E E K E N D C IJ L T IJ R E , T R A V E L A N D 0 T HE R G 0 0 D N E WS THE PLACETO BE Palm Springs, C ifornia oderni Time to party, i after Hiroshima and before Vletnam, the town was a Kodachrome snapshot ofthe American dream. Their tanned fingers curled around the stems ofcocktail glasses, party guests sipped Rusty Nails and the driest Ofdry martinis, listening tO cool jazz on the decks ofhouses whose walls 0f 、 glazing opened wide t0 embrace alandscape 0f cactuses and canyons, POOIS and palms. ln February, the town s residents keep up the style at Modernism な Week, a program ofevents celebrating midcentury design. Visitors can JOin tours Of 、 some Ofthe most coveted Palm Spring homes— including Sinatra's. lfyou can't make the party, a near substitute is a new b00k from Australian photographer Tom Blachford, Midnzght M 仇 / げ〃 . This collection ofrichly colored photographs, taken by moonlight, is filled with darkly glamorous,low-slung buildings; 1950S cars sit on their drives, waiting tO take their residents on tO the next cocktail. They perfectly evoke the allure of 、 this cloud-free resort, its heart belonging to an age when, in the ragged aftermath Of 、 war, millions ofAmericans dreamed of 、 a desert life next door to Kim Novak, Carmen Miranda—and now, possibly, the Obamas. ー JONATHAN GLANCEY 、 M / 山 Modern. by 抦Ⅲ BIachford: powerHouse Books. Feb 14. $ 65. Modernism Week: Palm Springs, Feb 怖ー 26 : MODERNISMWEEK.GOM FREE OF THE White House, on January 20 Barack and Michelle Obama flew tO Palm Springs, California, the desert resort where they are rumored t0 be buying a home. G00d enough for other former presidents (Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty, lived there after leaving Washington), Palm Springs has long been home to the talented, the famous—and some ofthe lightest and most lithe mid-20th-century architecture. The resort had been booming since the late 1920S , but its aesthetic really t00k shape only after World War II. ln 1947 , having 、一 made his first million, Frank Sinatra drove intO PaIm Springs and ordered a Georgian-style mansion from architect E. Stewart Williams. lnstead, Williams created Twin Palms: an ultramodern, poolside house where H011ywood's Rat pack reveled and Ava Gardner, the future Mrs. Sinatra, hurled crockery at her fiancé. The house was as much a sign ofthe times as Sinatra. A generation Of 、 architects whO had apprenticed with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, including Richard Neutra, John Lautner and AIbert Frey—whose holiday home is pictured here—were making buildings with similar relaxed geometry and wide, floor-to-ceiling 、 windows. For every newmasterpiece, local developers George and R0bert AIexander threw up dozens ofcheaper copies; by 1965 , the brothers had built 2 , 2 ( ) ( ) modernist homes. The result?ln the years NEWSWEEK 54 02 / 17 / 2017

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M E D 工 A 0 円 N ー ON を P 0 L I T I C S P A L E S T I N 工 A N S 0 M A N R E F U G E E S LIES AND CONSEQUENCES 糯噐 THIS IS MORE important than a few execu- tive orders signed by President Donald Trump. lt's more important than his nominations for positions in hiS administration. lt S even 1 れ ore important than whO gets appointed tO the Supreme Court, or whether Obamacare gets repealed. Nothing in the headlines these days is more important than this: The president Ofthe United States is divorced from reality, unable to tell the difference between the truth and what he wants tO be true. ln August, much Of the American press finally broke out the word "lie" t0 describe many Of Trump's statements, but that's not enough. Reporters must now press the president tO explain if he believes these statements tO be true and why. Plenty 0f politicians deceive, but one WhO cannot discern reality from fiction iS far 1 れ ore dangerous. On January 21 , Trump demanded that White Housepress secretarySeanSpicerinformthepub- lic they could not believe their lying eyes about the size Ofthe crowd at his inauguration because photographers were intentionally deceptive, the reporting was deliberately false, magnetometers kept people out 0f the back areas (they weren t used here), white grass-protectors that gave false impressions Of the size Of the crowd had never been used before (they have been) and on and on. That same day, Trump brought an applause team with him to the CIA's MemorialWall, which honors 117 CIA offcers who died in the line of duty, where they clapped and whooped in a dese- cration Ofthat sacred place as Trump spun more fantasies: that he had been on the cover Of Time magazine more than anyone else in a single year ()e was on the magazine s cover eight times in 2016 ; that is not a record); that God looked down and said He wasn t going to let it rain when Trump gave his inaugural speech ()t did); and, again, about the size Ofthe inaugural crowd. On ビ尾 the next day, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway explained that, in analyzing the size ofthe inaugural crowd, the Trump team had "alternative facts"—Just a small step away from an alternative reality. Then Trump made it worse. ln a pn- vate meeting with congressional leaders, he E C 0 N 0 M Y BY KURT EICHENWALD 当 @kurteiche nwald NEWSWEEK 12 02 / 17 / 2017

CHOBA MKL4M! now a member Of the Duma security commit- tee, puts it: "There are thousands Of our citlzens fighting there. They are inadequate people 仕 om all over the world [thatl have gathered in Syria ・ The lslamic aspect is just an excuse. These peo- ple who enj oy putting othe rs on their knee s, lit- e rally and metaphoric ally, who e nJOY m aking women their sex slaves. lt's a matter Of national s ecurity tO make sure that they don't bring th at ideology back to Russia. Russia is determined tO hang on tO its new dominance in the Middle East—which means that regional leaders will have t0 find a way t0 cooperate with b0th the し S. and Russia. Trump has re ache d out to Netanyahu by inviting him tO meet in Washington next month; pledging t0 move the し S. embassy t0 Jerusalem; and appointing a pro-settler ambassador tO lsrael— all of which may dampen the Netanyahu-Pu- tin bond. (The Palestinians, however, will need Moscow more than ever. We have no hope with Trump, says Abu Zayyad, wh0 was a Palestinian negotiator in the 1994 OslO Peace Accords. ) Just as lsrael may seek a compromise between dealing with both Russia and the U. S. , so may Egypt. Alongside closer ties with Putin, Sisi has alsowarmed t0 Trump. ln aphone call, he became the first world le ade r to congratulate the billion- on hiS November election ViCtory over Hil- lary Clinton, having already been the first Arab le ader t0 me et with him during the campaign ・ Their close relationship has developed further since Trump entered the White House. After his inauguration , Trump first ge sture toward the Arab world was to call Sisi; he also hosted Jor- dan's King Abdullah Ⅱ in Washington and called several Arab leaders tO assure them ofAmerica s continue d support. One can broadly assume that [Trump and Sisi] see the world in the same way, says Hugh Lovatt, Middle East and North Africa policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. 'lt's not beyond the realm 0f imag- ination tO see a sort Of Russian-Egyptian-U.S. JOint effort ” on Middle Eastern lssues such as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Such a triad could be appealing t0 lsrael, which has developed secretive diplomatic and security ties with Egypt, more SO than with Other Arab states. For the し S. , that would be a largely new way of doing business. ln all previous Middle East peace talks, it has been the primary broker. Trump must now face an awkward reality: TO strike p e ace de als, crush terrornsm and prote ct America S economic interests in the region, he might have no chOice but tO continue express- ing admiration for the man whO made the last American president's eight years SO dffcult. ロ 5. れ 2 !OR D ETHER! for Netanyahu, a pivot from the Obama admin- istration; for putin, a challenge tO Washington's le ade rship. The re 's a 10t Of win-win situa- tions developing in the Middle East right now. Unfortunately, none ofthem apply to the U. S. PARTNER OR SPOILER? Obama may have retreated from employing Bush-like American force in the Middle East— and elsewhere—but it seems that Trump is intent on entirely abandoning America s 70-year-01d, bipartisan commitment tO being the world's most determined promoter ofdemocracy. Amer- ica s policy Of "interventlon and chaos" must end, Trump said in December. That shift, in the Kremlin s V1ew, threatens tO create a dangerous power vacuum that could be filled with lslamist sympathizers, from Libya t0 lraq t0 Syria. Though many in the West see Moscow s resurgence in terms Of building a lost empire ofprestige and influence, many top Rus- sian offcials see their Middle East deployment as a matter ofRussia's self-defense. We remember hOW many radicals came tO fight in Chechnya from the Middle East," Leonid Kalashnikov, chairm an of the Duma Commit- tee on the Former SOViet Union, tells Ⅳビル 5 ルた , referring to foreign jihadis who fought alongside rebels in separatist wars in the North Caucasus in the 1990S. "The region is right next t0 Cen- tral Asia. That is our underbelly. We have t0 be in [Syria] in order tO prevent the contagion Of terrorism from spreading. Or, as Nikolai Kovalev, a former head of the Russian domestic security service (the FSB) and 2 , 5 0 0 THE N U M B E R 0 F R U S S 工 A N WHO HAD 工 S 工 S B Y S E P T E M B E R C 工 T 工 Z E N S J 0 工 N E D M 工 D ー 2 015 NEWSWEEK 35 02 / 17 / 2017

N E W W 0 R L D / G U N S THE BULLET VIRUS Research says gun violence iS a disease, and it's gone viral GUN VIOLENCE is gutting the United States, and the wound is increasingly visible. More than 11 , 000 Americans are killed in assaults involv- lng guns annually, with at least 50 , 000 more injured. Among people between the ages 0f 15 and 24 , mne Of every 100 , 000 lives end due tO a gun homicide. About 65 ofevery 100 , 000 peo- ple in this age group are injured by gun assaults eve ry ye ar. ln the mid-1980s, public health experts began referring t0 youth gun violence as an epidemic, and some experts tOOk that notion further, insist- ing itisn t 〃たど a disease, lt isa disease, an infectious pathogen akin t0 the one re sponsible for AID S. Until now, that assertion has remained 1 れ ore POi- gnant analogy than biting re ality. But a new study provides the first evidence gun violence behaves exactly like a blood-borne p athogen ・ Andrew Papachristos, a Yale University SOCi01- ogist whO studies crime, knew that if gun viO- lence was a disease, it should spread along a predictable path. And that path, he suspected, was social contagion, the same route taken by HIV and hepatitis C. Those pathogens travel by b100d rather than bullets, but outbreaks occur among networks ofpeople wh0 know each other. Pap achristo s po stulate d that subj e cting gun ⅵ 0- lence t0 a traditionalepidemiologic study would reveal whether it indeed behaves like a b100d - victims in 2016. Combing the records of the borne pathogen. 1 れ ore than 1.2 million arrests between 2006 To conduct his study, Papachristos and col- and 2014 , they identified people who knew BY leagues at Harvard University turned t0 Chi- each 0ther by focusing on co-offenders—people 」 ESSICA WAPNER cago, which had more than 4 , 300 shooting arrested for the same cnme. They then homed 当 @jessicawapner 4 0 D0[)Tff 辨き新 NEWS ・ WEEK 48 02 / 17 / 2017

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THRONE INTO Muslims, whO make up as much as 45 percent QUESTION: The NOT A SINGLE OMANI Ofthe population, according tO some estimates, SuItan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, haven't been as vulnerable tO rhetoric from HAS JOINED THE pictured in his extremist Sunni groups like ISIS. lt might also palace in Muscat, MORE THAN 20,000 explain why no court—Omani or foreign—has Oman in 2012. Omanis are WO 「 - ever convicted and impnsoned an Omani for FOREIGN FIGHTERS ried about who will a violent act Of terronsm. NO Omams were succeed the widely IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. respected Qaboos, involved in the 9 / 11 attacks and ofthe 780 peo- who has ruled fo 「 ple once held prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, not 46 years. + one was from 01 れ an. Qaboos does not deserve all the credit for involved in regional conflicts and doesn t go this. Oman is the only Arab country with a major- t00 far in one direction, says Kristian Coates ity lbadi Muslim population. lbadism is a rela- Ulrichsen, an associate fellow of the Middle tively small denomination that is moderate in its teachings. Sunni militants in ISIS or Al-Qaeda East and North Africa Programme at the U. K. - based think tank Chatham House. Qaboos has would consider them apostates, a sin they would nevertheless built strong defenses tO prevent punish by death—making it unlikely that lbadi militants from infiltrating the country. ln 2013 , Muslims would jOin extremst groups. The stability Of Oman has sometimes T んビ Times 加市 4 reported that Oman had short-listed tWO lndian agencies tO construct helped Qaboos act as a broker between oppos- a wall along Oman's border with Yemen. The ing sides. Beginning in 2012 , the country sultan has also invited British security offcials secretly hosted b0th lran and the U. S. in its tO train his intelligence agents tO better detect capital, Muscat, several times. When the lran potential security threats. nuclear agreement, intended tO block the When the sultan dies, extremists are likely t0 try t0 take advantage 0f any vulnerabili- ties his successor might have. Oman watch- ers expect members 0f the royal family council tO appoint one Of the sultan's three cousms as his political heir. But all three have significant stakes in businesses oper- ating in Oman, Ulrichsen says, something that is likely t0 anger Omanis if one 0f the cousms were tO take power and make gov- erning decisions that benefited him finan- cially. There's a real risk 0f instability with a power transition after the sultan," says Lori PIotkin Boghardt, a Persian Gulfspecialist at the Washington lnstitute for Near East POI- icy, a D ℃ . -based think tank. Any instability could—and probably would—be exploited by terrorists like Al-Qaeda and ISIS. ” Oman's faltering economy may alSO soon become a source 0f instability. Falling 0 ⅱ revenues have pushed the government tO cut public spending and increase taxes. "For the first time ever [last] summer, when I was spending time in Oman' young peo- ple were speaking openly about their fears for the future—a future without the sultan, and their economic future, says Elisabeth Kendall, a semor research Ⅱ ow in Arabic and country from building a nuclear weapon, was lslamic Studies at Oxford University. finally implemented in January 2016 , many As the young people 0f Oman face an uncer- foreign policy experts said Oman had helped tain future, they're sure Of one thing: They want persuade the tWO sides tO reach a deal. tO avoid the violence and chaos that affcts their Sultan Qaboos has tried in many ways t0 country 's ne ighbors. ロ fOllOW a neutral course which does not get 0 NEWSWEEK 23 02 / 17 / 2017

al-Shabaab to take control over parts ofthe coun- try. Last May, after the European Union cracked down on migrants, the Kenyan government— sensing an ebbing sympathy for refugees inter- nationally—announced its intention tO shutter Dadaab. Kenya cited concerns that al-Shabaab was using the camp as a base tO plan attacks. The government has since said the complex, which housed over 256 , 000 refugees as 0fJanuary, will close this May. The planned closure has prompted some them. Right now, most ofthe world's 21.3 million Dadaab residents to return to Somalia, but an NRC survey found most residents don't want refugees are in Africa and the Middle East, while the six wealthiest countries host less than 9 per- t0 go back t0 a place they still see as unstable. cent ofthe world's refugees, according to Oxfam. Al-Shabaab, though weakened, still poses a The U. S. has historically been generous, offering significant threat in Somalia; tWO days before Trump signed his order, the group killed 28 more permanent homes tO refugees through its people in an attack at a h0tel in Mogadishu. "You formal resettlement program than any Other can see what is happening back in Somalia," says nation in recent years. If that changes, it could Ahmed Omar, a 43-year-01d resident 0fKakuma, put even more stralll on poor countnes and could who has been applying for し S. resettlement for leave thousands stuck in limbo. years. "NO one is willing t0 go back. If the mightie st country in the world is afraid As the camp's closure deadline looms, the 0f the most vulnerable, what example does that offce of the U. N. high comissioner for refugees, set for some ofthe poorest, which have taken the the U.N. 's refugee agency, says that the hundreds responsibility 0f hosting hundreds 0f thousands Of refugees, in some cases for decades?" } 0e1 ofthousands ofrefugees there will not be forced DISLOCATION, tO return tO their country, but it could not be more Charny, the し S. director of Norwegian Refugee DISLOCATION, DISLOCATION: A specific about where they might go. If the U. S. CounciI (NRC), said in a January 30 statement. refugee stands ban continues, that would be one less option. One Of those countries is Kenya, which has with her child ⅲ the Dadaab camp, Refugees like Abdi have an uncertain future. already made it clear it is tired 0f the j0b. Kenya which the Ken- Depending on what the courts decide, Trump s has hosted hundreds of thousands of SomaIi yan government plans tO close. lt's order could mean that approved refugees will refugees in Kenyan cities and the Dadaab and unclear where itS have tO undergo extra security screening before Kakuma refugee camps since militias ousted residents will go. being admitted t0 the United States. Approval Somali dictator M0hamed Siad Barre in 1991 , 十 for resettlement is already a grueling process prompting a civil war and decades 0f lawless- that can take years. "These are not just people ness that allowed the violent militant group whO want tO go tO America, says Yvonne Ndege, a UNHCR spokeswoman in Kenya. "They have been identified as having the strongest cases out ofmillions. " people from Somalia are among the most carefully vetted nationalities in the world, she adds. Some 0f the 26 , 000 Somali refugees in Kenya whO are in the し S. resettlement "pipe- line ” have been in that process for several years. Omar is holding on t0 hope. He says people in Kakuma wh0 have been approved for U. S. resettlement are angry and frustrated, and some have even been admitted tO the camp hospital because ofstress. lt's a bleak scene, but he thinks the し S. may still change course. P011ing shows less than a third 0f Americans think Trump s move will make them safer. "when [Trump] was campaigning, he said several times that Somalis are very threatening tO America. I don't know why," Omar says. "lf Trump says all Somalis are terronsts, can we say all Americans are against refugees?" He knows neither statement is true. ロ LTHIEST THE SIX COUNTRIE HOST LESS THAN 9 PE CENT OF THE WORLD'S EFUGEES. 21 02 / 17 / 2017 N E W S W E E K

continued complaining about the press reports on the attendance for his inaugural. Then, as part ofhis effort t0 deny he lost the popular vote in November ()e did, by nearly 3 million votes), Trump spent 10 minutes complaining that up tO 5 million undocumented immgrants cast ballots in that election. TWO days later, after a deluge 0f criticism that he was lying about that, Trump announced he was ordering a national, taxpayer-funded investigation intO voter fraud. The following week brought more such moments. The most discombobulating came after Trump s executive order banning travel for 90 days int0 the United States by people frOI れ seven predominantly Muslim countries. AS immigration offcials detained legal residents and people traveling with valid visas, as maJ0r corporations such as Google issued emergency orders for executives frOI those countries WhO were traveling for business meetings tO come back tO the United States immediately, as pro- testers swarmed airports across America, Trump tweeted that "all was going well ” with the ban. The irrationality Of Trump's statements is astonishing. On the voter fraud claims, for example, government data show 11 million undocumented immigrants are in the Unite d States. By Trump s 5 million voter estimate, that means undocumented ⅱれ n11- grants h ad a huge turnout rate in the 2016 elections, and every one of them voted for Hillary Clin- IN T UMP'S WORLD, CLOSE O HALF ton. For all voters, the turnout OF A L UNDOCUMENTED was 57 percent. SO, in Trump s world, close IMM GRANTS IN THE UNITE STATES to half of all undocumented D BEING CAUGHT BY T RNING RIS lmnugrants in the United States POLLING PLACES. UP A risked being caught and deported by turning up at polling places at a rate close to that of Americans whose only risk was they might be late for dinner. dismissing the intelligence community S assess- ment of the Russian hacking.Was he knowingly NO rational person could believe this. That lying? Or is Trump s memory so poor that he leaves tWO possibilities: Trump intentionally dis- penses falsehoods any smart person knows will could not remember a statement he made—or be detected as lies, or worse, he cannot discern even that a discussion had taken place—about between reality and what he wishes was true. whether America was under cyberattack by a During his first White House mterview, Trump foreign power? Or, worst 0f all, did he not know told ABC News that two people were sh0t in that what he said and tweeted was untrue? Chicago as former President Barack Obama As N ビルた reported during the campmgn, gave his farewell speech; the C んな 4g0 Tr ″ Trump has made innumerable false statements under oath. That's obviously important—former proved there were no such shootings. Then there are his statements Of undeniable falsity, such as President Clinton was impeached because he when he asked in a tweet on December 12 why lied under oath once to hide an affair; Trump did no one had brought up the issue ofRussian inter- it numerous times and usuallyjust tO puffhimself ference in the presidential election until after up. He testified t0 Congress in 1993 that he had he won. But he st00d on a stage 54 days earlier never tried tO arrange any business deals With を☆ ☆ N E W 5 W E E K 14 0 2 / 17 / 2017

AS TROY MAXSON, the 1950S pittsburgh sanitation worker at the center OfF れ c お , DenzelWashington stands slightly stooped, in a way that suggests a lifetime 0f lifting—but when he talks, he soars. The film, directed by Washington and based on the late August Wilson s 1987 PuIitzer Prize-winning play, comes packed with the playwright's rolling, punchy rhythms. From the moment we first meet Maxson, hanging on the back of a garbage truck and bantering with his friend Bono (Stephen McKinley Henderson), torrents Of talk spill from him—tall tales about wrestling death, boasts about his work ethic, profanity-ridden riffs on women and hiS brieftime as a professional baseball player. His speeches would seem prolix were it not for the rapscallion charm washington invests in this pot-bellied figure. Think Falstaffwith a baseball bat, a bOttle Ofgin and a sore heart for having been shut out ofthe major leagues ・ Washington is enjoyable in the role. Almost t00 enJoyable: t00 vital, t00 vibrant, his smile t00 bright. For when, during an argument with his teenage son, Cory (Jovan Adepo), Maxson stuns him by saying "liking your black ass was not part Ofthe bargam, you are rocked back in your seat as if stung. Maxson, it becomes clear, is a proud and dignified Too Good to Be True DenzeI 'Washington is let down by his own charm ⅲ 'Fences hoots and hollers, smgs and When James EarI dances, canters and claps, Jones created the role for the play's premiere cuddles with Rose and cups her backside, letting loose on Broadway, Maxson S shadow side was, by all a Tarzan yodel after she departs. He acts as ifthe accounts, deeply inked from whole production depended the outset. But while the on it, which in a way it threat oferuption is never far 0 代 in Washington s does. But his performance is also unflagging in another performance—when we hear Maxson once killed way: as ifhe fears the material might otherwise a man, lt comes as no shock—the paterfamilias prove t00 inert. WhO charms us SO Most ofthe film is set, effortlessly seems t00 life- like the play, in Maxson s loving tO be SO miserly in backyard, where we find his affections.Washington his bat, his booze and the THE SCREENING ROOM hard-ass, so busy fulfilling his responsibilities tO his dependents—including his wife, Rose (ViOla Davis); his two sons; and his brother, Gabriel (Mykelti WiIIiamson), a brain- damaged World War II veteran 、Ⅳ hO wanders the streets muttering about St. Peter—that love has been lost in the *. I give you the lint from my pockets," he complains. I give you my sweat and my b100d. I ain t got no tears. I done spent them. NEWSWEEK 62 02 / 17 / 2017