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ln 2011 , GLEP and its conservative allies won a 44 on reading, lagging behind Miami by 33 points. maJ0r victory when the Michigan Legislature erased DeVos claimed that her emphasis on school choice the charter schOOl cap, creating what is effectively was going t0 help poor, minority children escape unrestrained-marketfor charte r schOOl ope rator from -underperforming public scho& S0410W. -di&. ----. -. --ーーー一ーー DeVOS scored another victory last summer, when that escape route become a quagmire? she and her husband spent $ 1.45 million to stymie a Kids may suffer from a lack ofchoice, but they can legislative effort tO provide more oversight tO Michi- alSO suffer 仕 om an excess Of competition. Report- gan's charte r schOOl s. ing on the state Of charter schOOls in Detroit last summer, education reporter Kate Zernike of T んビⅣル物ⅸ Times described a system that was as at least as chaotic and unproductive as what it supplanted. "while the idea was tO foster academic com- p etition, the unchecke d growth 0f charters has created a glut 0f schOOls competing for some Of the nation s poorest students, Zernike wrote, enticing them to enroll with cash bonuses, lap- tops, raffle tickets for iPads and bicycles. Leaders of charter and traditional schools alike say they are being cannibalized, fighting so hard over students and the limited public dollars that follow them that no one thrives. Douglas Harris, a professor Of econom1CS at Tulane UniverS1ty, considers himself a proponent Of sensible reform, yet the kind of "lfl wanted tO start a schOOl next year, all I d need reform enacted by DeVOS in Michigan, he has con- 十 TOUGH t0 d0 is get the money, draw up a plan and meet a few cluded, is a disaster. ln a widely circulated op-ed PLAYING perfunctory reqmrements," wrote a dismayed ste- for T んビⅣどル物 Times, Harris wrote that DeVos FIELD: De- troit's public phen Henderson, the editorial page editor 0f schools must the Detroit Free ? . "l'd then be allowed to compete fO 「 students operate that school, at a profit ifl liked, with- with schools out, practically speaking, any accountability DeVos: Detroit has the worst offering cash for results. As long as I met the minimal state bonuses. math and reading scores Of COde and inspection requirements, I could any large city in America. run an awful school, no better than the pub- lic alternatives, almost indefinitely. lt's unclear how closely DeVos looked devised Detroit's system to run like the Wild West. at the achievements Of the charter schools that lt's hardly a surprise that the system, which has sprouted in Michigan because Of her efforts. Did she know that many ofthem were failing? And ifshe almost no oversight, has failed. Sch001s there can d0 knew, why did she do nothing? poorly and still continue t0 enroll students. Harris contrasted Detroit with New Orleans, where the schOOl system is saturated with char- 0 E T R 0 ー T- F しリ N K S ters. Those charters are successful because they re exp e e Üthe ー same higwstandards=thae¯ THE BEST argument against Betsy DeVos can e made with a single word: Detroit. On the National educators demand from students. Lax oversight Of Assessment Of Educational Progress, Michigan's a schOOl district is unlikely tO produce much better ー biggest city has the worst mathan&readingscor esults than lax oversight Of a classroom. Of any large C1ty in America. lts fourth-graders score DeVOS nomination, HarriS 、V1 ℃ te, IS a tri- a 36 on math, while the ir counterparts in Charlotte , umph ofideology over evidence. Much ofthe fault for the panoply ofbad choices in North Car01ina, score an 87. lts eighth-graders got a 4 The best argument against A11 〕 9 、 08 〕 8W00 8 、ゴ 3 工 01 NVÅ88 V 、 9 工 0S0 SO 亠 VO ら」 3 f108 」 NEWSWEEK 41 01 / 27 / 2017

While the liberal media was helping to eJect corrected. ' This was notable because Va れ i り that ultimate white -man devil figure, Roger Aile s, Fa ツ is carefully edited tO avoid any incursions 仕 om FOX News for real and perceived sins against on upper-middlebrow taste, and because Carter, m(it-seemedmot to much mattenwhich), ever attentive tO cultural shifts» wasydespi te h i s the country was making a pussy-grabber presi- longtime hostility to Trump , obviously se e mg dent. The gap between human resources depart- What was coming. ments and the real world is a story not being told Similarly, a few weeks prior to the Trump inau- very well. A story whose ambiguities and nuances gural, Anthony Bourdain, wh0 has struggled t0 could not now be written—nor its real language mix liberal foodie snobbery with the authentic- uttered—be cause the cultural establishment se e s ity Of actual kitchen work and workers, made an no ambiguities and nuances and, for sure, doesn t extra effort tO emphasize his brand and seize the allow those words. But meanwhile, a good part Trumpian high ground (the high low ground , as it were). "l've spent a lOt Oftime in gun country, Of the country—unable tO commumcate with the culture e stablishment—se e s only hypocnsy. G0d-fearing America. There are a hell of a lot of There is a new left and a new right. On the nice people out there, whO are dOing what every- one side there are the unremitting orthodoxies one else in this world is trying t0 do: the best they ofbehavior and language reaching its apogee in can t0 get by, and take care ofthemselves and the that weird children's crusades on college cam- puses, a frightening and ineffectual exercise cultural re-engineering. On the Other side, there are cadres Of radical provocateurs WhO provoke TRUMP CONVERTED their foes into greater and greater flights ofhys- THE CONSERVATIVES' teria—mocking the left's uptightness the way CULTURE WAR INTO A the left used t0 mock the right's. And, on each side, there are SOCial media guerrilla forces MORE VISCERAL CAM- t0 support them. The cultural establishment PAIGN AGAINST SOPHIS- sees its natural allegiance tO the academic and millennialleft, no matter how 100PY. The new TICATED AMERICA. Trump establishment lets the new right rile the new left into an ever-greater lather 0f appalled inexpressiveness: ltS enenues are all fascists, white supremacists, anti-feminists, trans-pho- bics. The more the left is provoked, the more it people they love.... The self-congratulatory tone defends itself, making it more diffcult for any- ofthe privileged left—just repeating and repeat- bOdy in the ever-left-leaning culture business tO ing and repeating the outrages 0f the OPPOSI- deviate from the prescribed rules. tion—this does not win hearts and minds. Gawker, once a ] aunty gossip site, became in its ln bOth instances, the point seems not SO much later years a feral enforcer Ofnew le 代 morality. lts political—C arte r and B ourdain are still lib e ral s— writers, self-righteous, millennial, post-feminist but about a professional realization. Media something- or-others, se emed out tO shame any works better when it reflects than when it resists man they found having sex, except the most for- (its true st huckste rs understand that). Pe ople mal and traditional sort, as base and corrupt. The will chose the authority they recognize ・ lawsuit over lts ainng Ofa secretly filmed sex tape America as a large and Often absurd idea ofwrestler Hulk Hogan that closed the site down used tO be our mapr cultural subJect, a celebra- tion or at least a carnival Of saints and sinners, this past summer was funded by Trump-support- each to be found in life's varied walks, all with ing billionaire Peter Thiel (whose sex ⅱ Gawker had previously outed). The ju1Y that found Gawk- screwy preJudices and unique ways tO express er's shaming of Hulk Hogan a violation of his the disorder of American life. lt is the inability of the media and cultural offcials to deal with pnvacy presumably would not have been t00 bothered by Trump's pussy tape. The old world, Trump s disorderly Amenca—or tO speak tO lt ln sudde nly moreGdéiSCandi1@Of・hüiiåånfoible s a anguage 1 understands'or -tO credibly ma than the new, was striking back. it part Of the stories we tell about ourselves, or ln a recent editor's letter, Va ⅲり Fair's Graydon to find a common joke—that has now helped t0 Carter began a predictabletiradeagainst the ga - &Trump S America center stage—indeed, chene s 0f Trump, only to pause t0 acknowle dge it rather forced itself here. And it's now an that several decades Of political correctness was unavoidable story,Just begging for someone bound t0 breed resentments in the people being to be able to tell it. ロ Åトト 39 ) 3M00d1 工 9 一 /SS3 d 0 一」一 OVd 、 S3N 「・工 0 コ N181V NEWSWEEK 15 01 / 27 / 2017

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をを第こ Ofcom, the U. K. broadcast regulator, more than a dozen times for misleading and biased report- ing), he attracted criticism "from a lOt Of people, [whichll totally understandv" He severe&the.. tie. ----- ・ー-ーー,~ーー in Julylast year, and says nowthat the channel ha& no creatlve input intO hiS videos. He doesn't work alone, though: lncreasingly, he is enlisting the help ofcomedywriter Andrew Doyle tO craft his monologues. Writing is a dis- cipline, much more than acting, Walker says. You've got t0 sit down and d0 it, and the blank page scares the hell out 0f me. " when writing, he sets the timer function on his mobile phone t0 run for one hour. "lfl get distracted I just 100k at the stopwatch and go: You've only got 40 minutes left.' Then by the end 0f the hour you hope you ve got something. Finding the topic each weekly video will cover can sometimes be dffcult in a fast-moving and increasingly chaotic news cycle, and ideas can arnve in the Oddest places. Yesterday inspra- tion struck in the middle 0f Sainsbury's [super- market] , ” he says, "and I had t0 stop and make notes on my phone in the frozen goods aisle. The live show, which comes in at Just under two hours, poses different problems. He's currently working on the script, but news ke eps shifting faster than he can keep up. "lt needs a total rewrite," Walker says, exasperated. 'l'm used tO [learning the script for] a play written 300 years ago, and changing it. You le arn PIE'S POST ELECTION it and do it. This is NIGHT RA T HAS constantly changing ・ Working live will ED MORE BEEN VIE me an he will likely ILLION THAN 23 have to deal with hecklers—although TIMES ON ACEBOOK he's already used to being trolled. N0t everyone recogmzes that pie is a satire, and viewers whO disagree with the character s opinlons Often use YouTube's comments sectlon tO hurl abuse at hiS creator. That wouldn't have been the case 10 years ago, Walker reckons. But now, in a post-experts, post- truth world, the line between satire and reality has become blurred. "At the end of the day all l'm really trying t0 d0 is make people laugh," he says, and maybe 100k at the world in a slightly differeneway. lt doesn't 100kas if he has muc choice, though. However uneasy Walker is with the role, his creation seems tO have made the transition from a jOke t0@serious_playetAnd that's a story we know all t00 well. ロ English national sport) , Valentine 's D ay and Australia. "The politics was always secondary, Walker says. But politics has dogged him, not least one OfhiS more controversial career moves. Within months of Pie's debut, the Kremlin- funded telexnslon statlon RT spottedAus videos 十 onhne,and offered t0 payto broadcastthenfPie GOING LIVE: agreed. "Let's be honest," he says, I d been out 」 onathan Pie—aka British actor Tom ofwork for a long time. I was literally on the Walker—has become poverty line. " The gig got him a new and larger ularthat he's moved straight audience, but it quickly became a problem. By from YouTube rants aligning himselfwith what many in the west view (inset) t0 a 22-date as a propaganda outlet ()T has been censured by stage tour. Fortour details, see 」 ONATHANPIE ℃ OM 63 01 / 27 / 2017 N EW SW E E K

宿第な物をを ー 3 キ強第 を、物 0 物 キ第 第物を を第 とをを第を ミと第・ 物を ・キヨ 第物朝日を 尊を第物 物のみキ上 ・を物をキ 第物をを朝を第・ ・物第 0 をを第を 第み第第 を籌物第 をま物物第弩 第物物 0 第 第寺を・を をまま尊を重 、ヨ第 ミ第第こを第 ツを霧物 ま物、は 物をき第常 当 0 の を物を、一 第を新 第第宿を第宿 の第第・ 物を物を等 物差第 上を物、 ・画キミ物第 なをツをを み宿第 第物第を物 D 0 W N T I M E / C 0 M E D Y PIE IN THE SKY Who's the best post-truth commentator? A (not real) news reporter THE BREXIT vote. President Trump. The upend- West End version of T ん & 5. Pie was a ing ofpolitical norms. Seism1C events; for some character he'd had in his head for a while; it must've been really exciting, Tom walker the name was one used as alias at says. "l've just had t0 tryt0 find away [through]. a few standup nights in pub backrooms. Walker—38, light-haired, baggy-eyed and Brit- He shares some characteristics With hiS ish—is an actor. He is also Jonathan pie: embit- creation: B0th are left-wing and liberal. "I tered, embattled TV news reporter and internet don't think I could write for him, ” Walker says, "if I didn't agree with his politics. phenomenon, whO is about tO embark on his first live event—a 22-date, sold-out tour of the But Pie takes those beliefs to their extreme, U. K. lt's all happened very fast. shouting down opponents in a tangled, Jonathan Pie first appeared online in Septem- sweary rush ofmisanthropy and ire. ber 2015 , in a handful ofmonologues that Walker lt only took four or five weeks before a three-minute rant—covenng the U.K. 's wrote, recorded and uploaded on YouTube. Each weekly clip began with the reporter delivering plans t0 bomb Syria, housing policy and the end Of a straitlaced piece tO camera, the kind Matt Damon s V1ews on sexuality in Hol- Of thing we all see on the evening news, a man lywood—went viral, getting 1 million a suit With a miC. While hiS cameraman reset, V1ews. Since then, hiS audience has grown he d begin tO unburden his soul, ranting increas- exponentially: pie's most-viewed recent ingly wildly about modern life t0 his unseen pro- vldeo—a six-minute, post—election night ducer, Tim. The satire worked on several levels, diatribe against the mamstream media for partly needling politics and politicians but also not predicting Donald Trump s victory—has been taking aim at the media. Where Steve Coogan s seen more than 23 million times on Facebook. lt Alan Partridge, 20 years earlier, exposed the self- was funny, yes, but it was more than that. Before regard and stupidity 0f a certain kind 0f sports pie signed 0 代 with 'Right, I need t0 go for a shit commentator, pie lays bare the gap between the and shave," his dissection of the failings of the slick, blank-eyed presentation of news stories, metropolitan elite tO e ngage with the ir oppo - and the social ん that bubbles beneath. nents felt b 0th righteous and right. 'Whether The character was born out ofnecessity, rather you agreed with it or didn't—and a lot of people than desire. "l'd been out ofwork for a long time didn't—it made people realize that Jonathan Pie BY and just wanted tO write something, Walker wasn t just a flash in the pan," walker says. CHRIS explains. At that point the closest he'd come tO The character was never meant to be overtly STOKEL-WALKER the big time was a stint as an understudy in the political. Pie has taken against football (the 当 @stokel NEWSWEEK 62 01 / 27 / 2017

C06 Beans SINCE NESTLE began selling Nespresso ⅲ the 1990S , its little c 叩 sules have changed theway manyin theWest consume COffee. Thirty percent ofMichelin-starred restaurants now serve Nespresso POdS, and the machines sellall overthe world, generating an estimated $ 4 billion ⅲ 20 巧 . The capsule- coffee maker is part ofkitchen geography, rightthere between the toasterand the kettle. The convenience, novelty, variety and perhaps even the pretty-colored capsules made a convert: Amir Gehl. Gehl, the 39-year-01d son 0fa tobacco family, did his postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics, followed by stints at Harvard Kellogg Sch001 ofManagement and the London Business Sch001. He spent the early part OfhiS career as a consultant tO the energy drin business; t en, in 2014 , hiS wife convinced him tO buy a Nespresso machine. From that moment on, he was 十 OD BLAST: CapsuIe coffee now has a huge audience, one that Difference Coffee Co.is hoping t0 take upmarket. in central London, where we try a cup ofDifference Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain, GO Cup Estate —grade 1 , medium roast—harvested 仕 om a plantation that sits 1 , 500 meters above sea level. As we sip, Gehl starts tO sound like a wine man, describingthe cup we re drinking as 。 chocolatey and nutty on the nose, and 仕ⅲ on the palate. " He's right. I have yet tO taste abetter capsule a pod convert—so much SO that coffee—l can quite understand when he drank coffee after a why lan Fleming made Blue restaurant meal, he felt that Mountain James Bond's "a Nespresso [at home] was preferred breakfast beverage ・ actually tastier. According tO Gehl, there is Gehl sawan opportunity. plenty ofbetter coffee than even Three years after that first cup this high- elevation Jamarcan ofNespresso—for the record, a stuff— Geisha coffee 仕 om purple -capsuled Arpeggi0 —his Panama, for example. Gehl Difference COffee CO. is selling sources hiS from the Hacienda both beans and pods ofspecialty la Esmeralda, an estate he says coffees, usmg 0 代 from the has been called "the coffee finest[coffee-growingl estates. equivalent ofDomaine de la The customers on hiS mailing Romanée- Conti; we buy their list include the Palace Hotel in special reserve COffee. ' He Gstaad, Switzerland, and chef recently purchased a Best 0f Heston Blumenthal, who will begin serving Difference C0ffee Panama 2016 auction lOt Of100 at his Hinds Head restaurant ⅲ pounds 0fEsmeralda Special Jamarillo beans, from which Berkshire, England, from the he hopes t0 produce 500 boxes end 0fJanuary. Gehl says he locapsules eachyse 川 sho 呼 besellingonline customers for about 毛 10 ( $ 12 ) a wider audience—though still a cup. Forthe pleasure and limiting the number ofboxes privilege ofhaving one ofthe any one customer can purchase, world's best coffees inyour as we like as many as possible ・ tchenJ'&SåYihåf'"QOrth it. ロ tO be able tO try our COffees an enj oy them. S0ft-spoken and self-effacing, For more information, ViSit Gehl meets me at a cigar lounge DIFFERENCECOFFEE ℃ OM the coffee pod Amir Gehlis reinventin BY NICHOLAS FOULKES NEWSWEEK 61 01 / 27 / 2017

を・・第宿、 - 物物を ・当 . 響をす ・ 4 霧笋 を第第 をキ 0 ′ をを、み第 三一第を ・み三第 物第円 . 物さ、 0 , き、をを第を を響朝 ! 第朝 ! トる・第諞第言 当をさを第、 small armie s 0f workers meticulously rake and C01 第 b the sand across the entire island 仕 01 れ pre- dawn t0 dusk. Even the sun seems preset for my comfort, the bright wide sky as clear as the water. There are no mosqultoes tO 、 vorr ツ about, nor Other dangerous creatures. Stierli tells me there is the odd rat, though clever rebranding means the staffers refer to them as palm squirrels. This island paradise image, which helped the rooms. Their absence means that, absurdly, Mirihi lsland Resort earn the rank ofseventh best hotel in the world in TripAdvisor s 2016 Travelers' Mirihi lsland is classified as only a four-star resort. With 157 staff serving the needs ofa maxlmum Choice Awards, fits a broader notion that all this 0f76 guests, Mirihi's motto is tO deliver an expe- may well be t00 good to be true. lt is a paradox- nence as unique as you are. " ThiS CliChé feels ical paradise, one that conce als global proble ms that will almost certainly lead tO its demise—if not especially apposite when you consider the homo- within years, then in mere decades from no 、 A,T. geneity 0f the guests. They are almost exclu- The most obvious and talke d about proble m is sively couples. Everything is tailored for two: two loungers on the deck, two sinks in the bathroom, climate change, which envlronmental forecast- two bathrobes in the cupboard. Even the bats have ers pre dict could make the lowe st-lying country made thiS a romantic de stination, piercing the in the world disappear below the ocean it now evening ql-uet with their mating screeches. peeks above. ()t just under 8 feet, the highest The motto C01 れ e S less convincing point in the Maldives is 2 inches lower than the when you consider it iS one ofmore than 100 lux- highe st jump re corded by a human. ) ury resorts in the Maldives, spread throughout its ln contrast tO climate - change actiVISts in some roughly 1 , 200 islands. Yet somehow Mirihi 面お 0ther parts 0f the Maldives, Mirihi locals can occasionally seem apathetic about the risks. "You fe el unique. lt has its own currency—the hotel glves shells tO repeat VlSltors tO spend on the don t really nofice it on a year-to-year basis, stierli tells me. "some experts say itwill disappear island—and even itS own tlme zone: the island lll 20 years, some say 100. I don't know—it S some- runs one hour ahe ad Of the re st Of the country, thing I t1Y not t0 think t00 much about. " If you SO gue StS returning 仕 01 れ afternoon activities can 100k closely, you can already see its effects. Sand catch the sunset. Day excursions tO Other islands, sucked up from the ocean floor tops up Mirihi's diving with whale sharks and dolphin- spotting beaches, while a wall on the island's eastern side offer guests the opportunity t0 escape the island, which, at just 1B00 feet long by 165 feet wide, can prevents more land from slipping intO the sea. begin t0 feel claustrophobic. One restless after- To add to these woes, the Maldives also topped a recent list Of the world's 10 most unstable noon I found myselfdoing laps ofthe island, first by foot (seven and a halfminutes), then by canoe countries, owing tO political upheaval and a rise ( 18 minutes) and finally swimming ( 33 minutes, if in radical extremism. Estimates suggest the Mal- you discount the time spent marveling at the fish). dives has the highest number of foreign fighters per capita t0 have j0ined the lslamic State mili- tant group (ISIS), leading some t0 declare that climate change is the least Of the Maldives's worries. One attack on a resort from a returnmg jihadi fighter would be a disaster for tourism, which accounts for 80 percent Of the country s gross domestic product. lt is a testament tO stierli's utopian VISion that one S capacity for comprehending such concerns IS so affected while on the island. On this pristine Eden, you are Adam or Crusoe, barefoot upon unblemished sands as they slowly sink to join the turtles beneath. ロ ANTHONY CUTHBERTSON traveled as a guest of Mirihi lsland Resort. Nightly rates start from $600 per villa, B&B, based on two people sharing (excluding taxes and service charge). For more information, ViSit WWW.MIR 旧 I.COM/ D 0 W N T I M E / T R A V E L 十 TIME OUT: The island has itS own time zone—the better to enable guests to 「 e x. ~ オはいー NEWSWEEK 60 01 / 27 / 2017

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