot of vegetation had a 12% 80% of Americans live in cities. The good news is lower risk of death from all causes compared with people in that a small 2015 study published in the Proceedings the least green places. That could be thanks to cleaner air, of the National Academy of Sciences found that but nature may also offer its own medicine. Li’s research people who walked for 90 minutes in a natural at Nippon Medical School shows that when people walk setting, such as a forest or a nature park, were less through a forest, they inhale phytoncides that increase their likely to ruminate—a hallmark of depression and number of natural killer (NK) cells—a type of white blood cell anxiety—and had lower activity in an area of the brain that supports the immune system and is associated with linked to depression than people who walked in an a lower risk of cancer. NK cells are also thought to have a urban area. “Accessible natural areas may be vital role in combating infections and autoimmune disorders and for mental health in our rapidly urbanizing world,” the tamping down inflammation, which contributes to a wide study authors write. range of ailments, including heart disease and diabetes. The exact mechanism of how nature helps In a 2010 study, researchers found that people who mood disorders is unclear, but researchers agree took two long walks through forests on consecutive days that at the very least, time in nature tends to lift increased their NK cells by 50% and the activity of these spirits. “When you have a short blast of nature cells by 56%. Those activity levels remained 23% higher than exposure, people’s moods go up,” says Ming Kuo, an usual for the month following the walks. In another study, environment and behavior scientist at the University Li and his co-authors found that infusing people’s hotel of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Another possibility rooms with phytoncides had some of the same is that the air near moving water, forests and anti-cancer-cell effects as those seen among mountains contains high levels of negative people walking through forests. ions, which are thought to potentially reduce depression symptoms, according to a study in Frontiers in Psychology.

5 IT MAY HELP WITH ADHD SYMPTOMS Small studies in kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have suggested that nature walks could be a potential natural treatment to improve attention. In one study, a team led by Kuo of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had kids with ADHD take three 20-minute walks, without their medication, in different locations: a park, a neighborhood and an urban area. When the researchers tested the children afterward, they found that after a park walk, the kids were able to 6 EVEN FAKE NATURE HAS BENEFITS concentrate substantially better than after a walk in the Before you start planning your escape to the other settings. In a separate 2011 study, Kuo and her countryside, consider this: “There is plenty of colleagues found that children who regularly played in evidence that you will get a range of benefits even outdoor areas had milder ADHD symptoms, according if all you can manage is putting a plant in your room to their parents, than children who played indoors or in or looking at trees through your window at home,” areas with less nature access. “Nature gives the part of says the University of Queensland’s Shanahan. the brain that’s used in effortful concentration a rest,” Research shows that even if they’re artificial, says Kuo. “If you spend time doing something mentally the images, sounds and smells of nature can have relaxing, you feel rejuvenated.” positive health effects. Listening to nature sounds People without ADHD symptoms can also improve over headphones, for instance, has been shown their attention and concentration by interacting with to help people recover faster from stress—which nature, evidence suggests. One University of Michigan might explain why so many spas employ nature study found that people improved their short-term sounds in their treatment rooms.

memory by 20% after a nature walk but had no TIME FOR RYAN PETER BY ILLUSTRATIONS Several studies have also shown that having changes after walking through city streets. a window view can improve attention, reduce stress and even help people in hospitals heal after operations. One widely cited study of people recovering from abdominal surgery found that those with tree-lined views were released faster from the hospital, experienced fewer complications and required less pain medication than people whose rooms faced a brick wall.

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The truth about police THE FIRST GROUP of heroes are those conscientious police who are doing violence—and who the heroes everything they can to institute serious and villains are among all of us changes as quickly as possible. Given the resistance they face from some By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar politicians and members of their own departments, it’s like trying to reverse I EXPLAIN MY PASSION FOR HISTORY TO MY FRIENDS BY BIAS BY THE the rotation of the earth. Yet they quoting American philosopher George Santayana: “Those NUMBERS push on. Part of the problem is inbred who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” racism within departments. Another That simple concept of not drinking from the same carton of part is funding. Los Angeles spent an sour milk twice is the foundation of civilization as well as of 1, 502 estimated $300 million on reforming the personal spiritual growth. people have department after an antigang squad was Yet here we are again. More dead bodies. More outrage. been killed accused of beating and framing people. More finger-pointing. Like a grotesque Quentin Tarantino by on-duty Police reform needs to happen much version of Groundhog Day in which we experience the same officers since more quickly than it has been, before Jan. 1, 2015, horrific day over and over. Our only hope for release from this according we see another breaking-news bulle- loop of lunacy is to learn how to display our humanity. to the tin with a black body slumped in death Except that yearned-for release never comes. Washington and a white uniformed police officer We never seem able to honestly examine the obvious Post—732 standing over him. And that requires pattern of causes without defensive posturing. Without white, 381 the rest of us—private citizens and black and 382 looking for scapegoats to assuage our fear and anger. Without of unknown politicians alike—to put pressure on denying our own complicit and complacent guilt. race. Sounds those hiding behind bureaucracies and like more buck-passing. I TAKE GREAT PRIDE in the fact that my grandfather and whites? No. The other heroes to emerge are father were both dedicated law-enforcement officers. They the relentlessly committed members spent their lives putting the needs of the community over their and supporters of Black Lives Matter. own, sometimes at their peril. So I am especially reluctant to They show up day after day, in city hurl accusations. And as an African American, I am reluctant to 40% after city, getting their message across hurl accusations. I don’t endorse vigilante violence. of deaths peacefully, articulately and with While it’s important for authorities, human-rights of unarmed grace. Black Lives Matter organizer people at organizations and people on the street to condemn such acts the hands of DeRay McKesson was arrested, along of violence, it’s also important that we move past our rage police were with approximately 120 others, while to examine these acts in context so that we might prevent of black men, leading a peaceful protest down a road them in the future. Part of that context is the fact that the though they in Baton Rouge after the killing of recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, make up only Alton Sterling. They were charged with 6% of the U.S. the 135th and 136th African Americans to be killed by police population, obstructing a highway, though many of in the U.S. in 2016, have revived the fears of all people of as the Post the detained claimed they were on the color. The hope for change that followed the protests after points out. side of the road. Even if they weren’t, the the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and Eric Garner bullying lack of sensitivity of the local has been dashed. In fact, things seem to have gotten more sheriff’s office shows how stuck in that dangerous. More people have been killed by police this year Groundhog Day-jà vu of doom we are. than in the same period in 2015. Police rightfully point out In the end, both the police and the that in half those deaths, the perpetrators fired their guns protesters who are championing reform first, and officer deaths are also up: 20 killed in the first six will have a greater impact on ending months of 2016 vs. 16 in the same period of 2015. racism than a dozen mass shootings. When it comes to racial conflict, there are those who want to These men and women embody the exploit the issue for political gain. They try to degrade the com- displays of virtuous humanity that just plexity of the problem to the most simplistic B-movie status: might set us free. heroes vs. villains. This is accomplished by constantly rousing our emotions to misdirect us from working together to find so- Abdul-Jabbar is an NBA champion and lutions. So, if we want to find heroes, look for those using this the author of the forthcoming book tragedy as inspiration for peaceful resolutions. Writings on the Wall

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Letters: A black father and his son After police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota shot and killed two black men, Eddie Glaude, chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, wrote to his son Langston. Langston, a rising junior at Brown University, replied. This is their correspondence.

Dear Langston, Dear Dad, I thought of you when I saw the son of Alton When I saw those videos of Alton Sterling and Sterling weeping at a press conference. It was the Philando Castile, I thought of you and mom. I latest in a string of haunting public rituals of grief. The thought of Michael Brown’s mother and wondered police had killed another black person. His cries made about the pain and anguish you both would feel if me think of you. It seems, ever since the murder of that were me in those videos. Then I saw the video Trayvon Martin, and you were only 15 then, that you of Alton Sterling’s son, and I thought about if it had have had to come to terms with this fact: that police been one of you in those videos, stolen from me by a can wantonly kill us. That even I can’t protect you. policeman. That thought alone triggered emotions I remembered that day when the grand jury in inside me that I didn’t know existed. Cleveland declined to indict the officers who had killed I remember when I first got into activism. You Tamir Rice. We were in an airport, traveling were always checking up on me, making sure that I home. You cursed out loud and paced like was being careful about what I said and a trapped animal. I didn’t know how to who I said it to. I thought you were speak to your rage. How could I keep it being your typical dad self, overprotec- from coloring your soul a deep shade of tive of your little boy. I also remember blue? When I read your Facebook posts on when I started getting death threats on Sterling’s and Philando Castile’s deaths, I Facebook and Twitter. A neo-Nazi group felt the sting. You are your grandfather’s had put my picture up on its Twitter and father’s child. feed. I was terrified. I ran to you. James Baldwin wrote in 1964—and You may not have known it then, you know how much I love Baldwin— but your presence at the time was one in “The Uses of the Blues,” that “in every of the most important things that could generation, ever since Negroes have have happened to me. On the outside I been here, every Negro mother and appeared to be able to keep my composure, father has had to face that child and but on the inside I was scared. With a try to create in that child some way of single tweet, my confidence and feeling of surviving this particular world, some safety was shattered. The world seemed way to make the child who will be despised not despise △ like it was doing everything in its power himself.” Here we are in 2016 and I am worried about Langston to destroy me. And despite your parental instincts, the state of your spirit—worried that the ugliness protests on which I know were screaming to pull me off social of this world and the nastiness of some of the white his college media, you pushed me to reach higher, to stand by people who inhabit it might dirty you on the inside. campus right and to rise above the ugliness. I find myself more often than not, and upon In these times of injustice, great anger and grief, reflection this is an astonishing thing to say, no less I find myself consistently asking, What would my think, wishing you were 7 years old again. You were father do? Crazy, right? I’m actually listening to your adorable at 7. The vexations of the teenage years were advice for once. But it’s knowing that you love and far off, and you still liked me. I say this not because I support me that gives me some sense of safety in this find having an empty nest unbearable, or that I long to cruel world. And that is everything I need. raise a teenager again—I say it because I feel that you Funny, I, too, find myself wishing that I were a kid would be safer at home, with us. again. The world seemed so much simpler. But then Those tears, son, shook me. Diamond Reynolds’ I remember Tamir Rice. I remember Trayvon Martin, 4-year-old baby consoling her mother made me Michael Brown and Aiyana Jones. I look at the faces tremble. I love you, and I don’t know what I would do of countless black bodies piling up in our streets. if anything ever happened to you. But I am proud to And I remember my own experiences with police see your radical rage. Keep fighting. And remember, officers as a kid. The struggle must continue, for our as your grandmother reminds me with all of the future’s sake. wisdom that Mississippi living can muster, that I I love you, Dad. won’t stop worrying about you until I die. Langston Love,

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After Baton Rouge, in Dallas; there were police officers of various races arresting Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Minneapolis and Dallas, Mckesson in Baton Rouge. “War in Dallas,” signs of passionate sanity screamed the Drudge Report, but the reality seemed quite the opposite. Indeed, it could be By Joe Klein argued that Dallas was a metaphor for the true state of race relations in the country—improving slowly, IN THE DAYS AFTER THE DALLAS POLICE painfully but surely, after the explosions of police massacre, American civility took a few small steps violence these past few years. The shooter, Micah forward. A good part of this was attributable to the Johnson, was a metaphor too—a radical, mentally relative silence of the usual suspects, the partisans, disturbed outlier grabbing the headlines, distorting the politicians, the professional protesters, the talk- the actual state of the nation. In that way, he was radio blowhards. Donald Trump canceled his rallies reminiscent of Omar Mateen, the sexually confused and tweeted an unobjectionable call for national and enraged loner who perpetrated the Orlando unity. Hillary Clinton, who cannot be compared gay-bar massacre in June. Both were disturbed to Trump as an incendiary force in American life, men who wrapped themselves in the cloak of larger canceled her rallies too, but movements—and the showed her limitations by media, especially in the making an entirely banal Orlando case, chose to statement on the need for portray the events as a “national conversation” acts of terrorism rather about race. than of individual At that very moment, a derangement, abetted sophisticated and sensitive by the easy access of conversation about race— deranged individuals to to my mind, the most powerful firearms. thoughtful one we’ve had All of which raises the in years—was already question: What if we are breaking out. It was visible not “falling apart” as a on cable television, where nation? What if we are, in a succession of journalists fact, doing what democ- interviewed a succession racies are supposed to of Dallas citizens and civic do—gradually learning, leaders who expressed through experience, how neither hate nor anger nor to solve our most vexing intemperance, but sadness and empathy. Even the At a service problems? The very presence of the cameras that local extremists seemed moderate: an African- for the five recorded the apparently flagrant police shootings of American protester named Mark Hughes quietly Dallas police Philando Castile and Alton Sterling is a sign of prog- officers killed explained to a boggled Craig Melvin of MSNBC on July 7, ress: in the future, given the use of police cameras that he had brought his AR-15 to the protest march President and concerned citizens with phones, virtually every to exercise his Second Amendment rights, but Obama, with interaction between the police and the public will when the shooting started he surrendered the rifle Michelle be filmed. (Given the presence of cameras in both to a police officer so that he wouldn’t be confused Obama those shootings, it is remarkable that the police re- and Dallas with the shooter. (His face was tweeted out as a Mayor Mike acted as outrageously as they did.) There were also possible suspect anyway.) Rawlings, some helpful voices in the crowd. There was Newt said he had Gingrich, in a Facebook conversation with Van THE COMPLEXITY OF IT ALL was typically “spoken at Jones, saying that “if you are a normal white Ameri- American, confounding the notion of a binary too many can, the truth is you don’t understand being black CARLO ALLEGRI—REUTERS black-white race war. The police officers involved memorials” in America, and you instinctively underestimate the in the incidents were a mélange of races; the level of discrimination and the level of additional freaked-out cop who shot Philando Castile in risk.” And there was Dr. Brian Williams, part of Minnesota was Latino. There were police officers the surgical team that treated the wounded Dallas being photographed, smiling with the protesters officers, who admitted that as a black man, he was

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afraid of the police, and then recounted a time the racial divide. On the Monday after Dallas, when he and his daughter had bought ice cream for Donald Trump re-emerged and gave what was, for an officer—just to show the police that they were him, a pretty reasonable speech, acknowledging appreciated by the community. the need for “fairness” in the application of justice, but reviving code words like “law and order” from THOSE PANIC MONGERS who would compare the the museum of Republican race-baiting; and ultra- current moment to 1968 should note that there conservative media sources like Drudge and Rush were few, if any, integrated surgical teams back Limbaugh did their usual dirty work. then, and few black police chiefs or mayors in major The Democrats—and their media surrogates American cities. There was no African-American like Al Sharpton—also indulged in their usual Attorney General or Homeland Security director, undifferentiated acceptance of any and all micro- like Loretta Lynch and Jeh Johnson, who set the grievances. If nothing else, the progress in Dallas civil, mournful tone in the hours after the massacre. implies that the Democrats’ divisive identity And there was certainly no black President. There politics—the sorting of constituencies according were few black journalists—like Craig Melvin—to 27% to ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation—is report the situation with empathy, and there was Percentage of beginning to seem dated too. Racialism—that is, a much smaller black middle class, people with ethnic or racial the attempt to make benign distinctions according homes and jobs and property to defend, to serve minorities in to race—isn’t as obnoxious as racism, but it inhibits as a voice of stability. Those who argue that the U.S. police the movement toward an egalitarian society. fundamental hydraulics of race relations haven’t departments in 2013, up IN THE END, changed in the past 40 years, like the intellectual from 15% in there was President Barack Obama. Ta-Nehisi Coates, are deluding themselves and 1987. Still, His Dallas speech wasn’t the most memorable of misleading their followers. for blacks, his staggering 11 public eulogies after mass shoot- The problem of racial extremism remains—as whose ranks ings. That honor goes to his talk in Charleston rose from does the tendency of the media to give the loudest, 9% to 12%, last year, when he sang “Amazing Grace.” But it angriest voices the most attention. There are white participation was brilliant all the same, an appeal to reason on racists aplenty. There is the tangled question growth has all sides that beggared the left- and right-wing of Black Lives Matter, which Rudy Giuliani been slower to sniping of recent days, and the past seven years, inaccurately called “racist.” It is, as the videos materialize. about Obama’s being somehow deficient in these of the protests make clear, an integrated ad hoc instances, a vehement partisan taking the side of group. Its protests have been largely peaceful— the protesters, a leader who had somehow made and effective to a degree that its leadership race relations worse. refuses to admit because of its ideological need Far from being partisan, Obama has been ac- to be pessimistic. The presence of the cameras, curate and proportionate in his statements about the efforts of many police departments to reduce race—just as he has been accurate and proportion- community tension, is partly attributable to the ate in his candid statements about American mis- protests led by Black Lives Matter. 50% takes overseas, which have been derided by the At the same time, it is a movement that has Percentage hateful as an “apology tour.” increase in been flawed from the start by its myopic focus mean income This President once again proved himself a on police violence—which, as Giuliani accurately among African moderate in Dallas, a balanced teller of plain asserts, is minuscule compared with the level of Americans in truths. He acknowledged that he had seen “how black-on-black violence in poor communities. the top income inadequate my own words have been” when it It is stating the obvious—though few liberals quintile from comes to lowering the temperature, but also that, 1979 to 2014. ever state it—that police of all colors are going Still, the paraphrasing Scripture, suffering “produces to react more warily and be more panicky in top quintile perseverance, perseverance to character, and areas that are violent. The cops who overreacted for whites character to hope.” There can be no gainsaying disastrously in Baton Rouge were responding reached that his message; it was impeccable. And there can be to a report of a crazy man brandishing a gun in mean in 1979. no denying that neither of the choices we face in front of a convenience store. The police officer this election, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, who inexcusably shot Castile as he reached for his has the rhetorical wherewithal or emotional driver’s license was reacting to Castile’s statement intelligence to lead, as Obama has, on this most that he had a gun. The gun craziness of this painful of issues—or that either political party has society is a conversation that hasn’t progressed found the right balance of candor and empathy. nearly as far as our racial discussion. The country is, slowly, becoming a better place because of Obama’s leadership, and because of the THE SILENCE OF THE POLITICIANS was a blessing willingness of local officials, like those in Dallas, to in the days after Dallas. In the past, both parties— work at reconciliation. His passionate sanity will and this is not a false equivalence—have exploited be sorely missed. □

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The suite is quiet—oddly so, given its occupant’s seismic effect on the life of the nation beyond Fifth Avenue. And yet there is a pervasive hush here on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, even in the corner office, where the tycoon turned Republican nominee sits at a cluttered desk. Vintage magazine covers featuring his image decorate the walls—Trump on Fortune, Trump on BusinessWeek, Trump on GQ, Trump on Playboy—while sports trophies (he’s about a 4 handicap on the golf course) are casually arranged on the windowsills. The only outward sign of what he has wrought: a modest stack of bumper stickers and a single red MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN cap on the desk.

This late-spring morning, in a wide-ranging thing,” Trump says. Musing about his unique abil- conversation with TIME, the subject is presiden- ity to lead, he thinks back to the day in March when tial literacy: What does a President need to know Wolf Blitzer tried to corner him about NATO during in order to, well, Make America Great Again? How a CNN interview. As Trump sees it, his answer was a does a candidate prepare to take up the virtually un- telling instance of what he believes is his “special” ca- imaginable burdens of the office? What kind of tem- pacity to arrive at conclusions with little forethought. perament is required to lead the nation in the first “When Wolf Blitzer asked me about NATO, I’m not decades of the 21st century? Hearing the questions, a student of NATO, but I gave him two answers: It’s Trump is polite but prefers to talk tactics. “I have a obsolete, and we’re spending too much money be- number of advantages over somebody else, even a cause these countries aren’t paying their fair share.” traditional candidate,” he says. “Number one, I seem So Trump was reacting intuitively? “Off the cuff,” to get an inordinate amount of coverage. For what- ‘You want Trump replied. “I’m an intuitive person. I didn’t ever reason, I can’t even really define why. You turn Presidents to read books on NATO—you do—and yet I was asked on CNN, it’s all Trump all the time. It’s crazy. You have sound the question.” watch all the networks, that’s the way it is.” judgment, There it all was: Trump winging it on an issue of modesty, Coverage, however, does not necessarily trans- personal global significance (the shape of the Western alli- late into clarity. A startlingly successful vote getter self-assurance... ance, a cornerstone of security since former Presi- who just engineered a takeover of the party of Lin- as well as the dent Harry Truman)—and then congratulating him- coln, Eisenhower and Reagan, Trump nevertheless ability to decide self for it. By the time of the CNN interview, he had lacks traditional presidential credentials. How then who can told the Washington Post editorial board that NATO to gauge what Trump knows and might do? “I’ve al- give them cost the U.S. “hundreds of billions,” only to change it ways rated experience far less than capability,” he the expertise to “billions” when challenged by a Post editor. (Di- and advice says, arguing that from Benghazi to her emails, Hill- they need.’ rect U.S. contributions to NATO run less than $1 bil- ary Clinton’s years in the arena demonstrate a pattern lion a year.) Trump had this much right: there is a le- of bad judgment. “When people ask me would you MICHAEL gitimate debate to be had about the future of NATO. rather have experience or talent, I’ll take talent every BESCHLOSS, The problem was that his harsh language and his time. That’s not to knock experience, and I think I historian hyperbolic assertions about costs raised questions have both.” And he rejects the idea that he’s a politi- about both his grasp of foreign policy and his com- cal novice. “It’s not like I’ve not been in politics, but mitment to long-standing security arrangements. just not on this side of the ledger.” But that’s sort of the point. To Trump, precise pol- How does he respond to the argument that he’s a icy details tend to be irrelevant to his larger cam- salesman above all—someone who will say anything paign argument: that the rest of the world—in the in a given situation, which makes it hard to judge how form of immigrants, China, Mexico or even our Eu- he would perform in the White House? “First of all, ropean allies—is taking unfair advantage of us. He the country needs a salesman,” Trump replies. But, likes the shock and awe of his approach, with no ap- (2) IMAGES GETTY he adds, there is more to him than that: “I think my parent concern for the reactions of Hillary Clinton ideas are really good.” (and many U.S. allies), for whom talk of an “obso- One example that pops to mind: “The NATO lete” NATO and of building walls, both literal (along

38 TIME July 25, 2016 the southern border) and figurative (by threatening President Obama put the matter clearly: “You’ve punitive tariffs against major trading partners), is ir- actually got to know what you’re talking about.” responsible and wrongheaded. Trump, for his part, With Trump’s nomination in Cleveland, Ameri- has little time for such critiques of his campaign dec- cans are about to face the starkest of political choices: larations. As he likes to point out, if the elites are so a contest between Clinton, one of the most experi- smart, then why is the world in the shape it’s in— enced and policy-fluent candidates in history, and and why, exactly, is he now the Republican nominee? Trump, the least conventional major-party nominee Still, politics, like diplomacy and financial mar- PRESIDENTIAL in modern times. Fundamentally, the Clinton-Trump kets, values predictability, and on the campaign trail, PRECEDENTS race will be a campaign of the Conventional vs. the Trump has proved to be the most unpredictable of The ideal Oval Office Confident, of the Prepared vs. the Provocateur, of men. He disposed of 16 challengers and is now within résumé? It doesn’t the Realist vs. the Ringmaster. striking distance of the presidency in part by saying exist. The nation’s And it may yet turn out that Trump is better suited Mexico is sending “rapists” across the border ille- 43 Presidents to the politics of the moment, not just at the conven- have all lacked for gally; by initially declining to denounce David Duke something. The trick tion but through the autumn to the general election. and the Ku Klux Klan; by proposing a ban on Muslims is how they have At home and abroad, from the collapse of the tradi- entering the U.S. (which he diluted subsequently); compensated for it: tional GOP presidential field to the Brexit vote in and by expressing pleasure at warm words from Vlad- the U.K., elites of all kinds—governing, corporate, imir Putin, among numerous examples. Even among intellectual—are facing a withering populist back- Trump’s allies, the fear is that his instinct for the lash. Trump has positioned himself against the his- bold statement, combined with his glancing knowl- tory of leaders of traditional experience and expertise. edge of policy nuances, has created a campaign— (“I love the poorly educated,” he proudly declared in and could create an Administration—that is both Nevada after sweeping the demographic.) His suc- undeniably compelling and inherently unstable. Franklin Roosevelt cess in the GOP primary was nothing if not a rejec- While he was a Trump waves away such concerns. “I’m a very shrewd and charming tion of the party’s most qualified field since George stable person,” he says. “I’m so stable you wouldn’t politician, Roosevelt H.W. Bush triumphed a quarter of a century ago. As believe it.” He repeatedly implies that his campaign was criticized for his a result, the Trump candidacy has become a referen- bombast is just that—bombast. “I’m not a fast trig- lack of commitment dum on whether the credentials of the qualified elite ger,” Trump says. “I’m the exact opposite of a fast to consistent are a liability next to machismo, single-minded na- ideological trigger, but nobody’s going to push us around.” principles. Some tionalism and information-age street smarts. Viewed in historical terms, a Trump presidency thought he was too would pose an unusual risk to the country. Ameri- quick to change IN HIS LONG RETIREMENT in can Presidents can be agents of change, yes, but they aspects of his New Independence, Mo., Truman are also custodians of a social and political order that Deal policies to II. often found himself musing compromise and requires sophistication, balance and a fluency in the please others. about the things he knew best: basic vocabulary of government and of statecraft. American history and the American presidency. “You Trump, however, is a creature of the moment, of im- never can tell what’s going to happen to a man until provisation, of polarity. Strikingly, he’s learning pub- he gets to a place of responsibility,”Truman observed lic policy less from experts and briefing books—the after he left the White House in 1953. “You just can’t traditional means of presidential preparation—and tell in advance, whether you’re talking about a gen- more from newspapers and what he once called “the eral in the field in a military situation or the manager shows.” His tendency to wing it—to act on his gut— Harry Truman of a large farm or a bank officer or a President ... effectively means that he’s working off what might Dismissed as a You’ve just got to pick the man you think is best on be called “political hearsay.” No President can know Midwestern political the basis of his past history and the views he ex- everything, but all Presidents have to know enough to hack chosen to presses on present events and situations, and then cement a weak assess the validity of the inevitable advice that swirls Democratic ticket, you sit around and do a lot of hoping and if you’re through the Oval Office. While a President Trump Truman emerged as inclined that way, a certain amount of praying.” Using can hire experts, experts won’t be making the final a steely Commander the Truman test of “the basis of his past history and calls. Only he can—and will. in Chief who, the views he expresses on present events and situa- You don’t need a Ph.D. to lead the nation, but opponents learned, tions,” Trump has created plenty of anxiety. was dangerous to you do need to know—as Trump did not appear to underestimate. And so, following Truman’s counsel, we hope and grasp in one of the debates—what the nuclear triad we pray. Historically, there is no textbook definition is. Or that the Quds and the Kurds, not to mention of how to prepare to be President. We have had gener- Hamas and Hizballah, are different things. Or that als and governors; Secretaries of State and Senators. you can’t order military officers to engage in illegal Trump would be the first American President with- torture. Or that Ted Cruz’s father was not linked to out significant experience in government or in the the Kennedy assassination. Or that Barack Obama military. A problematic feature of his candidacy, how- was born in Hawaii, not Kenya. At his first joint ever, is not about his political résumé but rather his appearance with Clinton on the campaign trail, conscious decision—and it can only be called that— 39 not to educate himself on the norms of national and came to the office amid low public expectations yet international affairs. The result is a seemingly end- created the foundations for the Cold War Western less cycle that, in our public life, leads to confusion alliance. A student of large organizations, Dwight rather than illumination. Here is how it tends to go: Eisenhower could seem remote but proved to be a Trump will say something provocative and factually sound manager of the federal government and of the dubious; the world will react, even recoil; Trump will nuclear standoff with the Soviets. not apologize—not exactly—but will slowly and spo- Given Trump’s affinity for Ronald Reagan—or at radically amend his remarks, thus leaving everything least affinity for Reagan’s winning image within the in a kind of haze. In a campaign, this addiction to GOP—the analogy to the 40th President repays con- chaos is one thing; in the White House, it would be sideration. Trump admirers think of their man as a something else entirely. 21st century version of the Gipper—a charismatic “You want Presidents to have sound judgment, leader who had an occasionally ambiguous relation- Dwight Eisenhower modesty, personal self-assurance, an understanding Eisenhower didn’t ship with facts and details. In this scenario, Hillary of the constitutional and historical constraints and even confirm he Clinton is Jimmy Carter, the naval officer who loved the potential of the presidency, as well as the ability was a Republican detail but largely failed to master the events of his to decide who can give them the expertise and ad- until the 1952 New time. The problem is that Trump is no Reagan. They SCHOOL LAW COOLEY COURTESY COHEN: REDUX; CAPUTO: AP; WHITE: vice they need,” saidthe historian Michael Beschloss. Hampshire primary, do share some surface similarities—neither was a and later threatened

“You don’t need Presidents to know every figure in to bolt the party if career politician, and both dominated the media of SCAVINO; HICKS; GLASSNER; (18); CLOVIS; IMAGES GETTY the Coast Guard budget, but you do need to have the its right wing didn’t their times. Like Trump, Reagan tended to eschew confidence that when they are making a decision that fall in line. But his policy specifics, preferring to conserve his energy to you may never hear about, they will be doing so with exalted military focus on a few big things. The distinction lies in their intelligence, skill and a temperament and set of basic record helped him level of experience in government on coming to the reach past politics values you feel comfortable with.” and speak directly to presidency (Reagan had served eight years as gov- Predictably, the past offers a range of models the country. ernor of a dynamic, fast-growing state and sought rather than a single standard. Experienced Presi- the presidential nomination three times) and in their dents make mistakes; inexperienced ones have con- philosophical commitments (Reagan spent decades structive moments, and vice versa. John F. Kennedy, honing a vision of free markets and anticommunism; Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were deeply im- Trump appears to have few philosophical commit- mersed in governance, but each had moments of co- ments beyond one to his own success as a “brand”). lossal misjudgment. On the positive side, Truman This much is clear: history shows us that the

TRUMP’S ORBIT Meet the people who have the ear of the new Republican nominee Paul Manafort A former lobbyist and aide to Gerald Ford, he has Newt Gingrich Trump has promised professionalized that the former Speaker will be the campaign “involved” in his Administration

Corey Lewandowski The Donald Trump Jr. Trump’s oldest former campaign Hope Hicks At his side from the son is the child most likely to manager’s strategy was to follow his father into politics “let Trump be Trump” until beginning, she he was fired in June manages Trump’s public image

Melania Trump A former Michael Cohen The longtime model from Slovenia, Trump adviser did a lot of the Trump’s wife has largely early outreach for Trump's Kellyanne Conway stayed out of the limelight campaign in 2011 A longtime Trump friend, the Republican pollster initially supported Ted Cruz Michael Caputo He resigned from Trump’s campaign after publicly celebrating Lewandowski’s firing Sam Clovis Trump’s campaign co-chair told Ben Carson The soft-spoken neurosurgeon has Republicans to support worked to rally evangelicals behind the nominee Trump or “shut the hell up” success or failure of a presidency (and of the coun- the process of decision for they give the President try) hinges on the President himself—on what he (or not only needed information and ideas but a sense she) knows, believes and even feels. Skeptics might of the possibilities and the limitations of action. A think this an overly simple view of the intrinsically wise President therefore gathers strength and insight complicated nature of reality. Yet to say that the Pres- from the Nation. Still, in the end, he is alone. There ident is the central, decisive figure in our national stands the decision—and there stands the President.” politics is neither melodramatic nor hyperbolic. It If Eisenhower and Kennedy had it right—and they was, in fact, an insight shared by two men who oth- knew the job better than most of us—then the essen- erwise had little in common: Ike and JFK. tial issue for voters is discerning the nature of the On the eve of the 1960 election, in a speech sup- man or woman who will be standing alone at what porting his Vice President, Richard Nixon, in the Kennedy elsewhere described as the “vital center campaign against JFK, Eisenhower compared the of action.” Which is precisely where Trump likes to Ronald Reagan presidency to the field of battle. “The nakedness Reagan had little stand, preferably with all eyes on him. of the battlefield when the soldier is all alone in the training in foreign The question American voters have to decide smoke and the clamor and the terror of war is compa- policy before he in the coming months is whether Trump is fluent rable to the loneliness—at times—of the presidency,” became President, enough about the world to be entrusted with ultimate Eisenhower said. “These are the times when one man and he was known responsibility. It is telling that he refracts history for being less must conscientiously, deliberately, prayerfully scru- interested in learning through the prism of negotiating and dealmaking. tinize every argument, every proposal, every predic- the details of his own Asked about political role models, he mentions Rea- tion, every alternative, every probable outcome of policy than he was gan but no one else; asked to name works of history his action and then—all alone—make his decision.” in communicating a that have left an impression, he says only, “I’ll tell you Three years later, after a tumultuous time in office broad vision for the what does stick with me: the Civil War. Lee and Lin- country, which left that had included showdowns with the Soviet Union him to rely heavily coln and Davis. These are unbelievable historical fig- over the Berlin Wall and Russian missiles in Cuba, on advisers. ures. I think that anything having to do with the Civil Kennedy published a short piece on decisionmaking War has always been very interesting to me, much in the White House. “It is only part of the story,” Ken- more so than even the founding of the country.” (He nedy wrote of the loneliness of the office, “for, dur- says he once canceled a golf match to binge-watch ing the rest of the time, no one in the country is more a marathon PBS showing of Ken Burns’ documen- assailed by divergent advice and clamorous coun- tary The Civil War.) “It always seemed like something sel. This advice and counsel, indeed, are essential to that could have been settled without the bloodshed,”

Key: FAMILY ADVISERS GOP INSIDERS CAMPAIGN STAFF

Jeff Sessions The Alabama Senator, known for his hard line on immigration, was an early endorser of Trump

Dan Scavino Trump’s Chris Christie The New Jersey Ivanka Trump Trump’s daughter Jared governor embraced Trump early Kushner social-media director is his closest confidante and has has translated his and earned his trust helped him with gender issues Married to Ivanka, he politically incorrect has become message for the a key foreign digital age policy adviser Roger Stone Jr. A master Eric Trump He and his of political dark arts, he brother advised their father left the campaign in 2015 on the Second Amendment Michael Glassner but remains in Trump’s ear The deputy campaign manager has been heavily involved with convention Reince Priebus The party leader planning has embraced Trump despite their many differences Stephen Miller A key policy adviser, he often introduces Paula White A televangelist, she Trump at rallies has been a spiritual leader to Trump for more than 14 years Trump adds. The deal is all. “I think they could have point that evokes an ancient anecdote familiar in the settled without going to war,” he said. “I always felt literature of the presidency. On Wednesday, March 8, that the South overplayed their hand.” His grasp of 1933, the newly inaugurated 32nd President, Franklin history isn’t deficient, exactly, but it is superficial. D. Roosevelt, called on retired Supreme Court Justice He lives so much in the world as it is that he invests Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The two men chatted a little capital in asking how that world came to be. bit—Roosevelt asked about Plato, whom Holmes was He loves the newspapers and magazines; he in- reading—and he sought counsel on the crisis of the hales cable news; he absorbs passing conversations. Depression. “Form your ranks—and fight!” Holmes When he reads books, he says, he reads quickly. He advised. After the President left, Holmes was in a likes biographies of Lincoln, Nixon and Reagan and nostalgic mood. “You know, his Uncle Ted appointed recently read Edward Klein’s hostile books on the me to the Supreme Court,” Holmes remarked to a Clintons and Defeating ISIS by Malcolm Nance. For a former clerk. The Justice then added, “A second-class man so often depicted as the embodiment of narcis- intellect, but a first-class temperament!” sism, he does have a surprising capacity to listen to Historians still debate whether Holmes was re- others and to retain what he hears, frequently asking ferring to T.R. or FDR, but the story is often cited to pithy questions in search of clarity. “I’m picking it up underscore the significance of a President’s disposi- from everything,” he says. “I’m an intuitive person.” tion. Temperament is one of those terms that brings Unabashedly improvisational, Trump revels in his Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of lack of conventional political or policy experience. pornography to mind: We know it when we see it. Or He told TIME that he has begun spending some time in this case, feel it. The word derives from the Latin with experts, but there is, to say the least, little sign meaning “due mixture,” and one Oxford English Dic- that he is about to wonk out. Asked on a trip to Scot- tionary definition calls it “a moderate and propor- land if he had consulted with foreign policy advisers tionable mixture of elements in a compound.” Dis- on the Brexit vote, he replied, “There’s nothing to History shows cerning temperament is more a question of intuition talk about.” When he met with James A. Baker III in us that the than of clinical perception. It is, to be sure, a fraught Washington, Trump asked the statesman not about success or enterprise. And at this moment in history, there is nuclear proliferation or Syria but about the relation- failure of a no common agreement on just what qualities are ship between Nancy and Ronald Reagan. “Every- presidency (and best. Still, Trump’s temperamental failings include thing is about people,” Trump says. He is too much of the country) his oft-indulged instinct to bully and turn petulant of the present, too much of this exact moment, to hinges on the when someone—reporters, opponents, whole re- spend much time musing about policy precedents. President gions of the world—gets under his skin. himself—on And his faith in himself is limitless. “We can’t be what he (or she) In the coming months, Clinton will repeatedly defending the world and paying for it,” Trump says. knows, believes argue that Trump offers America neither the intellect “We can’t be taken for suckers with Germany, Japan, and even feels nor the temperament required to lead the nation. The South Korea. They should pay us, pay us substan- Trump campaign will make a different case. “Govern- tially, and they will if I ask them. If somebody else ment is built with many layers to avoid making mis- asks them they won’t.” takes,” wrote Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and Why is that exactly? Why does he think he is one of the nominee’s most important advisers. “The uniquely able to do what others could not? “Why is problem with this is that it costs a lot and little gets it? Because—I don’t know. It’s just different. It’s like, done. In business, we empower smart people to get why is it that Jack Nicklaus won so many golf tour- jobs done and give them latitude on how to get there. naments? Right? Why is it that Babe Ruth could hit I prefer to move forward and endure some small mis- more home runs than all the teams in the American takes to preserving a stale status quo whose sole vir- League? Right? They said to him, ‘Babe, how do you tue is that it offends no one.” In this construction, lack hit the long ball?’ And he said, ‘I don’t know, man, I of knowledge and a get-stuff-done attitude would just swing at it.’ Which is sort of cool.” Warming to be assets—even if they sometimes get stuff wrong the topic of himself as a natural political athlete, he and break some geopolitical crockery along the way. mentions Lydia Ko, the brilliant young golfer. “On We shall see—and Lord knows we’ll be watching, the Golf Channel, they said to her, ‘When you bring a fact Trump savors. At his desk in Trump Tower the club up, how do you bring it down? What’s your during his interview, juggling calls from Ben Car- thought?’ She said, ‘I don’t know. I don’t really have son, the GOP nominee seemed to have all the con- a thought.’ It’s just something special.” fidence in the world—and then some. “I think temperament is my strength, my greatest strength,” OF COURSE, Trump believes he Trump says. “We need a strong tone and a com- too has that special something. passionate tone, and I can do both, plus what’s up III. Clinton will beg to differ. One of here”—pointing to his temple. Now it’s up to the her chief arguments will be that country to decide whether we agree. —With re- Trump lacks the temperament to be President—a porting by TESSA BERENSON/WASHINGTON □

42 TIME July 25, 2016 WHEN HARRY MET 1990 Trump and Michael Jackson, his guest, at the grand DONALD opening of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City A legendary photographer’s 35-year portfolio of Trump

THE SCOTTISH PHOTOGRAPHER Harry Benson traveled with the Beatles on their inaugural American tour in 1964 and has turned his lens on every President since Dwight Eisenhower. He’s also spent decades chronicling Donald Trump, first as real estate mogul and celebrity, now 1987 Trump with a as presumptive GOP nominee. Benson’s model of his building. pictures show Trump surrounded by his “I hate studio pictures favorite things: his buildings, limos and because they’re not real,” helicopters, his wives and even $1 million Benson said. “I want in cash. Taken together, this is an album people to be what they of Trump’s rise. Benson’s typical advice think they are, not what for his subject? “Do what you want.” I think they are” And Trump always did.

▶ To watch a video interview with Harry Benson, visit time.com/benson

1987 Trump and his first wife Ivana in their bedroom at Trump Tower in New York City. Benson chose the location—“It tells you a lot about the people”—and wanted them to dance. “She could 1986 Trump after renovating Wollman Rink dance,” he joked, “but he was a bit slow” in Central Park. He took over the job from the city, finishing early and well under budget 1996 Trump and his second wife Marla Maples at Trump 1987 Trump gesticulates during a helicopter International Hotel & Tower in New York City ride to Atlantic City. Benson, who prides himself on spontaneity and closeness, said he likes 1981 Trump “to get people moving” talks on a car phone in a limo in New York City. “It looks like he’s running for President in there,” Benson said. “There’s a bit of arrogance. There’s a bit of control there ... People walking about but he’s in the limo”

1987 Trump stands on top of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City

2014 Trump and his wife Melania in their apartment at Trump Tower in 1990 “Donald, I’ve never seen a million New York City. “Donald was very proud of her,” Benson said dollars in my life,” Benson told him at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City THE

PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARRY BENSON FOR TIME From left: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump with their father on July 6 at Trump Tower in New York City

APPRENTICES Donald Trump’s closest advisers? His kids BY ALEX ALTMAN cadre of people he really trusts, it’s very few. And they are certainly at the top of that list.” Together, they have pushed out a campaign manager, become conduits to top GOP officials and rival factions, wooed donors and delegates, courted skeptical members of Congress and crisscrossed campaign backwaters from New Hampshire to Nevada. They help write speeches and shape Trump’s policies on everything from the Middle East to the Second Amendment to women’s health. All three of them will deliver speeches at the Republican T Convention in Cleveland. Presidential offspring have often played roles as important advisers, but the Trump kids are different. The tasks in their portfolio can be as simple as THE NINTH HOLE OF THE AILSA COURSE AT fielding their father’s calls at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday or Turnberry is one of golf’s glittering jewels, a cliffside as complicated as mastering campaign mechanics the par 3 with a tee shot over crashing waves toward a candidate ignores. When it became apparent during lighthouse built on the remains of a 13th century the spring that Trump was being outmaneuvered castle. The strip of Scottish coastline is so pretty, you in the scramble to line up convention delegates, can almost fathom why Donald Trump is standing Eric spent a day dialing each of Pennsylvania’s here, an ocean away from the nearest gettable voter, 54 unbound delegates. Nearly all signed on, so he at the worst possible time. repeated the feat in subsequent states. “This is Back home, his party is mulling revolt. Here a very long and arduous and lonely process,” Eric in Scotland, he has blundered into a black-swan ‘I’ve learned says, leaning back in a green leather chair by the bay moment, arriving this crisp June morning just hours a lot from my window in the Turnberry tearoom, the sun sparkling after the U.K. elected to bolt from the European children. on the sea beyond the emerald lawn. “Everything They’re very, Union—a world-altering gamble he egged on. Red very smart we’ve done, we’ve done together as a family. We’re golf balls emblazoned with swastikas are scattered at people.’ learning together.” his feet, courtesy of a prankster. But Trump doesn’t want to talk GOP infighting or geopolitical turmoil. DONALD TRUMP, on LEGACY HAS ALWAYS BEEN one of Trump’s signal He wants to talk legacy. Turnberry is the 10th Trump his sons Donald Jr. ambitions, right up there with wealth and fame. On and Eric and his property to which he’s dragged the cameras during his daughter Ivanka the desk in his 26th-floor office, high above Fifth presidential campaign cum promotional tour. Only Avenue, a framed portrait of his father sits in the this time he isn’t here simply to plug a golf course. space where a computer should be. Before the family “You know why I’m here?” he tells the cameras for brand adorned the skyscrapers of Manhattan, Fred the third time. “Because I support my children.” Trump, a hard-charging son of German immigrants, They are standing over his left shoulder, a por- ‘When I hear built a sprawling empire in New York City’s outer trait of solidarity. Trump’s three eldest kids—Donald criticism of him boroughs. At his father’s wake, Trump told friends Jr., 38; Ivanka, 34; and Eric, 32—are executive vice as it pertains to that his own highest goal was to leave the family women, it presidents at the Trump Organization. All have spent takes me aback, name a little better than he found it. nearly their entire professional lives working for their because he The next generation of Trumps are as devoted to father, rising to oversee the acquisition, development raised me their dad as they are different. They’re less bombastic. and operation of luxury hotels, office towers and re- to never even More polished. On message. They’d prefer to share sorts around the world. But these days, tending the think about credit and skirt controversy. In conversation, each is family real estate business isn’t their biggest job. my gender.’ cordial and self-possessed, as outwardly normal as In the most unorthodox campaign in modern one could reasonably expect from billionaire scions IVANKA TRUMP, on presidential history, three of the most powerful why her father is who grew up in a 30,000-sq.-ft. penthouse atop figures are the candidate’s children. They have a feminist Central Park. “It was not an option,” says Ivanka, no formal titles nor any prior political experience “to be arrogant or entitled.” among them. But Don Jr., Eric and Ivanka—along Privilege can come at a price, and the tab for the with Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner—have carved Trump kids seemed steeper than most. It cannot out unprecedented roles: strategist and surrogate, be easy seeing your parents’ divorce and salacious cheerleader and confidant, moderating influence and rumors about their sex lives splashed across humanizing force. “They are his kitchen cabinet,” supermarket tabloids. They were being tailed by says Tom Barrack, a billionaire financier and paparazzi before they could drive. When the Trumps longtime friend of Trump’s who formed a super PAC dropped off Don Jr. at boarding school, cameras to support the campaign. “When you look at the

50 TIME July 25, 2016 tagged along on an errand to buy bedsheets at Kmart. △ ing, Don as a dock attendant in Atlantic City. “To say The scrutiny could have sparked self-destructive Ivanka in her we weren’t spoiled would be laughable,” Don says, behavior or planted a desire to escape. Instead, it office on the “but we were spoiled with the right things.” drew the family closer. 25th floor of Trump was keenly aware that children of suc- Much of the credit goes to their mother. Ivana Trump Tower cessful parents are apt to buckle under the atten- Trump was an immigrant from communist Czecho- dant pressures. “Secretariat didn’t always produce slovakia and a taskmistress who would not brook winners,” he says. He didn’t push his children into dissent. (Donald Trump has two other children: a real estate. And while each chose to join the com- daughter Tiffany, 22, with his second wife Marla pany shortly after graduating from college, he was a Maples, and a son Barron, 10, with his current wife hands-off mentor, letting them learn the ropes little Melania.) Their dad wasn’t much for changing dia- by little while he gauged how much responsibility pers, but he drilled his kids on a mantra of clean liv- they could handle. “If they weren’t good, I would tell ing. “I was strict with them, and their mother was them to do something else,” Trump says. “But they strict with them,” says Trump, who touches noth- turned out to be very good.” ing stronger than soda. “I would constantly preach Ivanka recently led the acquisition of Doral, a to my children: No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes.” luxury golf resort in Miami, and is overseeing the Work was always a family activity. Don Jr. recalls hotel conversion of Washington’s Old Post Office going to his grandparents’ house when he was 5 or 6. building, a landmark a few blocks from the White He went around collecting rent, knocking on doors House. Don is responsible for the development of a of middle-income apartments that Fred owned in new luxury hotel and condo tower in Vancouver and Queens. The Trump kids rode bulldozers around handles the Trump Organization’s commercial leases. their father’s construction sites and took jobs at his Eric spearheads golf and construction projects, like properties. At 15, Ivanka spent a summer shadowing the $290 million renovation of Turnberry. Whatever the foreman who oversaw the construction of Trump sibling rivalries may exist, they are careful to mask World Tower in Manhattan. Eric worked in landscap- them. “Family businesses tend to have very binary 51 outcomes,” says Ivanka, who has also built her own In her third trimester of pregnancy, Ivanka joined women’s lifestyle brand. “We’re lucky.” her father on the campaign trail before early primary And unmistakably their father’s children. Like contests and taped get-out-the-vote robocalls and his, their adjacent glass-encased offices in Manhat- video messages, which she posted for millions of tan are decorated with magazine covers and photo followers on social media. It was easy to spot her spreads: Ivanka in Vogue, Don shouldering a cross- influence when Trump praised Planned Parenthood bow for Esquire. A pair of paintings of the old man for providing vital health services to millions of sit on Eric’s floor. Campaign swag is everywhere. women—a broadly popular position that broke Politics is a new game, with quirky rules and hid- with conservative orthodoxy. “We bring unique den minefields. But it’s really no different, the perspectives to the table. Obviously I am a millennial Trumps say, from constructing a new golf course or woman,” she says. “He raised me to be opinionated. hotel. You study the term sheets. Take on big ven- When he asks my opinion, I give it. Sometimes I give tures with untapped value. Then figure out a way to it unsolicited. And one of the amazing things about sell your product to the masses. “Whether it’s real my father is he is very receptive to feedback.” estate or anything else,” says Don, “[my father’s] al- In nearly every bid for the White House, the can- ways seen what’s lacking and given that to the mar- didate’s spouse plays the role of chief family surro- ket.” When the family felt golf courses were cheap, gate. Melania Trump, a former model who retains they bought every course they could get their hands ‘He’s much the thick accent of her native Slovenia, has made on, Eric adds. “When we had hotel opportunities, more human the rounds, even speaking occasionally at rallies, than anyone we’d go buy hotels.” A Virginia vineyard came on could possibly but she spends much of her time raising the cou- the market for what they judged to be a bargain give him ple’s young son and does not weigh in on many price: “We learned a lot about wine, and we bought credit for.’ campaign decisions. That has freed the spotlight it,” says Eric. “We didn’t know anything about for Ivanka, a poised and disciplined speaker, as a being on TV, but we figured it out pretty quickly, DONALD TRUMP JR., counterpoint and character witness who can vouch on his father’s and The Apprentice was on for 15 seasons.” private side for his personal qualities, including the ones you may not see when the cameras are rolling. In inter- WHICH BRINGS US to their biggest show yet. “It’s views, Ivanka casts Dad as a feminist who hired and been insane,” admits Don. He is drinking a Red Bull promoted women to senior positions long before at Turnberry shortly after stepping off a red-eye to his peers did. Ivanka, not Melania, will introduce Scotland from an outdoorsmen’s conference in Colo- ‘He has Trump when he takes the stage to accept the GOP rado. The Trump sons are avid hunters and anglers. developed a nomination in Cleveland on July 21. And their first campaign task was shoring up their level of trust in Of all the advisers to the presumptive Republican father’s Second Amendment bona fides. During the us that would be nominee, perhaps the most influential is a longtime very difficult for Iowa caucuses, they addressed NRA members and most people Democratic donor. Ivanka’s husband Kushner, the trekked into frigid cornfields to hunt deer and pheas- who came into a son of a prominent New Jersey developer, has his ant with local politicos. “Don did so good, they’re still campaign seven fingerprints on almost every facet of the campaign. talking about it,” Trump says of one speech to a gun months ago He punches up Trump’s speeches, represents the group. “He knew more about rifles than they did.” to replicate.’ campaign at high-level meetings and rebooted a Soon they were ubiquitous. They toured VFW digital operation stuck in the dial-up era. “A brilliant ERIC TRUMP, on his events, civic clubs and talk radio to testify about father’s reliance guy,” Trump says of his son-in-law. their father’s merits. Out in the states, the Trump on his children Kushner runs as cool as Trump does hot, and one operation was a skeletal collection of relative of his jobs has been putting out fires. When Trump neophytes: for the key role of Iowa co-chair, Trump said he’d be “neutral” in the territorial conflict be- hired Tana Goertz, a motivational speaker and tween Israelis and Palestinians, Kushner—an Or- media personality he once fired on The Apprentice. thodox Jew—scrambled to soothe raw feelings in Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was an the GOP. After Trump came under fire in July for a outsider with few party allegiances. tweet widely criticized as anti-Semitic—an image of And so Don and Eric, who were willing to go Hillary Clinton against a backdrop of $100 bills and anywhere and talk to anyone on behalf of their father, a six-pointed star, like the Star of David—Kushner found themselves filling a vacuum. Don often spends leaped to his defense. “My father-in-law is an incred- hours a day conferring with a rotating cast of party ibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced bigwigs, members of Congress, rivals and allies alike. my family and our Judaism since I began dating my “They are the eyes and ears of the campaign,” says wife,” he wrote in a rare open letter for the Observer, Roger Stone, a veteran Republican strategist and the New York broadsheet he owns. His impact is im- longtime Trump adviser. “Their most important role measurable, says a Republican ally with close ties to is passing along information to him.” the campaign. “Whenever [Trump] thinks, I’ve got to Then there is Ivanka. “She is, without question, get this right—that’s when he gets Jared on the line.” one of her father’s most trusted advisers,” Stone says. Part of the bond is a sense of kinship: like Trump,

52 TIME July 25, 2016 Kushner inherited a family real estate company and △ The Trump kids have made rookie mistakes as carried it to greater heights. “He’s done great in real Trump on well. Don unwittingly sat for an interview with estate,” Trump says. “But I will say, he loves politics.” July 11 with a white-supremacist radio host. Eric compared The apprentices finally grabbed the reins of the grandson waterboarding to a fraternity hazing rite. campaign last month. When they heard reports that Theodore But as the campaign rolls on, their clout is only Lewandowski had peddled negative stories about James Kushner, growing. And it will extend into the White House Kushner to reporters, the kids confronted Trump third child if Trump wins. Don, for one, has been entertaining over a Father’s Day gathering at his Bedminster, of daughter dreams of becoming Secretary of the Interior. N.J., golf club. (Lewandowski denies the allegation.) Ivanka and son- “Looking at other deals,” he admits, “it just doesn’t Campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a veteran in-law Jared have the gravitas of everything that’s going on right Republican strategist, was given the helm. But as now.” His father is not yet sold. “Anything’s possible,” Trump weighed his options for a running mate, he says Trump, who still expects his children to run the leaned on the advice of his three eldest children company when he leaves. “They’re turning out to be and his son-in-law as heavily as anyone else’s. “It’s very good at politics,”he adds. “Right up there with a family decision,” says a senior campaign official. people who have been doing it all their lives.” “Working with him for as long as we have,” Eric Back in Scotland, Trump stood among Turn- explains, “I think he has developed a level of trust berry’s rugged dunes, beaming in his blazer and in us that would be very hard for most people who boasting about his family’s resort renovation. A re- came into a campaign seven months ago to replicate.” porter interrupted, pointing out that running a country was not the same as running a golf course. “You’d THE 2016 CAMPAIGN was billed as a clash of political be amazed how similar it is,” Trump replied. “It’s a clans, but family has often been more burden than place that has to be fixed.” The work ahead was noth- blessing. Jeb Bush never overcame dynastic fatigue. ing new. But first the family needs to close its biggest Bill Clinton’s tarmac summit with Attorney General deal yet. Together, as always. □ Loretta Lynch made his wife’s campaign cringe. 53 Wait, Cleveland? A convention Behind the platform, Yes, Cleveland is a Democratic city in a key deep divisions swing state. But it is also home to Ohio’s unlike any largest concentration of Republicans. Which is why the GOP decided to gather there July 18. other: Can the

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EVENT ZONE By Zeke J. Miller TRANSGENDER SAME-SEX BATHROOMS MARRIAGE Cleveland KENDAL UNRUH MAKES FOR AN unlikely coup plotter. A Colorado The GOP platform For the first time, WILLARD committee rejected a an openly gay PARK PERK 20 schoolteacher and longtime Re- 2 PLAZA publican activist, she has been a plan to call on states delegate served PUBLIC QUICKEN to pass laws similar on the platform SQUARE LOANS delegate to the past seven GOP ARENA to North Carolina’s committee, but her conventions, never once making controversial effort to replace HB 2, which bans language about 77 any trouble from the floor. 90 transgender traditional marriage RNC site But now she is the face of Free bathroom choice. with “respect 0.5 MILES the Delegates, the most visible in After outreach from for all families” an alliance of groups mounting top party officials, failed. Instead, a long-shot bid to dump Donald the proposal was the committee Trump. “I don’t ask for perfec- scaled back to a added a call for Security plans tion in a candidate, but I certainly protest of efforts reconsideration of want them to be a Republican,” to force schools to the Supreme Court Party conventions have long held the potential allow students to decision legalizing for protest; this is politics, after all. But she said of the likely nominee. use restrooms in same-sex marriage, Trump events have at times had a more Her group, which hoped to accordance with how or a constitutional violent valence. Now, add high temperatures, force a floor vote to unbind del- they identify. amendment to ban protesters of every stripe and hundreds egates, is just one of several chal- those unions. of television crews from all over the world. lenges Trump will face when the And then comes the fact that under Ohio’s open-carry law, protesters will be able to party meets in Cleveland. Hun- carry firearms to the protest zones near the dreds of delegates remain com- convention hall. Even Dean Rieck, executive mitted Trump opponents, many director of the Buckeye Firearms Association, of them pledging never to vote for said that “may not be wise.” Trump under any circumstances. For now, law-enforcement officials in northern Ohio say they are prepared. “Our United in their opposition to expectation is that people are going to come Trump but divided over how to and behave,” said Dan Williams, media- replace him, the movement drew TRADE IMMIGRATION relations director for Cleveland. Dozens of few backers among the party in- The 2012 platform Delegates upgraded groups, from Food Not Bombs to Bikers for siders who favor stability above called for a global a proposal to erect Trump, have applied for public-demonstration all else. Which means no one can free-trade zone and a “barrier” on permits; the city has set up an emergency- swift passage of a the border with a operations center to orchestrate its response. safely predict what will unfold new Pacific trade Trumpian demand The local police force of about 500 will be along Lake Erie. deal. In 2016, to build a “wall.” backed up by about 2,500 state and federal Walkouts are planned, and at- Trump’s influence But there was law-enforcement officers from outside the city. tempts to heckle Trump as he was felt the most no description of Extra beds in county jails have been secured gives his acceptance speech on in this section. which border or any in case of mass arrests. “We need better- demand that Mexico Thursday night may develop if negotiated trade pay for it. Trump’s the anti-Trump forces feel they agreements that put call to temporarily are being treated unfairly on America first,” the ban Muslims from rules and platform fights. The document states. entering the country bargaining will go on after open- But Trump did not also went missing, get everything he though the document ing gavel. “If they don’t want wanted. Delegates echoes his more the embarrassment of a walkout, removed critical recent calls to that’s in the RNC’s hands,” Unruh references to NAFTA limit refugees from said. At minimum, she joked, and the Trans-Pacific countries with active △ “the Colorado delegation will be Partnership. Islamic extremist Quicken Loans Arena sports reading The Decline and Fall of movements. decorations for the convention the Roman Empire.”

54 TIME July 25, 2016 Delegates focus BY THE NUMBERS past Trump 50,000 on 2020 Number of people expected in Cleveland for the convention, CLEVELAND WILL PRODUCE making it Trump’s more than just a nominee. It biggest production yet is also host to a hard-to-miss fight over the future of the 125,000 party: its rules, its values and Number of balloons its next leaders. For many, that will drop when Trump accepts the Trump is just an interlude in nomination the ongoing battle between conservative purists and 1,711 Establishment moderates. Size, in square feet, “The Trump era feels to of the video screen me like punting on third behind the main stage down,” says David Kochel, △ norm for a convention where Trump will give his speech an Iowa operative and RNC chair Reince with an incumbent former top aide to Jeb Bush. Priebus has opposed President, but Trump is no 15,000 “We’ll have to wait another efforts to unseat Trump incumbent. “It’s unusual Expected number of election cycle to figure out to see it start so early,” said credentialed members who’s right.” Nevada’s fourth-in-the- former RNC chairman Mike of the media Already under way are nation primary slot and to Duncan. fights about geography and require closed primaries and Even the current party $130 million diversity: Which states caucuses after Trump ran boss, Reince Priebus, told Rough estimate of and which voters control the table of contests open TIME he expects the focus

; ERNST, CRUZ: AP; ILLUSTRATIONS BY LAURA BOHILL FOR TIME the total cost of the convention, including the primary derby every to independent voters. And to be on 2020. “I’m sure $50 million in federal four years? Delegates there will be all sorts of meet those discussions will keep security funds brought amendments to and greets by likely 2020 going,” he said, cautioning the rules committee to candidates like Paul Ryan that those plotting their tip the balance in 2020, and Scott Walker. future four years out may including a proposal to strip Such jockeying is the find it counterproductive.

The other voices by the lake PAUL RYAN JEFF SESSIONS SCOTT WALKER JONI ERNST BEN CARSON TED CRUZ The House Speaker, An early Trump A star of the The Iowa freshman The brain surgeon The delegate-count who has been cool in supporter who 2012 Republican Senator took turned candidate runner-up left the his support of Trump, helped the candidate Convention, the her name out of found common cause race calling Trump a will use his remarks draft his immigration Wisconsin governor contention to be with Trump after they “serial philanderer” to highlight his plan, the Alabama is hoping for another Trump’s running both misheard their and “pathological “opportunity agenda” Senator likes to say hero’s welcome mate, but the party cues to take the liar” who was “utterly for the GOP. Trump is more than after a disappointing rising star is looking debate stage in New amoral.” Will he take just a campaign: presidential to boost her clout. Hampshire. the high road now? “A movement is campaign. afoot that must not fade away.” SECURITY: ANGELO MERENDINO—GETTY IMAGES; PRIEBUS: JIM LO SCALZO—EPA; RYAN, CARSON: REUTERS; SESSIONS: GETTY IMAGES; WALKER: EPA From left: Day, Nicklaus and Spieth banter during practice rounds at the Memorial Tournament in Ohio

PHOTOGRAPH BY DYLAN COULTER FOR TIME Sports JASONHow DAY AND JORDAN SPIETH ARE TheyTWO OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN GOLF. Find Their A-Game

JACK NICKLAUS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE SPORT. THEY DISCUSS:

BY DAVID VON DREHLE

MAGIC COMES IN MANY VIALS. GOLFER JORDAN SPIETH opened a highly potent bottle last year. At a mere 21, he won the Masters and the U.S. Open championships back- to-back, then added top-four finishes in the remaining major tournaments. An epic season at any age, but glittering with the thrill of something new. Prize money in the millions, and endorsement money in the tens of millions, rained down on the slim and winsome Texan as golf fans fell under his spell. MAnother elixir from the wizard’s cabinet has been un- stoppered by Jason Day, the No. 1–ranked golfer in the world. The strapping Australian wasn’t a phenom; he trudged, rather than vaulted, to the top. But now his life and career are magically synchronized; in his late 20s, he has grown into himself, with a wife and two young children to balance out his stunning PGA Championship last Au- gust, when he became the first player in major-tournament history to beat par by 20 strokes. And then there is a magic known only to Jack Nicklaus. You can see it on the faces of Spieth and Day as they sit down to join Nicklaus for a conversation with TIME on a patio overlooking Muirfield Village Golf Club, a Nicklaus-built preserve in Dublin, Ohio. Down below, the journeymen of the PGA Tour are practicing for the annual JASON DAY, 28 1 CURRENT WORLD GOLF RANKING

PGA Tour wins 10 to date

PGA Tour wins 27 Nicklaus had at Day’s age

Day at the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, on July 3

Memorial Tournament, but up here two Where did he find that particular And what a fierce one he was. There are of the best in the world are hanging on potion? a million examples—this is one: the old man’s every word. They call him Leading the 1972 U.S. Open by a com- “Mr. Nicklaus.” “I DON’T THINK you have competition fortable three shots with two holes to He was the prodigy once, like Spieth: with anybody else,” says the man long play, Nicklaus stood on the 17th tee at a laser-eyed 22-year-old capable of ago branded the Golden Bear. More silver Pebble Beach with a gale blowing from grinding down the great Arnold Palmer now than gold, but still with a champion’s the Pacific into his face. A long par-3 sur- to win the 1962 U.S. Open in his first formidable forearms and fingers curling rounded by cliffs and sand, the hole cried year as a pro. And like Day, he was a man unconsciously into a grip. No matter who out for a safe shot. But Nicklaus pulled in full flood, winner of seven major ti- else was on the course, the Bear hunted the most notoriously difficult club from tles from ages 30 to 35, while Barbara alone. “My philosophy was always basi- his bag and dared himself to hit the shot mothered their five stair-step children cally you are playing one shot at a time, of a lifetime. and he laid the foundations of a busi- and you play one day at a time, and you “Even God can’t hit a 1-iron,” golf leg- ness empire. play one year at a time, and you are always end Lee Trevino famously quipped of the But the magic they have captured trying to climb a mountain.” tiny blade with the pea-size sweet spot. at this moment Nicklaus somehow Nicklaus continues: “I don’t think That’s the difference between God and harnessed for a lifetime. Now 76— Jason has a competition with Jordan or Jack Nicklaus. with even the stunning career of Tiger vice versa. There is only one person you The ball split the wind like a bullet, Woods not quite measuring up to his can control out there, and that is yourself. landed lightly as a ballerina, and hit the own—Nicklaus not only reached the And whether he makes a 30-footer,” Nick- reed-thin flagstick. His birdie putt was top: he magically stopped time, or at laus gestures toward Spieth, “he certainly a tap-in. least slowed it down to a crawl. When doesn’t have any control over it,” gestur- But to prove his point about things in even the best golfers typically number ing now at Day. And back at Spieth: “He and things beyond one’s own control, that their time as major champions in years, makes a lot of them, you know.” very same hole, 10 years later, was the site his reign spanned decades. Nearly a Says Day: “A little too many.” of another miracle birdie: Tom Watson’s quarter-century, actually, from the ’62 “I don’t know about too many. I hope chip-in from off the green to beat Nick- Open to the 1986 Masters. Through you guys keep making a whole bunch of laus for the 1982 U.S. Open title. slumps and injuries, competing against them,” the Bear resumes. “I think that’s “I always felt like I was trying to keep such giants as Palmer, Player, Watson, great for golf. But you know, you control getting better,” the Bear resumes. “I had Trevino and Ballesteros, he holds the re- yourself. You control your own physical goals in front of me, even when I was in cords for the most major victories (18), well-being. You control your own golf my 40s—I won the Masters at 46—just the most second-place finishes (19) and game. You control your own competitive kept trying to work myself to get better. the most top 10s (73). instincts. Everybody asks, ‘Who was your And all of a sudden 25 years or so have No one else comes close. toughest competitor?’ And I said, ‘Me.’” passed.”

58 TIME July 25, 2016 JORDAN SPIETH, 22 3 CURRENT WORLD GOLF RANKING

PGA Tour wins 8 to date

PGA Tour wins 3 Nicklaus had at Spieth’s age

Defending champion Spieth eyes the ball at the U.S. Open in Oakmont, Pa., on June 16

ON THIS WARM SPRING MORNING in Add to that the physical toll of coiling basketball,”and also “played quarterback central Ohio, Spieth was looking ahead and uncoiling in a violent swing thou- until I figured out my hands weren’t big to his 23rd birthday, which falls on July 27. sands of times per week. Spieth might not enough.” Golf won out because it “was No one so young could possibly under- know that part yet, Day offers, but at 28, the only sport that I could go do by my- stand how 25 years can pass “all of a sud- “I have battled injuries in my career, so I self, do what I wanted to do, do what I den.” It is a thing that older people say, finally said, ‘O.K., I need to take control of needed to do and get my own reward out first with astonishment, later with resig- what I am doing.’” He has disciplined his of my own effort.” Spieth has a version nation. One of the distinctions the three diet and prioritized fitness “to extend the of the same story: “I think back to what men have in common is their status as longevity of my career. And hopefully one Mr. Nicklaus was saying about how your “ambassadors” for Rolex, and when they day, stay at the top as long as Jack did.” toughest competitor is yourself. I loved compare the watches on their wrists, they As they talk, a certain note rings again team sports, but I love being able to con- discover that Nicklaus wears a timepiece and again. Call it stoic, call it self-reliant, trol my own destiny. The work that I put that is twice as old as Spieth. Life begins it has to do with control, mastery of one’s in ahead of time was either going to come so slowly, like a thrill ride climbing to the own fate, captaincy of one’s own ship. out and I was going to be successful—or release point, then passes in a whoosh. Built tall and solid as a tight end, Nick- I was going to try and fail and learn how So Spieth has a touch of awe in his laus was a forerunner of today’s muscu- to succeed the next time.” voice when he tackles the idea of com- lar, health-conscious tour pros in an era The Day version: “I definitely like the peting so brilliantly for so long. The con- of chain-smoking, hard-drinking golf hus- solitude of golf. Being able to be out here cept is both abstract and compelling, tlers. Like Day and Spieth, he excelled at a on the golf course and you are just you and like a mountaintop viewed from afar. number of sports in his youth, and chose yourself and your thoughts. That’s when After three years as a professional, Spieth golf for reasons of temperament. you know, ‘Hey, I can push myself a little says tentatively, “It is still very early on, “Baseball was probably my best sport bit harder.’” hopefully, in a career that is as long and— when I was growing up,” Nicklaus says, hopefully—somewhere near half as suc- but he hated to have his playing schedule PUT GOLFERS FROM YESTERDAY and cessful as Mr. Nicklaus.” Even so, he ad- in the hands of other kids. In those days today around a table and, inevitably, you mits, “it can be a grind.” of pickup ball, before adults organized will hear a lot about engineering. Unlike How so? “As much as we love what the fun out of childhood, a game on the the hardwood driver he carried for most we do because of the adrenaline rush of playground called for 9 in the morning of his career, a modern golf club sends a being in contention,” Spieth continues, might fizzle out for lack of players after ball flying as if struck with a “trampo- “having important putts or shots, or try- 90 minutes spent standing around. “But line,” Nicklaus says. And the golf balls ing to control the most minor club-face I could go to the golf course at any hour I themselves are miraculous compared rotations to get the ball to go where you wanted to go,” he continues, “and I didn’t with the ones he once played with. As are looking—that can be a mental grind come home until my mom grabbed my ear Day and Spieth listen dumbfounded, the

SPIETH: ROSS KINNAIRD—GETTY IMAGES; CHRIS DAY: CONDON—GETTY IMAGES week after week.” and yanked me home.” Nicklaus “loved legend recounts his methods for sorting a 59 shipment of balls into keepers and duds. Even in a single box, the balls could come slightly different in size—and dramati- cally different in flight path. Imperfect technology influenced styles of play, from Palmer’s swashbuck- ling to Watson’s wedge magic to the slash-and-rescue of Seve Ballesteros. Nicklaus was known for the mistakes he didn’t make and for the miracle shots that he made look easy. He could hit the ball high and hit it low, bend it right or left, and he always seemed to know which shot to hit at which moment. He made an art of what’s known as “course management”—conforming his play to the conditions at hand. “I have a question,” Day ventures. “For different golf courses, did you have different sets” of clubs? “Different what?” Nicklaus parries. “Did you have different sets made for different golf courses?” Day repeats, for △ Australians. Spieth’s family foundation the idea of tailoring clubs to the demands Nicklaus makes his final emphasizes children with special needs— of specific courses is common among to- appearance at the British Open, in like his beloved younger sister, who day’s top pros. Nicklaus explains that he St. Andrews, Scotland, in July 2005 makes frequent appearances in her broth- played different clubs in different coun- er’s social media—military families and tries, because his sponsorship deals a game. Today, I can’t imagine seeing junior golf. Both men salute the example changed from England to Australia to the any club champion making a game with of Nicklaus, who, along with Palmer, pio- U.S. He adjusted to the manufacturer, not these guys.” The other great change in neered the rise of golfers as business mo- the other way around. golf: the money. When Nicklaus won the guls and athletes as philanthropists. If that astonishes the current champi- first of his record six Masters champi- And Nicklaus repays the compliment. ons, Nicklaus simply recalls golf as played onships in 1963, his purse was $20,000. The ultimate key to sustained excellence, in even earlier generations. The legendary For his 1986 title, he pocketed $144,000. he says, is balance, and “I think both of Bobby Jones, founder of the Masters, dis- Spieth took home $1.8 million for win- these guys right here have figured it out covered after his playing career was over ning in 2015. With endorsement deals already. You know, golf is a game, and it that his 4-iron was weighted differently worth many times the prize money, top is only a game. It’s a great game, and it from his other clubs, Nicklaus recounts— golfers are highly successful small busi- will dominate a great part of their lives.” which finally explained why Jones always nesses unto themselves. As a result, even But not all of it. had such trouble with that club. young players spend a lot of time think- “My family was a great diversion for And the players themselves are highly ing about philanthropy. me. My business interests were a great engineered today. The ever quotable Day and his wife Ellie are patrons of diversion.” Promoting his sport and his Trevino divides the golf world between the Brighter Days Foundation, which charities have been great diversions. the “round bellies” of the past and the supports charities around their Ohio The conversation was drawing to an “flat bellies” of the contemporary game. home and promotes golf among young end. If, God forbid, the magic finally ran Time in the gym is as much a part of a out for them tomorrow, where would they modern pro’s schedule as time on the want to play their final round of golf? For practice green. Nicklaus appreciates Day and Spieth, the answer was easy: Au- the athleticism of the new era but wor- gusta National, the home of the Masters ries that professional golf might lose its Tournament.

‘Everybody JOHN ILLUSTRATED BIEVER—SPORTS connection with the game as played by For Nicklaus, something different: mere mortals. “The average golfer has a asks, “Who was “Pebble Beach,” he says. harder time relating to today’s game,” your toughest “He wins the Masters six times, so [Au- he says. In the old days, the pros might gusta National] is old news now,” Spieth play a practice round with the club cham- competitor?” And says with a laugh. pion at the country club hosting a tour “It’s a pretty hard choice,” Nicklaus event. “I would hit the ball 10 or 15 yards I said, “Me.”’ allows. “I hope I don’t have to make it past [the amateur], but we could make —JACK NICKLAUS soon.” □

60 TIME July 25, 2016 ‘WHEN THE GHOSTBUSTING GETS TOUGH, THEY WIELD THEIR ECTOPLASM-BLAMMERS WITH RAMBO-LIKE AUTHORITY.’ —PAGE 64

TELEVISION Winona Ryder, woman interrupted By Eliana Dockterman

WHEN YOU MEET WINONA Ryder, it’s hard to shake the feeling that she belongs to another era. It’s not just that she doesn’t appear to have aged a day since films like Edward Scissorhands and Girl, Interrupted made her a ’90s icon. It’s that she still keeps old cassette tapes of important voicemails and bootleg VHS tapes of concerts. On the topic of the Internet, she muses, “Part of me didn’t want to have kids, because it’s such a crazy world. You really can’t control what they see.” Luckily for her, this era—that is, the present—also belongs to another era. Nostalgia is the stron- gest tide in Hollywood, with se- quels and reboots like Star Wars and Ghostbusters putting a fresh spin on recent history—and nobody evokes the not-so-distant past quite like Ryder. That makes this a fine moment for her to return to the spotlight. Her new project is Stranger Things (July 15), a Netflix thriller series set in the 1980s; Ryder plays a mother living in a small Indiana town whose son goes missing, just as an alien escapes from a secret government facility. If this sounds Spielber- gian, that’s deliberate—the series’ creators, brothers Ross and Matt Duffer, have said they wanted to pay homage to beloved films from their childhood, like E.T. and Close Top: Ryder in 2016. Bottom, from left: Her rapid rise, in Beetlejuice Encounters of the Third Kind. The (1988), Heathers (1988) and The Age of Innocence (1993) show is a love letter to that era’s spooky charms. RYDER: TRUNK ARCHIVE; BEETLEJUICE, HEATHERS, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE: EVERETT PHOTOGRAPH BY PHIL POYNTER 61 Time Off Reviews

be violent toward a person before.” Ryder is willing to discuss the accusations because they are so serious, but for the most part she has gone to great lengths to stay out of the public eye since her 2001 shoplifting arrest, during which police found a syringe and painkillers in her possession. She says she struggled psychologically during that time. She produced and starred in her passion project, Girl, Interrupted, because she identified with its depressed heroines. “You can’t look to the industry to validate you as a person. That can just lead to incredible disappointment,” Ryder says. “I was guilty of that when I was younger. You get caught up in it, surrounded by people that are telling you it’s the most important thing.” For almost a decade, Ryder was largely absent from the screen. “I took Ryder goes for broke with a wonderfully unhinged performance in Stranger Things some years off, and I didn’t realize that was very dangerous in terms of my career,” she says. “When I was ready to come back, I was like, ‘Oh, where did That’s why Ryder is a smart casting formers. Her look defied stereotypes—a everyone go?’” Studios didn’t know choice. She had such a long run playing producer notoriously told her when she what to do with the teen-rebel icon who unconventional women in the late ’80s was a teen that she wasn’t pretty enough was no longer a teen. and ’90s—think Beetlejuice, Heathers for Hollywood—and she starred in, well, That began to change in 2010 with and Dracula—that her doe-eyed gaze stranger things. Even when she donned a a well-received performance in Darren conjures a mood as much as a memory. blond wig to play the high school cheer- Aronofsky’s Black Swan as an aging But characters like the ones that made leader, it was for Tim Burton’s surreal ballerina fighting to stay relevant her famous are scarce now. “These days, Edward Scissorhands. She made dark as a younger, newer dancer (Natalie it’s either a small movie made with no swagger cool. Portman) ascends within the company. money over six years or the superhero But Ryder was also one of the early In the years since, Ryder has found a movies,” Ryder, 44, says. “I can’t really casualties of the tabloid era. She got new niche, specializing in stories set in envision myself in a engaged to Depp when she the recent past. She starred in the film cape getting chucked was still a teen, and the Experimenter, about the Stanley Milgram out of a window.” ‘When I was ready couple became paparazzi experiments in the ’60s, and in HBO’s Ryder’s rise to to come back, I was magnets. He tattooed ’80s-set political drama Show Me a Hero. celebrity status in her like, “Oh, where did WINONA FOREVER on Now, there’s Stranger Things. teens and 20s, and everyone go?”’ his arm. (After they split, As an anguished mom who believes her tabloid-fueled WINONA RYDER he altered it to WINO that her missing son is communicating fall shortly thereafter, FOREVER.) Depp is back with her in supernatural ways, Ryder de- made her a national in the headlines now livers what may be her best performance obsession. The nearly decade-long as he separates from his current wife in decades. Once again, she employs that hiatus that followed kept her tethered to Amber Heard, who has alleged that he wild look viewers will remember from the moment she exited the public eye. physically abused her. For her part, her early work. America watched her male co-stars— Ryder says Depp was “never abusive at But tackling this new project, she like Ethan Hawke, Christian Slater and all towards me.” says, has also allowed her to step into a Johnny Depp—grow up and become “I’m not calling anyone a liar,” she different kind of role. Ryder has become A-listers. But for those who haven’t seen says on the subject. “I’m just saying it’s the grownup woman she always wanted the small roles she’s taken over the past difficult and upsetting for me to wrap my to be. “I started acting so young—I se- few years, Ryder is frozen in time. head around it. Look, it was a long time cretly wanted to be older,” she says. “I’m ago, but we were together for four years, finally getting to play my own age, and RYDER WAS MORE THAN a ’90s It girl; and it was a big relationship for me.” it’s liberating. I would not want to go she was one of the decade’s defining per- She continues, “I have never seen him back to playing the ingénue.” □

62 TIME July 25, 2016 QUICK TALK Susan Faludi Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Susan Faludi has made a career writing insightful books about gender like Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. But she was floored when her own father came out as transgender. She recounts his story and grapples with their relationship in her new memoir, In the Darkroom (June 14). Ahmed and What made you want to write about Turturro scope your dad? My father asked me to write out limited her story. Beyond that, I’m a writer— legal options that’s how I figure things out. And it was a way to make sense of my relationship with my father and how it was changing REVIEW since the news of my father’s gender A new Night Of crime change. I felt like I couldn’t continue to write honestly about gender or and injustice on HBO feminism, or any of the attendant issues, without admitting to my own A COLLEGE KID BORROWS THE FAMILY CAR TO GO personal experience. out partying—but that car is a New York City cab, and its off-duty light is broken. Soon, the kid’s got You say it came out of the blue. Did a passenger, a beautiful young woman who gets you go back and look for signs? him high, plays knife games with him and takes I always knew that something about my him to bed. When he wakes up, she’s been stabbed father was not quite right. My father to death; in a panic, he grabs what appears to be always seemed to be trying on different the murder weapon and drives off. roles, different identities, whether it That’s the night that begins HBO’s new mini- was the alpine mountain climber or series The Night Of, one that comes to include a long, suburban dad writ large with the fedora tense sequence ending in Naz’s arrest. The son of and the constant building. Mostly what Pakistani immigrants, Naz (Riz Ahmed) is watchful I was focused on when I was a child and guarded. Though he’s clearly sensitive, his was that my father was very aggressive time in jail at Rikers Island, under the guidance of and domineering and symbolized to me Michael K. Williams’ kingpin, forces him to forget all the unattractive aspects of being a his humanity. Williams hands him a copy of The Call controlling patriarch. of the Wild, a book to fit the circumstance. The Night Of draws upon all of New York City, He stabbed one of your mother’s its strivers and its oppressed, to tell a story of male friends in the stomach. how the justice system swallows up lives. John It was not a good moment. It never oc- Turturro, as a defense attorney seeking his one big curred to me until later that perhaps that case, blends opportunism and mercy beautifully. itself was a mask to hide from the world There’s so much detail on display here that it’s my father’s true desires. Hypermascu- frustrating to find the case built around a woman linity was an attempt to cancel out the painted as complicit in her own death, with a feminine yearnings he felt inside. fondness for hard drugs and daggers. But this is a minor flaw, not least because, like You’ve written about gender all too many crime victims, she eventually falls out of your career. Did your dad’s experi- the story. What makes The Night Of work is its de- ence change the way you see any- piction of how incarceration alters a person, leaving thing? I think it reinforced and made an impact that will remain even if Naz is freed into personal a lot of the observations, a lot a world of few prospects. It’s not actually about one of the conclusions I came to in Stiffed. night—it’s about endless unlit, violent days. How stifling, stultifying, our idea of a —DANIEL D’ADDARIO man can be to the human being inside that mold. That masculinity itself is a THE NIGHT OF airs Sundays at 9 p.m. E.T. on HBO

STRANGER THINGS: NETFLIX; FALUDI: SIGRID ESTRADA; THE NIGHT OF: HBO great burden.—BELINDA LUSCOMBE Time Off Reviews

the wings of a spectral butter- Ghostbusting fly. He honors the spirit of today: Jones, the original: Bill Murray, McCarthy, Wiig Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hud- and McKinnon son and Annie Potts all have cameos, and homage is paid to the late Harold Ramis with a gleaming bronze Co- lumbia University bust. Yet there’s nothing nostalgic, in the musty sense, about this Ghostbusters: it glows with vitality, thanks largely to the performers. They revel in one another’s company, and not in a self-congratulatory, Ocean’s Twelve–style, “We’re awesome movie stars, together” way. Some of their dialogue has a loopy, unscripted vibe, à la Murray’s poker-faced asides in the original. When the heroines take time out MOVIES from their heavy-duty citizen The zany spirit of ’84 haunts saving for an impromptu Pat- rick Swayze reverie, they’re a reimagined Ghostbusters inviting us into the crystalline By Stephanie Zacharek goofiness of the moment. There’s visual glory here NO ONE HAS TO LOVE PAUL FEIG’S NEW GHOSTBUSTERS, too: the finale takes place or even like it. But anyone who continues to stand against it in a dazzling Times Square on principle—“My childhood has been defiled! I don’t like its mashup of past and present, stars! The trailer was bad!”—is an unimaginative schmuck. a place where contemporary Because Feig’s Ghostbusters is its own definitive creature, an digital news tickers share affable, inventive riff on Ivan Reitman’s proton-packing caper There’s space with ghost establish- that exists not to score points but to make us laugh. For a nothing ments like Regal Shoes, Na- summer comedy, there’s no nobler purpose. nostalgic, in than’s and an RKO National Like their 1984 counterparts, the new Ghostbusters— the musty theater showing Bruce Lee’s Kristen Wiig’s no-nonsense yet vaguely daffy physics whiz sense, about 1972 Fists of Fury. In one of Erin, Melissa McCarthy’s screwball scientist Abby, Kate the most stunning moments, McKinnon’s deadpan gearhead Jillian and Leslie Jones’ fervent it. It glows the women face down a pha- Manhattan-history nut Patty—are all classic New York City with vitality, lanx of sinister vintage Ma- eccentrics, out of place in world of nonbelievers. (Their dim- thanks cy’s parade balloons—float- witted but hunky receptionist, Chris Hemsworth’s Kevin, largely to the ing along, they’re a kiddie helps out too, but mostly he’s just ridiculously enjoyable eye performers nightmare come to life, glow- candy, a form of gentle revenge for years of stereotypically ing and gorgeous even as they sexy female secretaries.) When Erin, Abby and Jillian spot advance with menacing in- their first real ghost—a nutso turn-of-the-century murderess, tent. Their macabre beauty now a listless, translucent jellyfish of doom—they jump and stops the movie for a mo- squeal with delight, a spontaneously girly reaction for which ment. They’ve come from the they make no apologies. But when the busting gets tough as past to shake their fists at the a squadron of nasty ghouls descends upon an unsuspecting present—maybe they don’t Manhattan, they wield their ectoplasm-blammers with like remakes either, but that’s Rambo-like authority. their problem. Happy or not, It’s all presented with a wink; there’s nothing heavy-spirited they’re part of the here and or assaultive about this Ghostbusters. Feig, who co-wrote the now. This is the kind of movie COLUMBIA script with The Heat screenwriter Katie Dippold, has clearly you make when you ain’t taken care with the movie’s tone—it’s as delicately balanced as afraid of no ghosts. □

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TIME PICKS MUSIC A bear stalks Neil Young’s MOVIES new Earth The prolific filmmaker Alex Gibney’s latest project, Zero Days THE ROAR OF THE CROWD. (July 8), is as much a thriller as it is a docu- So all-enveloping and mentary, delving into tympanum-shredding that the Stuxnet computer it seems to have a life of virus, believed to be a its own. For 50 years, Neil jointly created Israeli- Young has been regularly American weapon. drenched by the sound, come to perceive its bestial essence. Which is perhaps why the 70-year-old rock icon detects unexpected overtones in the din. “I hear seagulls, I hear ocean waves—I hear all kinds of things in the sound of △ TELEVISION applause,” he tells TIME. “It On HBO’s new comedy sounds like a natural thing, At 70, Young remains committed to taking risks series Vice Principals like a flock of geese flying by. (July 17), Danny It’s the same thing: a bunch of McBride (pictured) us making noise because we discovers in the sound of saying, ‘The bear’s too loud. and Walton Goggins play two second-in- like something, like feeding applause? They have been It’s louder than the band! commands employing time at the barnyard.” made concrete, as strains of It’s making the band sound childish tactics in their Now Young offers the wolves, coyotes, bees, whales, small.’ So I’m like, ‘Well, battle for the role of chance to hear what he hears birds and elk (and also cars what if the band is far away high school principal. on the semi-live album Earth, and machines) weave in and and the bear is close?’ It’s not BOOKS featuring 13 songs—from out of both the crowd and the like a normal record.” In The Singles Game, 1970’s “After the Gold Rush” music. At first their chatter Nor is this a normal author Lauren Weis- to last year’s “Seed Justice”— provokes a smirk, but just a conversation, because berger (The Devil Wears that reflect his increasingly few songs in, they begin to Young is typically loath to Prada) pivots from fashion to tennis in anxious view of our impact on resonate sympathetically. do interviews. He jokes that the story of a prodigy the planet. It’s one of the most If you have doubts, you’re he’s a “drone” who’s been whose new coach unusual recordings of his long not alone. “John Hanlon— “coerced by management,” has her swap her career, eliciting comparisons he’s used to me. But even he but he also feels compelled sweetheart image for to the ’80s releases in which had to adjust,” Young says. to talk because he’s incensed complicated celebrity. he flirted with electronic “I remember getting a call in by environmental damage ▽ PODCASTS music, rockabilly and R&B. the middle of the night. He’s caused by what he sees as a On their new podcast, Earth’s basic tracks were combination of corporate Politically Re-Active, drawn from a typically greed and political inaction. comics W. Kamau Bell muscular series of concerts, Yet the equally important and Hari Kondabolu bring humor to in which a still vital and bulletin is that he continues questions about the full-voiced Young was to risk ridicule on behalf of political process while backed by a band including his vision. Nearly 34 years interviewing guests like Willie Nelson’s sons Lukas after the electronically Kathleen Hanna. and Micah. But once the filtered Trans was widely recordings arrived at a studio △ mocked, that album now LISTENING TO EARTH near Young’s beloved Zuma The album will be issued sounds like Daft Punk, if Daft Beach in Malibu, Calif., on vinyl and CD. The only Punk acquired the ability to he told longtime producer downloadable version is write gorgeous (and not just John Hanlon that they were for Young’s high-def Pono catchy) melodies. Borrowing “going to throw out every music player, his rebuke Austin’s hometown slogan, to compressed-digital- rule” about live albums. music services. I suggest we Keep Neil Young

YOUNG: RICH FURY—INVISION/AP; VICE PRINCIPALS: HBO; POLITICALLY RE-ACTIVE So the animals that Young Weird.—ISAAC GUZMÁN 65 Time Off PopChart

A 15-year-old black Chrissy Teigen bought a $400 science whiz named blender for a fan who tweeted about Riri Williams will take buying the supermodel’s cookbook over for Tony Stark in lieu of the kitchen appliance. as Iron Man in a new Marvel comic series (presumably under a fresh name).

Warner Bros. London is offering Harry Potter fans the chance to eat breakfast at Hogwarts. It’ll set them back $123, though. Russian vodka brand Pyat Ozer tapped an Internet- famous Leonardo DiCaprio Nabisco released look-alike to star in one of a line of chocolate its ads, which warns against chip–flavored Oreos, living a “fake” life. which feature the Actor John Cho brand’s first “dual- revealed that flavored wafer.” Hikaru Sulu (originally played by George Takei, now played by New York City temporarily Cho) will be gay in renamed a street corner the new Star Trek after beloved New York Times movie, marking fashion photographer Bill the first LGBT Cunningham, who died at 87 character for the on June 25. LOVE IT series. TIME’S WEEKLY TAKE ON WHAT POPPED IN CULTURE CUNNINGHAM: AP; PYAT OZER: YOUTUBE; BLENDER: VITAMIX; OREOS: NABISCO; IRON MAN: MARVEL; HARRY POTTER: WARNER BROS. STUDIO BROS. WARNER POTTER: HARRY MARVEL; MAN: IRON NABISCO; OREOS: VITAMIX; BLENDER: YOUTUBE; PYAT OZER: AP; CUNNINGHAM: LEAVE IT IMAGES GETTY MESSI: STEAK, BROCCOLI, GIRLS, SPICE TEIGEN, JAPAN; IKEA DOG: HOT HBO; THRONES: OF GAME PARAMOUNT; CHO: TOUR;

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi was sentenced to 21 months in prison after ? a court found him ? ? ? guilty of millions of ? ? dollars in tax fraud; he will appeal the conviction.

The head chef at a hotel in Derby, IKEA Japan is England, was fired now selling a after writing on Insta- pitch-black “ninja” gram that he liked to hot dog and bun, secretly feed animal colored with edible products to vegans. bamboo charcoal.

The Game of Thrones showrunners revealed that Season 7 will be delayed Three of the five original Spice Girls—Melanie Brown because the show—on which (Scary Spice), Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) and Geri winter has finally arrived— Horner (Ginger Spice)—teased a major reunion event on needs to be filmed in “grim, YouTube. But there’s been no word from Melanie Chisholm gray weather” conditions. (Sporty Spice) or Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice).

66 TIME July 25, 2016 By Raisa Bruner, Cady Lang and Megan McCluskey Essay The Awesome Column

It’s their party and they’ll skip the convention if they want to By Joel Stein

FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS CENTURY, I WILL NOT BE ATTEND- ing the Republican convention. The reasons for this are complicated, but apparently they have to do with “keeping ex- penses low” and “drunk the entire time.” Which is too bad, since the only thing on my calendar between July 18 and 21 is my sister’s due date, and she’s already had her baby. It’s her second baby, so I’ll meet Allison Jade Browning at her high At first I suspected that these were excuses, and school graduation. that the real reason politicians were avoiding the convention was its location, Cleveland. Then I realized THE GOP PICKED four days in the middle of summer for its that the Cleveland area is a fun park for old white male convention because it’s a slow time at work, as it clearly is for conservatives: Pro Football Hall of Fame! Polka Hall me. The timing hasn’t caused scheduling conflicts for Republi- of Fame and Museum! Steamship William G. Mather cans in past years, and Democratic politicians are totally free in from World War II! Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club! And it July. But—and I’m sure this is the main thing Republican party isn’t the TSA lines, either. Ohio Governor John Kasich leaders will work on changing for the 2020 cycle—mid-July has indicated he may skip it, while Ohio Senator Rob turns out to be crazy busy for conservative lawmakers. Portman—who will stop by the convention briefly— Maryland Governor Larry Horgan has an invite on July 20 in a bizarre coincidence is holding his own mini- to go to the J. Millard Tawes Crab and Clam Bake, an event convention on the same days. It will be at a community that has both crabs and clams. Utah Representative Jason college that—the odds of this have to be incredible—is Chaffetz is leading nine members of Congress, including fellow also in Cleveland. Utah Republican Mia Love and Pennsylvania Republican Pat Meehan, on an overseas trip. A congressional delegation SO THE GOP CONVENTION—the biggest, most visible traveling to learn about antiterrorism efforts is something gathering of party leaders in an election year—is you’d think the RNC would be aware of. One of the changes in going to have a lot of first-time delegates and speakers the party platform will definitely be “use Google Calendar.” without much power in the party. People who, without South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy has a family my decades of experience, will not know how to get beach vacation, which he cannot skip, since the shore is where into the Huffington Post Oasis tent for a full-body he discovers all the cool new hairstyles. Similarly, Senator massage from Arianna Huffington, as I did in Tampa Mark Kirk can’t attend because, as he told talk-radio host Roe in 2012, which I believe led to her focus on getting Conn, “I’ve got to really do my hair that week.” Judd Gregg, more sleep, so that she could spend fewer waking a former governor and Senator from New Hampshire, and hours remembering the experience. I fear they won’t Representative Paul Cook from California have blocked out figure out how to go with Grover Norquist to a gay time to spend with their grandchildren, and unfortunately GOP organization’s party at a gay bar called the Honey their summer break from school happens to be in the summer. Pot, as I did in Tampa, and foolishly go to a different Senator Steve Daines of Montana will be trout fishing, gay GOP organization’s boring lunch in Tampa at which—assuming it’s in the western districts—can be done Oystercatchers, which, shockingly, is not a gay bar. only from the third Saturday in May through Nov. 30, a period So I’m not quite as sad about missing this year’s that coincides exactly with the convention. Senator Jeff convention. Without so many prominent members Flake told an AP reporter he can’t go because “I have to mow of the party, I worry there will be a lack of convening. my lawn,” which isn’t the kind of thing you can hire another Instead, I fear they will be attending a party thrown person to do in Mesa, Ariz., especially when, based on Google by one man, to celebrate one man, attended solely by Maps’ photos, your yard doesn’t have a lawn. Senator Ben people who want to be that one man. And I can do that Sasse has said he will not be attending but “will instead take at my house, two days after the convention is over, on [his] kids to watch some dumpster fires across the state,” my birthday. I get the feeling the odds of Republican which is presumably some weird thing kids are into now, like politicians’ being available to come to my house that

ILLUSTRATION BY ALEX EBEN MEYER FOR TIME hoverboards or dabbing. day will be significantly higher. □ 67 7 Questions

Michael K. Williams You might recognize him as Omar from The Wire—a fact that led to an identity crisis, says the host of Black Market and star of HBO’s The Night Of

What interested you about The Night On the first episode of Black Market, ‘I’ve come to realize Of? I’m just a loyal f-cker for good writ- you mention that when you were on that the race thing ing. Everything that I’ve been on on HBO The Wire, the lines blurred between is a smoke screen. I’ve had to audition for: Bessie, The Night your life and Omar’s. Could you ex- The real war is a Of, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire. The cal- plain? The Wire was my breakout. And iber of writers I got to work with early on I’m beginning now to finally deal with war on class.’ in my career—David Simon—that kind of what is a self-esteem issue. Growing up, just sets the tone for your appetite. I got picked on a lot. I was the corny one. I was not popular with the ladies. In a The show deals with bias against black very alpha-male community, being sen- Americans and Muslim Americans. sitive is not considered a quality. Omar What effect do you think the show will became an alter ego. A gay man who have on the conversation about race? doesn’t like fancy clothes or fancy cars, In my perspective, the show has very doesn’t do drugs, doesn’t even curse and little to do with race, and everything to robs the most gangster drug dealers in do with class. I’ve come to realize that the community. He’s an outcast, and I the race thing is a smoke screen. The identified with that immensely. Instead real war is a war on class. It’s about how of using it as a tool to maybe heal myself, much green you have in your pocket. I hid behind that. Nobody was calling In this country, you can unfortunately Michael in the streets. Everything was literally get away with murder if you have Omar, Omar, Omar. I mistook that admi- enough political background behind you. ration. It felt good. But it wasn’t for me. You are innocent until proven poor. It was for a fictional character. When that show ended, along with that charac- You’ve also addressed the failures of ter, I was clueless about how to deal with the system on your Vice show Black that. I crumbled. Market. How did that show come to be? I got a phone call from Spike Jonze. When You’ve said that the identity crisis I get there, he and his team were talking to led you to experiment with cocaine. me like I was this übersmart person, and The darkness that was on him, I wore. I I was just smiling and nodding my head dressed like him, walked like him, blew and freaking out on the inside. But once all this money. I was back in the projects someone in the room said, “Black Market by Season 2. to us means when the system fails you, you create your own system,” a lightbulb What pulled you out of that? A lot of went off in my head. I was just like, Oh, I prayer. The reckless behavior had to get it now. I thought about my mom. I’m stop—for my kids, for my family. first-generation Bahamian, and at my dinner table it was a big deal when you got Projects obviously change you per- your green card. And we did whatever we sonally. Do you hope your work on had to do to get our green card. Black Market imparts any political message? It would be my desire to help What have been the most personally heal my community to stop all the blood- affecting stories? One young man was shed. When I say bloodshed, I don’t just wearing a mask during the interview. mean, “Oh, the white cop killed the black After we shut the cameras down, he takes kid.” I also mean for the 10 black lives JAMES DEVANEY—GETTY IMAGES JAMES DEVANEY—GETTY his mask off, and this 23-year-old boy that are taken by 10 black hands. How looks at me and says, “Yo, Omar, take me can my country better equip me and my with you, man. I’m tired of this. I don’t brothers and sisters to stop our kids from want to die out here in these streets.” Six hurting and bleeding and dying on the months later, sure enough, he died on streets? If Black Market can do that, that those streets. One afternoon, him and his would be the best thing I could ask for. grandmother got shot up. —ELIANA DOCKTERMAN

68 TIME July 25, 2016

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