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APRIL 8, 2019
JUST
SINGINÕ
THE TRUMP
REBOOT
By BRIAN BENNETT
WHAT WE
CAN ALL
LEARN
FROM THIS
By JON MEACHAM
BARR’S
NEXT MOVE
By TESSA BERENSON
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‘YOU
‘Take my ‘I don’t think
anyone on
golden board has
HAVE TO
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this mystery
give me travel lottery.’
the sky.’ SON TRAN, passenger on
a March 25 British Airways
DO MORE
REEM, flight from London to
a Saudi Arabian woman Düsseldorf, Germany,
known by a pseudonym for her that mistakenly landed
safety, after she and her sister in Edinburgh
were granted emergency
visas; they had spent months
in legal limbo after fleeing
AND TALK
what they called “slavelike”
conditions in their wealthy
homeland with its laws
restricting women’s freedom
LESS.’
‘Only one
medium-
size torso 94 years
can be PETER TABICHI, science teacher, on his classroom philosophy;
and
made
a Franciscan friar working at a rural Kenyan school,
he won the Varkey Foundation’s $1 million 2019
172 days
Global Teacher Prize on March 24 Jimmy Carter’s age as of
ready by March 22, when he set a
new record for oldest living
U.S. President ever
Friday.’ ‘This is a whitewash
NASA, announcing that the
first all-female spacewalk,
of justice.’
planned for March 29, would RAHM EMANUEL, Chicago mayor, blasting prosecutors for Guac
not take place because there dropping all charges against Empire star Jussie Smollett a few Listeria worries
were not enough space-suit weeks after a grand jury had indicted him on 16 felony counts; prompt a recall of
tops available in the size both Smollett, who maintains his innocence, was accused of lying avocados sold in at
astronauts wear about being the victim of a hate crime least six U.S. states
1,600
I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y B R O W N B I R D D E S I G N F O R T I M E
BAD WEEK
GOOD WEEK
Approximate weight, in
pounds, of an African Watusi
steer named Oliver, brought Chips
by his owner to a Petco in Apple’s AirPods
Texas to test the store’s policy earphones get a
welcoming pets on leashes new chip that makes
(Oliver was welcomed) wireless connection
faster
6 Time April 8, 2019 S O U R C E : N E W YO R K T I M E S
NO WAY OUT
E.U. supporters
rally ’round the
flag at a London
protest on
March 23
INSIDE
LIBERIANS LIVING IN THE U.S. THE PENTAGON TAKES A RISK MUSEUMS REFUSE FUNDS
FACE A DEPORTATION DEADLINE FUNDING A BORDER WALL LINKED TO THE OPIOID CRISIS
PHOTOGR APH BY KEVIN COOMBS
TheBrief Opener
WORLD the original date, on April 12.
Assailed by protesters on one side and the E.U. on the
Cornered by Brexit, other, May had long ago lost the support of many of her
May promises to go colleagues. At least 29 members of her government have
resigned to vote against her Brexit policy since June 2017,
By Billy Perrigo/London and her Cabinet, delicately balanced between Remain-
ers and Brexiters, is beset by regular leaks and open dis-
rom The vanTage poinT of a news helicop- agreement. May narrowly headed off an attempt to topple
F ter, the hundreds of thousands of people who
lined the streets of Central London on March 23
looked like a colony of ants. The thick column
stretched from Hyde Park in the west past the Ritz Hotel
before spilling out in front of the Houses of Parliament.
her premiership on March 24, according to reports, and
her authority was torn to shreds two days later when law-
makers proposed 16 possible ways forward for the U.K., in
defiance of her deal.
If Britain ends up with a so-called no-deal Brexit on
Broadcast on loudspeakers and carried aloft on placards April 12, trade agreements, citizens’ rights and customs
came the marchers’ demand: “Put it to the people.” arrangements could be nullified overnight. Authorities
What else could “it” be but Brexit? Nearly three years are preparing for possible food and medicine shortages,
after the June 2016 referendum in which 52% of voters and the Bank of England has warned it could do more
elected to leave the European Union, the country is both harm to the U.K. economy than the 2008 financial crisis.
divided and paralyzed by the decision. And on March 27, A no-deal Brexit would have repercussions overseas
after two defeats from lawmakers who refused to ratify too. Trade with every E.U. country would fall, with Ger-
the exit deal she negotiated with the E.U., Prime Minister many and Ireland among the worst hit. The U.S. could also
Theresa May made one last attempt to end that paralysis suffer: a recession in Britain, the U.S.’s fifth largest export
by promising to resign if Parliament would just market, would have knock-on effects for U.S. pro-
push her deal over the line. ‘I know there is ducers. The potential damage to the global clout of
As the original March 29 deadline for Brit- a desire for a a country once seen as America’s diplomatic bridge
ain’s departure approached, patience wore thin to Europe is substantial.
on all sides. An online petition calling for Brexit
new approach There is, however, a mechanism to avoid a no-
to be canceled altogether drew more than and new deal Brexit: revoking Article 50, the legal device
5.8 million signatures, after causing the govern- leadership.’ by which Britain is exiting the E.U. “That’s the nu-
ment’s official petitions website to crash at least THERESA MAY, clear option,” says Tim Bale, a professor of politics
twice. At the same time as the march in Lon- in a March 27 speech to at Queen Mary, University of London. “It would
don, roughly 100 miles north, Brexit supporters Conservative lawmakers mean not leaving at all.” Europe’s top court has
P R E V I O U S PA G E : R E U T E R S; T H E S E PA G E S : M AY: G E T T Y I M A G E S; S U P E R B L O O M : M I C H A E L C H O W — U S A T O D AY N E T W O R K /S I PA U S A
gathered to hear Nigel Farage, a figurehead of ruled that the U.K. could cancel Brexit unilaterally,
the movement to leave the E.U., criticize May’s an outcome that would delight the millions who
“Brexit betrayal.” Although a much smaller signed the anti-Brexit petition.
crowd, the 200 or so marchers claimed to rep- But it remains a remote possibility. Respond-
resent the 17.4 million who voted for Brexit. ing to the petition in a statement, the government
May staked her reputation on delivering said revoking Article 50 would “break the prom-
Brexit, but she’s been unable to count on the ises made by government to the British people,
support of even people who want to leave, let disrespect the clear instruction from a democratic
alone those who don’t. According to pollster vote and, in turn, reduce confidence in our democ-
Opinium, 61% of Brits disapprove of her han- racy.” And May has repeatedly said she “will not
dling of Brexit. “I know there is a desire for a countenance” canceling Brexit.
new approach and new leadership,” she told It may not be her decision for much longer.
members of her ruling Conservative Party on Waiting in the wings for her job are former Foreign
March 27. “I won’t stand in the way of that.” Secretary Boris Johnson and former Brexit Secre-
tary Dominic Raab, both of whom would push for
first comes the still-tricky task of delivering a no-deal Brexit over a cancellation, going against
Brexit. On March 14, still with no consensus on the wishes of a majority of lawmakers. “I’m afraid
moving forward with May’s deal, lawmakers this saga will continue,” David Lammy, a lawmaker
voted to direct her to ask the E.U. for more time. from the opposition Labour Party, tells TIME.
Days later, at a summit in Brussels, leaders of “There’s a lot of drama ahead on the British politi-
the 27 other E.U. member states agreed to set a cal scene.” The passing of May’s deal, after two his-
new deadline. Now, if lawmakers ratify May’s toric defeats, would be less a sign of her skill nego-
agreement with the E.U., Brexit will be post- tiating tactics than of her running down the clock.
poned until May 22—and May will stand down. For now, the resignation of this Prime Minister
If they do not agree on a way forward, Britain is might be the one thing on which a large majority
set to crash out of the bloc just two weeks after in the U.K. can agree. •
8 Time April 8, 2019
NEWS
TICKER
Trump muddles
NoKo sanctions
President Donald
Trump’s March 22 tweet
that he’d withdraw
sanctions on North
Korea drew confusion,
as he seemed to refer
to sanctions that had
just been announced.
Officials said he meant
future sanctions, but
Bloomberg reported
March 26 that this was
a cover story to hide
that Trump had been
persuaded to change his
mind after tweeting.
POPPYPALOOZA When bright blossoms popped up across Walker Canyon’s hills in early March, the
residents of Lake Elsinore, Calif., were excited. Wildflower “superblooms” typically happen once a decade,
and drought has made them scarcer. But tourists, spurred by social media, quickly overwhelmed locals
and flowers alike. After temporarily blocking access, the town introduced shuttles and limited parking— Mexico wants
measures that appear not to have dampened interest, as up to 20,000 people visited on March 23 alone. apology for
conquest
Mexico’s President
THE BULLETIN Andrés Manuel López
Deportation looms for Liberians after Obrador said March 25
that he’d sent a letter
decades of protected status in the U.S. to Spain’s King Felipe VI
demanding an apology
many liberians living in The u.s. ar- from Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti, Nepal for human-rights abuses
rived fleeing civil war and its aftermath. On and Sudan. Noting that Liberia was no lon- against indigenous
people during Spain’s
March 31, the Trump Administration’s de- ger experiencing armed conflict and that the 16th century conquest
cision to end a special program designed to threat of another Ebola outbreak had dissi- of Latin America. Spain
protect them goes into effect. It will send pated, he gave Liberians with DED status— said it “firmly rejects”
some 4,000 people, many of whom have everyone from doctoral students to retirees the letter’s argument.
spent most of their lives in the U.S., back to with deep roots in the U.S.—one year “to
a country they may no longer know. make necessary arrangements” to return.
More tragedy
SPECIAL STATUS In 1991, with fighting BREAKING HOMES Many parents are facing for shooting
rendering their homeland chaotic, Libe- a painful choice: leave their U.S.-born chil- survivors
rians in the U.S. at the time were granted dren, or take them from the only home they
protected status, giving them the right to have ever known to an unfamiliar country In just over a week, two
stay and work (but no path to citizenship) where violence is rife and opportunities are survivors of 2018’s
shooting in Parkland,
until it was safe to go back. Eight years later, few. And those with DED status who might Fla., and a father of a
after one civil war had morphed into an- choose to stay and appeal the decision risk child killed in the 2012
other, President Bill Clinton gave Liberians losing their jobs and being deported as Sandy Hook shooting
another special status, called Deferred En- newly undocumented immigrants. Civil all died by apparent
forced Departure (DED), which offers simi- rights advocates have sued the Administra- suicide, police said,
prompting calls for
lar protection from deportation. tion on behalf of the Liberians, calling the support and reform.
program’s termination racially motivated. If you or someone
TIME TO GO For two decades, every Meanwhile, congressional Democrats have you know may be
President renewed the program—until introduced a law that would allow Libe- contemplating suicide,
March 2018, when President Donald Trump rians in the DED to apply for permanent call the National Suicide
Prevention Lifeline at
reconsidered it amid a wider curbing of pro- residency—but even if the law passes, it will 1-800-273-8255.
grams for previously protected immigrants likely be too late. —aryn baker
9
TheBrief News
GOOD QUESTION military personnel and transferred it into a
How is the Pentagon counterdrug account, which gives it author-
NEWS ity to take measures to support federal law-
TICKER using military funding enforcement efforts to stop drug trafficking.
to build a border wall? The fence falls under that umbrella.
Trump Admin Trump’s decision to declare a national
backs full The PenTagon could face long-Term emergency was widely seen as a last-ditch
ACA repeal negative effects by defying Congress to fund “nuclear option” that will likely spark multi-
construction for a wall along the Mexican ple legal challenges and fundamentally shake
The U.S. Justice
Department said in a border, but acting Defense Secretary Patrick the balance of federal power. But an initial at-
March 25 legal filing Shanahan is going ahead with it anyway. tempt to overturn the emergency flopped on
that it believes the On March 25, he authorized the U.S. Army March 26, as House Democrats failed to over-
Affordable Care Act Corps of Engineers to spend up to $1 billion turn Trump’s veto of a resolution rejecting it.
should be overturned,
for 57 miles of fencing, roads and other mea- Though Representative Adam Smith, chair
which would eliminate
health coverage for sures on the southwestern border. And rather of the House Armed Services Committee, is-
more than 20 million than asking for the money, the Defense De- sued a letter denying the Pentagon request to
people and disrupt the partment simply told Congress what it was transfer funding, it was symbolic, as no such
U.S. health system. doing. That’s an unprecedented tactic and request had been made. To see the defense
The Administration
one that has drawn fire from Democrats and budget as a “slush fund” from which money
previously said only
parts of the law should Republicans alike who see it as sidestepping can be grabbed as needed “really undermines
be struck down. the legislature’s power of the purse. [its] credibility,” Smith told Shanahan.
The decision to do things this way will And the Pentagon still intends to take an
likely cost the Pentagon its ability to “re- additional $3.6 billion in construction funds
program” money in the years ahead, which that have not yet been allocated to a specific
Europe’s will hamper its ability to react quickly to mil- contract. The military generally uses that
copyright law itary needs. “We understand the significant money to fund projects ranging from family
transformed downsides of losing what amounts to a privi- housing to infrastructure repair, and mem-
The European lege,” Shanahan told the House Armed Ser- bers of both parties have lambasted the plan
Parliament backed vices Committee on March 26. But, he added, out of fears that projects in their home states
controversial reforms the Pentagon was simply executing a “legal will be targeted. “Military construction on
to E.U. copyright
laws on March 26,
order from the Commander in Chief,” Presi- the border will not come at the expense of
including one that could dent Donald Trump, who declared a national our people, our readiness or our moderniza-
compel platforms like emergency at the border in February. tion,” Shanahan promised—but with the Pen-
L E A N C H O I L I A : R O B E R T R . G A I N E S; G U G G E N H E I M : T H E N E W YO R K T I M E S/ R E D U X ; W A L K E R : G E M S/ R E D F E R N S/G E T T Y I M A G E S
Instagram and YouTube To obtain the border funding, Pentagon tagon now deeply involved in implementing
to filter uploads of officials played what amounts to a bureau- Trump’s immigration policy, such construc-
copyrighted material.
Supporters say the
cratic shell game. The Defense Department tion will increasingly be part of any defense
changes protect took leftover money that was allocated for spending calculation. —W.J. hennigan
creators; others saw
a “massive blow” to
Internet freedoms.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Israel
Blast from the past
A mudslide 518 million years ago left a huge deposit of fossils in China’s Hubei province,
and Gaza scientists have announced. Here, a few of the 101 species identified so far. —Ciara Nugent
exchange fire
Seven people were LEANCHOILIID KINORHYNCH DAIHUA SANQIONG
injured on March 25 Researchers found a A bristly, wormlike A circular sea
after a rocket fired shrimplike creature, animal measuring creature with
from Gaza hit a house part of a group called up to 1.5 in. appears 18 tentacles may
near Tel Aviv. Israel the Leanchoiliids to be a precursor be an ancestor of
launched retaliatory first identified in to the much modern comb jellies.
airstrikes targeting Canada’s Burgess smaller kinorhynch, Scientists have until
Hamas, the militant Shale. The new also known as now struggled to
group that governs fossil, showing fine a mud dragon, trace the comb jelly’s
Gaza. The clash anatomical details, which today dwells origin because soft-
prompted Israeli Prime may belong to a on coasts and in bodied organisms
Minister Benjamin new species. shallow seas. are rarely fossilized.
Netanyahu to cut short
a visit to the U.S.
10 Time April 8, 2019Milestones
DIED DIED
Rafi Eitan, Israeli spy
who led the capture
Scott Walker
of Nazi leader Pop prophet
Adolf Eichmann, on
March 23 at 92. scoTT WalKer began his
music career at the top of
OUTLAWED
The Christchurch the charts and ended it on
shooter’s manifesto, the fringes after decades
by New Zealand, spent pushing the bound-
on March 23. In an aries of songwriting. Such
effort to limit hate, uncompromising work
the country made it
a crime to possess made Walker, who died on
or distribute the March 22 at 76, a hero to pop
document. titans from David Bowie to
Radiohead.
RECOGNIZED
The Golan Heights
At about the time the
as part of Israel, by Beatles were invading Amer-
President Donald ica, the Ohio native (born
Trump, on March 25, Noel Scott Engel) assumed a
breaking with U.S. pseudonym, moved to Lon-
precedent and many
other countries that
don and found fame front-
consider the area ing the Walker Brothers, a
occupied territory. pop trio whose lush hits like
“Make It Easy on Yourself”
BANNED were built around his bari-
Praise for white
nationalism and tone. But he soon outgrew
white separatism teen idol–dom. In the de-
on Facebook, on cades that followed, he com-
Photographer Nan Goldin leads a protest on Feb. 9 at the Guggenheim
March 27, in a major posed haunting scores for
policy change by the Museum in New York City against its funding by the Sackler family
films like 2018’s Vox Lux and
platform that will
take effect in April. constructed harrowing ex-
REJECTED
perimental suites influenced
RETIRED Sackler family philanthropy by history. Yet his difficult
Ultimate Fighting Museums cut long-standing ties later releases were never an
Championship star
Conor McGregor,
exercise in elitism. “I’m writ-
according to The announcemenTs began on march 19 WiTh The u.K.’s ing for everyone. Just they
McGregor, on National Portrait Gallery and then the Tate museum group. New haven’t discovered it yet,”
March 26, the same York City’s Guggenheim Museum followed suit. Each state- Walker told the Guardian.
day it was revealed ment expressed the same decision: to no longer accept donations “I’ll be six feet under—but
Irish police are
investigating him for
worth millions of dollars from the Sackler family. On March 25, they will.” —Judy berman
sexual assault. pre-empting more rejections, a Sackler Trust spokesperson an-
nounced a halt to any further donations on behalf of the family.
CHARGED The news was a win for activists who say Sackler money is
Michael Avenatti, tainted by the family’s ties to the U.S. opioid crisis, which the
lawyer known for
representing Stormy CDC has linked to nearly 49,000 deaths in 2017 alone. Sackler
Daniels, with trying family members own Purdue Pharma, the company behind the
to extort millions of painkiller OxyContin. A recent lawsuit representing over 500 cit-
dollars from Nike, on ies, counties and tribes accuses Purdue and eight members of the
March 25. Avenatti family, who deny wrongdoing, of misleading the public about the
denies the charges.
drug and profiting from the crisis; on March 26, Purdue agreed to
PLANNED pay Oklahoma $270 million to settle a separate but similar case.
The end of its In the past two decades, the Sackler Trust has given tens of
Mediterranean millions of dollars in donations to organizations in the U.K. and
sea patrols to
rescue migrants,
the U.S. The family name can be found branded across museums,
in September, galleries, universities and cultural institutions spanning Europe
according to the E.U., and the U.S., including the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gal-
on March 27. Air lery on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Even if donations
rescues will continue. stop flowing, that name is likely to linger. —suyin haynes
11TheBrief TIME with ...
gown she’d bought for the premiere of her come-
Catherine O’Hara isn’t back, The Crows Have Eyes III: The Crowening, a
an outrageous diva—she trashy sci-fi flick in which she is hysterical in both
senses of the word. The Roses may seem hard to re-
just plays one on TV late to, but as showrunner, Dan Levy endows them
By Judy Berman with heart, pluck and a capacity for change.
It’s this gentleness—and not, as one might ex-
pect, a kind of schadenfreude in watching the 1%
“How would you beHave if your wHole life struggle—that has made the show a sleeper hit
was ripped out from under you?” Catherine O’Hara stateside, where its availability on Netflix has at-
wants to know. I’m supposed to be asking the ques- tracted an enthusiastic young audience. And while
tions here, at the Manhattan hotel restaurant where it’s stretched O’Hara—she had never spent so
the comedy legend is between appointments, cob- much time playing a single role before—it has also
bling together a late lunch of tapas (and urging me brought her back to a type of character with which
to try the stuffed peppadews). But I’ve just thought- O’HARA she’s intimately familiar. Moira, like many of her
lessly referred to her character on Schitt’s Creek as QUICK previous roles, is a performer—a ham who craves at-
selfish, and she’s politely defending the woman FACTS tention and approval. It’s the gulf between the way
she’s spent the past four years portraying. she comes off and the way she tries to present her-
O’Hara has a point. Her alter ego Moira Rose self that makes her so funny. Yet O’Hara appears to
Grandes
is more gracious than many would be in her four- dames be untouched by such self-delusion. “Maybe I’m
figure shoes. A sweet yet sharp Canadian fam- On SCTV, her just trying to get it out of my system,” she suggests.
ily sitcom that will end its fifth season in the U.S. repertoire of “I’m so afraid to be like that.”
on Pop TV on April 9, Schitt’s Creek follows the impressions
megarich Rose clan—Moira, her husband Johnny included All good Acting requires an instinctive grasp
Katharine
(O’Hara’s frequent co-star Eugene Levy) and their Hepburn, of psychology, but the insight and empathy that
grown kids David (Eugene’s son and co-creator Meryl Streep ground O’Hara’s oddball characters are specific to
Dan Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy)—after they and Lucille her work. That’s probably because she’s spent so
lose their fortune and move into a motel in the titu- Ball. much time over the past 45 years creating them.
lar podunk town, which they somehow own. It’s an Though her most familiar roles have been in major
Nightmarish
unlikely scenario but one orchestrated to bring the reunions films, she’s devoted much of her career to projects
Roses together. For 65-year-old O’Hara, who has She has rooted in the collaborative discipline of improv.
two sons in their 20s with her husband, production reprised her “I’ve never, for a second, been drawn to the idea of
designer and director Bo Welch, this forced togeth- role in Tim doing a one-woman show,” she says. “Because it’s so
erness is kind of enviable: “I’m always wondering Burton’s 1993 inspiring to work with good, talented people.”
animated
where my kids are,” she laughs. classic The O’Hara credits that preference to growing up in
O’Hara rocketed to the pop-cultural stratosphere Nightmare a big, funny Toronto family whose members were
in the late 1980s and early ’90s through roles as a Before always performing for one another. She became
harried mother in Home Alone and Winona Ryder’s Christmas in the baby of Toronto’s new Second City outpost in
artiste stepmom in Beetlejuice (where she met several live 1974, understudying for her brother Marcus’ then
performances.
Welch). Like Moira, she is an actor, wife and mom. girlfriend Gilda Radner—whom O’Hara adored—
But their personalities couldn’t differ more. Moira, a Pride of and overlapping with Dan Aykroyd, John Candy
former soap star whose pretensions outstrip her tal- Canada and Andrea Martin as well as Eugene Levy. (The
ent, can be vain, competitive, histrionic and snobby, In 2018, two even dated briefly.) Improv comedy was still a
whereas O’Hara is warm, self-deprecating and ani- O’Hara was relatively new form then, and they were essentially
appointed
mated without being effusive. She seems happier to the Order working out how to do it in real time. O’Hara grins
carrying on a reciprocal conversation than talking of Canada. when I mention that the manic creativity of those
about herself. And while Moira looks larger than She has also years reminds me of an underground music scene.
life in six-inch heels, pastel wigs and designer out- appeared In an improv troupe, “you are creating your own
fits that walk the line between gorgeous and garish, on postage material like a band,” she agrees. “It’s so musical.”
stamps in her
O’Hara—a compact woman in a crisp, white button- home country. By 1976, O’Hara, Levy and many of their cohorts
down and thick-rimmed glasses—could be a stylish had been drafted into the original cast of SCTV, Sec-
humanities professor. ond City Toronto’s answer to Saturday Night Live. In
Still, as O’Hara points out, her character is a the ensuing decades, she balanced character roles
trouper and an optimist, always seeking to revive in big Hollywood movies with membership in a new
her acting career and restore the family to its former troupe: the ad hoc ensemble of improvisers who
glory. “She thinks that she’s really making the best populate the indie mockumentaries of Best in Show
of a bad situation,” O’Hara says. This season, in a director Christopher Guest. It was only in those
moment of growth, Moira returns the too-expensive films that she and Levy started working as partners,
12 Time April 8, 2019often playing couples. O’Hara recalls that her fam- says now. O’Hara can, of course, get into the heads
ily was moved to tears watching the old friends play of her nervous peers: “These people have been told
troubled duo Mitch & Mickey in the 2003 folk send- they’re going to win. This is their time.” But this
up A Mighty Wind. ‘I’ve never, need for recognition, surely not the chief motivating
Throughout her career, she has cherished the for a force for many of these creators, can distract from
freedom that improv has given her to shape her own the intrinsic rewards of having made a great show.
outsize yet remarkably human characters through
second, O’Hara has similar reservations about social
collaboration and research. But O’Hara appears to been media; she doesn’t do Twitter, shudders at its ap-
have mastered the portrayal of fragile entertain- drawn to propriation of the term followers and laments the
ers, from SCTV showgirl Lola Heatherton to Moira, the idea urge to share photos of every meal. On Schitt’s
through keen observation. Days before the midwin- of doing Creek, which will end its run following a sixth sea-
ter afternoon when we met, she and Levy presented a one- son in 2020, characters’ lives revolve around the
at the Critics’ Choice Awards—where Schitt’s Creek woman town square rather than Instagram. That jibes with
made history as the first Canadian show nominated show.’ O’Hara’s values. “It’s a nice example of how we
for best comedy—with a gag that had them hyping should behave in this real world,” she says.
CATHERINE
their own banter like a movie trailer. (“If you see And yet, for a comedic actor who excels at play-
O’HARA, on her
just one couple present an award this year,” she bel- preference for ing the obliviously vain, the narcissism of the
lowed, “make it this one.”) collaboration Internet—and, arguably, of the era—is part of what
They killed on Twitter. But in the room, O’Hara keeps her in business. Not that she’d ever say she’s
sensed more tension than mirth. “I’m not saying immune to it: “I love the idea that human beings—
they should have been laughing, but I saw a lot of including me, right now and always—think they can
JUCO
faces whose mind-sets were somewhere else,” she control the impression they make.”
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WHAT PLAYERS
DESERVE
By Taylor Branch
The annual March Madness
heist is under way. Let’s take
a peek behind the curtain:
while the cameras show
supremely gifted college
athletes delivering drama and
thrills on the court, the NCAA
has licensed every television
broadcast to hoard a bonanza
for people who never touch the
ball. ¶ Well-meaning voices call
for the NCAA to pay players,
but this demand is misguided. ▶
19TheView Opener
No college should be required to pay and NCAA officials resist the danger of vanished overnight when the Supreme
athletes, and no pay structure needs granting college athletes even “limited” Court upheld a demand from the
to be planned. The central question is rights. Under pressure, they have stuck major football colleges, led by Georgia
whether college athletes should have the to the claim of exclusive authority. Small and Oklahoma, to schedule their own
bargaining rights that other Americans benefits called reform, such as a “full unlimited broadcasts. In the late 1990s,
take for granted. On this point, the scholarship package”—which includes when an NCAA rule restricted certain
NCAA is deaf to persuasion. It will hang free tuition and a stipend—shrewdly new assistant coaches to a $16,000
on to its windfall tenaciously. fall short of rights or independent annual salary, some 2,000 assistants
The NCAA system is not a creation representation for the athletes. banded to file an antitrust grievance that
of law. It’s a private compact of colleges External forces will be needed to won them the freedom to bargain, plus a
and their athletic conferences, designed compel significant change, and there $54.5 million settlement. NCAA colleges
to impose a compensation ceiling on is precedent on several fronts. In 1978, promptly found ways to pay assistant
athletes by fiat and to demonize anyone spurred by Cold War competition over coaches many times the old limit.
who pays or receives a nickel above Olympic medals, Congress passed the Judges have acknowledged the same
essentially the cost of college attendance. Amateur Sports Act to empower active legal reasoning in recent cases brought
Basic reform is simple: just recognize athletes by requiring they have at least by current and former college athletes.
the right of each athlete to bargain for 20% representation on each governing U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken
the value of his or her work. This is not committee for U.S. Olympic teams. recently ruled the NCAA compact a
a radical notion. Roughly 14 million of This small but revolutionary step soon violation of antitrust law because it
20 million U.S. undergraduates have dissolved draconian “amateur” rules captures “extraordinary revenues” for
jobs outside the classroom, member schools by confining
and no one thinks to players to compensation
regulate or confiscate those “not commensurate
earnings. Only the players with the value that they
in commercialized college create.” This is a restrained
sports are victimized as cash understatement, and
cows, to the tune of several courts have not yet granted
billion dollars per year. athletes anything like the
A fair, free-market college direct relief awarded to big
sports industry would evolve football schools and the
on its own once athletes have assistant coaches.
their rights restored. Some So far, the judiciary
revenue would be diverted to seems unwilling to confront
those players as the essential the NCAA’s self-serving
core talent, which is only fair. bromide that economic rights
What’s amazing is how long for college athletes would
we’ve allowed them to be diminish their educational
robbed. experience. In truth,
Such a system would favor compensation would give
the same 60 to 100 schools The NCAA estimated it would take in over $800 million in revenue players an incentive to stay
that are dominant already. for the broadcast and licensing rights to this year’s March Madness in school—and standing to
The major conferences bargain for better academic
may adopt differing, nonmonopoly that had enriched the AAU, then the life. Beyond that, it remains up to the
standards for their athletic budgets, NCAA’s biggest rival. Defying hysterical colleges whether they treat prime
but the vast majority of athletes would predictions, the compensation since athletes as legitimate students.
not be affected. A volleyball player at a negotiated by Olympic athletes has Universities should be a forum for
small college could seek compensation hardly destroyed worldwide audiences clarity about whether commercialized
like anyone else, but negligible revenue for the Games. A similar law requiring sports can coexist with academic
would make such a request moot. Most representation for college athletes could integrity, but such debate rarely takes
J O H N J OY N E R — N C A A P H O T O S/G E T T Y I M A G E S
college sports could remain amateur be effective, and deserves consideration, place at the institutions born for fearless
in the only true sense of the word, but Congress has shown no interest in thought. My alma mater, the University
being pursued for love of the game and bucking the college sports establishment. of North Carolina, temporarily canceled
voluntarily divorced from commerce. The courts are another venue for a pioneering course on NCAA history as
justice. Several times they have struck too controversial. Sadly, most professors
But while the solution may be simple, down the NCAA system as an illegal never examine the conflicted juggernaut
it won’t be easy. The NCAA constitution restraint of trade. Until 1984, the NCAA right there on campus.
blocks athletes from membership while asserted a sole power to license each The burden of change may thus fall
professing devotion to their welfare, college football broadcast. That power on athletes. Some have already begun
20 Time April 8, 2019raising their voices. A recent strike by THE RISK REPORT
the football team saw the University of
Missouri’s president resign quickly, and
Israel plays a strong hand
the University of Maryland dismissed By Ian Bremmer
its football coach after players spoke out
against him following a teammate’s death israel’s Prime precedent to formally recognize Isra-
in practice. Even symbolic gestures in Minister Benja- el’s authority over the Golan Heights,
defiance of NCAA rules, such as wearing min Netanyahu ar- a piece of strategically important land
an armband or a small patch discreetly rived at the White seized from Syria during the 1967 war.
labeled something like “RFA” (Rights House on March 25 Yet the strength of Netanyahu’s
for Athletes), or selling autographs for to stand shoulder to political position comes less from the
charity at a public ceremony, could shoulder with Pres- change in the White House than from
provoke spasms of attention that sports ident Trump, a friend and ally doing Israel’s stable place in the region. Over
broadcasts zealously avoid. Truly his best to help him win re-election this a decade of Middle East turmoil, Israel
concerted action could topple the NCAA. month. Bibi needs the boost. He faces has managed to remain mainly above
both corruption charges and a strong the fray of the upheavals within Arab
i am cheering for UNC in March Mad- challenge from an opposition alliance countries and the Saudi-Iranian proxy
ness as always, and I don’t expect to led by his former army chief. wars. This has allowed Netanyahu to
hear a word about equity for the players. Netanyahu’s fortunes were vastly maintain a solid bond with the U.S.,
Armchair experts and well-paid com- improved by the change in leadership even when Netanyahu and Obama
mentators will continue to obsess about in the White House. Relations with were at odds, and to build pragmatic
bracketology, upsets, momentum and a Barack Obama were famously frosty, relations with Russia, particularly in
key player’s sore ankle. This is natural, be- not just because the two men were containing the violence in Syria. It
cause sports are a designated world where temperamentally incompatible, but has helped Israel’s Prime Minister im-
fans escape to cheer and boo as they because Netanyahu believed Obama’s prove relations with Arab countries
please. Intrusions from real life can break approach to the Middle East, with his that once called for Israel’s annihila-
the spell, provoking resentful cries for cautious support of the Arab Spring, tion. He has built promising ties with
pampered athletes to shut up and play. threatened Israel’s security. More China and India.
Sports-think gives fans a presumptive ominously from Bibi’s point of view, This is why Bibi’s main opponent in
stake to say how college sports should Obama directly engaged with Iran for this month’s elections, his former army
be run, oblivious that the whole NCAA the nuclear deal in hopes that a less iso- chief Benny Gantz, has offered voters
production rests on players who have no lated Iran might become less confron- a foreign-policy platform virtually
voice at all. Athletes become urgently tational with its neighbors. identical to the Prime Minister’s. He
important for moments on the screen, Donald Trump has taken a different has avoided promises to work toward
but we force their fundamental rights to approach, to put it mildly, and there’s a an independent Palestinian state. He
fit our entertainment and convenience. reason he has a near 70% approval rat- pledges to keep Jerusalem undivided,
Surely this perspective is backward. Col- ing in Israel. Trump has reinvigorated the Golan defended and the West
lege athletes are young adults who love U.S. ties with Saudi Arabia and adopted Bank under full Israeli control. Gantz
a sport they have played all their lives. a confrontational approach to Iran. He promises a hard-line approach to
Some don’t realize how badly they have has withdrawn the U.S. from the nu- Iran, Hamas and Hizballah. A rocket
been used until they are leaving school, clear deal. Where Obama hesitated, attack from inside Gaza this week that
which helps perpetuate the exploitation. Trump ordered military strikes destroyed a home and injured seven
Sparks of courage are needed. Fans, against Syria’s Bashar Assad in people in central Israel has given
being also citizens, should engage the response to his use of chemi- Gantz a new opportunity to attack
larger arena of fairness. Nonfans should cal weapons. Netanyahu, who also serves as
stop wishing for commercial sports to On Israel itself, Trump Defense Minister, and another
vanish, as though Plato might rescue the has followed through on chance to remind voters how
academy, and address sports corruption Washington’s decades- many “terrorists” his army
and dishonesty at the heart of our vital old promise to defy killed in Gaza.
A N D R E W PA R S O N S — I - I M A G E S/ E Y E V I N E / R E D U X
universities. My hope for March Madness, Arab criticism by mov- Israel stands in a strong
now and in the future, is some small sign ing the U.S. embassy position not simply be-
of agitation over basic rights. Regardless, from Tel Aviv to Jeru- cause Donald Trump be-
I’ll chant, “Go Heels!” for Carolina and salem. On March 25, stows favors on its Prime
keep pushing for those armbands. he announced the Minister, but because a
U.S. would set aside decade of change in the
Branch, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is the author Middle East has boosted its
most recently of The King Years: Historic > regional standing and bol-
Moments in the Civil Rights Movement Benjamin Netanyahu stered its security. •
21Politics
THE VICTO
After learning of
Robert Mueller’s
findings on
March 24, Trump
quickly claimed
vindication
PHOTOGR APH BY
CAROLY N K ASTERORY LAP The end
of the
special
counsel’s
probe
gives
Donald
Trump
one of the
biggest
wins of his
presidency
BY BRIAN
BENNETTPolitics
were in.
P
presidenT donald Trump had finished a round of
Sunday golf and repaired to his private quarters at his Palm
Beach, Fla., club when the news arrived. After 22 months,
the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation
Moments before, around 3 p.m. on March 24, Trump’s White
House lawyer Emmet Flood received a call from Attorney Gen-
eral William Barr’s chief of staff, Brian Rabbitt. The Department
of Justice official said that after more than 2,800 subpoenas,
nearly 500 search warrants and a similar number of witness
interviews, Mueller had not established that the Trump cam-
paign or its associates conspired with Russia during the 2016
election. In addition, Mueller declined to draw a conclusion
about whether Trump had obstructed justice in the aftermath.
Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein immediately
cleared the President.
Aides were elated. “This is very good,” Trump said, according
to an official present. Back at the White House, staff crowded into
press secretary Sarah Sanders’ office to toast the result with a of obstruction, according to a summary
bottle of sparkling wine. Within hours, Trump’s 2020 campaign of the report Barr sent to Congress.
was making money off the news, texting supporters that Demo- Mueller laid out evidence on both sides,
crats had “raised millions off a lie.” Greeting reporters on a Flor- noted the “difficult issues” involved and
ida tarmac, Trump claimed “complete and total exoneration.” declined to render a judgment, instead
It was one of the biggest victories of the Trump presidency. leaving the decision to DOJ brass. As
No collusion, no obstruction—just as Trump had vowed. A Barr wrote, “The Special Counsel states
special-counsel investigation of this ilk might have proven fatal that ‘while this report does not conclude
to Trump’s predecessors, yet the President survived it, stiff-arm- that the President committed a crime, it
ing Mueller’s demands for an in-person interview and attacking also does not exonerate him.’” (Indeed,
the legitimacy of the special counsel to stir up his supporters. By that fact irked Trump when he first
the time Trump sat down for a chicken piccata lunch with GOP heard it, according to a White House
Senators on March 26, he was also savoring the victory. Trump official.)
was “exuberant,” recalled Republican Senator Mike Braun of Mueller found that Russia had
Indiana. “It’s apparent that it’s a big weight lifted.” mounted an unprecedented campaign
Mueller’s verdict was not nearly as definitive as the to influence the 2016 election, spreading
President and his allies would claim. He did not clear Trump disinformation on social media, hacking
24 Time April 8, 2019◁
After a 22-month
probe, Mueller
did not find
that any Trump
campaign
officials or
associates
coordinated
with Russia
Democratic computers and engineering investigation led by a widely respected Democrats and many disenchanted
the release of damaging emails in an effort prosecutor. Somehow, Trump turned Republicans, the special counsel evolved
to sow discord and help Trump win. The what might have been a catastrophe to any into a symbol of the rule of law itself.
special counsel indicted 34 people and other President—a sweeping inquiry into His investigation dominated social
won seven convictions or guilty pleas, potential collusion with a foreign power media and cable news, and his likeness
including from Trump’s former cam- to undermine U.S. democracy—into a spawned a cottage industry, with Trump’s
paign chairman, his deputy campaign rebuttal against whatever comes next. opponents snapping up prayer candles,
O P E N I N G PA G E S : A P, T H E S E PA G E S : C L I F F O W E N — A P
manager, his White House National Se- “The politics of what’s happened over action figures and mugs emblazoned with
curity Adviser and his longtime personal the last few days just places the President the words iT’s mueller Time.
lawyer. By any historical measure, the in a much better political position than The former FBI director’s reputation
Trump presidency remains extraordi- he probably could have imagined,” says was one reason congressional Democrats
narily scandal-scarred. Russell Riley, professor of presidential were willing to pin so much on the out-
Which is why the most important studies at the University of Virginia. come of his investigation. When asked
result of the Mueller report may be to about the Russia investigation, Demo-
politically inoculate Trump against the Mueller’s findings Matter in crats typically said they would reserve
many probes still looming. America has no small part because of what his judgment until Mueller completed his
now seen Trump weather a massive investigation came to represent. For work. Now that he has, it’s harder for
25Politics
Democrats to quibble with the conclu-
sions. “You can’t on the one hand defer The investigations into
to Mueller,” says Stanley Brand, former
counsel for the House of Representatives
Trump are far from over
under Democratic Speaker Tip O’Neill, By Abigail Abrams
“and say, Now that we have it, we want
to replow that ground.” Robert Mueller’s probe is finished, but the group and whether the super PAC
Some of the Democrats calling for President Donald Trump still faces more received donations from people in Qatar
Trump’s impeachment have long been than a dozen other investigations and or other Middle Eastern countries,
lawsuits focused on his Administration, according to the New York Times. So far,
wary of staking too much on Mueller’s
businesses, family and associates. Here this investigation has not resulted in any
findings. Tom Steyer, the liberal Califor-
are some of the legal threats hanging over indictments.
nia billionaire who has committed nearly Trump and his allies:
$100 million toward a pro-impeach- Trump’s real estate deals
ment campaign, says he never thought Roger Stone’s trial Prompted by Cohen’s testimony, New York
the report would actually move the nee- Stone, a longtime Trump confidant, was State’s attorney general is investigating
dle. Waiting for the report, Steyer told arrested in January 2019 as part of several Trump Organization projects,
TIME in February, would be “a very ill- the Mueller investigation and charged including a failed attempt to buy the
considered and mistaken idea.” with witness tampering and lying to Buffalo Bills football team. Investigators
While Democrats were building up Congress about his communications with sent subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and
the import of the Russia investigation, WikiLeaks. His trial is set for November, Investors Bank about the projects in early
Trump, after months of cooperation, and federal prosecutors in D.C. will now March. The subpoenas, which Deutsche
decided to aggressively criticize Muel- handle the case. has acknowledged, requested mortgages,
ler last year. Those rants showed Trump loan applications, lines of credit and
following his instinct to lash out when The hush-money investigation other financial information related to
he feels under attack. “I’m not going to This case in the Southern District of Trump properties in Washington, Florida,
begrudge Donald Trump for defending New York focuses on payments Trump’s New York and Chicago.
himself against a witch hunt and a hoax former lawyer Michael Cohen made on his
that was proven to be so,” says White behalf to women who alleged affairs with The Trump Foundation
Trump. Cohen pleaded guilty in August The New York State attorney general’s
House spokesperson Hogan Gidley. “He’s
2018 to campaign-finance violations and office sued the Donald J. Trump
a counterpuncher.”
other financial crimes, admitting he had Foundation and its directors last year,
Once he started, Trump hammered at made payments to Karen McDougal and saying they engaged in a “shocking
the investigation’s legitimacy incessantly. Stormy Daniels to keep them quiet before pattern of illegality.” The Trumps agreed
(In total, he’s tweeted 181 times that the the 2016 election. Prosecutors directly to dissolve the foundation in December,
probe was a “witch hunt.”) Many of the implicated the President when they but the civil suit is ongoing, with the
President’s detractors snorted at the said in December that Cohen acted “in attorney general seeking millions in
broadsides, dismissing them as the rav- coordination with and at the direction of” penalties. (The Trumps say the suit is
ings of a cornered man. But there was Trump. The investigation into campaign- politically motivated.) The foundation is
power in the mayhem. The President’s finance issues is ongoing. also under investigation for potentially
campaign to discredit the decorated for- violating state tax laws, which could lead
mer Marine and lifelong Republican as Trump’s Inauguration funding to a criminal referral.
a rogue prosecutor seems to have had a Federal prosecutors in multiple offices
real effect. Over time, Trump was able to have reportedly been looking into the Trump’s taxes
convince supporters that a meticulous in- record $107 million raised for Trump’s The New York State tax department said
quiry was politically motivated, and the Inauguration, asking questions about in October it was looking into allegations
public’s views became more and more en- who the money came from, how it was brought up in a New York Times
trenched along party lines. spent and whether the committee gave investigation into decades of Trump’s
donors favors or special access. Last “tax schemes.” New York City officials
Trump’s criticism will continue to
August, Republican political consultant have also said they are examining Trump’s
pay off as the 2020 election nears, pre-
Sam Patten admitted to steering $50,000 tax history.
dicts former White House deputy press from a Ukrainian oligarch to Trump’s
secretary Raj Shah. “On a wide range Inauguration committee. Undocumented immigrants
of issues—whether it’s the economy, at Trump’s golf club
whether it’s national security—you’re The super-PAC probe Lawyers for several undocumented
going to have critics fairly or unfairly Prosecutors in New York have been workers at Trump’s New Jersey golf
criticizing the President,” Shah says. “And looking into potential wrongdoing club said the FBI and the New Jersey
he’s going to be able to say on the biggest, related to a pro-Trump super PAC called attorney general’s office were examining
most prominent issue, they were dead Rebuilding America Now, including allegations that the club hired workers
wrong, I was dead right, you should be- whether former Trump campaign chair using fraudulent papers.
lieve me. And I think that’s going to sell.” Paul Manafort illegally coordinated with
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