MAIN STORIES MAIN STORIES OBITUARIES ‘NUCLEAR’ The furor The TV career WAR OVER over Trump’s woman who THE COURT travel ban inspired millions p.5 Neil Gorsuch p.4 p.35 Mary Tyler Moore THE BEST OF THE U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA The new Cromwell How Steve Bannon is shaping Trump’s presidency Pages 4, 16 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 VOLUME 17 ISSUE 808 ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS WWW.THEWEEK.COM GoBoldly.com ©2017 America’s Biopharmaceutical Companies. Biopharmaceutical ©2017 America’s THERE WERE THOSE WHO BELIEVED THE BODY COULD NEVER FIGHT CANCER. NEVER SAY NEVER. Today, researchers are using immunotherapy treatments to stimulate the body’s immune system to destroy invading cancer cells. Welcome to the future of medicine. For all of us. Contents 3 Editor’s letter I n November 1811, northern England’s weavers and textile work- sourcing. American firms have been steadily cutting employees ers declared war on the machines. Gangs of men with faces black- and replacing them with machines that are cheaper (they don’t ened to hide their identities stormed into factories, using swords, need benefits) and more efficient (they don’t take vacations). U.S. hammers, and axes to smash apart the newfangled power looms factories now produce twice as much stuff as they did in 1984, and spinning frames that were replacing their skilled labor. The but with one-third of the workers. And smarter machines will Luddite uprising raged for five years before being crushed by the soon steal a lot more jobs: One Oxford University study pre- British army. Dozens of textile workers were executed or exiled to dicts that 47 percent of U.S. jobs will be automated over the next Australia, their war on progress a failure. Some 200 years on, ad- two decades. Some 1.7 million truckers could be rendered redun- vances in automation continue to cause political and social up- dant by self-driving vehicles, and computers could replace millions heaval. President Trump routinely blames the disappearance of more store cashiers, insurance underwriters, and tax preparers. U.S. manufacturing jobs on bad trade deals and cut-rate compe- Lawmakers can’t ban companies from adopting new technologies, tition from China and Mexico—attacks that have struck a chord but will they be able to pass policies—such as more funding for with Rust Belt voters. But that populist rage should really be di- retraining schemes—to help workers adapt to this new industrial rected at the robots (see Technology). revolution? If they don’t, we might one day see angry out-of-work A recent study found that 85 percent of manufacturing job accountants or truckers go Luddite, and take a Theunis Bates losses from 2000 to 2010 were caused by automation, not out- hammer to their robotic replacements. Managing editor NEWS 4 Main stories Backlash against Editor-in-chief: William Falk President Trump’s travel Managing editors: Theunis Bates, Carolyn O’Hara ban; a conservative pick Deputy editor/International: Susan Caskie for SCOTUS Deputy editor/Arts: Chris Mitchell Senior editors: Harry Byford, Alex Dalenberg, Richard Jerome, Dale Obbie, 6 Controversy of the week Hallie Stiller, Frances Weaver Will Trump’s growing Art director: Dan Josephs Photo editor: Loren Talbot diplomatic rift with Copy editors: Jane A. Halsey, Jay Wilkins Chief researcher: Christina Colizza Mexico result in a Contributing editors: Ryan Devlin, damaging trade war? 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Travel ban prompts chaos, protests What happened of the seven nations Trump designated President Donald Trump’s temporary travel has committed an act of terrorism in the ban on visitors and immigrants from seven U.S., yet nations whose citizens have been Muslim-majority countries triggered a involved in terrorism—Saudi Arabia, Paki- firestorm this week, with mass protests at stan, Egypt, and others—are exempt. Why? several major airports, widespread confu- Refugees from Syria and other Middle sion among border control officials, and a Eastern nations are already “the most growing spate of lawsuits challenging the vetted group of travelers to the U.S.,” said order’s legality. Signed late in the day last BloombergView.com. The process takes at Friday, the travel ban blocks immigrants least 18 months, and involves background from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, checks by several government agencies. Syria, and Yemen for 90 days, and suspends the U.S. refugee program for 120 days. With Actually, Trump’s temporary ban is “mostly travelers given no prior warning about the right on the substance,” said National new policy, and many immigration officials Muslim and Jewish protesters in Chicago Review.com. With Islamic terrorists “pos- unsure about how to execute it, more than ing as refugees to obtain admission into 700 visa holders were prevented from boarding U.S.-bound flights; Europe,” it makes sense for the U.S. to “evaluate and strengthen” hundreds more landed at American airports, only to be placed on our own vetting process. But the implementation of the ban was a return flights or handcuffed, detained, and questioned for hours. travesty. Its architects—White House chief strategist Steve Ban- Those caught up included entire refugee families from Syria, Iraqi non and senior adviser Stephen Miller—“overrode cautions” from interpreters who helped the U.S. during the Iraq War, and an Iraqi lawyers about the details of the order; federal agencies and border general currently leading the fight against ISIS. Permanent U.S. control agents weren’t given sufficient guidance, leading to ugly residents, known as green card holders, were initially among those detentions, outrage, and “spectacular protests.” banned but are now being issued waivers. What the columnists said The ban, which immediately applies to more than 90,000 people “Progressives will look for any excuse to call President Trump a in the affected countries who’ve been issued U.S. visas, as well as bigot,” said Adriana Cohen in the Boston Herald. This is not a to thousands of refugees waiting for admission, sparked spontane- “Muslim ban.” The vast majority of the world’s 1.6 billion Mus- ous mass protests at major airports in cities including New York, lims aren’t affected. Trump “isn’t anti-Muslim. He’s anti–radical Washington, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Lawyers and Democratic Islam.” The president is simply carrying out the promises that lawmakers also gathered at airports to help the detained travelers; helped him win the election, said Chris Cillizza in WashingtonPost in one of several lawsuits challenging the ban, a federal judge in .com. A Reuters/Ipsos poll this week showed 49 percent of Ameri- New York issued a temporary injunction blocking the deportation cans supported the ban and 41 percent opposed it, and you can be of those detained. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a holdover sure that Trump supporters in particular are “overjoyed” that “he’s from the Obama administration, instructed Justice Department doing what he said he would.” lawyers not to defend the ban; she was immediately sacked by President Trump, who said she had “betrayed” his administration.