a considered argument reflecting the direction Of his administration based on input from experts, or is Just reacting tO something he read on a cereal bOX. One example: ln a tweet on North Korea, Trump may have been trymg t0 accomplish something, or simply may have been t1Y1ng to sound tough. On Jan- uary 2 , he typed, "North Korea Just stated that it is in the final stages ofdeveloping a nuclear weapon capa- ble ofreaching parts ofthe し S. lt won't happen!" The tweet could be an act of diplomatic bril- liance or misinformed nonsense. Kim Jong Un, the dictatorial leader Of North Korea, IS renowned One 0f the biggest foreign policy failures 0f the Obama administration has been hOW it has dealt with North Korea's missile tests, an approach that could be called "speak loudly and carry no stick. " Despite dozens of tests by Pyongyang—each a violation 0f the し N. resolutions—Obama did almost nothing in response. That approach, experts say, emboldened K1m and led to fears among South Korean offcials that the United States might not be willing to defend their nation against a North Korean attack. Trump's tweet changed that, and now the south Koreans have tOld at least one American adviser whO spoke tO N ルルた anonymously SO as not tO dam- age his relation ship with 0ffcial s the re that they are cautiously optimistic the president plans tO aggres- sively confront the North. "He had the right kind Of response tO North Korea, says Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the Rand Corporation. "The question he has to face is, is he really going tO make [North Korea s missile tests] a maJOr issue, and ifhe does, what is he going t0 do t0 try to prevent [them] from happening?" If he chose, Trump could take very strong actions. The United States could push Beijing tO control Kim by refusing t0 d0 business with any Chinese company that also does business in North Korea. (That, Of course, runs the risk Of setting 0 代 a trade war. ) Or he could simply warn Pyong- yang that the United States is prepared t0 sh00t down any missiles North Korea tests. China would strongly oppose that, but a Trump administra- tion could tell offlcials there to force their North Korean allies tO stop or the United States will stop them instead. Then, of course, if China balks and Kim tests American resolve, Trump would have tO follow through on his threat, an action that would never be condemned by the U. N. since he would be dOing nothing more than enforcing its resolution. Or, the tweet meant nothing, and Trump was Just impulsively reacting tO something he heard without any consideration Of long-term policy and with no understanding of Kim's long-term habit of bogus blathering. South Korean offcials believe that no one ascending tO the American presidency would just blithely tweet out such an aggressive statement without thought, SO they are certain Trump plans tO have stronger policies regarding North Korea. But in truth, there is no way to tell what has meaning and what doesn t in his 315 tweets since the election. Ⅳどル 5 ルた sorted Trump s 315 tweets since the election, November 9 tO January 12 , into 16 cate- gories, including domestic policy, foreign policy, 2055 0 十 WALLTWEET: Some traders now watch fO 「 corporate news that might upset Trump and then, in hopes he will tweet mean things, enter trades where they would profit if the company's stock price falls. for bragging about his country possessing abili- tles it doesn t, and this was one Of those instances. Pyongyang has gotten no further than testing intermediate range missiles, which have failed in seven out Of eight tests. Those missiles—if they even worked—could not make it half the distance between North Korea and the continental United States; they would even nuss reaching Hawaii by about 1 , 500 miles. SO North Korea is nowhere close to being able t0 reach the United States with a nuclear device, and the statement was Just another one Of Kim's saber-rattling-without-a-saber. SO if Trump was taking North Korea's boast seriously and just combatting a bellicose statement with a bellicose tweet, that was silly. On the other hand, if Trump's statement was thought out rather than impulsive, it was shrewd. 十 TWITTER DIPLOMACY:In a tweet on North Korea, Trump may have been trying tO accomplish some- thing, 0 「 trying tO sound tough. The tweet could be an act Of diplomatic brilliance 0 「 misinformed nonsense. 32 N E W 5 W E E K 01 / 2 7 / 2 017

・き鬆き物声 . ミをら ・ 1 トい BIG SI-I(YIÄS U SA of 」 oe Washington, D. C. ー ln the し S. capital, the public bromance between President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden has been the subje ct Of countle s s jOkes and online memes. Some have even given their friendship a nick- name—BROTUS—a play on the common acronym for president ofthe United States, P OTUS. On January 1 も just eight days before the two men were set tO leave the White House, Obama offered perhaps the ultimate BROTUS gesture in awarding Biden the Presidential Medal ofFreedom. 'I don't deserve this,' an emotional Biden said,"but I know it came from the president's heart. NICHOLAS KAMM

N E W W 0 R L D / S I L I C 0 N V A L L E Y DISRUPTIVE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND CONQUER Trump has a brilliant plan to turn Silicon Valley into a desert HOW TO Fuck Up America: A FieId Guide for New Pe ople in Powe r. 1 HUMBLETHETECHNOLOGYINDUSTRY The newregme in D. C. seems tO have had enough 0f smarty-pants geeks wh0 spend one Red Bull- fueled week writing an emoji chatbot food-order- ing app and sell it for a billion dollars. Over the past two decades, the U. S. tech industry has been a stunning force throughout the world. China didn't invent Google. Russia didn't come up with Face- bOOk or Amazon or cloud computing or Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles ・ America did. And now tech is 7 percent 0f the し S. gross domestic prod- uct, and that mostlygoes tO bOth coasts and a little tO Austin, Texas, but certainly not Kansas, which is one big strike against tech. The new president ofthe United States has never used a MacBook or Waze or Venmo, SO obviously this stuffcan't be all that important. Strike tWO. About one-quarter Of all tech companies launched between 1995 and 2005 were founded by immigrants, according tO the Pew Research Center. That number is proba- bly higher now. Strike three ! What to do about tech? Well, apparently we need tO stop immigrants 仕 om coming here SO there's more r00n1 for Americans tO start tech expenslve and less competitive. Apple makes its companies. That's how it works , right?Why would iPhones in a Chinese factory where workers jump we want people with good ideas from lndia or offthe roofand kill themselves. Sad! According t0 lreland or lsrael coming over tO build tech com- research company Strategy Analytics, the iPhone panies? Let them dO it at home. The new regime accounts for just 12 percent ofglobal smartphone BY seems tO want tO force tech companies tO man- revenue but 90 percent Of profits. Why is it nec- KEVIN MANEY ufacture in America, SO products will be more essary for Apple t0 make so much money? If the 当 @kmaney をを 3 物第 きを第 を 3 を 毒簽い翠十 十十ャ十 NEWSWEEK 46 01 / 27 / 2017

THEY COME WITHOUT WARNING, AND SPREAD WRECKAGE AND CONFUSION AROUND THE GLOBE. At American intelligence agencies, they have dec- imated morale, according tO a government OffCial with ties tO that community. Key offlcers whO made personal sacrifices because Of their love Of coun- try are sprucing up their resumes in preparation Of Jumping tO the more lucrative private s e ctor. ln the field, agents are finding a growmg reticence among overseas sources tO continue taking personal riSkS tO provide information tO the United States about activitie s by foreign governments. ln South Korea, theyhave boosted feelings ofsecu- rity, as offcials there have confided tO contacts in the United States that they are feeling more secure. The Ame ric an gove rnment , they believe , will s 0 on take much stronger actlon ln response tO North Korea S the news media and on the internet follow for a few hours—Why can't flag burning be banned? why is a new Air Force One being bmlt?—before movmg on, unre solved, tO another Trump topic d' Tweet. Many presidents have used technology tO commu- nicate directly tO the citizenry. Franklin D. Roosevelt had what became known as his first "fireside chat ” over the radiO in March 1933 , during a time Of great fear about the health of U. S. banks. Dwight Eisen- hower conducted the first televised presidential news conferences. Ronald Reagan boasted Of going straight t0 the people in televised speeches when he believed Congress was holding up his agenda. And Barack Obama used social media, including Twit- ter, Facebook and Flickr. But all of these methods repeated flouting Of United Nations resolutions calling for Pyongyang t0 dismantle its nucle ar program and halt ballistic missile tests. ForAlec Baldwin, theyhave boosted his fame worldwide. They have informed people wh0 pay no atten- tion to TV that ratings for the C 房 i り ス ppr ビ reality show have fallen. For some on Wall Street, one execu- tive told Ⅳビルル々 , they have created a new strategy: betting on Trump slumps, ” in which traders watch tele- VISIOn news reports for a corporate development that might anger Don- ald Trump and then, in hopes he will tweet mean things, enter short-term trades where they would profit if the company's stock price falls. All Of these extraordinary events are the result of government by Twit- 旧 IMPOSS 旧 LE TO KNOW 旧 TRUM 円 SGIVING ACONSIDERED ARGUMENTOR 旧 」 UST REACTING TO SOMETHING HEREADONA CEREAL BOX. 0f reaching the public directly were designed t0 instill confidence or push for particular legislation, not tO attack 立叩 Mght 廱 for lampooning Trump or actresses like Meryl Streep for criticizing him at the G01den Globes. (lmagine for a moment Rea- gan proclaiming tO the nation that Trump was an overrated, failing businessman. Sad! ” in 1987 , when the New York developer criticized the president's foreign policy and ques- tioned his depth ofknowledge. ) Trump s seemingly uncontrolla- ble tweeting was a prominent part of his life long before he began his latest bid for the White House. But throughout the campaign, his Twit- ter obsession struck even hiS allies as bizarre, as he tweeted repeated attacks on the parents Of an Ameri- ter, a bizarre world in WhiCh an internet com- mumcations platform combines with an lmpulsive president tO create glObal chaos in mvestment mar- kets, overseas halls ofpower and domestic agencies. ln the morning or afte rnoon or the middle 0f night, Trump delivers 140-character proclamations on pol- icy and piffe in arbitrary flashes 0f power and spite that shOOt across the virtual firmament without warn- ing. Discusslons and debates about their content in N E W S W E E K 30 can soldier killed in combat, the news media and almost anyone who criticized him publicly. The worst came when he relentlessly tweeted insults at a former Miss Universe who had criticized him for degrading her when he ran that beauty contest; the flurry Of almost maniacal tweets, tapped out on his mobile phone when most ofthe rest ofAmerica was asleep, once again led tO questions about whether Trump had the self-control t0 be president. But 01 / 2 7 / 2 017

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public education, says Randi Weingarte11' head of Consider, also, that some states that have vouch- ers, like Ohi0 and North Car01ina, allocate less than the American Federation ofTeachers. When I relayed that quote to Frendewey, he dis- $ 5 , 000 per student, meaning that families would misse d the worryby noting the many times Weingar=—・ ~ーーー till havetcpayseveralthousand dollars to sen& ten had used tough language about centrist Obama child t0 private sch001 ifthis were in fact part 0fthe appointees. "They weren t happy with Duncan, they weren't happy with King, Frendewey says, alluding tO Arne Duncan and John King, bOth Democratic education secretaries WhO met With resistance frOI れ teachers umons on mat- ters Of student and teacher evaluation. Frendewey and Other DeVos associates acknowledge that Detroit schools are a disaster, but it's a fair question whether the failure of that expen- ment should disqualify her from a federal position ・ And while it is true that Weingarten—my onetime union leader in New York City ()s a matter 0f fact, the United Federation of Teachers still owes me $ 29 , which I intend t0 one day recover)—has fre- quently been tough on Democrats deemed insuf- ficiently loyal t0 teachers umons, her n100d When we spoke in early December seemed tO me closer tO visceral fear than intellectual Trump reform package. That shortfall notwithstand- HITTINGTHE disagreement. Calling DeVOS an "ideological zea10t ing, even a $ 5 , 000 voucher for every child living in GOOD BOOK: for private education, ' Weingarten says 10Ca1 unions poverty nationwide would cost $ 75 billion. Much DeVos has spoken Of "ad- will fight her by asserting their power, though how like the border wall with Mexico, the golden-ticket vancing GOd's they will dO that is unclear. A senior aide tO a top voucher might be an empty campaign promise. kingdom ” congressional Democrat tOld me that DeVOS should Yet almost certainly, Trump will use federal d0 ト through public education. be ready for a tough confirmation hearing, but he lars tO reward states for enacting his preferred didn't say anything t0 suggest there'd be a concerted reforms. That was what President Barack Obama did with Race to the Top, which incentivized data collec- attempt tO oppose her. weingarten tOld me about a letter she got tion, student assessment and better teaching. from a teacher in New York's Suff01k CountY' on Harris says schOOl choice is first on DeVOS s Long lsland. That teacher had apparently voted agenda. "lt's really her only issue. for Trump and was now suffering from buyer s remorse. "I made a terrible mistake, the letter A N ー E X ー S T E N T ー A し accor lng 0 emgarten. please sal T H R E AT fight against this ・ " The battle is doubtlessly coming tO the American TEACHERS UNIONS and their liberal allies are sroom, where the nation's culturewarsare fre- ー alarme d by the DeVos pick. Mostcharters .and p quently fought. Ofcourse, DeVos will be ready for ChialS aren t umonized, meaning that SChOOl ChOice the counterattack. She has spent decades fighting enervates public sector unions, another favorite Republican goal. "She is an existential threat tO for children, for Michigan and for God. ロ 1 0 A1139 、 N91 日コ 10 S39VVNl 3 」コ 3 17 の S コ 3 > 31S NEWSWEEK 43 01 / 27 / 2017

N E W W 0 R L D / Z I K A UNRAVELING ZIKA Researchers pat down Zika to find the we 叩 ons it's packing THE OUTBREAK Of Zika virus in Brazil in 2015 , The infant microcephaly was an incredible which brought the pathogen to widespread surpnse, says Mark Challberg, wh0 oversees fla- attention, came as a ShOCk. The virus, discov- VIV1rus research funded by the National lnstitutes ered among caged monkeys in the Zika Forest of HeaIth. The flavivirus family includes Zika, as 0f Uganda in 1947 , had been presumed t0 be well as yellow fever, dengue, West Nile and hepa- harmless tO humans. Three human cases were titis C, none ofwhich cause congenital defects in reported in 1953 in Nigeria, but no Other inci- babies born tO infected mothers. dents followed for more than 50 years. A 1971 By April 2016—less than a year later—the study showed the virus could kill newborn mice, pathogen had spread, by mosquitoes and sex- but that still didn't raise concerns. "The entire ual transm1SS10n, tO more than 60 countne S and world ignore d this virus , " says virologi st Rich- territones, including the United States. Thirteen ard Zhao 0f the University of Maryland. A 2007 countnes reported incidents Of Guillain-Barré outbreak in Yap, an island in the Federated States syndrome, which causes a temporary paralysis, of Micrones1a, was followed by others in French among infe cted adults. P01ynesia in 2013 and 2014 , followed by Brazil. According tO current estimates, 1 tO 13 percent The Brazil outbreak was what made everyone Of Zika infections during the first trimester lead take notice. lt wasn t Just emergence Of a new t0 microcephaly. One study found 29 percent 0f human pathogen in a large, highly populated infants born to Zika-infected mothers in Rio de country that was disconcerting. lt was alSO the Janeiro had some brain abnormality. NO vaccine birth defects. M0thers infected by Zika were giv- or treatment for the virus eXIStS. ing birth t0 babies with abnormally small heads. As he watched the epidemic unfold, Zhao was Known as nucrocephaly, this brain malformation haunted by one question: HOW does Zika work? knew the virus as a WhOle causes damages, is linked to developmental delays, selzures and he says. "But how exactly the virus does that, we Other senous neurologic problems. lnitially, whether the virus was causing the did not know. ” Years earlier, Zhao had made cru- defects or not was unclear. When the World Cial stndes in uncovering the inner workings Of Health Organization declared clusters of micro- HIV. He was determined to do the same for Zika. cephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome t0 be a TO understand how Zika harm fetal brains, public health emergency in February 2016 , the Zhao needed tO study its components one by clusters we re not conclusively tied tO Zika. S 00n one. And he needed a way tO witness the dam- enough, though, researchers at Florida State Uni- age each piece wrought. Fission yeast, he knew BY versity and J0hns Hopkins University showed that would serve both purposes ・ 」 ESSICA WAPNER the pathogen was definitely the cause. FiSSion yeast - ー SC ん 054C じん 4r0 ′ア C 20 襯わら in 当 @jessicawapner Åトト 39 、 VINVI OIBVVN NEWSWEEK 50 01 / 27 / 2017

襯い . lt appears inevitable that Sino-US ties will witness more troubles in his early time in the White House than any Other predecessor.... Trump can make a lOt Of noise, but that does not exempt him from the rules ofthe major power game. He doesn t have sufflcient resources to deal with China wan- tonly, the second largest economy, the biggest trad- ing country and a nuclear power. Perhaps it's bluster, but Trump s purposeless Twitter war against China could make the trade negotiations he wants tO conduct far more difflcult— or undermine them completely. China has never responded well t0 insults, and the more Tnamp exposes his lack 0f understanding Of Sino-American diplomacy, the less open t0 discus- sions Beijing is likely t0 be. But foreign affairs only racked up one tweet more than Trump s rehashing 0f the election. Those 26 tweets sometlmes whine—such as when he falsely said he would have won the popular VOte except for mil- lions of illegally cast ballots—but many Of them reflect what seems tO be an overarching insecurity, poor sportsmanship, or a need tO proclaim his brilliance. As late as January 6—tW0 months after the elec- tion—Trump was still insulting the Hillary Clinton campalgn, claiming it didn t recognize the passlon Of his voters until it was t00 late. Yes, tWO weeks before his inauguration, while skipping intelligence briefings, Trump was still bashing Clinton. Coming in at eighth place in the categones with 17 tweets is holiday wishes—Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and the like. ln ninth place, with 16 tweets, comes one Of the only relevant topics for a presl- dent-elect: information about his Cabinet selections. Trump tweeted 14 times about domestic policy, but once again the topics seemed tO pop out Of nowhere and at times had swift, negative impact on the stock prices Of individual companies. He declared that people who burn flags should perhaps lose their citizenship (a suggestion that violates several parts Ofthe Constitution) , then didn't men- tion the idea again. The rest Of his tweets from this periOd are a mish-mash. The conflicts Of interest between his presidential duties and his family business mer- ited six tweets, praise Of individual supporters five, and an assortment Of Other items that don't fit any calling someone or something S1-1Ch as when he attacked Streep' one Of America s greatest actresses, whO criticized him in her speech at the GoIden G10bes. Then, with a very generous lnterpretation ofwhat constitutes foreign affairs, are Trump S 27 tweets in that category. Some insults against the United Nations were counted here, as were vague comments about Other countrie S. Defenses against accus ations that he benefited 仕 om Russian interference in the election— or criticisms Of the intelli- gence agencies that concluded MOS- COW had engaged in that effort—are not included. But important tweets, such as the one about North Korea, fit intO this category, as dO his many tweets about security for lsrael. Very few 0f these tweets address actual policy, however, and some border on bragging, such as whenhe urged lsrael tO hang on because he would soon be in 0 伍 ce. Some ofthe tweets set offunnecessary international tensions, such as on December 4 When Trump launched a TW1tter attack on China, when nothing was happening in the news that might have sparked his tirade. The tweets shOW a fundamental lack of knowledge about some topics, such as when he attacked China for devalumg its currency even though its value has been nsing for months. China's state-owned papers—which Beijing 0 伍 - cials Often use tO indirectly respond tO foreign com- plaints—reacted in fury. Trump threw a tantrum against China sunday night," wrote the G んわ記 TOJUDGEHOW TRUMPVIEWS HISPRESIDENCY, HISTWEETS ARETHE BEST WINDOW. 宿加に平帋公 十 REAL-WORLD CONSEQUENCES: After Trump launched a Twitter attack on China, its state-owned papers reacted ⅲ fury, with one writing that Trump "threw a tantrum against China Sunday night." NEWSWEEK 34 01 / 27 / 2017

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record suggests a more nuanced approach tO roles in drug traffcking. As Sessions pointed out crlme and punishment, at least, than some at hiS confirmation hearing, the initiatlve was give him credit for. AS Congress considers his opposed by George W. Bush's Justice Depart- ment3"Istepped out against my own Republi- nthy supportersanct.s ome reform advocates say his past iS evidence he can admimstratlon. When Sessions introduced the legislation may be open tO compromise on future criminal on the Senate floor in 2001 , he acknowledged JtlStice reform efforts. However, as Democrats highlighted at Sessions's hearing, his confounding positions on cases like NOdd's raise real questions about his TH 1986 LAW ENSNARED commltment tO equal Justice. THOUSANDS OF MOSTLY 'WE CAN WAIT NO LONGER' YO G, AND MOSTLY B I. uACK, More than 15 years ago, long before problems with mandatory minimum LO -LEVEL OFFENDERS. sentences and prison overcrowding inspired a movement offiscal conser- vatives, Christians and progressives tO relll in the system, Sessions was that the 1986 law had failed to halt the crack one Ofthe few in Congress raising the issue. His CRIMINALMINDED: epidemic. And while he denied that the dispro- initial bill proposed reducing the ratio 0f crack Some RepubIicans have embraced portionate penalties on crack were explicitly tO powder cocaine for sentencing purposes tO criminal justice discriminatory, he suggested that "we should 20- tO -1 , and it sought tO decrease the manda- reform, which has tory penalties for those wh0 played only minor listen t0 fair-minded people wh0 argue that led tO changes in red states such as these sentences fall t00 heavily Texas and AIabama. on African-Americans. 十 lt was another mne years before the U. S. government rallied around that call. By that time, Obama had succeeded Bush in the White House and the Democrats controlled Con- gress. Sessions, however, was already sounding more skep- tical about sentencing reform, and while the senator recog- nized that crack cocaine penal- ties were unfair, he adamantly opposed 叩 plymg the changes t0 the sentencing law retroactively, denymg early release t0 people like Nodd. ln a 2011 letter tO the し S. Sentencing Comnuss10n, which was weighing that deci- sion, Sessions and 12 Other GOP members Of Congress seemed particularly agitated by sentenc- ing reforms the commission had made in 2007—without con- gressional approval. He pointed ーー out that inmates release as a result had a similar recidi- VlSm rate as Other cnminals. lt iS evidence, he argued, that early release merely getS cnminals back intO action faster. Ultimately, the sentencing dV 、 31 一工 M3 コ ddVLIOOS ら 00 NEWSWEEK 17 01 / 27 / 2017