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VOL. 191, NO. 22 | 2018 2 | Conversation TheView Features Time Of △ 4 | For the Record Iraqi soldiers try Ideas, opinion, Welcome to the Drone Age What to watch, read, TheBrief innovations see and do to shoot down an Aspecial report shows how the ISIS drone armed News from the U.S. 13 | James Stavridis: 45 | Pose features lying technology is transforming with explosives in and around the world Tough calls on the largest ever eastern Mosul in our world, from changes in 5 | Roseanne Barr North Korea cast of transgender January 2017 ofers a high-proile militarystrategy to lifesaving actors 15 | Ian Bremmer lesson in division innovations in health care to Photograph by on U.S.-China 48 | Dietland creatingnew works of art Ivor Prickett— 7 relations displays righteous The New York | Voters in By TIME staf20 Colombia face female rage Times/Redux 15 | Melinda Gates’ stark choice for next advice to grads 49 | Chick lit leader TIME with ... characters grow up 16 | Kerry Kennedy Former U.S. intelligence chiefs 8 | How the federal on dad Robert F. 50 | Music: Father government lost James Clapper and Michael Hayden Kennedy’s legacy John Misty’s latest track of migrant on President Trump, spycraft and tender turn children 18 | Errol Morris threats to the Republic takes on fake news By Massimo Calabresi36 52 | 9 Questions 9 | Actor Jesse for Pulitzer Prize Eisenberg 19 | What Harvey winner Richard remembers Weinstein’s arrest The Future of Exercise Rhodes Philip Roth means for #MeToo Streaming and on-demand workouts are threatening traditional gyms By Lisa Eadicicco40 ON THE COVER: Drone video still by TIME 1 Conversation TOUGH GUYS THE TIME 100 IAN BREMMER’S “STRONG- RE “THE 100 MOST INFLU- man Era” article hit the spot ential People” [April 30– [May 14]. Maybe a better but May 7]: All people are inlu- riskier title would have been ential to some degree during “The Dangers of Idealistic their lifetime, but the relative Liberalism.”From a British inluence of most people in perspective, I am convinced regard to humanity and its that the arrogant pontiica- progress would not go beyond tions from the so-called lib- the realm of mediocre, which eral elite played a large part in is how I would class the inlu- driving the average working- ence of so many on your list. man to Brexit. A similar reac- You should consider the con- tion by the Midwest working- straint to objectivity that you man gave the White House to place on yourself by retaining Trump—a lesson in how to the “100” igure in the header drive the center to extremes. of your annual list. Instead, CRUZ PRAISES TRUMP FOR challenge. No, he is decidedly Don Darke, you could focus on compil- keeping his promise to upset not a tennis player. He is an STILTON, ENGLAND ing a list of worthy candidates the status quo. He did not artist and an illusionist who only, and each year the num- add that the status quo has seemingly creates time in a THESE “MEN” HAVE BEEN ber could change accordingly. been replaced by lies, hate, sport where time is so scarce. placed in their respective Patrick Barnett, spite, bigotry, inhumanity, Milton Becker, positions through fear and BURNS BEACH, AUSTRALIA homophobia, xenophobia, SANDRINGHAM, intimidation. You should misogyny, recklessness and SOUTH AFRICA balance this story with facts I’M STILL SCRAPING MY incompetence. Whether trea- about the people who have breakfast cereal of the son should be added to this THOUGH I WOULD NOT NOR- been suppressed and disap- kitchen ceiling after reading list remains to be proved. mally argue with the author- peared on the orders of some the article by Ted Cruz about Brian Tooby, ity of Bill Gates, I challenge of these “strongmen.” President Trump. There STOTFOLD, ENGLAND his assertion that Roger Fe- James Morris, could not be a more perfect derer is the “greatest ten- CALLALA BAY, AUSTRALIA example of present-day poli- ROGER FEDERER IS MOST nis player ever.”Equally as ticians and their spineless in- certainly not a tennis player— philanthropic, no man has PRESIDENT RODRIGO ability to challenge. Trump, lesser mortals play tennis. dominated a surface as com- Duterte has responded well during his 2016 election cam- Would you describe Vincent prehensively as Rafael Nadal. to what the people of the paign, constantly made the van Gogh or Leonardo da Not only does the Spaniard Philippines want: public most distasteful and repug- Vinci as mere painters? The lead Federer 23-15 in all-time safety. Bremmer should talk nant remarks about Cruz and tennis court is the canvas clashes, but Hercules himself to Filipinos and see for him- his family, yet this Senator upon which Federer creates would envy Nadal’s 10 Roland self that he has misjudged from Texas praises his former his sublime brand of graceful Garros titles. We have had the the nation’s leader. We are nemesis to the point where he magic, while making it appear privilege of watching the two telling the world that we is almost kissing his seat. Is efortless. The ball, he com- greatest tennis players ever don’t need liberalism. All we John McCain the only man in mands it with laser-like preci- and may we continue to be need is safety. the Senate with a backbone? sion. The net, a minor irritant. spoiled for a while longer. 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ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME Everything that 27 could go wrong Length, in miles, of a has gone wrong.’ cat-proof fence recently completed in central GEORGE SOROS, Australia; one of the largest investor, predicting “another of its kind in the world, major inancial crisis,” while it’s designed to protect at the annual meeting of the endangered marsupials European Council on Foreign from predatory felines Relations in Paris SOURCES: BBC; CNN; NEW YORK TIMES; WALL STREET JOURNAL DIVIDED WE FALL What Roseanne Barr revived was not the past ABC had in mind INSIDE A RUNOFF ELECTION LEAVES TWO U.S. POLICIES ON JESSE EISENBERG REMEMBERS COLOMBIA FACING A DECISION MIGRANT CHILDREN CREATE PHILIP ROTH’S EXTRAORDINARY BETWEEN RIGHT AND LEFT CONTROVERSY AND CONFUSION EYE FOR DETAIL TheBrief Opener NATION to describe blacks as “violent” or “lazy.” Proceedings Roseanne Barr of the National Academy of Sciences published a study in April crediting Trump’s victory not to pocketbook meets the new world concerns—the sort Barr cited in interviews—but, rather, to “issues that threaten white Americans’ sense of By Karl Vick dominant group status.” HEN ROSEANNE RETURNED TO PRIME- NONE OF WHICH means any given Trump supporter is rac- time television in March, it was only ist, or associates any previous greatness of America with W natural that the title character would be the ignoble elements that nostalgia glosses over.