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LondonMuslims
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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
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remnant of the Cold
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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
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Firefighters rest
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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.
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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.
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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-
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BUSINESS AL-QAEDA
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Forget ISISAl-Qaeda is making
a terrifying comeback, led by
Osama bin Ladens son
THE FOOTHILLS of the Spin Ghar mountain
range, two dozen miles south of Jalalabad in the
borderland between Afghanistan and Pakistan,
were once home to hundreds of olive planta-
tions. For tens of thousands of acres, there used
to be farms clustered along the banks of the
Nangarhar Canal, a monumental hydroelectric
irrigation project completed in the 1960s, when
Afghanistan was safe and liberal enough to form
a regular stop on the hippie trail from Europe to
India and the Far East. By the turn of the new
millennium, however, more than 20 years of con-
tinuous warfare had almost destroyed the canals
capacity to pump water to the groves, all but kill-
ing what had once been a flourishing business.
One day in the fall of 2001, with yet another
foreign invasion brewing, a father sat with three
of his young sons in the shade of one of the few
remaining olive trees. Together, they performed
a simple farewell ceremony. To each of the three
boys, the father gave a misbahaa set of prayer
beads symbolizing the 99 names of God in
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classical Arabic. Then the father took his leave
and disappeared into the mountains, heading for
a familiar redoubt known as the Black Caveor,
in the local Pashto language, Tora Bora. It was
as if we pulled out our livers and left them there,
one of the sons recalled in a letter in 2009.
The boy who wrote that letter was Hamza
bin Laden, a son of Osama bin Laden, who was
then the leader of Al-Qaeda. Hamza was to
spend most of the next decade in captivity. He
grew up behind bars, missing his father deeply.
How many times, from the depths of my heart,
I wished to be beside you, Hamza wrote to him
in the letter. I remember every smile that you
smiled at me, every word that you spoke to me
and every look that you gave me.
Hamza grew up with a fervor for jihad and a
determination to follow in the footsteps of his
notorious father. And toward the end of his life,
the older bin Laden began grooming Hamza BY
for a leadership role. He even made plans for ALI SOUFAN
Hamza to join him in his secret compound in @Ali_H_Soufan
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THE FAMILY
BUSINESS: Osama
bin Laden with
Hamza bin Laden
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in Afghanistan in
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elder bin Laden
disappeared into
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Abbottabadthe place where Navy SEALs ulti-
mately shot him dead. But 16 years after their
farewell under that olive tree, Hamzas emer-
gence as a jihadi leader, along with several of
his fathers most trusted and competent lieu-
tenants, portends an Al-Qaeda resurgence.
BENIGN HOSTAGE-TAKING:
Today, it might seem like the Islamic State After the 9/11 attacks,
group is strong, as its followers attack and kill Iran detained several key
Al-Qaeda figures, includ-
innocents in London and Manchester. But its ing Hamza bin Laden, his

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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.

THREE JIHADI MUSKETEERS

In the months after 9/11 and the fall of the Tali-
ban, as the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, bin Laden
family members and high-ranking Al-Qaeda
figures escaped to the Shiite stronghold of
Iran. That may seem like a surprising destina-
tion for some of the worlds most fervent Sunni
extremistsmen who pepper their public utter-
ances with slurs about their Shiite rivals. But in
the wake of the attacks on New York City and
Washington, D.C., Iran was the one place in the
Muslim world where Americas military and law
enforcement apparatus could not apprehend
them. The Iranian authorities deported most of
the Al-Qaeda members they captured, but they
held on to a few high-value detainees to use as
bargaining chips in hostage negotiations and
other sticky situations. Among these valuable
hostages were Hamza and his mother, Khayria,
as well as three key figures: Abu Khayr al-Masri,
the head of the Al-Qaedas political committee,
Abu Mohammed al-Masri, the head of its train-
ing camps, and Saif al-Adel, its chief of security
and a leading tactician.
Immediately following the trios arrest in Shiraz
in April 2003, they were hauled off to Tehran and
jailed for around 20 months in the dungeons of
a building belonging to Irans feared intelligence
apparatus. The top tier of Al-Qaeda and their
families were held incommunicado and without
charge. Around the beginning of 2005, they were
moved to a spacious military compound with an
apartment complex, a soccer field and a mosque,
adjacent to a training camp for one of the many
Shiite militant groups on Tehrans payroll. Their
families were allowed to join them, though at
least one of the detainees suspected this was a

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ruse to allow the Iranians to keep tabs on poten-
tially troublesome family members.
But the prisoners were restive. For these hardy
mujahedeen, suburban comforts only height-
ened their humiliation. One of them told his
captors he would sooner be extradited to Israel
than spend any more time in Irans gilded cage.
In March 2010, the prisoners staged what one
detainee later described as a huge act of dis-
turbance. Masked, black-clad Iranian troops
were ordered to storm the compound. The sol-
diers beat the men and some of the children and
hauled off the senior detainees to solitary con-
finement, where they stewed for 101 days.
The detainees ability to communicate with
the outside world seems to have varied over
time. At first, they were held, as one U.S. offi-
cial puts it, under virtual house arrest, not able
to do much of anything. Phone calls to family
members were strictly limited. But the stric-
tures gradually loosened, just as the detainees
living conditions slowly improved. The Iranian
authorities eventually set up a system permit-
ting prisoners to send emails and browse the
web, albeit with limited access.
There were other ways of communicating with
the outside too. Adels father-in-law, Mustafa
Hamid, who was held in Iran under looser con-
ditions, visited the main group of detainees every
few months. With his greater liberty, Hamid was
in a position to serve as courier, and this
may be how Adel was able to publish a
column on security and intelligence in
the house magazine of Al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula, Muaskar al-Battar
TODAY, IT MIGHT SEEM
(Camp of the Sword). Other detainees LIKE THE ISLAMIC STATE
escaped and brought manuscripts with
them, written by the detainees; bin
GROUP IS STRONG, BUT
Ladens daughter Iman smuggled out ITS POWER IS DWINDLING.
a text called Twenty Guidelines on the
Path of Jihada book highly critical of
ISIS founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawis
violence against civilians in Iraqand eventually
had it published. (The book presaged the conflict
that split ISIS from Al-Qaeda years later.)
Despite their restlessness, the detainees
managed to create elements of their previous
lives behind bars. The men came together five
times a day for prayers and conversation at the
mosque. The prisoners asked that their children
be allowed to attend schooland the authori-
ties said no but Hamzas mother, who is well-
educated, urged him to pursue learning as best
he could, and a group of senior detainees took
it upon themselves to educate him in Koranic
study, Islamic jurisprudence and the Hadith, a
collection of sayings attributed to the Prophet
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Muhammad. While in custody, Hamza married
a daughter of Abu Mohammed al-Masri and had
children.
He would never see his father again, but soon
he would become just like himan advocate of
violent, radical jihad.
A LION EMERGES FROM HIS DEN
By 2014, Al-Qaeda and ISIS had officially split.
ISIS had not only conquered territory in Iraq and
Syria but shocked the world, beheading Ameri-
cans on tape and broadcasting its brutality. In
the eyes of the West, Al-Qaeda was no longer
the most dangerous extremist group, and ISIS
leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had become a new
bin Laden. To some jihadis, however, Baghdadi
was much more: He was the leader prophesized
to bring about a worldwide Islamic caliphate.
Baghdadis rise came at the expense of Ayman
al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaedas leader. The Egyptian
may have inherited bin Ladens portfolio and job
title, but from his grave under the Indian Ocean,
the sheikh could not pass on his aura. In July
2014, as the feud between ISIS and Al-Qaeda
grew, Zawahiri renewed his groups bayat, or
loyalty oath, to Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader.
At the time, it seemed a smart symbolic move to
underline the illegitimacy of Baghdadis claim
to supremacy. A year later, however, it emerged
that Omar had succumbed to tuberculosis in
April 2013; Zawahiri and Al-Qaeda had pledged
allegiance to a man who had been dead for 15
months. This looked bad for Zawahiri; either he
had known Omar was dead and sworn fealty to
a cadavera grave transgression in Al-Qaedas
Salafi-jihadi version of Islamor he had not
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known and was therefore too far out of the loop
to call himself a true emir. The gaffe provoked
ridicule from some jihadis, dismay from others.
At a time when Zawahiri was already struggling
to show his relevance in the age of ISIS, it seemed
to confirm the worst fears about his leadership.
But Zawahiri does not stand alone at the prow
of Al-Qaeda, and his crew has recently grown
strongerat a time when war with the West and
its allies has weakened ISIS. In an audio mes-
sage recorded in May or June 2015, Zawahiri tri-
umphantly introduced a man he called a lion
from the den of Al-Qaeda. After four years of
silence following his fathers death, Hamza bin
Ladens voice was heard once again, and his
words remained faithful to Al-Qaedas message.
He praised the leaders of Al-Qaedas various
spinoffs, insulted President Barack Obama as
the black chief of [a] criminal gang, lauded the
attacks on Fort Hood and the Boston Marathon,
and called for jihadis to take the battlefield
from Kabul, Baghdad and Gaza to Washington,
London, Paris and Tel Aviv.
In his 2015 statement, Hamza called for the
release of imprisoned Al-Qaeda members, sin-
gling out the sheikhs whom he credits with his
education while in captivity, including the Shura
big threeAbu Khayr al-Masri, Saif al-Adel and
Abu Mohammed al-Masri. May God release
them all, Hamza entreated.
His prayers were soon answered. Al-Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula, in the middle of its
ascendancy in Yemen, had bombed the Iranian
ambassadors residence in Sanaa in December
2014. Later, it had shot dead an Iranian diplomat
who was resisting a kidnapping attempt. The
group had also successfully taken two Iranian
diplomats alive. Sometime in 2015, it swapped
them for Al-Qaedas three top leaders in Iran,
who got a heros welcome in Waziristan.
The returning trio brought with them a com-
bined century of experience in jihad. Abu
Mohammed al-Masri had worked with Adel to
train Somali militants in the early 1990s and plan
the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa.
American intelligence officials have called him
Al-Qaedas most experienced and capable oper-
ational planner not in U.S. or allied custody.
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Abu Khayr al-Masri, an expert in explosives, had
served as Al-Qaedas de facto foreign minister
and had sheltered bin Laden in the days after 9/11.
And then there is Adel, whose long career has
included serving in the Egyptian armed forces,
helping found Al-Qaeda, precipitating the Black
Hawk Down incident in Somalia, acting as a men-
tor to Zarqawi and serving as Al-Qaedas head of
security, with intimate involvement in virtually
all the organizations attacks up to and includ-
ing 9/11. All three men were closely involved in
Al-Qaedas first major blow against the United
States, the embassy bombings of 1998. And after
a long absence, all three were now involved in
global jihad. (Abu Khayr was killed in a U.S. air-
strike in Idlib, Syria, earlier this year.)
Their return came as Al-Qaedas main global
affiliates had gained in strength, bolstered by the
ongoing turmoil in Syria, Yemen and Libya. They
have pushed back against ISIS, and in response
to ISISs recruitment around the world, Zawahiri
even announced the formation of a new affiliate.
Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, led by a for-
mer commander in the Pakistani Taliban, aims to
unify Sunni extremist jihadis across the region and
rescue Muslims living in Bangladesh, Myan-
mar, Assam, Gujarat and Kashmir. Meanwhile,
Al-Qaedas Waziristani nerve center, Khorasan,
continues to enjoy the protection of the Pakistani
Taliban and the Haqqani Network, which has ties
to the Pakistani security services.
On May 9, 2016, one day after Zawahiri issued
his latest call for unity among jihadi groups fight-
ing in Syria, Al-Qaeda posted a second audio mes-
sage from Hamza. Entitled Jerusalem Is but a
OSAMA BIN LADEN MADE
PLANS FOR HAMZA TO
JOIN HIM IN HIS SECRET
COMPOUND IN ABBOTTABAD
THE PLACE WHERE NAVY SEALS
ULTIMATELY SHOT HIM DEAD.
Bride Whose Dowry Is Our Blood, the statement
reiterated Zawahiris plea for unity and urged
jihadis to think of the Syrian conflict as a spring-
board to the liberation of the Palestinian terri-
tories. The road to liberating Palestine, he said,
is today much shorter compared to before the
blessed Syrian revolution. And as in his previous
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GETTING THE BAND
BACK TOGETHER:
The car-bombing message, he encouraged lone wolf attacks on
at the residence of Jews and Jewish interests around the world.
the Iranian ambas-
sador in Yemen in The implication was clear: Zawahiri was pre-
2014 was part of paring Hamza, the sheikhs son, to lead. And if
a series of attacks
by Al-Qaeda that ever Al-Qaeda wants to reunite with its own way-
led to the release ward progeny, Hamza embodies that chance.
of Al-Qaedas top
three leaders being
held in Iran. THE B-MOVIE VAMPIRE
For 20 years, the world has been infected with
a virulent disease. The name of this malady is
bin Ladenism, and ISIS is merely its most recent
symptom. As its impetuous behavior makes clear,
the group thinks and acts exclusively in the short
term. It succeeded in conquering large swathes
of Iraq and Syria because, at first, nobody tried
hard to stop it. Within weeks of the advent of
American airstrikes, it became clear that ISIS
had already reached its high-water mark. As
presently conceived, it lacks a long-term future,
although some of its members can no doubt look
forward to long careers in terrorism.
By contrast, many powerful interests have
been trying for a long time to destroy Al-Qaeda,
and the group has outflanked them all. Since
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9/11, it has increased its membership and its
geographic reach. This stateless new Al-Qaeda
possesses distinct advantages over ISIS. Its
decentralized structure makes it almost impos-
sible to pin down; like a B-movie vampire, try to
drive a stake through its heart, and it transforms
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into a thousand bats and flies somewhere else.
Contrast this with ISIS, now forced to defend
its self-styled caliphate at high cost. When the
world eventually summons the will to rid itself
of this criminal movement, it knows where to
find it. Not so with Al-Qaeda, whose subgroups
stretch out in a loose band across the breadth of
two continents, and whose sympathizers pepper
the globe. The organizations fanatic patience, its
insistence on playing the long game, has made it
far more resilient than anyone expected.
For todays Al-Qaeda, there is little profit in
antagonizing the West with spectacular terror-
ist attacks. Instead, its strategy for the present
involves building up resources and territory in
places like Syria, Yemen and North Africa while
the world is distracted by the Syria conflict. When
ISIS finally crumbles, however, the spotlight will
return to Al-Qaeda. At that point, they will strike,
and strike hard. With bin Ladens filial heir and
ideological successors firmly back in the fold,
and the groups affiliates making territorial gains
in Yemen and elsewhere, Al-Qaeda once again
has the means and the opportunity to attack.
Hamza is just waiting for the right time.
ALI SOUFAN was an FBI supervisory special agent from
1997 to 2005. He now runs the Soufan Group, a private
intelligence firm. This story has been adapted from his
new book, Anatomy of Terror.
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WHITE (HOUSE) KNIGHT
Will Don McGahn save Trump from
the Russia probe? Or will he turn on
him like John Dean did to Nixon?
ITS DIFFICULT for any lawyer to represent some-
one who is prone to impulsive decisions, self-
incriminating statements and potentially corrupt
entanglements. But when that someone is the
president, your legal advice takes on exponen-
tially more scrutiny and weight.
Which is why Don McGahn, the White House
counsel, has one of the hardest jobs in Washing-
ton. A 48-year-old election law expert, McGahn
has faced plenty of heat for his involvement in
almost every controversy with the Trump admin-
istration. He was the initial interlocutor with
acting Attorney General Sally Yates when she
reached out to warn of thennational security
adviser Michael Flynns potentially compromis-
ing conversations with the Russian ambassador.
He was the one trying to clean up the mess of
President Donald Trumps first travel ban. And
he was part of a small circle of advisers present
when Trump decided to fire FBI Director James
Comeythe man investigating allegations of
collusion between the presidents campaign and
Russia during the 2016 election. Now, as four
congressional committees and a special coun-
sel continue to probe the White House, hes
defending Trump as the president tries to fend
off challenges to his executive authority and an
investigation into possible obstruction of justice.
The challenge for McGahn: Hes Trumps lead
legal adviser, but he also serves the presidency
as an institution. No one knows how tricky that
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is better than John Dean, President Richard
Nixons young counsel during Watergate. Dean
initially helped cover up the Watergate break-in
before becoming the star witness who ultimately
brought down the president. The real issue
when I was there was who is my client, recalls
Dean, now 78. Nixon thought he was the client.
But the client is actually the office of the presi-
dent, which includes not just the man elected to
the role but the role of the executive itself, not to
mention the staff serving him.
Such a distinction is clear in theory but
not always easy to discern in practice. From
Iran-Contra to Whitewater to the National Secu-
rity Agencys domestic spying program, the
presidents legal adviser has often found him-
self embroiled in a war between political prior-
ities and legal protocols. And the pattern thats
emerged is pretty clear: When the White House
allows politics to swamp constitutional concerns,
the result is inevitably scandal.
Dean, who served four months in prison for his
role in Watergate, warns that the president and
his administration arent the only ones imper-
iled by the Trump-Russia probes. Since hes not
Trumps private attorney, McGahn could be
forced to comply with a grand jury subpoena,
something Bill Clintons White House counsels
office faced during Whitewater. There is also BY
some ambiguity about whether McGahn could EMILY CADEI
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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counsel, hes not

only Trumps lead
legal adviser, he
also serves the
presidency as an
institution.

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Trump, says Dean. This is gray stuff, he says.
And it could ultimately force McGahn into the
same choice Dean faced 40 years ago.
There arent a lot of formal parameters to
guide the White House counsel. McGahns office
is an ad hoc creation of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, who devised the post for his longtime
political adviser and speechwriter, Sam Rosen-
man, who also happened to be a judge. Over the
next few decades, Roosevelts successors hired
a staffer alternatively called special counsel or
counsel to advise them, although not all were
lawyers, and their advice was often more politi-
cal than anything else.
It wasnt until Dean and Watergate that the
job took on a more official, legal dint. As Dean
recalls, his goal was to create a little law firm
within the executive branch. He and his cohorts
focused on many of the things his successors
have been responsible for since, such as vetting
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GOLDEN BOY: John
Dean, Richard Nixons
appointees and mitigating conflicts of interest, White House counsel
helping select and vet judicial nominees and during Watergate,
initially helped cover
protecting the powers of the president. But by up the break-in,
his third year on the job, Dean had been sucked before becoming
the star witness who
into the undertow of scandal that eventually ultimately brought
drowned the Nixon administration. down the president.
Since then, legal organizations have tried
to set some ethical guidelines for the role and
others like it. The American Bar Association
rewrote the code of ethics it applies to attor-
neys, including those for lawyers representing
a corporation or entity like the White House.
The code requires such lawyers to report poten-
tial lawbreaking to a higher authority in the
organization. Failure to do so could see them
lose their law license. But in the federal govern-
ment, who is a higher authority than the presi-
dent? Dean argues if Trump is the one breaking
the law by, say, attempting to obstruct justice,
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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BY OWEN MATTHEWS
AND MATTHEW COOPER

SERGEY KISLYAK IS THE MOST

RADIOACTIVE MAN IN WASHINGTON.
BUT IS HE REALLY A SPYMASTER?
OR IS HE JUST AN INNOCENT
DIPLOMAT CAUGHT UP
IN THE TRUMP TEAMS BLUNDERS?

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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,
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 an audience at Australias National Press Club in
early June. I am very concerned about the assault
on our institutions coming from both an external
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sourceread Russiaand an internal source, the
president himself.
Today, Kislyak has become so radioactive that
senior officials are falling all over each other to
deny they ever had contact with him. In late April,
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed shed
never met the manbefore having to row back
her comments after photos appeared of her sitting
across a table from him in 2010. And Flynn, Kush-
ner and Sessions all failed to report their meet-
ings with him, as required by U.S. regulations that
dictate protocol on contact with foreign officials.
As former Obama campaign chief David Axelrod
joked on Twitter, Kislyak turns out to be a Rus-
sian word for I forgot.
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TYPHOID SERGEY
HOW DID the genial 66-year-old career diplomat
and former nuclear physicist become Washingtons
equivalent of Typhoid Mary? Did heas Kislyak
asked rhetorically during a speech at Stanford Uni-
versity in Novembercommit anything wrong?
And is there any evidence for the two most serious
questions about the Trump-Russia affair? The first
being whether the Trump team knew or colluded
with Russian hackers release of stolen emails dam-
aging to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
The second, whether Kislyak or Russian business-
people were involved in any sweeteners to the
Trump family in exchange for softening U.S. policy
on Moscow.
People who have worked closely with Kislyak
doubt the ambassador was up to anything more
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
Kislyak turns out
to be a Russian
word for I forgot.
not normal. Why did they agree to meet [with Kis-
lyak]? Shouldnt they have been focused on forming
the Trump foreign policy team? In 2008, our senior
transition staff did not meet with Russian officials.
Flynn certainly has some questions to answer.
A month before Trump took office, the FBI over-
heard several phone conversations between Flynn
and Kislyak in the course of routine surveillance of
the Russian Embassy. According to accounts of the
intercepts leaked to The Washington Post, the two
men discussed sanctions imposed by the outgoing
Obama administration to punish Russia for hacking
the servers of the Democratic National Committee,
among other targets, as well as voter registration
systems in up to 39 states. (The Obama White House
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also expelled 35 Russians on suspicion of spying
including the top four declared officers of Russian
military intelligence working at Kislyaks embassy
and shuttered two Russian diplomatic compounds
in Upper Brookville, New York, and another on
Marylands Eastern Shore.) Facing his missions
biggest crisis since the end of the Cold War, Kis-
lyak texted and then called Flynn on December 28
and 29. The honor of his colleagues and of Russia
was besmirched by the fairy tales of so-called hack-
ing, says a senior staff member of Russias Diplo-
matic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Flynn and Kushners
actions are not
normal. Why did
they agree to meet
with Kislyak?
who did not wish to be named. Of course it was
[Kislyaks] duty to protest to all relevant officials
the contact was entirely correct.
Theres no public evidence that Flynn offered Kis-
lyak any improper deals or made any promises that
the incoming Trump administration would go easy
on the Kremlin. But instead of the sanctions trigger-
ing a serious diplomatic crisis, the next day, President
Vladimir Putins spokesman announced that Russia
would not respond tit for tata highly unusual break
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
U.S. intelligence. The ambassador, according to a
Washington Post report on the incident, was taken
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aback by the Americans alleged suggestion to use
Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States to
talk directly to Moscow.
More mysteriously, Kislyak attended a meeting
between Kushner and Sergey Gorkov, a Putin ally
and a graduate of Russias intelligence academy
who heads Vnesheconombank, a state-owned
bankwhich has been sanctioned by Washington
since 2014. Russian intelligence has used its Wall
Street office as a cover for its spies at least once in
recent years; in 2015, Evgeny Buryakov, deputy rep-
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-
ligence officer, says one retired overseas officer of
the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, now
a Russian senator, who asked for anonymity when
discussing the Vnesheconombank case. Please
dont tell me that the Americans dont do the same.
As for whether Gorkov knew about agents in his
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
No. 2 official in Bill Clintons Justice Department,
says in a statement: Mr. Kushner previously volun-
teered to share with Congress what he knows about
these meetings. He will do the same if he is con-
tacted in connection with any other inquiry.
The Gorkov link has led some to allege that Kis-
lyak has ties to Russias burgeoning intel operations
against the U.S. The ambassador is a very experi-
enced operative, former KGB sleeper agent Jack
Barsky claimed on CNN in April. Most professionals
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BANKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER SPY? Gorkov, right, a Putin
ally and a graduate of Russias intelligence academy
who heads Vnesheconombank, attended a mysterious
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
analysts doubt he is a spymaster.
find that claim ridiculous. Kislyak is an incredibly
solid and professional diplomat, Thomas Pickering,
former U.S. ambassador to Russia and the United
Nations and a top-ranking diplomat in the Clinton
and George H. W. Bush administrations, tells News-
week. If hes a spymaster, he has hidden it very well,
Pickering jokes. Its simply not how Russias spy agen-
cies workthe roles of ambassador and FSB station
chief, or rezident, are institutionally distinct. And
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Kislyaks backgroundhe graduated from Moscows
Engineering Physics Institute in 1973 before join-
ing the USSR Academy of Foreign Trade and later
the Foreign Ministrydoesnt fit the profile of most
career spooks. There are huge risks in having your
ambassador be too closely associated with intelli-
gence efforts, says Mark Stout, a former intelligence
official and professor and the School for Advanced
International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
This is especially true, Stout notes, because of the
Russian view of intelligence as power in its own
right. Or as Pickering laughs: The spy isnt the guy
in the back of the limousine. Its the chauffeur.
Thats not to say that Kislyak isnt aware of
undercover operations being supervised from his
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embassy. He oversees a very aggressive intelligence
operation in this country, Clapper told NBC in May.
To suggest that he is somehow separate or oblivious
to that is a bit much. On Kislyaks watch, according
to congressional testimony in 2016, Russia has rat-
cheted up its espionage operations. In 2010, the FBI
busted and expelled 10 Russian sleeper agents
the inspiration for the FX series The Americans. And
last year, Congress inserted a provision in an annual
Intelligence Authorization Act that continues to
require Russian diplomats to have the FBI validate
any travel more than 50 miles from where they are
based. (The Obama administration fought the reg-
ulationsand played down mounting evidence of
Russian hackingin part to build support from Mos-
cow for a peace deal in Syria.)
Most troubling for the Trump administration, for-
mer FBI Director Comey told members of Congress
in June that his agency was investigating Russian
attempts to influence and even recruit members of
the Trump team. I wasaware of information and
intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions
between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved
in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about
because of known Russian efforts to suborn such
individuals, Comey told lawmakers in sworn
testimony. What remained unclear was whether or
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not the Russians were able to gain the cooperation of
those individuals.
This scandal is still murky. Despite the wave of
expulsions of alleged Russian spies in December,
no link has emerged between Kislyaks embassy and
what Comey called an overwhelmingactive-mea-
sures campaign of politically motivated hacking by
two Russian statelinked groups, APT 28 and 29 (also
dubbed Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear) between 2014
and 2016. There are also doubts over whether Rus-
sias hacking efforts were primarily directed at help-
ing Trumpor just digging up dirt on Hillary Clinton,
the long-standing Democratic heir-presumptive and
Kremlin nemesis due to her tough stance on Putins
Ukrainian interventions. The Russian phishing
attack on the Democratic Party beganas the FBI
notedas early as 2014, well before Trump was even
considered to be a candidate.
Kislyak did symbolically favor Trump before the
election, sitting in the front row at Trumps first
major speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington
in April 2016 and attending the Republican conven-
tion but not the Democratic one. But that favorit-
ismwhich McFaul calls Kislyaks one mistake
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mostly pertained to the Kremlins strong disap-
proval of Clintons support for regime change in the
Middle East and her hard line on anti-Russian sanc-
tions in the wake of Putins annexation of Crimea in
February 2014.
The main motivation behind the Russian hack-
ing, says Mark Galeotti, senior research fellow at
the Institute of International Relations in Prague,
was to make as much of a firestorm as possible so
that Clinton would be busy carting buckets of water
domestically and would be too busy to act against
the Russian interest. A declassified U.S. intelli-
gence report into the hacking released in January
concluded that Putin ordered an influence cam-
paign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential elec-
tion. Russias goals were to undermine public faith
in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary
[Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and
potential presidency. The report noted that the
Russians developed a clear preference for Presi-
dent-elect Trumpbut in reality, says Galeotti, the
FROM RUSSIA WITH GRUB: Russian President Putin
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.
SLASHED TIRES AND DEAD DOGS
THERES NO evidence Kislyak is a spymasteror
even an active, covert Trump enabler. But the more
realisticand fundamentalaccusation against
Kislyak is that he didnt do enough to halt a precip-
itous decline in U.S.-Russian relations, which were
cordial at the beginning of his term in 2008 and
disastrous today.
An effective ambassador isnt just a lobbyisthe
or she is a go-between. All ambassadors explain their
countrys policies to their hostsbut the best ones
help their bosses understand the fears, red lines and
logic of the nation where they have been posted.
Take the Cuban missile crisis. For 13 days in Octo-
ber 1963, the world was on the brink of nuclear war
until top diplomats defused the conflict. Llewellyn
Thompson had just stepped down as U.S. ambassa-
dor to Moscow and was serving on John F. Kenne-
dys National Security Council when two messages
from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev landed
one an offer to talk, the other a harsh ultimatum.
Thompson knew how Moscow worked and advised
Kennedy to ignore the belligerent message, which
There wasnt anyone
saying to Putin,
Wait, this is wrong.
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he correctly guessed had been drafted by warmon-
gers in the Politburo. He also told the president that
Khrushchev was looking for a face-saving way to
de-escalate. At the same time, the Soviet ambas-
sador to Washington, Anatoly Dobrynin, acted as a
confidential back channel between Attorney Gen-
eral Robert F. Kennedy and Khrushchev.
In contrast, Kislyak has failed to play that kind
of intermediary role, says one U.S. official who
worked with him in Washington but preferred not
to be quoted criticizing a colleague. Kislyak has
only fulfilled one side of his jobpushing Russias
agenda in Washington but failing to explain Wash-
ingtons position to the Kremlin. All the Russian
foreign policy disasters of recent yearsespecially
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CRIMEA AND PUNISHMENT: People celebrate the
anniversary of Russias annexation of Crimea in
Sevastopol. Moscows takeover led to a diplomatic
crisis with the U.S. and American sanctions.
the annexation of Crimeahave been based on deep
ignorance of Americas real agenda, says a senior
European ambassador who has dealt with Rus-
sia since the 1980s, but who was not authorized to
speak on the record. Putin and his inner circle really
believed that [Ukraines 2014] Maidan revolution
was a U.S.-backed coup. They believed that NATO
was imminently going to seize [the Russian naval
base of ] Sevastopol. Invade Crimea and save Sevas-
topol from NATO, that was their logic. But it was
based on a totally false view of reality. There wasnt
anyone saying to Putin, Wait, this is wrong. I know
the U.S., and the U.S. isnt going to do that.
One likely reason Kislyak didnt speak out
against the Kremlins false assumptions about
Washingtons designs on Sevastopol is the culture
of absolute loyalty that prevails in the Putin admin-
istration. Not enough people dare to express dis-
senting views to the Kremlinand the Kremlin
doesnt want to hear voices that disagree with their
line, says Galeotti. This is a system that depends
entirely on the favor of the president. The tempta-
tion is to tell him what he wants to hear.
Another reason: During the Crimean crisis, Kislyak
wasnt getting the access to top Washington deci-
sion-makers that might have given him a better feel
for what was really going on. Between 2012 and 2014,
McFaul became a figure of hate in the Russian media.
The Kremlin was nervous about mass demonstrations
against Putin during his run for a third term as presi-
dent, and McFauls meetings with prominent Rus-
sian opposition leaders gave state-controlled media
an excuse to portray the U.S. as the puppet master
of the unrest. Worse, McFaul was systematically
harassed by pro-Kremlin youth groups, and U.S. dip-
lomats were stopped daily by traffic cops. There were
nastier KGB-era moves too: One military attachs
house was broken into and someone killed his dog,
and American diplomatic cars had their tires slashed.
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It was the nastiest form of low-level intimidation,
recalls one British official who served in Moscow at
the time. For me, it was the moment when I decided,
Wow, were really back in the USSR.
McFaul wasnt getting access in Moscow, so Kis-
lyak didnt get access in Washington. He rarely
saw thenSecretary of State John Kerry. It was a
kind of tit-for-tat situation. In hindsight, it led to
major breakdown in communications and trust,
recalls the British official. Up till [2012], we had
real dialogue between former Cold War enemies.
But [the Russians] scrapped that and went back to
name-calling and demonizing the West.
The thirdand most worryingreason for the
deep disconnect between the Kremlins perception
and reality was that Putin wasnt listening. Neither
Kislyak nor the Foreign Ministry itself have much
of a voice at the top tables of Kremlin policy making
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SPURNING DESIRE? Trumps decision to fire former
FBI Director Comey has reportedly triggered
an investigation into whether the U.S. president
obstructed justice.
anymore. Many Foreign Ministry officials complain,
according to Galeotti, that nobody bothers listening
to them, and that their job has become just to follow
orders and clear up the mess afterwards.
While the Kremlin may choose to be misinformed
about America and its intentions, Kislyak certainly
isnt. Since the beginning of his term, hes made a
point of traveling all over the U.S. to speak to ordinary
peoplepushing Russias line, but also listening to the
pulse of the American heartland and regularly calling
for better relations and understanding between
our two great nations. Kislyak told an audience at
the 2016 annual Fort Ross Dialogue that if you drew
up a list of things that unite us against things that pull
us apart, the first would be much longer and more
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significant. We, the two biggest nuclear nations in
the world, have a special responsibility to maintain
stabilityand we are bound to do it.
The ambassador has a special interest in Fort
Ross, California, 70 miles north of San Francisco; it
was the southernmost outpost of Imperial Russias
possessions in America between 1812 and 1842. He
has visited more than a dozen times, and when the
museum was threatened with closure as a result of
California budget cuts in 2009, Kislyak was active
in a campaign to save it. My impression is that he
quite liked America and Americanstheir straight-
forwardness, their enthusiasm, Fort Ross Direc-
J UST I N SU L L I VA N /G E T T Y
tor Sarah Sweedler tells Newsweek. Its true that
Kislyak did not hesitate to point out perceived U.S.
hypocrisy[but] he clearly supports the second-
track dialogue between Russians and Americans
and wants it to succeed.
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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-
Theres no such thing
as a former FSB man.
tant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and
Eurasia at the time. He was an effective advocate
for his country, she tells Newsweek. In as much as
he could be, representing a policy and a Kremlin
that was moving into the adversarial column.
Since the cascade of Russiagate revelations, the
White House has repeatedly insisted that the
president has been incredibly tough on Russia,
as White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in
March. President Trump has made it very clear that
he expects the Russian government to de-escalate
violence in Ukraine and return Crimea. And on
June 14, the Senate overwhelmingly approved an
extension of Obama-era sanctions. Whatever the
Trump teams pre-inauguration plans for a thaw
may have been, the scandal has made any conces-
sions to Moscow seem politically impossible.
In that sense, the Russiagate scandal is Kislyaks
tragedy. The ambassador worked hard to build
relationships with a new administration and push
Trumps team to be as sympathetic to Russia as Hil-
lary Clintons was hostile. But instead of achieving
a Trump-Putin reset, Kislyak has presided over a
rift that is likely to outlast both leaders.
The new Washington narrative that blames Rus-
sian interference for every snafu in American democ-
racy may be distorteda Saturday afternoon football
fan view that sees nefarious activity in everything the
other team does, as Pickering says. But the result is
that Russia has become as toxic as Kislyak himselfa
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
father, Prince Charles; his grandfather, the Duke of
Edinburgh; and his maternal uncle, Charles Spen-
cer, walked slowly through the heart of London on
September 6, 1997. Seven days earlier, the beauti-
ful, charismatic and unpredictable Princess Diana
had died in a car crash in Paris. She was 36.
Her funeral was nearly 20 years ago, but Harrys
recollection of that tragic day can still overwhelm him.
My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long
way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of
people watching me while millions more did on tele-
vision, he tells Newsweek. His face hardens. I dont
think any child should be asked to do that, under any
circumstances. I dont think it would happen today.
The prince readily admits that he was scarred
by that day, by his mothers death, and was adrift
for decades. He ran with a wealthy, fast set, and
smoked and drank too much. He also once wore
Nazi clothing at a fancy dress party and was photo-
graphed in 2012 partying naked in Las Vegas, with
scantily clad women. He was the worlds most eligi-
ble bachelorand a royal pain.
Now, however, he exudes a combination of royal
stardust, accessibility, confidence and mischief, a
mixture that reminds many people of his mother. His
journey from rebellious outsider to one of the worlds
most popular royals has required much soul-search-
ing, and there is still some way to go, but he is proud
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of what he has accomplished and restless to do much
more. He tells me several times that he aches to be
something other than Prince Harry.
The Extraordinary Ordinary
For the best part of the past year, Newsweek was given
generous access to follow Prince Harry, now 32, as he
went about his royal duties. I went to speak with him
one-on-one at Kensington Palace, where he lives
in a two-bedroom cottage on the central London
grounds while his brother and his wife, Kate, have a
22-room apartment in the palace.
When we meet, Harry, wearing an open-necked,
ice-blue shirt, brown chinos and gray suede shoes,
leaps out of his armchair to greet me. He talks with
warmth and energy but is also quite guarded. He is
surprisingly relaxed when talking about his transfor-
mation over the past few years.
My search began when I was in my mid-20s,
Harry tells me. I needed to fix the mistakes I was
making. In April, he revealed on a podcast that bot-
tling up his grief over his mothers death led to two
years of total chaos, and that he was very close
to a breakdown several times. When he was 28, on
Williams advice, he sought professional help.
My mother died when I was very young. I didnt
want to be in the position I was in, but I eventually
pulled my head out of the sand, started listening to
people and decided to use my role for good. I am
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IS THERE ANY ONE OF

MARCH: From
now fired up and energized and love charity stuff, left, Prince

THE ROYAL FAMILY WHO

meeting people and making them laugh, he says. I Philip, Prince
William, Charles
sometimes still feel I am living in a goldfish bowl, but
WANTS TO BE KING OR
Spencer, Prince
I now manage it better. I still have a naughty streak Harry and

QUEEN? I DONT THINK SO.

Prince Charles
too, which I enjoy and is how I relate to those indi-
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viduals who have got themselves into trouble.
He says maintaining his ordinary life is a high
priority. My mother took a huge part in showing
me an ordinary life, including taking me and my
brother to see homeless people. Thank goodness Im
not completely cut off from reality. People would be
amazed by the ordinary life William and I live. I do
my own shopping. Sometimes, when I come away
from the meat counter in my local supermarket, I
worry someone will snap me with their phone. But I
am determined to have a relatively normal life, and
if I am lucky enough to have children, they can have
one too. He pauses, then adds, Even if I was king,
I would do my own shopping.
Harrys determination to be ordinary seems
follow Princess
Dianas coffin
in 1997.
reflected in his love life. His girlfriend, Meghan Mar-
kle, might be a well-known actress, but she is also
a divorce, a vocal feminist and American, none of
which conforms to the stereotype of a royal consort.
The prince can be fiercely protective of Meghan
and of their ability to have something approximating
an ordinary relationship. In November, at his request,
Kensington Palace put out a statement complaining
about the wave of abuse and harassment...the smear
on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial
undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sex-
ism and racism of social media trolls. It continued:
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and is deeply disappointed that he has not been able
to protect her. It is not right that a few months into a
relationship with him Ms. Markle should be subjected
to such a storm.
One person close to the prince says Harry is not
rushing to get things doneroyal-speak for propos-
ing. They obviously get on very well and have a lot
in common, but they have not known each other that
long. They need to find out if they can have an ordi-
nary relationship within a very unusual setting. I dont
think anything will happen until the end of the year.
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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
OF GIANTS: to show the world he is a passionate, emotional per-
Both Harry son. Sometimes, I can have too much passion, he
and William
have tried says with a smile. It has got me into trouble in the
to model past, partly because I cannot stand the idea of people
themselves
after their mincing around the subject rather than just getting
mother and on with it.
honor her
legacy.
Light Is the Head
That Wears This Crown
One of the many things Harry is eager to get on with
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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like me to do and want to progress with +

work she couldnt complete. Twenty
years ago, when irrational fear of being infected with
HIV/AIDS was at its height, Diana was photographed
touching an HIV-positive man, and that one gesture
altered public attitudes. (Id like to be a queen of
peoples hearts, Diana once told a TV interviewer;
the moniker stuck, especially after her death.) Last
December, Harry had an HIV test in Barbados before
a bevy of photographers.
In 2006, he founded the charity Sentebale with
Prince Seeiso, a member of Lesothos royal family
GIVING
TIME: Harry is
cutting back on grandchildren. The queen has been fantastic in
token charity letting us choose, he says. She tells us to take our
appearances
and trying to time and really think things through.
give more to the The third strand of his working life is something
causes he cares
about most. previous generations of stiff-upper-lip royals would
never have countenanced for a moment: Harry is
determined to break the stigma surrounding mental
health issues. This is something he, William and Kate
are doing with the support of the British government.
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 He confesses that his charity efforts in that regard
have enabled him to work through some of his own
issues. On more than one occasion when Im with
him, he declares, I believe a leopard can change
its spots. It seems clear he is speaking, at least in
part, about himself.
In 2012, Harry, William and Kate launched the
Royal Foundation. Full Effect, one of its offshoots,
aims to give kids, many of whom come from
deprived backgrounds and are at risk of being drawn
into gangs, a love of sports, which it is hoped will
motivate them to take a more positive path. I accom-
panied Harry on a visit to a Full Effect project in the
city of Nottingham in central England.
His first stop was outside Nottinghams National
Ice Centre, where about 30 9-year-old boys and girls
werent at all interested in his ordinary side. They MATES:
wanted the pageantry, the aura; Harry was dressed
casually in a navy shirt with the sleeves rolled up and
his shirt tails not quite tucked into his brown jeans,
and he clearly didnt care whether people curtsied
or bowed when meeting him. Instead, he cracked
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one-liners and made the boys and girls laugh and
relax. The children stared wide-eyed as he threw
rugby balls to the boys and kicked a football around.
After about 20 minutes, he talked to a group of
16- to 24-year-olds who were part of a Royal Foun-
dation initiative offering a chance to train as a sports
coach. Most of these young people came from dys-
functional homes, didnt fit in with the school sys-
tem and so far had had very few opportunities in
life. One told me he had to get his seven siblings to
school every morning before he could come to work.
Next stop was the Russell Youth Centre in St.
Anns, a deprived area that has a renowned Com-
munity Recording Studio run by Trevor Rose. Harry
has been a regular visitor since 2013. This place is
a safe haven even for kids who have been banned
from school, youth and sports centers, Rose says.
Harrys natural Many have been stabbed, thrown out of their home
ability to
connect with and have to deal with alcohol and drug issues, as
people makes well as low confidence and self-esteem.
him popular at
charity events, Before Harry arrived, most of the teenagers seemed
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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campaign to destigmatize mental health issues. Harry
once again reached back to his experience on the front
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line in Afghanistan to empathize with the ambulance
dispatchers and paramedics. He recalled how, when
he was a helicopter pilot, he would evacuate injured
servicemen and women. You land, hand them over and connects
and then are radioed to do something else, he said. in the army.
You never find out how that guy or girl lived or died.
Then, turning to a couple of male paramedics, he
added: Its amazing what you guys have to deal with
every single day. You dont know what you are going
to get. You can be attacked, abused, everything. Its
not human to come away from that and not think you
will be affected. Well done, you.
He chatted at length with father of four Dan Farn-
worth, a paramedic suffering from post-traumatic
stress disorder after dealing with a particularly diffi-
cult case involving child abuse in which the child died.
Farnworth talked about being in a really dark place
and how scared he was to admit that because it could
have meant hed not be allowed to work.
Harry noddedand spoke to Farnworth more like
a psychotherapist than a buttoned-up royal. Its
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AT EASE:
EVEN IF I WAS KING,
Speaking to
veterans, such
I WOULD DO MY
as this group
at the Help for
Heroes recov-
ery center, is
Harrys partic-
OWN SHOPPING.
ular passion
to his service
really important to speak out. If you keep concerns
to yourself for weeks, months or years, they become
a real problem. It is not weakness. It is strength to
come forward, talk about it and move on. I know
people dont want to come forward because they
dont want to risk losing their job. But then they risk
losing their job because they cant cope.
That empathy is perhaps most on display when
Harry interacts with the kind of men and women he
served alongside in the military. I also joined Harry
on a visit to the Help for Heroes recovery center. It
was a clear, cold day, and a small group of men were
chatting as they made long wooden struts for the
door of the Iron Age housea therapeutic building
project. Close by was a roaring fire that kept them
warm and would later help provide a hot lunch.
They were all former British soldiers who had
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been seriously wounded in battle. Although their
physical wounds had largely healed, they had come
to take advantage of the Hidden Wounds psycho-
logical and well-being service, a program that Help
for Heroes offers to veterans suffering from depres-
sion, stress, anger, anxiety and problems with alco-
hol. Harry was both compassionate and jokey with
I STILL HAVE A
NAUGHTY STREAK
TOO, WHICH...IS HOW
I RELATE TO THOSE
INDIVIDUALS WHO
HAVE GOT THEMSELVES
INTO TROUBLE.
them, and he acknowledged to the veteransand
again to me laterthat he missed both the camara-
derie of army life and its black humor.
His first question to Mike Day, a former sniper com-
mander who was hit by a grenade in Afghanistan in
2009 and whose injuries included a broken back and
shrapnel in his head and body, went right to the core:
So what has been the biggest effect on you?
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Day thought for a moment, then said softly, I am
no longer me.
It was a moving and delicate moment, but Harry
wasnt thrown. One of your biggest struggles must
be living rather than just existing, he said.
Day nodded. I come here once a month for four
days, and it brings out the best in me.
Harrys support team seemed hesitant about
whether to move him on to his next appointment.
Well done, guys, he said to the soldiers as he left.
We share the uniform, the prince tells me soon
after the visit. I see a lot of myself in these guys.
They want an opportunity to prove themselves and
be someone.
Hidden Wounds
When Harry is on duty, he is steadfastly animated
and friendly, but in quieter moments he can often
seem tense and irritable. For sure, hes lived a life
of extraordinary privilege, but he has also suffered
considerable pain in his 32 years. His parents were
a horrible mismatch, and they separated after a
fairy-tale-turned-nightmare marriage of 11 years.
Charles went back to his long-term lover, Camilla
Parker Bowles; Diana had a variety of lovers, the
COMBATIVE last of whom was Dodi Fayed, the son of Mohamed
SORT: Harry al-Fayed, the former owner of mega-store Harrods.
says he misses
the camarade- He died with her in that car crash in Paris.
rie of army When asked about his family, Harry talks readily
life and the
black humor. about the queenShe is so remark-
+ ableand his late motherShe had
the most wonderful sense of humor
and always wanted to make things
fun for us, as well as protect us. He
says less about William and Kate, and
almost nothing about his father or his
stepmother. The world now knows
how unhappy that relationship made
his mother, and her sons.
There was no filling the hole left
by Dianas death, and Harry seemed
to be growing up without someone
emotionally available he could lean
on. Kate has helped fill some of that
gap. When she and William got
engaged, Harry called her the big
sister he never had. He often pops
into their apartment at Kensing-
ton Palace, where she cooks him a
mealroast chicken is reportedly a
particular favorite.
Harry and William have very dif-
ferent personalities. Emotionally,
they are very unalike, a royal insider
says. Harry wears his heart on his
sleeve. William is introverted and
reclusive. They are bonded together
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by the unique position they are in and the experience
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of losing their mother very young. But they dont
live in each others pockets, and while William was
at university, they didnt see much of each other at
all. Another member of Harrys inner circle further
delineates the differences between the two princes:
William was more successful academically, but
when it comes to dealing with people, Harry knocks
the spots off both him and Kate, especially with chil-
dren. Harry is passionate about them and is a nat-
ural, which neither William nor Kate are. Having
their own has no doubt helped.
Harry is also proud that he has a more practi-
cal side. I can do most things with my hands, he
says. That is one reason why serving in the British
army suited him so well. At the end of 2007, he was
secretly flown out to Afghanistan and worked as a
forward air controller in Helmand province, guid-
ing fighter jets to suspected Taliban targets. Ten
weeks in, his tour of duty was leaked by the press,
and he was pulled out for security reasons. I felt
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GOLD MEDAL
EFFORT: Harry
conceived and very resentful, he says. Being in the army was
remains an the best escape Ive ever had. I felt as though I was
active booster
of the Invictus really achieving something.
Games, an In 2012, he was allowed to return to Afghani-
international
sporting event stan, where he commanded an attack helicopter at
for injured ser- Camp Bastion in Helmand province. All I wanted
vicemen and
servicewomen. to do was prove that I had a certain set of skillsfor
instance, flying an Apache helicopterrather than
just being Prince Harry. I also felt I was one of the
lads and could forget I was Prince Harry when I was
with them.
He returned home in 2015, angry that his army
life had been ripped from him. But he finally let that
frustration go and aggressively pursued his quest
for a new identity that would make him feel as if
his life had meaning other than just as a member
of the royal family. He tells me that he is in a rush
to make something of my life. I feel there is just a
smallish window when people are interested in me
before [Williams children] take over, and Ive got
to make the most of it.
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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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SPACE HEART TECHNOLOGY CARS
GOOD SCIENCE
MENDING A BROKEN HEART
No, this isnt another silly
love song; 3-D printing could
revolutionize cardiology
EACH YEAR, more than 700,000 Americans suffer
myocardial infarction, aka a heart attack. Thanks
to medical advances, there are myriad ways for a
doctor to get the blood properly pumping and save
a persons life. A cardiologist might give a patient
medication to clear or loosen blockages. Or a doc-
tor might insert a catheter to remove the clot, or
place stents in the artery so it stays open.
These interventions have vastly improved sur-
vival rates, but they dont heal the damage caused
by a cardiac event. The heart is really just one big
muscle, and trauma to any muscle does some
damage, which becomes scar tissue. Scar tissue
on the heart means it functions far less optimally,
which eventually leads to heart failure.
Short of a transplant, there isnt a long-term fix
for a damaged ticker. But a team of researchers
say theyve come up with a solution that could
BY revolutionize cardiology. Using 3-D printing,
JESSICA FIRGER Brenda Ogle, an associate professor of biomedical
@jessfirger engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin
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BACTERIA PLANETS
Cities, has created a patch a doctor could apply
to mend a broken heart. Weve used stem cell
derived cardiac musclecardiac myocytesand
actually mixed those with other cell types needed
for blood vessels. This prevents what would oth-
erwise happen naturally: the formation of a dif-
ferent type of cells known as fibroblasts, which
secrete scar tissue. Ogles team induced cardiac
arrest in lab mice, and after placing the cell patch,
saw a significant increase in functional capacity
after just four weeks. These findings were pub-
lished this past January in Circulation Research, a
journal from the American Heart Association.
Last June, the National Institutes of Health
awarded Ogles team over $3 million to give pigs
heart attacks and fix them. This is still a long way
from being used on humans, but Ogle is optimis-
tic. The replacement of muscle has been the holy
grail for some time, she says. Now, we finally
have the ability to take stem cells out of the body
and develop the protocols to do that.
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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-
board Light will soon seem downright prehistor-
ica tune from back when people had to sneak
sex in parked cars. In the age of autonomous
vehicles, experts are worried that well be having
all kinds of sex in moving cars. Randy teens might
order a driverless Uber SUV with tinted windows
for a spin around town. An office worker could
take full advantage of the long morning commute
with the spouseor with the neighbors spouse.
We can only hope Daimler-AG anticipated this
development when in 2014 it registered a trade-
mark for a driverless auto service it callskid you
notCar2come. (Perhaps they shouldve had a
native English speaker in the room at the time?)
The autonomous-car movement is accelerating
faster than a Tesla in Ludicrous Easter Egg mode.
In recent weeks, Jaguar Land Rover invested $25
million in Lyft so JLR can test its autonomous
cars on Lyfts ride-hailing service. Honda, which
had lagged in driverless tech, unveiled ambitious
plans to make cars by 2020 that can drive them-
selves on highways. U.K.-based auto parts maker
Delphi and French transport company Transdev
said they will jointly start testing driverless,
on-demand mobility on roads in France.
Almost every automaker and dozens of well-
funded startups are frantically racing toward a
driverless future. Yet while we can see driverless
cars coming, its hard to understand just how
much they will change everyday life. Even so,
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government officials are already starting to wres-
tle with big societal issues related to this issue.
The National League of Cities just released a
study that gets into concerns about privacy (who
gets to know that you take daily trips to the booze
store?), regulation, ownership of data, hacking
and, of course, safety. And theres still so much
more to consider. Some research says that in 20
or 30 years, most people in urban settings will
move around in driverless cars. At that point, the
cascading impact of driverless transportation will
be as greatand as nuancedas the shift from
horses to cars in the early 1900s.
For instance, most consumers will find car
insurance less necessary than carbon paper. Flo
from Progressive and the Geico gecko will be
forced to get jobs as extras in Disney movies.
Auto accidents will (supposedly) almost never
happen. That will devastate the towing industry,
which employs around 1.6 million people with an
average salary of $41,000. Talk about a job killer.
In the horse era, there was a need to have stables
everywhere. In the car era, weve needed gas sta-
tions everywhere. But in the driverless era, most
cars will be electric and will automatically find a
charging station, the way a Roomba returns to its
dock after vacuuming up cat hair. Gas stations will
become something we tell our grandkids about.
Self-driving cars dont need to park. They can BY
drop you off and give someone else a ride. There KEVIN MANEY
are 2 billion parking spaces in the U.S. and billions @kevinmaney
44 J U N E 3 0, 2017

+ erally choking cities. One observer wrote that the
SEX DRIVE: Fore-
casters anticipating
an autonomous- more worldwide. What if we dont need parking
auto world are lots? Turn them into parks? Urban farmland?
trying to imagine
how much you Traffic lights could disappear. If youve used
could get done on the traffic app Waze, you know that todays tech-
your daily commute
if you didnt have nology can closely track where you are, your speed
to keep your hands and hazards. Autonomous cars will have a vastly
on the wheel.
more advanced version of that, so every kind of
traffic signal could be moved from hardware on
the ground to software in the cloud, automatically
telling each car where and when to stop, go, merge
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
for when youre already 20 minutes late for your
daughters wedding. For that matter, what will a
driverless car chase in the movies look like? Mark
down another car culture obituary.
Autonomous cars will also destroy the meme
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of the upscale suburban mom tirelessly chauf-
feuring kids to soccer, piano, pottery and tax
evasion classes. Millions of parents will instead
summon a car, shove the kids in, track them with
an app and mix up a cosmo on the back patio.
The backlash to helicopter parenting might just
be autonomous-car-enabled couch parenting.
NEWSWEEK
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-
streets of New York were literally carpeted with
a warm, brown mattingsmelling to heaven.
Another person worried that manure would pile
up past third-story windows. In 1898, the worlds
first international urban-planning conference got
so bogged down with manure problems that dele-
gates ended the meeting a week early.
By 1920, 12 years after Ford introduced the
Model T, the problem had gone away. And by
that point, many people had figured out that
amorousness worked a whole lot better in a car
than on a horse, inspiring songs ranging from
Chuck Berrys No Particular Place to Go to
Kendrick Lamars Backseat Freestylewith
Meat Loaf sandwiched in between.
We cant wait for the new songs once teenage
love becomes something experienced in motion.
But dont ask the government types. Thats one
of several things people will do which will inhibit
their ability to respond quickly when the com-
puter says to the human, Take over, Barrie Kirk,
of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of
Excellence, stiffly lamented to a reporter.
Not exactly Baby, you can drive my car.
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BLACK HOLE FUN
COLLAPSING STARS STILL HAVE A FEW
SURPRISES FOR ASTRONOMERS
A MASSIVE, dying star astrono-
mers thought would explode and
give them a ginormous fireworks
show instead quietly collapsed
into a black hole. The observa-
tion is causing astronomers to
rethink what they know about
supernovas and black holes.
The star, known by astron-
omers as N6946-BH1, lived in
a galaxy 22 million light-years
away. That star cluster, referred
to as the Fireworks Galaxy
for the frequent supernovas
explosions of starsknown to
happen there, has held NASAs
attention for several years,
culminating in the latest report,
published in April in Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astro-
nomical Society.
About eight years ago,
N6946-BH1 started to weaken.
A few years later, the telescopes
aimed in its direction could no
longer find it. Astronomers kept
searching, probing that sliver
of the universe with the Large
Binocular Telescope and the
Hubble and Spitzer space tele-
scopes. But the star, which once
shined with the strength of
22 of our suns, was gone.
The disappearance came as
a surprise, because most stars
perform one final dazzling act
before fizzling out. The typical
view is that a star can form a
black hole only after it goes
supernova, said Christopher
Kochanek, who teaches astron-
omy at the Ohio State University,
in a statement.
But N6946-BH1 never lit up
with that anticipated supernova.
And every alternative explanation
for the stars disappearance
such as, maybe it was hiding
behind a dust cloud; maybe it
was just temporarily dimwas
disproved. That left just one
option: The star had collapsed
into itself and become a
black hole. Kochanek and his
NEWSWEEK 46 J U N E 3 0, 2017
+
BRIGHT LIGHTS,
BIG GALAXY:
Astronomers
believed collapsing
stars always have
a supernova phase
until they noticed
that N6946-BH1
had slipped from
their view.
colleagues refer to the occur-
rence as a massive fail. (They
arent being judgmental.)
Such fails may be more com-
mon than previously believed.
Krzysztof Stanek, co-author of
the new study, says the process
makes sense. An explosive death
might not leave behind the quan-
tity of mass required for forming
a giant black hole, Stanek
explained. I suspect its much
easier to make a very massive
black hole if there is no superno-
va, he said in a statement.
During the seven years astron-
P H OTO I L LUST RAT I O N BY AURA /G E M I N I O BS ; R .SO R I A E T A L / M SS L /CXC/ N ASA
omers have been surveying the
Fireworks Galaxy and others
for supernovas, theyve seen
fewer such explosions than
expected based on statistical cal-
culations. But this death marks
the first time theyve observed
a star skipping the supernova
state. Researchers now think up
to 30 percent of huge stars die
without a supernova.
Now, in the space where
this massive star once glowed,
astronomers see only a small
amount of infrared light, which
researchers believe is from
debris falling into a black hole.
So if you want fireworks, BY
stick to the Fourth of July JESSICA WAPNER
celebrations. @jessicawapner
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BILL
COLLECTORS:
Researchers
who tested
paper bills from
across Hong
Kong found a
plethora
of microbes on
the cash.
DIRTY MONEY
PAPER BILLS CARRY ACNE-CAUSING
BACTERIA AND OTHER PATHOGENS
VARIOUS FORCES have been
pushing us away from paper
money, including mobile phone
apps. That goal may have a hid-
den bonus: Cash, it turns out, is
crawling with bacteria. Although
scientists have known for some
time that microbes can, and do,
live on money, a new study shows
that these bacterial communities
are more substantial than previ-
ously suspected.
To examine the extent to
which bacteria live on money,
researchers from the University
of Hong Kong collected 15 paper
bills from across that city. Their
first step was to check whether
microbes could survive on the
bills. To do this, they scraped
bacteria from the cash and
A N T H O N Y WA L L AC E /A F P/G E T T Y
placed them in various cell cul-
turespetri dishes containing
different types of agar, a sub-
stance derived from algae that
serves as a growth medium. The
BY results, published in Frontiers in
JESSICA WAPNER Microbiology, showed that the
@jessicawapner bacteria grew readily.
The most common bacterial
strain was Propionibacterium
acnes, which is linked to skin
acne. One type of P. acnes found
on currency was first isolated in
2013 from a patient with sarcoid-
osis, an inflammatory disease.
Among the 15 sample bills, about
36 percent of the bacteria were
pathogenic, meaning they are
capable of infecting humans. The
infections caused by those bacte-
ria are not necessarily danger-
ous, but the finding shows that
money is definitely a vehicle for
potentially contagious microbes.
Also common among
the samples was a bacterium
called Acinetobacter. All known
Acinetobacter species can cause
human infections, but most such
infections are caused by one
called Acinetobacter baumannii,
which can cause pneumonia or
wound infections in people with
weak immune systems, chronic
lung disease or diabetes.
This new study joins a growing
stack of research seeking to keep
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track of bacterial communities
in cities. Scientists are trying to
find the most reliable places to
look for potentially dangerous
pathogens emerging across the
world. Wastewater, doorknobs
and other surfaces and substanc-
es with which we have frequent
contact may all serve as such
alert systems, says Andreas
Voss, a microbiologist who
teaches infection control at Rad-
boud University Medical Center
in the Netherlands. Voss thinks
wastewater is probably the most
accurate source for microbe
monitoring, especially if it can be
traced to its origin point, be that
a farm, a home or a public toilet.
Voss notes that the ability
of bacteria to grow on money
depends on several factors,
including what the money is
made of, the geography of the
region (coastal environments
and humid climates may be more
conducive than drier, inland
places) and sanitation.
Can money make you sick?
Voss considers the chances of
acquiring a disease from contact
with paper bills to be negligible,
but the studys authors write that
their findings unveiled the capa-
bilities of this common medium
of exchange to accommodate
various bacteria, and trans-
mit pathogens and antibiotic
resistance. In other words, while
paper bills do not currently pose
a widespread health threat, they
could allow us to follow the mi-
crobes among us and spot a new
threat if one does emerge.
 W E E K E N D CULTURE, TRAVEL AND OTHER GOOD NEWS
SUMMER MOVIE SPECIAL
The Great Escape Edgar Wright on his
musical-car-chase mashup Baby Driver,
the coolest getaway of the season
BY SAM DEAN @samaugustdean
T
HE FILMMAKER EDGAR
WRIGHT was born in the
English countryside, but
his brain is pure Holly-
wood, so saturated with
cinema history that he could pass as a
backup to the Internet Movie Database,
should some of his movies comically
apocalyptic crises come to pass. Wright
has turned that deep movie geekery into
a very particular brand of smart, funny,
gleefully violent and unexpectedly
good-natured films, each a pitch-per-
fect, multi-hyphenate mashup, includ-
ing the rom-com-zom(bie) Shaun of
the Dead, the village-green-preserva-
tion-society-conspiracy-cop-thriller
Hot Fuzz and the live-action-video-
game-comic-book-adaptation-rom-
com Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
At 43, he still looks like the boy wonder
who launched his career at age 19 with
a homemade Western parody, A Fistful
of Fingers, which led to a job directing
comedy shows on the BBC (which, coin-
cidentally, all ended up featuring a lot
of genre pastiche and parody). In a cor-
ner of his favorite breakfast place in the
Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz
(where he stays when in the States),
face to face with his infectious enthu-
siasms and bouncy charm, it is easy to
see why someone might give him mil-
lions of dollars to make a high-concept
heist movie, the about-to-be-released
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Baby Driver, which he wrote and
directed. But while hes happy to unfurl
strings of anecdotes and recommenda-
tions for favorite songs, movies, lines
and scenes, this director of the best car-
chase film in years cant quite remem-
ber what kind of car he drove to get
here. Since the movie, Ive been driv-
ing a Mercedes, but Ioh man. For a
moment, hes at a loss. I just got a new
one the other day, but this is a rental.
Dont say Edgar Wright had no idea
what car he was driving.
Baby Driver is a departure for Wright
in a number of ways. Its his first Ameri-
can movie (set in Atlanta); his first script
that isnt a full-on comedy; and his first
film stocked with bona-fide Hollywood
stars. Ansel Elgort, the 23-year-old
famous for the young adult (YA) tear-
jerker The Fault in Our Stars, plays the
willowy cool Baby, a wunderkind driver
for a bank robbery crew; Kevin Spacey,
Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx (who signed
on after a call from Wright fan and
friend Quentin Tarantino) anchor the
gang as Babys bosses and grown-man
criminal counterparts; and Lily James,
best known as Lady Rose from Downton
Abbey, is Deborah, Babys new boo.
The idea, though, is oldone Wright
has been nursing since before he had a
credit to his name, before the zombies
or the BBC shows, back when Elgort
was an actual baby: an action movie
54 J U N E 3 0, 2017
meticulously choreographed to match
up with a killer soundtrack. Its like a
musical for people who wouldnt usu-
ally go and see musicals, Wright says.
Its literally a dream collision of my two
favorite things.
The kernel of the movie came to
Wright in what he calls a vision,
22 years ago, when he was listening to
Bellbottoms, a song by the Jon Spen-
cer Blues Explosion, a New Yorkbased
multi-genre fusion band (reasonably
popular in the U.K., less so stateside).
Wright was sitting in his bedroomor
my only room, to be specific, in a flat
in North Londonand a car chase
appeared before his eyes.
The idea cropped up again seven
years later. Wright had agreed to come
up with a video treatment for the Brit-
ish electronic group Mint Royale, and
the deadline was coming fast. Out of
WILSON WE BB, 2016, COLUMB IA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.
options, he fell back on his old vision.
I was mad at myself because I had
squandered this great film concept on a
$30,000 music video, he says.
Then a string of critically acclaimed
films put him in the position of being
able to take another shot. Shaun of
the Dead, which Wright directed and
co-wrote with its star, Simon Pegg,
blew into theaters like a fresh (if zom-
bie-scented) breeze in 2003. The film
followed two regular blokes, played by
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.

Frost, trying to run some errands, grab a

couple of pints at the pub and save them-
selves and their friends from a zombie
apocalypse. It was that rare thing in the
Anchorman era of shaggy-dude impro-
varamas: a tightly scripted and ambi-
tiously directed comedy.
2007s Hot FuzzWright and Peggs
next collaboration in what would come
to be called the Three Flavours Cornetto
Trilogy, after the British ice-cream treat
that crops up in all of the filmssecured
the directors spot as a commercial hit-
maker. His next, Scott Pilgrim vs. the
World, lost money, but it was beloved
by the kind of people excited to see
the movie version of a Canadian comic
book about a nerd in a band who battles
his girlfriends seven evil ex-boyfriends
in Mortal Kombatstyle.
So in 2010, when Wright found him-
self signing a two-picture deal with only
one movie left in the Cornetto Trilogy
(2012s again-apocalyptic The Worlds
End), he saw his chance to explode
that original music-action kernel into a
fluffy popcorn extravaganza and began
the quick and easy seven-year process
of bringing it to life.
Babys uncommonly long gestation
gave Wright time to carefully pack his
many enthusiasms into every second
of the film. He lovingly places the script
in a cushion of classic crime mov-
iesThe Driver, Le Samoura, Lon: the
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WHEEL MAN:
Edgar Wright in
Atlanta, where
Baby Driver is set.

Professionalthen waxes poetic about

the real root of the trope: Alan Ladd in
the noir This Gun for Hire. Wright likes
how these films all focus on crime as
a job, and the planning and execution
of heists as a workplace drama. He
describes Baby, in that context, as the
unpaid intern of the crime world,
still stuck with getting the coffee after
making a daring escape.
The soundtrack too is a mixtape of
Wrights personal greatest hits, culled
from his own iTunes and heavy on
classic R&B and nerdy instrumental eso-
terica. Every scene impeccably syncs up
with the songs playing in the earbuds of
Baby, who likes to have a constant stream
of sound going to mask his chronic tinni-
tus (a condition Wright suffered from as
a kid). Naturally, the movie opens synced
to Bellbottoms.

that can blend Wright launches into a reverie: Ah!

DONT SAY I HAD NO IDEA
WHAT CAR I WAS DRIVING.
That 22-year delay also gave Wright
a chance to rack up some miles behind
the wheel. I had a car, a Vauxhall Che-
vette, when I was 17, he says, but as an
Englishman who has lived in London
most of his adult life, I had never driven
much. Ten years ago, he took a solo
road trip across the U.S., which he calls
one of the best things Ive ever done,
my kind of Jack Kerouac moment.
What was he driving then?
A Prius, Wright says. Not the best
advertisement for this movie.
It is, however, true to the script. While
in with traffic
silver Corollas,
not red Camaros.
Baby cares more
about whether
his ride has a good aux-cable hookup
than what it has under the hood, mak-
ing Baby Driver a rare driving movie
mostly featuring commuter cars.
Underneath the music, the motors
and the mayhem, Wrights sweet brand
of guy-friendly romancegoofy but
never grossshines through. Its
funny, when we did Shaun of the Dead,
initially one of the ideas was to poke fun
at the British rom-coms of the time, he
says. And yet when we actually made describes the latter as a cinema classic
the film, I think that part of it became
very sincere.
Every guy has done that, when youve
tried to impress a girl and screwed upI
do that all the time. The way that Ansel
plays that bit, its one of my favorites
in the film.
Post-Baby, Wrights working on a
few projects. Besides a possible sequel
(Which I would totally do, but thats
in the hands of the audience) and
a rom-com concept in its embryonic
stage (Based around a love of movies),
hes signed on to two adaptations, one
of Neil Gaimans illustrated childrens
book Fortunately, the Milk, the other
based on Andrew Smiths YA novel
Grasshopper Jungle. True to form, he
spliced with a B-movie twist: Jules et
Jim in the middle of a sort of praying-
NINO M UNOZ

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
dripping with Spanish moss,
Sofia Coppolas The Beguiled
moves with a languid,
hypnotic menace. Most
gothic melodramas seem
to take place in a hothouse.
This film takes its character
and pace from the humid
Southern air that slows
everything and reduces the
humans trapped inside to
the helpless conviction that
the relief theyre waiting for
will never arrive.
And yet, at 93 minutes,
this streamlined version,
based both on Thomas
Cullinans 1965 novel and
Don Siegels 1971 film, is
over before you know it,
leaving you a little dazed,
as if youd woken abruptly
from under a spell. Set in
a girls boarding school in
1864 as the Confederacy
realizes its going to lose,
the story is about the sexual
tensions that arise when
a wounded Union soldier
(Colin Farrell) is discovered
and taken in to recuperate.
The headmistress (Nicole
Kidman) is wary of the
newcomer, as both a man
and a Yank, but finds herself
drawn to him, as do a
younger teacher, Edwina
(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
the distant cannon fire
that is one of the audio
accompaniments in this
often nearly silent movie.
Siegels version was
lurid but calculatedly so,
not out of any emotional
Southern Discomfort
Sexuality collides with gentility
in Soa Coppolas The Beguiled
commitment to the material.
And with a smirking Clint
Eastwood as the soldier,
the storywhich Cullinan
told entirely from the points
of view of the women
became a simpleminded
demonstration of how
devious women are.
As the soldier in Coppolas
movie, Farrell, a too often
underrated actor, has a
dangerous and seductive
charm: You couldnt blame
anyone for being taken
in. Coppola sees the black
humor and the eeriness of
the storys premise. Where
Siegel played an amputation
scene for over-the-top
gruesomeness, Coppola
does something both subtler
and far more unsettling,
cutting from the preparation
for the operation to a burial
service for the severed
limb. As shot by Philippe Le
Sourd, the film looks like
an unholy collaboration
SUMMER MOVIE SPECIAL
+
HOTHOUSE FLOWER:
Fanning is a
wonder to watch in
The Beguiled.
between John Singer Sargent
and Edvard Munch, a faded
mansion on its way to
becoming a sickroom.
Coppola gets at thorny
and complex ideas about
how expectations of female
gentility poison female
sexuality and cause these
women to experience
desire as sickness. Shes
aided by Kidman, whose
performance creates a
kind and potentially loving
woman out of a character
who, in both the original
novel and the Siegel film,
was all starchy repression.
And Dunst, as a youngish
woman at the age when she
is beginning to be viewed as
an old maid, is touching and
yet startling. Its as if you can
see her dimpled, youthful
beauty withering before you
for simple want of love.
The talk in Hollywood
now is how the success of
Wonder Woman, directed
NEWSWEEK 57 J U N E 3 0, 2017
by Patty Jenkins, means
female filmmakers have a
chance to reap the rewards
of popular blockbusters.
Whats not being asked is
what difference a female
presence will make for the
movies if the result is still
the clunky (though, in the
case of Wonder Woman, well-
intentioned) superhero flicks
male directors are already
making. No director gets
to show wit or personality
when theyre working with
a quarter-billion of studio
money. Meanwhile, Coppola
made The Beguiled on a
budget of $10 million and
with a shooting schedule
of just six weeks. It doesnt
matter if theres a queen
or a king at the top of the
box office when our best
filmmakers still have to go
begging for resources.
CHARLES TAYLOR
The Beguiled is released June 23.
 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

A Pigs Tale her corporation has sent a litter of enormous

genetically modified super pigs to local

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

Okja. You can guess what happens when the

corporation decides its time for their property
South Korean action lm to become dinner: Mija goes to death-defying
lengths to save her doomed friend.
Ronson is a screenwriter and author best
BY ZACH SCHONFELD known for The Men Who Stare at Goats, a
@zzzzaaaacccchhh 2004 book about the U.S. militarys interest

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 in the paranormal that became a film starring
Ewan McGregor. Later, he wrote The Psychopath
Test and 2014s Frank, a quirky flick loosely
based on Ronsons early misadventures with a
band. Ronson, 50, has round glasses and a thick,
charming accent. Were chatting in his Manhattan
apartments small office, with a framed image of
Frank Sidebottom, the papier-mch-masked
musician who inspired Frank, on the wall.
So: How did a Welsh-born journalist wind up
co-writing a wildly original South Korean action
movie? Ronsons improbable involvement began
with a phone call: Bong wanted to meet him. It
was October 2014, and Bong was fresh from
the success of Snowpiercer, a harrowing, post-
apocalyptic action film that takes place on board
a train during a near-future ice age. (Bongs
first primarily English-language film, it drew
international raves.) Ronson was preparing to
publish So Youve Been Publicly Shamed, a book
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
the Animal Liberation Front (headed by Paul
Dano), who are determined to help Mija save
the genetically modified animal from becoming
genetically modified meat; and Dr. Johnny (Jake
Gyllenhaal), a cartoonishly deranged zoologist
who serves as a sort of Mirando Corp. mascot
(inspired by an actual person, the host of Animal
Magic, a BBC show Ronson watched as a kid).
Ronson turned vegetarian several years before
working on Okjaa fortuitous coincidence, he
says: I was quite pleased that I wasnt a meat
eater while I was writing this. The film gives a
brutal and uncommon glimpse of the cruelty
inherent in postindustrial meat production
during a climactic moment, the viewer sees,
quite literally, how the sausage is madecircling
NETFL IX
around questions of compassion and capitalism
and whether they are ever compatible.
As Okja stomps, farts and poops her way into
our collective affection, its no great leap to
assume some viewers might be tempted to give
veganism a try. But while Ronson is clearly an
animal lover, he does not regard Okja as a pro-
vegan film. I dont think thats the message,
Ronson says, noting that there are shots of South
Korean villagers eating fish or meat stew. I think
thats deliberate on Bongs part. Hes saying,
This is not an anti-meat polemic. Ronson does
think its an anti-factory-farming film.
What was certainly deliberate is Ronson's
treatment of the animal rights activists who
swoop in to rescue Okja; the group behaves
bravely, but they are equally absurd. I didnt
want them to be knights in shining armor,
Ronson says. I always find it a bit of a turnoff
when you make the heroic people just so heroic.
Okja, on its surface, has little to do with So
Youve Been Publicly Shamed. But Ronson sees
+
a link. It has to do with cognitive dissonance BEAST IN SHOW:
on the part of consumers who shell out for Seo-hyun
products made by harmful corporations, as well as Mija with
the eponymous
as maybe that robot hummingbird. You dont star of Okja.
want to think about the slaughterhouse, so you
deliberately find ways to block that thought out
of your head...like, we destroy people on social
media and then come up with psychological
tricks to make ourselves not feel bad about it.
Both works might be regarded as pleas for
compassion in a compassionless world. With
Okja and Shamed, Ronson is evincing a studied
ambivalence about technology that enables the
human capacity for cruelty. A heavy message,
but the film delivers it with ample heartand
the most likable pig since Babe.
Okja is released on June 28.
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 THE PLACE TO BE
Bilbao, Spain
Bill Viola takes over the Guggenheim
P
IONEERING VIDEO artist Bill Viola is
concerned with nothing less than life and
death, evident in the titles of his pieces:
Heaven and Earth, Man in Nature, Chapel of
Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures. Such ambition
can yield pretension, but at its best, his unique fusion
of the conceptual and visual is truly transcendent. Yet
despite countless solo shows and numerous awards,
Violas work has never been laid out in fulluntil now.
Beginning June 30, Spains Guggenheim Museum in
Bilbao will present a major retrospective, really the
peak of our exhibition experience, says his wife and
longtime collaborator, Kira Perov.
The retrospective covers a period just before Viola
and Perov first met, in 1977when video was still
a primitive noveltyup to the present, illustrating
just how much the 66-year-old artists career is
intertwined with the evolution of video art. As the
medium became more complex, so did his work:
Projections give way to flat screens and video to high-
speed film and digital editing.
By the early 2000s, short videos had morphed
into feature-length productions, with dozens of crew
members and extras. (In a rare commercial moment,
Viola collaborated with Nine Inch Nails on a
video for the industrial rock bands 2000 tour.) At
a certain point, Perov says, Bill had become a
NEWSWEEK 60 JUNE
director, and not just an artist creating his own work.
Violas themes, however, remained constant.
His emotive approachwhile visually lush and
painterlyhas a primal quality, incorporating
elements like fire and water. Standing in a dark
room, surrounded by his extremely slow-motion
images, is both meditative and mesmerizing, as if
the artist were trying to capture consciousness itself.
One piece at Bilbao, entitled Man Searching for
Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity, from
2013, might be perceived as a coda to his work.
Projections of an older man and womanboth
nakedwalk slowly toward the viewer, seeming to
emerge from two 7-foot-high slabs of granite. They
turn on a flashlight and very slowly begin searching
their bodies, says Perov. And we all know what that
meanstheyre searching for death. Eventually,
the figures finish, turn off their lights and dissolve
back into the granite.
B I L L V I O L A / B I L L V I O L A ST U D I O
Bills been looking at death and rebirth his whole
life, Perov says. His whole artistic life. But I think
this is a very mature and wonderful expression of
that. In other words, as she puts it, were all gonna +
go away. MICHAEL MILLER PRIMAL DREAM:
A still from Viola's
video installation
Bill Viola: A Retrospective runs at Guggenheim Bilbao First Light, 2002.
from June 30 to Nov. 9; GUGGENHEIM-BILBAO.EUS
30, 2017

THE TASTER
Freds, Sydney
You might not think that farm-to-table still
had the power to excite, but chef Danielle
Alvarez, formerly of Northern Californias
Chez Panisse, is doing just that at
Freds. Opened in late 2016 in Sydneys
Paddington neighborhood, the restaurant
is doing first-class work with pristine
seasonal ingredients, most of them cooked
over the open kitchens Tuscan grills or
in the wood-fired oven.
IN THE ROOM: The open cooking and
dining spaces merge into one warm,
oak-timbered, marble-countertopped
French-country embrace. Heavy linens,
muted colors, enameled sinks and broad
floorboards, writes The Australian, make
a visit like stumbling onto the set of a
TV biopic on [pioneering British cookery
writer] Elizabeth David.
ON THE TABLE: Most everything on
the menu is cooked over a live fire, from
the leaf-shaped fougasse bread that Good
Food calls terrific, the base so crusty
you can beat it like a drum, to the lamb,
cooked ficelle-style from a string hung
over coals, and served with grilled gem
lettuce, seaweed and baby artichokes
to produce meat that is roll-your-eyes
good. Alvarezs close relationship with
her farmers comes out in her simple
treatments; asparagus shines, writes
Delicious magazine, among delicate
triangoli pasta lathered in burnt butter.
As do beets, according to Time Out, tossed
into the hot coals until they are sweet
and tender, then tumbled with a pink
explosion of bitter leaves.
ANSON SM ART; THE FROZE N FOUNTAIN
IN BRIEF: One of the most likeable
restaurants to have opened in Sydney in
years, according to Australian Gourmet
Traveller. LISA ABEND
About AU$125 ($95) per person;
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THE BUYER
Going Dutch Cok de Rooy
picks cutting-edge classics
The Frozen Fountain, Cok de Rooy has an eye for
overlooking the canal on spotting new talent, though
Amsterdams picturesque you can also find the pieces
Prinsengracht, opened in of more established brands.
1992, selling a carefully De Rooys passion lies in
curated collection of working with designers on
furniture and home exclusive exhibitions and
accessories from mostly commissions, like the three
Dutch designers. Co-owner items below. MAX FRASER
BALKENKAST
By Piet Hein Eek
Established Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek started using reclaimed
wood for his university degree show because it was cheap and readily
available. This cabinet shows off his signature style, demonstrating
his passion for materials and the skill with which he works. You can
see his understanding of the properties of
wood and the honesty of his construction
in this stunning cabinet, which can also be
custom-made upon request.
20,000 ($22,377)
SUNFLOWER LAMP
By Dirk Vander Kooij
How those flower-shaped discs are
made is part of this lamps appeal.
Dirk carried out two years of
research, trying different synthetic
materials that had been extruded
by a bespoke robotic arm. The
robotic mechanism builds up the
material layer by layer to create
the lights, which are lit internally
with LEDs to create a warm glow.
Inspired by Van Goghs Sunflowers,
ECCLESIASTICAL the lamp emulates the sunflowers
BOTANICA movements; each module rotates,
By Kit Miles making it easy to adjust the light.
This wallpaper, featuring 3,585 ($4,011)
ornamental birds on a
tree, provides an elegance
and charm through subtle
composition and a bold use
of color. Kit is a marvelous
painter with very fine taste,
and the beauty of the design
comes partly from his
classic approach, which feels
modern at the same time.
Each panelhand drawn,
painted, processed digitally
and printed on silkis
nearly 10 feet tall.
918 ($1,027)
For more information, see FROZENFOUNTAIN.COM
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HUNGRY YEARS:
Clockwise from
top left: McCalls
magazine shoot,
circa 1943; Self-
Portrait With
Eighty Cakes,
by Tim Walker,
2008; Peas on a
Plate, by Sandy
Skoglund, 1978;
General Mills
campaign, 1947.

COFFEE TABLE

Good Enough to Eat

Feast for the Eyes: AS FOOD MARKETERS have
The Story of Food long known, we eat with
in Photography our eyes. But this book by
By Susan Bright art historian Susan Bright
Aperture, out now shows theres more to

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

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 IN THEIR WORDS
Ode to Skiffle Billy Bragg restores a forgotten
musical genre to its proper place in history
BILLY BRAGG IS OFTEN
labeled a protest singer.
He has, after all, frequently
used his gift for poetic
storytelling to campaign
for left-wing causes.
And in 1998, Nora Guthrie,
daughter of American
working-class champion
Woody Guthrie, asked
him to put her fathers
unrecorded lyrics to
music for a series of
commemorative albums.
The 60-year-old musician
from Essex, England,
however, prefers to
use the moniker
topical songwriter.
In his new book, Roots,
Radicals and Rockers:
How Skiffle Changed the
World, Bragg takes his
fight for underdogs
ANDY W HALE
justice to perhaps the most
dismissed musical genre
of the 20th century. Its
a 400-page paean to the
makeshift bands British
teenagers experimented
with in the 1950s, seeking
a raw new sound to define
their generation. Playing
acoustic guitar, washboard
and tea-chest bass, they
took inspiration from New
Orleans jazz and American
blues artists such as Lead
Belly and Big Bill Broonzy.
I think skiffle deserves to
have the same credibility as
punk, says Bragg. It came
and went so quickly.
The movements
reputation waned after
its only mainstream star,
Lonnie Donegan, became
a variety performer, his hit
+ over the years but actually
ROOTS
REVIVAL:
Bragg calls
skiffle the
nursery of
the British
invasion.
1960 novelty single, My
Old Mans a Dustman,
forever eclipsing his popular
1954 rendering of Rock
Island Line. But skiffles
reputation also suffered
because of its legacy as the
music legendary rockers
like the Rolling Stones and
David Bowie performed
before they were any good.
A lot of the guys in skiffle
bands were 13, 14 and 15,
says Bragg. I wouldnt
want anyone to hear the
songs I recorded with my
next-door neighbor when I
was that age.
In researching the book,
Bragg spent time holed up
in the British Library, poring
over old articles about that
musical period, trying
to kick apart some of the
legends that have built up
were quite true, he says.
The most riveting of the
central charactersand
skiffles founding fatheris
a cantankerous merchant
seaman, Ken Collier,
whose nose for great
American music led him
to inadvertently inspire a
generation. Hes the great
unsung hero of the story of
British rock, says Bragg.
A train trip for the book
resulted in Braggs 2016
album with L.A.-based
songwriter and producer
Joe Henry, Shine a Light:
Field Recordings From the
Great American Railroad. I
became aware of all these
railroad songs that had
been part of skiffle, says
Bragg. That would include
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skiffles most famous
song, Rock Island Line,
the origins of which the
author fastidiously traces,
following the old rail route
from Rock Island on the
Mississippi River in Illinois
to Arkansas, where John
Lomax and Lead Belly
first recorded convicts
singing it in 1934 at the
Cummins State Farm
correctional facility.
Strangely, most
Americans have never heard
of skiffle. Its a part of the
story they are missing, he
says. Were talking about
the nursery of the British
invasion. The Beatles,
the Who, the Kinks, Small
Faces, Pink Floyd, Led
Zeppelin and T. Rex
all started with skiffle,
which is why, says Bragg,
I think Donegan should
be in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame. The
campaign begins here.
AMY FLEMING
ROOTS,
RADICALS AND
ROCKERS:
HOW SKIFFLE
CHANGED THE
WORLD
By Billy Bragg
Faber & Faber,
out now in the U.K.
(20) and on July 11
in the U.S. ($29.95)
 PA RT I N G S H O T
Photos While U Wait, Coney Island
Marvin E. Newman, 1953

BY PLEASURE. THAT, HISTORICALLY, has been the
MATTHEW SWEET promise of the boardwalk where New York Citys
@DrMatthewSweet
B train stops. Not the kind that lasts. That would
be too much to ask. But the kind delivered by that
first bite of a Nathans hot dog. Or the moment
before you see the sideshow mermaid is actually
a salmon tail stitched to a dead monkey. Or the
interlude after the photographer has snapped you
in fancy dress with someone you hardly know,
and youre waiting for things to develop.
This is what Coney Island means to visitors,
who come to escape the gasoline fumes and hot
concrete of Manhattan. Its a zone of instant
gratification. For those who have known it during
the winter months and
through its long periods
of neglect, however,
FOR VISITORS, its a place where you
CONEY ISLAND IS A wait for something
developers to make good on their assurances.
Marvin E. Newman, then a young
photographer with a masters degree from the
Illinois Institute of Technology, got up early in
the morning to secure this shot. The light was
bright, the air was cold, and this island resident,
swaddled in black, perched on the planks for
him like a watchful raven.
Newmans work often supplies its own
captions. He once photographed a silver
Bentley cruising Manhattans 42nd Street past a
cinema marquee advertising an Italian cannibal
horror flick called Let Them Die Slowly. One
of his greatest images observes the red neon
of a Ripleys Believe It or Not! show turning the
wet sidewalk into a murder scene. That shot
forms the cover of his new monograph, which,
somewhat scandalously, is also his first. Marvin
E. Newman is 89 years old. But some pleasures
MARVIN E . NEWMAN

to happen. For the are worth waiting for.

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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!

Rob Smith I President, Jet Aviation

Many Advantages
Maintenance, Refurbishment, Completions, FBO, Aircraft Management, Flight Support, Charter, Stafng.

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