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2 Conversation THE CULTURE 54 Movies BRIEFING Disney’s new live- 9 Verbatim action Cinderella finally gets it right 10 LightBox President Obama 57 Music crosses the bridge Chart-topping rapper from Selma, 50 years Drake’s surprise after “Bloody Sunday” mixtape

12 World 58 Tuned In Israel’s upcoming James Poniewozik on elections; absurd HBO’s reality series prices in Venezuela; The Jinx crackdown on Burmese protests 59 Books A transcendent 14 World memoir of grief and Ian Bremmer on the bird training, H Is U.S.’s nuclear talks for Hawk with Iran Mourners in Moscow lay candles at the site where Russian opposition leader Time Boris Nemtsov was killed. Photograph by Yuri Kozyrev—Noor for 60 Health 17 Vitals The most nutritious Key data on Lei Jun, spring vegetables CEO of Chinese phonemaker Xiaomi FEATURES 62 Sports March Madness 22 Business 28 The Clinton Rules preview The benefits of B Corp For decades, Bill and Hillary have written certification for 64 Pop Chart activist entrepreneurs their own. Will it work for her campaign? Quick Talk with by David Von Drehle Elizabeth Hurley; 24 Milestones Zoolander 2 Farewell to Cardinal 36 Russian Chill Edward Egan, The murder of pro-democracy leader former Archbishop 66 The Awesome of New York Boris Nemtsov has anti-Putin dissidents Column living in fear by Simon Shuster Joel Stein cuts the COMMENTARY cord with his cable 26 Viewpoint 40 A Friendly Wager company Bryan Walsh on why Why laying $10 down on the home team the American century 68 10 Questions isn’t over shouldn’t be illegal by Sean Gregory Actor Ethan Hawke

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What You Said About ... notion that Iran could be trusted diplomatically. In particular, Klein’s comment that the country was JEB BUSH “Even though he’s a “nowhere near the threat to American security that Bush, he’s working harder than Sunni radicals like ISIS are” led Jim Montagnino of anyone else running right now,” Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to call Klein “naive.” “Iran is said Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin on a major nation ruled by a fanatical theocracy and is MSNBC in a discussion of Time’s on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons along March 16 cover story on Jeb’s place with the ICBMs to deliver them,” he wrote. “This in his family legacy and his likely is a far greater threat to American security than White House run. While Jeb’s intellect and micro- ISIS, a stateless rabble temporarily filling a power managing style dominated some commentary— vacuum.” former Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough recalled the ex-governor’s reputation for being THE GOP AND MARRIAGE EQUALITY Zeke J. Miller’s BONUS Time someone who always “knew more than anyone else TIME .com piece on 300 prominent Republicans, in the room”—others were wary. John and Mary including former New York City mayor Rudy Cox of Charlotte, N.C., onetime residents of Florida, Giuliani and GOP megadonor David Koch, calling offered a “report card” for him: “Secretive. Doesn’t Subscribe to on the Supreme Court to recognize marriage equal- play well with others. Won’t share the sandbox. The Brief for ity nationally was covered in media outlets from Holds grudges. Not recommended for promotion free and get a NBC to USA Today and generated some animated to first grade.” And many simply complained of daily email commentary. “Next, they’ll even start believing ... fatigue. “After reading the excellent article ‘Next with the 12 hurricanes aren’t caused by God’s wrath. Welcome stories you in Line,’ I must agree with Barbara Bush’s original to the 20th century, GOP! You’ve almost caught up need to know 2013 statement,” wrote Harry Moskos of Knoxville, to the rest of us in the 21st!” wrote MementoMori to start your Time Tenn. “We’ve had enough Bushes.” morning. on .com. On Twitter, critic Frank Bruni la- For more, visit mented the absence of key GOP leaders on the list. WEB WINNERS “There’s a fine line between reality time.com/email. “300+ veteran Repubs file pro-gay-marriage brief and the Internet,” cautioned the blog NewsFix in a w/Supremes. But party’s prez candidates still not piece on our widely covered list of the 30 most influ- there.” And LOLGOP called the petition “the begin- ential people on the Internet, featuring personali- ning of the ‘Uh, yeah, well, Republicans actually ties ranging from Kim Kardashian to transgender were always for same-sex marriage’ alibi.” activist Janet Mock. Readers were not shy about expressing their opinions. Of amateur nutritionist TALKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH Our story Vani Hari (@thefoodbabe), who publicizes “un- “Changing Your Mind,” on the Change Direction safe” food ingredients, Marjorie Woodruff wrote, campaign—an effort to educate Americans about “The Food Babe is a huckster and charlatan who five key signs of emotional distress and how to peddles information which is ‘gut-based’ rather recognize and discuss them—drew praise from than ‘science-based.’ She is the Jenny McCarthy the American Psychological Association. “Simply of nutrition.” On Facebook, Toni Spring said, “It’s a put, everyone should be as aware of the signs of sad day when Kim Kardashian is named one [of] the emotional distress as they are the signs of a stroke most influential people of anything.” or a heart attack,” wrote APA president Barry An- ton and CEO Norman Anderson, adding that cover- DIPLOMACY WITH IRAN Joe Klein’s column, about age of this effort “will help break down two major making a deal with Iran on nuclear-weapons devel- barriers to better mental health for many Ameri- opment, drew fire from readers who disputed the cans: stigma and a lack of information.”

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circumvent our DAVID BOREN, University of constitutional Oklahoma president, before system offends me expelling two members of the school’s chapter of the Sigma as a matter of Alpha Epsilon fraternity for their principle.’ involvement in a video depicting students chanting a racial slur VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, Bees objecting to an open letter from The removal of a 47 Republican Senators warning swarm from a the leaders of Iran that the next baseball game was President could undo “with the called “mass bee stroke of a pen” any agreement genocide” 790 struck with the Obama Number of Australians who simultaneously went Administration over Iran’s skinny-dipping in Perth, a new world record nuclear program

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HILLARY CLINTON, ‘We will have to likely presidential ‘The server candidate, will remain defending her go back to the decision not to turn 60 private.’ over “personal” emails to the State drawing board.’ Pounds of gold (27 kg) Department, after a LIOW TIONG LAI, Malaysian Transport a North Korean controversy Minister, saying the countries leading the diplomat was caught surrounding her use search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with at a Bangladesh of a private email which vanished a year ago, will need a airport, worth some server while she was new approach if it’s not found by June $1.4 million Secretary of State BIDEN, BOREN: AP; SAMANTHA BEE, HONEYBEE, LIOW, CLINTON: GETTY IMAGES; ILLUSTRATION BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME (2) WorldMags.net Sources: AP (2); New York Times; Twitter; Deadline; ABC; ESPN; CNN; Reuters; Washington Post WorldMags.net

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Briefing LightBox Marching On Fifty years after “Bloody Sunday”—the landmark civil rights protest that saw demonstrators attacked by state police as they walked across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.—thousands gathered to retrace the march. Among them were President Obama and his family as well as original marchers Congressman John Lewis and Amelia Boynton Robinson. “The march is not yet over,” Obama said during the March 7 event. “The race is not yet won.”

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Netanyahu Holds seats in a Knesset that holds 120, on March 3, about the danger of a which means that election day nuclear Iran. Most voters are more DATA Breath as Israel might be just the starting point for preoccupied with the economy, espe- Goes to the Polls weeks of bargaining to assemble a cially high housing costs and rising majority coalition. The question is income inequality. Those issues BY KARL VICK DANGER who gets to build it. nearly cost Netanyahu the 2013 elec- ZONES FOR Israeli voters will cast their ballots In close elections, it’s not always tion, when centrist voters surged to DISEASE on March 17 in a parliamentary the party with the most votes. In the newly formed Yesh Atid party. election that doubles as a referen- 2009, Netanyahu crafted a majority The electorate seems just as volatile Save the Children dum on three-term Prime Minister and sealed a second term as Prime now, says Reuven Hazan, a political ranked 72 Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s close: Minister even after Likud finished in scientist at Hebrew University. “I developing most polls show Netanyahu’s right- second place. The key is being able to would venture to say if Netanyahu countries by wing Likud party running just be- gather like-minded parties, an easier could go back 90 days, he would the strength hind the Zionist Union, a hybrid of task for Netanyahu in recent years, think twice about calling this of their health the center-left Labor and the cen- given Israel’s rightward drift. But the election.” systems and found that trist Hatnua party run by Tzipi Liv- incumbent, who called for early elec- If Netanyahu wins a fourth term, many fell below ni, who was Justice Minister under tions in December after collapsing security wreathed in nationalism the nations Netanyahu until December. But his centrist coalition, has run a lack- would likely remain his signature is- worst hit by what will victory look like? Neither luster campaign, talking nonstop in sue. Emphasizing the rise of Islamist Ebola. Here are major party is polling more than 25 Israel, as he did in the U.S. Congress extremists on Israel’s borders, his the five most campaign declared that talks with vulnerable: the Palestinians would be pointless, vowing “no concessions or with- drawals; they are simply irrelevant.” In a television ad featuring a Monop- oly game, Netanyahu piles houses and hotels on Jerusalem, the city Pal- estinians also claim as their capital. 1 Somalia “Forget it,” he says. “Jerusalem stays ours. Forever.” Should the Zionist Union attract enough support to form a center-left coalition, the premiership would ro- tate between Livni and Labor Party chair Isaac Herzog; the two agreed to 2 share the job as Shimon Peres and Chad Yitzhak Shamir did from 1984 to ’88. Workers hang a campaign poster showing Netanyahu The party has pledged to resume talks with the Palestinians, but its platform prioritizes solutions to ris- ing costs of living in Israel. The un- BRAZIL known quantity is Herzog, a son of 3 Israel’s sixth President, who has Nigeria failed to leave a strong impression on C6WLçHUSHQDOWLHVZLOOEH voters during the campaign. Still, his skill as a backroom operator might be useful if voters decide someone DSSOLHGWRWKLV other than Netanyahu should be giv- en a chance to form a government, 4 even one unlikely to exist any longer Afghanistan KHLQRXVFULPH  than the last one. PRESIDENT DILMA ROUSSEFF, announcing on March 8, “The only thing that is clear,” says International Women’s Day, strict new punishments Hazan, “is that the largest party is go- for the killing of women and girls in a country where an ing to be somewhere in the vicini- average of 15 women are killed every day; the femicide law sets out sentences of up to 30 years for murder ty of 20% of the seats, and that is 5 linked to domestic violence WorldMags.neta recipe for instability.” Haiti 12 By Noah Rayman WorldMags.net

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Credit Crunch Congress and Obama weaken the U.S. by playing politics abroad By Ian Bremmer the obama administration and nego- appeared that Congress might not pro- tiators from Britain, France, Germany, vide the authorization Obama sought, Russia and China are pushing for an the President asked for a delay, then agreement with Iran that would freeze signed on to a Russian plan in which the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Assad agreed to dismantle his arsenal if On March 9, 47 Republican Senators sent Washington held its fire. Assad crossed an open letter to Iran’s leaders to warn the President’s red line, and Obama them that the U.S. Congress had the turned to Congress for political cover power to rip up any deal signed with the that lawmakers refused to provide. U.S. Obama Administration. It was a clear bid credibility sustained lasting damage. to undermine the President’s credibility A successful superpower foreign before any agreement could be signed. policy depends on more than just supe- Some of these lawmakers probably rior force and the willingness to use it. It believed that urgent steps were needed demands deep reserves of credibility, the to prevent a bad deal that would threaten primary currency of power politics. If U.S. national security. Others may simply Washington asks a foreign government have wanted to score political points off to compromise or to accept new costs a President they and their constituents and risks, leaders of that government dislike. It’s doubtful that this letter will must have confidence that the President kill a deal that remains improbable for a can and will keep his promises. If the host of other reasons. Obama can likely President’s representatives negotiate a bypass the Senate by submitting any pact deal, everyone at the table must know as an executive agreement, not a formal that Washington will keep up its end. treaty. But there’s more to it. This move The Constitution is clear: the undermines the credibility of future President sets foreign policy. Congress Presidents, Democrats and Republicans, provides “advice and consent” for the by raising fears abroad that America’s ratification of treaties. Lawmakers political polarization means no one is should not undermine the President’s empowered to negotiate in good faith on proper authority, but neither should the behalf of the U.S. government. President cede that authority for tempo- The White House complained rary political advantage. The President about the Republican letter, but the and Congress score points off each other risk cuts both ways. The President every day, but if their gamesmanship has used Congress in the past in ways undermines Washington’s credibility, that have directly undercut U.S. cred- the national interest will suffer. ibility. In August 2012, Obama warned This trend is all the more dangerous Syria’s Bashar Assad that the use of at a time when other governments know chemical weapons against his coun- well that the wars in Iraq and Afghani- try’s rebels would cross a red line that stan have sapped support for any long- would “change my calculus” on the term commitment of U.S. troops. That use of American force in Syria. Several sharply reduces American negotiating months later, Assad used these weap- leverage before the talking even begins. ons. His bluff called—the President had With fewer means at Washington’s shown little appetite for intervening in disposal to get the outcomes it wants, Syria—Obama argued that a military re- credibility is a resource that no U.S. sponse was warranted but that Congress elected official can afford to squander. ■ should vote to approve any air strikes. This was disingenuous—Obama has Interventionists The letter to the leaders Foreign-affairs columnist Bremmer is the ordered military action without congres- of Iran was signed by all but seven of the president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk sional approval multiple times. When it RepublicansWorldMags.net in the Senate consultancy 14 time March 23, 2015 WorldMags.net

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fCURRENT CHALLENGES Former Googler Hugo Barra was hired in 2013 to lead Xiaomi’s international expan- 45 $13.3B 61M $46B sion. That is proving more difficult than Lei’s age Estimated net worth, Number of smartphones Xiaomi’s current according to Forbes sold in 2014 BIAN QING—IMAGINECHINA/AP BIAN anticipated, and the firm has trimmed its WorldMags.net valuation time March 23, 2015 17 Briefing | Small Business BusinessWorldMags.net

(cleaning products) to utility Green Moun- tain Power of Vermont. An electric utility? Yes, because the company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canada’s Gaz Métro, generates most of its power with renewable energy such as hy- droelectric and wind power. Green Moun- tain gets no credit for the 38% of its power generated by nuclear and fossil fuels. But it ticks other boxes: it pays more than 25% above the living wage and covers 80% of employee health care premiums. In a male-dominated industry, more than 25% of its managers are women or minorities. Workers also get paid hours to do volun- teer work in their communities. B Corp owners say their status is a competitive edge. “We’re really after a niche,” says Deb Hatcher, a co-founder and the head of marketing and sales at A to Z. “After Sideways [a film that romanticized pinot noir], it’s become quite a crowded Making Good, Plus a Profit A new type of field. We see ourselves as leaders. We want to model best practices.” A to Z believes, company lures activist entrepreneurs for instance, that if it can train its grape BY BILL SAPORITO suppliers to become sustainable growers, it will improve their soil, the environment oregon’s a to z wineworks became a and policymakers have recognized that will benefit, and the company will get B in 2014. That’s B as in B Corp, short for business is the most powerful man-made higher-quality fruit. “benefit corporation.” It’s a fast-growing force on the planet and it can be used as a But becoming a B Lab–certified benefit business structure that reorders the tradi- powerful force for good,” argues Jay Coen corporation isn’t simple. Companies seek- tional hierarchy, which dictates that Gilbert, a former sneaker entrepreneur ing the status must undergo annual audits investor returns must come first. In B cor- and a co-founder of B Lab, a nonprofit that for B-worthiness in areas like governance, porations, profits still matter, but em- certifies benefit corporations. “It can mar- employment practices, community per- ployees, suppliers, the community and the shal talent and resources at scale and with formance and environmental steward- environment can be on equal footing with speed unlike other sectors.” ship, measured on a 200-point scale. A to Z owners or shareholders. “We believe that Unlike the better-known S corpora- scored high on community performance at every level, everybody has to win,” ex- tion, B Corp firms aren’t structured for a and environment, less high on gover- plains A to Z president Amy Prosenjak, particular type of tax treatment; instead, nance. Companies must score a minimum whose company makes what she calls the label is more analogous to a food of 80 to qualify. This can further compli- “aristocratic wine at democratic prices.” producer’s organic certification. While cate the process and costs of starting and (That means about $20 a bottle for A to Z’s the idea of socially focused companies running a small firm. celebrated Willamette Valley pinot noir.) certainly isn’t new—think Ben & Jerry’s Still, entrepreneurs say B status is For A to Z, being a B means that the and Patagonia—the fact that there’s now about more than how they market them- grape growers it contracts with are guar- a legal structure backing the concept selves. It keeps them honest. Consider Bio- anteed fair prices in good years and bad makes it more attractive. There are more mimicry 3.8, which helps Fortune 500

and that its distributors aren’t squeezed for than 1,200 certified B Corp entities, the companies create products based on na- TIME FOR WALTON JAMES BY ILLUSTRATION every last penny. Employees are paid 43% majority in the U.S. They are regulated in ture’s designs—for instance, a carpet tile over the local living wage, and the busi- 26 states, the latest being New Hampshire with a pattern that mimics the forest floor, ness is run on a sustainable basis. And yes, and Delaware. The blessing of Delaware, making the replacement of worn tiles A to Z is profitable; this year it will produce the legal home of many large U.S. corpora- unnoticeable. Managing director Nicole 365,000 cases of wine. tions, is the most vital endorsement yet for Hagerman Miller says undertaking the B Corp companies represent a genre of making benefit corporations mainstream. annual B Corp audit keeps her company capitalism whose mission includes attack- Legislation is pending in 10 other states. on mission. “It does hold us true to this ing social and environmental problems. Members range from large outfits such as commitment. It helps us go further, even “Consumers, investors, entrepreneurs PlumWorldMags.net Organics (baby food) and Method though we feel we’re progressive.” ■ 22 time March 23, 2015 WorldMags.net

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MARKED DIED By President Obama and more than 100 members of Sam Simon Congress, the 50th anniversary of the Co-creator of “Bloody Sunday” march out of ǎH6LPSVRQV Selma, Ala. Tens of By Al Jean thousands walked across the bridge Sam Simon loved Muhammad that was the scene Ali. I don’t know for sure that of one of the most they ever even met, but he iconic moments of the civil rights admired Ali for being a rebel, movement. brilliant and above all hilarious, which were all qualities that described Sam. Simon, the SUED Simpsons co-creator who By the parent died March 8 at 59, started company of Wikipedia and other groups, a facility for abandoned dogs the National that anyone would feel loved in. Security Agency He was a writer who saw three and the Department moves ahead of other writers, of Justice. The pitching concepts and jokes groups say an NSA that would prove incredibly mass-surveillance fruitful and timeless. program violates the Perhaps the most amazing Constitution. thing about Sam was all the amazing things you could say DIED about Sam. As a boy, Elvis Blogger Lisa Presley returned his lost dog to Bonchek Adams, 45, him. And he was instrumental who built a devoted readership through in launching a television show frequent, heartfelt that is still going, 26 years and tweets and posts more than 560 episodes later. about her struggle Sam was always as funny with breast cancer. as anyone in the room. And perhaps most amazing, the last DIED year of his life, when he was in Documentarian incredible pain, was also filled Albert Maysles, 88. with incredible good deeds Egan at St. Patrick’s Alongside his brother, and was, according to him, his DIED Cathedral in 2000 he made Gimme favorite year. Shelter, about the Farewell to a man who was Cardinal Edward Egan Rolling Stones, and Grey Gardens, about already larger than life. Archbishop emeritus of New York eccentric relatives of Jean is an executive producer of Jacqueline Kennedy The Simpsons Roman Catholic Cardinal Edward Egan once said he did not like eulo- Onassis. gies. But after the retired ninth Archbishop of New York died of cardiac EVERETT SIMON: IMAGES; HONDROS—NEWSMAKERS/GETTY CHRIS EGAN: arrest on March 5 at 82, thousands packed St. Patrick’s Cathedral to cele- DIED brate the life of this scholar of canon law who loved music and helped Journalist Claude Simon with Sitton, 89, who a Simpson carry the city through the dark days following Sept. 11, 2001. covered the civil The day the towers fell, Egan gave last rites to victims, his gold rights movement in 1990 Cardinal’s ring over his blue rubber gloves. Not all his moves were in the 1950s and ’60s and later won popular—he closed parishes to help eliminate the diocese’s a Pulitzer Prize for multimillion-dollar debt and faced criticism for how he handled commentary. allegations of clergy sexual abuse—but as his successor, Cardinal Timo- thy Dolan, says, “He constantly asked, ‘Is it good for the people? Will it DISCOVERED help lead them to Jesus? Will it build up the faith?’” How chameleons change their color. Archbishop Demetrios of America, the leader of the Greek Orthodox Researchers found Church in America, who often worked alongside Cardinal Egan, says he that pigment cells will remember him as “a kind and gentle church leader always focusing expand and contract around crystals to on serving his people in the best way and connecting them with God.” reflect different levels —elizabeth dias of light. 24 WorldMags.net WorldMags.net

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The American Century Isn’t Over China won’t end U.S. dominance—but political gridlock and isolationism could s harvard po- or Russia—it’s America itself. GDP. By 1970 that share had the U.S. unique—an openness litical scientist It’s easy to forget what fallen to about one-quarter, toward immigrants. “As Lee Joseph Nye takes a global behemoth the U.S. but as Nye points out, that Kuan Yew once told me,” Nye a seat, he glances remains today. Take mili- was less a matter of American says, referring to the founding A at the portrait tary power: the U.S. not only decline than a global return father of modern Singapore, that looms over the conference spends four times more on de- to normality. Nearly half of “‘China can draw on a tal- room. “There he is,” says Nye. fense than the No. 2 country, the top 500 international ent pool of 1.3 billion people, “He” is Henry Luce, the China, but it also spends more companies are owned by U.S. but the U.S. can draw on the founder of Time and Life mag- than the next eight countries citizens, and 19 of the top 25 world’s 7 billion.’” azines. (Hence the portrait— combined. The U.S. Navy global brands are American. we’re at Time’s offices.) In a controls the seas, and the But the most important It’s the potential loss of that 1941 editorial in Life, Luce country’s military has troops reason the U.S. will continue openness that worries Nye. urged the U.S. to enter World on every inhabited continent. to dominate is the lack of a vi- Should the U.S. decide to shut War II to defend democratic its borders or turn its back on values and “create the first international affairs—two great American century.” recurring impulses in U.S. That term became short- history—all bets are off. If hand for the period of U.S. political gridlock becomes geopolitical dominance that permanent or income in- began around the end of the equality keeps rising, that war. But from the moment the too could threaten American American century was born, supremacy. “The question is Americans have fretted over whether we’ll keep living up threats to the country’s pre- to our potential,” says Nye. eminence. In the 1950s the He bets yes—and believes Soviet Union seemed poised that on the whole, that’s a to bury the U.S.; in the 1980s good thing for the world. A the Japanese were going to strong U.S. has helped keep outwork lazy Americans. tensions in check in East Asia Today a rising China is the and has worked to integrate great rival. A 2013 Pew poll of On top U.S. victory in World War II set the stage for dominance a rising China into the exist- 39 countries found that most ing international system. In people believed China already America’s armed forces have able rival. Nye dismisses each July a NASA probe will visit was or would eventually become more dominant since in turn: the European Union Pluto for the first time ever, become the world’s leading the dawn of Luce’s American is too fractured, Japan is too and our exploration of the superpower—and that includ- century—not less. For nearly old, Russia is too corrupt, solar system—led from start ed nearly half of Americans. 50 years after World War II, India is too poor, Brazil is too to finish by the U.S.—will be U.S. power was checked by the unproductive. complete. To which Nye says: Not so Soviet Union. No longer. As for China, Nye expects America is far from fast. A pioneer in the theory The relative decline of that as the country keeps faultless: the invasion of Iraq of soft power and the dean of American economic clout growing, it will take up more and intransigence on climate American political scientists, might seem obvious. By one space on the international change stand out as two major Nye knows geopolitics. In his measurement, China has stage. But Beijing faces major mistakes. But it’s difficult to new book, Is the American Cen- already passed the U.S. to be- internal challenges that could imagine that the world would tury Over?, Nye makes a strong come the world’s largest econ- derail its rise: a polluted envi- be a better place if Vladimir case that American geopoliti- omy. But that’s in part a trick ronment, an aging population Putin’s Russia or Xi Jinping’s JOE ROSENTHAL—AP cal superiority, far from being of perspective. In 1945, thanks and inefficient state-owned China were running things. “I eclipsed, is still firmly in place largely to the devastation of industries. More important, believe this is a different coun- and set to endure. And the big- World War II, the U.S. pro- China conspicuously lacks try,” says Nye. 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s a rule, these are words no The Clintons play by their own set of reer as an advocate for the rights of women politician wants to be speaking in rules. And in this case, the former Secre- and girls. This was to culminate in her of- A the days leading up to the launch tary of State explained, those rules bless ficial announcement—perhaps as soon as of a major campaign: her decision to erase some 30,000 emails early April—that she was again running “What I did was to direct, you know, from the family server despite knowing to be America’s first female President. But my counsel to conduct a thorough inves- that the emails had become a subject of in- if awkward press conferences could bring tigation ...” tense interest to congressional investiga- down a Clinton, the political supercouple “I fully complied with every rule that I tors. These were merely “private personal might never have left Little Rock. was governed by.” emails,” Clinton averred, “emails about Along with her husband—the 42nd “They were personal and private, about planning Chelsea’s wedding or my moth- President of the United States—Hillary matters that I believed were in the scope of er’s funeral arrangements, condolence Clinton is the co-creator of a soap-operatic my personal privacy.” notes to friends as well as yoga routines, political universe in which documents As a rule, a candidate wants to take family vacations, the other things you vanish, words like is take on multiple flight on outstretched wings of hope, not typically find in inboxes.” After she fin- meanings and foes almost always over- scramble in the dirt on the crabbed limbs ished taking questions, Clinton’s staff dis- play their hand. Impeachment can be a of legal compliance. Every day spent say- closed that no one actually read through route to higher approval ratings; the oc- ing “Trust me, my lawyer’s O.K. with it” is those 30,000-odd documents before she casional (and rare) defeat merely marks a bad day—and worse if she appears to be “chose not to keep” them. the start of the next campaign. Whatever reading from lawyer-vetted notes. Representative Trey Gowdy of South rules may apply to them, the law of grav- As a rule, these would be dire, perhaps Carolina, the Republican who is lead- ity is not one. fatal, markers of a campaign crashing ing a congressional select committee to Still, Clinton’s failure to defuse the on takeoff. But in this case the politician investigate the 2012 attack on the U.S.’s email issue, along with a growing list of was Hillary Clinton, whose carefully laid diplomatic outpost in Libya, fumed that questions about the family’s relentless plans to unveil her latest presidential bid “regrettably we are left with more ques- fundraising and her husband’s choice of hit turbulence on March 10 as she fum- tions than answers.” He announced plans companions, has revived hopes among bled her way through an awkward press to haul Clinton in front of his committee erstwhile rivals in the Democratic Party conference in a corridor at the U.N. At twice: once to be grilled about her email that the Hillary dreadnought might ac- issue: Clinton’s decision to ignore White and again to be interrogated anew on tually be sinkable. Backbiting inside House guidance as Secretary of State and Benghazi. the Clinton campaign—a hallmark of instead conduct government business Off message? Definitely. Clinton’s her failed 2008 presidential effort—has through a private email account hosted script for the month of March envisioned begun to leak into the political press. Re- on her family’s personal server. a series of events highlighting her long ca- publicans who were morose over their A Brief History of Clintons on the Defensive

JAN. 26, 1992 APRIL 22, 1994 During Bill’s first presidential campaign, Hillary went In a conciliatory press conference in the on 60 Minutes to respond to claims of her husband’s State Dining Room, the then First Lady infidelity, saying, “I’m not sitting here, some little spoke about her role in the failed Whitewater woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.” land deal and her commodity trading. WorldMags.net PREVIOUS PAGES: CORBIS; THESE PAGES, FROM LEFT: 60 MINUTES; DOUG MILLS—AP; PAUL J. RICHARDS—AFP/GETTY IMAGES (2) WorldMags.net presidential chances mere months ago ibility in one’s choice of benefactors. As home as a matter of convenience only. “I have a spring in their step. the saying goes: Beggars can’t be choosers. thought it would be easier to carry just So the twin drivers of the Clinton one device for my work and for my per- Trust Me soap opera have been their penchant sonal emails instead of two,” she said. the story of the clinton rule book is for secrecy and their menagerie of rich “Looking back, it would’ve been better if a long and Gothic yarn, with its roots in associates. The drumbeat of scandals, I’d simply used a second email account the loam of human nature: lust, money, real and puffed up, that marked Bill Clin- and carried a second phone, but at the ambition, idealism. The mix of those last ton’s presidency involved one or both time, this didn’t seem like an issue.” two—ambition and idealism—put the elements. For example, Filegate, Trooper- That explanation was not exactly ro- young Bill and Hillary Clinton on the gate and the Paula Jones lawsuit that led bust. The Q&A had hardly ended before path of politics a half-century ago. The first to Clinton’s impeachment all had to do Clinton’s critics unearthed an interview two—lust and money—posed significant with secrets. Overnight stays in the Lin- Hillary had given a few weeks earlier obstacles in their way. coln Bedroom for megadonors and the with Re/code co-founder Kara Swisher. “I It’s news to no one who lived through controversial last-minute pardon for the have an iPad, a mini iPad, an iPhone and the late 1990s that Bill Clinton can be fugitive financier Marc Rich had to do a BlackBerry,” Clinton said. So much for sexually reckless. But for a politician who with money. simplicity. Others remarked on a matter grew up in the years of John Kennedy and Fast-forward to now. Having weath- of timing: Clinton did not carry out her Lyndon Johnson, when sexual reckless- ered all those real and imagined business on an existing personal email ac- ness was the presidential norm, only to scandals through a mixture of insouci- count. She specifically set up a new private find himself in the chastened age of Gary ance, indignation, stonewalling and address—[email protected]—in- Hart, Clinton’s lifestyle required that he counterattack—only to see their popu- stead of using a government account. This and his wife become good secret keepers. larity rise as a result—the Clintons have happened on the very day the Senate For- Likewise, it’s news to no one at all little reason to change their MO now. eign Relations Committee held its first that winning public office costs far more Even the whirlwind campaign of Barack hearing on her nomination as Secretary money than the job will ever pay in salary. Obama, who upset Hillary’s 2008 presi- of State. Because the Clintons did not have wealth dential bid by promising a fresh tomor- As for why this might “seem like an of their own to fund their ambitions, they row instead of a return to yesteryear, was issue,” the answer is not complicated. All had to become adept at coaxing it from not enough to make the Clintons tear up federal employees have a legal obligation others. Indeed, they may be the most ad- their rule book. to preserve their work-related email—and ept in American history, having coaxed In her press conference, Hillary Clin- the White House advises appointees to billions of dollars from a multitude of ton described the private email account accomplish this by using official govern- donors—which requires a degree of flex- on the server inside their New York ment addresses. Email sent to and from

JAN. 26, 1996 JAN. 4, 1998 “It’s been a long day,” Hillary said after The first couple danced together on a beach testifying for more than four hours in the Virgin Islands shortly before Bill gave before a federal grand jury investigating a deposition in a civil sexual-harassment Whitewater. lawsuit brought by Paula Jones.

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.gov accounts is generally archived. In this says, “I would question why lawyers for the foundation to sign a point-by-point way, a consistent level of security is main- Secretary Clinton would use keyword agreement in 2008 about what it could tained. The nation’s history is preserved. searching, a method known to be fraught and could not do while Hillary Clinton Open-records laws are honored. And with limitations, to determine which of ran the State Department, there really is transparency gets a leg up on “Trust me.” the emails with a non-.gov address per- no separating the globe-trotting Clintons All this once made sense to Clinton. tained to government business. Any and from the heady atmosphere of money and As a candidate for President in 2008, she all State Department activities—not just influence. included “secret White House email ac- communications involving the keywords Among the questions she skirted at counts” as part of her critique of the Bush Benghazi or Libya—would potentially her U.N. press conference was one from Administration’s “stunning record of make an email a federal record. Given the NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. Given Clinton’s secrecy and corruption.” Now, however, high stakes involved, I would have imag- record on women’s rights, Mitchell asked, Clinton is leaning heavily on “Trust me.” ined staff could have simply conducted was she uncomfortable about donations For more than a year after she left office a manual review of every document. to the foundation from, say, Saudi Arabia, in 2013, she did not transfer work-related Using keywords as a shortcut unfortu- where oppression of women is a matter email from her private account to the nately leaves the process open to being of law? Mitchell could have gone further State Department. She commissioned a re- second-guessed.” if given more time. Recent news reports view of the 62,320 messages in her account have documented tens of millions of only after the department—spurred by Money and Influence dollars in donations from foreign gov- the congressional investigation—asked some of that second-guessing will ernments, including such incubators of her to do so. And this review did not in- focus on the family charity now known Islamic extremism as Qatar and Algeria. volve opening and reading each email; as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton One accounting, by the Wall Street Jour- instead, Clinton’s lawyers created a list of Foundation, which has raised an estimat- nal, totaled nearly $50 million in foreign names and keywords related to her work ed $2 billion for such causes as HIV/AIDS donations—not during Clinton’s term as and searched for those. Slightly more than treatment in Africa and the fight against Secretary of State, but before she took of- half the total cache—31,830 emails—did climate change in the years since Presi- fice and again after she stepped down. not contain any of the search terms, ac- dent Clinton left office. The risk that for- “I’m very proud of the hundreds of cording to Clinton’s staff, so they were eign governments and superrich foreign thousands of people who support the deemed to be “private, personal records.” citizens might donate to the foundation work of the foundation and the results This strikes experts as a haphazard as a way of currying favor with the Sec- that have been achieved for people here way of analyzing documents. Jason R. retary of State worried both Democrats at home and around the world,” Clinton Baron, a former lawyer at the National and Republicans on the Senate Foreign answered Mitchell. But that is not entirely Archives and Records Administration Relations Committee when Hillary Clin- the point. After the foundation collects who is now an attorney in the Washing- ton was first named Obama’s top diplo- those millions, it partners with other ton office of Drinker, Biddle & Reath, mat. And while the White House forced charities, governments and companies— FROM LEFT: TODAY SHOW; LUKE FRAZZA—AFP/GETTY IMAGES FRAZZA—AFP/GETTY LUKE SHOW; TODAY LEFT: FROM

JAN. 27, 1998 AUG. 18, 1998 Speaking with NBC’s Matt Lauer on the allegations The Clintons, with daughter Chelsea and dog Buddy, regarding Monica Lewinsky’s relationship with walk to a helicopter on their way to a vacation on Bill, Hillary cited a “vast right-wing conspiracy” Martha’s Vineyard just weeks before the release of the to undermine them. Starr report detailing Bill’s affair with Lewinsky.

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thus winning and potentially enriching The extroverted Bill still hungers for are ready to support her, according to a re- more friends. The New York Times docu- an audience; his postpresidential life has cent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Though mented one example: Bill Clinton used been a moveable feast of movie stars and her poor handling of the email issue has his entrée in 2005 to connect a major moguls, playboys and potentates. If some left party insiders unsure whether she foundation donor, Canadian mining bil- of his associates are less than seemly— learned anything from her slow-footed lionaire Frank Giustra, with the leader like the billionaire Stewart Rahr, who and wooden 2008 campaign, insiders of Kazakhstan. Two days later, Giustra reportedly emailed his friends a sexually don’t control elections. Voters do. signed a preliminary deal to mine ura- explicit video he shot of three women in The veteran New York political consul- nium in Kazakhstan. the back of a limousine—they are tes- tant Hank Sheinkopf, a former adviser to tament to the ever expanding universe Bill Clinton, is unsure. “These stories will And Still They Rise known as Friends of Bill. reach critical mass and coverage as she hillary and bill clinton have always Is there—or was there—an email gets closer to any announcement date,” been a team—and never more than when somewhere amid the yoga routines and says Sheinkopf, “and they will damage the chips are down. That doesn’t mean vacation plans that might have shed an her because they offer a portrayal of some- they are interchangeable, though. As she unflattering light on the shadowed places one who plays fast and loose with rules.” once put it to a diary-keeping friend: “He where the sundry parts of the Clintons’ But Clinton stories have reached critical can make things happen. And anyway lives converge: yin and yang, official and mass so many times before. And still, to what I really love is policy ... I’d be happy unofficial? Hillary Clinton, in pursuit of borrow from Maya Angelou, they rise. in a little office somewhere thinking up privacy, has drawn a shade over that ques- If sticking to their old rule book poses policies.” tion. History suggests that she will not a danger to Hillary Clinton’s chances, it This streak of introversion makes her willingly back down. probably won’t be a matter of scandal fiercely protective of her privacy, even to Though members of Congress are call- fatigue. Instead, it will be the feeling of the point that it causes her trouble. She ing for her to turn over the email server déjà vu. Can voters look at Clinton as she laughs and grieves behind closed doors for forensic examination, they would be appeared at her press conference—once among a tiny group of trusted friends, wise to proceed cautiously. A key page more scrambling to explain the unex- while in public—as her political consul- in the Clinton rule book is the one that plainable—and see more future than tant Mandy Grunwald once noted in a reads: When in doubt, drive your enemies past? After all, as the Clintons understood 1999 memo that became public record— crazy—then sit back and watch them so well back at the beginning of their road, she must work to be “real” in public set- implode. winning campaigns are about the future tings. As First Lady, she would sometimes What doesn’t kill Team Clinton only and start in that place called hope. —with slip out of the White House in disguise, makes it stronger. Will that be the lesson reporting by alex altman, michael just to get away, walking in dark glasses again? Hillary Clinton has a vast lead over duffy, zeke j. miller and michael up Connecticut Avenue to the zoo, accom- any potential challenger for the Demo- scherer/washington; sam frizell/ panied by a lone Secret Service agent. cratic nomination, and 86% of Democrats united nations ■

JAN. 7, 2008 JAN. 23, 2013 After losing the Iowa caucuses to Barack Obama, Hillary teared In a contentious appearance before the up in response to a question at a New Hampshire coffee shop Senate Foreign Relations Committee, about how she kept herself going on the campaign trail. The next Hillary testified on the deadly attack on U.S.

FROM LEFT: JOE RAEDLE—GETTY IMAGES; PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS—AP day she won the first-in-the-nation primary. diplomatic outposts in Benghazi.

WorldMags.net 35 WORLD WorldMags.net EMPIRE OF FEAR THE KILLING OF A PRO- DEMOCRACY LEADER IN MOSCOW HAS CAST A CHILL OVER RUSSIAN DISSIDENTS BY SIMON SHUSTER/MOSCOW

on a windy night in early march, a small group of Russia’s leading opposition activists got together at a restaurant in Moscow to commiserate over the murder of their friend and mentor Boris Nemtsov and to consider the bleak outlook for the pro-democracy movement he had helped lead. At midnight it would be nine days since Nemtsov was shot dead near the Kremlin, and in the Russian Orthodox tradition, that meant his soul would start its ascent to heaven. “We have to finish what he started,” said Ilya Yashin, another leader of the op- position movement, as he sat hunched over his tea. But the obstacles were visible all around. By chance, the hostess had seated the group beneath a placard that read, at this table sat v.v. putin—the Russian President they oppose. Staring at it, Yashin mumbled, “You can’t escape this guy.” Since Putin annexed the Ukrainian re- gion of Crimea a year ago and in the process provoked a confrontation with the West, the President’s influence over Russian pol- itics has never been greater—and his toler- ance for dissent has never been lower. His rhetoric and policies have helped create an atmosphere of intimidation in Russia that WorldMags.net Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev for TIME WorldMags.net

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has led dissidents to fear for their lives. Vi- olent attacks against opposition activists in Moscow have grown more frequent in the past year, anti-Western hate speech is now a staple on state TV, and the President has set out to sideline the moderate forces in government. The hostility toward those who criti- cize the Kremlin is perhaps more intense than at any other time since the fall of the Soviet Union. The assassination of Nemtsov on Feb. 27 drove that real- ity home, further intimidating those few Russians who publicly challenge Putin. Making life harder for them is the broad support the President enjoys, especially among the parts of the electorate that see him as a patriotic wartime leader. In a speech in December, Putin said that within Russia’s opposition movement there are those “who are used as an instru- ment to push foreign interests,” taking a jab at the Western interlopers that Rus- sians are now encouraged to see around every corner. Putin’s loaded language—he has even referred to the existence of a corps of “national traitors”—functions as a green light for an ongoing crackdown on dissent. On Russian state TV, this campaign has been cast as part of a national revival—and it appears to be working. The President’s approval ratings have reached record highs of over 80%, while ill will toward the U.S. and its European allies has grown and violence,” she says. “This doesn’t feel troops on Ukraine’s battlefields and young more widespread than at any other point like some spontaneous groundswell. It’s Russian soldiers began coming home in in more than a quarter-century. Surveys coming from the top.” coffins—even as Putin continued to deny conducted in January by the Levada Cen- that Russia was fighting a war at all. ter, an independent Russian polling orga- The Secret War Nemtsov had set out to expose this nization, found that 81% of respondents the cause of russia’s deepening politi- fabrication. The day before his murder, he had negative feelings toward the U.S. and cal hysteria is, above all, its military burst into the office of his assistant, Olga 71% toward the E.U. Only two years ago, conflict with Ukraine. The quick and Shorina, with news of a report he was plan- in March 2013, antipathy toward both the bloodless annexation of Crimea last spring ning to publish under the title “Putin and TIME FOR KOZYREV—NOOR YURI PAGE: THIS NOOR; PAGES: PREVIOUS U.S. and the E.U. was at about 25%. exhilarated millions of Russians and the the War.” Concerned that the room was “We now live against the background ruling elite. “For the first time in its recent under surveillance, Nemtsov grabbed a of the enemies projected onto our televi- history, Russia stopped watching from the sheet of paper and scrawled a message to sion screens,” says Lev Gudkov, director of sidelines and began to act,” says an official Shorina: A group of Russian paratroop- the Levada Center. “This creates a kind of from the Russian Foreign Ministry, who ers had contacted him, claiming that 17 mass aggression, which the state can chan- spoke on condition of anonymity. “We men from their base had been killed while nel quite effectively.” started making moves.” fighting in Ukraine and that the state was Even activists who focus on more nar- Russia’s subsequent moves against east- refusing to compensate the soldiers’ fami- row issues have felt the force of that aggres- ern Ukraine, however, have come at a high- lies. “But so far they are afraid to talk,” sion. Maria Baronova, a campaigner for er cost. Moscow was forced to send regular Nemtsov wrote in the note, which Shorina the rights of political prisoners in Russia, troops to aid its proxy militias—all while showed to Time about a week after the op- says the political temperature has reached denying that any invasion of Ukraine had position leader’s death. “He was trying to a kind of boiling point. “What used to occurred. Journalists and Western observ- convince them to go public,” she says of the cause arguments now provokes threats ers documented the presence of Russian paratroopers. 38 WorldMags.net WorldMags.net

Counterrally Such data may have prompted the state a major turnout in Russia’s cowed political Evgeny to ramp up its propaganda war against culture. They carried portraits of Nemtsov Fyodorov, Ukraine and the West, as it sought to gal- and banners reading, i am not afraid. a pro-Putin vanize the core of Putin loyalists who are But the mood belied those words, and the lawmaker, prepared—even eager—for a drawn-out crowds quietly dispersed after walking leads an military confrontation. “There are many the route agreed on with the authorities. anti-Western of these groups, half bandits, half nation- While the rally was front-page news protest alists, who support Putin, who like the in the West, the Kremlin-controlled me- outside the aggression, who like the empire suppos- dia ensured that most Russians saw little U.S. embassy edly rising from its knees,” says Mikhail of this rare outpouring of dissent. Early Kasyanov, who served as Russia’s Prime last year, Russia’s only independent news Minister from 2000 to 2004, during Putin’s channel, TV Dozhd, was dropped by most first term as President, but went on to help cable providers and later evicted from its Nemtsov in leading the opposition. “They studios, forcing it to cut its staff by half as are ready to tighten their belts,” he adds, its audience shrank by about 80%. Thanks “to kill if necessary, to settle scores.” to a recent law, state regulators have been The political violence appears to have able to block websites without a court continued since Nemtsov’s murder. In the order, so a perusal of the news in Russia early hours of March 5, 36-year-old anti- often means running into error mes- war activist Alexei Semyonov was walk- sages: “Access to the requested resource ing home in northern Moscow when two has been blocked by the decision of public men came up behind him and hit him in authorities.” the head with a baseball bat. A few days Russia’s most famous anticorruption later, in the neurological-trauma ward of activist, Alexei Navalny, was meanwhile a Moscow hospital, Semyonov said he did given a suspended sentence of 31⁄2 years not know who had attacked him, but he in December after being convicted of em- believed the beating was likely in retalia- bezzlement in a trial that human-rights tion for his wearing a ribbon in the nation- groups have dismissed as a sham. On al colors of Ukraine, yellow and blue. March 6, after Navalny finished one of his To Semyonov the ribbon is a statement routine stints in jail, this time for handing of support for another nation’s right to out leaflets in the Moscow subway, he told independence. To some people in Russia reporters, “There will be no letup in our such symbols are the marks of a traitor. efforts. We will give up nothing.” Nemtsov knew his plan was risky. A “That is the atmosphere we’re living in,” But neither will the Kremlin loyalists, group of thugs had already attacked sev- he said, the bandage around his head still whose invective seems to be getting only eral journalists in August while they were stiff with blood. “It’s no longer about de- harsher. Hardly a week after Nemtsov’s trying to film the fresh graves of Rus- bate or even shouting. People are ready to murder, Evgeny Fyodorov, a prominent sian paratroopers in the western region kill each other now.” Police have made no lawmaker in Putin’s political party, as- of Pskov, where they had been sent from arrests in the case. sembled a group of demonstrators outside Ukraine for burial. Later that month, a lo- But despite the risks, Ilya Yashin plans the U.S. embassy in Moscow to condemn cal lawmaker named Lev Shlosberg was to finish the report that his mentor began Nemtsov and his allies as puppets of West- severely beaten in Pskov while investigat- compiling on Ukraine. “We have to expose ern influence. ing the deployment of those troops. “The the lies that Putin tells,” Yashin said at the “He is a direct communicator with state needs to prevent society from learn- restaurant, still sitting beneath the plac- the U.S.A.,” Fyodorov said, speaking with ing the scale of the losses and considering ard with the President’s name. scorn as if Nemtsov were still alive. Then the costs of this war,” he tells Time. As his voice grew louder, the diners at the the few dozen demonstrators began a Opinion polls suggest that Putin neighboring table began to stare and shift chant about Nemtsov and his fellow dis- would risk a public backlash if he were to in their seats at such slanderous talk. For a sidents: “Purge! Purge! Purge!” own up to those losses. As the conflict in moment it looked as if a fight might break It was clear from the surprised faces of eastern Ukraine has claimed more than out. But Yashin refused to lower his voice. passersby that for many in Russia the word 6,000 lives in total over the past year, the purge is still shocking; the Soviet purges number of Russians who say they would In Mourning sent millions of their countrymen to die support Putin in an all-out war with on march 1, little more than a day in Siberia’s prison camps. But the spirit of Ukraine has dropped to 44% as of Febru- after Nemtsov’s murder, Russia’s liberal ac- those dark times—if not yet the purges ary, down from 74% last spring, according tivists held a march in Moscow in his hon- Fyodorov demands—is creeping back into to the Levada Center’s surveys. or. TheWorldMags.net rally attracted some 50,000 people, Russian life. ■ time March 23, 2015 39 SPORTS There is no WorldMags.netreason it should A BET be illegal to put $10 on the home team. The case for WORTH sports gambling in America BY SEAN GREGORY/ MAKING LAS VEGAS

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n a recent saturday af- Plenty of other nations realize this. more than doubled since PASPA’s passage, ternoon, I settle into a plush According to Global Betting & Gaming from $1.8 billion to $3.9 billion. While it’s leather couch at a burger Consultants, 105 countries—including not possible to accurately quantify the il- joint inside Las Vegas’ new places where major U.S. professional legal market in the U.S., the AGA, a trade SLS Hotel & Casino with sports teams play regular-season games— group that believes that current sports- Oa cold beer and a crumpled ticket in my permit betting. The NFL, which actively gambling law is flawed, says it has been right hand. Prince is playing on the speak- opposes the further legalization of sports growing, from an estimated $80 billion in ers and gourmet pub fare like ahi tuna gambling, plays games in London, where 1999 to $140 billion in 2014. burgers sits on the tables. I could be in any storefront betting parlors dot the streets Such trends were supposed to ruin upscale sports bar, save for that piece of pa- like Starbucks. And it’s widely believed sports. “The spread of legalized sports per, which says that since I bet $100 on the that gambling, which includes not just gambling would change forever—and University of Arkansas men’s basketball calls to the local bookie but also fan- for the worse—what our games stand for team, I will win $1,000 if the Razorbacks tasy sports and office pools, can boost and the way they are perceived,” former can somehow hand the Kentucky Wild- fan engagement and the popularity of NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said in cats their first loss of this college basket- sports leagues. 1991. Yet while sports betting—legal and ball season. America’s major pro sports leagues not—has skyrocketed, teams have only What’s so wrong with this picture? have long argued that gambling risks cre- become more valuable. In 1991 the aver- Nothing. But for the privilege of parting ating incentives for athletes to fix games, age NFL franchise was worth $125million. with $100 because Kentucky won in a rout, but recent comments from two commis- Today, according to Forbes, an average team I had no choice but to travel to Nevada, the sioners are indicative of a broader shift in is valued at $1.43 billion. only state in America that allows full-on thinking. Although baseball’s official po- Fears about game-fixing haven’t been sports betting. Why should I have to fly sition against legalized gambling hasn’t borne out either. “There is absolutely no thousands of miles to legally make a stu- changed, new MLB commissioner Rob evidence that legalizing gambling leads pid decision? Manfred tells Time it is “incumbent” on to increased match fixing,” says Sean Pat- The question is especially puzzling him to revisit the issue with owners. rick Griffin, a criminal-justice professor these days since gamblers in every corner NBA commissioner Adam Silver has at the Citadel and the author of Gaming the of the country are seeing lots of action gone further, ending the league’s opposi- Game, a book about former NBA referee anyway. From March 17 to April 6, for tion to legalized pro sports gambling. Sil- Tim Donaghy, who pleaded guilty to pass- example, almost $2.5 billion will illegally ver says his view evolved after seeing how ing inside information to illegal bettors. change hands in the U.S. This three-week European soccer fans stayed invested in Silver, for one, believes that gambling college basketball bonanza, March Mad- games as they placed in-game wagers on regulation could be a check on fixing. ness, is a frenzy of illicit gambling. But their smartphones. “It’s part of the culture “Number one, I support it to protect the that’s just a fraction of the total amount in Europe to bet on sporting events. Of integrity of the game,” he says. “If we con- won and lost under the table. course, it’s legal and regulated,” Silver tells tinue to see massive amounts of under- An estimated $140 billion per year is Time. “It’s part of the culture in the United ground betting at our games, at a volume illegally wagered on sports in the U.S., States to bet on sporting events.” He adds, that we know—based on the information according to the American Gaming Asso- laughing, “It just happens to be illegal.” that we have—is growing rapidly, that ciation (AGA). And yet at a moment when creates more of an opportunity for inap- states across the country have relaxed A Flawed Law propriate activities.” Which makes sense: gambling prohibitions and built hundreds the u.s.’s current prohibition on legal Why would criminals expose themselves of new casinos, a 1992 federal law bars sports gambling dates to 1992, when Con- to regulated markets when the under- sports betting everywhere except Nevada, gress passed the Professional and Amateur ground market is so much larger? Legal Delaware, Oregon and Montana, states Sports Protection Act (PASPA), outlawing sports books have enormous incentive to that allowed legal sports gambling prior to sports gambling in 46 states. Given how monitor activity, because it’s their money the law’s passage. (Today Delaware allows more serious off-field issues, like domes- on the hook if fixers win big bets. only certain types of bets on NFL games, tic violence, have threatened to derail Nor does it help that Congress passed and Montana offers state-licensed fantasy our enjoyment of sports, the arguments a law intended to stop a vice while at the football and NASCAR games, while Ore- for PASPA now sound hopelessly quaint. same time essentially giving one state a gon no longer has a sports-betting lottery.) “There is no greater threat to an athlete’s perpetual monopoly on that vice. “The It’s time for that to change. Putting personal sense of accomplishment than grandfathering is a true oddity,” says Ryan down $10 on the home team should no state-legalized sports gambling,” former Rodenberg, a sports-gambling-law expert at longer be illegal. Like drinking alcohol, NFL star Mike Singletary told a Senate Florida State University. “I haven’t been able gambling on sports is a socially accept- subcommittee in 1991. At the hearings, to find another law that mimics PASPA.” able behavior in moderation and can be a supporters of the law wore buttons with Perhaps the greatest argument against revenue source for cash-strapped munici- such slogans as don’t gamble with our PASPA is the meteoric rise of fantasy palities. Currently, all that money is going children’s heroes. sports. Some 41 million Americans and to bookies and offshore websites. America For a law designed to limit sports bet- Canadians played fantasy sports last year, is leaving millions on the table and not ting, PASPA has failed miserably. Accord- according to the Fantasy Sports Trade As- doing anything about the acknowledged ing to UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research, sociation, and it has become a key way for downsides of gambling. 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ing PASPA. Meanwhile, legislation is pend- ing in five states that would legalize sports gambling. But it’s a fight in New Jersey that may be the first true test of the law. In October, Governor Chris Christie signed a bill legalizing sports gambling at the state’s casinos and racetracks. Major U.S. pro sports leagues and the NCAA sued to block the measure, and an appellate hear- ing is scheduled for March 17. New Jersey’s rationale is simple. When PASPA became law, Nevada and Atlan- tic City, N.J., were the only major casino destinations in the nation. Since then, states across the country have turned to gambling—from lotteries to full-fledged casinos—to fill their coffers. Since 1989, 21 states have opened 236 commercial ca- sinos, according to the AGA, while there are now 483 gaming operations on Native American reservations in 29 states. So why exclude sports? New Jersey thinks sports betting could boost its ail- ing Atlantic City casinos. Sports books would create service jobs and white collar positions, including ones for lawyers, ac- countants and regulators. Any gains from sports gambling un- doubtedly come with potential costs. Gambling addiction is a recognized psy- chological disorder. Yet the National Coun- cil on Problem Gambling, the country’s largest advocacy organization for betting additional revenue). Thanks to a carve- Ticket scalpers, like gamblers, were once addicts, takes a neutral position on legal- out in the 2006 federal Internet Gambling the bad guys. But in the past decade, sports ization. “We would just hope that if sports Prohibition and Enforcement Act, fantasy teams have partnered with legit compa- gambling was more widely legalized, some sports are considered a game of skill. But nies like StubHub, making it aboveboard of the profits would go toward getting help in spirit, playing fantasy and wagering on to resell a ticket for profit. “There was such for people who needed it,” says executive a game are essentially the same: you win resistance to the secondary market,” says director Keith Whyte. or lose based on the unpredictable out- Jeanie Buss, president and part owner of One thing is certain: there will be plen- comes of sports. the Los Angeles Lakers. “And instead it’s ty of profits. In Vegas, after losing my first Silver’s predecessor, former NBA com- been something that’s been good to our bet of the day, I walk to the 30,000 sq. ft. missioner David Stern, warned as recently fans, it’s been good for business, it’s cre- (2,800 sq m) Westgate Las Vegas Super- as 2012 about legalized gambling creating ated jobs. And those companies pay taxes.” Book, the largest sports-betting venue in so-called point-spread fans who leave the Bringing sports gambling out of the shad- town. Hundreds of seats face dozens of big arena frowning because their favorite ows could create similar benefits. screens, and when games come down to team won but didn’t cover the spread. His the wire, the crowd goes berserk. It’s like successor has a more pragmatic view. “If Risks and Rewards watching a game in an arena. our main concern was that we only want even some paspa proponents recognize Believing I’ve learned my lesson, I place fans rooting for our team to win, then we that the current rules are a relic of the a few smaller bets: $20 on Syracuse, which shouldn’t be in the fantasy sports busi- pre-Internet era. “If I were there, I would is trailing Duke by nine at halftime, to lose ness,” says Silver. In November, the NBA certainly look at it again,” says Dennis by four points or less, and another Jack- acquired an equity stake in the fantasy DeConcini, who introduced PASPA as a son on the Dallas Mavericks, at home, to site FanDuel, which paid out more than U.S. Senator from Arizona. “Times change, cover the eight-point spread against the $560 million in winnings in 2014. “In a with the Internet and what have you.” bum Brooklyn Nets. And another $40 perfect world, sure, I want a Nets fan to Would he fix it? “I could be convinced,” gone. The Dukies crush Syracuse. The Nets go to a game and only be satisfied based he says. win by 10. Hey, just because something is on the final score,” says Silver. “But that’s In January, Arizona Senator John Mc- legal doesn’t mean you have to be dumb not realistic.” Cain, DeConcini’s former colleague, said enough to do it. —with reporting by JESSE CHEHAK FOR TIME The ticketing market offers a blueprint. CongressWorldMags.net should hold hearings on revisit- alex rogers/washington ■ time March 23, 2015 43 WorldMags.net

SOCIETY THE JOY OF LESS AMERICANS HAVE MORE POSSESSIONS THAN ANY SOCIETY IN HISTORY. CAN WE FINALLY TAKE CONTROL OF THEM? BY JOSH SANBURN

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WHEN THE AMAZON PACKAGES ARRIVE AT HER DOOR, DANA HARVEY EXPERIENCES ONE OF TWO FEELINGS: ECSTASY OR NAUSEA. HARVEY, 54, IS A FAMILY THERAPIST IN LOS ANGELES WHO ALSO PRACTICES ANOTHER KIND OF THERAPY—RETAIL.

She readily admits to indulging in those The average weight of a move in the U.S. fleeting moments of joy that come from is 8,000 lb. (3,600 kg), the weight of a ful- purchasing. But Harvey also realized the ly grown hippo. An entire industry has moments were piling up all around her. emerged to house our extra belongings— Her 8-ft.-long pine dining table soon disap- self-storage, a $24 billion business so large peared under mountains of clothes, purses that every American could fit inside its and books. She began making excuses units simultaneously. about why her house was a wreck. Even- It would be one thing if all our posses- tually she stopped having friends over. She sions were making us happier, but the op- was too embarrassed. posite seems to be occurring. At least one Last year, Harvey hired a professional study shows that a home with too much organizer to help her get her things in stuff can actually lead to higher levels order and curb her spending. Together, of anxiety. “These objects that we bring they threw out or donated bags and bags in the house are not inert,” says UCLA of shoes, scarves, jewelry, hats, appliances, anthropologist Elinor Ochs, who led a stuffed animals and unused makeup. decade-long study on hyperacquisition. Some items still had their tags attached. “They have consequences.” Today, more often than not, Harvey can After the Great Recession, many find a place for the possessions she de- Americans held up a mirror to their lives, cided to keep. She often includes “Clear 10 looking for what truly mattered. Some Things” on her daily to-do list. Her home downsized, selling what their smaller is less cluttered. Her friends stop by more. homes could no longer hold. Others took Her dining table is a table again. But as advantage of a sharing economy that spring arrives, she still feels the pull of her changed the very idea of ownership. Our iPad, the seasonal clothes and deals just world since then has only gotten more waiting for her online. complicated, more robust, more over- For middle-class Americans, it’s never whelming. We’re bombarded almost been easier to feel consumed by consump- minute-by-minute with too much of tion. Despite the recession, despite a brief everything: too much information, too interlude when savings rates shot up and much television, too much email, too credit-card debt went down, Americans much social media, too many apps for arguably have more stuff now than any too many problems from being too con- society in history. Children in the U.S. nected. Home is the place to silence the make up 3.1% of the world’s kid popula- white noise, where the world outside can almost mystical book by 30-year-old Japa- tion, but U.S. families buy more than 40% seem a bit less complicated if inside there’s nese “cleaning consultant” Marie Kondo of the toys purchased globally. The rise of a sense of simplicity and order. called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying wholesalers and warehouse supermarkets The notion that our lives should have Up has been an unlikely New York Times has packed our pantries and refrigerators some semblance of serenity seems to be best seller since February. Kondo’s simple with bulk items that often overflow into taking hold. A new economy is growing philosophy—more self-help than home a second fridge. One-click shopping and around the people who take out all the improvement—urges readers to keep only same-day delivery have driven purchasing stuff we’re still bringing into our homes. the things that spark joy while throwing to another level altogether, making con- Junk-hauling companies are booming. out the rest. If retail-therapy joy lasts a mo- spicuous consumption almost too easy. Professional organizers—who see their ment, Kondo’s is meant to last a lifetime. Our stuff has taken over. Most house- biggest spikes in business this time of Her name has even become a verb: to Kon- hold moves outside the U.S. weigh from year as the holidays fade and spring clean- do your sock drawer. 2,500 lb. to 7,500 lb. (1,110 kg to 3,400 kg). ing awaits—are thriving. And a quirky, As we reach for help in organizing 46 WorldMags.net WorldMags.net

OPEN HOUSE Professional organizers increasingly help homeowners decide which possessions are worth saving and which can be purged.

At this house in West Harrison, N.Y., an organizing team lines up everything stored in the home’s garage,

allowing owners to visually take stock of their stuff to help them figure out what to keep. our lives, consumer spending has re- nation with creating space through Kon- tion took hold, catalogs promised sewing mained steady. Consumer confidence doization and other similar philosophies, machines, buggies, furniture, eyeglasses, has slowly increased despite the volatil- the virtues of deacquisition might just be pianos—virtually anything in produc- ity of the markets. Online shopping is taking root in the American psyche too. tion that could be sent via post. growing. Low-cost retailers are expand- In 1872, Montgomery Ward printed ing. Consumption and acquisition are a Consuming as a Way of Life what’s often considered the first general- natural part of the human psyche and today, purchasing takes just one merchandise catalog. Two decades later, incontrovertibly a part of the American click. But consumption used to be rare Sears published its own 500-page version. condition. But with the rise of companies and difficult. A few hundred years ago, Both reached millions of Americans. By like 1-800-GOT-JUNK, which last year Americans had limited options when the turn of the century, department stores celebrated a milestone $1 billion in junk they needed or wanted something, and like Marshall Field’s and Macy’s began removal; the shift of possessions from the local general store was often the only offering all those products in one physi- tangible to digital; and the growing fasci- recourse.WorldMags.net But as the Industrial Revolu- cal location. A new consumerism was time March 23, 2015 47 SOCIETY | HOME WorldMags.net emerging, one that offered a uniquely American idea that you could aspire to a different social class through acquiring. The next wave came after World War II, when a new generation of appliances, furni- ture and household goods became available. With the advent of plastics, toys became cheap and ubiquitous. Mr. Potato Head sprouted. Lego built its first bricks. Mat- tel debuted Barbie. Television blinked into American homes, and advertisers and mar- keters discovered subtle and subconscious ways of sweet-talking consumers. The idea of planned obsolescence became popular after General Motors discovered that if it developed a new automobile model each year, it could trigger people into upgrading when they otherwise wouldn’t. Economists, meanwhile, realized that consumption was vital for the expanding nation. “Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption,” wrote economist Victor Lebow in 1955. “We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discard- ed at an ever increasing pace. We need to have people eat, drink, dress, ride, live, with ever more complicated and, therefore, con- stantly more expensive consumption.”

Lebow’s comments, whether encour- W of shoes annually, at a total cost of $1,141 a aging consumption or merely acknowl- TIDY LIBRARY year, or $16 per item. edging it, illustrate that by the 1950s, Books to fight clutter “When the question is why do we have consuming was paramount. The Ameri- so much stuff, one reason is because we can Dream didn’t just mean a white picket The Life-Changing can,” says Annie Leonard, executive di- Magic of Tidying Up fence and two kids. It meant a big house By Marie Kondo, rector of the environmental group Green- and a bunch of stuff to fill it. 224 pages, 2014 peace USA and the creator of The Story of Our current phase of overconsumption A quasi-spiritual Stuff, an animated video about excessive began about 30 years ago, when Americans organizational journey, a.k.a. consumerism. “For a huge percentage of began committing close to half of their a step-by-step guide to home this country, there is no longer an econom- annual expenditures to nonnecessities. It and life reordering, including ic obstacle to having the illusion of luxury. was the beginning of a gradual decline in the proper way to fold It’s just that this stuff is so cheap.” the cost of consumer goods, the growth sweaters and socks. If there’s a fourth wave of overcon- of everyday credit-card use and the rise of sumption, it’s led by Amazon. Thanks to big-box stores and discount retailers that Stuffocation the growth of online shopping and quick- By James Wallman, pushed their way into communities na- 320 pages, 2015 purchase tools like “1-Click Ordering,” un- tionwide, forcing down prices and profits A history of conspicuous necessary spending is almost effortless. for those competing around them. consumption that urges When stores were the only places to buy In the past decade, the cost of cell readers to spend money something, there were several points at phones, toys, computers and televisions on experiences over which shoppers could stop and ask them- has plunged, thanks in part to over- possessions. selves, Do I need this? What will I do with seas manufacturing. The rise of “fast it? Where will it live when I bring it home? fashion”—popularized by the growth of Everything That Remains As online shopping outpaces brick-and- clothing outlets like Gap, Forever 21 and By Joshua Fields Millburn mortar growth, many of those barriers to and Ryan Nicodemus, American Eagle selling $10 T-shirts and 232 pages, 2014 buying no longer exist. $30 jeans—is now driven by low-cost im- A memoir by two minimalists “The ability to purchase and then pos- ports H&M and Uniqlo. Today the average who rid their lives of sess something has accelerated rapidly,” U.S. household has about 248 garments everything but the essentials says professional organizer Andrew Mel- and 29 pairs of shoes. It purchases, on av- in search of a more len. “It’s instantaneous. And if you’re not erage, 64 pieces of clothing and seven pairs meaningful existence. reflective, how do you interrupt yourself?” 48 WorldMags.net WorldMags.net W TOYS ARE US scarce, then you should stockpile’ train of U.S. children make up just 3.1% of the thought, then being anxious in an ecologi- global kid population, but American cal context would be like a bodily signal families buy 40% of the world’s toys that the environment isn’t safe or secure or predictable,” she says. “Feeling anxious About 87% of all storage units nation- is associated with uncertainty, and histori- wide are currently rented, and while self- cally that was a sign that you might not storage is certainly used by urban dwellers have access to resources and you better crunched for space, two-thirds of users shore them up.” own a garage, almost half have an attic, Today, about 1 in 6 Americans suffers and a third have a basement. from an anxiety disorder for a variety of rea- For the possessions still in our homes, sons, something that appears to be not only there are professional organizers. The Na- a cause of our stuffocation but also an effect. tional Association of Professional Organiz- To alleviate feelings of anxiety, many of us ers (NAPO), launched in 1983 by a small shop, an act that has been shown to release group of women in Los Angeles, now dopamine in the brain, giving us a tempo- boasts 4,000 members who go into homes, rary feeling of euphoria. It’s a sensation that help owners figure out what’s worth keep- we want to keep reliving, a sensation that ing and push them to purge the rest. An can lead to overconsumption. But those entire sector of “senior move managers” anxious feelings can all come creeping has grown to help retiring Baby Boom- back again once we get home and have to ers downsize as they move into smaller deal with all the stuff we’ve already bought. places but don’t know how to deal with a In the UCLA study led by Ochs, which lifetime’s worth of stuff. Today, that indus- analyzed 32 Los Angeles families, when try’s national association includes close to the mothers discussed their messiest 850 member companies. rooms—the ones filled with all the things There are many economic and cultural meant to make life for them and their factors that lead us to buy, but there are families better, easier and happier—the fundamental evolutionary drivers for why opposite seemed to occur. Their levels of we acquire but then can’t let go. Call it our cortisol, a stress hormone, spiked. “Bring- Inner Squirrel. ing all these objects into the house has “You can imagine at one point in time health effects,” says Ochs. “You work really Our Inner Squirrel all you needed was some seeds to get by hard. You buy things that you like and you the extent to which acquisition out- and a safe nesting site,” says University of want to have in your house. You buy toys strips reason isn’t quite understandable Michigan psychology professor Stepha- for your kids. You go to Costco. And these until you contemplate the behemoth nie Preston, who studies our acquisition things are piling up in the house. It gets that is self-storage in America. In 2013 habits. “But the evolution of tools intro- out of hand. It’s very difficult to manage the self-storage industry raked in $24 bil- duced ‘stuff’ that you wanted to save, like having so many objects in the house.” lion in revenue, more than twice as much that perfect rock hammer that you made Our desire to hang on to the things we as the NFL. The 48,500 storage facilities or this flint that took you hours to cleave buy may also be a holdover from an era nationwide—compared with only 10,000 just right. So then you have to carry these when times were tougher. Gideon Foun- outside the U.S.—could fill three Man- items with you. Over time, this problem tain, a real estate agent in Greenwich, hattans, and they outnumber all the starts to explode, and before you know it, Conn., who recently hired a professional McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger Kings and you have a garage full of stuff.” organizer, says his Depression-era par- Starbucks in the U.S. put together. In studies, Preston has primed people ents often told him: Use it up, wear it out, The industry began in the late 1960s to feel socially rejected and then gauged make it do or do without. That mind-set as the Greatest Generation began retir- how likely they were to acquire. The re- has stayed with him even through boom ing. Many of them migrated from the East sult: They took more stuff after feeling times, contributing to his desire to hold Coast to warmer climates down South and snubbed and were even inclined to select on to things when he otherwise wouldn’t. on the West Coast, and as they relocated more utilitarian items like backpacks, It doesn’t help that our Inner Squirrel is to smaller places, they needed somewhere flashlights and toilet paper. “Exactly what also sentimental. Think about something to put all the things they’d accumulated. you think a Boy Scout is supposed to bring you hold dear—a baseball signed by Babe In the early 1970s, Public Storage be- when he goes out into the woods by him- Ruth, for example. At one point, it was just gan in Southern California; today it is the self,” she says. a baseball like every other baseball. But largest self-storage company in the U.S. Preston theorizes that humans expect once the Yankee slugger signed it, it took and has more than 2,200 facilities. On av- to have support from fellow humans, and on something that went beyond its physi- erage, people rent a space for about eight when that’s ripped away, we become more cal properties. months—but they often turn up thinking selfish, and our survival instincts kick in. “It’s a form of superstitious thinking,” they’ll rent one for half the time. “People Similarly, she believes the more anxious says Randy Frost, a Smith College psycholo- come in and say, ‘I’m only going to be here we are, the more we’re inclined to take, gy professor who studies hoarding and our three, four months,’ and they’re here for a take, take. relationship with our possessions. “This year or two,” says CEO Ron Havner. “IfWorldMags.net you have this ‘When resources are arrangement where these objects have time March 23, 2015 49 SOCIETY | HOME WorldMags.net meaning about your past, or about a past guy hauling away people’s unwanted stuff relocating to urban areas appear more that you get connected to, are important in his truck. Hoping it could help pay his inclined to shed consumerist tendencies, components of why people save things.” way through college, Scudamore spent $700 while many older Americans are ditching Frost argues that one of the reasons on an old pickup and started his own junk their things for a life of travel in retirement. we can’t let go is that possessions often business. It has grown from $7.5 million On the extreme end are pockets of elicit visceral memories of a certain time in revenue in 2002 to $106 million in 2012. minimalists, many of whom are in their and place. Movie stubs from a first date. Over the years, Scudamore says, he’s seen a 20s and early 30s and have gotten rid of A postcard from a trip. And studies show gradual shift among his clients away from everything but the essentials. The best- that it gets harder for us to purge as we get sheer accumulation. known are Joshua Fields Millburn and older—not just because it’s more difficult “The ’80s were all about buying stuff,” Ryan Nicodemus, who shed most every- to deal with objects in old age. Scudamore says. “People had to live large thing they owned for a life of simplicity in “All of this buying is a way to really and spend all this money. By the ’90s, ev- a Montana cabin after making six-figure forestall, transcend, pretend that we’re not erybody went, O.K., now it’s not just about salaries while still in their 20s. Millburn going to end,” says psychologist April Lane accumulating stuff—it’s about changing and Nicodemus, who have written two Benson, who has studied consumerism and stuff.” He added that many of his clients books about their experiences, both real- überacquiring for decades. “It will endure ripped out perfectly good appliances just ized that they just weren’t happy. and, by extension, so will I.” “There seems to be some sort of experiential awaken- Getting to Less CHEAPER CLUTTER ing,” says Thomas Gilovich, a back in when the Change in consumer prices 2001, 60% Cornell University psycholo- from 2006 to 2015 UCLA team began its study, College tuition and fees gy professor who has conduct- they visited a house—the ed multiple studies showing first one they analyzed— that experiences, not belong- 40% Medical with 2,260 visible possessions care ings, are what elicit true feel- Groceries in just three rooms. One fam- Rent Jewelry and watches ings of happiness. He argues ily’s office included 2,337 vis- Fuel and utilities that our memories of those ible nonpaper objects. Some 20% experiences stick with us, families stored as many as 650 Apparel New vehicles whereas we ultimately adapt boxes, bins and other items in Personal-hygiene products and get used to all the things their garage, a space so crowd- 0% we possess. In Kondo-speak, ed that 75% of the families Tools and outdoor supplies they stop sparking joy. couldn’t park their cars inside. Major appliances Dana Harvey still fights “What are we going to Furniture Sports the desire to spend. She’s not –20% look like when all our houses equipment the only one: low-cost and are smashed and flattened Most discretionary online spending are strong as and somebody else is digging purchases are more the economy slowly recovers. us up?” says UCLA’s Ochs. –40% affordable today Profit at H&M, for example, compared with 10 Toys “What will we look like?” But years ago, while jumped 17% in 2014 as the Ochs adds that she believes necessities such as low-cost retailer plans to open there’s been a decline in hy- –60% food, medical care and 400 new stores. Walmart’s perconsumption following housing have become Personal computers online sales grew 30% year- the Great Recession, “a sense more expensive on-year. Holiday spending at that less is more,” she says. –80% Amazon equaled $30 billion, NAPO President Mary SOURCE: BLS Televisions triggered by the popularity of Dykstra-Novess says that pro- Amazon Prime, which offers fessional organizing is seeing free two-day shipping and growth both in the U.S. and special deals and saw mem- around the world. Organizers took a hit like to replace them for aesthetic reasons, in bership grow by 53% last year. Its latest almost everyone else during the recession, part because they saw their neighbors do- perk: one-hour shipping in Manhattan. as consumers cut back on discretionary ing the same thing. For Harvey, spring clothing lines trig- spending, deciding that if they were go- Today, the mind-set of his customers has ger that pull to buy. But this time, she’s ing to downsize, they would try it on their changed again. Now they’re throwing out aware of it and remembers what it was like own. But she believes that young people es- all their stuff associated with old analog before she got organized. pecially see their parents’ excesses and are technologies—CD cases, books, shelving “I have a friend coming over next week, reconsidering that sort of lifestyle. units—in an attempt to transform digitally and I can’t wait,” she says. “Ordinarily, I “I think Marie is hitting a flash point,” and simplify their surroundings. Books, would be having severe, severe anxiety Dykstra-Novess says, referring to Kondo’s music and games can be bought or rented about having anybody in my home, and best-selling book. online and stored in the cloud. The sharing I would make up something and say it’s In the past decade, 1-800-GOT-JUNK has economy means that a lawn mower can be like this because I’m going through spring been one of the country’s fastest-growing borrowed for an afternoon on Craigslist. cleaning, but it wasn’t really the truth. The companies. 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TELEVISION MUSIC The King and E! Strangers No More The Kardashians are getting some It’s been eight years since Modest competition as E! royalty. The cable Mouse released its last album. On network’s first original scripted March 17, it’s finally dropping a series, The Royals, stars Elizabeth new LP, Strangers to Ourselves. Hurley and Vincent Regan as a fic- Front man Isaac Brock has said tional British Queen and King strug- that one of the album’s singles, gling to control their wild kids under “The Best Room,” was inspired intense public scrutiny. The show by a UFO sighting—and took him premieres March 15. 20 years to write. MOSS: GEORDIE WOOD—THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX; CHANDLER: NETFLIX; REGAN: E! ENTERTAINMENT E! NETFLIX; REGAN: CHANDLER: TIMES/REDUX; YORK NEW WOOD—THE GEORDIE MOSS: WorldMags.net By Eliana Dockterman The Culture A CinderellaWorldMags.net for Forever Disney delivers a maid with moxie, undoing the animated error of 1950 By Richard Corliss

what comes between “once upon a time” prime cinemagician Georges Méliès conjured and “happily ever after”? For most fairy-tale up a Cendrillon in 1899, employing trick pho- heroines, misery and abuse. The young woman tography to turn a rabbit into a footman, rats loses her parents and is tormented by a wicked into coachmen and a pumpkin into a carriage. stepmother—a phrase that in these fables is The central role was played by Mary Pickford, virtually a redundancy—until she meets her the movies’ first star actress, in 1914, and, in Prince Charming. The Cinderella story had a gender-bending switch, by Jerry Lewis in been around for ages before Charles Perrault the 1960 Cinderfella. Drew Barrymore brought added the fairy godmother and glass slipper a feminist spark to Ever After: A Cinderella for his 1697 Cendrillon. So archetypal was the Story in 1998; Anne Hathaway endured ogres scenario that Kurt Vonnegut, in a 1947 master’s and snakes in the 2004 Ella Enchanted. A few thesis for the University of Chicago, pointed months ago, in Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick’s out similarities between Cinderella and the Cinderella found to her chagrin what happens New Testament: the protagonists receive gifts after “happily ever after.” from a high power, then suffer a dreadful or- The most famous version, Disney’s in 1950, deal and finally ascend to salvation. Somehow was the studio’s first fully animated feature the thesis got rejected, but Vonnegut’s point is since Bambi eight years earlier, and it rescued piquant, no? the Mouse House from near bankruptcy. Cher- Ella (Lily James) in Disney’s latest Cinderella ished for the hit songs “A Dream Is a Wish Your The scullery maid (James) gets a doesn’t undergo a Calvary, but her stepmother Heart Makes” and “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo,” it is ride to the ball in a Lady Tremaine (Cate Blanchett) makes the also the least faithful to its source. About half magic pumpkin— girl’s life a living hell, demoting her to char- of the 74-minute movie is devoted to the she- one of the movie’s woman in the service of the lady’s graceless nanigans of the heroine’s closest companions, a many visual treats daughters Anastasia (Holliday Grainger) and quartet of talking mice, and their slapstick bat- Drizella (Sophie McShera). When the King tles, Tom-and-Jerry-style, with Lady Tremaine’s (Derek Jacobi) invites every maiden to a ball obnoxious cat, Lucifer. The Prince, who doesn’t at which the Prince (Richard Madden) will appear until late in the action, speaks only a choose his bride, Ella is left at home, finding few words. The big drama is whether the mice transportation in a transformation courtesy Jaq and Gus will be able to lug a key up to the not of God the Father but of her fairy godmoth- attic that imprisons Cinderella. Neither Christ- er (Helena Bonham Carter). Spoiler alert: Ella like nor true to Perrault, this is one Disney fea- leaves a glass slipper fit for a princess bride. It ture that looks coarse and charmless today. sounds like another of Vonnegut’s story arche- Given all these revisionist versions, includ- types: boy meets girl. Or rather, Prince meets ing its own, Disney wisely decided to make a commoner—and it’s love at first sight. plain old visionist one. The third recent live- You may wonder why we need a new Cin- action film spun off from its classic cartoon derella, for the legend has been a movie staple features—after Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonder- DISNEY since the beginning of the medium. That land and the Angelina Jolie–starring Maleficent, 54 WorldMags.net WorldMags.net

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from Sleeping Beauty—this Cinderella, apples or turned into donkeys. That’s She is the prisoner of her personality, written by Chris Weitz and directed by how Walt Disney taught moral lessons— parrying Cinderella’s aghast “How could Kenneth Branagh, plays it straight and by scaring the poop out of kids. you?” with a vitriolic (and poignant) pretty. Make that gorgeous: the settings Even Frozen, the studio’s double- “How could I not?” Behind her sadism is by Dante Ferretti and the gowns by Sandy princess movie and worldwide smash, the sad awareness that her stepchild has Powell (each with three Oscar wins) turn got rid of the King and Queen in a ship- all the graces her daughters lack. Lady T.’s the film into a fantasyland that is its own wreck. At least that was a clean killing. only good luck is finding an ally in the ve- theme park. The greater betrayal is the abrupt re- nal Grand Duke (Stellan Skarsgard), who Less a remake of the 1950 movie than placement of loving parents by a vicious is as adept at palace intrigue as she is at a correction, this Cinderella does without surrogate. That was the backstory of domestic iniquity. Perhaps these meanies the old standards or new ones. Though Snow White, with an implied death spree should star in a sour sequel: Sinned-erella. it often seems ready to burst into song, it as lurid as that in Act V of Hamlet. But Cate the Blanch-ificent is well doesn’t, instead relying on Patrick Doyle’s Snow White didn’t visualize the girl’s loss matched with James, who plays Lady sumptuous, nonstop score. It also reduces of her parents, as Weitz does here. Rose on Downton Abbey as a figure of the mice, now CGI critters, to minor At first, Ella (played as a 10-year-old by whim and rebellion who flirts with a characters: Cinderella chats with them, Eloise Webb) has two beautiful, adoring black jazzman and later marries a Jewish but they don’t talk back, content to await parents. Mother (Hayley Atwell) soon suc- lord. With her blond hair framing sub- their roles as pumpkin-coach horses cumbs to the sort of movie disease that versive dark eyebrows, James creates a when the fairy godmother shows up. deprives her of life but not luster, leaving Cinderella both classic and modern, who the child with the dictum “Have courage is the sculptor of her own destiny. She Orphans and Stepmothers and be kind.” Father (Ben Chaplin), hop- needn’t wait for the royal ball to dazzle having jettisoned extraneous plot- ing to give Ella a new mother and two the Prince; she meets him as an equal, on lines and music, screenwriter Weitz had girls her age besides, marries the widow horseback in the forest (neither knows the space to address matters that can Tremaine, then dies while on a business the other’s identity), and persuades him confound and horrify children on their trip. In short order, we see that Tremaine to spare a stag he was hunting. He knows first excursion with fairy tales: Where is no lady; she spits out her stepdaughter’s then he must marry the girl, who has do wicked stepmothers come from? And name as a cruel, cackling curse. been true to her mother’s last words: she why must so many Disney heroines be or- is courageous and kind. phans? Because at the heart of the stories Blanch-ificent As capacious and well scrubbed as that the studio turned into its early run like jolie in maleficent, blanchett any of the floors the heroine is obliged to of great movies was the child’s terror of gets top billing here. She earns it by radi- clean, this PG-rated treat approaches the abandonment and betrayal. Parents who ating a hauteur that chills as it amuses; old Disney magic in a ballroom dance of expected innocent movie magic when the performance is grand without being two strangers becoming lovers. It mixes they took their little ones to Snow White camp. The movie doesn’t rehabilitate romance and a measure of droll wit and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo Lady T., as Maleficent did for its sorceress. without ever evoking the simpy phrase and Bambi might have been as shocked rom-com. Doing it the old way has paid as their kids at the atrocities on display: off for the studio: 65 years after a “classic” mothers slaughtered or carted off to a Cinderella Complex animated feature that missed the mark, madhouse, children offered poisoned The women who kept the Disney finally gets Cinderella right. ■ fairy-tale femme relevant

JULIE, 1957 AMY, 2007 BRANDY, 1997 The 21-year-old Andrews Sedaris voiced ILENE, 1950 The pop star headlined starred in Rodgers and Cinderella, battling a In her first and only film, a multiracial update of ANNA, 2014 Hammerstein’s only not-so-charming Prince, singer Woods gave voice the R&H musical, with Kendrick’s Cinderella musical for television in the DreamWorks to the catchy songs in Whitney Houston as the found life crappy ever sequel Shrek the Third Disney’s cartoon fairy godmother after in the film of Sond- heim’s Into the Woods EVERETT (5) WorldMags.net 56 time March 23, 2015 The Culture MusicWorldMags.net

Heavy Is the Head Drake has become rap’s unlikely titan By Jamieson Cox

on a quiet evening in february, the canadian rapper and singer who records as Drake released an album-length mixtape on iTunes called If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late without promotion or advance warn- ing. Three days later, it had sold over half a million cop- ies and shattered streaming records—ones previously held by Drake. By the beginning of March, he simul- taneously held 14 positions on the Billboard Hot 100, an accomplishment managed only once before, by the Beatles, at their absolute zenith of popularity in 1964. Those figures will come as no surprise to people who have followed the ascent of Drake (real name: Aubrey Graham). There’s a universality and easy charisma to his music, forged in part by a youth spent navigating the boundaries that separate race, religion and country. His childhood was split between the leafy avenues of midtown Toronto—where he lived with his white, Jewish mother—and summers in Memphis with his father, a black musician. He was a successful actor as a teenager, working on the Ca- nadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, but he recorded music in relative obscurity until 2008, when he was connected to rapper Lil Wayne. They worked together in Houston on the mixtape that would launch Drake’s career in earnest, 2009’s So Far Gone. It followed in the footsteps of Kanye West’s groundbreaking 808s and Heartbreak, an album-length dark night of the soul that plumbed new emotional depths for rappers; Drake infused that sound with the warped, slow vibes of Houston’s hip-hop and the cool amorphousness of R&B from the turn of the decade. The result was an artist equally comfortable in the shift away from the nice guy who once rapped, “But do worlds of pop and rap, with an unvarnished quality I ever come up in discussion/ over double-pump lattes that endeared him to his audience. and low-fat muffins?” Here, he’s crippled by paranoia Drake became popular quickly: his debut full- and imagined threats; sycophants and enemies lurk in length, 2010’s Thank Me Later, topped the album every shadow. Still, the moments of relative joy, like charts. The following year’s Take Care was a baroque, hometown anthem “Know Yourself” and maternal ambitious stab at greatness, with ballads about family With the ode “You & the 6,” throw off enough heat to melt the and fame slotted beside singles featuring Rihanna and surprise release songs around them. of his latest Nicki Minaj. Nothing Was the Same, released in 2013, mixtape, Drake If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late isn’t an obviously was colder and more sinewy, an examination of the has cemented commercial release—there’s nothing like “Hold On, pressures and problems that stem from assuming the his place on We’re Going Home,” that delicious piece of dewy pop throne. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late will amplify music’s A list nougat from Nothing Was the Same, on this tape. But that influence: icy, intense and uncompromising, much as Beyoncé made dark, moody R&B commer- it’s an extreme refinement of the sound Drake and cially viable in recent years, Drake is exerting his own co-producer Noah “40” Shebib have been developing gravitational force on the musical world around him. over the past half-decade. More than ever, Drake is He can shape genres, conquer charts and bend the GILBERT CARRASQUILLO—GETTYGILBERT IMAGES interested in toughness and retribution—a gradualWorldMags.net radio to his liking with songs released in silence. ■ time March 23, 2015 57 The Culture Tu n e dWorldMags.net In

Durst suggested the idea of The Jinx but soon True Detective became its target Reality thriller The Jinx upends Serial, about Syed’s murder what cop shows conviction, was a hit true-crime have taught us podcast By James Poniewozik this kind of thing isn’t supposed to happen in real life. Eccentric Robert Durst, scion of a Manhattan real estate dynasty, is being interviewed by film- maker Andrew Jarecki for HBO’s docu- mentary series The Jinx, investigating accusations that Durst murdered three people, including his wife, and got away with it. They’ve just gone over the 2003 trial in which a Texas jury acquitted him of murder, though he admitted killing a man and hacking his body into pieces. Jarecki takes a break and steps out. The stories using the tools and artistry of In the March 8 episode, Jarecki finds a camera keeps rolling. And Durst begins, crime drama. The most obvious analogue bombshell: an envelope, from Durst’s re- like a movie supervillain, to monologue. is Serial, the 2014 podcast that reinvesti- turn address, with the same misspelling “I did not knowingly, purposefully gated the 1999 murder of Maryland high (“BEVERLEY HILLS”) in apparently the lie,” Durst whispers to himself. He takes a school student Hae Min Lee, for which same handwriting as one that tipped off sip from a cup and repeats it, like an actor her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was con- police to the dead body of his friend Su- running lines between takes. He varies it: victed. Parsing the circumstantial evi- san Berman, in whose 2000 murder Durst “I did not knowingly, purposefully, inten- dence, drilling into minutiae, Serial cast was implicated but never charged. tionally lie.” It’s not a confession exactly, doubt on the conviction and the certitude It’s the kind of headline Law & Order but it’s chilling anyway, as if Durst were of the jury-trial system itself. And it did was made to rip. But in an important way, removing a mask, checking it for blem- so, befitting its name, like serial drama, The Jinx and Serial are antidotes to that ishes before putting it back on. It doesn’t using cliffhangers, strategic reveals and kind of cop procedural. There’s no guar- look good—as is clear to Durst’s lawyer, musical cues to heighten emotion and antee that the wicked will be jailed or the who hustles in to warn, “They could just suspense; it even made host Sarah Koenig innocent exonerated by the time the cred- hear every word you said.” into a character, as she questioned Syed its roll. They emphasize that justice is a In a TV cop drama, I’d roll my eyes at and wrestled with her doubts. complex process, subject to random de- the scene. Too perfect. Too convenient. But But The Jinx also looks a lot like HBO’s railment and manipulation—including reality has written a hell of a story for The dramas. Like True Detective, it involves by storytellers: the cinematic arsenal Jinx. The details are delicious. (Durst once a decades-long mystery, an unreliable these narratives use can make a powerful lived incognito as a mute woman.) The interrogation subject and allegations of case in the court of public opinion. thesis is provocative. (Did a rich killer buy ghastly crimes involving a powerful fam- The stories may end up making a real- freedom? Forget it, Jinx; it’s Chinatown.) ily. It even begins, like many HBO series, world difference; Syed’s appeal and the And the subject (who contacted Jarecki with haunting credits. The brooding Berman murder inquiry have reportedly himself after Jarecki directed a fictional “Fresh Blood” by Eels plays over artful been reopened. But will we ever know film based on Durst’s wife’s disappear- images of bodies falling, a man striking everything? Can we? The one thing these HBO POSTER: DURST, SERIAL; SYED: ance) is mesmerizing: his dispassion, his a woman, a sheet being unfurled over a antiprocedurals are most certain about is mixture of frankness and elusiveness— corpse. There’s no metaphor here: they’re the slipperiness of certainty. and, brrr, those dead eyes, as coal-black as re-enactments of real violence, to real That, at least, is one belief Durst seems if digitized by CGI for True Blood. people, recalled by Durst and witnesses. to share. After his lawyer warns him You could be forgiven for believing It’s aestheticized death, and it feels icky to about his hot-mike lapse, he keeps talk- that The Jinx was fiction; it packages its watch—but it’s undeniably effective. ing. “I didn’t tell the whole truth,” he material into one of TV’s most addictive AndWorldMags.net The Jinx’s case is gobsmacking. says. “Nobody tells the whole truth.” ■ 58 time March 23, 2015 The Culture BooksWorldMags.net

Angry Bird. A gorgeous memoir by a woman who trained a goshawk By Lev Grossman

a goshawk is a bird of prey. large- A scholar at ish—19 to 24 inches—but hard to spot in the University the wilderness. “Looking for goshawks of Cambridge, Macdonald was is like looking for grace,” Helen Macdon- obsessed with ald writes in her extraordinary memoir birds of prey H Is for Hawk. “It comes, but not often, as a child. She and you don’t get to say when or how.” covered her room Macdonald found her goshawk the old- with pictures of fashioned way: she ordered her online, them and read to her parents from a hawk breeder in Northern Ireland. from manuals of H Is for Hawk is Macdonald’s indelible falconry account of her experiences training the bird. Her reasons for undertaking this task are at first a little obscure. She had extensive experience as a falconer, but she’d never trained a goshawk before be- cause they have a bad reputation: moody, sulky, vicious. “They unnerved me,” she writes. “They were things of death and difficulty: spooky, pale-eyed psychopaths that lived and killed in woodland thick- agonizing process of gaining her trust “pepper and musk and burned stone.” ets.” But after her father, a news photog- and habituating her to human company Macdonald frames her book in part rapher, died suddenly, Macdonald found and the feel of a leather fist under her as a dialogue with a similar memoir, herself feeling a bit goshawkish herself. talons. Macdonald spent whole days The Goshawk, by T.H. White, who’s best She suddenly felt drawn to death and and nights with her bird, shunning known for his Arthurian epic The Once difficulty. friends, neglecting her career, becoming and Future King. Macdonald is every bit Macdonald’s first sight of her bird, more hawk than human. Everything his equal as a writer (as a falconer she’s when the breeder lifts her out of the about the hawk-trainer dyad is intense: much better), and thinking about White cardboard box she travels in, is one of the falconry even has its own language, as is a roundabout way for her to look at most memorable passages I’ve read this if it were a foreign country in its own her own motivations for training Mabel year, or for that matter this decade. The right. “Wings were sails, claws pounces, in the wake of her father’s death, which heat of the moment is enough to melt tail a train,” Macdonald writes. “Hawks aren’t simple. “The hawk was everything grammar: don’t wipe their beaks, they feak. When I wanted to be,” she writes early on. “Soli- they defecate they mute. When they tary, self-possessed, free from grief and The air turned syrupy, slow, flecked with dust. shake themselves they rouse.” Mabel is numb to the hurts of human life.” The last few seconds before a battle. And with described so vividly that she becomes But the bond between hawk and the last bow pulled free, he reached inside, and almost physically present on the page, falconer (technically the trainer of a amidst a whirring, chaotic clatter of wings down to the smell of her hawk breath: goshawk is an austringer) is fraught with and feet and talons and a high-pitched twit- paradox, and one is that the austere, aloof tering and it’s all happening at once, the man goshawk teaches Macdonald how to feel pulls an enormous, enormous hawk out of again. “You feel more human,” she writes, the box and in a strange coincidence of world “once you have known, even in your and deed a great flood of sunlight drenches us Training a goshawk imagination, what it is like to be not.” and everything is brilliance and fury. helped Macdonald Macdonald is looking for the goshawk heal after her within herself, and for her finding that Macdonald took her hawk home, father’s death elusive bird and finding grace become MACDONALD: MARZENA POGORZALY POGORZALY MARZENA MACDONALD: named her Mabel and began the slow, WorldMags.net one and the same. ■ time March 23, 2015 59 The Culture HealthWorldMags.net

Early Bloomers. Spring brings a rush of nutritious foods at peak flavor By Mandy Oaklander heavy, starchy foods keep you warm—and stuffed—through winter. but RADISHES now spring is arriving, and with it a wave of light and healthy produce hitting grocery When you start to see radishes at the farmers’ stores and farmers’ markets in prime season. We asked Deborah Madison, author of market, “to me that’s Vegetable Literacy, for a selection of nutritious foods that will be at their peak flavor in a sure sign of spring,” the coming weeks. And if you don’t like to eat your greens, she has a tip: “A salad that Madison says. A single looks like spring can make you so happy,” she says. “That’s half the battle.” radish can have 124% of the recommended daily vitamin C—even more if you eat the raw tops too. EAT IT: Go raw, says Madison. Just slice the radish, chop the tops and toss with good olive oil and lemon juice.

ARUGULA AVOCADO This peppery green is sweetest One avocado has more potassium than a after a frost; a cup has 27% of the banana, as well as 37% of daily fiber. recommended daily vitamin K. EAT IT: “I like it sliced and spread on EAT IT: “Golden beets with avocado toast with a squeeze of lemon and some and arugula make a pretty salad,” sea salt,” Madison says. Extra credit says Madison. “I think I’ll make that if you use truffle salt. tonight, actually.”

MEYER LEMONS SORREL LOVAGE A full 31% of daily vitamin C is in the Meet the herb that packs 106% of It’s one of the best sources of an anti- juice of one lemon. Meyers are less daily vitamin C in every cup. The first inflammatory compound called quercetin. acidic than other varieties. leaves sprout in March. EAT IT: Tear into a salad or sip a Bloody EAT IT: “Use the zest and the juice to EAT IT: Simply. “Finely shredded Mary through its hollow stem. “It make a lemon, shallot and olive oil sorrel mixed with yogurt is delicious,” tastes like a cross between parsley and vinaigrette.” Madison says. celery leaves,” she says.

CHIVES SWISS CHARD Chives are among the first plants to pop A cup of boiled chard has 22% of daily up postwinter, and just two tablespoons of iron, plus 716% of daily vitamin K. them have 16% of daily vitamin K. EAT IT: “I love it wilted until EAT IT: Madison suggests making a spread it’s tender and tossed of chives with butter, lemon zest, sea with good butter and salt, pepper and fresh chervil—another a little bit of vinegar,” GETTY IMAGES (8) early-year herb that tastes just a little Madison says. bit like licorice. WorldMags.net Source: USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference time March 23, 2015 WorldMags.net Sweet raisins and tart cranberries. Together at last.

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3 Players to Watch During March Madness BARACKETOLOGY POTUS the Predictor ESPN’s website saw fans fill out more than 11 million brackets for the 2014 men’s NCAA BREANNA tournament, an all- STEWART time high and still just The 6-ft. 4-in. a chunk of the many (193 cm) forward millions entered in pools could lead UConn around the world. But to a third straight only President Barack women’s title— Obama, the nation’s and establish basketball fan in chief, In Defense of One-and-Done U herself as an has the, um, privilege all-time great of filling out his bracket Kentucky cracks the NCAA code on TV and then having By Sean Gregory it dissected by a passel of reporters and the le- gions of other self-styled it’s time to give university decades—Calipari simply of- bracketologists. of Kentucky men’s basketball fers top recruits a straight deal: So, how has Obama coach John Calipari the respect come for a year, compete for a done? A review of his selections since he deserves. That hasn’t always national championship, and go KYLE WILTJER he began in 2008 by been easy. Calipari, who is criti- Calipari to the NBA. This setup worked Can Wiltjer, who FiveThirtyEight.com cized for skirting regulations, recruits the for John Wall, Derrick Rose, transferred to indicated that the led two schools, UMass and game’s top Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Gonzaga after President—despite his freshmen winning a title at triumphs as an electoral Memphis, to the Final Four, Cousins: all Calipari “one-and- Kentucky, help only to have those appearances done” alums, all NBA All-Stars. underdog—tended to the highly ranked pick far fewer upsets voided thanks to NCAA rules But that approach works Bulldogs end than the average tourna- violations. But as more fans rec- only if the teams win. Conven- their string of ment contains. (Though ognize that college sports have tional wisdom holds that ex- March failures? his prediction rate on become a multibillion- perience prevails in the NCAA round-of-64 upsets has dollar business, it’s worth Tournament. Calipari turned been well above aver- acknowledging the coach that line on its head when he age.) Obama showed no particular preference for who has figured out how to led a freshmen-heavy team states that voted for him, hack the NCAA. to the 2012 championship. although he has a persis- NBA rules require that This year’s tournament, tent love for the some- times disappointing Tar players be at least 19 years which begins on March 17, FRANK Heels of North Carolina, old and a year removed from offers him another shot. KAMINSKY the purple state Obama high school graduation. Behind star freshmen Karl- After returning for swung blue in 2008. his senior year, Thus, star prospects treat Anthony Towns and Devin Despite his knowl- the Tank—the college as a one-season Booker, Kentucky finished edge of the game, the Big Ten Player of stopover, with some drop- the regular season unde- President has picked the the Year—has correct men’s champ ping out during their feated and is a favorite to Wisconsin spring semester to prepare cut down the nets in Indy only once in his seven onaroll GETTY IMAGES (6) for the pros. Rather than on April 6. Should that tries (North Carolina in 2009). Consider it the bemoan the end of the happen, let’s recognize that presidential endorse- student-athlete ideal—which, Coach Cal is the man for this ment no candidate in truth, has been dead for WorldMags.netmoment—like it or not. wants. —JACK DICKEY 62 time March 23, 2015 Started my Camry. RescuedWorldMags.net a dog. Searched for the owners. Uncovered a plot. Escaped with the evidence. Took a leap of faith. Left them all behind. Kept the dog.

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No Cable, No Cry Life is so much better since I cut the cord iamconstantlylooking They have a very conservative customer- people who work at Time Warner Cable for new ways to insult people. service system whose main purpose is stores are as important as doctors. Not to be mean, but to to try to prevent you from changing any- By the time the Time Warner techni- make myself feel superior. thing in your life. They freaked out about cian failed to show up at my house and My newest target is my moving houses more than my 5-year- then blamed me for canceling the ap- “digital hoarders.” old son did. They transferred me eight dif- pointment (even though I never canceled These people are wasting hours edit- ferent times, sometimes to departments it in the first place), I’d had enough. I ing their online photos, organizing their I’d already spoken with, each time making ordered Internet and phone service from MP3s, scrolling through old emails, sift- me repeat my name, address and account AT&T. But before I called Time Warner to ing through shows on their DVRs and number before telling me their depart- officially break up with them, I did some struggling with which of my columns to ment couldn’t help me. This is when I practice role-playing, like the CIA does save on their hard drive to reread a fourth thought of a brilliant Internet startup with terrorists. So during the call, as soon time. Some even hire organizers to do it, in idea of letting me hire a person in India as the operator asked why I was canceling which “some” is moms in New York City by the hour to talk to my cable company’s my service, I announced, “I am moving and L.A. I, meanwhile, have rid myself of customer-service representative in India. to a tent.” She asked if I wanted my phone all digital possessions. My phone and com- Three days later, my cell phone rang, number transferred by AT&T to that tent. puter are a Zen retreat, assuming there are and when I picked it up, I was on Time I did. When she started to tell me about a Zen retreats where you meditate by watch- Warner Cable’s hold music. It was the most great deal she could score me, I cut her off ing porn and Googling yourself a lot. aggressive thing ever done to me on the with: “I have no trust in you, so anything I use the cloud as my library, taking telephone, and I have both received an ob- you offer is irrelevant,” which, admitted- out songs on Spotify and podcasts on scene phone call from a man soliciting sex ly, is something I’ve had in the chamber Stitcher. Thanks to the improvements of and negotiated with Hollywood publicists. for 20 years, thanks to an old girlfriend. search and the cheapness of server stor- That’s when I decided to cut the cord, If she continued, I was prepared to yell, “I age, I can navigate thousands of piled- getting rid of cable and keeping my Inter- am so incredibly wealthy that your sav- up emails and photos I am unaware net service. In return, Time Warner Cable ings mean absolutely nothing to me.” are even there. But my greatest digital demanded that I return my crappy, three- cleanse occurred three weeks ago, when year-old DVR but was not willing to have Eventually she told me that the ap- I got rid of cable TV. a technician who was already coming to pointment I canceled (that I did not my house pick it up. Also, I couldn’t mail cancel) was not rescheduled and was Which I didn’t plan on. In fact, I called it. I had to drive 30 minutes to a Time unresolved, so she couldn’t cancel my ser- Time Warner Cable two months before Warner Cable store, where I signed in at vice and needed to transfer me to another I moved in order to transfer my service. the front and waited to be called, because department. I had not prepared for this. I Let me explain that in general, I get along yelled, “I officially declare that I am not a great with most companies. Sure, there customer anymore and you have to finish are a few I hate: whoever makes Ku Klux it” and hung up. I am still getting Time Klan hoods; Hobby Lobby for refusing Warner Cable bills.

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