IN THEIR WORDS Here Comes TroubIe How tO lve the o n THERE'S A NEW breed ofbook that's just right for today's political climate: inspirational, illustrate d agitprop , the kind ofbook you are given for your birthday. Or, if John Waters has his way, as a graduation present. Waters, the 70-year- old cult director ofcamp, transgressive and riotously funny American movles— notably 2 ⅲた Flamingos and 襯 4 T 川リわ in the early 1970S , and Ha ツ平 INTHE PINK: Waters, れ ow 70 , has sage advice for the younger generation. and C ヮ - Ba り in the late 1980s—has turned his attention tO the millennial generation. HiS new book, Ma 如 T リわ is the direct transcript of a rebellious, inspirational speech he gave to Rh0de lsland School of Design graduates in 2015. Despite years touring his stand-up show, F り World,Waters at first balked at this new form ofpublic speaking ・ Commencement speeches 0 aters w 乙 are a whole other whack, and I was anxlous," he says on the phone from his home in New York City. But I was really flattered. lt was the first ofthe things that have happened that gave me weird respectability. " Of the doctorate offine arts th at the de sign scho ol then honored him with, he says, lt's turned me intO a monster. I ' 1 れ demanding tenure. Ma Tro リわ is Waters s third book this decade, following Ro Mo なー a collection ofessays about his heroes, including Johnny Mathis and Tennessee Williams—111 2010 , and Ca た frOI れ 2014 , a travelog Of a journey he t00k hitchhiking around America. ThiS time, the man WhO once filmed a drag queen eating dog mess has turned his hand tO giving "advice tO young people ・ " Accented with witty line drawings by Eric Hanson, the b00k is essentially a code for living the J0hn Waters way: in other words, as creatively and subversively as possible. This includes instructlons to keep up with the arts—"Read, read, read! ” it says—and avoid 9- t0-5 J0bs. ()I work harder than the= people I know who do have a real j0b!' waters tells me. ) The book also argues that not being around Of every graduate. ” Waters assholes should be the goal N E W 5 W E E K 61 A P R ー L 14 , 2 017 says it's taken him 40 years tO achieve this particular end. How does he do it? "You have to be careful. You have tO negotiate. Assh01es don't wanna hang around with somebody that they think knows more than them. The main thrust ofthe book is the call to rise up and rebel. "But you can't try t00 hard," waters tells me. "You have tO get on the nerves ofthose people who are a little bit older than you and used t0 be C001. You have tO make them nervous. Waters has been animated by the politic al prote sts and S atire in America, and he thinks Ma T 励 can help. "The whole world is looking at us stupefied, ” he says. We need activism. We have tO use humor tO humiliate the enemy. He thinks the time for a book like this is now. "I hope," he says, "that this book is the one pebble that turns into a stone that ro Ⅱ s. ”—ANNA-MARIE CROWHURSTN JOHN WATERS MAKE MAKE TROUBLE BY 」 ohnWat 配 12 ( $ 15 ) Apr. 11 Algonquin BOOks,

ligence agencles or in AmerlCan indus- tries, for recruitment. (That has led the FBI, some crit1CS say, tO racially profile Chinese-Americans, particularlyacademics and scientists whO dO business With China, as esponage suspects. ) The Shriver case alarmed agency security 0 伍 - cials because it signaled a departure from the recruiting norm 0fthe MSS. And there have been additional efforts by Chinese intelligence to infil- trate the CIA with non-Asians, wilder and oth- ers say. According t0 Larry Pfeiffer, who served as chief 0f staffto CIA Director Michael Hayden from 2006 tO 2009 , Your natural assumption is that he's not the only one. ” lndeed, the CIA's Offce of Security "conducts studies ” after a breach, he says, tO determine the chances that others with a similar profile got through the wickets. ” ln Shriver s case, the likelihood was that "others could have been recruited. The MSS began widening its net after a high- level debate in the politburo under Hu Jintao, China'S president fror れ 2002 tO 2012 , according tO well-informed sources. Beijing's leading eco- nomcs and financial offcials argued that China should avoid furthe r antagonizing the Unite d State s, its top trading partner. But B e iJing s intel- ligence and military offcials won the debate with arguments that China had arrived as a super- power and should pursue a more muscular cam- paign against the U. S. lts 2014 cybertheft ofsome 18 million U. S. government personnel files was Just one prong Ofthe escalation. lts militarization of contested South China Sea atolls and islands was another. Expanding its esplonage offensive intO the seduction Of non-Chinese-A. mericans was yet another. "The big change that has occurred in recent ye ars is that all Americans are now a target, much 1 れ ore than ever before," says Wilder, now a semor fellow at Georgetown University's lnitiative for U.S. -China Dialogue on GlobaI lssues. "Their security service, their Offcers are more SOPhiS- ticated on the West now. They've got better lan- guage skills. They 've got these opportunities with all the se students and others coming tO China, SO they can dO the recruitment on home ground. BEFUDDLED AND BAMBOOZLED ln 2014 , the FBI posted a video dramatization 0f Shnver s recnutment by the MSS on lts website. Produce &ü$cwarning tO young Americans in China, "Game Of pawns ” also comes 0 代 as a tn- umph 0fU. S. spy catchers. Ski ” Brandon a former FBI de But Har uty assistant director for counterintelligence, suggested that the MSS reaped a reward even from Shriver's failure. "They could've just been trying tO bamboozle us," says Brandon, wh0 battled cuban intelligence for years. During the Cold War, he recalled, the Soviet KGB convinced James Jesus Angleton, the CIA'S legendary coun- terintelligence chief, that it had riddled the CIA with spies. AngIeton became so paranoid, according tO many accounts through the years, that he virtually paralyzed the CIA's recruitment 0fRussian agents. "while the Chinese likely did not plant Shriver as someone tO be caught and trigger paranoia at the CIA," Brandon says,' it s possible they now see a benefit" from creating suspiclon in the age ncy ab out applicants with sterling China backgrounds and language skills. And that suspicion has spread tO jOb seekers With similar experiences in, or family ties tO, places like lran, Russia, Syria, Pakistan and the THE SHRIVER CASE SHOWED A NEW AND DARING ATTEMPT TO RECRUIT STUDENTS FROM NO RMAN ROCKWELL'S AMERICA. former SOViet satellites in Eastern Europe, say former CIA offcials. "we had a regular meet- lng with the head ofcounterintelligence, and we never looked forward t0 that, ” says pfeiffer. "lt was all doom and gloom... because of the num- ber Of cases that they were working that were of significant concern. Or, as the old joke goes, just because you re par- anOld doesn t mean someone S not out tO get you. shriver says as much ・ COda tO 、、 Game Of pawns. ” Recruitment s going on, he says from his jail cell, in a warning t0 other young students headed to china. "Don't f001 your- self.. The recruitment is actlve, an t e target IS young people: Throw 10ts ofmoney at them' see what happens. " ロ P A 6 E 0 N E / C H I N A NEWSWEEK 15 APRIL14, 2017

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free market cannot do," he says. 'lfyou prefer a safer society over the long term, you want regula- t10ns. But the billionaires have a differentperspec- tive on things than other people. lfyou are Steve Schwarzman and your insurance company goes out ofbusiness because of shady deals, you don't need the insurance regulator, you just find other msurance. lfyou are Steve Schwarzman, you pay about halfthe amount oftaxes as other well-paid New Yorkers. Very few people care about carried interest tax de duction, but S chwarzman thinks he deserves it. Maybe he thinks there is a shortage 0f people willing t0 be fund managers, so we need to offer them special tax incentlves. Be sides slashing their taxes, Trump s billion- mres have very specific requests and are not shy about expressing them. Special regulatory adviser lcahn is a maJority investor ⅲ a Texas 0 ⅱ refinery that could have saved $ 205.9 million lastyearwere it not for the Environmental Protection Agency s renewable -fuel standard, which re qmre s refiners tO ensure that corn-based ethanol is blended intO 血 el. since Trump's election, lcahn has engaged in a lobbying blitz to change that rule. Trump is 100king t0 tear up the D0dd-Frank raft Of regulations on the financial industry. He also N E W S W E E K RICHARD LEFRAK $ わ〃〃 Provenance New York City, 1945. B. A. Amherst College, 」 . D. CoIumbia University. Company LikeTrump, LeFrak isthe son Ofa real estate magnate whO inherited and expanded alarge NewYorkfamiIy brand. LeFrak'sfathercametoAmerica as a designer for Tiffany's and started a company in 1905that (likeTrump's father) built middle-class housing in Queens. The Lefrak Organization is now one Ofthe biggestlandlords in the tristate area, with some 94,000 rental units. は a 0 owns 0 ⅱ companies and operates as a private equity investor. Favors to Trump After Trump's inaugural address, LeFrak went on CNBC and tried to calm the public, claiming hisfriend has ・ more good sense"than hegets credit for. "There's always a bit of negotiating posture in a lOt Of the things he says. " Trump Post Co-chairman, Trump's infrastructure Company Undergrad at University Of Arizona. New Brunswick, New 」 ersey, 1947. Provenance JOHNSON IV ROBERT W000S “ W000Y ” committee. once played a game in London. connection to Britain is that the 」 ets became president. His 0 可 y known Kennedy and five men who later once filled by the likes of 」 oseph Ambassadortothe U. K. , a position Trump Post nate, fell 0 幵 a cliff and broke his back. break from a party in Arizona to uri- A stoner in college, he once took a but considered a little t00 "mellow. ' doingevil (unlessyou'rea 」 etsfan) Not known around Manhattan for Famous EviI Deed The New York 」 ets BigToy 」 ohnson in 1885. his great-grandfather Robert W00ds products multinational,founded by 」 ohnson & 」 ohnsonglobal medical from his inherited piece of the firm. But his real fortune derives 」 ohnson Co.Inc. a private investment 32 A P R 比 14. 2 017

、第 LULLiA 0 0 彙解ー A い、 OA 20 第な の , るーい感 : 物ー毛をⅸ心 E32 ・ 90 丿化 A BLOOD MONEY: LuiIIia van Lanen was SO embar- rassed that she couldn't a 0 「 d her heart medicine that she lied to her doc- tO 「 about taking it. That sounds very complicated. lt's really complicated. purchasing prescription DETERMING THE drugs is different from other kinds 0f purchas- PRICE OF A NEW ing. When you buy a car, you are the deci- DRUG IS BOTH Slon-maker. You are the customer, you choose what car you want, and it's up tO you whether SCIENCE AND ART. or not you want tO pay whatever it costs. You go t0 a dealership and buy a car. With pharmaceu- ticals, the customer—the patient—is rarely the decision-maker. Usually, the physician makes And there are bad actors, which we have heard the decisions. And the patient doesn t pay the cost directly either. The patients aren t usually a great deal about recently. Drug pnces are lncre asing a stronomic ally without explanation. writing the check. There may be a copay or com- List prices are set extraordinarily high. l'm going surance, but the maJority Of the cost is usually tO be focusing on the good actors. covered by the insurer. Determining the price 0f a new drug is b0th sclence and art. SO many different elements UnIess the individual has an insurance plan must be considered, and there's no formula. AII with a high deductible on prescription drugs the different factors must be weighed. The clin- 0 「 no insurance coverage at all. ical value is the most important aspect. ls this Corre ct. drug helping people- live longer? ls it helping them live better? AISO, hOW does it compare tO HOW does a pharmaceutical company deter- competitors? Are there competitors? Will payers mine an appropriate list price f0 「 a drug? pay for the drug? Can patients afford the copay? Before diving into this explanation, I think it's What is the average copay for a patient? What im ortant tO em hasize that there are a lOt Of are othe r rugs pnce good actors in the pharmaceutic al industry. ln company have tO give in government-mandated my experience, most people in this field want tO discounts, such as the 340B clause in Medicaid? innovate and create drugs that benefit patients. NEWSWEEK 51 APR 比 14 , 2017

N E W W 〇 R L D T E C H N 0 L 0 G Y A I 工 N N 0 V A T 1 0 N GOOD SCIENCE S K I N S P A C E D R U G S TACTILE ADVANTAGE An artificial skin could take your temperature and prompt you t0 say 'ouch ! ' BY JESSICA FIRGER 十 ORGAN GRINDER: Bao's faux Skin needs to be flex- ible, stretchable, self-repairing and, eventually, biodegradable. 当 @jessfirger IT'S A GOOD bet most humans will someday be at least part cyborg, and Zhenan Bao, a profes- sor Of chemical engineering at Stanford Univer- sity, wants tO have some skin in the game. Bao is working on an artificial epidermis that could improve the life 0f people with prosthetic limbs or skin grafts and make it SO people won't have tO take offtheir wearable fitness trackers. We are trying tO mimic the properties Of human skin," says Bao. That includes making the synthetic skin stretchable and self-repairing. Her biggest challenge: create a material that can feel. "when sensing touch, our skin will fire electrical pulses and send through the nerve system t0 our brain and allow our brain tounderstand whether it s pain or a hOt Obj e ct. Our mate rials and device s also need to be able to do that. ” The skin she's test- in expands when heated, which lowers its electri- cal conduction and allows the brain tO re a te mperature on the skin s surface. e She's tested out her skin on the brains Of mice modified SO the area 0f their brain that typically transmits the sense Of touch is ultra-sensitive tO light and saw that the brains responded when the electric skin was stimulated by bright light. Bao, recently named a L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in science laureate, began work in flexi- ble electronics some 20 years ago. She set out tO make bendable smartphones and foldable televi- sions, but after arnving at Stanford 10 years ago, she realized her work had 0ther applications as well. She says companies like Fitbit could use her electric skin tO create more reliable personal devices. Once placed on the user's skin, the wear- able could measure vital signs, such as tracking he art 0 d sugar t0 monitor a person for heart attack or diabetes. Even though sensors and wearables exist' they are very large and bulky and uncomfortable t0 e electronicmaterials¯ wear, S e says. 0W1 we're developing, we hope t0 make them as thick as tattoos—but also have the same function. ”ロ N E W S W E E K 47 A P R 比 14 , 2 017

WILBUR ROSS $ 2. ) わ襯あれ Provenance Weehawken, New Undergrad at Yale. MBA, Harvard. Company Founded WL Ross& Co. LLC. BigToy Maintains a $ 125 million artcollection with his wife. Famous EviI Deed His Cabinet confirmation was nearly derailed over his partnership with Russian oligarchs in the Bank of Cyprus, which is believed tO be a money- laundering hub. Trump Post Commerce secretary. have his billionaire s. Trump's administration has taxed at 24 percent, thanks t0 the AMT. made it very clear that it will expand tax benefits The top executives Of private equlty firms— for billionaires. Mnuchin promised during his like Schwarzman, lcahn, Feinberg and, until he confirmation hearing that 。 there would be no divested, Ross—all theoretically qualify for the absolute tax cut for the upper class. ” But lower carried intere st de duction , which halve s their tax rate s .When Obama was stalking the carrie d taxe s for the rich were behind the Republican interest deduction in 2010 , Schwarzman nearly rush t0 repeal Obamacare and replace it with their wet himself. "lt's a war, ” he said at a July 2010 still-born Trumpcare bill. The nonpartisan Con- board meeting. "lt's like when Hitler invaded gre s sional Budget Offce e stimated the proposal poland in 1939. ” He later apologized ・ would have left 24 million more people uninsured, sweet tax deals aren't just for Wall Street. Real mostly older and poorer Americans, while giving estate magnates like Trump can take advantage Of top earners a $ 158 billion tax savmgs on invest- a deduction Congress carved out for them ⅲ the ment income. Trump blurted out the truth in a 1990S ハ Mhile average Joes wh0 lose moneyon real campaign-style speech in Louisville, Kentucky, a week before the plan failed. "we've got to get estate deals can no longer take full deductions, people wh0 qualify as "real estate profession- this done before we can do the other, ” he told the crowd. "ln other words, we have tO know what als ” (Trump, LeFrak and Roth) can deduct their this is before we can dO the big tax cuts. losses. Congress also allows developers t0 deduct Trump S tax overh aul ー re m the supposed depreciation 0f their property val ー。ー、 -details, but one ve rsron givesfthetopx p e rcenÜ•aesvdepending onthe property ・ typ e,despite the fact that real estate generally increases in value ofAmericans a 6.5 percent tax savings, and sav- over time. That means, according tO Morris pearl' ings 0f 1.7 percent or less for middle and lower formerly managing director at the BlackRock earners. Trump has promised to kill the alter- un an lrec or 0 0 や ro ニね pat ⅱ OtiC 爪石ⅲ - na lVe n11n1n1u1 れ文 -1eV1e on peop e 1 e も aire S, developers—and their heirs—never have tO when their deductions can zero out their tax pay tax on property. "There are certain things the bill. According t0 his 2005 tax bill, Trump was NEWSWEEK 31 APRlL14, 2017

日 A ロ FOR WORK MR. MONOPOLY, that mustachioed fat cat, was and for his peers ()r men the famously insecure about as close as most Amencans got tO a New Trump WIShes t0 call peers). His Cabinet is the York City billionaire until candidate Donald richest in American history. These men have been Trump started flying his jet to their villages last sold to the public as men who will help Trump run the country 。 like a business," in which the public year. Now they are practically an everyday sight, because President Trump has coaxed a pack of iS the consumer. After careers in WhiCh they put them out Of their penthouses and private Jets tO growing their colossal bank accounts ahead 0f either jOin his Cabinet or sit on his councils and the inte re sts Of small towns, working stiffs and advisory boards. Trump voters know they've had the C01 mon weal, there iS no reason tO believe a government 、 0 billionalres—that's one reason they will worry about how predatory lending or they're so mad—but t0 have one り billionaires letting Obamacare explode " affects real people. Trump 's billionaires are not government-hating means the Mighty Oz is now setting the nation s agenda, and there iS no curtain. ideologues like the Koch brothers or mega-do- SO what can Trump give tO these men whO have nor RObert Mercer. They are more like what everything? And what can they d0 for him, and t0 Trump used t0 be—unaffliated centrists. And America? The answer may be found in a line from their agenda—and now the country s agenda—is the ltalian movie The んビ叩 4 , about the decaying defined by those matters that affect their wallets. Sicilian anstocracy: Everything must change SO PITY THE POOR, MISUNDERSTOOD that everything can remain the same. " The best BILLIONAIRE gift Trump can give his rich friends is to appe ar to 'The rich aren t rich anymore, says societywriter be shaking up the system while leaving their myr- iad tactics for amassing capital unaffected. Less David patrick Columbia. "My friend inherited than three months into his presidency, Trump is hundreds ofmillions. She said to me, l'm not rich anymore. ' They didn't lose their money, but these well into that agenda—qmetly deregulating the financial industry, stripping Barack Obama's cli- other people make billions—some ofthem make a mate change rules from fossil fuel producers and billion dollars a year. And that's all they really care pronusing tO lower taxes on the very rich. about. AII those guys love talking about how much A billionaires' takeover of the U. S. govern- money they have. lt's what they like to do. ment was not one ofTrump S SIgnature campalgn Most of the billionaires Trump lured to D. C. promises, but he has set up a government 0 by are, like him, from the 1980S generation 0f lev- NEWSWEEK 26 APRlL14, 2017

N E W W 0 R L D / A I A NEW LEASH ON LIFE Some of the best minds of our generation came tO the U. N. tO decide whether AI will turn humans into pets IN A ROOM at the United Nations overlooking New York's East River, at a table as long as a ten- nis court, around 70 Of the best minds in artificial intelligence recently ate a sea bass dinner and could not agre e on the impact OfAI and robots. This is perhaps the most vexing challenge of AI. There's a great deal of agreement around the notion that humans are cre ating a ge nie unlike any that's poofed out of a bottle so far—yet no consensus on what that genie will dO for us. Or to us. Will AI robots gobble all our j obs and re n- der us their pets? Tesla CEO EIon Musk thinks so. He Just announced his new company, Neuralink, which will explore adding AI-programmed chips tO brains SO people don't become little more than pe sky annoyances tO thinking machine s. At the し N. forum, organized by AI investor Mark Minevich, IPsoft CEO Chetan Dube said AI will have 10 times the impact of any technol- ogy in history in one-fifth the time. He threw around figures in the hundreds oftrillions ofdol- lars when talking about AI's effect on the global economy. The gathered AI chiefs from compa- nies such as Faceb00k, Google, IBM, Airbnb and Samsung nodded their heads. ls such lightning-fast change g00 譱 who knows? Even IPsoft's stated mission sounds like a double-edged ax. The company's website says it wants 。 to power the world with intelligent sys- tems, eliminate routine work and free human talent tO focus on creating value through innova- tion. ” That no doubt sounds awesome to a CEO. To a huge chunk of the population, though, it could come across as happy-speak for a pink slip. Apparently, if you re getting paid a regular wage tO dO "routine work,' you're about to get "freed" 仕 om that tedious job ofyours, and then you had better 。 innovate" ifyou want tO, you know, eat. The folks from IBM talked about how its Wat- son AI will help doctors sift through much more information when diagnosmg p atle nts, and it WIII constantly le arn from all the data, so its thinking will improve. But won t the AI start to do a better jOb than doctors and make the humans unneces- sary? No, the IBMers said. The AI will improve the doctors, so they can help us all be healthier. Hedge fund guys said robottrading systemswill make better investing decisions faster, lmprovlng returns. They didn't seem t00 worried about their caree rs , even though some hedge fund s guided solely by AI are already outperforming human hedge fund managers. Yann LeCun, Facebook's AI chief and one ofthe most respected AI practi- tioners, says AI will be used t0 discover and help eliminate biases and bring people together—yet for now, AI gets accused of uncovenng our indi- vidual biases and servlng up content that con- firms and hardens them, the reby making half the country mad at the other half. Grete Faremo, executive director ofthe United Nations Off1ce for project Services, beseeched te chnologists tO slow down a bit and make sure BY KEVIN MANEY 当 @kmaney NEWSW ・ EEK 48 APR 比 14 , 2017