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The fallout from the nastiest presidential election in decades is set
to spoil a lot of Thanksgiving dinners. All over the U.S., friends
and relatives who found themselves on opposite sides of the political divide are now wondering if they can sit across the table
from one another and talk turkey. Some have decided that they
cant, that the wounds are still too raw. Nancy Sundin, a social
worker in Spokane, told The New York Times that she had called
off Thanksgiving with her Donald Trumpsupporting mother and
brother after arguing with them over the Republicans immigration policies. Manhattan resident Leigh Anne OConnor received
a phone call soon after Election Day from her dad, who had been
criticized on Facebook by OConnors liberal daughter over his
vote for Trump. He said he is not coming for Thanksgiving,
OConnor told the Associated Press. I cried when we hung up.
These schisms arent just sad for the families involvedtheyre
another sign of the estrangement thats tearing at the nations so-

cial fabric. For decades, Americans have been steadily segregating

themselves into like-minded communities: Liberals live near and
socialize with fellow liberals, gun owners with gun owners, evangelicals with evangelicals. This clustering is echoed online. The algorithms that power Facebook, where 44 percent of Americans
get their news, ensure that were only presented with stories and
opinions from friends, family, and news outlets that confirm our
pre-existing biasesincluding fake news. (See Technology.) But
what if we all looked at Thanksgiving as an opportunity to deescalate, and renew our bonds with family members and friends
who might not share our political convictions? Some connections
are deeper than politics. If Native Americans and the English settlers invading their country could enjoy a meal together despite
their mutual suspicion, surely you can avoid tossing partisan insults at your Trumpist uncle or Clintonite niece Theunis Bates
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The president-elect
builds his White House
team; protests and hatecrime reports surge after
Donald Trumps win
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Controversy of the week

What Democrats need to
do to rebuild their party

The U.S. at a glance

Guilty verdict in a toddlers
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touts GOP unity
The world at a glance
President Obama visits
Athens; the Kremlin
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People
Jennifer Anistons fury at
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Briefing
More than half the states
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The main stories...

Trumps tumultuous transition to power

ofand seems content to let them ght
one another for power and inuence.
President-elect Donald Trumps transiPriebus was a sound choice because of
tion team was embroiled in turmoil
his strong ties to congressional Repubthis week, as his efforts to ll Cabinet
licans, said The Boston Globe, but Banand other key positions were slowed
non doesnt belong within 10 miles
by inghting, rings, and confusion.
of the White House. A profane bully
Trump began the hiring process by
once accused of assaulting his second
naming Republican National Comwife, the former Goldman Sachs banker
mittee chairman Reince Priebus as
has turned Breitbart.com into a white
his chief of staff, and Steve Bannon,
nationalist swamp of racism, sexism,
his campaign CEO and the execuanti-Semitism, and Islamophobia.
tive chairman of the alt-right website
Breitbart News, as chief strategistan
Bannons association with unsavory
appointment that 169 outraged House
white identity grievance politics
Democrats demanded he rescind.
Priebus with Trump and Pence; Bannon
does deserve a watchful eye, said
Trump had earlier replaced Gov. Chris
Christie as head of his transition team with incoming Vice President The Wall Street Journal. But Bannon may simply serve to remind
Trump that his election began as a rebellion against Washington.
Mike Pencea power play thought to have been orchestrated by
At the same time, the vague lines of responsibility between Priebus
the president-elects inuential son-in-law, Jared Kushner, whose
father Christie jailed during his time as a U.S. attorney. At least four and Bannon are troubling. It will lead to a mess of leaking dysother transition ofcials brought in by Christie were purged, includ- function if they divide into competing factions.
ing former House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers.
Trump is setting up an administration mired in unprecedented
conicts of interest, said the Los Angeles Times. The presidentTrump was focusing on a number of loyalists for his Cabinet appointments. Rudy Giuliani was the leading contender to be Secre- elect has borrowed from a web of lendersincluding the Bank
tary of State, despite revelations that the former New York mayor of China and Russian investorsand his many real estate assets
here and abroad will all be affected by the decisions he makes
did legal, lobbying, and consultancy work for Qatar, Venezuela,
as president. Putting his children in charge of the business wont
Saudi Arabia, and an Iranian exile group. Sen. Jeff Sessions, a
solve those problems. To avoid the appearance of impropriety,
hard-liner on immigration and a foreign-policy hawk, was also
he needs to release his tax returns, reveal all foreign holdings and
under consideration for that role, as well as for attorney general.
The president-elect took to Twitter to attack the media for report- loans, and put the Trump Organization in a proper blind trust.
ing that the transition was chaotic, insisting that the recruitment
What the columnists said
process was very organized, adding, I am the only one who
Despite being a vocal Never-Trumper, I urged national security
knows who the nalists are!
ofcials to serve in the president-elects administration for the
good of the country, said former State Department counselor Eliot
After his election win, Trump held talks with President Obama at
Cohen in The Washington Post. One talk with his team changed
the White Housepraising the outgoing commander-in-chief as
my mind. Trump is surrounding himself with mediocrities whose
a very good man whose counsel he would seek. He also spoke
chief qualication seems to be unquestioning loyalty, and the
by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the two
scandals and mistakes that will ensue from the Trump administraagreeing to work on repairing unsatisfactory Russian-American
tion will be exceptional.
relations and forging a possible Syrian peace deal. In a TV interview, the president-elect said he wanted to preserve key parts of
By setting the bar so low, the liberal media is setting Trump up to
the Affordable Care Act (see Talking Points), and said that part of
succeed, said Liz Peek in FoxNews
his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall
.com. Theyre continuing to portray
could be fencing. He also reiterated
What next?
him as a vile, erratic, destructive
his pledge to appoint a pro-life justice to
Trumps presidency may unleash a GOP-led
loon, so when he and the Repubthe Supreme Court.
spending spree, said Ben Weyl in Politico.com.
lican Congress push through major
Topping his agenda are a $550 billion infrastrucchanges, the American people will be
What the editorials said
ture plan and enormous tax cuts for businesses
pleasantly surprised. Actually, Trump
Trump staked his campaign on the
and individuals. But his first move on Inauguramay nd he has promised too much,
premise that his brilliant business acution Day will be the reversal of Obama-era execusaid Jonah Goldberg in National
men will make him a better president
tive orders, said Michael Gerson in The WashingReview.com. He once told his supthan any politician, said The New York
ton Post. Republican lawyers have spent the past
porters he would make every dream
Times. But as the manager of a vast
year and a half preparing to undo directives on
you ever dreamed for your country
federal government, he already seems in
issues including immigration and climate change.
come truebut as experienced
over his head. The president-elect needs
But if he reverses Obamas limited amnesty for
politicians know, big policy decisions
to ll about 4,000 key government posichildren whose parents brought them to the U.S.
require lots of tradeoffs, and never
tions, with 1,270 requiring Senate conillegally, does Trump really want to begin his
please everyone. If Trump is going to
rmation hearings. Yet he has packed his
presidency by deporting thousands of kids? If he
be a successful presidentand I hope
transition team with family, friends, and governs as he campaigned, Trump will smash our
he is onehe will have to start disaphacksnot to mention the lobbyists
country into a thousand shards of bitterness.
pointing his biggest fans.
and big donors he promised hed get rid
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What happened

... and how they were covered

NEWS 5

After election, protests and a spike in hate crimes

What happened

Latinos. Half of the Portland protesters didnt even bother to vote, accordTens of thousands of people across the
ing to one survey.
U.S. continued to take part in daily
protestssome of them violentagainst
But Trumps victory has already had
the election of Donald Trump this week.
tangible and terrifying outcomes for
In New York City, as many as 25,000
minorities, said The Boston Globe.
protesters converged on Trump Tower,
Muslim drivers have reportedly been
bearing signs reading Not my president
accosted, and black students taunted
and Show the world what the popular
by white Trump supporters. Did anyvote looks likereferring to Hillary
body think electing him would mean
Clintons lead of about 1 million votes,
otherwise? Trump ran a 17-month
by the latest count. At least 350 people
campaign rooted in Islamophobia and
were arrested in Portland, Ore., Oakland,
racist rhetoricand its going quickly
and other cities as some demonstrations
Anti-Trump protesters in New York City
from words to actions.
turned violent, with protesters smashing

vehicles and throwing burning projectiles. President-elect Trump

What the columnists said
at rst attacked the very unfair demonstrations, but backtracked amid criticism he was undermining the constitutional right While violence is obviously wrong, anti-Trump protesters have every
to protest. Love the fact that small groups of protesters last night right to take to the streets, said Jonathan Chait in New York magazine. The U.S. has never voted for a man so openly contemptuous
have passion for our great country, Trump later tweeted.
of democratic normswho has threatened to jail opponents, enact
The divisive election also prompted a surge in racist and anti-Muslim mass deportations, and gleefully punish the press. Some liberals
think protesters should give Trump a chance, said Steven Thrasher in
incidents reportedly carried out by pro-Trump supporters. The
Southern Poverty Law Center logged more than 300 hate crime com- TheGuardian.com. But we must not let this misogynist, xenophobic
plaints around the country following the election, and said the spike bully become the new normal.
was worse than after 9/11. Nazi and racist grafti was scrawled on
Does the Left even want peace? asked Noah Rothman in Commentary
buildings in Philadelphia and other cities, and a Maryland church
Magazine.com. Many reports of racist incidents have already been
was vandalized with the words Trump Nation Whites Only. In
debunkedunlike the real and conrmed violence of anti-Trump
an interview on CBSs 60 Minutes, Trump said he was saddened
protesters. In Chicago, one man was dragged from his car and
to hear reports that his supporters were harassing minorities. If it
beaten while onlookers shouted, He voted Trump. Trump isnt
helps, Trump said, I will say right to the cameras: Stop it.

the Lefts main target, though, said Kevin Williamson in National

What the editorials said
Review.com. Look at the protesters signsAmeriKKKa, America Was Never Greatand youll realize their real rage is directed at
Blocked streets, spray-painted cars, broken windows, said the
America itself. They think the U.S. is wicked, depraved, lled to the
New Hampshire Union Leader. This is what we were told to
gills with hatred and bigotry. And all because their candidate lost.
expect from angry Donald Trump supporters when Hillary Clinton won the White Houseyet here we are, watching the Left
Its hard to see how the country unites at this point, said Charles
having trouble accepting the results of a free and fair election
that didnt go its way. The hypocrisy is astounding, said the New Blow in The New York Times. The electoral map shows a handful
of blueberries sprinkled on an endless spread of red sauce. Rural
York Post, as are the hysterical predictions that Trumps presidency will lead to Armageddon and a racist whitelash against whites and urban populations now peer at one another and see
minorities. Reality check: Trump scored slightly less of the white people who dont look like themracially, culturally, or politically. We are living in two diverging Americas at odds and at battle.
vote than Mitt Romneyand higher proportions of blacks and

Andy Kropa/Redux, screenshot: American Legion Monmouth Post 54

It wasnt all bad

QDavy Moakes first proposed to
Helen Andre in 1951, but it took 65
years for them to finally get hitched.
Davy, now 86, and Helen, 82, fell in
love while attending art college in
their native England as teens, but
Helens parents didnt approve of
their daughter marrying a bohemian.
Both went on to marry others, but in
the past few years their respective
spouses died, and the two reconnected. Even after all this time, it
still feels the same, said Helen. Its
just how it was. After exchanging
vows this month, the pair headed to
Cyprus for an overdue honeymoon.

QA stranded Bruce Springsteen was facing a long walk

home on Veterans Day when a group of vets came to his
rescue. The 67-year-old rocker had been riding his motorcycle near his hometown
of Freehold, N.J., last week
when the bike broke down.
Luckily, members of a local
veterans organization were
riding by, and offered the
Boss a lift to a nearby bar,
where Springsteen bought
the bikers a round of beers.
We shot the breeze for a half
hour, 45 minutes till his ride
showed up, said American Legion member Dan
Barkalow, who added, Bikers
gotta stick together.
Barkalow and the Boss

QA Texas police officer went

above and beyond the call of duty
when he encountered a heartbroken little boy while responding
to a burglary call. Thieves had
ransacked the home of 9-year-old
Aidan Balderas, taking the boys
beloved Xbox console and games,
along with the familys TV. Seeing
the boy in tears, Officer Brandon
Smith, a three-year veteran of the
Seguin police department, immediately headed home, grabbed
his own PlayStation 3, and gave
it to Aidan. He also bought Aidan
a new copy of his favorite game,
Minecraft. He was a really good
man to do that for me, said Aidan.
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6 NEWS

Controversy of the week

The Democrats: How do they rebuild?

wary of overcorrecting in a play for workingThe Republican civil war was supposed to start this week, said
class whites, said Conor Sen in BloombergView
Jonathan Easley in TheHill.com. Instead, in the
.com. The U.S. population is only getting
wake of Donald Trump and the GOPs stunning
younger, browner, and more urban. Why
election win, a ferocious struggle has erupted
should Democrats reinvent themselves when
on the Left over the smoldering remains of the
they can just hold on to the growing Democratic base?
Democratic Party. To Bernie Sanders supporters, Hillary Clintons defeat represents the clear,
The belief that demographics would save the Democrats is
final failure of neoliberalism, in which the last two
the god that failed in this election, said Sean Trende in
Democratic presidents prioritized globalization and
RealClearPolitics.com. Are white voters declining as a share
pro-corporate policies over the economic security
of the electorate? Yes, but that percentage is still about
of working people. Much of the party establish70 percent, and getting most of those votes will still
ment, meanwhile, is pointing to the narrowness
An existential crisis
win a party an awful lot of elections. The thriceof Clintons defeatshe won the popular vote
married, womanizing Trump even won 81 percent of white evanby more than a million votesas proof that all the party needs is
gelicals votes, because they are scared theyll become powerless
a new crop of younger, less compromised candidates with centerpariahs in a Democratic-dominated nation. If Democrats want a
left appeal. The battle for the partys soul will begin with looming
comeback, theyd better rethink their aggressive overreach on
leadership contests, said Katie Reilly in Fortune.com. Rep. Keith
cultural issues such as contraception, baking cakes for gay wedEllison, the first Muslim in Congress and far-left leader of the
dings, and religious freedom.
Congressional Progressive Caucus, is running to be chairman of
the Democratic National Committee, against moderate former
Democrats do need more white voters, said William Galston in The
chairman Howard Dean, while Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan is mounting
Wall Street Journal, but they have to give them a clear, cohera populist challenge to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The
ent alternative to Donald Trumps populist nativism and Bernie
Democrats existential crisis is just beginning.
Sanders quasi-socialism. In this election, Democrats foolishly conveyed their satisfaction with the status quo. As they plot their
If the Democrats are going to change, said Ryan Cooper in
revival, they need to come up with policies that assure workingTheWeek.com, it might as well be in the direction of social
and middle-class Americans there will be good jobs for them in
democracy. Clinton lost because Trumps angry populism won
a globalized, technological world. Democrats also need to drop
over a white working class whose welfare and protection was
their obsession with identity politics, said William Saletan in Slate
the Democratic Partys original reason for existence. In an age
.com. We can continue to fight racism, sexism, homophobia, and
of still-widening inequality, the Democrats obvious move here is
Islamophobia. But as long as Democrats define themselves by their
to stop promoting globalization and giving reassuring $225,000
opposition to prejudice, and dismiss the economic and cultural conspeeches to Goldman Sachs, and return to their roots as the party
cerns of rural, white America, they will keep losing elections.
that defends the poor against the rich. But Democrats should be

QA substitute gym teacher

in Los Angeles was caught on

tape the day after the election
telling Hispanic students that if
their parents are undocumented, they will be deported by
President Donald Trump. Your
parents gotta go and they gonna leave you behind, said the
teacher. When one sixth-grader
asked how authorities would
find them, the teacher replied,
Its all in the system, sweetie.
When they come and theres
an illegal, they gotta go.
QA group of students at
the University of Virginia is
demanding that the faculty be
forbidden to quote Thomas
Jefferson despite the fact that
Jefferson founded the school.
Since Jefferson owned slaves,
the group said, any reference
to him in official communications undermines the message of unity, equality, and
civility that you are attempting
to convey.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Good week for:

The mainstream media, after The New York Times and The

Wall Street Journal saw a 300 to 400 percent surge in subscription orders in the wake of Donald Trumps election. A lot of
people feel compelled to respond in one civic way or another, said
Richard Tofel of the investigative website ProPublica.org.
Going out in style, after developers in Texas announced plans for
a $300 million luxury resort community for doomsday preppers,
with underground condos connected by tunnels. Its going to be
a five-star resort with DEFCON 1 preparedness, a spokesman said.
Product placement, after Ivanka Trumps jewelry company
sent a style alert promoting the new first daughters favorite
bangle, a $10,800 diamond bracelet she wore during her fathers
post-election interview on 60 Minutes.

Bad week for:

Leaving the dishes in the sink, after a French survey revealed

that the No. 1 cause of infidelity cited by married women was their
husbands failure to do his fair share of the housework.
Drawing parallels, after a California high school teacher was
suspended for a lesson in which he compared the rise of Donald
Trump to that of Adolf Hitler. Everything I talk about is factually based, said Frank Navarro, a 40-year veteran teacher. If Im
wrong, show me where Im wrong.
Foreign ticket sales, after Qatars World Cup organizers
announced that drinking will be banned during the 2022 soccer
tournament. There will be no alcohol consumption on the streets,
squares, and public places, said one official, and that is final.

Boring but important

Obama gives up on TPP
The Obama administration abandoned any hope
of ratifying the Trans-Pacific
Partnership trade agreement
last week, after GOP leaders in
Congress said they would not
vote on the deal before Donald
Trump takes office. Obama
made the agreement with 11
Pacific Rim countries a major
priority of his second term,
saying it would strengthen
U.S.-Asian alliances and check
the growing economic clout of
China, which was not included
in the deal. But it became a
political lightning rod on the
campaign trail, as Hillary Clinton disavowed it and Trump
promised to withdraw from it.
U.S. retailers and farmers had
largely supported the pact,
arguing that it would reduce
foreign tariffs on goods they
buy and sell overseas. Critics
claimed it lacked sufficient
protections for U.S. workers.

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Chicago
Mayors immigration defiance: Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared this week
that he would not cooperate with any attempt by a
Trump administration to
deport illegal immigrants,
pledging that Chicago
will remain a
so-called sanctuary city. To all
those who are,
after [the] elecEmanuel: Not cooperating
tion, very nervous and filled with anxiety, you are safe
in Chicago, Emanuel said. Chicago has
been a sanctuary city for more than three
decades, with local laws that prohibit
police officers and government workers
from asking about residents immigration
status or sharing that information with
federal immigration authorities. Trump
has promised to cut off federal funding
for sanctuary cities and proposed deporting up to 3 million
undocumented immigrants with
criminal records. Since the election, a number of major cities
have affirmed their commitment to remaining immigrant
sanctuaries, including New
York City, Los Angeles, Seattle,
Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
San Diego
Trump U lawsuit delay? Lawyers for
Donald Trump asked a federal judge this
week to postpone a fraud
trial over the
now-defunct
Trump University until
after their clients inauguToo busy for court
ration, arguing that Trump will be too busy to attend
court proceedings scheduled for later this
month. The 2010 class-action lawsuit
accuses Trump and the for-profit Trump
University of misleading customers who
signed up for pricey real-estate seminars,
falsely telling them that instructors had
been handpicked by Trump and that the
organization was an accredited university.
The suit is one of two pending before
U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whom
Trump accused of being biased against
him because of Curiels Mexican heritage.
There is precedent for sitting presidents to
face pending lawsuits. The Supreme Court
ruled in 1997 in a sexual harassment suit
against President Bill Clinton that suits
can go forward against presidents for
actions they took before assuming office.

Clay, W.Va.
Racist row over first lady: The mayor
of the tiny West Virginia town of Clay
resigned this week after she commented
favorably on a racist Facebook post that
called first lady Michelle Obama an ape
in heels. The offensive remark was made
by another local official, Pamela Ramsey
Taylor, who wrote after the election that
it will be so refreshing to have a classy,
beautiful, dignified first lady back in the
White Housea reference to Donald
Trumps wife, Melania. Im tired of
seeing a ape in heels, added Taylor,
to which Clay Mayor Beverly Whaling
replied, Just made my day Pam. Their
comments were soon deleted but were
captured in screenshots and shared by
thousands on social media. Taylor was
fired from her job. Whaling apologized
and resigned soon after, saying that she
hadnt intended to be racist and was
referring to my day being made for
change in the White House.

Brunswick, Ga.
Hot-car murder: An Atlanta-area man
was convicted this week of malice murder and cruelty to children for the 2014
hot-car death of his 22-month-old son.
Justin Ross Harris, 35, was accused of
deliberately leaving his toddler, Cooper,
strapped in his car seat for seven hours
as temperatures outside the vehicle hit
nearly 90 degrees. Harris attorneys said
the incident had been a tragic case of
absentmindedness and that their client
accidentally forgot to drop the boy at
day care before going to work at Home
Depot. But prosecutors argued that
Harris was eager to flee family responsibilities, revealing that he had been sexting that day with six women, including
a minor. Harris messaged one woman
just minutes before he locked Cooper in
the car, telling her, I love my son and
all, but we both need escapes. Days
earlier, he had gone online to research
hot-car deaths.

NEWS 7

New York City

Trump Tower security nightmare: Traffic
in midtown
Manhattan
was severely
snarled this
week as
the streets
around
Trump
Tower,
Lockdown at the Trump residence
home to the
president-elect and the Trump Organization, were closed to cars and dotted with
security checkpoints. The FAA declared
the airspace above the building a no-fly
zone until Inauguration Day, and rows
of sand-filled dump trucks were parked
outside the building to protect it from
truck bombs. The 58-story tower sits
on Fifth Avenue, one of the citys busiest
shopping and business thoroughfares,
and presents unprecedented security challenges for the Secret Service and
the NYPD. Trump has suggested
that he would like to continue
to spend time at his three-floor
tower apartment as president.
But NYPD officials have said that
permanently closing a stretch of
one of the citys major avenues would
be a nightmare that cant happen.
Washington, D.C.
GOP unity:
Congressional
Republicans projected a
united front this week,
donning matching
Make America
Great Again
red baseball caps
after the House
Ryan: Keeping his job
GOP unanimously
backed Rep. Paul Ryan for another term
as speaker. Welcome to the dawn of a
new unified Republican government,
Ryan said, adding that he would work
hand in glove with Donald Trump. In
recent weeks, rumors had circulated that
the Wisconsin Republican could face a
leadership challenge from conservatives
who were unhappy that Ryan distanced
himself from Trump before the election.
But Trumps win and the GOPs strongerthan-expected showing at the polls helped
propel Ryan to an easy victory. Despite
the display of party solidarity, stark differences remain between Ryan and Trump.
Trump has rejected policy proposals
important to Ryan, including cutting
Social Security and Medicare, while Ryan
has talked down Trumps plan to spend
$550 billion over the next decade on
upgrading the nations infrastructure.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

8 NEWS

The world at a glance ...

Berlin
Raids target ISIS: German police swept through
apartments and mosques in early-morning raids
in 60 cities this week, seizing documents and
computers from an Islamist missionary group
that they said has been recruiting for ISIS.
The ultraconservative group, True Religion, is
highly visible in Germany, operating dozens of
mosques and giving out free translated Qurans
on busy city streets. Interior Minister Thomas
de Maizire said the group would be banned
Police grab evidence.
for inciting hate, and that the seized documents
would be used as evidence for the ban. He said at least 140 True
Religion adherents had left Germany to fight in Syria.

Warsaw
Investigating presidents death: The remains of the late Polish
President Lech Kaczynski have been exhumed as part of a new
investigation into the plane crash that killed him in Smolensk,
Russia, in 2010. All 96 people aboard the Polish military transport plane died, and at the time many Poles suspected foul play.
The presidential delegation, which included high-ranking politicians, Kaczynskis wife, and military officers, had been on its way
to honor the 22,000 Polish officers murdered by the Soviet secret
police in Katyn Forest at the start of World War II. Over the next
two months, Kaczynskis remains and those of 82 other victims
will be tested for evidence of explosives. There will not be a free
Poland, a truly free Poland, without the truth, said Jaroslaw
Kaczynski, the late presidents twin brother, who now leads
Polands ruling Law and Justice party.

Catemaco, Mexico
Tortured priest: A Catholic priest abducted last week in the
Mexican state of Veracruz has been found alive, but with signs
of torture. The diocese said that Father Jos Luis Snchez Ruiz
had been targeted because he fought corruption in the crimeand drug-plagued state. He had received threats in recent days
because he is a defender of human rights, said Father Aaron
Reyes, a spokesman for the diocese. He criticized the system of
corruption. Snchez Ruiz was the fourth priest kidnapped in the
past two months; the other three were murdered. Mexico is the
most dangerous country in the world to be a priestat least 15
have been murdered there since 2012.

Bogot, Colombia
Peace deal 2.0: Colombias government and the leftist rebel group
FARC have agreed on a revised peace deal, six weeks after the
original accord was narrowly rejected in a popular referendum. The
new pact limits the number of seats in Congress for former rebels,
and it requires FARC to give up all assets earned through drug
traffickingtwo changes that critics of the first deal had demanded.
The new agreement will probably be submitted to Congress,
rather than a popular vote, for approval. But passage is uncertain,
because the agreement still does not
demand jail time for rebels accused
of human rights violations, and the
leader of the opposition, former
President lvaro Uribe, says the
new proposals dont go far enough.
Some 260,000 people have been
killed and millions more displaced
in the 52-year conflict between
Celebrating the new pact
FARC and the government.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Buenos Aires
Friend to Trump: Mauricio
Macri, the business tycoon turned
Argentine president, has congratulated his old golfing buddy
Donald Trump on his election victory and
hopes to use their friendship to better U.S.Macri: Beat Trump
Argentine ties. Macri spoke by telephone
this week with the U.S. president-elect and was invited to visit the
White House. The personal bond they had for many years was
reconfirmed and re-established, said Foreign Minister Susana
Malcorra, who arranged the call. Macris father, Francisco Macri,
sold Trump his stake in a Manhattan real estate project in 1985.
During the negotiations, according to the elder Macris memoir,
the younger Macri beat Trump at golf, and Trump smashed his
clubs in frustration after the game. Macri, whose election ended
12 years of leftist rule in Argentina, is seeking foreign investment
to help lift his country out of recession.

Newscom, AP, Newscom, Getty

Athens
Warning from Obama: Speaking in Greece on his final foreign
trip, President Obama warned against a crude sort
of nationalism that is on the rise in many countries
around the world, including his own. In the U.S., he
said, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along the lines of race or religion or
ethnicity. It is dangerous. Obama was in Athens
to talk with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras about
the countrys lingering debt crisis, and warned that
the austerity policies forced on Greece and other
debt-addled nations by Europe in return for bailout
Obama and Tsipras
cash would only fuel the rise of nationalism. Some
7,000 leftists protested Obamas visit, which came
just two days before the anniversary of Greeces violent 1973 student revolt against a U.S.-backed military junta. Anarchists threw
rocks and Molotov cocktails at police during the demonstration,
and officers responded with tear gas. Six people were arrested.

The world at a glance ...

Moscow
Minister purged: Russias minister of
economic development was arrested on
bribery charges in a late-night raid this
weeka Soviet tactic against disfavored
officials that many thought had been
consigned to history. Aleksei Ulyukayev,
60, is the highest-ranking official arrested
Ulyukayev: Busted
since President Vladimir Putin came to
power in 2000. Some Russian analysts say the arrest was an act of
revenge by Kremlin insiders for Ulyukayevs initial opposition to
a deal that let state oil giant Rosneft buy a chunk of a smaller oil
company that the government had confiscated from an oligarch.
Authorities said Ulyukayev received $2 million from Rosneft as a
thank-you for ultimately approving the deal. The purpose of the
arrest was to eliminate resistance, said opposition politician
Vladimir Milov. The message is Dont stand in my way.

NEWS 9

Kabul
ISIS excited by Trump: An ISIS commander in Afghanistan has called
President-elect Donald Trump a
complete maniac and said his election will help the group radicalize
Muslims around the world. His
utter hate toward Muslims will make
our job much easier, because we
Khorasani: Trumps a maniac.
can recruit thousands, Abu Omar
Khorasani told Reuters. Our leaders were closely following the
U.S. election, but it was unexpected that the Americans would
dig their own gravesand they did so. Khorasani described
President Obama as a moderate infidel who seemed smart in
comparison with Trump.
New Delhi
Currency mayhem: Indians resorted to barter this week after
Prime Minister Narendra Modi abruptly banned the two mostused banknotes, the 500- and 1,000-rupee bills, in a bid to force
tax evaders to deposit their hidden piles of cash in banks. The
two bills, worth about $7.50 and $15, respectively, account for
more than 80 percent of all cash circulating, and the surprise ban
sent the country into chaos. Lines snaked for hours outside of
banks and post offices, where people could change their old bills
for new, 2,000-rupee ones, and at least five people died of exhaustion in line. Those who managed to make the swap, though, said
they cant use the new, larger-denomination bills, because merchants havent got enough change.

Reuters (2), Getty, Newscom (2)

Aleppo, Syria
U.S. targets al Qaida: President Obama has shifted
the U.S.s counter-terrorism strategy in Syria, and
ordered the Pentagon to target the leaders of an al
Qaida affiliate there. That group, formerly known
as the Al Nusra Front and now as Jabhat Fateh
al-Sham, has been in the vanguard of the fight
against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and the
U.S. has left it alone and focused on battling ISIS.
Syrian jihadist But the Obama administration now fears that the
groups success could give al Qaida a new base
close to Europe. Meanwhile, Russian and Syrian forces resumed
their pounding of civilian areas of besieged Aleppo, dropping barrel bombs on a childrens hospital, a blood bank, and targets near
schools. Me and my staff and all the patients are sitting in one
room in the basement right now, said the childrens hospital
director. Pray for us, please.
Canberra, Australia
Refugees headed to U.S.: Australia has struck a deal with the
U.S. to resettle some of the 1,300 mostly Muslim refugees stuck
in desperate conditions in camps on the impoverished Pacific
island of Nauru. Since 2013, Australia has refused to accept any
asylum seeker who arrived by boat, instead paying Nauru and
Papua New Guinea to house them in poorly maintained camps,
where detainees say they have been abused by guards. Two refugees set themselves on fire in protest at their treatment on Nauru;
several sewed their lips shut. Prime
Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he
did not mention the deal with the
Obama administration when he
spoke last week with President-elect
Donald Trump, who has called for
Playing in a Nauru camp
a ban on Muslim immigration.

Kaikoura, New Zealand

Powerful earthquake: New Zealand mounted a large rescue
operation to evacuate hundreds of residents and tourists stranded
after an earthquake cut off access to the coastal town of Kaikoura.
The magnitude-7.8 quake, which was followed by hundreds of
aftershocks, killed at least two people, caused massive landslides,
and cleaved rifts in roads across the country. Ships were diverted
from celebrations of the Royal New Zealand Navys 75th anniversary to bring aid to ravaged coastal
areas, and helicopters ferried people
to safety. Several buildings were
damaged in the capital, Wellington,
including the headquarters of New
Zealands military. Scientists from
New Zealands Geonet quakemonitoring service called the temblor
one of the most complex earthA landslide outside Kaikoura
quakes ever recorded on land.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

10 NEWS

People

The Bee Gee stigma

Barry Gibb may be one of the most successful
songwriters in pop history, but hes never been
considered hip, said Neil McCormick in The
Daily Telegraph (U.K.). The records Gibb made
with his late brothers as the Bee Gees have sold
more than 200 million copies worldwide, making frontman Barrys signature falsetto a defining
sound of the disco era. He also churned out hits
for other artists, including Heartbreaker for Dionne Warwick
and Woman in Love for Barbra Streisand. Gibb became rich and
famousbut also something of a pariah. There was a time when
it wasnt cool to even be seen with the Bee Gees, Gibb recalls
sorrowfully. At the Grammys [in 1981], Barbra Streisand and I
won best duet. We were standing in the wings and they didnt present it to us. She was so pissed off. And at the party afterwards,
shes still a bit pissed off and Meat Loaf is standing nearby. He was
at his peak then, and the photographer says, Can I take a picture
of you together? and Meat Loaf goes, Oh, no way, man. It was
like we were tainted. At 70, Gibb is getting some belated respect.
He was recently invited to perform To Love Somebody and
Stayin Alive at Britains Glastonbury Festival. I was a nervous
wreck, Gibb says. But it was nice that people knew the songs.

Hollywoods secret baron

QWomens soccer star Abby

Wambach has moved on
from estranged wife and
fellow teammate Sarah
Huffman, and is now dating
prolific Christian mom blogger Glennon Doyle Melton.
Melton, whose memoir
Love Warrior was featured
by Oprahs Book Club, revealed she was in a
relationship with Wambach on her confessional blog. Today, Im going to share with
you my new love, wrote Melton. Her name
is Abby. She loves me for all the things Ive
always wanted to be loved for. Wambach
split from Huffman earlier this year, after confronting her addiction to alcohol and drugs.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Anistons tabloid fury

Jennifer Aniston hates being the reigning queen of celebrity tabloids, said Kimberly Cutter in Marie Claire. Ever since Aniston, 47,
became Americas sweetheart two decades ago while starring on
Friends, her life has been a central narrative in celebrity journalism.
Each new rumored relationship has been scrutinized, and the actor
has been declared pregnant on countless magazine covers. My
marital status has been shamed; my divorce status was shamed;
my lack of a mate had been shamed; my nipples have been
shamed, she says. The sensationalized coverage prompted Aniston
to recently write a scathing piece in HuffingtonPost.com condemning tabloid culture. The objectification and scrutiny we put women
through is absurd and disturbing, she says. If I am some kind of
symbol to some people out there, then clearly I am an example of
the lens through which we, as a society, view our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, female friends, and colleagues. Aniston, now
married to actor Justin Theroux, stands by her essay. Its like,Why
are we only looking at women through this particular lens of picking
us apart? she says.I just thought,I have worked too hard in this
life and this career to be whittled down to a sad, childless human.

Melton developed a large following by blogging about coping with her husbands infidelity and the struggles of reviving her 14-year
marriage, which ended three months ago.
The author told her 645,000 Facebook followers that her husband and three children were
very supportive of the new relationship. We
have family dinners togetherand Abby
cooks. We are a modern, beautiful family.
QVal Kilmer has again denied he has cancer,
days after friend Michael Douglas claimed
Kilmer was dealing with exactly what
I hadand things dont look too good.
Douglas went through his own battle with
tongue cancer in 2010. But Kilmer, 56, who
is a staunch Christian Scientist, has repeatedly denied he has a tumordespite being
photographed with a tracheotomy tube in
his neck and regularly sporting a neck scarf

while out in public. Devastated family members told TMZ.com that the actor was being
killed by his Christian Science convictions,
which favor faith over medical treatment.
But Kilmer said Douglas and others were
mistaken, and that he was simply suffering
from a swollen tongue.
QThe Clintons are grooming daughter Chelsea for Congress, says the New York Post.
Chelsea Clinton could run for New Yorks
17th Congressional District in Rockland and
Westchester counties when Rep. Nita Lowey,
79, gives up her seatwhich also covers the
Clinton family base of Chappaqua. The Clintons, who recently bought the house next
door for $1.1 million so that Chelsea and her
family can spend time there, will not give
up, said a source. Chelsea would be the
next extension of the Clinton brand.

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Christopher Guest leads a double life, said Xan Brooks in The

Guardian (U.K.).The New York Cityborn actor and director
is best known for making mockumentaries, including the classic rock spoof This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and
A Mighty Wind, with a repertory company of deadpan farceurs.
A Los Angeles resident, Guest, 68, has been married for 30 years
to Hollywood royaltythe actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis,
daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. But through his English
father, United Nations diplomat Peter Haden-Guest, he also holds
a hereditary peerage. Im a baron, he says. Im Lord HadenGuest. And yes, thats a novelty. Born into it by accident, obviously. And then your dad dies and youre the next one. For a
few years Guest actually sat in the House of Lordsand surprised
himself by loving the experience. It wasnt the cartoon of old
men with ear trumpetsalthough, yes, there was an old man
with an ear trumpet, says Guest. But it wasnt Downton Abbey.
Most of these people had no money. They didnt have the country houses. They were regular people who had regular jobs. They
were well informed, and lending their expertise. And the speeches
were amazing, so Im glad that I went.

Briefing

NEWS 11

Legalizing marijuana
A majority of the U.S. population now has access to legalized cannabis in some form. Whats the track record so far?

AP

Where is weed legal?

other states may experience with road

safety after legalizing the drug, says
Recreational use is now fully legal
Peter Kissinger, CEO of the American
in eight states plus Washington,
Automobile Association Foundation
D.C., after voters in California,
for Traffic Safety.
Massachusetts, Nevada, and Maine
approved marijuana ballot initiatives
Why are hospitalizations up?
last week. On Election Day, voters in
A big factor is edibles, says Dr. Michael
Arkansas, Florida, and North Dakota
DiStefano, who has seen at least 15
brought the tally of states with legal
children admitted to the emergency
medical marijuana to 28. Though
room at Childrens Hospital Colorado
cannabis is still illegal under federal
for accidentally ingesting cannabis.
law, Election Day was widely considEdibles look like regular candy,
ered a tipping point for the legalizaDiStefano says. The number of overall
tion movement. A recent Gallup poll
patients hospitalized in Colorado who
found that 60 percent of Americans
admitted to marijuana use spiked from
now approve of legalizing marijuana,
809 per 100,000 before legalization to
and there is a growing bipartisan
The Snoop Dogg line at a marijuana dispensary in Denver
2,413 per 100,000 afterward.
consensus that the $1 trillion war on
drugs has failed. Criminalizing the use and sale of drugs has sent
Is overall weed use up?
millions of nonviolent criminals to prisona disproportionate
Yes. As weed has become legal, easier to obtain, and cheaper, more
number of them blackand empowered violent drug cartels. At
Americans are smoking on a regular basis. About 10 million
the same time, there is growing scientific research showing that
more Americans smoke marijuana now than 12 years ago, and
casual cannabis use by adults is fairly safeless dangerous than
alcohol or tobacco. Another major factor propelling legalization is the number who admit to using the drug on a daily or near-daily
basis has more than doubled, to 8.4 million people. About half
that states can tax it and get a big boost in revenues. As one proof those heavy users reported symptoms of abuse or dependency,
legalization ad in Colorado put it: Jobs for our people. Money
including getting stoned even when it negatively affected their relafor our schools. Who could ask for more?
tionships or jobs. Youre seeing this headlong rush into another
addictive industry without knowing what widespread marijuana
Whats happened in states that legalized weed?
There have been some huge upsides, as well as serious downsides. use is going to do to society, says Jeffrey Zinsmeister, co-founder
In Colorado, the booming new cannabis industry has created more of the anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana.
than 18,000 full-time jobs and generated $2.4 billion in economic And though teen-use rates have so far stayed stable in legal-weed
states, there is concern that the drugs normalization will gradually
activity. The state tightly regulates weed sales: Adults over 21 can
encourage more adolescents to smoke. Thats particularly worrypossess only 28 grams, and marijuana plants are tagged with a
ing given that scientific studies have
radio-frequency ID chip so that they
connected adolescent marijuana use to
can be tracked. Products are tested for
Weed baths and bacon brittle
a significant loss of IQ points and an
potency and contaminants, and are sold
Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg have their own
increased risk of psychotic illness.
in child-resistant containers. There are
marijuana lines. Dispensaries sell tens of differa certain number of folks, like myself,
ent strains of weed with names like Kamikaze,
Will it be legalized nationally?
who were pretty reticent about [legalizaKing Bubba, and Ebolasome of which come
With Donald Trumps election, thats
tion] to begin with, says House Speaker with a sweet floral aroma or are intoxicatnow completely up in the air. Weed is
Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, a Democrat.
ingly potent. The green rush has sparked a
strictly prohibited under federal law
[But] the sky didnt fall.
boom in Big Pot, as tobacco companies look to
and classified as a Schedule 1 drug
profit from a new market and tech companies
like Microsoft cash in by developing software
the same category as heroinbut the
What are the downsides?
systems for cannabis growers. Then there are
Obama administration has chosen not
Legal-weed states have experienced a
the hundreds of marijuana-related products
to enforce that law in legal-weed states.
significant jump in marijuana-related
that have hit the markets in legal-weed states
Before Nov. 9, advocates were gearDUIs. In Washington state, a record 745
ranging from the artisanal to the frankly bizarre.
ing up to lobby Congress and Hillary
drivers who were pulled over on suspiIn Colorado, nearly half of all marijuana sales
Clinton on federal legalization. But
cion of DUI in the first six months after
are for THC-infused items, like edibles, pills,
Trump is an unknown quantity. In prelegalization tested positive for THC,
and drops. Pot shops sell ice cream laced with
vious years the Republican presidentthe main mind-altering ingredient in
the drug, as well as cannabis-infused breath
elect has made comments in favor of
marijuana, compared with 1,000 over
spray, energy shots, and even bacon brittle. In
medical marijuana, but Vice President
the entire previous year. At the same
the budding weed beauty industry, there are
elect Mike Pence and some potential
time, the number of drivers involved in
marijuana massage oils as well as body lotions
Cabinet picks are hard-liners on drugs.
fatal car crashes who tested positive for
and lip balms. One woman told me she bought
Trumps election does not bode well
THC rose by 48 percent between 2013
the Heavenly Hash Bath so she and her boyfor legalization, says the Drug Policy
and 2014, when legalized marijuana hit
friend could have a romantic night, says Dahlia
Alliances Ethan Nadelmann. There
the market. Hospitalizations for overMertens, who owns a weed beauty business in
are various ways in which a hostile
doses are also up. Washington serves
Colorado. He proposed in the tub!
White House could trip things up.
as an eye-opening case study for what
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Best columns: The U.S.

Eight years after he dazzled America with his political oratory, Barack
Obama will leave the Democratic Party in shambles, said John Podhoretz. He was a political genius at getting himself elected, but for his
party hes been an unmitigated disaster. Since Obama took office in
2009, more than 1,110 Democratic federal and state elected officials have
lost their jobs to Republicans. Democrats controlled 62 of the 99 legislaJohn Podhoretz
tive chambers in 2009; now Republicans control 68. Democrats conCommentaryMagazine.com trolled 31 governorships in 2009, and now hold just 17. Obamas chosen presidential successor lost, and the man he condemned as unfit won.
Why? Obama mistook his 2008 victory for an endorsement of a highly
progressive agenda, and forced through too much, too fast, too soon
including Obamacare, massive bailouts and stimulus spending, new taxes,
and heavy business regulation. Obama also gave progressives an arrogant
sense of cultural and moral superiority, as they disdained traditional
morality as an evil to be overcome and small-town Americans as bigots. New social fissures opened, creating resentments Republicans exploited. Democrats will weep when Obama leaves office, but the truth is
that their hero presided over the collapse of the Democratic Party.

Obamas
costly
overreach

Climate
skeptics
in charge
Will Oremus

Slate.com

The powers
Trump now
inherits
Glenn Greenwald

The Washington Post

Viewpoint

Of all the reasons to fear a Donald Trump presidency, said Will Oremus, perhaps the most important is the irrevocable damage he could
wreak on the planet. Trumps stance on climate change got shamefully
little attention during the campaign, but hes repeatedly said in the past
that global warming is nonsensea hoax perpetrated by the Chinese
to hurt U.S. industry. Trump has also promised to defund federal environmental and clean-energy programs and cancel U.S. participation
in the Paris Agreement endorsed by 190 nationsthe worlds best hope
to collectively slow greenhouse gas emissions. How much of this was
political posturing, and how much does Trump really intend to do? No
one knows. But its extremely telling that he selected climate-change
skeptic Myron Ebell to head the transition at the Environmental Protection Agency. Ebell opposes environmental regulation and says theres too
much alarmism over a little bit of warming. During his presidency,
Trump will meet little resistance to an anti-environmental policy from a
Republican Congress or a conservative Supreme Court, so the damage
he could do could be incalculable. A half century from now, future generations may still be paying the price for Trumps willful ignorance.
Liberals are understandably panicked that Donald Trump will assume
a presidency with so much unchecked power, said Glenn Greenwald.
Not only will the new commander-in-chief have the launch codes to a
vast nuclear arsenal, hell be able to wage war without congressional
authorization, direct drone assassinations all over the world, and oversee a ubiquitous system of electronic surveillance that can reach most
forms of human communication and activity. But Democrats can only
blame themselves. Though he came into office as a critic of George W.
Bushs executive-power abuses, Obama quickly came to embrace the
national security state. He conducted hundreds of drone executions
without trials, expanded warrantless surveillance programs, conducted a
war in Libya without congressional authorization, and approved holding some terrorism suspects indefinitely without trial. Democrats went
along with these illiberal and even radical policies, blinded by the belief
that Obama was too benevolent and benign to abuse his office. Civil
libertarians warned that someday a right-wing authoritarian would
inherit the imperial presidency that Democrats defended out of partisan
loyalty to Obama. That day has arrived.

We liberal elitists are now completely in the clear. The government is in Republican hands. Let them deal with [Donald Trump]. He is likely to become the most
intensely disliked president since Herbert Hoover. Democrats can spend four years raising heirloom
tomatoes, meditating, reading Jane Austen, traveling around the country, tasting artisan beers, and let
the Republicans build the wall and carry on the trade war with China and deport the undocumented
and deal with opioids. We Democrats can go for a long, brisk walk and smell the roses.
Garrison Keillor in The Washington Post
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

It must be true...

I read it in the tabloids

QA British company has
created the worlds most expensive cat food: a gourmet
blend of caviar, line-caught
Scottish salmon, hand-caught
Norfolk lobster, and Devon
crab. A months supply costs
$950. Pet food firm Green
Pantry started making the
luxurious kitty chow, called
British Banquet, for wealthy
customers who wanted to
treat their cats to the finer
things in life, said company
co-founder Simon Booth. Pet
owners can also share in the
gourmet meal, Booth said,
because British Banquet is fit
for human consumption and
tastes absolutely wonderful.

QGeorge Clooneys wife,

Amal, has told the actor
to stop hanging out with
his boozy celebrity bros,
said RadarOnline.com. The
humanitarian lawyer, 38,
wants George, 55, to drink
less and to eat more healthfully, and cannot stand his
famously hedonistic friend,
66-year-old actor Bill Murray.
Cindy Crawfords 54-yearold husband, Rande Gerber,
who created the Casamigos
Tequila brand with George, is
also persona non grata. Hes
a terrible influence, added
the source. Amal just wishes
George would get some
cleaner-living friends.
QPolice in Shenzhen, China,
have come up with a novel
way to punish drivers who
dazzle other motorists with
their brights: by forcing them
to stare into the full-beam
headlights of a police van for
a full minute. The naughty
drivers are ordered to sit on
a stool and recite regulations on headlight use while
looking directly at the blinding lights. My eyes were
dazzled, said one driver after
his punishment. I will never
come to Shenzhen again.

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GERMANY

Trumps win
is a boon for
Deutsche Bank
Jan Dams

Die Welt

FRANCE

Putting a
populist in the
lyse Palace
Laurent Bodin

LAlsace

Best columns: Europe

Much has been made in the U.S. of President-elect
Donald Trumps rumored ties to Russiabut
what about to Germany? asked Jan Dams. Our
biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, is invested in Trump
up to its ears and has every reason to cheer his
election. Many banks refused to lend to the real
estate tycoon because of his multiple business failures and bankruptcies, but Deutsche Bank stayed
loyal, lending him some $2.5 billion since 1998.
Fully $364 million of that went into Miamis
Doral Golf Club and Trump hotels in Chicago
and Washington in the past few years. The
twist? All those loans are due by 2024but they

can be renegotiated. Thats where a Trump-led

Justice Department comes in. The Obama Justice
Department has levied a $14 billion fine against
Deutsche Bank for shady real estate dealings
including a repackaging of subprime loans that
helped precipitate the 2008 financial crashand
the bank was set to negotiate a settlement. Now,
though, it has every incentive to wait and see if
it can get a sweeter deal out of President Trump.
As U.S. financial writer David Dayen has pointed
out, Deutsche Bank has leverage over the incoming American president. Will Trump put his own
interests ahead of his nations?

The result of Americas election could be a sign

of things to come for France, said Laurent Bodin.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right, xenophobic
National Front, is running for the presidency in
2017. Most polls show that she has an excellent
chance to win the first round in April, so the outcome depends on whom she will face in the May
runoff and what the turnout will be. Its true that
the populist wave is progressing everywhere,
and many are predicting a triple win of Brexit,
Trump, Le Pen. But Trumps win might galvanize
those who, on the Left and Right, cannot resign
themselves to seeing the extreme right come to

power in France. We still have six months to

convince voters that Le Pens brand of nativist
nationalism is not in Frances best interestor
their own. But Trumps victory and the U.K.s
vote to exit the European Union have shown that
we are living in a social media age where simplistic ideas and conspiracy theories flourish.
The Brexit voters believed the lies they were told
about an easy return to full sovereignty; Trump
voters believed he would reverse globalization and
restore manufacturing jobs. What will French voters believe? Trumps win proves that nothing is
impossible in a democracy.

with America in retreat, needs us

No more relying on NATO to keep
more than it has for a long time.
Europe safe, said Nikolas Busse in
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
We shouldnt panic yet, said
(Germany). U.S. President-elect
Vygaudas Usackas in Vakaru
Donald Trump said on the campaign
Ekspresas (Lithuania). Trump is
trail that the Atlantic alliance, the
unpredictable and may not have
pact that has safeguarded the Conmeant what he said. During the
tinent for nearly 70 years, is obcampaign he threatened to withsolete and that the U.S. will only
draw U.S. military support from
protect its European allies if they
South Korea. But two days after
pay enough for the privilege. His
being elected Trump promised that
comments couldnt have been made
hed be a steadfast and strong
at a more dangerous time: Russia
ally to Seoul and would protect
has doubled its military budget over
the nation from North Korea.
the past decade and is increasingly
Anyway, whatever Trump decides,
aggressive on the international stage,
U.S. warplanes at a NATO air base in Lithuania
he is not a dictator. Lithuania still
sending troops into eastern Ukraine,
has friends in Congress, and many of them have a strong comgobbling up Crimea, and bullying the Baltic States. Even if
mitment to NATO. Our own President Dalia Grybauskaite has
Trump were to walk back his remarks, he has aroused doubts
about Americas commitment and loyalty. Will the U.S. defend said, No matter who is president in America, we always have
confidence in America.
a small, faraway country like Estonia from Russian aggression?
If the answer to that question is not yes, but maybe, then
Well, I dont, said Sylvie Kauffman in Le Monde (France). Unless
deterrence is at an end.
Trump decides to entrust his foreign policy to a team of more
conventional Republicans, his victory spells the end of the U.S.
Thats why Europeans must start contributing more to our own
as a champion of Western values. The current threat to the West
defense, said Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail (U.K.). Each
is the rise of autocratic capitalism dominated by a strongman,
NATO member is supposed to spend at least 2 percent of its
as in Russia, China, and Turkey. Trump shows no antipathy
gross domestic product on defense, yet only five of the alliances
28 nations meet that target. The U.S. is responsible for 70 percent toward that model. He favors protectionism over free markets
and unilateralism over alliances. The oppressed will not be able
of all military spending by NATO members. This is grossly into look to him for help. Instead, it will fall to German Chancelequitable. If Trump does slash the U.S. contribution to NATO,
Europe must fill the gapand thats where a post-Brexit U.K. can lor Angela Merkel to take up the mantle of defender of universal values in the free world.
make itself indispensable. A Europe threatened by Russia, and
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

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How they see us: Europe loses faith in an old ally

Best columns: International

NEWS 15

How they see us: Mexico, Canada worry about Trump

headed for recession, said El Siglo
Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto
de Torren (Mexico) in an editois patting himself on the back, said
rial. Trump has called the North
Len Krauze in El Universal (MexAmerican Free Trade Agreement
ico). He now thinks that he showed
a disaster and promised to impose
prophetic vision for having invited
a 35 percent tax on goods from
Donald Trump to meet with him two
Mexico. He insists he will withmonths ago. In fact, he only increased
hold remittancesthe money
the chances of Trumps catastrophic
Mexican workers in the U.S. send
White House victory. When Pea
to their families back hometo
Nieto made his invite, the Republican
pay for his border wall. All topresidential candidate was at his
gether, such measures could crush
lowest point in the campaign, havthe Mexican economy.
ing fought with the parents of a fallen
war hero, and polls showed Trump
Protesting Trumps election in Mexico City
Dont worry: The real focus of
with a pathetic 10 percent chance of
winning. While its absurd to think the Mexican visit made the Trumps trade rage is not Mexico, but China, said Jorge Fernndez Menndez in Exclsior (Mexico). The Trump team has
key difference, Trump did leave Mexico City looking statespointed out that the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico is $50 billion,
manlike, and his handshake with President Pea Nieto played
about the same as the Mexican trade deficit with China. All that
prominently in his campaign ads. And now Pea Nieto thinks
money leaves the Americas and rather than fueling the Mexithat he can tame the tiger because he looked it in the eye?
can and U.S. economies, ends up in Chinese coffers. Trumps
Hes deluded. Reports suggest that President-elect Trump might
people will surely propose not to kill NAFTA, but to improve it:
put his immigration policy in the hands of Kansas Secretary of
State Kris Kobach, who delights in persecuting Hispanics, jailing to boost U.S. trade with both Mexico and Canada and create a
and deporting children, raiding workplaces, and building walls. strategic allied zone that gives the U.S. an advantage in the economic and commercial confrontation with China. The incomFor Mexicans, Kobach is the devil.
ing president will soon realize that he cant tear up NAFTA, said
Patrick LeBlond in The Globe and Mail (Canada). Millions of
Trump has already said he will immediately deport 3 million ilAmerican jobs and businesses depend on that deal, particularly
legal immigrants, said Juan Manuel Asai in La Crnica de Hoy
in the southern U.S., and Southern senators will tell him so. Can(Mexico). Thats the same number President Obama deported
ada is willing to renegotiate the 22-year-old trade treaty, but only
over eight years. If by mid-2017 Mexico has millions of returnin a way that deepens integration in North America, not limits
ees needing work, services, and benefits, we will be facing a
it. Economic reality will trump Trumps hyperbolics.
mess worse than our worst nightmares. Especially if were

ISRAEL

Seizing the
opportunity in
Trumps win
Amos Yadlin

Yedioth Ahronoth

RUSSIA

Should
the Kremlin
be happy?
Georgy Bovt

Newscom

Gazeta.ru

The election of Donald Trump represents a new

chance for Israel, said Amos Yadlin. President-elect
Trump has said little about the Middle East, beyond voicing support for moving the U.S. Embassy
in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. His incoming administration has no definite policy. Yet that
very uncertainty is a tremendous opportunity for
Israel. The trust that was lost between the U.S. and
Israel during the Obama administration can now
be restored. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
should use his immense personal persuasive power
to impress upon the incoming president the importance of mutual agreement on the major issues

facing our region: above all, Iran. Its unlikely that

the Trump administration will cancel the agreement limiting Irans nuclear capabilities in the short
termthe deal has already been implemented and
for now its risks are low compared with other
alternatives. But in the long term, the two allies
will have to agree on the principle that a regime
calling for Israels destruction will not receive legitimacy for a wide nuclear program. Netanyahu will
have to persuade Trump to give Israel all the operational abilities to act against Iran, militarily if
necessary. This is our chance not only to influence
U.S. policy but also to be an integral part of it.

American rednecks have given their government the middle finger, and the Russian elite is
euphoric, said Georgy Bovt. Russian pundits
are sure that President Vladimir Putin will have
an easier time dealing with the transparent and
blunt Donald Trump than with hypocrites like
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They think
hell give Russia a free hand in dealing with its
neighbors, especially the Baltic states and Ukraine.
But look closer and youll see that the people set to
take key foreign policy roles in the Trump administration are the same right-wing conservatives of
the Reagan era. They follow a doctrine of peace

through strength and will replace Obamas military budget cuts with a massive defense buildup.
An expensive arms race seems inevitable. To the
extent that he has given specifics, Trump has
promised to develop a global missile defense system, which will force Moscow to update its own
nuclear arsenal. Russias elite could soon regret its
premature celebrations. Remember, they spoke
contemptuously of Ronald Reagan too when he
became president. What can an actor do to us,
they sneered. Yet just a few years later, the Soviet
Union was no more. The Kremlin shouldnt underestimate this upstart billionaire demagogue.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

16 NEWS

Talking points

The election: Why Hillary came in second, again

Clintons biggest tactical mistake was to
Hillary Clinton was one of the most fortake the Rust Belt for granted, said John
midable presidential candidates in history,
Daniel Davidson in TheFederalist.com.
said David Horsey in LATimes.com. The
Her team assumed that the historic blue
Democrat had wide government experience,
wall would hold in states like Pennsylvapowerful fundraising, and a sophisticated
nia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and failed
ground operation. She ran against the most
to campaign aggressively in the region or
unpopular nominee ever, and was the conaddress its economic anxiety. Most of all,
sensus winner of the three debates. So how
the race was decided by the deeply misunthe heck did she lose to Donald Trump?
derstood Midwestan area blighted by
Democracy, weve been reminded again, is
deindustrialization and a horrifying heroin
not a logical process. Tens of millions of
epidemic. These forgotten Americans
Americans were disgusted with Washington
turned to Trump not because they think
and didnt trust a scandal-tarnished Clinton
his antifree trade and immigration bluster
to clean up the mess; at the same time, a
An establishment candidate in a change year
will really bring back the steel mills or put
majority of white voters felt they were loscoal miners back to work, but because hed paid them the basic
ing the country they grew up in. Those gut feelings propelled
respect of acknowledging that they have been left behind.
Donald Trump into the White House. It didnt help that the
media obsessed over Clintons private email server, said Rebecca
Traister in New York magazine, or that FBI Director James Comey Clinton also learned theres no such thing as female solidarity,
said Naomi Schaefer Riley in the New York Post. She assumed
announced, just 11 days before the election, that he was rea sisterhood outraged by Trumps boorish behavior and rhetoric
examining her emails. Comeys blunder reversed the momentum
would deliver her the White Houseparticularly after an audioof the race, but it still doesnt explain how a bigot and misogynist
tape emerged of Trump boasting about groping women. Instead,
like Trump got elected. The only reason this election was even
53 percent of white women chose Trump instead of electing the
close was because of white people who despised Clinton and
first female president. Why? Women do not vote as a bloc. Their
loved Trumps pledges to lock her up, ban Muslims from the
views, life experiences, and politics are largely shaped by their
country, and build a wall to keep out Mexicans. Clinton lost, and
race, their class, their geographic location, and their educational
Trump won, because millions of voters wanted to regress to a
attainment, not their gender. And despite what feminists would
world with white men restored to their place at the center.
like to believe, most women do not see themselves as victims.
Racism and misogyny cant explain it all, said Jonah Goldberg in
Trump didnt really win this election, said Jonathan Alter in
ChicagoTribune.com, and the fact that so many liberals went
TheDailyBeast.com. Clinton lost it. She trailed the vote totals of
straight to this explanation explains why Democrats lost the
her predecessor, Obama, in almost every demographic, and got
white working class in the first place. Many supposedly racist
nearly 9 million fewer votes than he did in 2008. Under constant
blue-collar Trump voters in Wisconsin and Michigan gave their
assault over her email server and the Clinton Foundation
votes to Barack Obama, the countrys first black president, in
scandals that alienated young Bernie Sanders supportersClinton
2008 and 2012. These Joe Sixpack and Charlie Lunchbucket
failed to move smoothly to an upbeat message, and relied too
types flipped to Trump because they believe Democrats now care
heavily on attacking Trump. In a year when the electorate was
mostly about the cultural issues of affluent cosmopolitan whites
and racial minorities, at the expense of bread-and-butter issues looking for someone to buck Washington, said Rachel Larimore
like the economy. In the swing states, said Robby Soave in Reason in Slate.com, Clinton was the most establishment candidate possible. Yes, most voters thought Trump was inexperienced and ill
.com, voters were tired of elitist privileged leftists jumping down
prepared. But in a change year, 69 percent said in exit polls he was
the throats of ordinary folks who cant keep up with the latthe guy most likely to shake things up. On paper, Hillary had all
est politically correct language and attitudes on gender and race.
the right credentials to be the 45th president. But in the end, the
Afraid to speak their minds, these deplorables went for a guy
enthusiasm just wasnt there.
whose main qualification is that he isnt afraid to speak his.

Noted

The Washington Post

QHate crimes against Muslims in the

U.S. rose 67 percent in 2015, according to
a new FBIreport. The bureaus Uniform
Crime Report, which catalogs data about
assaults, vandalism, and other crimes
motivated by race, religion, and other facTHE WEEK November 25, 2016

tors, documented 257antiMuslim hate crimesup

from 154 in 2014.
Politico.com

QSlovenian native Melania

Trump will be the second
foreign-born first lady in
U.S. history. The first was
English-born Louisa Adams,
wife of John Quincy Adams,
who served as first lady from
1825 to 1829.
CNN.com

QMore people in their 40s and older are

moving in with their aging parents for
financial reasons. In California, adults
ages 50 to 65 living with their parents rose
68 percent between 2006 and 2012, and
national data shows a similar trend.
The Wall Street Journal

QRepublicans now have a governing

trifectawhere they hold control over the
governors office and both chambers of the
state legislaturein 24 states. Democrats
have a trifecta in just six.
The New York Times

AP (2)

QAbout 100 million eligible voters

elected not to cast a ballot in this years
presidential election, according to turnout
estimates from the U.S. Elections Project.
About 132 million did voteby percentage, the lowest turnout since 1996.

Talking points
Electoral College: Its 2000 all over again
recount of every ballot in the
Largely lost amid the general
countryimagine the chaos
astonishment over Donald
Trumps election victory is
of Florida in 2000, but on a
one rather pertinent fact,
national scale. The Electoral
said Andrew Trees in USA
College also incentivizes canTodaythe president-elect
didates to pay attention to
won fewer votes than his
small states theyd otherwise
opponent. While Trump
ignore, like New Hampshire.
secured the all-important 270
Thats an absurd arguElectoral College votes, he
ment, said Scott Lemieux
currently trails Hillary Clinin NewRepublic.com. The
A protester in Philadelphia this week
ton by more than 1 million
current, anti-democratic
votes overall, or 0.8 percentand with millions
system forces campaigns to focus on a handful of
of ballots still to be counted on the deep blue
swing states, at the expense of everywhere else. It
West Coast, that gap is expected to widen to
also gives disproportionate power to sparsely popabout 2 million votes. In 2000, Al Gore got only
ulated rural states and effectively disenfranchises
560,000 more votes than George W. Bush. For
minorities concentrated in big cities.
the second time in 16 years, and the fourth time in
U.S. history, our system has foiled the popular
Those hoping for reform shouldnt hold their
will. The Electoral College has to go, said The
breath, said Julian Zelizer in WashingtonPost
Baltimore Sun in an editorial. The absurdly con.com. Smaller states would block a constitutional
voluted systemunder which each state is alloamendment to get rid of the Electoral College,
cated one vote for every representative and senaas well as any other effort to render it moot. Its
tor it has in Congressfundamentally violates
pointless talking about who won the popular
the principle that each American voter should
vote, said Josh Gelernter in NationalReview.com.
have an equal say in deciding who is president.
Millions of Americans in deep red or blue states
probably didnt bother voting because their states
Abolishing the Electoral College is a lousy idea, electoral votes always go to either Republicans or
said John Steele Gordon in CommentaryMagazine Democrats. If everyone knew their input was cru.com. Under the current system, recounts are neccial, who knows how it would affect the popular
essary only in one or two states; with a popular
vote? As long as theres an Electoral College,
national vote, close elections would require a
there is no true popular vote.

Obamacare: Will Trump repeal the law?

Getty

Surprise, surprise, said Steven Pearlstein in

WashingtonPost.com. After months of claiming
he would repeal the Affordable Care Act on his
first day in office, Donald Trump is already waffling. The president-elect said last week he wanted
to keep two of the laws most popular provisions:
allowing young people to stay on their parents
policies until age 26 and forbidding insurers from
denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. But Trump is headed for a rude awakening. The provision for pre-existing conditions
forces insurers to cover lots more older, sick people at great expense. Under Obamacare, insurers
are compensated for this extra cost through the
individual mandate, which requires young, healthy
people to buy insurance, too, thereby expanding
the risk pool. Remove that mandate, as Trump
and his party want to do, and insurers would have
to raise premiums to unaffordable levelsbringing
us back to 2008, when a steadily rising percentage of Americans didnt have any health insurance
at all. Alas, you cant have the good parts of
Obamacare without the bad parts.
Thats not entirely true, said Ramesh Ponnuru in
NationalReview.com. Instead of scrapping the
pre-existing condition rule, Trump should simply

modify it so that insurers would have to cover sick

people at the same rates if they maintained coverage all along. That would remove the incentive
for people to buy insurance only when they get
sickproviding an incentive for young, healthy
people to get covered without requiring them to
do so. Perhaps, but that would punish people who
lose their job and their coverage or drop coverage temporarily because of economic reversals,
said Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. For
years, obstructionist Republicans have wrongly
blamed all the ills of the health-care system on
Obamacare, but now they will have to own whatever replaces itand the anger of voters who lose
coverage or pay more for it.
Republicans will never dare repeal Obamacare
outright, said Megan McArdle in BloombergView
.com. They voted to do so when they knew President Obama would wield his vetobut now their
actions could deprive millions of voters of insurance. So what will the GOP do? Most likely, the
party will simply wait for the Affordable Care Act
to die a natural death, as premiums continue to
rise, and insurers and consumers bail out. Then
Trump will be able to blame Obamaand our
health-care system will be back to square one.

NEWS 17
Wit &
Wisdom
Why is it that when we
grab for heavensocialist
or capitalist or even
religiouswe so often
produce hell?
Margaret Atwood, quoted in
The American Conservative

Reality is one of the

possibilities I cannot
afford to ignore.
Leonard Cohen,
quoted in Esquire.com

We experience pain and

difficulty as failure instead
of saying, I will pass
through this, everyone I
have ever admired has
passed through this, music
has come out of this, literature has come out of it.
Novelist Marilynne Robinson,
quoted in TheParisReview.org

Always forgive your

enemies; nothing annoys
them so much.
Oscar Wilde, quoted in
The Wall Street Journal

Politeness is an avowedly
false coin, with which it is
foolish to be stingy.
Arthur Schopenhauer,
quoted in TheBrowser.com

As long as human
beings aspire, they will be
capable of corrupting the
object of their aspiration.
Philosopher Charles Taylor,
quoted in The New Yorker

If any two people

could ever really get inside
each others head, it
would scare the pee out
of both of them.
Mystery writer John D.
MacDonald, quoted in
TheNew York Times

Poll watch
QWhen asked to describe
how they felt about Donald
Trumps election as president, 48% of Americans
responded with words
such as disappointed,
devastated, and worried. 40% chose happy,
hopeful, and relieved.
12% were neutral.
ABC News/SSRS Poll

QAmong those who voted

for Hillary Clinton, 76%
say they accept Trump as
president and 23% do not.
Gallup
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

18 NEWS

Technology

Social media: Did fake news help swing the election?

said to be embroiled in a fierce debate about
Donald Trump won because of Facebook,
what its responsibilities might be regardsaid Max Read in NYMag.com. Even as
ing the spread of blatant falsehoods. An epidogged investigative journalists uncovered
sode in May that involved Facebook editors
story after story about the Republican nomicensoring conservative trending stories may
nees corruption, misogyny, and business
have paralyzed Facebooks willingness
incompetence during the campaign, patently
to do anything about fake news that might
fake news stories slanted in Trumps favor
appear to have political bias. Facebook and
circulated widely on the social network.
Twitter have long insisted that they arent
Bogus articles about Pope Francis endorsing
media companies, said Adrienne LaFrance
Trump or the Clinton Foundation buying
in TheAtlantic.com. Theyve positioned
$137 million in illegal guns were shared
themselves as neutral platforms and avoided
hundreds of thousandsif not millions
of times; many originated from shady fringe A bogus news article that was widely shared tricky questions about facts and fairness.
websites and quickly went viral. In one of the stranger storylines, Perhaps Trumps shock victory will be a turning point.
Macedonian teenagers looking to make a buck on web ads created at least 140 mostly pro-Trump U.S. politics websites, which The truth is more unsettling, said Charlie Warzel in BuzzFeed
.com. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter functioned exactly as
churned out hundreds of fake news stories shared widely on
designed this election season. They reflected the angry national
Facebook. The social network isnt the only offender when it
comes to viral misinformation, but its by far the most significant. mood and gave voice to a previously unheard constituency.
Forty-four percent of all adults in the U.S. say they get news from Trump and his alt-right supporters used many of the same online
tactics as the Arab Spring movement and Black Lives Matter. It
their Facebook newsfeed. Access to an audience of that size
just so happens it was in the service of a cause many people find
would seem to demand some kind of civic responsibility.
repugnant. If youre blaming Facebook for the results of this
election, youre an idiot, said Mike Masnick in Recode.net. SoFacebook is just now coming to grips with is role in the election,
said Mike Isaac in The New York Times. CEO Mark Zuckerberg cial media didnt create the widespread dissatisfaction that Trump
has publicly defended the social network as an unbiased distribu- fed on; it merely reflected it. People are angry because the system
has failed them in many, many ways, and its not because they
tor of information, calling the notion that it swung the election
believed all the fake news Facebook pushed on them.
a pretty crazy idea. But behind closed doors, the company is

A simple
iPad attachment can
create a 3-D
model of
your home
within
minutes,
said Pete Pachal in Mashable.com.
Structure Sensor, a 3-D scanner that
attaches to tablets and smartphones,
recently received a big upgrade
that allows professional contractors
to quickly scan an entire room in
incredible detail. With a new app
called Canvas, Structure Sensor
can automatically measure a room,
from the length of furniture to the
distance from floor to ceiling, and
convert it into a detailed technical
drawing complete with labels, saving time and money. Most remodeling projectsyoure looking at seven
hours of measurement time, and its
even more time to take those measurements and build a model, said
Alex Schiff, a product manager for
Structure Sensor. With Canvas, you
take the scan, you upload it, and two
days later you have something thats
ready to design.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Bytes: Whats new in tech

A data startups election hiccups
VoteCastr, a technology startup promising
real-time predictions on Election Day, got off
to a rocky start last week, said Alexandra
Alter in The New York Times. In an unprecedented experiment, VoteCastr teamed up with
Slate and Vice News to publish projections
hours before the polls closed, largely by keeping close watch on voter turnout in key swing
states. But problems emerged almost as soon
as voting began. First, technical glitches kept
the VoteCastr site from being updated early in
the day. Embarrassing corrections followed;
at one point, the startups Nevada projections
erroneously included Green Party nominee Jill
Stein, who wasnt on the ballot in the state.
The hiccups were met with scorn by critics,
who warned that misleading projections could
affect voter turnout. VoteCastr says its examining how its calculations went wrong, and
hopes to retool for future Election Days.

Turn your car into a Wi-Fi hot spot

Mobile carriers are competing to take your car
wireless, said Aaron Pressman in Fortune.com.
T-Mobile recently unveiled a small wireless
plug-in called SyncUp Drive that can turn any
car into a Wi-Fi hot spot, as well as monitor
the vehicles performance. The move comes

as growth in the wireless phone business is

slowing dramatically, and carriers are looking
to new areas for adding revenue. AT&T and
Verizon both sell connected car services. But
unlike T-Mobile, AT&T offers Wi-Fi and car
monitoring through separate devices, while
Verizons Hum plug-in only has car monitoring. Industrywide, some 55 percent of all new
connections this year were for cars and other
Internet of Things devices, up from 30 percent
just two years ago.

Beware fake shopping apps

Hundreds of fake retail and product apps
have popped up in Apples App Store in recent weeksjust in time to deceive holiday
shoppers, said Vindu Goel in The New York
Times. Counterfeiters masquerading as retailers like Dillards and Foot Locker, as well as
luxury brands like Christian Dior, have been
appearing every day, despite Apples Whac-AMolelike efforts to shut them down. Many
of the faux apps appear to be relatively
harmless, serving up annoying pop-up ads,
but they could also be used to infect your
smartphone with malware or steal credit card
data. Watch for red flags, such as nonsensical
menus written in butchered English, no reviews, and no history of previous versions.

Screenshot, courtesy of Structure Sensor

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20 NEWS

Health & Science

Did Earhart die a castaway?

Look what the tide brought in.

When the sea makes snowballs

Residents of Nyda, a small village in Siberia
above the Arctic Circle, were greeted with
a spectacular sight last week: thousands
of almost perfectly spherical snowballs
covering an 11-mile stretch of the coast.
The icy orbs, which ranged in size from a
few inches to almost 3 feet across, were a
rare but naturally occurring phenomenon,
reports NPR.org. They form during outbreaks of extreme cold, when chunks of
ice break off from larger ice sheets and get
rolled along the beach by the wind. The
process isnt unique to Siberia; icy boulders
have also washed up in the United States,
on the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake
Superior. First there is a primary natural
phenomenonsludge ice, slob ice, says
Sergei Lisenkov from the St. Petersburg
based Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. Then comes a combination of the
effects of the wind, the lay of the coastline,
and the temperature and wind conditions. It
can be such an original combination that it
results in the formation of balls like these.

Rise in middle-school suicides

For the first time, middle-school students
are as likely to die from suicide as they are
from traffic accidents, according to a new
report by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. As recently as 1999, the
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

etons larger-than-average
ined them concluded they
forearms were almost
belonged to a short, stocky
exactly the same size as
man. But in 1998, forensic
Earharts. The match does
anthropologists working with
not, of course, prove that
The International Group for
the castaway was Earhart,
Historic Aircraft Recovery
TIGHARs Richard Gillespie
(TIGHAR) re-examined the
tells CSMonitor.com. But
doctors files and concluded
it is a significant new data
that the remains actually
point that tips the scales
belonged to a woman of
further in that direction.
Earharts height and ethnicity.
The TIGHAR team is planNow, after further analysis of
ning an expedition to
the original measurements
Earhart: The bones match.
Nikumaroro for next year
and photographsthe bones
to search for the Lockheed Electra in the
themselves were lost decades agothose
researchers have determined that the skel- deep water off the island.

death rate for children ages 10 to 14 from

car crashes was quadruple the rate for
suicide. But in 2014, 425 kids in that age
group took their own lives, and 384 were
killed in traffic accidents. This inversion is
in part due to improved safety features in
automobiles that have helped reduce the
car-crash death rate by 58 percent since the
turn of the century. Over the same period,
though, the suicide rate in 10- to 14-yearolds has more than doubled. Exactly what
is driving this worrisome trend is unclear,
but scientists caution that relentless exposure to social media may magnify the
challenges and insecurities that preteens
face. Cultural norms have changed tremendously from 20 years ago, clinical
psychologist Marsha Levy-Warren tells The
New York Times. If something gets said
thats hurtful or humiliating, its not just the
kid who said it who knows, its the entire
school or class.

Prehistoric sea lizards

Antarctica was once home
to a giant predatory
sea monster that
hunted the reptilian equivalent
of whales,
paleontologists have
discovered. The new species of mosasaur,
Kaikaifilu hervei, lived 66 million years
ago, when the Antarctic seas were much
warmer. About 33 feet long and featuring
sharp teeth, paddle-like limbs, and a long
tail, the lizard-like beast mainly hunted the
aristonectine plesiosaurus, a long-necked
marine reptile that fed like a modern-day
whale. K. hervei would have been the largest marine predator in the region. Scientists
with the Chilean Paleontological Expedition
identified the creature after unearthing a
huge skull fossil on Seymour Island in the

Antarctic Peninsula. At 4 feet long, the

mosasaur fossil is the largest ever found in
the southern hemisphere, and about twice
the size of the next-biggest mosasaur skull
to be unearthed on the continent. Prior to
this research, the known mosasaur remains
from Antarctica provided no evidence for
the presence of very large predators like
Kaikaifilu, the studys author, Rodrigo
Otero, tells LiveScience.com. K. hervei died
off along with the dinosaurs at the end of
the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago,
when a giant meteor impact off the coast of
Mexico triggered a mass extinction event.

Health scare of the week

Hypochondria and heart disease
Worrying about getting sick may actually
make you sick. Thats the conclusion of
a new study from Norway that suggests
hypochondriacs are at greater risk for
heart disease, reports The Guardian (U.K.).
Researchers asked 7,052 adults to complete
questionnaires about their health concerns
and then undergo physical
exams. About 10 percent
of the volunteers had
health anxietythey
essentially worried about ailments
they didnt have. When the researchers tracked the volunteers heart health for
12 years, they found that those with health
anxiety were 71 percent likelier to develop
cardiac problems. The more severe their
anxiety, the higher their risk. These findings
dont prove that hypochondria causes heart
disease, but the studys authors nevertheless
believe that taking steps to ease unnecessary anxiety could have health benefits.
Instead of worrying about whats going on
with your body and running to the doctor
for any physical health problem, says lead
author Line Iden Berge, [people should]
seek a proper diagnosis and help for the
anxiety disorder.

The Earhart Project, screenshot, Newscom

Its widely assumed that Amelia Earharts

1937 attempt to become the first female
pilot to circumnavigate the globe ended
when her twin-engine Lockheed Electra
crashed into the Pacific Ocean. But new
research has added weight to the theory
that the celebrated aviator may in fact
have managed to land on a remote, uninhabited island and survived for weeks or
even months as a castaway. The speculation is based on skeletal remains that
were found on Nikumaroro, or Gardner
Island, in Kiribati in the South Pacific, three
years after Earharts ill-fated trip. The possibility that the bones were Earharts was
initially rejected after a doctor who exam-

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ARTS
Review of reviews: Books
he praises certain leaders, including Sitting
Bull and the Lakota war leader Red Cloud,
he shows how the tribes ensured their
demise by working against one another,
and he highlights warriors brutality by
including, among other gory details, a
graphic description of the art of scalping.

Book of the week

The Earth Is Weeping: The
Epic Story of the Indian Wars
for the American West
by Peter Cozzens
(Knopf, $35)

When the U.S. Army clashed with Native

American tribes in the late 19th century,
neither side had a monopoly on cruelty,
said Dan Cryer in the San Francisco
Chronicle. In his thorough history of the
18601890 Indian Wars, military historian Peter Cozzens aims to complicate our
understanding of the conflict. Directly contradicting Dee Browns hugely influential
1970 book, Bury My Heart at Wounded
Knee, Cozzens argues that forced relocation and assimilation were the governments aimsnot genocide. He also finds
room to detail Indian atrocities and cite
the honorable conduct of some Army
commanders. Even so, he does nothing
to diminish the scale of the tragedy that
ultimately unfolded. Like Browns work,
Cozzens telling throbs with the pain of
Indian defeat and humiliation.

Forced from home, a native family relocates.

Its a disheartening saga, said Douglas

Brinkley in The New York Times. During
Reconstruction, many tribes were forced
west into Army-run reservations just as
white settlers began flooding in the same
direction to claim land promised to them.
When some tribes resisted, Civil War
hardened generals adopted a morality be
damned, conquer-at-all-costs approach,
while lower-ranking officers occasionally added to the carnage by unleashing
unjustified massacres of their own. Still,
nobody can accuse Cozzens of candycoating Native American culture. Though

Novel of the week

Swing Time

Why the Wheel Is Round:

Muscles, Technology, and How
We Make Things Move

by Zadie Smith

by Steven Vogel

(Penguin, $27)

(Univ. of Chicago, $35)

This ambitious novel showcases its

authors formidable gifts in only half its
pages, said Michiko Kakutani in The
New York Times. When its unnamed
narrator looks back on a childhood
friendship with another mixed-race
London girl, Swing Time conjures the
electric pulse of the 1980s as well as the
push and pull of a complex relationship.
But the narrator has spent most of her
adult life as a gofer for a Madonna-like
pop star, and the pages given to detailing that celebritys efforts to build a
school in Africa prove beyond tedious.
Nonsense, said Ron Charles in The
Washington Post. Though Swing Time is
more subdued than Zadie Smiths previous work, its easily 2016s most effective
big social novel, combining a portrait of
wasted talent with a tale of success that
may be the most perceptive one Ive
read about the distortion field created by
fame and wealth. If the book leaves you
sad, thats because its narrator is our
Nick Carraway. Shes burdened with superior insight that grants her nothing but
a sharp sense of her own irrelevance.

Perhaps we have
underestimated the
wheel, said Michael
Lemonick in Scientific American. In
this truly engaging history of the
5,000-year-old technology we depend
on every time we
jump in our Camrys
or Silverados, closer
study of its origins
and myriad applications opens a whole
new understanding of our world. Steven
Vogel, an expert in biomechanics who died
last year, reminds us in Why the Wheel Is
Round that the eureka moment might not
have been when one of our Neolithic ancestors realized that a heavy object could be
moved atop rolling logs. More significant
was the invention of the potters wheel,
which seems to have predated the cart
wheel and established a method of harnessing rotary motion that underlies virtually
every useful machine humans have built.

THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Too much of Cozzens account depends

on the more substantial cache of records
left behind by the white combatants, said
Priyanka Kumar in The Washington Post.
Reading The Earth Is Weeping, I couldnt
shake off the feeling that I was being fitted into the boots of the Armywhich
was like being asked to sympathize with
the thugs sent by a landlord to evict tenants standing in the way of bigger paydays.
Worse, Cozzens at one point diminishes the
devastation visited on the Sioux by arguing
that, having been pushed west from their
native land, they were as much newcomers to the Great Plains as the white homesteaders. Even so, hes delivered a book of
impressive detail and scope that never loses
sight of the brutality and senselessness of
white Americas postCivil War land grab.
Treachery on such an epic scale can bear
many retellings.
This is a wonderful book, in the literal
sense of the word, said Stephen Budiansky
in The Wall Street Journal. Vogel encourages us to see engineering miracles everywhere, revealing, for example, why most of
our drinking and eating vessels are round
and why most screws have right-hand
threads. For Vogel, the history of technology is largely the story of humans attempts
to address a single challenge: how to make
muscle power generate rotary motion. That
quest produced wheel bearings, gears, and
eventually machines that could be driven by
power sources like electricity. But among
the many pleasures of Vogels book are its
descriptions and illustrations of rather
astonishing contraptions that put goats,
horses, or dogs on treadmills and used the
energy to, say, grind grain or churn butter.
Amazingly, weve yet to exploit all forms
of rotational motion, said John Moalli and
Adam Summers in Nature. Vogel at one
point asks us to consider the zero-angular
momentum turn and its potential usefulness in robotics. He is describing the subtle
twist an upside-down cat executes to land
on its feet after a fall. And its a move
worth picturing now, because that graceful
maneuver might serve as a metaphor for
the elegance and ingenuity that make this
book so fun to read.

Picture History/Newscom

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The Book List

Best books...chosen by Amor Towles
Amor Towles is the author of the best-selling historical novels Rules of Civility and
this years A Gentleman in Moscow, about a Russian count living in a formerly
posh hotel. Below, he names six books that illuminated his sense of craft.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
Garca Mrquez (Harper, $16). It rained for
four years, eleven months, and two days. Thus
Mrquez matter-of-factly begins a chapter of
One Hundred Years of Solitude, throwing open
the shutters of our imagination. This simple sentence alerts us that we are in a world we know
and yet dont know.

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

(Vintage, $18). No one wields the absurd quite
like Gogol. In settings all too familiarfilled with
bourgeois officialdom and petty aspirations
Gogol inserts minor forces of chaos that soon run
rampant over both vanities and common sense,
making us laugh even as we grow increasingly
uncertain of the ground were standing on.

If on a Winters Night a Traveler by Italo

Calvino (Harvest, $15). You are about to begin
reading Italo Calvinos new novel... is surely
one of the great openings in 20th-century fiction.
At once declarative, wry, and subversive, Calvino
both celebrates and overturns the conventions of
the novel. He is like a genius tinkerer building a
time machine from junkyard scraps.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan

Kundera (Harper, $16). The idea of eternal
return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has
often perplexed other philosophers with it...
When I first read these opening lines, I was
exhilarated by the directness with which Kundera
relates ideas to the reader. He simply addresses
us, explaining the grander notions that the consideration of his characters has stirred in him.

Swanns Way by Marcel Proust (Dover, $5.50).

In this novels first pages, Prousts narrator hears
a distant whistle, prompting him to think of the
train crossing the countryside, which leads him
to think of a traveler who is looking out the window, having recently exchanged farewells beneath
an unfamiliar lamp...and so on. How fluidly
Proust moves between concrete impressions and
the poetic world of memory and imaginings.

100 Artists Manifestos edited by Alex Danchev

(Penguin UK, $16). Ive always loved reading
manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph
of style. With their sharp observations, sweeping
assertions, and tireless self-assurance, they march
us toward some inescapable (yet elusive) conclusion, propelling us with their internal urgency
toward something new.

David Jacobs, Scott Roth/Invision/AP

Also of interest...in rogues and thieves

Al Capone

The Spy Who Couldnt Spell

by Deirdre Bair (Nan A. Talese, $30)

by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee (NAL, $27)

To most of us, Al Capone is much

more myth than man, said Nathan
Smith in Smithsonian.com. But
Deirdre Bairs new biography draws
on a rich and, until recently, untapped
pool of resources: the legendary
gangsters surviving relatives. Bairs Capone
proves powerfully human. Though he builds a
criminal empire and rules it with blood, hes also
a music lover, a devoted son, andafter syphilis
destroys his mental facultiesa middle-aged excon with the mind of a child.

Many dyslexics have become inspirational role modelsbut not CIA

analyst Brian Patrick Regan, said
Kevin Nance in the Chicago Tribune.
Bullied and underestimated because of
his disability, Regan sought payback
by trying to sell secrets to Libya in 2000. The
electrifying core of this account of the case is
the cat-and-mouse game that developed between
Regan and an FBI agent. Regans dyslexia, which
initially made his encrypted messages doubly
impenetrable, eventually gave him away.

Guilty Thing

The Thieves of Threadneedle Street

by Frances Wilson (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $30)

by Nicholas Booth (Pegasus, $28)

Thomas de Quincey is such a vividly

drawn character in this irresistible
biography that he could step forth
and hit you up for a loan, said Laura
Miller in Slate.com. De Quincey, who
pioneered the addiction memoir with
1821s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,
was a brilliant young writer who wormed his way
into William Wordsworths circle. Opium and
debts soon consumed him, but he remains a dazzling central figure in this period portrait, a book
short on literary analysis and long on dish.

If only our financial swindlers were

still as charming as they were in 1873,
said Marilyn Stasio in The New York
Times. In this jaunty account of
a real-life caper, two brothers from
Cincinnati nearly break the Bank of
England by passing forged notes in London, and
then maintain a remarkable level of decorum
while eluding an international chase. The Bidwell
brothers scam revealed that the entire banking
system ran wholly on trust, but strange as it
may seem, they actually admired that ethic.

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Author of the week
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah has an unusually good reason for being a
lifelong reader, said Pamela
Paul in The New York Times.
In his new memoir, Born a
Crime, the rookie host of
Comedy Centrals Daily Show
describes growing up in
South Africa
at a time
when antimiscegenation
laws compelled his
black Xhosa
mother and
white Swiss
father to keep him out of
sight of authorities. I spent a
lot of time indoors so that my
parents could avoid going to
jail, he says. Books were
my escape. He lost himself
early on in Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, James
and the Giant Peach, and
other Roald Dahl classics. He
also loved The Chronicles of
Narnia, relishing the chance
to step into a world with
different rules. In Narnia,
youre weird, but everybodys weird, he says.
Those early lessons serve
him well as an author,
said Ray Rahman in Entertainment Weekly. Born a
Crime proves him a gifted
storyteller, able to mix humor
and poignancy and to tell a
personal story against the
backdrop of South African
history. The work of writing
it, he says, was immensely
rewarding, because it helped
him put the pressures of
his TV career in perspective. Going back sometimes helps me understand
why I am here, Noah told
TheAtlantic.com. Even realizing how hard Ive worked
to be here, which sometimes
I forget. The work also let
him reconnect with the boy
who turned to books because
he couldnt just play outside.
I became used to being
an outsider, which isnt the
worst thing in the world. It
means you always maintain
a mindset that keeps you
within your own space.
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Review of reviews: Art & Film

Luther, in a 1528 portrait by Lucas Cranach

paintings focus on the life and teachings

of Jesus rather than on tales of the saints.
But it was Cranach who provided the
Reformation with arguably its most memorable images, said Andrew Pettegree in
Apollo magazine. While working as court
painter to Frederick the Wisethe local
ruler who shielded Luther from the wrath of
Pope Leo Xs followersCranach churned
out images of the Protestant reformer
that functioned as effective propaganda.
In a 1520 etching, Martin Luther as an
Augustinian Monk, the theologian comes
across as a simple man of faith, resolute in
the face of adversity.

logian, said Drew Word in Mpls.St.Paul

magazine. Artifacts on display include
filigreed depictions of saints, an absurdly
ornate pilgrims robe worn by Holy
Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and
an indulgence vouchera get-out-ofpurgatory-quick card sold by the Catholic
Church. We also see the Lutherans simpler
approach to spreading Christianity, in a
hand-colored Bible that Luther translated
into everyday German, and in the 157panel Gotha Altar (circa 1540), whose

But the show is no hagiography, said Peter

Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. It forthrightly confronts Luthers notorious antiSemitism, which verged on the genocidal
in late writings such as 1543s On the Jews
and Their Lies. Luther died in 1546, and
a copy of Cranachs Martin Luther on His
Deathbed shows the fleshy Reformer tranquilly at rest on cloud-like pillows. Even
that picture was propaganda: The image
was intended to counter Catholics claim
that the hell-bound Luther died in agony.

Exhibit of the week

Martin Luther: Art and the
Reformation
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, through Jan. 15

When Martin Luther nailed a 95-point

critique of the Catholic Church to a church
door in Wittenberg, Germanyor at least
sent the paper to a local bishopthe former monk fractured Christianity forever,
said Mason Riddle in the Minneapolis Star
Tribune. Nearly 500 years later, Luther and
the movement he sparked is the subject of
a major exhibition in Lutheran-friendly
Minneapolis that offers a rare opportunity
to explore the art, theology, and politics
of 16th-century Europe. Pamphlets from
the period indicate how the relatively new
printing press helped transmit Luthers radical ideas to the masses. Art, too, was a crucial medium. German Renaissance master
Lucas Cranach the Elder painted portraits
of Luther that did more than flatter the
accused hereticthey gave a face to the
Reformation movement.
The exhibition offers glimpses of the
excesses that so angered the renegade theo-

Elle

The Edge of
Seventeen
Directed by
Kelly Fremon Craig
(R)

++++
A drama queen
gains perspective.

THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Hollywood Reporter. Brimming

Pick a god, any god, and
with insecurities and hostilities,
thank them for this movie,
shes a teen prone to overdramasaid David Ehrlich in IndieWire
tization. But the movie takes her
.com. Wryly hilarious and
self-loathing seriously, and glides
unflinchingly honest, its the
along on its clear-eyed empathy
sort of quality teen comedy
and brisk humor. Whenever
thats become rare in this era of
Nadines self-absorption tries
young-adult wizards and vamour patience, Woody Harrelson
pires. Hailee Steinfeld plays a
comes to the rescue, said Steve
high school misfit whose popular
Steinfelds endearing brat
Pond in TheWrap.com. Playing
older brother ruins her life when
the teacher Nadine chooses to confide in, Harrelson
he hooks up with her best friend. Though many
makes himself such a laconic voice of reason that
scenes could have come across as schematic, none
he seems to be delivering a delicious comic perfordo, and when the siblings clash, Steinfeld and Blake
mance in his sleep. His crackling scenes keep the
Jenner make the friction so freighted and real, it
film afloat until, at long last, its heroine turns into
almost seems alien to the genre. Steinfelds Nadine
the kind of person we can stand to be around.
isnt always easy to like, said Jon Frosch in The

Luther Memorials Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt, Ferrandis, Murray Close

Already hardened by a dark

Is there a better living actress
incident from her childhood, this
than Isabelle Huppert?
Directed by Paul Verhoeven asked Chris Nashawaty in
steely Parisienne doesnt just
(R)
confront demons; she welcomes
Entertainment Weekly. Thats
them. And beneath the films
a question youre sure to ask
++++
cool, glassy elegance lie roilyourself
while
watching
her
A rape survivor
ing questions about guilt, sex,
unforgettable performance in
embraces her demons.
power, and female desire after
this slightly trashy French art50. Its confrontational, terrible,
house thriller from the director
and glorious. You almost cant
of Basic Instinct. Huppert plays
Huppert takes up arms.
believe such a picture exists.
an unflappable Paris business
executive who is raped by an intruder in the opening Some will leave theaters arguing about what they just
saw, said A.O. Scott in The New York Times. A
scene and chooses not to report the brutal crime. As
the character wrestles with the emotional fallout and nasty, exploitative spectacle of a womans victimization, or the celebration of her resistance? Whatever
begins pursuing a handsome, young, married neighbor, she is never easy to read, which is exactly what you decide, theres no denying the astonishing,
keeps us reading, said Stephanie Zacharek in Time. almost terrifying talent of its star.

Television

Macall Polay, Saeed Adyani/Netflix

Movies on TV
Monday, Nov. 21
The Freshman
Marlon Brando provided
a perfect parody of his
Godfather turn in this charming comedy co-starring
Matthew Broderick and a
Komodo dragon. (1990)
8p.m., Movieplex
Tuesday, Nov. 22
Zero Days
Alex Gibneys engrossing
documentary about the
U.S. launch of the Stuxnet
virus against Iran offers an
unparalleled introduction
to contemporary cyberwarfare. (2016) 6 p.m.,
Showtime
Wednesday, Nov. 23
National Lampoons
Vacation
Mishaps pile up for a family on a cross-country trip
to WallyWorld amusement
park. With Chevy Chase,
John Candy, and Christie
Brinkley. (1983) 4:45 p.m., IFC
Thursday, Nov. 24
The Life of Riley
William Bendix, reprising
a radio role that made him
famous, plays blue-collar
boob Chester Riley as he
falls into a tizzy over his
daughters dating choices.
(1949) 8 p.m., TCM
Friday, Nov. 25
Eddie the Eagle
An oddball Brit vows to
become an Olympic ski
jumper and ends up an
unlikely national hero.
With Hugh Jackman and
Christopher Walken. (2016)
8 p.m., HBO
Saturday, Nov. 26
Joe Kidd
Clint Eastwood plays an
exbounty hunter who goes
his own way when revolt
shakes a New Mexico town.
Elmore Leonard wrote the
screenplay. (1972) 5 p.m.,
Sundance
Sunday, Nov. 27
Fantastic Voyage
Raquel Welch stars in a
B-movie classic in which
a submarine and its crew
are miniaturized to enter a
scientists bloodstream and
repair his damaged brain.
(1966) 8 p.m., TCM

All listings are Eastern Time.

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The Weeks guide to whats worth watching

Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing
For scores of runners and spectators at the 2013
Boston Marathon, the real test came in the
weeks and months that followed. This affecting
documentary, produced in association with The
Boston Globe, revisits the spring day when two
Chechen brothers detonated a pair of pressurecooker bombs near the races finish line, killing
three and injuring more than 250. But the heart
of the film is its stories about survivors recovery
journeys. Monday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m., HBO
Soundbreaking: Stories From the Cutting
Edge of Recorded Music
Few people in the era of mass media have had
as much impact on recorded music as the late
George Martin, the producer of the Beatles. So
its fitting that Martins last project was an ambitious, eight-part series on the history of the art
and its impact. The shows second week of episodes begins with the hip-hop revolution and the
innovations made by pioneers like Grandmaster
Flash, Run-DMC, Public Enemy, and the Beastie
Boys. Monday, Nov. 21, at 10 p.m., PBS; check
local listings
Search Party
Embracing a purpose in life can make a person
look ridiculous. In this promising new series,
Alia Shawkat of Arrested Development stars
as a 20-something Brooklynite who tries to
defeat complacency by throwing herself into the
search for an acquaintance whose face shes seen
on neighborhood missing-person signs. Four
hilariously halfhearted friends join the mission.
Monday, Nov. 21, at 11 p.m., TBS
Anne of Green Gables
Spend Thanksgiving night with the other redheaded orphan Annie. In this new small-screen
adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomerys classic
1908 childrens novel, Ella Ballentine plays the
title character, a spirited girl who tests the elderly
brother-sister pair who take her in after requesting to adopt a boy to help out around their
Prince Edward Island farm. Martin Sheen costars. Thursday, Nov. 24, at 8 p.m., PBS; check
local listings

Search Partys Shawkat: Targeting apathy

3%
Hungering for the next Hunger Games? A subtitled sci-fi series has just arrived from Brazil that
imagines a near future when 3 percent of the
nations people live in a land of abundance while
the rest are consigned to a district with little
food or water. The show, based on a popular
YouTube series, zeroes in on the battery of tests
all citizens undergo at age 20 to determine how
theyre sorted. Available for streaming Friday,
Nov. 25, Netflix
Other highlights
2016 Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade
The 90th iteration of the Turkey Day procession will feature a new Charlie Brown balloon,
a throwback Felix the Cat, and performances by
Aloe Blacc, Sarah McLachlan, and Tony Bennett.
Thursday, Nov. 24, at 9 a.m., NBC
Savage Kingdom
Lions and leopards clash on the African savannah in the first episode of a new nature series
that focuses on animal rivalries. Friday, Nov. 25,
at 9 p.m., Nat Geo Wild
The Grand Tour
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James
May reunite for a globe-hopping new auto series
that should look very familiar to Top Gear fans.
Available for streaming on Amazon

Show of the week

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

Graham and Bledel: Forever family

The girls are back. Nearly a decade after Lorelei

and Rory Gilmore last were seen trading their
witty mile-a-minute banter, the mother-daughter
duo is reunited in Stars Hollow by a funeral that
inspires both women to reassess their lives.
The original Gilmore Girls ended abruptly after
seven seasons, just as Lauren Grahams Lorelei
had settled into a relationship and Alexis Bledels Rory had launched a career. Now they and
most of the rest of the original castincluding
Melissa McCarthy and Kelly Bishopget four
90-minute episodes to catch us up. Available for
streaming Friday, Nov. 25, Netflix
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LEISURE
Food & Drink

Critics choice: Occasion dining in a jeans-and-sweater world

Rainbow Lodge Houston

This century-old hunting lodge sits right
now at a point of maximum appeal, said
Alison Cook in the Houston Chronicle. Fall
has always been the best time to experience the restaurants cozy log interior and

Wine: Thanksgiving whites

You dont have to spend a fortune to
drink good wines at Thanksgiving, said
Nick Passmore in Forbes.com. Below
are three winning whites, all $20 or
under, that may not impress the sommelier in your family but will please
everyone you might label an interested
wine aficionado.
NV Vincent Crmant de Bourgogne
($20). This sparkling wine is an effervescent delightand bigger and
richer than Champagnes that cost
twice its price.
2014 King Estates Acrobat Pinot Gris
($13). The succulent combination
of lush tropical fruit and restraining
crispness makes this Oregon pinot
gris the perfect partner for turkey.
2014 Albert Seltz Riesling ($17).
For affordable Rieslings that are rewardingly complex, look to Alsace.
This wine is dense, oily, and dripping with pineapples, mangoes,
and ripe Comice pears.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

So whats not to like? Darn little, in my

experience. The wild-boar tacos were
oversalted one day, but pheasant breast
with spaetzle, apple, and radicchio was a
triumph. With Schmidt back, the place has
vaulted beyond special-occasion status.
2011 Ella Blvd., (713) 861-8666

Afternoon socializing at the Rainbow Lodge

golden citrus-laden views, and thanks to

the return of chef Mark Schmidt, the food
is better than it has been in years. Theres
something wonderfully autumnal about
Schmidts German-inflected Texican fare.
He might pair grilled elk chop, resiliently
tender beneath its tight sear, with rootvegetable enchiladas and tomato ancho
mole. Pickled chard stems jolt to life a
braised lamb shank served in a spicy pot
sauce. Impeccably grilled sea scallops top
a risotto charged by the addition of piquillo
peppers and crumbly Italian blood sausage.

M.C. Perkins Ogunquit, Maine

Theres nothing like combining gourmet excitements with one of the best
restaurant views in the world, said Diane
Hudson in Portland Monthly. The simple
dining room at M.C. Perkins sits right on
pretty Perkins Cove, so you can savor the
colors of the sunset while contemplating
the menu of James Beard Awardwinning
chef Clark Frasier. When we last visited,
the chef himself delivered the prosciutto di
Parma, its salty meat delicately balanced
with the sweetness of caramelized pears,
tangy orange syrup, and mint leaves.
Maine mussels, served with fried shallots
and fire-roasted onions in a rich cream
broth, came next, and were so good wed
return for that dish alone. Duck confit
with jasmine rice and bing cherries leapt
out from the entre list, but the lamb osso
buco accented with gazpacho and basil
pesto satisfied, too. In a fitting finale to a
memorable dining experience, we shared
a raspberry trifle as darkness deepened
over the sea. 111 Perkins Cove Rd., (207)
646-6263

Recipe of the week

This holiday season, consider the pecan for something other than pie, said David
Tanis in The New York Times. These savory cookies are packed with flavorsfresh
sage, black pepper, and Parmesanand studded with buttery, sweet pecans. Theyre
an ideal nibble with dry sherry or on a cheese board.
Savory pecan cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp black pepper 1 tsp kosher salt 2 tbsp chopped fresh
sage leaves 1 cup roughly chopped pecans 1 oz grated Parmesan (about 1 cup)
cup extra-virgin olive oil 3 large eggs coarse sea salt
In a mixing bowl, combine flour, pepper, salt, sage, pecans, and Parmesan.
Stir in oil and 2 beaten eggs; mix well.
If dough seems crumbly, mix in 1 tbsp
cold water.
On a lightly floured
work surface, knead
dough until smooth, 1 or
2 minutes. Divide in half
and form each half into a
cylindrical roll 2 inches in
diameter. Wrap cylinders
tightly with plastic wrap
and refrigerate until firm,

about 2 hours, or overnight.

Heat oven to 350. With a thin-bladed
knife, slice cylinders into 18-inch-thick
rounds. Using a spatula, transfer cookies
to parchment-lined baking
sheets. Beat remaining
egg in a small bowl with
2 tbsp water. Paint cookies
lightly with the egg wash;
sprinkle with sea salt. Bake
in batches for 10 to 12 minutes per sheet, until lightly
browned. Cool on a rack.
Makes about 30 cookies.

Courtesy of Donnette Hansen, Evan Sung/The New York Times/Red

71Above Los Angeles

As the great middle ground takes over
dining, were left with an odd conundrum, said Besha Rodell in LA Weekly.
Where can you go for a truly special
occasion? In Los Angeles, an answer
has recently emerged high up in the U.S.
Bank Tower. No matter where you sit in
71Aboves opulent dining room, youre
within range of floor-to-ceiling windows
beyond which the city stretches out toward
the Pacific in all its twinkling glory.
Chef Vartan Abgaryan has risen to the
room, with a $70 three-course prix fixe
engineered to feel fancy and modern but
also to please a wide number of people.
Oysters poached in Champagne and
topped with uni and caviar marry oldschool luxury and new. Classics like foie
gras terrine share menu space with decidedly modern dishes like parsnips roasted
in duck fat. Some of the food here is nice
rather than thrilling, and the patronizing
service and techno-lite music soundtrack
feel dated. Even so, theres a lot to be
said for a place that manages to feel truly
special. 633 W. 5th St., (213) 712-2683

Travel

LEISURE 27

This weeks dream: The lovable microstate of San Marino

Theres no need to apologize if you
havent heard of San Marino, said
Colin Covert in the Minneapolis Star
Tribune. Centered on a mountain ridge
in northeastern Italy, this tiny nation of
31,000 could barely fill a thimble.
Officially known as the Most Serene
Republic of San Marino, it is, by some
accounts, the worlds oldest sovereign
nation, having been founded in 301 by
Saint Marinus, a stonemason who was
fleeing religious persecution. Though
the country isnt unusually rich in
history, culture, or dining, it is irresistibly appealing, combining fairytale-pretty vistas, pristine medieval
architecture, and the ambience of a daffy,
slightly sinister Disneyland. Tax-free shopping is a big draw, and the main cluster of
boutiques range from swank to seedy. A
few steps away stands a palaceand guards
wearing ostrich plumes on their heads.
Arriving by bus from Rimini, I could feel
the republics wonderland mood coming

Hotel of the week

Carolina mod

SIME/eStock Photo, courtesy of the Dewberry

The Dewberry
Charleston, S.C.
In a city whose hotels tend
to skew over-the-top antebellum in vibe, the Dewberry
is something new, said Erin
Florio in Cond Nast Traveler.
Step inside the repurposed
1960s federal office building
and you enter a spot-on
midcentury modinspired
enclave, rendered with
impeccable taste. Danish
sofas, palmetto-shaped chandeliers, and 1950s abstract
paintings create a timeless
atmosphere. Better yet, the
Dewberry sits a short walk
from nearly every restaurant worth checking out. For
foodies visiting Charleston
this season, deciding where
to stay is a no-brainer.
thedewberrycharleston.com;
doubles from $309

and AK-47s to just about anybody.

San Marino, I learned, has the most
relaxed gun laws in Europe, and its
anything-goes approach explains why
bottles in the wine shops bear images
of Hitler, Stalin, and naked women.
Banking rules are notoriously loose,
too, which tells you why some restaurants are filled with men in fine
suits and women in diamonds.

San Marinos 11th-century citadel

a long way off. The capital city itself is

perched on a sheer mountain ridge, and
it looked far-fetched the minute it came
into view. Three tall watchtowers, two of
which are accessible, rise above crenellated
walls. In the shops that line the cobblestone
streets below, I perused jewelry, fine fashion, and other luxury goods, and also came
across vendors selling pistols, crossbows,

To reach the gate of the old citadel by car requires driving up a

nosebleed-steep switchback road.
You can also get there by gondola,
and either way is worth the trouble.
From anywhere on the citys walls, you soak
in 360-degree views of the Italian countryside, with the Adriatic often visible to the
east. In late fall, fluffy low-hanging clouds
might shorten the vistas, but they also add
to the mystique. San Marino doesnt feel
real, but its make-believe beautiful.
At Hotel Cesare (hotelcesare.com), doubles
start at $87.

Getting the flavor of...

Maines new federal preserve

Colorados mineral springs

Maines largest federally protected wilderness

is now open to visitors, said Murray Carpenter
in The New York Times. The Katahdin Woods
and Waters National Monument, designated by
President Obama in late August, occupies 87,000
acres that were donated by Burts Bees co-founder
Roxanne Quimby. The National Park Service will
begin upgrades in a few years. Right now, the
infrastructure mainly consists of a loop road and
a few campsites, and highlights include fine views
of nearby Mount Katahdin. Biking an old logging road beside Wassataquoik Stream, I spotted
beavers clambering up the bank and a cow moose
trotting into a birch grove. At the monuments
northern end, near adjacent Baxter State Park,
I picnicked near a beaver flowage and watched
nine snapping turtle hatchlings plod past me, then
tumble, carapace over teakettle, into a gently
flowing stream. That evening, I slept in Haskell
Hut, a log cabin overlooking the Penobscot River.

Chasing after hot springs in western Colorado

can be the perfect vacation for a stressed-out
couple, said Sophia Dembling in DallasNews
.com. My husband and I recently spent a week
tracing part of the 720-mile Historic Hot Springs
Loop, finding spectacular views, great beer, and
relaxing mineral baths at every stop. We started
in pretty Ouray (the Switzerland of America)
before checking in at the Box Canyon Lodge and
slipping into a bubbling outdoor tub that primed
us forand I stand by thisthe greatest nap
ever. Outside Ouray, we poked around Ironton,
a magical ghost town, then headed for Ridgeway
and Orvis Hot Springs, a clothing-optional site
that proved to be an intimate oasis of stonelined pools and gardens. Hiking trails surround
the town of Pagosa Springs, but because I wasnt
feeling adventurous, I headed right to the Springs
Resort & Spa. The massage I had there left me
cockeyed with relaxation.

Last-minute travel deals

A true African odyssey
This February, join a 54-day
camping excursion across eight
African countries. Youll journey
from Cape Town to Nairobi,
enjoying safaris, canoe trips,
and a stop at Victoria Falls, all
for $6,799. Book by Nov. 30. For
ages 1839.

Discount Turkey
Explore Turkey on an 11-day
tour in early 2017 and pay just
$499 per person, double occupancy. The package, offered at
a $400 savings, includes breakfasts. Book by Nov. 30, but
consult U.S. State Department
travel warnings before you do.

Christmas on the Danube

Save more than $1,000 per
couple on a Danube River
cruise during the Christmas
market season. Water-and-land
itineraries start at $2,200 per
person, double occupancy,
down from $3,319. The years
final cruise departs Dec. 18.

gadventures.com

keytours.com

amawaterways.com
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Best properties on the market

28

This week: Ultramodern homes

1 W Los Angeles

This 2013 fivebedroom, openplan house lies

in the Beverly
Grove neighborhood. Features
include an
Italian kitchen,
floor-to-ceiling glass, a master suite with a balcony
offering city views, and a Creston home system that
controls security, climate, light, and sound. Pocket
doors lead out to a backyard patio with a fireplace
and heated infinity pool. $3,400,000. Brien Varady,
Deasy Penner, (213) 500-4585

5
3
1
2

2 X Savannah Built in 2016, this four-bedroom home is set in

the citys Victorian District. The house has a floating staircase,

a gourmet kitchen with Kitchen Aid appliances, and smarthome technology. The property includes a two-car garage and
a private courtyard with an in-ground pool. $799,900. Jessica
Kelly, Engel & Vlkers, (912) 238-0874

3 X Menlo Park,
Calif. This five-

bedroom home
was built this
year. The house features 10-foot
ceilings, wide-plank wood floors,
glass-panel stair railings, a wholehouse ventilation system, and a
floating gas fireplace. A fence surrounds a large deck, a lawn, and
modern landscaping. $2,498,000.
The Sharp Group, Keller Williams
Peninsula Estates/Top Agent
Network, (650) 766-5333
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Best properties on the market

29

4 X Kirkland, Wash. This

five-bedroom, open-plan
home overlooks Lake
Washington. The ultramodern house has Italian
design elements, oversize
glass windows, and a
kitchen with Miele appliances, and is smart-wired
with iPads. A rooftop patio with a gas fireplace and
wet bar affords views of
the lake area. $1,888,800.
Brian Hopper, Realogics/
Sothebys International
Realty, (425) 201-5115

5 T San Francisco Set in the Diamond Heights neighborhood, this

five-bedroom 1978 home has been gutted and rebuilt from the
studs. The house has a marble kitchen, white-oak floors, a yoga
room, a media room, and a master suite. Outdoor features include a
front deck, a back balcony, and views of the East Bay. $2,899,000.
Leon De-Levi and Polina De-Levi, Pacific Union/Christies International Real Estate, (415) 235-4652 and (415) 345-3097

Steal of the week

S Element 1 This single

modular unit was created
by Chris Pardo Design.
The 920-square-foot
home with expansive windows has one bedroom
and one bath. A homeautomation package
can be added to control
audio, temperature, lighting, blinds, and security.
From $145,900. Method
Homes, (206) 789-5553
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Consumer

30 LEISURE

The 2017 Lincoln Continental: What the critics say

Motor Trend
At long last, Lincoln has made a Continental
actually worthy of its name. Returning
after a 14-year absence, the brands flagship
sedan arrives fully refreshed, with styling
that radiates a quiet cool and a cabin thats
genuinely luxurious. From the soft leather
to the matched wood trim, the interior appointments are an order of magnitude
more refined than anything seen in a Lincoln
in decades. This car recalls the Rolls-Royce
rivaling Continental of the 1960s more than
the rental-lot special of 2002.
Automobile
Its also way better at back-and-forth

cornering than youd guess. Though the

new Continental is nearly 17 feet long and
weighs more than 4,200 pounds, it exhibits
no hint of boatiness. Pushed on a back
road, its quiet without being muffled, composed without being inert. Still, the theme
is luxury, not sportiness. When youre sitting
inside, the Continental makes you think of
a Bentley. Except this Bentley comes nicely
equipped for about $60,000, not $160,000.
Car and Driver
Its also more work in progress than
dependable luxury product. Hiccups in the
transmission and the jumpy throttle can
be corrected, but such fine-tuning can take

A handsome work in progress,

from $45,485
many years. For now, the Continental has
the basic ingredients in place and looks like
a real contender. It just needs polishing.

The best of...fall velvet

Herschel Supply Co.

Hanson Backpack

Topshop Unique
Printed Minidress

Concrete and Water

Hand-Dyed Pants

River Island
Velvet Cami Top

Tom Ford
Velvet High-Tops

Tis the season for

velvet. This drawcord
backpack is perfect for
hauling gear during the
day, yet wont look out
of place at a holiday
party. It has a nylon liner
and a side-access, zippered storage sleeve.

Designers love velvet

because the feel-good
fabric easily adds a bit
of luxury to everyday
outfits. This squarenecked velvet minidress
is printed with a scene
from Shakespeares
AWinters Tale.

Velvet trousers are

available in a wide
variety of cuts this fall.
Swap your skinny jeans
for these high-waisted,
wide-leg pants, which
combine easy comfort
with a 1970s silhouette
and unique dye pattern.

For more affordable velvet, try a lace-trimmed

cami in vivid lime. It
looks great under a
blazer or paired with
skinny pants. If youre
feeling particularly luxe,
it can also serve as a
plush pajama top.

Men can rock velvet,

tooin a designer
sneaker thats the
ultimate balance of
playboy and practical.
With jeans or a suit,
Tom Fords high-tops
channel just the right
amount of decadence.

$85, herschelsupply.com
Source: Racked.com

$450, net-a-porter.com
Source: Financial Times

$330, concreteandwater.com
Source: New York Times

$52, riverisland.com
Source: Glamour.com

$990, tomford.com
Source: GQ

Tip of the week...

Five clever uses for aluminum foil

And for those who have

everything...

Best apps...
For bus and train commuters

QSharpen scissors. Hone dull scissors by

folding a piece of foil into quarters and cutting through it several times.
QRemove rust. Crumple foil into a wad
and use it to scrub rust from car chrome or
household items. Aluminum is softer than
steel, so it wont scratch the chrome surface.
QMake a funnel. Fold a sheet of foil twice
on a diagonal to create a cone, then cut the
tip to create a small hole. Use your makeshift funnel to transfer liquids into jars or
bottles with narrow openings.
QSpeed up ironing. Place a layer of foil
under your ironing-board cover. Because
aluminum reflects heat, it will help with
pressing out wrinkles.
QGuard against paint drips. Ready to
paint but you have no tape for masking?
Aluminum foil can be used before you
start painting to wrap doorknobs, drawer
handles, and other hardware.

Behold the
worlds most
luxurious
personal
submarine. The
Aurora-6,
built for the
superyacht
crowd by California-based Seamagine, seats
a pilot and five passengers, including three
in the leather swivel chairs in its rear guest
lounge. Theres also a toilet in the hull. The
sub is rated for depths of 3,300 feet and can
remain undersea for as long as eight hours.
And you may want all that time, thanks to
the unobstructed views provided by the
crafts large acrylic domes. They provide
the sensation of entering the underwater
world, as opposed to simply observing it.

QCitymapper actively tracks public transportation lines to warn you of delays, explain the
cause, and recommend alternative routes.
QPocket helps you collect news stories and
other articles for later reading. Theyll be all
in one place for the commute home, and
you can access them without being online.
QInstapaper performs essentially the same
job as Pocket, but it also lets you highlight
text and email, message, or tweet directly
from the app.
QLongform gathers excellent feature-length
stories from various print and online publications and regularly updates its curated list.
QHeadspace, a popular meditation app,
offers meditations tailored for commutes,
including for commuters who walk.
QStarbucks saves you time when youre
grabbing your coffee: Order and pay while
on the move, and your grande will be waiting at the counter.

Source: Womans Day

THE WEEK November 25, 2016

$5 million, seamagine.com
Source: Forbes.com

Source: BusinessInsider.com

BUSINESS
The news at a glance
The bottom line
QAndroid captured a record
88percent of the global
smartphone market during
the third quarter, according to Strategy Analytics,
with more than 328million
devices shipped worldwide.
Apple, however, still commands more than 60percent
of global smartphone profits.

Qz.com
QWhile many corporations
assume that younger workers have more energy, and
are therefore more productive, more people under the
age of 45 (43 percent) say
they are exhausted at work
than those over 45 (35percent). The least exhausted
workers are those over 60.

Harvard Business Review

QRoughly

3.1million
Americans quit
their jobs in
September,
the highest
monthly
number this
year and a sign
that workers are gaining
more leverage in the job
market. There were 1.4unemployed workers per job
opening in September, down
from a high of 6.7 in 2009.
USA Today
QVeterans made up 44percent of the nearly 120,000
full-time hires the federal
government made in 2015.
The share of veterans
among new government
hires has stayed relatively
constant since the Obama
administration pledged in
2009 to give former service
members preferential consideration for job openings.

Getty, Media Bakery

The Washington Post

QChinas online retail giant
Alibaba sold a record $17.7billion worth of goods during
last weeks Singles Day,
the annual Chinese shopping holiday that now dwarfs
the U.S.s post-Thanksgiving
Black Friday and Cyber Monday spending sprees. Alibaba
topped last years recordsetting sales of $14.3 billion
by about 3:20 p.m. local time.

The Wall Street Journal

31

Washington: SEC chair makes way for Trump

Whites legacy is a mixed one,
Wall Street regulators began
said Helaine Olen in Slate.com.
an exodus from Washington
She laid out tough new rules
this week, said Ben Protess
for Wall Street under the Doddand Alexandra Stevenson in
Frank financial reform law, in
The New York Times. Mary Jo
addition to spearheading new
White, head of the Securities and
protections for investors. But
Exchange Commission, became
she earned the wrath of liberals
the first major Obama adminissuch as Sen. Elizabeth Warren
tration appointee to announce
when other mandates lanplans to step down after Donald
guished, including a move to
Trump takes office in January,
White: Heading for the exit
force companies to reveal their
with others expected to follow
total political spending. All the same, her leftsuit in the coming weeks. Democrats had hoped
to appoint a strong supporter of financial regula- wing critics may wish shed stayed. With Trump
pledging to gut the Obama administrations
tions to replace White, whom liberal lawmakers
key financial reforms, shell almost certainly
regarded as a moderate. Now, the agency is
have been tougher on Wall Street than whoever
almost certain to be pushed to the right and
comes next.
Wall Street rules watered down.

Labor: Organizing app rankles Walmart

Walmart is telling workers not to download a smartphone app built
by a labor advocacy group, said Sarah Nassauer in The Wall Street
Journal. WorkIt, an Android app that was released on Monday, lets
Walmart store employees chat with one another and receive advice
on workplace policies and other legal rights. Its designed by OUR
Walmart, which isnt a traditional union but advocates for higher pay
and other benefits at the retail giant. The company has instructed store
managers to tell employees not to download the app, describing it as a
scheme to gather workers personal information.

Health care: Walgreens sues Theranos for $140M

The falling out between Walgreens and disgraced blood-testing startup
Theranos is headed to court, after the national pharmacy chain filed
suit against Theranos in Delaware last week, said Melody Petersen in
the Los Angeles Times. Together, the two companies built blood-testing
stations in 40 Walgreens pharmacies in Arizona before the purportedly
revolutionary blood-testing method developed by Theranos was revealed
to be wildly inaccurate. Walgreens, which is asking for $140 million in
the lawsuit, terminated its partnership with Theranos in June.

Airlines: United to limit carry-ons for budget fares

United Airlines just took a page out of its low-cost competitors playbook, said Jeffrey Dastin in Reuters.com. The Chicago-based airline
this week unveiled a new low-cost, no-frills fare class dubbed Basic
Economy. Fliers opting for the cheaper tickets should pack light, however, because they will be limited to one carry-on bag that fits under a
seat, not in the overhead bin. United is the first major U.S. carrier to
make such a move for carry-ons, hoping to attract bargain-conscious
customers. Basic Economy fliers also wont be assigned seats until their
departure day, meaning people on the same ticket may be split apart.

Retail: Amazon cracks down on counterfeiters

For the first time in Amazons 20-plus-year history, the company
is suing merchants that sell counterfeit items on its marketplace, said
Leena Rao in Fortune.com. The e-commerce giant filed two lawsuits
in Washington state this week against sellers accused of peddling fake
goods, which are a growing problem for the company. One of the
lawsuits targets a company allegedly selling knockoffs of the Forearm
Forklift, a fabric strap that helps wearers move heavy furniture.
Forearm Forklift is said to have lost 30 percent of its annual revenue
since 2008, largely because of fakes sold online.

Egyptian cottons
dirty laundry
The luxury bedsheets
business is in the midst
of a king-size crisis,
said Matthew Campbell
in Bloomberg.com.
Major U.S. retailers,
including Target and
Walmart, cut ties with
Welspun, a top Indian
manufacturer of 100percent Egyptian cotton
sheets and other luxury
textiles, after the firm
was caught mislabeling products that were
woven with lowerquality cotton blends.
The scandal came to
light after Target investigators conducted microscopic analysis of sheet
fibers and found that
750,000 of the stores
Egyptian cotton
sheets, which sell for as
much $75 each, didnt
contain any Egyptian
cotton at all. The
highest-quality Egyptian
material, prized for its
silky feel, costs twice
as much as standardgrade cotton sourced
from India, providing
powerful incentive to
cheat. When the Cotton
Egypt Association later
conducted random tests
on store-ready products,
it found that 90percent
were fakes.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

32 BUSINESS

Making money

Holiday shopping: Skipping Black Friday

for promotions like free shipping
Black Friday has lost some of
from retailers like Target, Sears,
its mojo, said Charisse Jones in
and Home Depot. Dont bother
USA Today. Last year, the postwith Cyber Monday either, said
Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza
Michal Addady in Fortune.com.
known for long lines, bustling
The best time to shop on the web
crowds, and fever-tossed shelves
varies based on what you want to
wasnt even the busiest shopping day
buy. Most online items will be at
of the year. That honor went to Super
their lowest price on Thanksgiving
Saturday, the Saturday before ChristDay, according to a study by Adobe
mas, just as it had in 2014. And with
Digital Insights. You should be able
retailers offering bargains earlier and
to find savings of up to 10 percent
earlier in the season, shoppers have
on jewelry, 14 percent on sporting
realized they dont have to wait for
goods, 18 percent on tablets, and
Black Friday to grab a deal. Amazon,
20 percent on televisions.
for instance, began offering Black
Lining up before dawn wont even get you the best deals.
Friday sales this year on Nov. 1; Lord
You dont even need to know this years deals before putting
& Taylors holiday promotions are slated for the Tuesday before
together your holiday battle plan, said Suzanne Kapner in
Thanksgiving. Nearly two-thirds of consumers say they plan to
start their holiday shopping before Black Friday, while 29 percent The Wall Street Journal. Say you missed out on sub-$100 Beats
headphones or a $99 digital camera last year. Dont worry:
say they will have completed most of it by then.
Chances are those same items will be on sale again this year
for the same price. The front page of Targets 2015 Black FriYeah, everyone figured out that getting shoved to the ground
over a television isnt the best way to spend a post-holiday morn- day circular, for example, was almost identical to the front page
ing, said Jason Notte in TheStreet.com. Very few items are truly of its 2014 version, with virtually the same discounts and prices
for Beats headphones, Nikon cameras, DVDs, and video games.
worth braving the crowds on your day off anyway. For large
In fact, 80 percent of the products and 43 percent of the prices
appliances, your best bet for a deal is actually the week before
promoted on the front pages of the 2015 and 2014 Black Friday
Thanksgiving, when youll be able to find laundry units, vacucirculars for Best Buy, Macys, Target, Walmart, Kohls, and J.C.
ums, dishwashers, and refrigerators marked down by as much
Penney were identical.
as 35 percent. Be on the lookout for additional coupons and

What the experts say

Practicing a little delayed gratification could
save your budget, said Carl Richards in The
New York Times. Lets say theres something
you want to buy, such as a new smartphone.
Many of us use the purchase and pray
method, putting it on a credit card and then
hoping there will be enough money to pay off
the bill in full. The downside is that this technique is precisely how most of us end up way
over our heads in debt. Instead of buying that
big-ticket item right away, try preloading
your purchase by pretending to buy it. Set up
a savings account and automatically transfer,
say, $40 a month until you can afford it. Not
only will you avoid debt, youll also see how
it feels to have that money leave your checking
account before youve made a commitment.

Saving on homeowners insurance

Reviewing your homeowners insurance could
cut thousands of dollars from your premium
payments over the life of the policy, said
Robyn Friedman in The Wall Street Journal. One easy way to save is by bundling
insurance policies. Consumers can save an
average of $314 per year by combining their
auto and home, condominium, or renters
policies with the same insurer, according to
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

Charity of the week

an analysis by online insurance marketplace
InsuranceQuotes. Adding other types of insurance products, such as life insurance, may
qualify you for a bundling discount as well.
Home improvementsincluding the roof,
windows, electrical or plumbing systemsmay
also qualify for a premium discount. Installing a security system, for instance, can get you
a 5 percent to 10 percent premium discount.

Save those holiday charity receipts

Its so customary to make charitable contributions around the holidays that some
people dont even think twice about doing
it, said Jessica Dickler in CNBC.com. But
while youre in the giving spirit, dont forget
about the potential tax benefits. Any charitable contribution of up to 50 percent of your
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Issue of the week: Forecasting the Trump economy

The effect
of letting
bankers walk
Gretchen Morgenson

The New York Times

The Tronc
and
the fury
James Surowiecki

The New Yorker

THE WEEK November 25, 2016

The Obama administration paved the way for President Donald Trump by failing to go after Wall Street
fraudsters in the aftermath of the financial crisis,
said Gretchen Morgenson. Many factors played into
the populist, anti-establishment anger that swept
Trump into the White House. But lest we forget, not
one high-ranking executive at a major financial firm
was held to account for the crisis of 2008. After
millions of foreclosures and job losses, the lack of
prosecutions or even major fines played perfectly into
Trumps message that the system is rigged in favor
of the powerful at the expense of Main Street. More
than 800 bankers went to jail after the savings and

loan crisis of the 1980s, a mess that pales in comparison with the economic devastation wrought by the
housing bubble. Embarrassed, perhaps, by their passivity, Justice Department officials pledged last year
to get tougher on Wall Street, but so far that hasnt
translated into results. White-collar crime prosecutions are down significantly in 2016 from previous
years. Its not clear whether Trump, who has made
contradictory pledges both to deregulate and to rein
in Wall Street, will actually govern as a populist. But
if voters come to believe that he is actually more interested in protecting his friends or dispensing favors
to the powerful, they will turn on him.

Whats in a brand name? asked James Surowiecki.

Companies routinely spend tens of millions of dollars developing catchy names for themselves and
their products. Most stick to the idea that a name
should somehow evoke the fundamental quality that
you hope to advertise, whether its luxury or speed
or reliability. Not so Tribune Publishing. The media
company, which owns the Los Angeles Times and
the Chicago Tribune, rebranded in June as Tronc,
short for Tribune Online Content. The new moniker was ridiculed at the time and hasnt done the
company any favors since. Thats probably because
research has proven what has long been obvious:

how a word sounds does indeed convey meaning. For

example, so-called front-vowel sounds, like the i in
mil, evoke smallness and lightness, while back-vowel
sounds, as in mal, evoke heaviness and bigness.
In one study, people who ate ice cream called Frosh
liked it better than people who ate the same ice cream
under the name Frish, presumably for the formers
big, creamy vowel sound. Tribune may have been
trying to invoke something forward-looking, but its
back-vowel sound and clunky k ending convey
something heavy, slow, and dull. Now, if Tronc
made heavy machinery, maybe it wouldnt be so bad.
But for the news biz, thats a definite misfire.

AP

Thats why the stock-market boom that

Donald Trump winning the White House
has greeted the president-elect is imporwas supposed to trigger a financial panic,
tant, said Holman W. Jenkins Jr. in The
said James Stewart in The New York Times.
Wall Street Journal. Hopefully, it will
As Election Day approached, most Wall
encourage Trump to embrace his proStreet analysts predicted dire consequences
growth instincts and not his retributive
for financial markets in the case of an
ones, such as starting a trade war with
improbable Trump victory. The worlds
China or dictating to U.S. companies
biggest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associlike Ford where they can build factories.
ates, went so far as to warn clients that the
Making it easier for firms to do business,
Dow Jones industrial average would fall
along with a simplified tax code, should
2,000 points if Trump claimed the presido wonders for the economy. Grab
dency. Yet not only did Trump win, but
that low-hanging fruit, Mr. Trump. But
U.S. stocks rallied, with the Dow Jones hitPlaying a game of wait and see
businesses cant ignore for much longer
ting a record high two days after the vote.
Looks like we can add Wall Streets brain trust to the long list of what Trump has actually promised: wholesale upheavals of existing policies, said Robert Samuelson in The Washington Post.
pundits who called the election all wrong.
Trump has vowed to rewrite the rules on everything from trade
It appears investors expect a tamer Trump presidency than adver- to health care, and he has provided few, if any, details about how
tised, said Neil Irwin, also in The New York Times. For now, mar- he plans to proceed. Until companies know more, they will hold
back on investment and spending. Economists know this much:
kets are ignoring Trumps campaign promises to renegotiate or
Uncertainty hurts growth.
abandon free trade dealsmoves that would risk ripping apart
the economic underpinnings of the U.S. auto industry and other
Global investors, at least for now, seem persuaded that we dont
sectors. The same goes for Trumps pledge to deport millions of
face a sudden, sharp economic disaster, said Adam Davidson
undocumented immigrants, which would upend the operations
in NewYorker.com. The bad news is that markets are terrible at
of firms relying on that labor, especially in the agriculture and
predicting long-term threats. Case in point: There were plenty of
services industries. Instead, investors appear happy to focus on
Trumps pro-growth policiescutting taxes, slashing business reg- signs that the economy was in trouble during the run-up to the
financial crisis, but markets kept chugging along as if everything
ulations, and spending on infrastructure. If this platform seems
were normaluntil it was too late. So the best we can do is to
familiar, that is because it is, said The Economist. Tax cuts and
not forget that Trumps proposed policies will have far-reaching,
financial deregulation were central to George W. Bushs agenda.
Clearly, investors hope Trumps nativist policies on trade will qui- unpredictable economic consequences. The future is, literally,
inconceivable to us now.
etly fall by the wayside and that he will become Bush 3.0.

Obituaries

35

The poetic singer who explored love, death, and spiritual longing
Leonard Cohen had many nicknames: the Godfather of Gloom,
the High Priest of Pathos, the Poet
19342016
Laureate of Pessimism. Its easy to
understand why so many critics regarded the poet
turned singer-songwriter as a miserabilist. Armed
with a mournful, gravelly monotone, he spent
five decades singing about deep and often dark
subjectslust and betrayal, faith and philosophy,
war and politics. Yet the broodingly handsome
Canadian always leavened his lyrics with touches
of warmth and optimism. There is a crack, a
crack in everything, he sang in 1992s Anthem. Thats how
the light gets in. For a supposedly joyless fatalist, Cohen also possessed a sharp and self-aware sense of humor. I dont consider
myself a pessimist, he once said. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rainand I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard
Cohen

Cohen was born in Montreal to a prominent Jewish family who

owned several clothing and manufacturing businesses in the city,
said The Times (U.K.). Women loomed large in his adolescent
life, and he learned to play guitar, he said, to impress girls.
Cohen studied English literature at Montreals McGill University
and in 1956, a year after graduating, published his first volume
of poetry. Following brief spells in New York City and London,
Cohen traveled to Greece in 1960 and ended up buying a house
on the island of Hydra, said The Washington Post. There he met
the married Norwegian woman, Marianne Ihlen, who inspired his
songs So Long, Marianne and Bird on the Wire. Many more
women would play the role of muse; Janis Joplin, with whom he
had a brief liaison, was the subject of 1974s Chelsea Hotel #2.
While living on Hydra, Cohen wrote two novels, one of which,
1966s Beautiful Losers, would later sell 3 million copies. But his
initial lack of commercial success was discouraging, said The
New York Times, and he returned to the U.S. to try to make a living as a songwriter. Within months, Cohen had placed two songs,
Suzanne and Dress Rehearsal Rag, on folksinger Judy Collins

1966 album In My Life. Collins encouraged

him to perform, which he did despite extreme
stage fright, and he secured a contract with
Columbia Records. Cohens 1967 debut album
wasnt a big seller, but it had a strong impact
on a cult of fans and other musicians, said the
Los Angeles Times. Backed by simple, folk-rock
arrangements, his verses were economical, even
austere, with a grace and resonance reminiscent
of Scripture. But his second LP failed to reach
a wider audience, and by the mid-1970s Cohen
was struggling with depression and drug abuse.
His fortunes began to shift with the release of 1984s Various
Positions, said Reuters.com. The album included his masterpiece,
the haunting, celebratory Hallelujah, in which he invoked the
biblical King David, drew parallels between physical love and a
desire for spiritual connection, and even analyzed the songs musical structure, singing of the fourth, the fifth / the minor fall and
the major lift. The track, which took Cohen five frustrating years
to write, has since been covered by at least 300 artists, including
Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, and K.D. Lang.
Cohens career revival continued with 1988s Im Your Man, in
which he retooled his sound and employed synthesizers and drum
machines, said The Wall Street Journal. Then in 1993 he withdrew
from public life and joined a Zen Buddhist monastery in California,
where he was ordained as a monk in 1996. Cohen returned to the
world three years later, only to discover that his business manager and
former lover, Kelley Lynch, had taken off with most of his savings.
Unable to recover the missing $5 million, in 2007 Cohen began touring again at age 73. A remarkable period of fecundity ensued, said
The Daily Telegraph (U.K.). After recording 11 studio albums in 45
years, Cohen released three between 2012 and 2016. His last album,
You Want It Darker, felt like a swan song. Im leaving the table,
he sang on one track. Im out of the game. In an interview with
The New Yorker last month, Cohen, 82, said he was ready to die.
I hope its not too uncomfortable. Thats about it for me.

The actor who found fame with The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
As the star of the smash 1960s TV series
The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Robert
Vaughn attracted the kind of hysteria nor19322016
mally reserved for rock stars. I made the
mistake of strolling by the lingerie department of an L.A.
store, he recalled. In a second I was running for my
life, pursued by a posse of middle-aged matrons waving
their newly bought underthings for me to autograph.
Suave and with chiseled good looks, Vaughn starred as
U.S. agent Napoleon Solo in the NBC spy spoof alongside David McCallum, who played Russian agent Ilya
Kuryakin. Each week, the pair from the United Network Command
for Law and Enforcement battled T.H.R.U.S.H., a villainous group
intent on taking over the world through dastardly schemes like
mind-control gas. At the height of the shows popularity, Vaughn
and McCallum were receiving 70,000 fan letters a month.
Getty, Newscom

Robert
Vaughn

Born in New York City, Vaughn was raised by his grandparents

in Minneapolis after his actor parents separated, said The Times
(U.K.). He became involved in student theater while studying journalism at the University of Minnesota, and moved to Hollywood
after graduating. Vaughn supported himself by working in a

grocery store and began getting bit parts. He played

Bob Ford, the man who shot Jesse James, in 1957s
Hells Crossroads, and a prehistoric hunk in 1958s
Teenage Caveman, which Vaughn maintained was one
of the worst films ever made. He was nominated for
an Oscar for his performance as a murder suspect in
1959s The Young Philadelphians and played a reluctant gunfighter in 1960s The Magnificent Seven.
Then in 1964 came The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,
which catapulted Vaughn into overnight fame, said
The New York Times. Yet the actor appeared more focused on
politics than show business. He often spoke publicly against the
war in Vietnam and became national chairman of an organization
called Dissenting Democrats in 1967. After U.N.C.L.E. was canceled in 1968, Vaughn carved out a niche playing villains, said
The Daily Telegraph (U.K.). He was a conniving senator in Bullitt
(1968) and a devilish multimillionaire who tries to kill the Man of
Steel in Superman III (1983). Vaughn readily admitted that not all
of his 27 films and numerous TV series were classics. If 90 percent have been bad, that doesnt matter, he said. There are still
half a dozen to write home about.
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

The last word

36

The voters who swept Trump to power

For millions of Americans, Donald Trump is a fearless outsider who will bravely take on a rotten political system,
said journalists Mark Barabak and Nigel Duara. His victory has brought them delight, relief, and genuine hope.

HEN AUDREY KAATZ

Kaatz, the Arizona hairdresser, for instance, is

dating a black man she
expects to marry next
April and looks forward
to raising their mixed-race
children. Wright lives in a
multicultural community
in the Phoenix suburbs and
welcomes the Muslim and
black children who scamper
through her front yard.

and Ashley Wright

finally decided
whom to support for president, they kept the choice to
themselves.
They admired his business
sense and blunt-spoken style.
But voting for Donald Trump
was not something the two
were comfortable discussing
before the election. Not with
their friends. Not with their
boyfriends.

I dont look outside and

think my neighbors are
going to bomb me, Wright
saidthough she welcomed
the notion of a wall along
the border with Mexico, an
hours drive from her parents home in Tucson.

Certainly not with their boss,

a Democrat who supported
Hillary Clinton.

different perspective.
They see an outsider unbeholden to a corrupt and rotten political system and brave
enough to stake bold positions. They consider him fearless enough to defy the confines of political correctness. They view
him as a vastly successful businessman, but
THE WEEK November 25, 2016

by an arrogant and biased news media, his

supporters say, and many of them feel misunderstood and maligned as well.

it
wasnt all angry white men, terrified
of the countrys changing hue, who
swept Trump into office.
ONTRARY TO PERCEPTIONS,

Now, at age 58, Lawson drives a semi-truck

hauling housing debris across Florida. It
was bad and Trump exploited it, Lawson
said of NAFTA. He saw it and spoke
about it. That spoke to me.
Trump is a business guy, Lawson said.
Thats the change thats needed.

Caitlin OHara

People were scared to say

they were voting for him,
Kaatz, 27, said as she stepped
The notion of two
Ashley Wright (left) and Audrey Kaatz kept their support of Trump a secret.
away from the bang of a cash
Americas, one ascendant,
register and the thrum of hair dryers at the
possessing a common touch: a workingthe other convinced it is slipping ever furupscale salon in Scottsdale, Ariz., where the mans billionaire.
ther behind, has become a staple of the
two women work.
countrys politics and its national narrative
His victory brought euphoria, relief.
as well.
Even now when people hear she supported
Trump, said the 28-year-old Wright, They Edith Gatewood, 72, felt like twirling
Many Trump supporters belong to the latacross the floor of her home in a Denver
think, Oh, so you must be a racist, and
ter America, an America of dislocation and
senior
complex.
Norman
Gardner,
67,
who
that isnt fair or true.
loss: lost jobs, lost opportunities. A lost
runs a mobile home park in Shelbyville,
sense of belonging. A sense of no longer
A week after the Republican businessman
Tenn., wanted to go outside and holler at
mattering.
and reality TV star pulled off one of the
the moon.
most astonishing political upsets in the
In Shelbyville, a town of about 20,000 near
Joyce Riley, 65, who sells real estate in
countrys history, Americans are still trying
the center of Tennessee, Gardner, the mobile
Floridas Panhandle, hadnt realized how
to sort through the implications.
home park operator, spoke of the businesses
bad she felt about the direction of the
Trying to understand how it happened.
country until she saw the prospect of things that have vanished. The company that built
fireplaces. The factories that made pencils.
Trying to understand each other. Trying
getting better. This is the first time Ive
The textile mills.
to fathom the yawning gap between two
been optimistic about the country in many
Americas.
years, she said. Ive been walking around Nothings come in to take their place, he
singing Happy Days Are Here Again.
said. We need to bring industry back and I
To his many critics, Trump is a racist, a
think [Trump] can do it.
bigot, a misogynist, and a clown. The
Sure, Trump said some vile things during
thought of him becoming the most poweran exceedingly nasty campaign, sometimes Trumps economic nationalism resonated
ful person on the planet is enough to proacting in ways they wouldnt want their
with Emmett Lawson, an African-American
duce stomach-churning anxiety, to bring
children to behave. But for those who sup- who fled Cleveland for Orlando after losing
sleepless nights and induce tears.
ported him, that was part of what made
his job in a steel mill. He blames the North
him an unconventional candidatehe
American Free Trade Agreement, which
But more than six dozen conversations
wasnt
the
typical
stamped-from-the-mold
President Clinton signed into law and
with Trump voters across the country
politician.
Trump derides as the worst bargain in the
Democrats, Republicans, political
history of creation.
independentsturned up a thoroughly
Trump was misunderstood and maligned

The last word

37

In Huntington Beach, Calif., Anthony

Miskulin, 37, used to make six figures as a
loan officer, until the Great Recession hit.
Now he toils in corporate sales, making
$26,000 a year. He shares a house with
four other people and commutes three
hours by bus, having given up his car. He
shoulders $57,000 in student-loan debt.

It was plainly wrong, though, Register

said, to see the White House lit up in
rainbow colors to celebrate the Supreme
Courts legalization of same-sex marriage.
That was not cool to me, said Register,
whose disability check helps care for an
adult daughter and two grandchildren living with her. And Im an American, too.

Many liked what they saw on the Wednesday morning after Election Day, when
Trump, apparently as surprised as most
others, laid claim to the White House.
He seemed more serious, they said, more
responsible and sober, and they expect
that to continue as the weight of the office
settles on his shoulders.

I never anticipated being in this situation,

he said, soaking up the sunone form
of recreation he can still affordon an
80-degree day on the Orange County coast.
My vote for Donald Trump, it wasnt out
of bigotry. It wasnt out of hatred. It was
about survival.

To paint everyone who voted for Trump

as a racist, or homophobe, or womanhater, or to stuff every one of them into a
basket labeled deplorable, to use Hillary
Clintons infelicitous term, ignores and delegitimizes a deeply held sense of abandonment, these voters contend.

His mouth gets him in trouble, said

Wayne Lee, 64, a truck driver from
Palmetto, Ga., who acknowledged it was
somewhat nervous-making to think of
Trump with his finger on the nuclear trigger. But I think his behavior is going to
change. All these outburststheyre not
going to happen anymore. I think
hes going to take it seriously.

Miskulin wants a better-paying job.

He wants a stronger economy. He
wants Trump to deal with illegal
immigration, which Miskulin blames
for soaring housing prices and sees as
a drain on public services.

That, of course, wont be known

for some time.
It is clear what Trump supporters
expect, in keeping with the grand
though often contradictory promises he made during the campaign.

Ive been to the welfare office before,

and a lot of people who go there
dont speak English, Miskulin said.
Most of the people who go there,
theyre not white. Theyre not even
black. The most people you see there
are mostly Mexican.... They are illegal
and they dont belong in our country.

A stronger economy that will produce more jobs with better pay.
Lower taxes. Less bureaucracy.
Cheaper and more widely available
health care.

A reversal of the decades-long

decline in the countrys manufacturing industry, and a revival
Anthony Miskulin said his Trump vote was about survival.
of the struggling coal and steel
For some, making America great
industries. Better and safer airports, roads,
again means returning to a time when it
Everyone who voted for Trump is being
and bridges.
was whiter, more male-dominated, and
called names, said Janet Flanigan, 54,
more in line with what the religious right
as she stood outside a Thai restaurant
A muscular foreign policy that will deter
and its political allies consider traditional
and sushi bar in the courthouse square in
aggression and make the country stand
family values.
Newnan, Ga., a former cotton town about taller in the eyes of both friend and foe.
40 miles southwest of Atlanta. Were
Margo Miko, 62, a former nurse now livA fail-safe policy that will keep people from
ing on disability in Ohio, was among those called redneck, ignorant, racist, haters.
entering the country illegally and, especially,
drawn by Trumps promises to build an
The freelance writer went on, waving her
keep terrorists offshore.
impenetrable wall along the Southern borhands in frustration. Thats not true, she
der and to keep out Muslim immigrants.
said. People voted for Trump because they I finally feel optimistic, said Miskulin,
who earlier had watched the Veterans Day
She blamed her states governor, Republican felt they have not had representation in
celebration in Huntington Beach. I think
Washington
for
a
long
time.
John Kasich, for allowing an influx of refuDonald Trump is not only going to be
gees that has made her feel like a stranger in
HANGE, OF COURSE, entails risk,
great for the country but also great for the
her Columbus neighborhood. She cited an
and many readily concede there is
American people, not a small minority of
encounter on a hot summer day.
considerable risk in handing the
bureaucrats and labor union members.
country over to a man who has never
She was out in shorts and a top when she
To hear them tell it, Trump supporters want
served in the military or spent a moment
ran into a woman in full Muslim garb.
a government that no longer works to make
in
governmentsomething
the
country
has
She looked me up and down and said,
the rich even richer, offers handouts to the
never
done
in
its
entire
history.
You really should cover yourself, Miko
undeserving, and caters to the whims of
recounted. I told her, You need to take
But theres always risk, they said, and with
Washingtons army of lobbyists and special
some clothes off. I bet youre really hot.
four years of Hillary Clinton they figured
interests.
She was quite nasty.
it was pretty clear what the country could
Perhaps more than anything, they want a
expect: more economic inequality, more
Tonya Register, a 57-year-old Trump suppresident who pays attention to the half of
bloated government, more taxes, a continporter in Fountain Valley, in Southern
the country bereft of hope: That, they said,
ued
loss
of
respect
around
the
world.
California, said she has nothing against
would truly make America great again.
Mexicansthey were in the area long
She has a proven track record, said
before she was, she notedor the Asian
Nancy Lewis, 58, who works for a medical
immigrants filling up her Orange County
answering service in Mendenhall, Miss.,
Originally published in the Los Angeles
neighborhood.
and it wasnt a very good one.
Times. Reprinted with permission.
Those racial undercurrents were an
undeniable part of the Trump wave.

Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times

THE WEEK November 25, 2016

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bordering Ukraine and
Afghanistan
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Netherlands solved
one of these in
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world record
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21 Gusto
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auto mechanic?
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36 Friend of Philippes
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record 2,521-squaremeter version of this
games board was
created in Arlington,
Texas
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CryingGame
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Godfather: Part III
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stands for
publishers
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advantageously
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Utah, 12,215 people
participated in a
record-setting game
ofthis
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Midwestern metropolis
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response
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Gong Show
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This weeks question: A Boston University study

has found that peasants in 13th-century Europe took
150days off from work per year to celebrate holidays
and festivals, compared with 16.2 vacation days taken
by the average American. If a management guru were to
write a book about how adopting a medieval work-life
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