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run in a relay
training event
to promote the
Heads Together
campaign at
Queen Elizabeth II
Park in London.
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WEEKEND
PAG E O N E
A L ASTA I R G RA N T/ R EU T E RS
NEWSWEEK 1 J U N E 3 0, 2017
GLOBAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Matt McAllester
EXECUTIVE EDITOR EXECUTIVE NEWS DIRECTOR
Bob Roe Kenneth Li
DEPUTY EDITOR OPINION EDITOR
R.M. Schneiderman Nicholas Wapshott
EDITORIAL PUBLISHED BY
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LONDON
Assault
With a
Deadly
Van
LondonMuslims
pray in the Finsbury
Park area of north
London after a man
drove a van into
pedestrians near a
mosque in the early
morning on June 19.
The van mowed into a
group of worshippers
observing the holy
month of Ramadan.
One man died at the
scene, and at least 10
others were injured,
all of them Muslim,
according to police.
The driver, 47-year-
old Darren Osborne,
was arrested. Police
said they are treating
the attack as an act
of terrorism aimed
at Muslims, making it
the fourth confirmed
or suspected terrorist
attack in the United
Kingdom in three
months.
DA N I E L L E A L- O L I VAS/A F P/G E T T Y
DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS
BIG
SHOTS
CUBA
Frosty
Reception
HavanaLast year,
U.S. President Barack
Obama came to
the Cuban capital
to bury the last
remnant of the Cold
War. On June 16, his
successor, Donald
Trump, stirred up the
decades-old conflict.
In a speech in Miamis
Little Havana, the
president announced
he was completely
nullifying Obamas
landmark deal with
the Castro govern-
ment. In reality,
Trumps move merely
restored some re-
strictions on Amer-
icans traveling to or
doing business on the
island. In Havana,
however, many felt
the two countries
were moving in the
wrong direction.
RAMON ESPINOSA
RAMO N ESPINOSA /AP
BIG
SHOTS
PORTUGAL
Flames of
Mayhem
Coimbra, Portugal
Firefighters rest
during a wildfire in
central Portugal on
June 18. The fire killed
more than 60 people
over the weekend,
many of them burning
to death in their
cars as they drove
on a stretch of road
through the forest.
The fire expanded
into five separate
fronts because of
strong winds, extreme
heat and lack of
humidity, and thou-
sands of firefighters
PAT R I C I A D E M E LO M O R E I RA /A F P/G E T T Y
PATRICIA DE
MELO MOREIRA
BIG
SHOTS
U.S.A
Black
Lives
Shatter
St. Paul,
Minnesota
Supporters of
Philando Castile
embrace on June 16
after a jury acquitted
the police officer who
shot and killed him.
A school cafeteria
worker, Castile was
pulled over for a bro-
ken taillight last sum-
mer, and the officer
thought he matched
the description of a
robbery suspect.
A dashboard camera
recorded Castile
saying he had a gun in
the car and was
licensed to carry it.
The officer instructed
him not to reach for
it, and Castile tried to
assure him he was just
going for his ID.
The officer fired
seven times, and
Castiles girlfriend
live-streamed the
aftermath on Face-
book, sparking further
uproar over police
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shootings of
African-Americans.
EVAN FROST
P A G E O N E
BUSINESS AL-QAEDA SPAIN POLITICS INDIA DIGITAL
DADDY ISSUES
Forget ISISAl-Qaeda is making
a terrifying comeback, led by
Osama bin Ladens son
THE FOOTHILLS of the Spin Ghar mountain classical Arabic. Then the father took his leave
range, two dozen miles south of Jalalabad in the and disappeared into the mountains, heading for
borderland between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a familiar redoubt known as the Black Caveor,
were once home to hundreds of olive planta- in the local Pashto language, Tora Bora. It was
tions. For tens of thousands of acres, there used as if we pulled out our livers and left them there,
to be farms clustered along the banks of the one of the sons recalled in a letter in 2009.
Nangarhar Canal, a monumental hydroelectric The boy who wrote that letter was Hamza
irrigation project completed in the 1960s, when bin Laden, a son of Osama bin Laden, who was
Afghanistan was safe and liberal enough to form then the leader of Al-Qaeda. Hamza was to
a regular stop on the hippie trail from Europe to spend most of the next decade in captivity. He
India and the Far East. By the turn of the new grew up behind bars, missing his father deeply.
millennium, however, more than 20 years of con- How many times, from the depths of my heart,
tinuous warfare had almost destroyed the canals I wished to be beside you, Hamza wrote to him
capacity to pump water to the groves, all but kill- in the letter. I remember every smile that you
ing what had once been a flourishing business. smiled at me, every word that you spoke to me
One day in the fall of 2001, with yet another and every look that you gave me.
foreign invasion brewing, a father sat with three Hamza grew up with a fervor for jihad and a
of his young sons in the shade of one of the few determination to follow in the footsteps of his
remaining olive trees. Together, they performed notorious father. And toward the end of his life,
a simple farewell ceremony. To each of the three the older bin Laden began grooming Hamza BY
boys, the father gave a misbahaa set of prayer for a leadership role. He even made plans for ALI SOUFAN
beads symbolizing the 99 names of God in Hamza to join him in his secret compound in @Ali_H_Soufan
in Afghanistan in
GA M M A- RA P H O/G E T T Y
F B I /G E T T Y
power is dwindling, as it loses men and territory in mother and Said al-Adel,
below, its chief of security
Iraq and Syria thanks to an assault by Iraqi, Kurd- and a leading tactician.
ish and American forces. Meanwhile, Hamzas +
storybased on books, court documents, open-
source intelligence, Al-Qaeda videos and records
seized from his fathers compound after his death
in 2011, among other thingsshows how ISISs
parent organization, Al-Qaeda, is making a come-
backone with potentially deadly consequences
for the West and the rest of the world.
9/11, it has increased its membership and its Hamza is just waiting for the right time.
geographic reach. This stateless new Al-Qaeda
possesses distinct advantages over ISIS. Its ALI SOUFAN was an FBI supervisory special agent from
decentralized structure makes it almost impos- 1997 to 2005. He now runs the Soufan Group, a private
sible to pin down; like a B-movie vampire, try to intelligence firm. This story has been adapted from his
drive a stake through its heart, and it transforms new book, Anatomy of Terror.
ITS DIFFICULT for any lawyer to represent some- is better than John Dean, President Richard
one who is prone to impulsive decisions, self- Nixons young counsel during Watergate. Dean
incriminating statements and potentially corrupt initially helped cover up the Watergate break-in
entanglements. But when that someone is the before becoming the star witness who ultimately
president, your legal advice takes on exponen- brought down the president. The real issue
tially more scrutiny and weight. when I was there was who is my client, recalls
Which is why Don McGahn, the White House Dean, now 78. Nixon thought he was the client.
counsel, has one of the hardest jobs in Washing- But the client is actually the office of the presi-
ton. A 48-year-old election law expert, McGahn dent, which includes not just the man elected to
has faced plenty of heat for his involvement in the role but the role of the executive itself, not to
almost every controversy with the Trump admin- mention the staff serving him.
istration. He was the initial interlocutor with Such a distinction is clear in theory but
acting Attorney General Sally Yates when she not always easy to discern in practice. From
reached out to warn of thennational security Iran-Contra to Whitewater to the National Secu-
adviser Michael Flynns potentially compromis- rity Agencys domestic spying program, the
ing conversations with the Russian ambassador. presidents legal adviser has often found him-
He was the one trying to clean up the mess of self embroiled in a war between political prior-
President Donald Trumps first travel ban. And ities and legal protocols. And the pattern thats
he was part of a small circle of advisers present emerged is pretty clear: When the White House
when Trump decided to fire FBI Director James allows politics to swamp constitutional concerns,
Comeythe man investigating allegations of the result is inevitably scandal.
collusion between the presidents campaign and Dean, who served four months in prison for his
Russia during the 2016 election. Now, as four role in Watergate, warns that the president and
congressional committees and a special coun- his administration arent the only ones imper-
sel continue to probe the White House, hes iled by the Trump-Russia probes. Since hes not
defending Trump as the president tries to fend Trumps private attorney, McGahn could be
off challenges to his executive authority and an forced to comply with a grand jury subpoena,
investigation into possible obstruction of justice. something Bill Clintons White House counsels
The challenge for McGahn: Hes Trumps lead office faced during Whitewater. There is also BY
legal adviser, but he also serves the presidency some ambiguity about whether McGahn could EMILY CADEI
as an institution. No one knows how tricky that be legally obligated to report wrongdoing by @emilycadei
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ALL THE PRESI-
DENTS ZEN: Don
McGahn has one
of the hardest jobs
in Washington. As
the White House
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GOLDEN BOY: John
Dean, Richard Nixons
Trump, says Dean. This is gray stuff, he says. appointees and mitigating conflicts of interest, White House counsel
And it could ultimately force McGahn into the helping select and vet judicial nominees and during Watergate,
initially helped cover
same choice Dean faced 40 years ago. protecting the powers of the president. But by up the break-in,
There arent a lot of formal parameters to his third year on the job, Dean had been sucked before becoming
the star witness who
guide the White House counsel. McGahns office into the undertow of scandal that eventually ultimately brought
is an ad hoc creation of President Franklin D. drowned the Nixon administration. down the president.
Roosevelt, who devised the post for his longtime Since then, legal organizations have tried
political adviser and speechwriter, Sam Rosen- to set some ethical guidelines for the role and
man, who also happened to be a judge. Over the others like it. The American Bar Association
next few decades, Roosevelts successors hired rewrote the code of ethics it applies to attor-
a staffer alternatively called special counsel or neys, including those for lawyers representing
counsel to advise them, although not all were a corporation or entity like the White House.
lawyers, and their advice was often more politi- The code requires such lawyers to report poten-
cal than anything else. tial lawbreaking to a higher authority in the
It wasnt until Dean and Watergate that the organization. Failure to do so could see them
job took on a more official, legal dint. As Dean lose their law license. But in the federal govern-
recalls, his goal was to create a little law firm ment, who is a higher authority than the presi-
within the executive branch. He and his cohorts dent? Dean argues if Trump is the one breaking
focused on many of the things his successors the law by, say, attempting to obstruct justice,
have been responsible for since, such as vetting McGahn could report it to Congress or the
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Justice Departments special counsel, Robert
Mueller. But other legal analysts say the code
doesnt adequately address the unique issues
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of a government counsels role, which leaves
plenty of wiggle room for McGahn.
Either way, the evolving ethics havent insu-
lated the counsels office from the intense
political pressure that comes with the job. I
really was straddling law and politics, recalls
Jack Quinn, a lawyer and lobbyist who served But its hard to see how Trumps counsel will
as Clintons White House counsel between get to duck the Russia brief entirely. Congres-
1995 and 1997, as the Whitewater investiga- sional investigators demands for access to
tion ramped up. And its telling that even as White House staff and their records have already
critics have slammed McGahn for failing to prompted plenty of wrangling over the separa-
steer Trump away from legal pitfalls in his early tion of powers and what the executive branch
months in office, his predecessors have been can legally withhold. During the Whitewater
more cautious about passing judgment. investigation, Quinn worked closely with Clin-
A counsels legal advice is meant to be kept pri- tons personal lawyers. Overlap is inevitable, he
vate, so its hard to know exactly what McGahn says, given that both attorneys are representing
has been recommending to Trumpand whether the same man.
the president has been listening. The fact that Kasowitz has it easier than McGahn, as his
McGahn was in the room when the president legal responsibilities are much more straight-
made the decision to fire Comey isnt neces- forward, although hes caused some consterna-
sarily problematic, says Quinn. Far better tion by crossing onto McGahns turf. Not only
that he is in the loop than that these officials has Kasowitz invoked executive privilege in his
are not seeking legal advice. The White House defense of Trump, The New York Times reported
did cause a stir when spokesman Sean
Spicer defended the presidents delayed
decision to fire his national security
adviser by telling reporters the counsels
office had determined Flynns conver-
BY HIS THIRD YEAR
sations with the Russian ambassador ON THE JOB, DEAN HAD
did not amount to a legal issue. But BEEN SUCKED INTO THE
Dean observes, You dont know if thats
McGahn or Spicer going out and being
UNDERTOW OF SCANDAL
told to say this. And as Barack Obamas THAT EVENTUALLY
White House counsel Bob Bauer wrote
on the blog Lawfare earlier this year,
DROWNED THE NIXON
its difficult to grade a counsels perfor- ADMINISTRATION.
mance in the absence of all the facts.
The Department of Justices decision to
launch a special counsel investigation
into the Trump White House and its ties to Russia he was advising White House staff, prompting
both simplifies and complicates McGahns job. one watchdog group to file a complaint with the
On the one hand, it prompted the president to D.C. Bar Association. As the headaches multi-
retain a personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, who is ply, one wonders, does McGahn, like Dean, have
not at risk of being subpoenaed the way McGahn a breaking point? Trump is reportedly testing
and his staff are. That allows the White House McGahns limits with some of his ill-advised
counsels office to return more of its focus to rou- comments on social media. Senator Lindsey
tine legal matters. As the Watergate investigation Graham got to the nut of the issue during a June
picked up, Dean was able to separate himself 7 Fox News interview. You need to listen to
entirely from White House Watergate discussions your lawyers, Mr. President, the South Carolina
(until Nixon fired him for talking to prosecutors). Republican said. Every time you tweet, it makes
For eight months, I never talked to Nixon about it harder on all of us who are trying to help you.
Watergate, he recalls. I had no idea what he Or as Quinn observed, reflecting back on his
knew. No one told me what they were telling him, own time in the crucible of a White House inves-
which was awkward. tigation, Thank God we didnt have Twitter.
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THE MEETING WAS APPARENTLY JOVIAL
THOUGH WE HAVE TO TAKE THE RUSSIANS WORD
FOR IT. ON MAY 10, DONALD TRUMP RECEIVED
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEY LAVROV AND
SERGEY KISLYAK, MOSCOWS AMBASSADOR TO
THE UNITED STATES, IN THE OVAL OFFICE.
But the American president barred the White House
press corps from the meeting. Footage released by
the official Russian news agency, Tass, showed the
three men joking and laughing, and according to
leaked accounts of the meeting, Trump bragged that
he had just fired the head of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. He was crazy, a real nut job. The
reason? I faced great pressure because of Russia,
Trump reportedly told his visitors from Moscow.
Thats taken off.
Trump was clearly mistaken. Far from taking
the pressure off, firing FBI Director James Comey
the day before his meeting with Lavrov and Kis-
lyak intensified the bureaus scrutiny into contacts
between Russia and the Trump teamand trig-
gered howls from congressional Democrats over
Moscows meddling in the 2016 elections. In June,
not long after Comey testified to a Senate commit-
tee, saying he leaked documents so that Russiagate
special counsel Robert Mueller would investigate
whether Trump was trying to stymie the investiga-
tion, Washington buzzed with reports that Mueller
was doing just that.
Allegedly improper contacts with Kislyak form
at least three strands of the Russiagate scandal
the ambassadors meetings with Trumps son-in-
law, Jared Kushner; with national security adviser
Michael Flynn; and with Attorney General Jeff
Sessions. Trumps alleged attempts to cover up his
Russia ties make Watergate pale, really in my view,
compared to what were confronting now, former
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told
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SHOWERED WITH SUSPICION: The Russia probe
continues to dog Trump and his son-in-law,
Kushner, despite (or perhaps because of) the
presidents attempts to put it behind them.
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an audience at Australias National Press Club in TYPHOID SERGEY
early June. I am very concerned about the assault HOW DID the genial 66-year-old career diplomat
on our institutions coming from both an external and former nuclear physicist become Washingtons
A N D R EW H A R N I K /A P ; P R EV I OUS S P R E A D : J O N AT H A N E R N ST/ R EU T E RS
sourceread Russiaand an internal source, the equivalent of Typhoid Mary? Did heas Kislyak
president himself. asked rhetorically during a speech at Stanford Uni-
Today, Kislyak has become so radioactive that versity in Novembercommit anything wrong?
senior officials are falling all over each other to And is there any evidence for the two most serious
deny they ever had contact with him. In late April, questions about the Trump-Russia affair? The first
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed shed being whether the Trump team knew or colluded
never met the manbefore having to row back with Russian hackers release of stolen emails dam-
her comments after photos appeared of her sitting aging to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
across a table from him in 2010. And Flynn, Kush- The second, whether Kislyak or Russian business-
ner and Sessions all failed to report their meet- people were involved in any sweeteners to the
ings with him, as required by U.S. regulations that Trump family in exchange for softening U.S. policy
dictate protocol on contact with foreign officials. on Moscow.
As former Obama campaign chief David Axelrod People who have worked closely with Kislyak
joked on Twitter, Kislyak turns out to be a Rus- doubt the ambassador was up to anything more
sian word for I forgot. than just doing his job. He was always very profes-
sional, says Michael McFaul, U.S. ambassador to
Russia between 2012 and 2014, who had frequent
contact with the Russian diplomat for the three years
McFaul was a senior White House adviser. Kislyaks
job is to make as many contacts as possible, as well
as advocate for the policies of his government. He
always did both very effectively. On political involve-
ment, I personally dont think he crossed any lines.
While the Russian ambassadors conduct was
normalevery ambassador is trying to make such
contacts during the transition, McFaul believes the
behavior of the Trump team has been unusual, if not
unprecedented. Flynn and Kushners actions are
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also expelled 35 Russians on suspicion of spying aback by the Americans alleged suggestion to use
including the top four declared officers of Russian Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States to
military intelligence working at Kislyaks embassy talk directly to Moscow.
and shuttered two Russian diplomatic compounds More mysteriously, Kislyak attended a meeting
in Upper Brookville, New York, and another on between Kushner and Sergey Gorkov, a Putin ally
Marylands Eastern Shore.) Facing his missions and a graduate of Russias intelligence academy
biggest crisis since the end of the Cold War, Kis- who heads Vnesheconombank, a state-owned
lyak texted and then called Flynn on December 28 bankwhich has been sanctioned by Washington
and 29. The honor of his colleagues and of Russia since 2014. Russian intelligence has used its Wall
was besmirched by the fairy tales of so-called hack- Street office as a cover for its spies at least once in
ing, says a senior staff member of Russias Diplo- recent years; in 2015, Evgeny Buryakov, deputy rep-
matic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, resentative of Vnesheconombank in New York, was
exposed as a spy in an FBI sting and sentenced to
10 months in prison (he was released in March 2017
and returned to Russia). The overseas office of a
state company is a natural place to establish an intel-
Flynn and Kushners ligence officer, says one retired overseas officer of
actions are not the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, now
a Russian senator, who asked for anonymity when
normal. Why did discussing the Vnesheconombank case. Please
they agree to meet dont tell me that the Americans dont do the same.
As for whether Gorkov knew about agents in his
with Kislyak? companyor had continued his links to the FSB
the retired officer joked that as the president said,
theres no such thing as a former FSB man.
Kushners attorney, Jamie Gorelick, who was the
who did not wish to be named. Of course it was No. 2 official in Bill Clintons Justice Department,
[Kislyaks] duty to protest to all relevant officials says in a statement: Mr. Kushner previously volun-
the contact was entirely correct. teered to share with Congress what he knows about
Theres no public evidence that Flynn offered Kis- these meetings. He will do the same if he is con-
lyak any improper deals or made any promises that tacted in connection with any other inquiry.
the incoming Trump administration would go easy The Gorkov link has led some to allege that Kis-
on the Kremlin. But instead of the sanctions trigger- lyak has ties to Russias burgeoning intel operations
ing a serious diplomatic crisis, the next day, President against the U.S. The ambassador is a very experi-
Vladimir Putins spokesman announced that Russia enced operative, former KGB sleeper agent Jack
would not respond tit for tata highly unusual break Barsky claimed on CNN in April. Most professionals
from previous practice. In February, when news of
the Kislyak conversations broke, Flynn was asked to
resign as national security adviser after it emerged he
had misinformed Vice President Mike Pence about
his talks with the Russian ambassador. (Flynn was
also embarrassed by reports that he had received at
least $45,000 from the Russian state-owned propa-
ganda channel RT to appear at its anniversary gala in
Moscow in late 2015, where he sat near Putin.)
At some point in December, Kislyak also held a
20-minute meeting with Flynn and Trumps son-in-
law, Kushner, at Trump Tower, White House spokes-
woman Hope Hicks confirmed in March. What was
said hasnt been reported. Nor has the exact date been
established. But after the meeting, U.S. intelligence
officials listening in on Kislyaks phone overheard
the ambassador apparently discussing a request from
Kushner to establish a secret, secure channel to com- +
municate with the Kremlin and avoid monitoring by BANKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER SPY? Gorkov, right, a Putin
ally and a graduate of Russias intelligence academy
U.S. intelligence. The ambassador, according to a who heads Vnesheconombank, attended a mysterious
Washington Post report on the incident, was taken meeting with Kushner in December.
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PATRIOT GAMES: Russian Ambassador Kislyak partic-
ipates in a ceremony commemorating the meeting
between Soviet and Allied troops during WWII. Many embassy. He oversees a very aggressive intelligence
analysts doubt he is a spymaster. operation in this country, Clapper told NBC in May.
To suggest that he is somehow separate or oblivious
find that claim ridiculous. Kislyak is an incredibly to that is a bit much. On Kislyaks watch, according
solid and professional diplomat, Thomas Pickering, to congressional testimony in 2016, Russia has rat-
former U.S. ambassador to Russia and the United cheted up its espionage operations. In 2010, the FBI
Nations and a top-ranking diplomat in the Clinton busted and expelled 10 Russian sleeper agents
and George H. W. Bush administrations, tells News- the inspiration for the FX series The Americans. And
week. If hes a spymaster, he has hidden it very well, last year, Congress inserted a provision in an annual
Pickering jokes. Its simply not how Russias spy agen- Intelligence Authorization Act that continues to
cies workthe roles of ambassador and FSB station require Russian diplomats to have the FBI validate
chief, or rezident, are institutionally distinct. And any travel more than 50 miles from where they are
FROM LE FT: ALE XAN DER ASTAFYEV/SPUTNIK/AP; ROM AN M AKHMUTOV
Kislyaks backgroundhe graduated from Moscows based. (The Obama administration fought the reg-
Engineering Physics Institute in 1973 before join- ulationsand played down mounting evidence of
ing the USSR Academy of Foreign Trade and later Russian hackingin part to build support from Mos-
the Foreign Ministrydoesnt fit the profile of most cow for a peace deal in Syria.)
career spooks. There are huge risks in having your Most troubling for the Trump administration, for-
ambassador be too closely associated with intelli- mer FBI Director Comey told members of Congress
gence efforts, says Mark Stout, a former intelligence in June that his agency was investigating Russian
official and professor and the School for Advanced attempts to influence and even recruit members of
International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. the Trump team. I wasaware of information and
This is especially true, Stout notes, because of the intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions
Russian view of intelligence as power in its own between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved
right. Or as Pickering laughs: The spy isnt the guy in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about
in the back of the limousine. Its the chauffeur. because of known Russian efforts to suborn such
Thats not to say that Kislyak isnt aware of individuals, Comey told lawmakers in sworn
undercover operations being supervised from his testimony. What remained unclear was whether or
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not the Russians were able to gain the cooperation of mostly pertained to the Kremlins strong disap-
those individuals. proval of Clintons support for regime change in the
This scandal is still murky. Despite the wave of Middle East and her hard line on anti-Russian sanc-
expulsions of alleged Russian spies in December, tions in the wake of Putins annexation of Crimea in
no link has emerged between Kislyaks embassy and February 2014.
what Comey called an overwhelmingactive-mea- The main motivation behind the Russian hack-
sures campaign of politically motivated hacking by ing, says Mark Galeotti, senior research fellow at
two Russian statelinked groups, APT 28 and 29 (also the Institute of International Relations in Prague,
dubbed Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear) between 2014 was to make as much of a firestorm as possible so
and 2016. There are also doubts over whether Rus- that Clinton would be busy carting buckets of water
sias hacking efforts were primarily directed at help- domestically and would be too busy to act against
ing Trumpor just digging up dirt on Hillary Clinton, the Russian interest. A declassified U.S. intelli-
the long-standing Democratic heir-presumptive and gence report into the hacking released in January
Kremlin nemesis due to her tough stance on Putins concluded that Putin ordered an influence cam-
Ukrainian interventions. The Russian phishing paign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential elec-
attack on the Democratic Party beganas the FBI tion. Russias goals were to undermine public faith
notedas early as 2014, well before Trump was even in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary
considered to be a candidate. [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and
Kislyak did symbolically favor Trump before the potential presidency. The report noted that the
election, sitting in the front row at Trumps first Russians developed a clear preference for Presi-
major speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington dent-elect Trumpbut in reality, says Galeotti, the
in April 2016 and attending the Republican conven-
tion but not the Democratic one. But that favorit- FROM RUSSIA WITH GRUB: Russian President Putin
ismwhich McFaul calls Kislyaks one mistake sits next to retired Army Lieutenant General Flynn
at an RT event in 2015. Flynn is at the center of the
Trump-Russia probe.
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Kremlin has always been much more alarmed and
downbeat on Trump than official propaganda sug-
gests. The U.S. missile strike on Syria [in May] was
Russias worst nightmare. America has a president
who is totally unpredictable, has a low threshold for
use of force. Thats a real problem for Russia.
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SPURNING DESIRE? Trumps decision to fire former
FBI Director Comey has reportedly triggered
It was the nastiest form of low-level intimidation, an investigation into whether the U.S. president
recalls one British official who served in Moscow at obstructed justice.
the time. For me, it was the moment when I decided,
Wow, were really back in the USSR. anymore. Many Foreign Ministry officials complain,
McFaul wasnt getting access in Moscow, so Kis- according to Galeotti, that nobody bothers listening
lyak didnt get access in Washington. He rarely to them, and that their job has become just to follow
saw thenSecretary of State John Kerry. It was a orders and clear up the mess afterwards.
kind of tit-for-tat situation. In hindsight, it led to While the Kremlin may choose to be misinformed
major breakdown in communications and trust, about America and its intentions, Kislyak certainly
recalls the British official. Up till [2012], we had isnt. Since the beginning of his term, hes made a
real dialogue between former Cold War enemies. point of traveling all over the U.S. to speak to ordinary
But [the Russians] scrapped that and went back to peoplepushing Russias line, but also listening to the
name-calling and demonizing the West. pulse of the American heartland and regularly calling
The thirdand most worryingreason for the for better relations and understanding between
deep disconnect between the Kremlins perception our two great nations. Kislyak told an audience at
and reality was that Putin wasnt listening. Neither the 2016 annual Fort Ross Dialogue that if you drew
Kislyak nor the Foreign Ministry itself have much up a list of things that unite us against things that pull
of a voice at the top tables of Kremlin policy making us apart, the first would be much longer and more
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For all his apparent sympathy for America, the
ambassador has also always pedaled the Kremlins
party line on Chechnya, Syria and the annexation
of Crimea, despite Kislyaks Ukrainian heritage.
I thought he was pretty much of an old-style
Soviet-type ambassador, Attorney General Jeff
Sessions said at a news conference announcing
his decision to recuse himself from investigations
into Trump after he had met with Kislyak. Later,
in mid-June, in his high-profile testimony before a
Senate committee, Sessions said that when he met
Kislyak in his office in 2016, the diplomat defended
Moscows annexation of Crimea without apology.
Kislyak also mouthed the Putin line on Crimea and
Ukraine in a now-infamous 2015 showdown at the
Aspen Institute with Evelyn Farkas, a deputy assis-
tor Sarah Sweedler tells Newsweek. Its true that racy may be distorteda Saturday afternoon football
Kislyak did not hesitate to point out perceived U.S. fan view that sees nefarious activity in everything the
hypocrisy[but] he clearly supports the second- other team does, as Pickering says. But the result is
track dialogue between Russians and Americans that Russia has become as toxic as Kislyak himselfa
and wants it to succeed. mess that will take years to clean up.
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In an interview with Newsweek,
Britains Prince Harry explains
how he found a way to give his
life meaning after struggling
to cope with the death of his
beloved mother, Princess Diana
BY ANGELA LEVIN
IT IS ONE OF THE MOST
POIGNANT IMAGES OF
MOURNING IN MODERN
TIMES, AND PERHAPS ONE OF
THE CRUELEST: A 12-YEAR-OLD
PRINCE HARRY, HEAD BOWED
AND FISTS CLENCHED,
MARCHING IN THE FUNERAL
PROCESSION BEHIND
HIS MOTHERS COFFIN.
He, along with his older brother, Prince William; his of what he has accomplished and restless to do much
father, Prince Charles; his grandfather, the Duke of more. He tells me several times that he aches to be
Edinburgh; and his maternal uncle, Charles Spen- something other than Prince Harry.
cer, walked slowly through the heart of London on
September 6, 1997. Seven days earlier, the beauti- The Extraordinary Ordinary
ful, charismatic and unpredictable Princess Diana For the best part of the past year, Newsweek was given
had died in a car crash in Paris. She was 36. generous access to follow Prince Harry, now 32, as he
Her funeral was nearly 20 years ago, but Harrys went about his royal duties. I went to speak with him
recollection of that tragic day can still overwhelm him. one-on-one at Kensington Palace, where he lives
My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long in a two-bedroom cottage on the central London
way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of grounds while his brother and his wife, Kate, have a
people watching me while millions more did on tele- 22-room apartment in the palace.
vision, he tells Newsweek. His face hardens. I dont When we meet, Harry, wearing an open-necked,
think any child should be asked to do that, under any ice-blue shirt, brown chinos and gray suede shoes,
circumstances. I dont think it would happen today. leaps out of his armchair to greet me. He talks with
The prince readily admits that he was scarred warmth and energy but is also quite guarded. He is
by that day, by his mothers death, and was adrift surprisingly relaxed when talking about his transfor-
for decades. He ran with a wealthy, fast set, and mation over the past few years.
smoked and drank too much. He also once wore My search began when I was in my mid-20s,
Nazi clothing at a fancy dress party and was photo- Harry tells me. I needed to fix the mistakes I was
graphed in 2012 partying naked in Las Vegas, with making. In April, he revealed on a podcast that bot-
scantily clad women. He was the worlds most eligi- tling up his grief over his mothers death led to two
ble bachelorand a royal pain. years of total chaos, and that he was very close
Now, however, he exudes a combination of royal to a breakdown several times. When he was 28, on
stardust, accessibility, confidence and mischief, a Williams advice, he sought professional help.
mixture that reminds many people of his mother. His My mother died when I was very young. I didnt
journey from rebellious outsider to one of the worlds want to be in the position I was in, but I eventually
most popular royals has required much soul-search- pulled my head out of the sand, started listening to
ing, and there is still some way to go, but he is proud people and decided to use my role for good. I am
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DEATH
follow Princess
viduals who have got themselves into trouble. Dianas coffin
in 1997.
He says maintaining his ordinary life is a high
priority. My mother took a huge part in showing reflected in his love life. His girlfriend, Meghan Mar-
me an ordinary life, including taking me and my kle, might be a well-known actress, but she is also
brother to see homeless people. Thank goodness Im a divorce, a vocal feminist and American, none of
not completely cut off from reality. People would be which conforms to the stereotype of a royal consort.
amazed by the ordinary life William and I live. I do The prince can be fiercely protective of Meghan
my own shopping. Sometimes, when I come away and of their ability to have something approximating
from the meat counter in my local supermarket, I an ordinary relationship. In November, at his request,
worry someone will snap me with their phone. But I Kensington Palace put out a statement complaining
am determined to have a relatively normal life, and about the wave of abuse and harassment...the smear
if I am lucky enough to have children, they can have on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial
one too. He pauses, then adds, Even if I was king, undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sex-
I would do my own shopping. ism and racism of social media trolls. It continued:
Harrys determination to be ordinary seems Prince Harry is worried about Ms. Markles safety
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Does the prince ever worry
that too much ordinary might
make the royal family too acces-
sible and take away its mystery?
Its a tricky balancing act, he
says. We dont want to dilute
the magic. The British public
and the whole world need insti-
tutions like it.
The prince knows it is easy to
mock his quest for ordinary
while he lives in a palace, is fer-
ried around in limousines with
blackened windows and can use
his contacts to get what he wants.
Few people could get through to
the head of the British army, as
Harry did when he was told he had
to leave his unit in Afghanistan for
security reasons; the prince was
lobbying to stay on the battlefield.
More recently, he persuaded the
Natural History Museum to stay
open late one night so he and
Meghan could commune with the
dinosaurs in private.
He also seems to know that
millions of people dont want him
to be just another bloke. Nearly
everyone he met when I followed
him on his royal duties was
thrilled to be talking to, as one
said, an actual prince.
And Harry appeared to be
engaged when talking to chil-
dren, wounded veterans and
whoever else crossed his path as
he made his rounds. He appears
to have a genuine ability to con-
nect with people and in partic-
ular to help soldiers and other
people of all ages and types over-
come their hurdles.
Having admitted he shut
+ down his emotions for nearly
ON THE
SHOULDERS two decades, Harry is now keen
and is deeply disappointed that he has not been able OF GIANTS: to show the world he is a passionate, emotional per-
to protect her. It is not right that a few months into a Both Harry son. Sometimes, I can have too much passion, he
and William
relationship with him Ms. Markle should be subjected have tried says with a smile. It has got me into trouble in the
to such a storm. to model past, partly because I cannot stand the idea of people
themselves
One person close to the prince says Harry is not after their mincing around the subject rather than just getting
rushing to get things doneroyal-speak for propos- mother and on with it.
honor her
ing. They obviously get on very well and have a lot legacy.
in common, but they have not known each other that Light Is the Head
long. They need to find out if they can have an ordi- That Wears This Crown
nary relationship within a very unusual setting. I dont One of the many things Harry is eager to get on with
think anything will happen until the end of the year. is an overhaul of the British monarchyhe, William
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and Kate appear determined to drag it into the 21st who also lost his mother when he was young. Sente-
century. The monarchy is a force for good, he says, bale, which means forget me not, commemorates
and we want to carry on the positive atmosphere the mothers of both princes by helping vulnerable
that the queen has achieved for over 60 years, but we children in the southern African country, which
wont be trying to fill her boots. has the second highest HIV rate in the world. Harry
William, second in line to the throne, will likely is also patron of the anti-mines charity the HALO
follow Prince Charles as King, and while William is Trust, pursuing his mothers goal to rid the world
popular, Harrys charm and energy have been partic- of land mines.
ularly helpful in the younger generations revival of His second role is to support the queen, now 91,
a brand that after Dianas deathand several other who is steadily passing on some of her duties to her
misfortunes that befell the royal family around the
same timeseemed almost fatally damaged. We are
involved in modernizing the British monarchy. We are HARRY SAYS THAT
not doing this for ourselves but for the greater good of
the people. Is there any one of the royal family who
BOTTLING UP HIS GRIEF
wants to be king or queen? I dont think so, but we will LED TO TWO YEARS
carry out our duties at the right time.
The amount of charity work he, William and Kate
OF TOTAL CHAOS AND
will dowhich has been a huge part of the queens THAT HE WAS VERY
public personawill be more focused. Until last year,
the queen was patron of more than 600 charities, and
CLOSE TO A BREAKDOWN
the royal family supported 3,000. By the time William SEVERAL TIMES.
becomes king, those numbers will have
plummeted, but a source close to Harry
insists this is not due to laziness. (Royal
officials prefer to remain anonymous
in order to speak more freely about the
family.) They want instead to con-
centrate on specific charities that they
research thoroughly first and then get
involved in on a regular basis. The one
thing they dont want is to be seen as a
group of celebrities.
Harry seconds that. We use our time
wisely, he says. We dont want to turn
up, shake hands but not get involved.
From Eton
to Afghanistan
Harry sees himself as having three core
roles in a working life that isnt exactly
a career but is as close to one as hes
ever likely to have. The first is to honor
and extend his mothers legacy. I intu-
itively know what my mother would
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He confesses that his charity efforts in that regard one-liners and made the boys and girls laugh and
have enabled him to work through some of his own relax. The children stared wide-eyed as he threw
issues. On more than one occasion when Im with rugby balls to the boys and kicked a football around.
him, he declares, I believe a leopard can change After about 20 minutes, he talked to a group of
its spots. It seems clear he is speaking, at least in 16- to 24-year-olds who were part of a Royal Foun-
part, about himself. dation initiative offering a chance to train as a sports
In 2012, Harry, William and Kate launched the coach. Most of these young people came from dys-
Royal Foundation. Full Effect, one of its offshoots, functional homes, didnt fit in with the school sys-
aims to give kids, many of whom come from tem and so far had had very few opportunities in
deprived backgrounds and are at risk of being drawn life. One told me he had to get his seven siblings to
into gangs, a love of sports, which it is hoped will school every morning before he could come to work.
motivate them to take a more positive path. I accom- Next stop was the Russell Youth Centre in St.
panied Harry on a visit to a Full Effect project in the Anns, a deprived area that has a renowned Com-
city of Nottingham in central England. munity Recording Studio run by Trevor Rose. Harry
His first stop was outside Nottinghams National has been a regular visitor since 2013. This place is
Ice Centre, where about 30 9-year-old boys and girls a safe haven even for kids who have been banned
werent at all interested in his ordinary side. They MATES: from school, youth and sports centers, Rose says.
wanted the pageantry, the aura; Harry was dressed Harrys natural Many have been stabbed, thrown out of their home
ability to
casually in a navy shirt with the sleeves rolled up and connect with and have to deal with alcohol and drug issues, as
his shirt tails not quite tucked into his brown jeans, people makes well as low confidence and self-esteem.
him popular at
and he clearly didnt care whether people curtsied charity events, Before Harry arrived, most of the teenagers seemed
or bowed when meeting him. Instead, he cracked especially too cool to care about a royal visit, but Rose wasnt
those involv-
ing children. worried. When you work with young people who are
+ at risk, they dont trust people easily, but when Harry
walks in, youll see he is one of the boys.
And he was. Harry shook lots of hands, slapped
the boys on the back, hugged the girls and cracked
jokes. Within minutes, he was surrounded by for-
merly oh-so-cool teenagers pleading with him to
share a selfie, which he readily did.
It really makes a difference to the children to
know they have a prince watching over them, Rose
says. Not that Harry is what you would expect of a
prince. He doesnt just want to shake hands and say
hello. He has instead become part of their journey. I
believe his dedication is partly because it helps put
his own life into perspective.
Harry was educated at the elite Eton College school
(he disliked it) and then served in the army for 10
years and flew combat missions in Afghanistan. He
loved being part of a combat unit in Afghanistan and
was devastated when he was ordered off the front
lines because it was feared hed be too tantalizing a
target for every Taliban fighter for miles around, put-
ting himself and his comrades in extraordinary peril.
His army experience clearly made him a differ-
ent, better person and gave him a very personal
mission: to advocate for wounded servicemen and
women. In 2014, he created, then launched, the
Paralympic Invictus Games, which was a huge hit
and is now an annual event.
Speaking about trauma and depression was the
focus at the Emergency Operations Centre for Lon-
don Ambulance Service, which takes about 5,000
medical emergency calls a day and dispatches ambu-
lances around London. This visit was to promote
Time to Talk Day, an offshoot of the Heads Together
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AT EASE:
I WOULD DO MY
once again reached back to his experience on the front as this group
F RO M L E F T: M AT T H EW L EW I S/A F P/G E T T Y; R I C H A R D STO N E H OUSE /G E T T Y; B E N B I RC H A L L /A F P/G E T T Y
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been seriously wounded in battle. Although their Day thought for a moment, then said softly, I am
physical wounds had largely healed, they had come no longer me.
to take advantage of the Hidden Wounds psycho- It was a moving and delicate moment, but Harry
logical and well-being service, a program that Help wasnt thrown. One of your biggest struggles must
for Heroes offers to veterans suffering from depres- be living rather than just existing, he said.
sion, stress, anger, anxiety and problems with alco- Day nodded. I come here once a month for four
hol. Harry was both compassionate and jokey with days, and it brings out the best in me.
Harrys support team seemed hesitant about
whether to move him on to his next appointment.
I STILL HAVE A Well done, guys, he said to the soldiers as he left.
NAUGHTY STREAK We share the uniform, the prince tells me soon
after the visit. I see a lot of myself in these guys.
TOO, WHICH...IS HOW They want an opportunity to prove themselves and
I RELATE TO THOSE be someone.
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GOLD MEDAL
EFFORT: Harry
by the unique position they are in and the experience conceived and very resentful, he says. Being in the army was
F RO M L E F T: J O H N ST I L LW E L L / T I M G RA H A M P I CT U R E L I B RA RY/G E T T Y; C H R I S JAC KSO N /G E T T Y
of losing their mother very young. But they dont remains an the best escape Ive ever had. I felt as though I was
active booster
live in each others pockets, and while William was of the Invictus really achieving something.
at university, they didnt see much of each other at Games, an In 2012, he was allowed to return to Afghani-
international
all. Another member of Harrys inner circle further sporting event stan, where he commanded an attack helicopter at
delineates the differences between the two princes: for injured ser- Camp Bastion in Helmand province. All I wanted
vicemen and
William was more successful academically, but servicewomen. to do was prove that I had a certain set of skillsfor
when it comes to dealing with people, Harry knocks instance, flying an Apache helicopterrather than
the spots off both him and Kate, especially with chil- just being Prince Harry. I also felt I was one of the
dren. Harry is passionate about them and is a nat- lads and could forget I was Prince Harry when I was
ural, which neither William nor Kate are. Having with them.
their own has no doubt helped. He returned home in 2015, angry that his army
Harry is also proud that he has a more practi- life had been ripped from him. But he finally let that
cal side. I can do most things with my hands, he frustration go and aggressively pursued his quest
says. That is one reason why serving in the British for a new identity that would make him feel as if
army suited him so well. At the end of 2007, he was his life had meaning other than just as a member
secretly flown out to Afghanistan and worked as a of the royal family. He tells me that he is in a rush
forward air controller in Helmand province, guid- to make something of my life. I feel there is just a
ing fighter jets to suspected Taliban targets. Ten smallish window when people are interested in me
weeks in, his tour of duty was leaked by the press, before [Williams children] take over, and Ive got
and he was pulled out for security reasons. I felt to make the most of it.
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SC I E N C E P H OTO L I BA RY/G E T T Y
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WHY, AORTA! The most common
cause of a heart attack is a blood
clot (such as this) at the arterial
entrance in a heart chamber, known
as a coronary thrombosis.
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NEW WORLD
GOOD SCIENCE
EACH YEAR, more than 700,000 Americans suffer Cities, has created a patch a doctor could apply
myocardial infarction, aka a heart attack. Thanks to mend a broken heart. Weve used stem cell
to medical advances, there are myriad ways for a derived cardiac musclecardiac myocytesand
doctor to get the blood properly pumping and save actually mixed those with other cell types needed
a persons life. A cardiologist might give a patient for blood vessels. This prevents what would oth-
medication to clear or loosen blockages. Or a doc- erwise happen naturally: the formation of a dif-
tor might insert a catheter to remove the clot, or ferent type of cells known as fibroblasts, which
place stents in the artery so it stays open. secrete scar tissue. Ogles team induced cardiac
These interventions have vastly improved sur- arrest in lab mice, and after placing the cell patch,
vival rates, but they dont heal the damage caused saw a significant increase in functional capacity
by a cardiac event. The heart is really just one big after just four weeks. These findings were pub-
muscle, and trauma to any muscle does some lished this past January in Circulation Research, a
damage, which becomes scar tissue. Scar tissue journal from the American Heart Association.
on the heart means it functions far less optimally, Last June, the National Institutes of Health
which eventually leads to heart failure. awarded Ogles team over $3 million to give pigs
Short of a transplant, there isnt a long-term fix heart attacks and fix them. This is still a long way
for a damaged ticker. But a team of researchers from being used on humans, but Ogle is optimis-
say theyve come up with a solution that could tic. The replacement of muscle has been the holy
BY revolutionize cardiology. Using 3-D printing, grail for some time, she says. Now, we finally
JESSICA FIRGER Brenda Ogle, an associate professor of biomedical have the ability to take stem cells out of the body
@jessfirger engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin and develop the protocols to do that.
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N E W W O R L D/ CARS
DISRUPTIVE
AUTO EROTICISM
Sex in the back seat is just one of
the many things that will change as
self-driving cars transform society
MEAT LOAFS classic song Paradise by the Dash- government officials are already starting to wres-
board Light will soon seem downright prehistor- tle with big societal issues related to this issue.
ica tune from back when people had to sneak The National League of Cities just released a
sex in parked cars. In the age of autonomous study that gets into concerns about privacy (who
vehicles, experts are worried that well be having gets to know that you take daily trips to the booze
all kinds of sex in moving cars. Randy teens might store?), regulation, ownership of data, hacking
order a driverless Uber SUV with tinted windows and, of course, safety. And theres still so much
for a spin around town. An office worker could more to consider. Some research says that in 20
take full advantage of the long morning commute or 30 years, most people in urban settings will
with the spouseor with the neighbors spouse. move around in driverless cars. At that point, the
We can only hope Daimler-AG anticipated this cascading impact of driverless transportation will
development when in 2014 it registered a trade- be as greatand as nuancedas the shift from
mark for a driverless auto service it callskid you horses to cars in the early 1900s.
notCar2come. (Perhaps they shouldve had a For instance, most consumers will find car
native English speaker in the room at the time?) insurance less necessary than carbon paper. Flo
The autonomous-car movement is accelerating from Progressive and the Geico gecko will be
faster than a Tesla in Ludicrous Easter Egg mode. forced to get jobs as extras in Disney movies.
In recent weeks, Jaguar Land Rover invested $25 Auto accidents will (supposedly) almost never
million in Lyft so JLR can test its autonomous happen. That will devastate the towing industry,
cars on Lyfts ride-hailing service. Honda, which which employs around 1.6 million people with an
had lagged in driverless tech, unveiled ambitious average salary of $41,000. Talk about a job killer.
plans to make cars by 2020 that can drive them- In the horse era, there was a need to have stables
selves on highways. U.K.-based auto parts maker everywhere. In the car era, weve needed gas sta-
Delphi and French transport company Transdev tions everywhere. But in the driverless era, most
said they will jointly start testing driverless, cars will be electric and will automatically find a
on-demand mobility on roads in France. charging station, the way a Roomba returns to its
Almost every automaker and dozens of well- dock after vacuuming up cat hair. Gas stations will
funded startups are frantically racing toward a become something we tell our grandkids about.
driverless future. Yet while we can see driverless Self-driving cars dont need to park. They can BY
cars coming, its hard to understand just how drop you off and give someone else a ride. There KEVIN MANEY
much they will change everyday life. Even so, are 2 billion parking spaces in the U.S. and billions @kevinmaney
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And whos going to clean the inside of a Lyft
or other shared autonomous car? Will sensors
know if a kid barfed up his birthday cake on the
back seat? Such aspects of post-driving life are
missing from most research. One new study from
Intel and Strategy Analytics seems to bring up
even crazier ideas. It says that driverless vehicles
will generate $7 trillionnearly twice the gross
domestic product of Japanin global economic
activity by 2050. Some of that will come from
what the report calls previously unimagined
applications. One possibility, the report says, is
mobile hair salons. It doesnt say whether the hair
stylist in that robotic salon will also be a robot.
Another way to get a sense of how surprising we
might find the changes wrought by autonomous
autos is to look back at the transition from horses
to cars. Near the end of the 1800s, the horse pop-
ulation was exploding in major cities. The car was
not yet being mass-produced, and no one could
imagine how else people and things were going
to move around town. Yet horse manure was lit-
+ erally choking cities. One observer wrote that the
SEX DRIVE: Fore-
casters anticipating streets of New York were literally carpeted with
an autonomous- more worldwide. What if we dont need parking a warm, brown mattingsmelling to heaven.
auto world are lots? Turn them into parks? Urban farmland? Another person worried that manure would pile
trying to imagine
how much you Traffic lights could disappear. If youve used up past third-story windows. In 1898, the worlds
could get done on the traffic app Waze, you know that todays tech- first international urban-planning conference got
your daily commute
if you didnt have nology can closely track where you are, your speed so bogged down with manure problems that dele-
to keep your hands and hazards. Autonomous cars will have a vastly gates ended the meeting a week early.
on the wheel.
more advanced version of that, so every kind of By 1920, 12 years after Ford introduced the
traffic signal could be moved from hardware on Model T, the problem had gone away. And by
the ground to software in the cloud, automatically that point, many people had figured out that
telling each car where and when to stop, go, merge amorousness worked a whole lot better in a car
and all that. Visit a city in 50 years and
there might not be a single traffic signal.
Forecasters paint a picture of orderly
autonomous cars obeying speed limits WHO GETS TO KNOW THAT
and keeping safe distances from other
cars. But if humans demand choices,
YOU TAKE DAILY TRIPS TO
some companies might at least give us THE BOOZE STORE?
optional settings, allowing us to dial
in modes that might range from Cau-
tious for families with small children
to Hurry for the Type A crowd to Mad Max than on a horse, inspiring songs ranging from
for when youre already 20 minutes late for your Chuck Berrys No Particular Place to Go to
daughters wedding. For that matter, what will a Kendrick Lamars Backseat Freestylewith
driverless car chase in the movies look like? Mark Meat Loaf sandwiched in between.
down another car culture obituary. We cant wait for the new songs once teenage
Autonomous cars will also destroy the meme love becomes something experienced in motion.
ALESSIA PIE RDO MENICO/REUTERS
of the upscale suburban mom tirelessly chauf- But dont ask the government types. Thats one
feuring kids to soccer, piano, pottery and tax of several things people will do which will inhibit
evasion classes. Millions of parents will instead their ability to respond quickly when the com-
summon a car, shove the kids in, track them with puter says to the human, Take over, Barrie Kirk,
an app and mix up a cosmo on the back patio. of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of
The backlash to helicopter parenting might just Excellence, stiffly lamented to a reporter.
be autonomous-car-enabled couch parenting. Not exactly Baby, you can drive my car.
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BRIGHT LIGHTS,
BIG GALAXY:
Astronomers
believed collapsing
stars always have
a supernova phase
until they noticed
that N6946-BH1
had slipped from
their view.
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BILL
COLLECTORS:
Researchers
who tested
paper bills from
across Hong
Kong found a
plethora
of microbes on
the cash.
placed them in various cell cul- infections are caused by one various bacteria, and trans-
turespetri dishes containing called Acinetobacter baumannii, mit pathogens and antibiotic
different types of agar, a sub- which can cause pneumonia or resistance. In other words, while
stance derived from algae that wound infections in people with paper bills do not currently pose
serves as a growth medium. The weak immune systems, chronic a widespread health threat, they
BY results, published in Frontiers in lung disease or diabetes. could allow us to follow the mi-
JESSICA WAPNER Microbiology, showed that the This new study joins a growing crobes among us and spot a new
@jessicawapner bacteria grew readily. stack of research seeking to keep threat if one does emerge.
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W E E K E N D CULTURE, TRAVEL AND OTHER GOOD NEWS
T
HE FILMMAKER EDGAR Baby Driver, which he wrote and meticulously choreographed to match
WRIGHT was born in the directed. But while hes happy to unfurl up with a killer soundtrack. Its like a
English countryside, but strings of anecdotes and recommenda- musical for people who wouldnt usu-
his brain is pure Holly- tions for favorite songs, movies, lines ally go and see musicals, Wright says.
wood, so saturated with and scenes, this director of the best car- Its literally a dream collision of my two
cinema history that he could pass as a chase film in years cant quite remem- favorite things.
backup to the Internet Movie Database, ber what kind of car he drove to get The kernel of the movie came to
should some of his movies comically here. Since the movie, Ive been driv- Wright in what he calls a vision,
apocalyptic crises come to pass. Wright ing a Mercedes, but Ioh man. For a 22 years ago, when he was listening to
has turned that deep movie geekery into moment, hes at a loss. I just got a new Bellbottoms, a song by the Jon Spen-
a very particular brand of smart, funny, one the other day, but this is a rental. cer Blues Explosion, a New Yorkbased
gleefully violent and unexpectedly Dont say Edgar Wright had no idea multi-genre fusion band (reasonably
good-natured films, each a pitch-per- what car he was driving. popular in the U.K., less so stateside).
fect, multi-hyphenate mashup, includ- Baby Driver is a departure for Wright Wright was sitting in his bedroomor
ing the rom-com-zom(bie) Shaun of in a number of ways. Its his first Ameri- my only room, to be specific, in a flat
the Dead, the village-green-preserva- can movie (set in Atlanta); his first script in North Londonand a car chase
tion-society-conspiracy-cop-thriller that isnt a full-on comedy; and his first appeared before his eyes.
Hot Fuzz and the live-action-video- film stocked with bona-fide Hollywood The idea cropped up again seven
game-comic-book-adaptation-rom- stars. Ansel Elgort, the 23-year-old years later. Wright had agreed to come
com Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. famous for the young adult (YA) tear- up with a video treatment for the Brit-
At 43, he still looks like the boy wonder jerker The Fault in Our Stars, plays the ish electronic group Mint Royale, and
who launched his career at age 19 with willowy cool Baby, a wunderkind driver the deadline was coming fast. Out of
WILSON WE BB, 2016, COLUMB IA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.
a homemade Western parody, A Fistful for a bank robbery crew; Kevin Spacey, options, he fell back on his old vision.
of Fingers, which led to a job directing Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx (who signed I was mad at myself because I had
comedy shows on the BBC (which, coin- on after a call from Wright fan and squandered this great film concept on a
cidentally, all ended up featuring a lot friend Quentin Tarantino) anchor the $30,000 music video, he says.
of genre pastiche and parody). In a cor- gang as Babys bosses and grown-man Then a string of critically acclaimed
ner of his favorite breakfast place in the criminal counterparts; and Lily James, films put him in the position of being
Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz best known as Lady Rose from Downton able to take another shot. Shaun of
(where he stays when in the States), Abbey, is Deborah, Babys new boo. the Dead, which Wright directed and
face to face with his infectious enthu- The idea, though, is oldone Wright co-wrote with its star, Simon Pegg,
siasms and bouncy charm, it is easy to has been nursing since before he had a blew into theaters like a fresh (if zom-
see why someone might give him mil- credit to his name, before the zombies bie-scented) breeze in 2003. The film
lions of dollars to make a high-concept or the BBC shows, back when Elgort followed two regular blokes, played by
heist movie, the about-to-be-released was an actual baby: an action movie Pegg and his frequent counterpart Nick
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JOY RIDERS:
(from top) Baby
Drivers Lily James
and Ansel Elgort;
Elgort with Jamie
Foxx, Eiza Gonzlez
and Jon Hamm;
at the wheel.
researching the movie, Wright spoke I mention one very relatable, flirty mantis attack.
with former felons and found that the exchange, when Baby mispronounces a
getaway vehicle of choice is anything bands name and Deborah corrects him. Baby Driver is released June 28.
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FROM THE FIRST SHOTS
of mist drifting past trees Southern Discomfort
dripping with Spanish moss,
Sofia Coppolas The Beguiled
moves with a languid,
Sexuality collides with gentility
hypnotic menace. Most
gothic melodramas seem
in Soa Coppolas The Beguiled
to take place in a hothouse.
This film takes its character commitment to the material. between John Singer Sargent by Patty Jenkins, means
and pace from the humid And with a smirking Clint and Edvard Munch, a faded female filmmakers have a
Southern air that slows Eastwood as the soldier, mansion on its way to chance to reap the rewards
everything and reduces the the storywhich Cullinan becoming a sickroom. of popular blockbusters.
humans trapped inside to told entirely from the points Coppola gets at thorny Whats not being asked is
the helpless conviction that of view of the women and complex ideas about what difference a female
the relief theyre waiting for became a simpleminded how expectations of female presence will make for the
will never arrive. demonstration of how gentility poison female movies if the result is still
And yet, at 93 minutes, devious women are. sexuality and cause these the clunky (though, in the
this streamlined version, As the soldier in Coppolas women to experience case of Wonder Woman, well-
based both on Thomas movie, Farrell, a too often desire as sickness. Shes intentioned) superhero flicks
Cullinans 1965 novel and underrated actor, has a aided by Kidman, whose male directors are already
Don Siegels 1971 film, is dangerous and seductive performance creates a making. No director gets
over before you know it, charm: You couldnt blame kind and potentially loving to show wit or personality
leaving you a little dazed, anyone for being taken woman out of a character when theyre working with
as if youd woken abruptly in. Coppola sees the black who, in both the original a quarter-billion of studio
from under a spell. Set in humor and the eeriness of novel and the Siegel film, money. Meanwhile, Coppola
a girls boarding school in the storys premise. Where was all starchy repression. made The Beguiled on a
1864 as the Confederacy Siegel played an amputation And Dunst, as a youngish budget of $10 million and
realizes its going to lose, scene for over-the-top woman at the age when she with a shooting schedule
the story is about the sexual gruesomeness, Coppola is beginning to be viewed as of just six weeks. It doesnt
tensions that arise when does something both subtler an old maid, is touching and matter if theres a queen
a wounded Union soldier and far more unsettling, yet startling. Its as if you can or a king at the top of the
(Colin Farrell) is discovered cutting from the preparation see her dimpled, youthful box office when our best
and taken in to recuperate. for the operation to a burial beauty withering before you filmmakers still have to go
The headmistress (Nicole service for the severed for simple want of love. begging for resources.
Kidman) is wary of the limb. As shot by Philippe Le The talk in Hollywood CHARLES TAYLOR
newcomer, as both a man Sourd, the film looks like now is how the success of
and a Yank, but finds herself an unholy collaboration Wonder Woman, directed The Beguiled is released June 23.
drawn to him, as do a
younger teacher, Edwina SUMMER MOVIE SPECIAL
(Kirsten Dunst), and a
precocious student, Alicia
(Elle Fanning, exuding the
inchoate lyricism that makes
her a wonder to watch).
You wait for the tensions
male-female, North-South,
innocence-experience, lust-
loveto explode. And they
do, but the explosions hit
you on the rebound, like
B E N ROT H ST E I N / FO CUS F E AT U R ES
NEWSWEEK 57 J U N E 3 0, 2017
T
HE STRANGEST MOVIE villain
of the summer was inspired by
a TED Talk. Oh, and a robot
hummingbird.
It was February of 2012. The
Welsh writer Jon Ronson had traveled to
Long Beach, California, for the annual
TED conference, where he was to deliver a
talk about psychopaths. (Ronsons book
The Psychopath Test had been published
the previous year.) While there, he was
unexpectedly captivated by a presentation
from Regina Dugan, then-director of the
Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA). She comes on in a polo-
neck jumper looking like Steve Jobs and
gives this TED Talk about weaponry,
Ronson recalls. While lecturing on the
miraculous rise of flight, Dugan welcomed
to the stage a hummingbird drone, which
began zooming, eerily birdlike, above the
crowd. Audience members gasped.
I was gasping too, Ronson sayswith
delight, but also a creeping trepidation.
He suddenly realized that, given DARPAs
military work, bad things could happen
because of that robot bird. It might go in
through somebodys window and, you know,
kill them. Thats what DARPA does, right?
There was a really interesting incongruity
between the presentation of her message
and the message itself.
Ronson had this strange moment in mind
when he began work on the screenplay for
Okja (OAK-shah), the captivating new film
from South Korean director Bong Joon Ho.
Its a dizzying, cross-continental flick that
flirts with action-adventure and furious
satire. A primped, blond Tilda Swinton plays
the villain, Lucy Mirando, the domineering
CEO of Mirando Corp., a multinational meat
company. When we meet her, shes giving
a charismatic public address in whichas
SUMMER MOVIE SPECIAL with the TED Talkcute animals obscure a
more sinister reality. Mirando reveals that
How Jon Ronson, a Welsh farmers around the world. A South Korean
farm girl named Mija (Ahn Seo Hyun) cares
nerd, came to write a for and adores one such pig, the CGI-fueled
JESSE DITTMAR FOR NEWSWEE K
NEWSWEEK 58 J U N E 3 0, 2017
in the paranormal that became a film starring As Okja stomps, farts and poops her way into
Ewan McGregor. Later, he wrote The Psychopath our collective affection, its no great leap to
Test and 2014s Frank, a quirky flick loosely assume some viewers might be tempted to give
based on Ronsons early misadventures with a veganism a try. But while Ronson is clearly an
band. Ronson, 50, has round glasses and a thick, animal lover, he does not regard Okja as a pro-
charming accent. Were chatting in his Manhattan vegan film. I dont think thats the message,
apartments small office, with a framed image of Ronson says, noting that there are shots of South
Frank Sidebottom, the papier-mch-masked Korean villagers eating fish or meat stew. I think
musician who inspired Frank, on the wall. thats deliberate on Bongs part. Hes saying,
So: How did a Welsh-born journalist wind up This is not an anti-meat polemic. Ronson does
co-writing a wildly original South Korean action think its an anti-factory-farming film.
movie? Ronsons improbable involvement began What was certainly deliberate is Ronson's
with a phone call: Bong wanted to meet him. It treatment of the animal rights activists who
was October 2014, and Bong was fresh from swoop in to rescue Okja; the group behaves
the success of Snowpiercer, a harrowing, post- bravely, but they are equally absurd. I didnt
apocalyptic action film that takes place on board want them to be knights in shining armor,
a train during a near-future ice age. (Bongs Ronson says. I always find it a bit of a turnoff
first primarily English-language film, it drew when you make the heroic people just so heroic.
international raves.) Ronson was preparing to Okja, on its surface, has little to do with So
publish So Youve Been Publicly Shamed, a book Youve Been Publicly Shamed. But Ronson sees
that examines the troubling phenomenon of
shaming campaigns on social media. Not much
overlap there.
Ronson trekked downtown to meet with Bong,
Okja star Swinton and Swintons partner, Sandro
Kopp. The good news, Ronson was delighted
to learn, was that they were fans of Frank. The
better news: They had a very rough draft of a
screenplay, and they wanted his help.
The cross-cultural collaboration of the
screenwriting process mirrors the global scope
of this film, a bracing corporate satire with
tightly choreographed rescue sequences that
speeds from Asian farmland to corporate Man-
hattan. Bong had already sketched out the nar-
ratives wilder twists and turns. Ronsons job
was to help develop the English-speaking char-
acters: Mirando (Swinton), the nefarious but
occasionally sympathetic evildoer; members of
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the Animal Liberation Front (headed by Paul a link. It has to do with cognitive dissonance BEAST IN SHOW:
Dano), who are determined to help Mija save on the part of consumers who shell out for Seo-hyun
the genetically modified animal from becoming products made by harmful corporations, as well as Mija with
the eponymous
genetically modified meat; and Dr. Johnny (Jake as maybe that robot hummingbird. You dont star of Okja.
Gyllenhaal), a cartoonishly deranged zoologist want to think about the slaughterhouse, so you
who serves as a sort of Mirando Corp. mascot deliberately find ways to block that thought out
(inspired by an actual person, the host of Animal of your head...like, we destroy people on social
Magic, a BBC show Ronson watched as a kid). media and then come up with psychological
Ronson turned vegetarian several years before tricks to make ourselves not feel bad about it.
working on Okjaa fortuitous coincidence, he Both works might be regarded as pleas for
says: I was quite pleased that I wasnt a meat compassion in a compassionless world. With
eater while I was writing this. The film gives a Okja and Shamed, Ronson is evincing a studied
brutal and uncommon glimpse of the cruelty ambivalence about technology that enables the
inherent in postindustrial meat production human capacity for cruelty. A heavy message,
during a climactic moment, the viewer sees, but the film delivers it with ample heartand
quite literally, how the sausage is madecircling the most likable pig since Babe.
NETFL IX
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THE PLACE TO BE
Bilbao, Spain
Bill Viola takes over the Guggenheim
P
IONEERING VIDEO artist Bill Viola is director, and not just an artist creating his own work.
concerned with nothing less than life and Violas themes, however, remained constant.
death, evident in the titles of his pieces: His emotive approachwhile visually lush and
Heaven and Earth, Man in Nature, Chapel of painterlyhas a primal quality, incorporating
Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures. Such ambition elements like fire and water. Standing in a dark
can yield pretension, but at its best, his unique fusion room, surrounded by his extremely slow-motion
of the conceptual and visual is truly transcendent. Yet images, is both meditative and mesmerizing, as if
despite countless solo shows and numerous awards, the artist were trying to capture consciousness itself.
Violas work has never been laid out in fulluntil now. One piece at Bilbao, entitled Man Searching for
Beginning June 30, Spains Guggenheim Museum in Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity, from
Bilbao will present a major retrospective, really the 2013, might be perceived as a coda to his work.
peak of our exhibition experience, says his wife and Projections of an older man and womanboth
longtime collaborator, Kira Perov. nakedwalk slowly toward the viewer, seeming to
The retrospective covers a period just before Viola emerge from two 7-foot-high slabs of granite. They
and Perov first met, in 1977when video was still turn on a flashlight and very slowly begin searching
a primitive noveltyup to the present, illustrating their bodies, says Perov. And we all know what that
just how much the 66-year-old artists career is meanstheyre searching for death. Eventually,
intertwined with the evolution of video art. As the the figures finish, turn off their lights and dissolve
medium became more complex, so did his work: back into the granite.
Projections give way to flat screens and video to high-
B I L L V I O L A / B I L L V I O L A ST U D I O
COFFEE TABLE
NIC KOLAS M URAY PHOTO ARCHIVES; VICTOR KEPPLE R; SANDY SKOG LUND; TIM WALKER
$60 food photography than
eye candy or food porn.
The compendium of images from the 1840s to the present
day is part social history, taking in humor, aspiration, sex
and taste, while also telling the story of photography.
Eating is one of the most base, visceral and profane
acts, Bright observes in Feast for the Eyes. In this spirit,
we see Weegees 1940 image of a young man poised
to cram a waterfall of spaghetti into his open mouth;
Martin Parrs famished swimmers at a fast-food stand
in the 1980s; and shots from Peter Menzels 2005
photojournalism project, Hungry Planet, in which families
in different countries stand next to their weeks groceries.
But theres another, equally compelling story here: the
evolution of food styling. The Technicolor platters of 1970s
Weight Watchers recipe cardsfor dishes like a crown
roast of frankfurterssit in hilarious contrast to the
21st-century obsession with authenticity and simplicitya
humble pork chop, for example, caramelizing in a pan of
butter froth (Bon Apptit magazine, 2013). You might not
want to eat a crown of hot dogs, but the photo makes a
good case for their glorification in art. AMY FLEMING
BY PLEASURE. THAT, HISTORICALLY, has been the developers to make good on their assurances.
MATTHEW SWEET promise of the boardwalk where New York Citys Marvin E. Newman, then a young
@DrMatthewSweet
B train stops. Not the kind that lasts. That would photographer with a masters degree from the
be too much to ask. But the kind delivered by that Illinois Institute of Technology, got up early in
first bite of a Nathans hot dog. Or the moment the morning to secure this shot. The light was
before you see the sideshow mermaid is actually bright, the air was cold, and this island resident,
a salmon tail stitched to a dead monkey. Or the swaddled in black, perched on the planks for
interlude after the photographer has snapped you him like a watchful raven.
in fancy dress with someone you hardly know, Newmans work often supplies its own
and youre waiting for things to develop. captions. He once photographed a silver
This is what Coney Island means to visitors, Bentley cruising Manhattans 42nd Street past a
who come to escape the gasoline fumes and hot cinema marquee advertising an Italian cannibal
concrete of Manhattan. Its a zone of instant horror flick called Let Them Die Slowly. One
gratification. For those who have known it during of his greatest images observes the red neon
the winter months and of a Ripleys Believe It or Not! show turning the
through its long periods wet sidewalk into a murder scene. That shot
of neglect, however, forms the cover of his new monograph, which,
FOR VISITORS, its a place where you somewhat scandalously, is also his first. Marvin
CONEY ISLAND IS A wait for something E. Newman is 89 years old. But some pleasures
MARVIN E . NEWMAN
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As president of Jet Aviation in our 50th anniversary year, Id like to extend sincere thanks on behalf of the
entire Jet Aviation team for your business and support over the years. To celebrate this milestone which we
would not be doing without your ongoing trust and loyalty we launched our One Jet Aviation initiative
earlier this year. We are investing in One Jet Aviation to ensure consistent global standards and processes
across our sites and portfolio of services for the next 50 years, and beyond. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Many Advantages
Maintenance, Refurbishment, Completions, FBO, Aircraft Management, Flight Support, Charter, Stafng.
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