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subjects Greta Thunberg (top), who led
“i hAvE A plAN” Fans of Massachusetts climate-change protests worldwide,
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media attention she people who are taking risks to create
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‘I think all
grand
juries are ‘I didn’t mind
improper.
I don’t like explaining $850,871
Annual potential fine faced
the secrecy
of it.’ photosynthesis by Trump International Hotel
& Tower in New York City if
it is not upgraded to meet
the city’s new environmental
to you when you
CHELSEA MANNING, WikiLeaks standards for buildings
whistle-blower released from
jail May 9, on why she won’t
comply with a new subpoena
‘His main were 12. But you’re ‘All I can do
is continue
concern is
that turkey
season
adults now, and this to share the
human impact
of what it
ends this
week, and
is an actual crisis.’
BILL NYE, host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, urging viewers to take
means to be
Palestinian.’
RASHIDA TLAIB, Michigan
he has not climate change more seriously, on the May 12 episode of
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Congresswoman, on the
May 13 episode of Late Night
With Seth Meyers, addressing
reached the controversy over a podcast
in which she articulated
his limit.’ tension between the need to
THE CARTER CENTER,
‘WE’RE LOOKING FOR provide a safe haven for Jews
after the Holocaust and the
assuring the public on
May 13 that 94-year-old
IRAN TO BEHAVE LIKE consequences to Palestinians
former President Jimmy A NORMAL COUNTRY.’
Carter is expected to
fully recover from surgery MIKE POMPEO, U.S. Secretary of State, addressing escalating
after breaking his hip tensions with Iran on May 14; a year after the U.S. pulled out of Constance Wu
while preparing to go on a the Iran deal, the State Department advised citizens not to travel The actor caught flak for
turkey-hunting trip to Iran and partially evacuated the U.S. embassy in Iraq saying she wished sitcom
Fresh Off the Boat hadn’t
been renewed May 10 so
she could take a new role
46 million
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BAD WEEK
Number of Australian GOOD WEEK
banknotes that were
printed with responsibility
misspelled “responsibilty”;
the Reserve Bank of Wu-Tang Clan
Australia apologized and said The hip-hop group
the error would be corrected announced it’s
for the next print run releasing a new EP
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10 Time May 27, 2019 S O U R C E S : A P ; C N N ; T H E G U A R D I A N ; N E W YO R K T I M E S; R O L L I N G S T O N E
CROP DUSTUP
Soybean farms,
like this one in
Maryland, have
been caught
up in the U.S.-
China trade war
INSIDE
CUBA RATIONS FOOD IN THE BREXIT BOOSTER NIGEL FARAGE KYLE MACLACHLAN REMEMBERS
FACE OF ECONOMIC TROUBLE RETURNS TO BRITISH POLITICS TWIN PEAKS’ PEGGY LIPTON
PHOTOGR APH BY EDWIN REMSBERG
TheBrief Opener
TRADE Year after year, it dumped cheap goods overseas and
favored Chinese companies over foreign firms, siphoning
The real trade war: off intellectual property and trade secrets.
Whose rules will reign? China has used the illicit profits of that engagement to
construct a direct challenge to the American-led postwar
By John Walcott order. China’s Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure plan
includes 126 nations and 29 international organizations
ay Gaesser, a soybean farmer in CorninG, and is producing global strategic benefits, from a 99-year
R Iowa, is on the front lines of the escalating
trade war between the U.S. and China. Last fall,
he was optimistic that the world’s two largest
economies would seal a deal that would keep his crops
moving to market in China. But as tit-for-tat tariffs have
lease on a new Indian Ocean seaport in Sri Lanka to an
overseas military base in Djibouti at the entrance to the
Red Sea. China now publicly declares its goal of becoming
the world’s dominant superpower and has used stolen
technology to “[alter] the calculus of global power,”
made his soybeans less competitive, Gaesser, 66, says it according to a March report by the U.S. Navy.
will be hard for many growers to turn a profit this
year. “Farmers’ patience is growing thin,” he tells ‘If someone this situation leaves Americans facing
TIME. The question that really scares him: “Are thinks their something they have never seen before: an
we going to be in this for a long, long time?” own race and adversary that is an economic, technological and,
The answer almost certainly is yes. President civilization increasingly, military rival. But how to respond to
Donald Trump’s efforts to force China to the rule breaking that enables that threat? With
buy more U.S. agricultural products, open
is superior a similar abandonment of the rules, or renewed
up to foreign business and rewrite laws that and insists on attempts to impose them?
incentivize intellectual-property theft is part remolding or Some Administration officials think sticking by
of a bigger challenge. It’s not just that the U.S. replacing other the trade rules is a sucker’s game and believe eco-
and China—both of which announced billions civilizations, nomic isolation through a permanent trade war is
of dollars’ worth of new tariffs in the first half it would be a the only way forward. “[Trump aide] Peter Navarro
of May—are competing over who will be the stupid idea and and [former adviser] Steve Bannon believe that the
world’s dominant economic, technological and disastrous act.’ Chinese Communist Party is more vulnerable and
military power. It’s a question of who writes the sensitive to economic harm than is the U.S.,” says
rules, not just for trade but also for disputed XI JINPING, Zack Cooper of the American Enterprise Institute,
China’s President,
areas from cyberspace to outer space. And that at a May 15 conference
who meets with White House officials. Trump him-
struggle is just getting started. in Beijing self threatened to abandon the WTO last August.
The first step for the U.S. is to decide for itself But many traditional free traders are horrified
what rules it wants to play by. Trump has talked at the idea of throwing those rules, built over a
P R E V I O U S PA G E : V W P I C S/A P ; X I : L I U W E I B I N G — X I N H U A /S I PA U S A ; B A S K E T B A L L : M A R K B L I N C H — N B A E /G E T T Y I M A G E S
of abandoning the World Trade Organization (WTO), generation to American advantage, overboard. “The
which has been the arbiter of U.S.-China trade entire Republican establishment is shaking in its boots,”
for nearly 20 years. He’s won applause in some says GOP donor Dan Eberhart, CEO of Denver-based
quarters, including from Democrats on Capitol drilling services company Canary, LLC. “Trump
Hill, for his go-it-alone approach, but others see has picked a fight he may not be able to win, and
danger in the U.S.’s facing off with the Middle it’s impossible to ascertain how this ends.” The
Kingdom on its own. “For seven decades politics are complicated by Democratic support
since World War II, a rules-based framework for confrontation. Senate minority leader Chuck
led by Washington has defined world order, Schumer, a New York Democrat, urged Trump
producing an era without war among great on May 5, “Don’t back down. Strength is the only
powers,” Harvard professor Graham Allison way to win with China.”
writes in his 2017 book, Destined for War: That may be, but not if China is stronger.
Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Beijing has a skeptical view of international
Trap?. “Today, an increasingly powerful China is rules, seeing the WTO as just another extension
unraveling this order, throwing into question the of centuries-long mercantilist and colonialist
peace generations have taken for granted.” Western policies. And getting it to play by the
Much of the blame lies with Beijing. Successive rules will likely take more than just a trade war with
Western leaders bet that “constructive engagement” the U.S. For Iowa farmer Ray Gaesser, who backs
with China’s leaders would ease the world’s most Trump, the answer is allies. “It would have been
populous nation into the liberal, free-trading world really good to find support from our fellow countries
order. After China joined the WTO in 2001 it made who export to China and build a team to go after
occasional nods to Western trade rules, but as it China,” he says, “rather than doing it unilaterally.”
gained economic clout, it increasingly resisted —With reporting by alana abramson, brian
demands to transform its state-controlled economy. benneTT and jusTin worland/washinGTon
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NEWS
TICKER
WhatsApp
security flaw
revealed
The instant-messaging
service WhatsApp
announced on May 13
that hackers had been
able to inject spyware
into phones by
exploiting a security
flaw. The company,
which is owned by
Facebook, urged its
1.5 billion users to
update their apps as
soon as possible.
FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALL On May 12, in the final seconds of the Eastern Conference
semifinals, Kawhi Leonard of the Toronto Raptors arced a prayer toward the ceiling. The shot caught
the rim, somehow, and bounced on the basket—once, twice, three times, four times. The arena fell
silent, awaiting a season’s fate. Finally, the ball dropped in. Bedlam. Toronto beat Philadelphia in the Trump
NBA’s first Game 7 to end on a buzzer beater; we’ll be wondering how that one fell forever. welcomes
far-right PM
THE BULLETIN President Donald
Trump called Hungary’s
As rationing begins, Cuba braces for authoritarian Prime
economic impact from Venezuela crisis Minister Viktor Orban
“highly respected”
and said he is doing
fallouT from The power sTruGGle in FROM AFAR Those imports are at the heart a “tremendous job”
Venezuela can be felt far beyond its borders, of the problem. Cuba imports two-thirds during the European
perhaps nowhere more than in Cuba. The of its food each year, and Díaz said it’s had leader’s May 13 visit
U.S. has said Havana’s support for strong- to find new sources since Washington has to the White House.
man Nicolás Maduro is helping him stay expanded sanctions amid controversy over Human-rights and
democracy advocates
in power in Caracas; as punishment, the Havana’s relationship to Maduro. (Cuba de- have criticized Orban’s
Trump Administration has imposed sanc- nies military involvement in Venezuela but embrace of far-right
tions on Cuba. While Havana has pushed recently signaled openness to helping ne- actions and rhetoric.
back on the accusation, it seems the island gotiate peace there.) Last month the Trump
cannot escape the effects of the Venezuela Administration also announced it will limit
conflict. Cuba announced new rations on money Cuban Americans can send family Drones hit
food and hygiene products on May 10, stok- there and allow U.S. citizens to sue for prop- Saudi oil
ing fears of a worsening economic crisis. erty seized after Cuba’s 1959 revolution. pipeline
LIMITED SUPPLY Cuba’s Interior Commerce BE PREPARED It’s not just food. Cuba’s Saudi Arabia said on
Minister, Betsy Díaz Velázquez, said the economy grew in the late 1990s and early May 14 that an oil
country would start restricting the purchase 2000s thanks in part to an influx of oil from pipeline in its Eastern
Province had been
of basics such as chicken, rice, beans and hy- Venezuela, supplies of which have also col- struck by a drone
giene products like soap, to ensure “equal lapsed in recent months as the situation attack. Houthi rebels
distribution” for all. Rationing had already there worsens. But many Cubans remember in Yemen said they
begun in some parts of Cuba, and shoppers the depression that followed the fall of the had launched cross-
have complained for weeks of empty shelves Soviet Union and worry that food and fuel border drone attacks
against the kingdom,
and long lines. But the new policy will apply shortages may be a sign of more trouble to which has been
across the country and likely have a particu- come. “It’s not about returning to the harsh- involved in Yemen’s
larly intense effect on Cuba’s burgeoning est phase of [the economic crisis] of the ongoing civil war—
private businesses, which often rely on state- ’90s,” Communist Party head Raúl Castro and in backing the
run stores for supplies because of the govern- said last month. “Although we do have to be coalition fighting the
Houthis—since 2015.
ment’s domination of imports and exports. ready for the worst.” —abiGail abrams
13
TheBrief News
POSTCARD has been pushed back to Oct. 31, and the U.K.
The Godfather of must, by law, vote for candidates in the Euro-
NEWS pean legislature.
TICKER Brexit returns to rile That was enough to bring the Brexit Godfa-
up the U.K. ther, who left UKIP completely last year, back
Top court into politics. In April, he launched the Brexit
okays Apple When The sun shines on ClaCTon-on-sea Party to compete in the E.U. elections. His
antitrust case on the east coast of England, the town comes message is again one of insurgent anger. “We
alive with sunbathers, kids playing arcade ma- have openly and willfully been betrayed by our
The U.S. Supreme
Court on May 13 said it chines and shopkeepers hawking beach balls government,” he told the pro-Leave crowd in
would let an antitrust on the sand-swept promenade. But the sky on Clacton to cheers and applause.
case against Apple a recent spring morning was overcast, and it It appears to be working. According to one
move forward, allowing hung over a different sort of crowd. poll, 34% of voters plan to back Farage in the
consumers to sue the
Hundreds gathered at Clacton’s pier on E.U. elections, ahead of both May’s Conserva-
company over the 30%
commission it takes on April 23, many bearing pro-Brexit placards tives and the official opposition Labour Party.
App Store sales, which and wearing Union Jack pins. As the man they The victory would be mostly symbolic,
the plaintiffs say is had come to see, Nigel Farage, stepped up to as any elected lawmakers would stand down
an abuse of its power. speak, a local politician hailed him by a nick- once Brexit finally happens. But for May, who
Apple argued that only
name: the Godfather of Brexit. has been fending off calls to resign for months,
app developers should
bring such a suit. Farage’s lobbying was indeed instrumen- a poor performance in E.U. elections might
tal to the U.K.’s decision to leave the European be the final straw for her premiership. For her
Union in the referendum of June 2016, espe- Conservative Party, it threatens to echo the
cially his vociferous anti-migrant sentiment. impact that Farage had on policy as the leader
CO2 hits But days after the result, he abruptly resigned of UKIP in the early 2010s: emboldening
record levels his position as leader of the U.K. Indepen- Euroskeptics and pushing the government
in atmosphere dence Party (UKIP). “My political ambition,” rightward. And for the country, it could add
he said at the time, “has been achieved.” yet another wrinkle in the stuttering political
B E E R : G E T T Y I M A G E S; C O N W AY: C B S/G E T T Y I M A G E S; L I P T O N : D O N A L D S O N C O L L E C T I O N / M I C H A E L O C H S A R C H I V E S/G E T T Y I M A G E S; R I H A N N A : G E T T Y I M A G E S
Scientists said on
May 11 that levels Now Farage is back and touring the Brexit process to bid the E.U. farewell.
of atmospheric heartland in search of another political upset. No political upset could possibly match
carbon dioxide, which This time the target is the European Parlia- the scale of Farage’s victory in 2016. But as
contributes to the
greenhouse effect,
ment elections scheduled for May 23. seagulls circled over Clacton, he warned that
reached highs last Had Britain left the E.U. on March 29, as 2019 could be the start of something at least
seen more than originally planned, the vote would not be hap- comparable. “Do you believe that this politi-
3 million years ago, pening here. But in the months leading up to cal class now needs to be swept aside and re-
at which point sea the date, Prime Minister Theresa May could placed by better people?” The crowd roared
levels were some 50 ft.
higher than today.
not persuade lawmakers to ratify her E.U. yes. “Well that is what we are going to do!”
CO2 now makes up exit deal and asked for a delay. Now Brexit —Billy Perrigo/ClaCTon-on-sea, u.K.
415 molecules out of
every million in the air,
up from 400 in 2013.
RETAIL
Caught short
Barr opens On May 9, Party City announced the closure of 45 stores. Among the factors affecting the
review of business was a global shortage of helium gas, which the chain said had “negatively impacted”
Russia inquiry its ability to meet demand for balloons. Here, other surprising shortages. —Ciara Nugent
U.S. Attorney General
BRUSHES DOWN SILK STOCKING BEER BLIGHT
William Barr has told
Amid its postwar In the late 1980s, A large British
Connecticut’s top
housing boom in China suffered a wholesaler had to
federal prosecutor to
1946, Australia ran lack of the silkworm ration its beer supply
investigate how the
low on paintbrushes, cocoons used to in the summer of
Russia probe began, a
forcing the national make raw silk. The 2018, after the
move President Trump
air force to fly to Journal of Commerce temporary closure
wanted but that law-
civil war–stricken traced the issue to of several European
enforcement officials
China to find and rising demand for the fertilizer factories
say is unnecessary.
bring home 25 metric fabric and damage led to a shortage of
This is the third known
tons of pig bristles to to the mulberry trees CO2, needed to make
Justice Department
make new ones. the worms eat. lager effervescent.
inquiry into the Russia
investigation.
14 Time May 27, 2019Milestones
ENDORSED ANNOUNCED
The Christchurch
Call, New Zealand
A ‘seismic shift’
Prime Minister for fashion
Jacinda Ardern’s plan
to push platforms to LVmH is tHe Largest
help eliminate online luxury-goods conglomerate in
extremism, by 18
governments and
the world, and it just got a bit
top tech firms, on bigger—in an unprecedented
May 15. The U.S. did way. On May 10, Rihanna
not join due to free- confirmed the launch of a
speech concerns. new fashion house, under
EXTENDED her Fenty brand, that will be
Sri Lanka’s part of the prestigious LVMH
nationwide curfew stable, alongside names like
for a second night Dior and Givenchy. Fenty will
on May 14, after be the group’s first label led by
anti-Muslim violence
sparked by the a woman of color.
Easter bombings. The deal reflects Rihan-
na’s brand power, affirmed
PLEADED by the successes of her inclu-
Guilty, by actor Felic-
ity Huffman, who
sive cosmetics brand Fenty
admitted on May 13 Beauty and lingerie line Sav-
that she arranged for age X Fenty, which tapped
her daughter’s SAT consumer markets most lux-
exam to be altered ury brands don’t reach.
as part of the college-
admissions scandal
Perhaps more significant,
revealed this spring. it reflects a change in the
highest strata of the fashion
TESTIFIED world. Brands like those in
That the New York LVMH have long asserted an
City police officer who Lipton poses for a portrait circa 1967, shortly before The Mod Squad
killed Eric Garner in made her a household name aspirational aesthetic rooted
2014 used a pro- DIED
in European power; historian
Rhonda Garelick says the
Peggy Lipton
hibited choke hold
on him, by an NYPD deal represents “a seismic
training official during
the officer’s disciplin- Counterculture icon shift” in the way the fashion
world thinks about prestige.
ary trial May 14. By Kyle MacLachlan “We must not overlook the
DIED Peggy LiPton’s Performance as JuLie Barnes on The Mod potent symbolism,” she says,
Actor Tim Squad made a huge impact on my whole generation. The show “of a woman of color, from a
Conway,
known for
was decidedly not meant for our parents, and Peggy, who died former European colony in
his role on on May 11 at 72, was a revelation. She represented a type of per- the Caribbean, rising to helm
The Carol son not seen on television before, the quintessential example of a a new luxury brand from this
Burnett Show, on new kind of woman, young and hip, with a resilience that comple- iconic French company.”
May 14 at age 85. mented a truly gentle spirit. —wiLder daVies
RE-ELECTED Later, she played a more personal, yet equally influential,
President Cyril role in my life, when we worked together on Twin Peaks. Peggy
Ramaphosa and brought mystery and strength in equal measure to the character
the African National of Norma, who ran the Double R Diner. She radiated a sense of
Congress, by South
purpose, and her performance on the show in many ways mir-
African voters on
May 11. rored Peggy the unique individual. She was always gracious and
ever thoughtful, and moved to her own rhythm. She was wise and
ENDED seemed all-knowing, and I instinctively felt that her world was
An annual Austrian full and complete—and far more fascinating than she would ever
ball that raises
money for HIV/AIDS reveal to the rest of us.
causes, as progress When she poured you a coffee at the counter at the Double R,
on treatment has her smile and calming voice made everything feel all right with
made it harder to find the world. And she made one hell of a cherry pie.
sponsors.
MacLachlan is an actor
15TheBrief TIME with ...
Ex–NFL player never good at math.’ But people don’t joke about
being illiterate. Being mathematically illiterate is
John Urschel gave quite a dangerous thing.”
up the game for a Ph.D.— GrowinG up in Buffalo, n.y., Urschel began his
and a life—in math love affair with numbers early. When his attorney
By Sean Gregory mother took him shopping, she’d let him keep the
change if he calculated the 8% sales tax before the
cashier rang it up. The summer before eighth grade,
One recenT afTernOOn in cambridge, mass., he audited a calculus class at the University at Buf-
John Urschel and I strolled along the Charles falo, where his dad, a surgeon, was pursuing a mas-
River on the way to his office at MIT, where he’s ter’s in economics. Soon, the junior high kid was
pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics. We were passing helping college students finish problem sets.
some of the MIT athletic facilities when I asked He also fell for football. Urschel writes that
Urschel a seemingly mundane question. Where’s URSCHEL when he was in high school, he and his father, who
the football field? Urschel’s response was quick: QUICK played collegiately in Canada, banged helmets in
“You’re looking at it.” FACTS the backyard. In today’s concussion-conscious
Now, I’m no MIT math major. But I’m bright world, doctors frown upon this kind of head-to-
enough to know I was staring straight at a baseball head contact. Even so, Urschel says, “These are ac-
Trophy case
diamond. Such a slip would have been innocent In 2013, tually some of my fondest moments with my dad.”
enough, if Urschel hadn’t spent three seasons as an Urschel, who Urschel earned a football scholarship to Penn
offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens. earned a 4.0 State, where he majored in math. By the time the
In the summer of 2017, Urschel announced he GPA at Penn Ravens selected him in the fifth round of the 2014
was retiring from the NFL, at age 26, to pursue State, won NFL draft, he had his master’s degree and had
the Campbell
his mathematics doctorate full time. His decision Trophy, published a paper in a top linear-algebra journal.
came two days after the Journal of the American known as the (Urschel specializes in graph theory, the branch
Medical Association published a study showing “academic of advanced math that studies the connectivity
that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a Heisman.” of networks.) After a rookie season in which he
degenerative disease, had been found in the brains started three games, plus two in the playoffs, he
No tackling
of 110 of 111 ex–NFL players examined by Boston Urschel, who felt ashamed that he was putting off his Ph.D. work
University researchers. Yes, the findings factored did not play until he finished pro football. “I felt like I was sell-
into Urschel’s decision. But he insists they didn’t tackle football ing myself short,” he says. So he applied to MIT’s
tip the scales. He had been thinking hard about until high Ph.D. program and was accepted. The Ameri-
stepping away, as he was already taking classes at school, is a can Mathematical Society named a theorem after
proponent of
MIT. Still, the media painted Urschel’s choice as flag football Urschel and his co-author. “Let G be a finite con-
more evidence that smart young pros, fearing brain for kids. nected undirected weighted graph without self-
trauma, were fleeing the game. Urschel’s story “There are loops . ..,” the Urschel-Zikatanov theorem begins.
proved irresistible: the MIT mathematician had so many Before the 2015 season, Urschel had suffered a
calculated that the NFL just wasn’t worth it. alternative concussion that left him unable to process high-
ways to play
After I inform Urschel that no, he wasn’t football at level math for a few months, but he returned to the
looking at a football field, he smiles. “I just don’t that age that field. By the summer of 2017, he was weighing his
pay attention,” he says. But Urschel doesn’t object are really options more closely. He was settling into Ph.D.
when I cite his slip as a signal that he’s left football fun and life, and Thomas was pregnant. Pounding heads
far behind. Nearly two years after retiring, he enjoyable.” seemed unappealing. Then that CTE study was
says that while he misses the paycheck—who Film theory released. Two days later, he informed Baltimore
wouldn’t?—he hasn’t felt a single pang of regret Urschel’s coach John Harbaugh that he was retiring, think-
on football Sundays, when he’s wrestling with favorite math ing no one would notice. But his phone rang off the
theorems instead of 300-lb. linemen. “It’s a pretty movie is Good hook. He didn’t go outside for days. “It was one of
cool life,” he says. “I wake up in the morning, I Will Hunting. the most unpleasant moments of my life,” he says.
(Naturally.)
walk to my office. I think all day.” A couple of years removed, Urschel insists he
Urschel dedicates much of his new memoir, doesn’t worry that any potential symptoms of
Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football— CTE—forgetfulness, mood swings, depression—
written with his partner, the journalist Louisa will hinder his career. Sure, as an offensive lineman
Thomas—to espousing the importance of problem- he absorbed hits to his head. But he points out that
solving. “It’s a strange thing,” says Urschel in the just because more than 99% of the brains exam-
living room of the Cambridge apartment he shares ined in the study had CTE doesn’t mean more than
with Thomas and their year-old daughter, Joanna. 99% of all ex-players do. Such studies have a self-
“Some people will sort of joke about, ‘Oh, I was selection bias: many players offer up their brains
16 Time May 27, 2019because they think they may be damaged. So how of probability tree diagrams in chalk: let’s just say
many players does he suspect have CTE? “It’s not if your team’s down 14 with five minutes to go and
epsilon close to zero,” he says. “And it’s not some scores a touchdown, the coach needs to go for two.
large constant fraction of 100. You know what I’m Urschel would rather spend his time promoting
saying? It’s bounded away from both.” ‘Being math. He visits classrooms around the country. In
mathema early May he spoke at the National Math Festival
Books with titles like Partial Differential Equa- in D.C. He recommends books about calculus via
tions in Action and Hierarchical Matrices populate
tically his Twitter feed. “I could obsess over a problem for
Urschel’s MIT office, along with the usual grad- illiterate days, for weeks, thinking of nothing else, the way
student fare that fuels late-night research: cans of is quite a someone might obsess over a girl,” he writes in his
black beans, sardines and StarKist tuna. Urschel dangerous own book. “But no girl I had ever met brought me
geeks out about the math department’s espresso thing.’ the singular sense of engagement that I got from
machine and the equations that fill hallway chalk- JOHN URSCHEL, proving something difficult.”
boards. Math can be as cutthroat as football: Ur- lamenting the He also wants athletes, at all levels, to know
schel won’t share the subject of his dissertation, frequency with they don’t need to compromise their intellect.
lest competition come after it. “But anything on the which people “The United States, more than any other culture,
joke about being
chalkboard,” he says in the hall, “is fair game.” has the strange marriage of athletics and academ-
bad at math
Sports teams, which have been staffing up their ics,” Urschel says. “I thought it was important to
analytics operations, have come calling with of- show that this is something that really can co-
TONY LUONG FOR TIME
fers. But academic life holds much more appeal. exist.” He’s 350 miles from Baltimore but might as
When I ask him to explain the math of the two- well be 35,000. Urschel turns off the office lights,
point conversion, he does with reluctance. “This is and heads home to eat dinner and finish up some
as low-level as you get,” he says. He draws a series work. More equations await.
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The siege of
Tripoli and
shifting alliances
While The World’s aTTenTion
has been everywhere else, Libya
remains in chaos. The capital city,
Tripoli, home of the government rec-
ognized by the U.N., is under siege
by the forces of General Khalifa Haf-
tar, who already controls much of
the country’s east. Almost six weeks
of fighting has killed more than
450 people, wounded more than
2,000 and displaced 66,000,
according to the U.N.
Haftar, a naturalized U.S. citizen
who rose in influence after help-
ing oust Muammar Gaddafi in 2011,
launched an offensive to wrest Trip-
oli from the Government of National
Accord on April 4. Although Euro-
pean, U.S. and Gulf leaders have all
endorsed the U.N.-backed admin-
istration, Haftar’s Libya National
Army has received support from
Egypt, the UAE, Russia and France.
In a phone call with Haftar in April,
President Trump appeared to signal
a shift in U.S. policy, praising his role
in fighting terrorism and talking of
a “shared vision” for Libya’s future.
Magnum photographer Lorenzo
Meloni first went to Libya after the
uprising that led to the death of Gad-
dafi. His latest series of photographs
depicts the exhaustion of fighters who
have again been called to the front
line. Many on the ground told him
of the betrayal they felt after having
been backed by U.S. airstrikes as they
ousted ISIS from Sirte in 2016, only
to be abandoned now. Libya has now
become “a small Syria,” Meloni says.
“There is fighting but no progress.” —
Joseph hincks
Forces allied with the U.N.-backed
government reload ammo on the front
line outside Tripoli, Libya, in April
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DEMOCRACY
By Ian Bremmer
Nearly three decades after
the Cold War’s end, it’s no
longer clear that American-style
liberal democracy has carried the
day. Xi Jinping has consolidated
power in China on a scale not
seen since Mao. Vladimir Putin
has served longer than any other
Russian leader since Stalin. Even
many democracies are being
undermined by populism. ▶
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23TheView Opener
Democracy remains the form of govern- countries, but they say that U.S. democracy
ment most likely to create lasting security and safeguards the rule of law more effectively
prosperity. A few oil-producing nations aside, than their own democracies do. Most citizens SHORT
READS
the world’s wealthiest countries are democra- in authoritarian countries do not like U.S. for-
▶ Highlights
cies, and democracies are also less likely to go eign policy, but they do want greater political from stories on
to war with one another. freedom in their own countries. time.com/ideas
For these reasons, Americans have long The findings from these countries suggest
believed that if all the world’s countries were that while democracy remains a popular as- What went
to become democracies, everyone would live piration around the world, “attraction” will down easy
safer and more prosperous lives. But is U.S.- prove more effective than “promotion” as a
style democracy the right path for all? way to help democracy expand. A new JAMA study
A new study conducted by the Eurasia The report argues that the U.S. has made found that after
Philadelphia imposed
Group Foundation (EGF) has produced in- four main mistakes in fostering democracy a soda tax, “purchases
teresting findings on public attitudes in other abroad. U.S. policymakers have focused on dropped by 38%
countries toward the U.S. and its system of the laws and institutions of other countries compared to the year
government. Based but not their politi- before, translating
on surveys of citizens cal cultures. They’ve to almost a billion
fewer ounces [sold],”
in eight countries— Brazilians on U.S. ideas assumed that people writes TIME’s Jamie
Brazil, China, Egypt, about democracy they like will forgo near-term Ducharme. One study
India, Nigeria, Poland, security and stability
34.6% 22.4%
author called these
Germany and Japan— for the chance to vote. policies a “no-brainer.”
the report, authored by Laws are better Checks on power They’ve used military
Mark Hannah, found when politicians ensure nobody intervention to pro-
support in all these are responsive gets too mote democratic val- Who’s held in
countries for democ- to voters powerful ues without account- contempt
racy but mixed atti- ing for the problems
tudes toward the U.S. this approach creates. Martin London,
and its democracy. And they’ve ignored a former attorney for
Spiro Agnew, analyzes
A few interesting the values and inter- the possible outcomes
data points: ests of those they hope of holding Attorney
Brazilians appear to persuade.
19% 24%
General William Barr in
disappointed with The survey also contempt of Congress
their own democ- Everyone, including The protection finds that allowing over the Mueller report
and concludes that the
racy, but some 70% minorities, of individual foreign-born people most likely is: “Those
have a favorable view is treated equally liberties is to study and live in who will decide
of American ideas of by the state important the U.S. can help to the fate of Trump’s
democracy. promote democracy: presidency are the
Respondents in support for American people who gave him
a chance in the first
China were three times as likely to want their ideas of democracy is driven largely by place ... the voters.”
system of government to become more like immigration and direct connections to
the American system as less like it. diaspora communities. People who report
About 80% of Indians surveyed have a very having had family members or close friends
or somewhat favorable view of the U.S. and who have lived in America in the past five When joy is a
of the American people, in part because 70% years are significantly more likely to have concern
of them have recently had a close friend or positive views. When Dani McClain,
family member living in the U.S. That’s one reason U.S. policymakers author of the new book
Those surveyed in Germany and Japan, would be more successful if they found the We Live for the We,
longtime U.S. allies, were least enthusiastic modesty to promote democracy around the became pregnant, she
strategized so that
about U.S.-style democracy. More than half world without the explicit American packag- as a black parent in
of Germans reported an unfavorable view. ing and with the humility to acknowledge America, she would
The survey found that in wealthy coun- that the U.S. has often failed to live up to de- not raise her child to
tries, opposition to President Trump and mocracy’s highest ideals. Democracy’s appeal be afraid. “For black
perceptions of income inequality drove comes in the power it gives individuals to set families,” she writes,
“engaging in joyful
unfavorable opinions of the U.S. Respon- their own course. America should accept that
practices is necessary
dents overwhelmingly favor democracy as each country will need to find its own path to our survival, to our
practiced in their own countries. Those in to adopt democracy. ability to fully claim
emerging-market democracies dislike the ac- our humanity.”
tive role the U.S. sometimes plays in other Bremmer is founder and board president of EGF
24 Time May 27, 2019HISTORY
A warning from the past QUICK TALK
on restrictive abortion laws John Chester
By Leslie J. Reagan The filmmaker discusses
the 200-acre farm he and
On may 14 The alabama SenaTe paSSed lifesaving treatment for the complica- his wife Molly started, with
the nation’s most extreme abortion bill. tions that can follow abortions when the the support of investors,
to grow food in a way that
If it goes into effect, it would ban abortion procedure is poorly performed.
regenerates the land;
almost entirely in the state—in every stage In at least one case, police surrounded
it is the subject of his
of pregnancy—and make it a felony for several women as they left their provider, documentary The Biggest
providers to perform the procedure. arrested them and took them to a doctor Little Farm.
It would also send Alabama back to who performed gynecological exams on
the 19th century. The state first made them, overseen by police, for evidence. What’s wrong with how
abortion a crime a bit more than 150 years Some women in such situations were told America grows its food?
ago, and others passed similar measures that if they did not testify, they could In the last 260 years,
through the middle of that century. These be subject to prosecution. As far as is we’ve lost a third of our
laws punished everyone involved in abor- known, those patients were not charged, topsoil. We’ve destroyed
tion: providers and assistants; partners but others throughout history have been. 46% of our forests. It would
who helped pay; even advertisers. All Making abortion illegal never meant be very shortsighted to
faced jail and fines. And though some abortion didn’t happen. Women of every think that the ecosystem
antiabortion class, marital of this planet will be able
commentators status, religion to support any kind of
claim women and race still farming, let alone any
were not pun- obtained them. type of economy.
ished when Before Roe, hos-
abortion was pitals had en- Eggs from your farm are
$15 a dozen. What would
illegal, many tire wards for
we do about people who
statutes explic- patients expe-
need to eat for less money?
itly included riencing sepsis We’ve become O.K. with
them too. after shoddy a $3 carton of eggs
Alabama’s or self-induced and treating chickens
new legislation abortions. Chi- inhumanely and eating
follows other cago’s Cook eggs that are more nutrient-
restrictive mea- County Hospi- deficient. But we need
sures around the Protesters rally against Alabama’s new tal had 5,000 to ask: What is the value
U.S.—like the abortion bill in Montgomery on May 14 patients annu- of humane treatment?
Georgia “heart- ally in the abor- Of nutrient density? Of
beat” law, which bans abortion before tion ward—women who were bleeding, not extracting from our
many women even know they’re preg- infected and sometimes dying. That fact environment?
nant. Because Roe v. Wade guarantees is part of why the American College of
P R O T E S T: M I C K E Y W E L S H — U S A T O D AY N E T W O R K / R E U T E R S; C H E S T E R : G E T T Y I M A G E S
the right to an abortion before viability, Obstetricians and Gynecologists What can consumers do
the point at which a fetus can potentially opposes the new restrictive laws. Dozens to help restore the soil?
survive outside the womb, these laws are of medical historians have also released Go to farmers’ markets.
sure to be challenged as unconstitutional a statement outlining the historical con- And I think composting is
the seat-belt, no-smoking,
and therefore likely to be put on hold. sequences of such legislation.
recycle mission of this
But if Roe is overturned, as many suspect If those laws are upheld, we can expect
decade.
it will be, history tells us a lot about what many of the old methods of enforcement ÑBelinda Luscombe
we can expect. to be re-enacted. Unlike the Americans
Once that wave of 19th century abor- of the 19th century, we already know
tion bans went into effect, police and what that looks like. But we have another Chester, an
prosecutors threatened, arrested, interro- thing they didn’t, too: a large, organized advocate for
gated, investigated and occasionally pros- movement fighting to keep that from biomimicry
ecuted women for the crime of abortion. happening. in agriculture
Police and doctors routinely questioned
women who miscarried to determine if Reagan is a professor at the University
they’d had an abortion. If the patient re- of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the
fused to answer, the doctor might refuse author of When Abortion Was a Crime
25A vigil for the slain Saudi journalist was held in Istanbul on Oct. 25 PHOTOGR APH BY CHRIS MCGR ATH
World
THE NEW
SAUDI
WAR ON
DISSENT
ACTIVISTS CONTINUING THE WORK
OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI FACE FRESH
THREATS FROM RIYADH
BY JOSH MEYER
27World
free speech he championed against the
autocratic Saudi Crown Prince Moham-
O
med bin Salman rages on.
The fight is about more than just a
group of exiled dissidents standing up
against one Middle Eastern tyrant. Some
experts in national security view the un-
folding battle as part of a larger, defining
war of our time: the contest for control
of information. “What’s happening in
Saudi Arabia today is seen by an increas-
ing number of governments around the
world as a road map for how the future
will look,” says Bill Marczak of Citizen
Lab, a cybersecurity and human-rights
On April 25, TwO men frOm The investigative project at the University of
Norwegian Police Security Service Toronto.
knocked on Iyad el-Baghdadi’s door That helps explain why the Saudi
in the capital, Oslo. The bearded, threats have drawn the attention of in-
bespectacled activist is sometimes ternational authorities. The U.N. offi-
confused with his political opposite, cial charged with investigating and re-
the ISIS leader of the same name. (His porting extrajudicial executions, Agnès
Twitter page announces, nOT ThAT Callamard, has called for urgent action
BAghdAdi.) But the men at the door to protect the safety of individuals she
were there for a different kind of danger. says are directly threatened by Riyadh.
The officers flashed their badges and got “I have sent appeals to two govern-
to the point: Baghdadi’s life, they told ments regarding information I had re-
him, could be at risk. They urged him to ceived of credible threats against indi-
come with them right away. viduals in their jurisdictions,” Callamard
Followed by a second team watching tells TIME, “asking them to take all nec-
for tails, Baghdadi was driven by the essary steps to protect them and their
officers to a safe location with an families.” Callamard says she wants “all OMAR ABDULAZIZ
electronically shielded room where the governments” to be on the lookout for The Saudi dissident, who has
agents told the longtime democracy similar, unreported threats. In the U.S., asylum in Canada, joined forces
with Khashoggi to undermine
activist what was going on. In recent House Intelligence Committee chairman Saudi digital surveillance and
months, Baghdadi has continued Adam Schiff tells TIME his committee harassment, especially on Twitter.
the fight begun by Jamal Khashoggi, is investigating the latest Saudi threats
the Saudi journalist and Washington and will “consider what actions the U.S. ‘EVERY SINGLE
Post columnist who was killed and should take in response.” PROJECT THAT WE
dismembered on Oct. 2 by a hit team The new threats illuminate Khashog- STARTED I’M
from Riyadh. Now the CIA had warned gi’s extraordinary legacy. He started his GOING TO KEEP
the Norwegians that Baghdadi was in dissident effort hesitantly, a review of WORKING ON.’
danger, he and officials in Norway and text messages and other communica-
the U.S. tell TIME. “Saudi Arabia wants tions made available to TIME reveals.
to stop my work, even if they need to get By the fall of 2018, when he traveled to
physical to do it,” Baghdadi says. the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to make
He is not alone. In recent weeks, U.S. arrangements for his upcoming mar- lot of Arab dissidents to just be more ac-
intelligence and law-enforcement offi- riage, Khashoggi was discreetly but tive, in general,” said Mohamed Soltan,
cials have sent out similar warnings to deeply involved in projects involving an Egyptian-American human-rights ac-
Arab activists in Canada and the U.S., a loose network of pro-democracy and tivist and a Khashoggi friend who spent
two people who received them and other human-rights activists around the globe, nearly two years in a Cairo prison. “It
sources familiar with the matter tell including Baghdadi and others. gave people so much more courage to be
TIME. Dissidents based in Europe, the It was in Istanbul that the Saudi more outspoken.”
Middle East and North America are ner- death squad lay in wait, but if Khashog- The dissidents’ projects have endeav-
vously exchanging warnings about hack- gi’s horrific murder was intended to cow ored to reclaim social media—especially
ing attempts—and worse. A troubling other activists, it had the opposite effect. Twitter, the most influential public forum
picture has emerged: eight months after “The attention that was given to Jamal’s in the Saudi political universe—as an open
Khashoggi’s death, the fight for political case definitely reignited the hope for a space for political dissent. Authoritarians
28 Time May 27, 2019IYAD EL-BAGHDADI
From asylum in Norway, the
like the crown prince fight back with elec- family was in danger as well. “It seems Arab Spring activist presses on
with projects to undo autocrats’
tronic surveillance and domination of that I am physically safe in Norway but malign influence in both social
social media. Experts at detecting spy- that I am vulnerable if I travel, says and traditional media.
ware infections in mobile phones report Baghdadi. “My family resides in Malay-
“a new wave of suspicious occurrences sia; they are refugees, my parents and ‘JAMAL’S IDEA
among Saudi activists that are not easily sister. They said don’t go there. Don’t WAS A WATCHDOG
explained other than by the presence of travel outside the E.U. And tell them to TO JAM THE
hacking or surveillance,” says Marczak, get out immediately.” NARRATIVES OF
who works with Saudi dissidents. Khashoggi, for his part, saw it com- THE SAUDI
I M A G E S; A B D U L A Z I Z : F R A N Ç O I S O L L I V I E R — T H E W A S H I N G T O N P O S T/G E T T Y I M A G E S
Authorities now worry that MBS, as ing. “The message is clear,” he wrote in REGIME.’
P R E V I O U S PA G E S : G E T T Y I M A G E S; B A G H D A D I : O L E B E R G - R U S T E N — A F P/G E T T Y
the crown prince is known, is stepping up one of his final columns on the Saudi ty-
his counterattack, despite the U.S. having rant. “No independent voice or counter-
publicly judged him as almost certainly opinion will be allowed.”
responsible for Khashoggi’s death. A from his condo in a nondescript Virginia
similar warning to the one given Baghdadi Few would have guessed, when suburb he had taken a shine to a decade
was passed through the Canadian Security Khashoggi arrived in Washington in earlier when he was a spokesperson for
Intelligence Service to the Royal Canadian June 2017, that the war would reach the Saudi embassy.
Mounted Police regarding the Saudi this point. Khashoggi didn’t fit the Even in exile, Khashoggi remained an
dissident Omar Abdulaziz, who worked stereotype of a high-living Saudi establishment figure. He had left Saudi
with Khashoggi, three sources familiar expatriate. His only new blazer was from Arabia abruptly, after a critical jab at the
with the episode tell TIME. Abdulaziz Men’s Wearhouse (he declined the deep Riyadh government for its embrace of
says he has been instructed not to discuss discount for the second one that came Donald Trump cost him his column at
his situation, but that he recently began with it). He lugged around a thermos the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat. But
taking security precautions. for his strong, home-brewed coffee and he was not in the business of defying
Baghdadi says he was warned his waited a year to buy a car. He worked the royal court. He told friends that his
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