AUSTRIA Sebastian K リな C00 / head in a crisis When Europe's refugee crisis peaked in the fall of 2015 , Sebastian Kurz, Austria's federal minister fO 「 Europe, integration and foreign affairs, found himself on the frontlines. Up tO 10 , 000 asylum seekers, mostly om the war zones Of lraq and Syria, were coming tO the European Union each day. But Kurz felt ignored when he urged his peers tO manage the influx more responsibly. Then only 29 years 0 馗 , the center-right lawmaker had less than tWO years Of experience as a diplomat. “代 was the toughest time in my career he says Of that periOd. By the end Of 2015 around 90 , 000 people had sought asylum ⅲ Austria, a sixfold increase from previous years, overwhelming the system designed tO deal with them. That's when Kurz went rogue. Against the objections Of the E. U. , he negotiated a deal between Austria and several Eastern European countries tO close 0 the migration route through the BaIkans in early 20 ユ 6. lt worked. The number Of arrivals began tO drop dramatically, and Austria and Other European countries were able tO forge more sustainable responses tO the crisis. His position is neither radical oppcsition tO migration no 「 open borders at any cost, but a third, more pragmatic way—easing the 升 OW Of migrants, while working tO process and integrate those whO have already arrived. Other European leaders have copied his approach, and Kurz no longer struggles tO be taken seriously. "They saw what works, ” he says. "And they understood it. ー S 加 10 れ Shuster 0 朝い」いい。 ents always wanted the very best their technical skills to compete for me, and pushed me further on the world stage. "I was seeing and further, so that stuckwith all the younger skaters doing crazy me. I keep pushing myselfand things, and I realized we were a lit- the sport. ” That self-motivation tle far behind," he says. "Knowing there were guys far ahead of me was especially important for men's skating ⅲ the U. S. , which switched a light on in my head. ” has not produced an Olymp ic Chen is already motivating even younger skaters globally, but medalist since 2010. Chen says his role models were mostly especially in the U. S. , who are fol- from abroad—Russia's Evgeny lowing his lead in attempting what Plushenk0, and recently Hanyu previously seemed impossible andJavier Fernåndez 0f Spain. feats. Having watched the rest AS he competed at international ofthe world set the bar, Chen is now ready tO test the limits Ofhis competitions, Chen realized the U. S. men's skaters needed tO hone sport—and himself. —ALICE PARK PHOTOGRAPH BYEMILY SHUR FOR TIME X コ 03 、エ 39 工 38N3ZNV ー d310 巴 H 3N コ H 畄一ト化 0 」 OQVNVB9 ONV111bN3 :SS13M 29

Viewpoint according t0 Adinoyi. Some suffering from the developmental legacy of mal- nutrition may JOin criminal gangs out of a lack of options; others could be drawn tO militias, like the ones in South Sudan, which suffered its own famine ⅲ 1998 , before it gained independence from Sudan. Those are the militias that are largely responsible for today's fam- ine, because the ongoing CiVil war has p revented farmers from growing crop s for the past several seasons. "Fam- ine just keeps the poverty cycle going, says Adinoyi. UNICEF HAS NOW released an appeal tO the international community for ur- gent aid t0 help 1.4 million children severely malnourished in Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria and South Sudan. But in a time Of seemingly unprecedented global suffering—the R0hingya in Myanmar, the war in Syria, lslamic extrem- ism in West Africa—it's hard to break through. lfempathy is stretched thin, maybe it's time tO start appealing t0 global self-interest instead. Famine drives people in afflicted areas tO seek op- portunitie S elsewhere , fueling the refugee cri- SiS in Europe and across the globe. "UltimateIy the consequences Of malnutrition—hunger, war, poverty— these are the push factors ofmigration, Adinoyi says. Last year, 4 , 581 people died trying tO cross the hazardous stretch Of the Mediterranean S ea from Libya t0 ltaly, according t0 the U. N. —a route popular with migrants from many Of the coun- tries descending intO famine. The Eu- ropean Union has recently backed a $ 212 million agreement between ltaly, Libya, Tunisia and Nigeria t0 fund bet- ter policing tO deter migrants from trav- eling t0 Europe. If that kind 0f money had been spent a generation ago on preventing malnutrition, then perhaps some of those people might not have le 代 their countries in the first place. ロ Baker is TIME's Africa bureau c げ By the time famine is declared, it's already t00 late—and another generation iS wounded Aryn Baker THE DECLARATION OF FAMINE IN PARTS OF SOUTH SUDAN on Feb. 20 , the first announcement Of its kind in almost six years, iS but the beginning Of a cascade Of similar pronounce- ments tO C01 Ⅱ e. Yemen, northern Nigeria and Somalia are also on the brink 0f famine, warns the Famine Early Warning Systems Network. According tO the lnternational Federation of Red Cross ⅲ Africa, another 32 million people ⅲ south- ern Africa face extreme fOOd insecurity. If nothing is done, offlcials at the U. N. World F00d Programme have warned, some 20 million people could starve t0 death during the next SiX months. That is the least Of the devastation, however. Famine doesn't just kill; it leaves debilitating scars on a nation's devel- opment that endure for decades, perpet- uating a cycle 0f poverty and aid depen- dency. Yet the call t0 prevent famine is never as widely shouted, nor as eagerly answered, as the urgent demands tO bring it tO a halt. lt's time tO change the stakes. FAMINE, IN TECHNICAL TERMS, doesn't just mean people are going hungry. lt means they are already starving t0 death ー two adults or four children a day per every 10 , 000 people. SO by the time famine is formally declared, millions have already been suffering, perhaps for years: humani- tarian agencies like Oxfam first warned about a looming famine in South Sudan back in March 2015. The last time famine was formally declared, ⅲ Somalia in 2011 , most ofthe 260 , 000 victims had already died. By the time the inevitable ph0t0S 0f emaciated bodies and wizened children with extended bellies appear in the media, it is almost always t00 late. The extended periods 0f malnutrition leading up tO famine can result in catastrophic developmental stunting in children. When children are chronically malnourished, their brains don't develop prop- erly, says Adeiza Ben Adinoyi, head ofthe lnternational Fed- eration Of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' health unit for Africa. As a result, they may suffer permanently impaired brain function alongside the more visible effects Of stunted growth. The impact on countries afflicted by f00d shortages is generational; scores unable tO reach their んⅡ potential, resulting in lOSt incomes and fewer opportunities. Spread across a wide enough swath 0f the population, it could mean an entire generation affcted by lower-than- average IQ, poor cognition and reduced earnings. The World Bank estimates that productivity and economic growth lost to malnutrition could be worth 11 % of annual GDP ⅲ sub- Saharan Africa and Asia. This can lead t0 desperate choices, 16 TIME March 13 , 2017 A severely m れ 0 肝 i ed c ん旧ⅲ 0 hospital ⅲ South Sudan ⅲ March 2016 LYNSEY ADDARIO—GETTY IMAGES

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TICKER lnauguralpastor creates 'sqfe haven' The church of evangelical pastor Sam Rodriguez 北 , whO led a prayer at President Trump's lnauguration, has begun offering beds fO 「 congregants whO need a temporary "safe haven ” from immigration raids 0 「 domestic violence. The New Season Christian Worship Center in Sacramento said anyone afraid Of the potential effects Of expanded deportation policies was welcome tO stay. "The anxiety in Christian conservative evangelical churches has grown exponentially, Rodriguez tO TIME. 止 aq tO escape Trump travel ban U. S. officials say lraq is tO be removed from the list Of seven ma. 」 ority- Muslim countries whose citizens are temporarily barred from travelto the U. S. following pressure from the Pentagon and State De pa rtm e nt over lraq's 「 0 in fighti ng 旧旧 . Attacks on refugees in Germany There were almost 10 attacks a day on immigrants in Germany last year, according tO the country's te ⅱ 0 「 Ministry. The violence れ 560 people injured, including 43 children. Tensions have risen over the huge influx asylum seekers in the country as result Of Europe 彎 migrant criSiS. 0 4 THE LONG FIGHT Displaced residents of Mosul are transported to refugee camps on Feb. 28 as lraqi forces battle 旧旧 militants in the western half Ofthe city. The latest wave of the offensive, which has already dislodged the extremist group from eastern Mosu い s expected tO be lengthy and complex given the hundreds Of thousands Of civilians whO remain trapped in the city. Photograph byZohra Bensemra—Reuters BULLY PULPIT ln August, the President pub- licly accused de Lima ofprofiting from a drug ring at a Manila prison (and so ofhaving an affairwith her driver). De Lima fiercely denies wrongdoing. "This is undoubtedly political persecution; ” she t01d TIME ⅲ her jail cell on Feb. 25. "What has been done tO me sends a chilling effect on othervoices ofdissent. ” UNCERTAIN FUTURE What happens next tO de Lima is an open question. Her legal team is attempting tO prove that her arrest was unlawful but she is up against a system many now see as corrupt, and She can't count on a lot 0f popular support : the President clocked an 83 % 叩 proval rating inJanuary. "He believes in Filipinos,: ” lsabelle Santiago, 50, said at a pro-Duterte rally ⅲ Manila 0 Ⅱ Feb. 25. "And de Lima—now she's ⅲ trouble. ”—NASH JENKINS/MANILA く Within 加 0 weeks 可 ki れ g Offce, SenatorLeila de ma launched 0 probe intO Duterte s extrajudicial drug war WORLD Duterte's fiercest critic finds herself in jail ON THE MORNING OF FEB. 24 , PHILIPPINE Senator Leila de Lima—one ofPresident Rodrigo Duterte's most outspoken critics ー was arrested in Manila on charges ofdrug traffcking. Her arrest, which she and her supporters s aid was an act Of political retri- bution, sparked outrage in the Philippines: し OYA し OPPO 引引 ON De Lima, elected tO the Senate last year after serving for five years as the country's Justice Secretary, has led a months-long, largely political fight against Duterte and his so-called war on drugs, a bloody crackdown on alleged deal- ers and users by police and vigilante groups that has so far le 仕 more than 7 , 000 dead. Her Senate inquiry into the extrajudicial killings failed to bring them to an end, but her campaign has brought the cri- SiS international attention. の 39 イ》一 A トト 39 、 d 」 V ー 38 一「コ V 03 トコ 30 一ト 0 」 339 Å8 の NO 一トのコ 1 ョ 9

9 Questions Fe derica Mogherini The Europ e an Union's s e curity chief and most senior diplomat discusses Russia, Trump tweets and life after Brexit YO 収 s 凾 recently that the world is migration crisis t0 the best 0f its ability? The E. U. has invested $ 9.5 bil- "in a state ofconfusion ” about where lion on Syria t0 d0 that. NO single coun- power lies. What i YO mean? try could invest such a big amount Of Everyone realizes that the U. S. is not the policeman 0f the world and doesn't money tO guarantee that the Syrians want tO be. SO I don't see the desire tO have food, shelter, education, jobs. This have a unipolar approach. But we don't has been the basis for the management of have a multipolar order either, because the refugee flows, built on the concept 0f who would you define as being the cooperation and support on the ground. poles? ls it the United States and Rus- sia, China and lndia? What about other But stopping the mnux intO Europe countries that, by being rich or power- also meant closing borders, didn't it? Our borders are not closed. We manage ful, can influence international policy? the flows. We don't build walls, because that is not the European way. Doesn't that start tO 0 like a world divided into spheres Of innuence? I don't think so, because people have the ls the U. united on Russia? Some power. You might have the illusion of member states, like Hungary and making deals at the top and then find- the Czech Republic, have built closer ing out that they don't reflect the reality ties despite the strict U. sanctions. on the ground. The power shift today is We have a common E. U. policy toward not only geopolitical, it's also a shift of Russia, and all those wh0 are betting on where the power lies. lt's not just with divisions among us are disappointed governments anymore, but in SOCiety time after time. Once we manage tO get and the private sector. lt's not a time Of our common position, we are quite good in keeping it ・ emmres anymore. The United Kingdom voted last June What about 圧 U. states like Slovenia tO leave the 圧 U. What lessons 鹵 yo 収 that say sanctions cost them trade take om that? That voters are always with Russia? Some were having right, especially when they ask ques- doubts from the beginning. But tions. And the question is, Why isn't the a union is like a family. The system improving our lives? What I see members ofthe family take now in Europe is a paradox. At the mo- decisions, and then you ⅱれ - ment When European citizens need our plement them together. union the most, they put it intO ques- tion because Of frustration with policies The U. K. wants tO deal that are affecting them. I don't think it's directly with the U. S. on a movement against the E. U. lt's a move- trade. ls that a problem ment against the system. for the 圧 U. ? As long as the U. K. is a member state of the E. U. , which it will be SO hOW dO yo respond tO anti-E.U. for the next two years at populists promising tO "take back le ast, it cannot negotiate a control" from U. bureaucrats like yo ? There is not an alien based ⅲ b ilateral trade agreement Brussels taking decisions. The E. U. is an with any other country. instrument for citizens tO regain control in times ofglobalization, because there That's not the nnpres- is nothing that a country can dO, not sion one gets from Don- even the biggest and most powerful, to ald Trump's pro-Brexit face issues like migration alone. tweets. A tweet is not a trade agree ment. DO yo 収 think the を . U. tackled the —SIMON SHUSTER 52 TIME March 13 , 2017 'The voters are always right , especially when they ask questions. And the question is, Why isn't the system improving our lives?' ANDREW 工 ARNIK—AP

LADY KILLER? D00 れ Thi uo れ g (le. ) was charged for her alleged ro ⅲ Kim's た卍ⅲ g イ第イ tO match with North Korean spouses compliance with 0ther U. N. s anctions fol- New York City—the first on American scil and raise their mixed-race progeny as lowing Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test. since 2011 ー until the State Department superspies. Kim Jong Un has displayed (There has since been a 6 仕 h. ) Trump in- denied themvisas on Feb. 25 , 12 days after little affection for kinship, executing sists Beijing can bring Pyongyang further the as S as sination. his powerful uncle Jang Song Thaek in to heel. "I think China has tremendous Can any nation reason With a regime 2013. "lt very much fits into the North control over North Korea,: ” Trump told that kills its own family members? That, Korean game ofthrones' that we've seen Reuters. "They could solve the problem for the moment, seems unlikely. The U. develop since Kim Jong Un has been ⅲ very easily if they want t0. ” is handicapped by its long-standing ties power; ” says Lind. ln reality, however, over- tO Seoul and the presence Of thousands As Kim Jong Nam was under Bei- whelming strategic goal remains keeping of U. S. troops in South Korea—b0th Jing's protection, Gause says the assassi- the North Korean state functioning, countries could face a counterattack if nation is "a slap ⅲ the face for China. ” since its collapse would likely see a the し S. targeted Pyongyang's nuclear The two neighbors were described by flOOd Of refugees into northeastern facilities. But China has regional interest? Mao Zedong more than 60 years ago as China, as well as a unified and U. S. -allied Ofits own tO consider. Even ifnegotiations "as close as lips and teeth ” but have be- Korean peninsula governed by Seoul. are revived, the OddS Of their success are come estranged since China began a pro- "The Chinese would like the situation long. Several years 0f engagement and confidence-building would likely bé cess of reform ⅲ the late 1970S. China tO remain the status quo,: ” says Steven still accounts for 90 % of North Korean Weber, a Korea expert at the University neededjust t0 bring Pyongyang's nuclear trade, though not even pro-Pyongyang of California, Berkeley. program t0 the table, as well as s ignific ant hard-liners in the Chinese Communist But the status quo is threatened by concessions by Seoul, such as suspending Party could defend the assassination. On Pyongyang s nuclear and missile tests. the annual jOint naval exercises with the Feb. 18 , Beijing said it was suspending Pyongyang is believed by experts to be U. S. Moreover, any deal with the regime coal imports from North Korea for the four or five years away from a nuclear- would require overlooking abuses that rest Of the year. While the assassination armed ballistic missile c 叩 able ofhitting the U. N. says amount to "crimes against was not dire ctly blamed, the timing sug- the U. S. mainland. Beijing has long humanity. gests it was a primary factor. Coal makes pushed for a resumption 0fthe six-party TO say nothing of outrages like the up half the regime's foreign-currency denuclearization talks—comprising assassination Of Kim Jong Nam. ' Th acquisition, bringing in some $ 1 bil- North and South Korea, Japan, Russia, tragedy is that he really just wanted t lion ⅲ 2015. Pyongyang's KCNA news China and the U. S. —which ran from 2003 be le 仕 alone; ” says Lind. "But because 0 agency responded by accusing China 0f t0 2009 before being nixed by Kim Jong his blood, and his birth, he couldn t be,' Which is a wretched 10t shared by al "dancing t0 the tune 0fthe し S. ” ll. North Korean offlcials had been set for Be リ ing's import ban brings China int0 talks with former American offlcials in North Koreans. の一 AI ト 39 、 d 」 V ー N く」のく 0 工 OL•N

TheView BOOK IN BRIEF rights. The growth ofsocial mediahas amplified the VOices ofaverage Americans—includingvoices that are critical Of the government. At a moment when free speech is very much under assault in authori- tarian countries like China, where the government controls the press and the lnternet, Americans are practically drowning in spoken thought. But look closer. The speech being amplified by Facebook or Twitter—Yiannopoulo s' favorite venue before he was banned last year—isn't happening in town halls. These are corporations answerable not to the public but tO their shareholders. The First Amendment may prohibit Congress from passing any law that forbids the expression offree speech, but it has given wide latitude tO digital companies tO censor VOices at will. And given hOW dominant those platforms are, the decisions they make about what is allowable can be absolute. Free speech iS alSO under pressure on COllege campuses, where some groups have sought t0 block speakers whose views they find offensive. That hap- pened t0 Yiannopoulos himself, whose talk last month at Berkeleywas scratched, but alSO tO more mainstream speakers like former Secretary ofState condoleezza Rice, WhO canceled her commence- ment address at Rutgers University in 2014 in the face ofstudent protests. ln his commencement speech at Howard University last spring, President Obama reminded graduates of the importance of "listening tO those with whom you disagree. ” There is some evidence that younger people may be less protective offree speech. A 2015 Pew survey found that 40 % ofmillennials believe the govern- ment should be able t0 prevent people 仕 om saymg offensive things about minority groups, compared with 24 % ofbaby boomers. As l'affaire Yiannopou- 10S demonstrates, we're all a little hypocritical. While Americans don't want the government tell- ing themwhat they can and cannot say, they've been h 叩 py enough t0 accept some limitations for the sake ofbasic civility. But that's changing—we now live in an incre as- ingly polarized and tribal country. We've sorted ourselves digitally, which makes us less likely t0 encounter opposing V1ewpoints and less worried about offending our like-minded pals. lnstead of fueling a marketplace ofideas, as the founders en- visioned, speech becomes a way for groups t0 po- lice their own boundarie s while lobbing rhetorical bombs agalnst opponents. The aim is not tO debate but tO dominate. There was Ⅱ 0 debating Yiannopoulos—his was a one-way instrument, and that's Why conservatives embraced h ⅱれ . But as soon as he became tOXiC tO his own group, he was dropped. Absolute princi- ples mattered le ss than winning. ln America t0day, speech is everywhere. lt's the listening that has gone m1SS1ng. 18 TIME March 13 , 2017 The evolution Of sleep WESTERN SOCIETY IS OBSESSED WITH a good night's sleep. TO get it, we impose strict prebed rituals and regular wake-up times on ourselves and our children, feeling anxious ifwe toss and turn in the night. But the idea 0f a perfect sleep practice is relatively new in human history, BenJamin ReiSS explains in his new book Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless Wor 旧 . Until the lndustrial Revolution, sleep was SOCial, With family and even strangers sharing beds. PeopIe slept in installments throughout the day and night instead 0f in one straight sh0t, and sleep schedules varied With the seasons according tO light and temperature. Parents sometimes eschewed comfortable mattresses for stiff ones, SO their children would be able to adjust to sleep in new places when traveling. lt was only with the rise offactory jobs that workers strictly reserved a portion Of the nighttime for sleep—leading to the regimented schedule we now observe. —SARAH BEGLEY VERBATIM 。 If you mix your politics with your investment decisions, you're making a big mistake. ' WARREN BUFFETT, Berkshire Hathaway CEO, cautioning investors not tO pull out of U. S. stocks for political reasons, in a CNBC interview; the market will be "fine,' he added Wild N i ( ) h t s 日 0 に川引い 0 ↓ Ou トき載、、、、気 tld 、異 E い S 、 CHARTOON Contextual 子 0 応 ßun+er 5 汁ⅳ e C 川 roo 石耘 sed pira+e 月み・ 0 耘月 d , 1. ( om 0 ト月石 ro jer jerk December any 房 r 川 0 払 0 月子 se 十 c 長 ard 払川 or ん any 房 r 石川 e d d 子 e BUFFETT: BENNETT RAGLIN—GETTY IMAGES 子 0 の d 凱孖 ロ 」 OHN ATKINSON, WRONG HANDS

SOUTH AFRICA で′ e00 ′Ⅳ 00 ぬ Seriouslyfunny By a 取 a Dockterman Trevor Noah wasn't supposed t0 be here. Before the 33-year-01d South African comedian t00k over host- ing The Daily Show ⅲ 2015 , the list ofobvious suc- cessors tO Jon Stewart included alumni Ofthe shOW Samantha Bee, Stephen C01bert and J0hn Oliver as well as S 町 d Night Live veterans Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Chris Rock. "lt was ridiculous. There was no way I expected tO get it,: ” Noah recalls, sit- ting ⅲ an Offce above The Daily Sh0W's studio, now his studio, on the edge 0f midtown Manhattan. And yet Comedy Central made the risky choice tO install a host little known in America but famous around the world in hopes ofreaching young people, especially international young people. His debut wasn't exactly smooth for an audience used tO 16 years Of Stewart. "When I started, there was a 10t Of criticism around me not being angry. But what was there tO be angry about? Progre s s was b eing made. Unemployment was dropping ・ Gay people were getting marriage equality. I refuse t0 be a part of an outrage machine; ” Noah says, pausing. "And then Donald Trump was elected. ln the months since, Comedy Central's bet on finding a more global audience for The D Show has begun t0 pay 0 圧 Noah's viewership has yet t0 reach that Of Stewart's last season, but the network says international viewership has risen drastically since Noah's debut. (The show is now watched in 176 countries, up from around 70 before. ) "Donald Trump has made everyone interested ⅲ everything, everywhere. He's a worldwide phenomenon, says Noah. "And with everything that's going on—the Muslim ban, threats tO women's rights, the environment—l feel like I can finally say the show has a purpose. ” NOAH WAS BORN in Johannesburg, the son Of a white Swiss father and a black South African mother, during apartheid, when it was illegal for mixed-race couples tO procreate. HiS parents never married. The comedian writes in hiS memoir, Born 0 Crime, that he spent much 0f his youth playing alone indoors so that the police wouldn't spot him and take him away. Noah, whose Netflix stand-up special Afraid 可市 e D た premiered Feb. 21 , jokes that on family outings his father would have tO walk across the street and wave at him "like a pedophile. ” Many comedians make light oftragedy. Still, Noah's case is extreme: Noah, his brother and his mother once leaped from a moving minibus after the driver intimated he would kill them over their 24 TIME March 13 , 2017 'There as alotof criticism around me not being angry. But what 田 as there tO be angry about?.. And then Donald Trump 田 as elected. ' ・—TREVOR NOAH ethnicity. When Noah was in his 20S , his stepfather shot his mother in the head. She miraculously survived and, when she woke from surgery, told Noah not tO cry because he was now the best- looking one ⅲ the family. "I inherited a sense 0f humor from my mom, the ability to laugh in the face of danger,: ” says Noah. "MY friends say t0 me, 'I hope l'm never kidnapped with you, because you'll probably get us killed by making fun ofthe kidnapper,' which is true. ” By his 20S , Noah was one 0fthe first popular comedians in South Africa tO have bOth white and black fans. He'd come up selling illegally copied CDs in high school and deejaying parties before finding his way int0 radio and stand-up. He hosted a South African late-night show in the 2010S. He toured the world as a comedian, sometimes taking aim at America from an outsider's perspective, eventually getting noticed by Stewart. Ultimately he earned one Ofthe most coveted perches on U. S. television. lfhe still considers himselfa "citizen ofthe world' ” it's less a reflection ofhis background than ofhis age. "Younger people are connected by the lnternet, and that means we're communicating with people from halfway around the world. lt means we're not brainwashed tO think every immigrant is a bad person, because we can talk tO them; ” he says. "You look at global warming—ofcourse 01d people don't care about the planet because they're not going tO be here for the consequences. Noah points out millennials have grown up cre- ating change by swiping on the ir phones. lt t00k Trump's getting elected tO drive them intO the streets and protest. He maintains that they will be as much a force for change as the generations before. "People wh0 say millennials are the 'me, me, me' generation—l think an Older generation has a 'me, me, attitude When it comes tO issues like the envlron- ment. The Older generation tries tO maintain the sta- tus quo, and the younger generatio n pushe s ahead. ” Trump is the most stark example Of that status quo. lt may seem impossible for someone like Noah to identify with Trump. Even the way they speak in interviews is radically different: Noah in eloquent metaphors, Trump in defiant simplicity. And after all, lambasting Trump's contradictions gave Noah's Da Show badly needed definition. But Noah says he does relate to the President— as a performer. "When I watch him, I see a comedian. I see somebody WhO loves an audience. Someone wh0 likes t0 be liked; ” says Noah. "You see the standing ovation in front ofyou, and yet the newspapers are writing that you're not doing well. And the performer's mind goes, This is a world that's clearly lying because l'm doing well, and it is against me. ” lt's a feeling that Noah knows well. Which may be why The Daily Show feels so relevant now.