ー P A G E 0 N E / I N T E L L I G E N C E SPYTALK WHO LEAKED THIS? DonaId Trump, Russian spies and the infamous golden shower memos THE STORY began making the rounds at Wash- ington dinner parties late last summer: Don- ald Trump had been caught in a compromising sexual position by Russian intelligence agents during a business trip tO Moscow. According t0 one version, told by a high-ranking Obama administration diplomat, Russian intelligence servlces, acting on Trump S well-known Obses- SIOn With sex, had arrange d an eve ning for him with a bevy of hookers, with hidden cam- eras and microphones recording all the action. The jaw-dropping detail that topped the story? Trump had somehow engaged in golden show- ers, sex actS involving urine. By election time, it was an open but unverified secret in Washing- ton s media hothouse. But the rumors got new life this month when a dossierwas appended t0 the combined し S. intel- ligence agencies report on Kremlin intrigues in the American elections. The dossier, which was promptly leaked, said Russian security agents watched Trump engaging perverted sexual acts ” that were arranged/monitored by the FSB," the KremIin's leading spy agency ・ The FSB, it said, "employed a number of pros- titutes tO perform a golden showers (urination) show in front of him. " N0t only that, according tO the report's anonymous Russian sources, but Trump deliberately chose for his escapade "the Ritz-CarIton hotel, where he knew President and Mrs. Obama (whom he hated) had stayed on one 0f their offcial trips t0 Russia … defiling the bed where they had slept. CNN reported only that a two-page summary Of the report was presented last week to presi- dent Barack Obama and President-elect Trump [andl included allegations that Russian opera- tives claim tO have compromlS1ng personal and financial information about Mr. Trump. lt cited "multiple し S. offcials with direct knowledge of the briefings" and said the FBI was investigating ・ BuzzFeed then published what it said was the んⅡ report compiled by a person wh0 has claimed t0 be a former British intelligence offcial. ” Within 24 hours, T んどⅣ 4 〃 & 尾″川 unmasked him as Christopher Steele, an alum- nus 0fM16, the U. K. 's foreign espionage agency, whO had been stationed in Russia for years. Steele's private company, Orbis Business lntel- ligence Ltd. had first been contracted tO inves- tigate Trump's Russian ties by unidentified Republican campaign rivals and, later, Demo- crats, according tO news reports. Steele, trou- bled by his findings, according to news reports, alSO turned his dossier over tO the FBI. The veracity Ofthe report and its sourcing were roundly ridiculed, and at his January 11 press con- ference, Trump denounced it as phony... crap FormerActing CIA DirectorJ0hn McLaughlin also raised a red flag about the report.Without know- ing 1 れ ore about itS anonymous Russian sources and "whether someone has an agenda and what that might be," he told N ビルた , "it's impossible t0 judge" its veracitywhile the storywas breaking. If the report had merely added a fringe of kink to Trump s recorded 'bragging about BY JEFF STEIN 当 @SpyTalker NEWSWEEK 24 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

物の 0 もⅳ HEAR Madrid's Teatro Real has partnered with the Opera natlonal de paris on a new production of 窺り Budd— B enJ amin Britten s tragic piece about a far darker working partnership. STAY 川Ⅳ 4 0 れ化 0 ルル " Ⅳ 4 〃知れ′ s ⅲ g 叩 0 わリ右 0 川 zg ん右ル 4 〃右知 g S00 〃去↓ー 4 ″ iO 竑ん as 02 イ 4 れル 0 ゆ 0 ⅲり - 4 ′ル i 4 ga 4 れⅲり 200k EAT Fine & Rare in New York City is named for two things—its fine foods and its rare spints. And if one viS1t Just isn t enough, guests can keep a bottle oftheir favorite tipple in a private locker at the bar. SEE TO mark the centenary of French sculptor Auguste R0din's death, the Legion of Honor museum in San FranClSC0 iS exhibiting about 50 Ofhis greatest works. And, yes, The T んⅲた r is there. BUY The designer Dina Kamal's limited edition of just 20 pinky rings might be small, but it has a larger purpose: t0 help celebrate the Pansian store Colette's 20th birthday. WATCH John Tiffany's scorching production of The G イの 74g 汽ビ moves from Broadway to London, with Cherry Jone s reprising he r Tony-nominated performance as faded belle Amanda Wingfield. 64 N E W 5 W E E K 01 / 2 7 / 2 017

should incre ase while the number 0f large cancers is reduced by about the same amount. Although mammograms ⅲ Denmark detected 2 10t the we remostly— small, early-stage tumors, says study coauthor Dr. Karsten Jorgensen, a researcher at the Nordic Cochrane Center ⅲ Copenhagen, Denmark. The number ofadvanced cancers did not fall. The debate about overdiagnosis illustrates the limits of medical technology, Brawley says. Although researchers can estimate the statisti- cal rate ofoverdiagnosis, doctors treating actual patients can't tell which breast tumors need "WE'RE ℃ URING' SOME WOMEN WHO DON'T NEED TO BE CURED. ” treatment and which might be safely ignored. SO doctors tend tO err on the side ofcaution and treat all breast cancers with surgery and often with radiation and chemotherapy. An estimated 253 , 000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in U. S. women this year, with nearly 41 , 000 deaths, according tO the American Cancer Society. An additional 63 , 000 women will be diagnosed With ductal carcmoma in situ, alSO known as DCIS, which has some, but not all, of the typical 十 traits 0f cancer. Although DCIS cells can change STOPANDTHINK: tO appear malignant under the microscope, they Assuming that find all tumors, they reduce the risk of dymg haven t invaded surrounding tissue. all small breast lesions have the from breast cancer by 25 percent to 31 percent for The American Cancer Society defines DCIS potentialto turn women ages 40 t0 69 , according t0 the Agency as the earliest stage Of breast cancer, and deadly is akin tO 'racial profiling, for Healthcare Research and Quality, part ofthe women with the condition typically undergo one expert says. し S. Department ofHealth and Human Services. the same treatment given tO women with early Medical groups now offer differing advice lnvaslve cancers. DCIS isn't life-threatening, on mammograms. The American C011ege Of but doctors recommend treating it to prevent it Radiology takes the most aggressive stance, rec- frOI れ becoming lnvaslve. ommending annual mammograms beginmng at Other experts note that DCIS carries such a age 40. Tumors should be found when they're low risk that it should be considered merely a smaller and easier tO treat,' Monticciolo says. riSk factor for cancer. Researchers are conduct- The American Cancer Society scaled back its ing studies tO measure whether it's safe tO scale screening advice in 201 recommending women back treatment ofDCIS. But it's unclearwhether get annual mammograms 仕 om 45 t0 54 , followed women Will get clear answers on screemng and by screemngs every 0 er year a er at. any t11 れ e lll e near utureÄfifthemean- ln the new study, Danish researchers estimated time, they and their doctors must make difflcult the rate Of overdiagnosis by companng the num- choices without knowing for sure whether it's —ber -of early-stage ・ *. breasuumor before and after the country started offering This story was written for Kaiser Health News, mammograms. If screenings work as intended, an editorially independent program ofthe Henry the number Of small, curable breast tumors 」 . Kaiser Family Foundation. NEWSWEEK 53 01 / 27 / 2017

intelligence from the Kremlin, including on hiS Democratic and other political rivals. Aside from the sordi gations, the memos allege that Russia tried to entice Trump with business. "The Krem- lin S cultivation operatlon on Trump," the U. S. intelligence report said, included "offering him very lucrative real estate development business deals in Russia, especially in relation t0 the ongoing 2018 World Cup soccer tournament. However, SO far, for reasons unknown, Trump had not taken up any ofthese. The report also detailed Moscow S interest in the Clintons. Reports on Hillary Clinton were "collated ” by Directorate K Of the FSB spy agency br many years, lt said, "dating back t0 her hus- 十 RUMOR STREAM: band Bill's presidency. " But not Some ridiculed much was found by bugging Hillary Clinton s kissing, gropmg and trying t0 have sex with the veracity Of the report on Donald hOtel rooms, the sources said: The spies recorded women, ” as described by T んどⅣれ g 知れ 0 Trump, while others no unorthodox or embarrassing behavior" from when it unearthed a videotape last fall, Trump say it adds heft tO what they fear ex- countless hours ofeavesdroppmg on Clinton and and his devoted followers might have been able plains his fondness tO brush it 0 代 as just another eccen- fo 「 the KremIin. tricity by their id01. lndeed, in Oct0- ber, an earlier, abbreviated version U. S INTELLIGENCE HAD of the newly reported allegations by イ 0 ″ / 0 れビ magazine Washington BE N SAYING FOR WEEKS Bureau Chief David Corn, citing a TH T TRUMP "AND HIS former senior intelligence Offcer for a Western country whO specialized in I ER CIRCLE HAVE Russian counterintelligence, roused AC EPTED A REGUI. uAR only passing, titillating interest. FL W OF INTELLIGENCE But repackaged and expanded on by U. S. intelligence, the new report M THE KREMLIN. ” FR adds heft t0 what some fear explains Trump's otherwise mexplicable fond- ness for the Kremlin, perhaps Ameri- ca's leading antagonist. According her retinue. The best they could come up with tO the report S anonymous sources, Trump S was "things she had said which contradicted her unorthodox behavior in RLISSla over the years provided the authorities with enough embar- current position on vanous 1SSues. Whether the new report has enough blasting rassing material on the now-Republican presi- de If power tO damage the 1nd01 1 ⅱ g - ・ⅱⅱ a 1 れ - tratlon remains tO be seen. lt may even turn out they so wished. tO be phony—or even yet another concoction by Blackmail would elevate the story from tawdry us sian intellige nc e. „to-throwAmericamp Olitic s s ex tO national 、 -security. An&thexep ortunder- intO another round Of chaos. scored what U. S. intelligence had been saying The only thing it proves is that nothing sells in for weeks, with far less effect: Trump "and his lnner circle have accepted a regular flOW Of America like sex. ロ Å 11 9 、 010 工 d 8 っ N 、 V 工 S 三 N V Q NEWSWEEK 25 01 / 27 / 2017

MAKE AMER'CA 十 WINDOWTO A PRESIDENCY: What Trump's tweets ShOW iS a man n10 「 e concerned with vengeance than domestic policy, with bragging more than his cabinet. particular category round it all out. AII of these numbers give the closest reads on the mind Of one Of the most secretive presidents in history. He has released no tax returns, no business information and has no public policy record. He has glven only one press conference, WhiCh descended intO p andemonium with very little information con- veyed. SO, for the world t0 judge how Trump views his presidency, his tweets are the best window, par- ticularly since he plans tO contmue using Twitter tO communicate with the public. And what they show is a man WhO iS 1 れ ore concerned With vengeance than domestic policy, with complaining more than for- e lgn affairs, with braggmg more than with his own abmetITheyfeveal a scattershot mmdtha seems unable tO focus on any topic. His future tweets could be a powerful force in his presidency, or a self-indul- gent storm ofnonsense that impedes his presidenc . Tweeting is not leading. If Trump wants tO think about hOW tO proceed with his public communlca- tions, he might 100k at the precedents established by former Republican presidents. Or better yet, Trump should just look t0 Reagan ・ On January 9—for no apparent reason—Trump tweeted out a photograph 0f him with Ronald and Nancy Reagan ・ Apparently, he admires Reagan more than he did when Reagan was president. Reagan was nicknamed the great communicator; Trump is on path t0 be labeled the lousy tweeter. But on the first day he became president-elect, Reagan stepped before the press and held a wide-ranging press conference that dealt almost exclusively with policy issues—domestic and foreign affairs, POSSi- ble staff and Cabinet choices and the like. Reagan was masterful and conveyed a level of knowledge that most likely served tO comfort critics whO con- S1dered him washed-up actor, Just like Trumpcnt- ic s con sid erhinfjusta re al itytelevisi on-star=an&a¯== 、 -ーーーーーー real estate developer with a poor grasp ofpolicy. ln that press conference, Reagan spoke 2 , 988 words, which used roughlY16 , 000 characters. Using Trump-speak, Reagan gave the public the equivalent ofabout 114 tweets, almost all on policy ・ And not once did he whine, insult or brag. ロ 35 N E W S W E E K 01 / 2 7 / 2 017

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

P A G E 0 N E / T R IJ M P bought Morris's first novel, AII / l<mght—about sex and race and money, told through the eyes 0fa lower-middle-class white kid who grows up t0 be an alienated middle-aged white guy—publisher Morgan Entrekin said,"We struggled t0 think 0f like-minded writers who could blurb the book, and [we] could hardly come up with any. " The book was published shortly after the Trump elec- tIOn and, in its political incorrectness and protean language , is something Ofan instant samizdat-like cT favorite, at least among Other Older male writers. lt has yet to be reviewed by The Ⅳビル物ⅸ襯ぉ . INSTINCTIVELY or by canny plan, Trump con- verted the conservatlves' parochial culture war 十 CHILDREN'S CRU- on abortion and gay marriage intO a much 1 れ ore SADE: The cultural vlsceral campaign against the political pieties one 0fthe masterminds 0fthe Trump campaign elite seemed to be aligned t0 the aca- and the new administration s "chief strate- Of sophisticated America, with Trump as the demic and millen- gist, ” becomes a pre-eminent retrograde white ultimate revenge on upper-middlebrow cultural nialleft, no matter how IOOPY their life. lt's the mannered and effete against the male bugaboo. The non-Trump culture can see ideas may be. him only as a threat and, without the means tO profane and immediate. For Trump, Hillary Clinton, in her guarded- describe anybody t00 far outside its circle, a ness and susp1C10n, in her inability tO express raCISt, misogynist anti-Semite. And yet, not that herself with any openness and spontaneity, long ago, Bannon would have been a perfectly summed up out-of-touchness as she struggled recognizable figure, even an admirable one: to attract crowds Of a few hundred while he was an ex-military and up-from-working-class guy, striving through marnages and various careers pulling tens ofthousands. ln an interview shortly after hiS nomination tO make it but never finding much comfort in was secure, Trump tOld me he was sure Of ViC- the establishment world, wanting t0 be part 0f tory when for the first primary debate, the usual it and tO explode it at the same time—an Amer- audience increased almost tenfold because Of lcan story for a writer like Kevin Morris. Repub- his presence. I m more entertaining than the lican politics is filled with such strivers—Lee media, ” he said. The press, in thrall to the cul- Atwater, Roger Ailes, Karl Rove—great charac- ture establishment—and signed on tO its rules ters reduced to violations ofliberal sensibilities. and concerns—was mauthentic, and he was the The election re-engages a gender battle that real thing. For"CNN sucks"-screaming Trump many people on the New York side ofthe Trump supporters, CNN sucks for the same reason that gap had thought was going in only one direc- it sucks t0 everybody else—it's phony and slav- tion. The vestigial and primitive American man, ish—but Trumpsters were suddenly saying it, unreconstructed, baying at the moon (probably high on opiates)—the alt-right in the liberal screaming it aloud. This attack on careful, orderly, prescribed view—and voiceless for many years ()r WlSe culture is what happens when the culture stops to shut (p), now had a spokesman. The obvi- talking about what a significant part 0f the ous message Of hiS sudden resurgence iS that he didn't go away or reform: He was Just shut country regards as important. Or it is—and cer- tainly is inevitably thought t0 be by those cul- out. Without any place in upper-middlebrow tural standard-bearers under attack—a simster culture, except as an occasional enemy Of rea- onslaught against enlightenment itself. son or subject ofscandal, there was no bridge tO wh0 he was—no humanity left for him. ln the view Of the latter camp, Steve Bannon, ☆☆☆ NEWSWEEK 14 01 / 27 / 2017

Detroit can be placed on for-profit charters, accord- ing tO samuel Abrams , a scholar Of privatiz ation in education at Teachers College at Columbia Univer- sity in New York and the author Of E リ行 0 れ 4 〃イ CO 川襯ど尾 / 石〃ホ劭 . Whereas about 10 percent of charters nationwide are for-profit, about 80 per- cent ofcharters in Michigan mix profit-making with teaching. "The fundamental problem with for-profit schOOl management is that we don't have suffl- cient transparency for proper contract enforcement because the immediate consumer iS a child," Abrams tells me. "He or she is not suffciently informed tO know ifa class is being properly taught. There iS r00n1 for cutting corners in the name Of profits," Abrams says. You don't have that in pub- lic school. A 0 A N C ー N G G 0 0 ' S K ー N G 0 0 M A LOT OF THE WORRIES about DeVos come from assoclatlon—and insinuation. S ome are concerne d ab out her stance on gay rights. She and he r hus- band "have spent heavily in opposition tO same-sex- marnage laws in several states, according tO Jane Mayer 0f T んビⅣビル物液 . Elsa prince, Betsy's mother, has frequently given t0 right-wmg groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. At the same time, it s worth noting that, as the head of the Michigan GOP, she forcefully defended a gay Republican politician who'd been harassed for his stance on a gay marriage amendment. ln 2014 , she lambasted Dave Agema, a Republican, for making denigrating comments about gays and Muslims. "I couldn't stand by and hold my tongue,' she said. And despite her appointment by Trump, she was among those Republicans wh0 bore no love for the candidate, calling him an interloper" from whom she predicted Republi- cans would defect. (The DeVoses supported former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and, after he dropped out, Florida Senator Marco Rubio. ) lfyou 100k at Betsy's んⅡ record, youwon't be able to fit her in a box that some ofthose who oppose her nomination are trymg tO put her intO,' says the AFC's Frendewey. The Windquest Group, an mvestment group run by the DeVoses, supports clean energy, technological innovation and a well-regarded avia- tion high school, as well as an arts prize. They were alSO funders of an arts management institute at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Wash- ington, D. C. (The institute has since moved tO the University of Maryland. ) Despite all that, detractors have plenty 0f evi- dence for their fears. They point, for example, to a recording, obtained by P01itico, in which DeVos talks about "advancing G0d's kingdom" through public education. That only stokes fears that DeVos is a Christian soldier disguised as a public servant. lngersoll, the University of North Florida scholar, says that "it's a long-standing goal of the religious right t0 dismantle public education" and that reli- gious conservatives like DeVOS "don t see public schools as religiously neutral.' If an education is not Christian, then it is anti-Christian. This is a V1ew, she suggestS DeVOS shares with Mike pence, the religiously conservative VICe president-elect, WhO iS expected by some t0 have Dick Cheney-level influ- ence in the Trump administration. When I conveyed these concerns tO Frendewey, he laughed. "ln no wayis this some sort ofreligion-based agenda," he says. Betsy DeVOS, he assured me, wants successful students, not"disciples. " P 0 0 R C H 0 ー C E F 0 R T H E P 0 0 R NOBODY ACCUSED Trump S presidential cam- paign 0f a wonkish occupation with policy details. Nevertheless, he has been clear about his primary mission in education, which is tO inject $ 20 billion intO schOOl chOice programs. As your president, I will be the nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice, ” he said during the campalgn ・ As with many other aspects 0f the Trump plat- form, there are few details to debate. Abrams, the C01umbia University scholar, called the education have that in public scho . ” plan 'mystifying," echoing the confusion I encoun- tered whenever I asked, while reporting this story, how Trump and DeVOS planned t0 make sch001 choice a bigger priority. Tulane University's Harris says that a CapitOl HiII controlled by Republicans could pass a tax credit program that incentivizes private education, including religious and virtual schools. But this would probably benefit middle- and upper-middle class families already disposed (and able) to pay for a private education. The same goes for vouchers. While $ 20 billion for school choice programs sounds like a large number, there are 15 million children living ⅲ poverty in the United States, and the average pnvate school tuition is $ 9 , 500. Giving them all a meaningful voucher would require about $ 142.5 billion, or seven times the amount propose d by Trump for his schoolchoice plan. "[ln chartersl, there is r001 for cutting corners 111 the name ofprofits. YO 取 don't NE 、 VSWEEK 42 01 / 27 / 2017