Gut Check for Trump, Intuition Beats Experience
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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 time.com How to cut your cell phone bill in half.†† 1. Grab your phone. 2. Use our BYOP® SIM Activation Kit. Keep your 4G LTE† network and number. 3. Sew extra big pocket on pants. The Bring Your Own Phone Activation Kit makes it easy to switch almost any phone to a more affordable plan. Use it to keep the same network and number you currently have, and then buy our Unlimited plan for just $45 a month. No activation fees or credit checks. Start saving today. 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Miller 54 ain’t afraid Finding Their A-Game Young, -DVRQ 'D\DQG-RUGDQ 6SLHWKWZRRIJROI VELJJHVW\RXQJ page 65 VWDUVWDNHDOHVVRQIURPOHJHQG-DFN1LFNODXV By David Von Drehle 56 On the cover: TIME photo-illustration; Trump: John Moore—Getty Images; setting: Pete Souza—White House Photo/Getty Images TIME (ISSN 0040-781X) is published weekly, except for two combined issues in January and one combined issue in February, April, July, August, September and November by Time Inc. PRINCIPAL OFFICE: 225 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281-1008. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send all UAA to CFS (See DMM 507.1.5.2); Non-Postal and Military Facilities: send address corrections to TIME Magazine, P.O. Box 62120, Tampa, FL 33662-2120. Canada Post Publications Mail Agreement No. 40110178. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Postal Station A, P.O. Box 4322, Toronto, Ontario M5W 3G9. GST No. 888381621RT0001. © 2016 Time Inc. All rights reserved. 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If you would prefer that we not include your name, please call or write us. PRINTED IN THE U.S. ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ 3 From the Editor 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 open- ing 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 sup- ply, 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. GOLF: DYLAN COULTER FOR TIME; BENSON: JONATHAN DELANO daily Facebook Live streams and special TALK TO US convention editions of correspondent ▽ ▽ Zeke J.