Time 0 Reviews MOVIES Medieval laughs for 亡 e modern day EVERY FEWMONTHS IN THE world ofmovies, there's a small delight that ne arly slips past notice. The Little Hours, an un 叩 ologetically anach- ronistic confection directed byJeffBaena (LifeAfter Beth) and based loosely— very loosely—on Boccaccio's Decameron, iS one ofthese. Aubrey plaza stars as a rest- less medieval nun WhO'S less a holy roller than an eye roller. Everything about life in the cloisters annoys her, includ- ing a googly-eyed tattle- tale Sister (Kate Micucci) and a prissy rich girl (Alison Brie) who's been parked in the joint by her father. The arrival 0f a strapping ground- skeeper (Dave Franco) riles everybody. The 田 e Hours coasts along breezily on the oddball rhythms of its actors. The cast also includes J0hn C. ReiIIy and MoIIy Shanno n, who cap the whole crazy enterprise in a surprisingly tender COda. lt doesn't hurt that Baena and cinematog- rapher Quye n Tran sh0t the picture in sun-washed Tuscany. L00king for a break from the Black Death, or even Just the summer heat? The 田 e Hours is just the thing. —s. z. Franco 0 れ d Plaza: delightful nunsense 9 、・ Gr or 4 、•dastardly ーれ espicable Me 3 MOVIES Minions, delightfully relegated tO their proper place land ofFreedonia, the filmmakers' clear THE MINIONS ROSE TO FAME, LIKE TINY nod tO Marx Brothers madness. But demented soda bubbles, in Pierre Coff1n he has always longed t0 be a criminal. and ChriS Renaud's glorious 2010 ani- Gru grudgingly trains him, even as he mated c 叩 er Despicable Me. Sadly, these little yellow capsules ofdevious (and strives tO outwit an embittered ' 80S TV sometime s deviant) behavior couldn't star, Balthazar Bratt (Trey Parker), WhO has never gotten over hiS carry a WhOle mOV1e on their 0 、 vn. critiCS almost unanimously show's cancellation. HiS crimes of villainy include blasting decreed their self-titled 2015 spin-offouting a whole cities with hot pink disappointment, though a bubblegum and wielding a sequel is still ⅲ the works. keytar like a lightsaber. That's all well and good. Thankfully, ⅲ Despicable Me 3—the third proper Despica- But Oh, those Minions! ln their ble Me picture, this one directed finest Despicable Me 3 moment, by Co 伍Ⅱ and Kyle Balda theybring the house down and co-directed by Eric with a gibberish version of TURNING MINIONESE Coffin, co-director of the Guillon—they've returned Gilbert and Sullivan's "I Am DespicabIe Me movies, t0 their rightful place on the Very ModeI ofa Modern a 0 gives voice tO the the sidelines. Minions are MaJor-General. ” ln their Minions, improvisingtheir at their best when they're second finest moment, they patter using sounds from like the brazen miniature various languages all go t0 prison, where they mischiefmakers some- engage in rigorous towel times found in the margins ofmedieval snapping. ln their third finest moment, illuminated manuscripts. two ofthem perform ajiggly faux- The stuff happening around them Hawai1an number, their nonexistent is reasonably entertaining tOO. Steve nipples covered by coconut bras. The Carell returns as the voice ofreformed Minions have proved they can't headline baddie Gru, a potbellied softy in a black a movie, yet they pretty much carry this zip -up j acket. This time around, he one. How d0 they d0 it? The answer, like the Minion language itself, is a mystery learns he has a long-lost twin, Dru (also voiced by CareII). Dru has come by his perhap s better le 仕 unplumbed. money hone stly—by raising p igs in the ー・ STEPHANIE ZACHAREK 86 TIME JuIy 10 ー 17 , 2017 DESPICABLE ME 3 【 UNIVERSAL ( 2 ご T 工 E LITTLE 工 OURS: GUNPOWDER AND SKY

3 President もアれ dO れ h れ so 〃 signs legislation creating Medicare 0 れ d Medicaid "Medicaid expansion is really about op- wh0 earn $ 27 , 000 to qualify for free or portunity, the opportunity tO get sober, tO low-cost coverage. move on and tO live a clean life. ” She was The second part would cap federal there as a success story—and a warning funding that states use tO underwrite about what could go wrong if someone their Medicaid programs, which roughly like her didn't have access to care during 76 million Americans rely on for health a time ofneed. care. While each state's program goes by a But scaling back Medicaid—the different name—like MaineCare, Healthy 52-year-old federal health care program Louisiana and New Jersey FamilyCare— ln and out Of jail, a recovering heroin for the needy—is exactly what Senate their collective reach is epic. Nearly half addict equipped with few credentials Republicans are vowing t0 d0 when they ()fall babies born in America are covered beyond her personal story, the 32-year- return from the July 4 holiday. lt is a huge by Medicaid, as are close to 40 % of all old New Hampshire resident says it took risk for the GOP and helps explain why children and two-thirds of all nursing- waking up to find her husband dead from Mitch McConnell postponed a vote on home residents. Roughly 9 million more an overdose tO put heron the path toward his party's latest plan in the final week Americans who are blind or disabled, recovery. That and health care. Which of June. The public defections betrayed including those born with Down is why, at a public forum 0 Ⅱ June 23 , deeper problems for the bill, which will syndrome or cerebral palsy, also rely on Hurteau stepped up to the microphone be weaponized against its supporters in Medicaid for coverage. Most children's and pleaded with her state's two U. S. coming elections. vaccines are covered, and adults in many Senators t0 fight with everything they When it comes to changing Medi- places get their flu shOts at the corner had to block Republican plans to gut caid, the Republican plan has two main drugstore for free as well. health care programs like the one she parts. First, it would roll b ack programs Normally, making entitlement cuts credits with saving her life. that allow states tO enroll residents who Of this size is political suicide, but these "I got back custody 0f my son two earn wages slightly above the poverty line are not normal times. The House has weeks ago, and l've been sober 17 in state-run Medicaid programs. That already passed a version Of these cuts. months; ” Hurteau said as more than alone has boosted the rolls ofpeople with McConnell postponed a Senate vote when 200 people watched that afternoon in a health coverage by more than 14 million, conservatives and moderates rebelled at law-school classroom ⅲ Concord, N. H. allowing, for instance, families Of three the pace and terms, including the lack of 28 TIME July 10 ー 17 , 2017 { 19 6 5 } AshIey Hurteau knows She'S not YO ur typ i c al public-health advocate.

For more on these stories, visit time.com/ideas SNAPSHOT Denmark's treetop walkway lmagine walking though a forest and getting literal bird's-eye views, all without disrupting the environment. That's the idea behind this treetop walkway, a proposed 1 , 969- 代 ong wooden ramp at the nature park Camp Adventure in HasIev, Denmark, which would be elevated on posts and steel supports. lts centerpiece: a winding observation tower (below), topping out at roughly 150 化 tO give people a panoramic view Of the forest canopy around them. Architecture studiO EFFEKT designed the footpath for the park, which said its new attraction will open in 2018. ・一丿 u 〃 a Zorthian DATA THIS JUST IN A roundup ofnew and noteworthy i n sights from the week's most talked-about studies: 0 FORGETTING THINGS CAN MAKE YOU SMARTER A scientific paper in Neuron argued that forgetting outdated memories lets the brain clear out details that don't matter SO people can adaptto newer information and make more intelligent decisions. 0 LIGHT-ROAST COFFEE MAY BE BETTER FOR YOU THAN DARK ROAST A study in the 丿 ou 「 n 訒 Of Medicinal Food found that lighter coffee roasts had higher levels ofchlorogenic acid—which acts as an antioxidant—than darker coffee roasts, and that light-roast extract was better at protecting human cells against inflammation and damage. HISTORY America's 'real' independence day is not July 4 essentially a press release explaining why ALTHOUGH AMERICANS HAVE LONG celebrated lndependence Day on July 4 , the delegate s had vote d the way they did. That document—better known as the technically that is not when the colonies Declaration Of lndependence—arrived at voted tO become a new nation. the printer on July 4 , 1776 , which is why That honor belongs to July 2 , 1776 , which was not only the day the Second Continental that date appears at the top. Moreover, most Congress approved a resolution declaring 0f the delegates signed it on Aug. 2 , not on July 4 , as implied by the J0hn Trumbull independence from Britain but also the painting that hangs in the R0tunda ofthe day that then future Pres ident John Adams C 叩 itol ("Congress at the lndependence Hall, wrote would be "celebrated, by succeeding Philadelphia, July 4 , 1776 ” ). Generations, as the great anniversary Festival' But though Adams might have been with "pomp and parade, games, sports, guns, surprised tO see Americans fete the Fourth bells , bonfires and illuminations from one end ofJuIy, he did play a part ⅲ the shift: when ofthis continent tO the Other. ” he and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4 , SO, what happened? ln a word, paperwork. 1826 , that date became even more enshrined According t0 Philip Mead, chiefhistorian at the Museum ofthe American Revolution, it in American memory. —OLIVIA B. WAXMAN took two days for the Continental Congress tO approve the final version Ofwhat was For more on these stories, visit time.com/history 0 TEENS ARE AS INACTIVE AS 0 し DER PEOPLE A study in Preventive Medicine found that adolescents grew less active throughout theirteen years, with 19 ッ ear -0 旧 s spending as much time being sedentary as 60-year-olds. Half Of teenage boys and 75 % ofteenage girls did not meet exercise recommendations Of an hour Of moderate-to- vigorous activity a day. ー丿 . Z.

G0ing after 亡 e 'really bad e TheBrief lmmigration を第第 肌 E President Trump 慊 s 0b0 砒 deporting hardened criminals. His po 石り makes 0 〃 undocumented immigrants vulnerable By Maya Rhodan れル a 川 a れ - immigrant isJed 。、 awaY 厖 California 加 May AS AN UNDOCÜMENTED IMMIGRANT, JOSE ALMAGUER Hernandez lived hiS version Ofthe American Dream. Married with children in Marietta, Ga. he found steady work, bought a home and paid his U. S. taxes. He was self-employed as a painter, working on the homes Ofhis chiropractor and attorney, among Others. His son Daniel, whO was born in the U. S. , was accepted tO Georgia State University, where he maJOrs in criminaljustice and recently made the dean's list. But without papers, Hernandez, 51 , was not able tO get a driver's license in Georgia. SO in 2013 , after he was pulled over for a broken brake light, he was arrested for driving without a license and detained. Under the Obama Administration, this did not get him sent back to Mexico, even though he had been previously removed from the country in 1990 and was con- victed ofa misdemeanor battery ⅲ 1992 , according to federal authorities. With an American child, he was asked instead tO check in with lmmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regularly, where offcers would review his 61e and grant him temporary permission tO stay in the country. That all changed this year. During a scheduled check-in this March, instead ofbeing released as he'd been in the past, Her- nandez was taken int0 custody. On April 20 , he was deported back tO Mexico. IN D AL DEPORTATION STATISTICS, Hernandez will be recorded as a criminal, yet another data point in the ん旧Ⅱ - ment Of President Donald Trump's campaign promise to rid the country of "really bad dudes" who have been living in the し S. without documentation. Between Jan. 22 and June 24 , 65 , 704 people were arrested by ICE, a 39 % increase com- pared with the same period in 2016. Ofthose arrested, 73 % were convicted criminals. Trump consistently describes hiS Administration's enforcement as a crackdown on criminals preying on Americans. "You have a gang called MS -13. They don't like to shoot people. They like to cut people; ” Trump told a rally ⅲ lowa on June 21. "These are true animals. We are moving them out ofthe country by the thousands, by the thousands. ” That does not appear to be true. OnIy 772 people affli- ated with MS-13 were among the 9 , 117 gang leaders, mem- bers and associates arrested between Oct. 1 , 2015 and June 4 , 2017 , a periOd that overlaps with the Obama Administration, 12 TIME JuIy 10 ー 17 , 2017 0 according tO recent Senate testimony by HomeIand Security offcials. So far under Trump, fewer gang members or associates have been detained than peo- ple with Ⅱ 0 criminal conviction: a んⅡ 27 % ofthose arrested between Janu- ary and June 2017 committed no Other crime than being in the country ille- gally. But the Homeland Security chief has said that doesn't mean they're inno- cent. "Seventy-five percent are indeed criminals; ” said Secretary J0hn Kelly, ⅲ an interview with FOX News. “ The Othe r 25 % are not the valedictorians oftheir high school class. ” lncrease in Many ofthose with criminal re- immigration arrests cords are guilty oflow-level, nonviolent in the first five offenses, like driV1ng without a license months Ofthe Trump Administration over and using a fake Social Security num- the same ber. (OnIy 12 states and the District of period in 2016 Columbia give driver's licenses tO imml- grants without documentation. ) Others find themselves detained because they have failed to report to court. As ICE chiefThomas Homan testified before Congress onJune 13 , no population ” 0f lmmigrants iS immune tO enforcement. 88K The number of undocumented immigrants WhO have been removed from the U. S. since 」 anuary 2017 3

Redder that services are no longer avail- able. The 22-year-old RidgefieId, Conn. , woman works as a waitress, earning $ 6 an hour, plus tips. "We work the j0bs that we're able t0 get, and thosejobs don't pay enough' ” she said. SO she turns t0 Con- necticut's Medicaid system for her doctor visits, birth control and therapy. If leaders want to 6 Ⅱ in the missing pieces, there are tWO answers: cut pro- grams like SChOOlS or roads, or raise taxes. Almost every state is required tO balance its budget, and they simply don't have rainy-day funds large enough to cover an $ 834 billion shortfall from federal cuts over the next 10 years. Health care spending thus could force lawmakers t0 ditch highway-exit ramps, welcome centers or COllege dormitories. Or, the state could direct patients tO less-expensive (and Often less-effective) treatments. The urgent would overtake the preventive, and mental health advocates worry that visible ailments would take priority over less obvious ones. "Mental illness, behavioral issues and addictions are chronic conditions, says Arthur Evans, CEO 0fthe American Psych010gical Association and one ofthe many critics 0f this plan. "They require sustained support over a periOd oftime— sometimes years. when you truncate that and only give people help during crises, that sets them up for failure. lt's just expensive, and you don't get the outcome S you want. ” Cons ider Hurteau. Her husband die d from an overdose on June 11 , 2015. She was in and out ofjail for 10 years before his death, entering for the last time on Dec. 27 ofthat year. She had lost custody of her son and was addicted to heroin, and had Ⅱ 0 plan tO remedy either situation. New Hampshire offcials helped her en- roll in a Medicaid program that provided counseling and treatment. TOday she works to help others fight their addic- tions. "There's a lot of potential behind the [prison] wall," she says. "There's a lot 0f opportunities for people with in- surance, but without insurance, no treatment. ” For millions Of Ameri- cans, that's a prospect that should worry them. —With reporting 妙 ALICE PARK 0 d HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS/NEW YORK; ZEKE J. MILLER, ALEX ALTMAN, JACK BREWSTER 0 れ d ANNA RUMER/ ロ WASHINGTON 31 That's where the sole focus needs to be. This goes beyond that. ” Back ⅲ the Senate, McConnell has talked about creating carve-outs tO ad- dress some individual Senators' concerns, including a pot of money t0 specifically target the opi0id epidemic. Conserva- tive activists, in turn, have attacked the Republican governors for betraying their ideologicalroots. And suspicion 0f widespread abuse, or opportunism, in the current Medicaid system is not lim- ited tO Washington. Susan Lees Of Dan- bury, conn. , is a 50-year-01d nanny and dog walker who is covered by Medicaid, which she pays some money toward. "A lot ofthem do need to go out and get a job. l'm not going t0 lie," she says. "There are pe ople out there wh0 are s oaking the system. I see it. ” LEES WOULD BE hard-pressed tO con- V1nce the likes Of Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire, whO met with TIME 0 Ⅱ a recent morning between meetings in her third-floor Sen- ate offlce. As the phones rang incessantly with constituents calling in tO voice their concerns about the bill, Hassan leaned back in her chair. For her, the Medicaid issue iS personal. Her 28-year-old son Ben has s evere ce reb ral p alsy, cannot walk and gets most Of his nutrition through a feeding tube. Like roughly 9 million other disabled people, he and his familybenefit from Medicaid support. "There's a whole bunch of stuff that even the best private insurance doesn't cover,: ” Hassan tells TIME. "Medicaid recognizes that there are some vagaries in life that hit some people harder than others. we never know When one Of our children is going to be born with a par- ticular condition that requires this kind Of intensive care, not only tO keep them alive but to keep them out 0f the hospi- tal, out Of intensive nursing homes, and be members Ofthe community. If McConnell can find 50 Republi- can votes for the plan—and it is a big if, given Democrats' unified resistance tO this version ofreform—the immediate ef- fects will hit the District ofCoIumbia and the 31 states that opted tO expand Medi- caid programs under Obamacare. ln the next few years, they would face the task of deciding whether to cut health care spending or tell constituents like Josey A ok ahe ad The House bill would radically change how the federal government funds state Medicaid programs Medicaid enrollment 100 MILLION CURRENT LAW 85 million fewer people by 2026 75 HOUSE BILL 71 million 50 25 PROJ ECTED ' 26 ' 16 ' 17 2012 INCLUDES ACA MED ℃ AID EXPANSION FederaI spending on Medicaid CURRENT LAW S642 billion ' S834 billion 厄 SS ove r 10 years $ 600 BILLION $ 400 HOUSE BILL S492 billion $ 200 PROJECTED 2012 ' 16 ' 17 SOURCES: CMS ( 2012-2015 ) ; CBO ( 2016-2026 ) ' 26

pose the Republicans' proposals. "Most states are in a budget crisis, and if there is a federal reduction ⅲ Medicaid, then most states will not be able tO make up the difference with state dollars; ” says Kirsten Sloan, vice president for policy at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. "SO we will mostly see states cut back. Cancer care is very expen- sive, and our fear is that one Of the ways states will cut back is by cutting the most expenslve care. When the Senate version landed on the de sk of New Hampshire 's RepubIican Governor Chris Sununu, he initially wasn't sure what tO make Of it. Fellow Republicans were gutting Medicaid programs in his state while offering up a relative pittance tO fight opioids. Sununu asked his aides ifthere were loopholes or carve-outs that he was missing, if there were a way he could back the broader goal 0f repealing Obamacare. NO, they told him. lfthe bill passes, it will result in $ 1.4 billion less in federal funding for his state in the next decade. About 186 , 000 residents receive some form Of Medi- caid in New Hampshire , and through the Medicaid expansion, more than 23 , 000 have received substance-abuse services. Medicaid provides $ 29 million to cover the COStS Of resources for school nurses and students with disabilities, along with 27 % ofbirths. As it does elsewhere in the nation, it alSO CO.vers two-thirds ofseniors in New Hampshire nursing homes. Sununu, a conservative Republican, decided tO come out against the senate Republican's plan. "We simply d0 not see the resources necessary for us tO craft a successful system that meets the needs Of Granite Staters; ” Sununu wrote to the Senate on June 27. The next day, Sununu told TIME he felt boxed in. The proposals coming from Washington, where his father served as a White House chief of staff to George H. w.. Bush and a brother was a Senator, are forcing governors tO make impossible choices, he explained. "There's only one way tO account for that. You're increasing taxes or cutting services or cutting con- stituents. AII ofthose are really bad. We're not talkingjust minor cuts. These are very serious and very deep cuts,: ” he said. FeI- low Republicans, he said, had strayed from their electoral mandate : “ The coun- try is looking for reform on Obamacare. White House Budget Director Mick MuI- vaney said ⅲ May. As White House coun- selor Kellyanne Conway put it onJune 25 , "This slows the rate for the future. Thatleaves those steeped inthe budget bemused, since no one expects health care tO StOP becoming more expensive. "lf the federal government says, 'Well, we re only paying a certain amount going forward,' then one oftwo things happen: either services are going tO be cut or 25 % 0f people wh0 are currently covered are going t0 be cut; ” says Andy Slavitt, a former administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "There's no way around it—there's not that much slack ⅲ state budgets. ” ' S THE RUB: the states that have benefited the most from federal subsidies for state-run health care programs like Medicaid are often RepubIican. The non- college-educated, lower-income residents who helped fuel Trump's rise to the white House Often rely disproportionately on government-subsidized health care. Republican governors in several states, including Ohi0, Arizona and Nevada, are panicked about the current plans, which reduce the number of insure d and delay hard choices about which poor residents will be denied coverage starting next year. "They think that's great? That's good public policy? ” an incredulous Ohio Governor J0hn Kasich asked during a June 27 news conference in Washington. He had traveled to the capital to rally against his own party's b id t0 ove rhaul one-sixth Ofthe American economy. "Are you kidding me? ” Study after study shows the risks of skimping on relatively cheap procedures and the high return on investment for them, but that's on the table too. Medi- cal associations, Whose members stand t0 lose patients, predict that higher long- term costs will result. "lfwomen are not going tO get mammograms and not going tO get Pap smears, we'll see an increase in breast cancer, in cervical cancer and ln vulvar cancer,: ” says Dr. HaI Lawrence, executive vice president and CEO Of the American Congres s Of Obstetricians and Gynec010gists. "There will be a cascade turning back the health ofthe nation. ln fact, almost every major health care group, including the American Medical Association and hospital associations, op- 30 TIME July 10 ー 17 , 2017 Medicaid vitals Here's how the $ 331 billion ⅲ federal Medic aid funding is allocated among roughly 76 million beneficiaries Share of spending Percentage of enrollees Children (Non- disabled) ー 3 輒 Ad u lts (Non- disabled) Blind and disabled 12 % 140 ん Over 65 years 0 旧 MAY NOTADD UPTO 100 % BECAUSEOFROUNDING; AS OF JANUARY 2017 Percentage Of Americans under 65 without health insurance under current law Percentage Of Americans under 65 without health insurance under Senate bill by 2026 SOURCE: CBO

through that in their everyday lives. Stop making it such a tabOO, and make it a discussion. Benioffand Weiss claim tO have seen Ⅱ 0 Other pos- Sible outcome for a character stranded in a marriage t0 a psychopath, in a skewed version 0f feudal soci- ety. "lt might not be our world," says Beni0ff, "but it's still the same basic power dynamic between men and women ⅲ this medieval world. This is what we be- lieved was going t0 happen. ” Adds Weiss: "We talked about, is there any otherway she could possibly avoid this fate that doesn't seem fake, where she uses her pluck t0 save herself at the last? There was no ver- sion ofthat that didn't seem completely horrible. ” Even if Benioff and Weiss don't always admit it, the show has changed. Scenes in which exposition is delivered in one brothel or another, for example, have been pared back. lt's at moments like these that the success Of Thrones seems a precariously struck balance, thriving on a willingness to shockbut always risking going t00 far. BeniOff and Weiss claim tO have sworn off reading commentary about the show, good or bad. When I visit them in Los Angeles ⅲ March, they're writing the next and final season. I peek into a fridge ⅲ a lounge area in their 0 伍℃ es , a room dominated by a Thrones-branded pinball machine Weiss proudly points out, tO find three cases Ofbeer with Westeros- themed labels, low-calorie ranch dressing and yellow mustard. At this point, they have ん 11 outlines of the final six episodes. ln fact, they've been working 0 Ⅱ the very last episode, possibly the most anticipated finale since Hawkeye le 仕 Korea. "We know what happens in each scene; says weiSS. The fact that they know is remarkable consider- ing the show will reach its conclusion long before the bOOkS. The last new Thrones novel came out in 2011 , the year the show began. The author describes his next installment, the sixth ofseven, as ' massively late. ” "The journey is an adventure," says Martin, who, at 68 , has fought criticism that he won't finish the books. "There's always that process ofdiscovery for me. ” But with young, and r 叩 idly maturing, actors under contract and a community Of artisans await- ing marching orders in Belfast, the show can't wait. Benioff and Weiss always knew this would h 叩 - pen. SO they met with the novelist in 2013 , between Seasons 2 and 3 , t0 sketch out what Martin calls "the ultimate developments ” after the books and show diverge. The upshot, they say, is that the two can co- exist. " Certain things that we learned from George way back then are going to happen on the show, but certain things won't," says Benio 圧 "And there's 80 TIME July 10 ー 17 , 2017 certain things where George didn't know what was going t0 h 叩 pen, SO we're going t0 find them out for the first time tOO. ln preparation for Season 7 , Beni0ff and Weiss have gotten more possessive. That has further fueled fans' curiosity even as it has created security challenges. ln the run-up t0 Season 6 , paparazzi shOts ofHarington—and his distinctive in-character hairdo—in Belfast tipped the lnternet off that Jon Snow wasn't, in fact, as dead as he'd seemed the season before. "LOOk at hOW dffcult it is tO protect information in this age,: ” says BeniO 圧 "The CIA can't do it. The NSA can't do it. What chance do we have? ” lt's also changed the on-set dynamic. Coster- WaIdau says BenioffandWeiss have "become much more protective over the story and script. I think they feel this is truly theirs now, and it's not to be tam- pered with. l've Just sensed this last season that this is their baby: Just say the words as they're written, and shut up. Then there's the end of the end, the finale likely tO air next year or the year after. Benioff and Weiss are not writing the Thrones spin-off projects HBO revealed this year that could explore other parts 0f Westerosi history—some, all or none 0f which may end up on air. ln the meantime, they claim not tO be worrying about the public's reaction tO their ending. (Benioff says that when it comes to endgame stress,_ "medication helps. (')Weiss says, "l'm not saying we don't think about it. " He pauses. "The best way to go about it is tO focus on what's on the desk in front ofyou, or what sword is being put in front ofyou, or the fight that is being choreogr 叩 hed ⅲ front ofyou. ” What's currently before them seems like plenty. When I first met Clarke ⅲ Belfast, she was shooting on the back of a dragon. When I leave a week later, she's still at it. "Thirty seconds Of screen time and she's been here for 16 days; ” the episode's director, Taylor, remarks at one point. Later on, l'd remember this moment Of exhaustion when Weiss described seeing the buck for the first time. He went on tO add, "lt probably feels a bit less amazing to EmiIia, whO sits 0 Ⅱ it for eight hours a day, six weeks in a row, getting blasted with water and fake snow and whatever else they decide to chuck at her through the fans. ” The table with the espresso machine—just beyond CIarke's line of sight—is well traffcked. Clarke doesn't seem bothered, though, smiling and chattingwith the crew 仕 om atop the buck. As the state-of-the-art hydraulics move her intO position, her posture shifts from millennial slump to ramrod straight. ln an instant, she converts herself intO the ruler 0f the fictional space around her. On cue, she looks over her shoulder with a face of marble. She casts intO an imagined world some emotion known only t0 her. She's gazing into a future that, ⅲ the flickering mome nts that the story remains a se cret, only She can see. ロ

nation's longtime leader, Paul Kagame. Sexual violation, in short, has be- come digital as well as physical. And its rapid spread has le 仕 law enforcement, tech companies and offcials scrambling tO catch up. When evidence lives in the cloud and many laws are stuck ⅲ the pre- smartphone era, nonconsensual porn presents a worst-case scenario: it'S easy tO disseminate and nearly impossible tO punish. Advocates are trying tO change that, ⅲ part by pushing a congressional bill that would make nonconsensual porn a federal crime. But there are obstacles at every corner, from the technological challenges of fully removing anything from the lnternet, tO the attitude s Of law enforcement, tO the substantive concerns over legislation that could restrict free speech. ln the meantime, ViCtims live in fear Of becoming a 21St century verslon ofHester Prynne. "I have t0 accept at this point that it's going tO continue tO fOllOW me; ” Jefts says. ” lt's kind oflike having an incurable diS ease. JEFTS NEVER THOUGHT ofherselfas the kind ofperson who would send nude pho- tos. She is circumspect and professional— and acutely aware Of the power Of im- ages. But then she met a man whO lived an ocean away, and quickly fell ⅲ love. skype kept the relationship alive, and the pair sent each Other phOtOS and video- chatted in ways that sometimes became sexual. "lfit's World War Ⅱ and your hus- band leaves, you send letters and pictures, you have this correspondence that helps maintain that emotional connection; ” She explains. "lt's more instantaneous [today] because ofthe technology, but the origin Ofit iS the same. some nonconsensual porn comes from pictures that are hacked or taken surreptitiously, in many cases the images were traded between partners as sexts. According tO a 2016 study ofnearly 6 , 000 single adults by researchers at ln- diana University, 16 % had sent a sexual ph0t0, and more than 1 ⅲ 5 had received one. Ofthose whO received a nude image, 23 % reported sharing it with others, with men twice as likely as women tO dO SO. Boomers might be baffled by this practice, but for many under 30 , sexting isn't seen as particularly transgressive. "lt's embedded in modern relationships in a way that makes us feel safe; ” says Sherry Turkle, a professor 0f the social studies Of science and technology at MIT. "This is a question that doesn't nee d an answer if you grew up with a phone in your hand. According t0 Turkle, many digital natives are SO comfortable 0 Ⅱ the lnternet that they s imply imagine that there are fules about what can and can't happen to the content they share. "lf you feel the lnternet is safe, you want tO share everything because it'll make you feel closer and it's a new tOOl , ” she says. 'People made up a contract in their minds about the online spaces they're in. Women sometimes circulate male nudes, but studies show the vast majority Of nonconsensual images are photos Of women spread by men. 100 teens in a rural Virginia county were investigated for circulating more than 1 , 000 nude ph0t0S 0f mostly under- age girls on lnstagram. A C010rad0 dis- trict attorney chOS e not tO bring charge s against teens whO were sharing phOtOS of high schoolers and middle schoolers in 2015. Similar incidents have popped up recently in sch001s in Ohi0, New York and Connecticut, and the practice has become common enough that the Amer- ican Academy 0f Pediatrics developed a guide for parents on talking t0 children about sexting. "Lots Of this isn't intentional says Erica Johnstone, a San Francisco attorney with a practice dedicated tO sexual privacy. "lt'sjust part 0fthe hyper- masculine culture: sex pictures become like currency. 'These were images thatl t00k underthe assumption that it was a CO 咄 nsu 乢 private reIationship.The t 盟 in whichthey were 曲呼 d their meaning. R JEFTS, revenge-porn victim When accused, some men say they were hacked and the photos must be coming from another source. Others admit that they posted the ph0tos out 0f anger, lashing out over a perceived slight. One Louisiana tattOO artist tOld police he posted a sex tape Of his ex on a porn site as retribution after she damaged his car. A Minnesota man reportedly admitted putting explicit images Of his ex-wife on Facebook because he was jealous 0f her new boyfriend. The act of sharing these images can be as much about impressing Other men as it is about humiliating the vic- tim. BOYS once presented stOlen under- wear as trophies from conquests—now, a nude selfie can signal the same thing. AS a result, s chOOls around the nation have dealt with what are often referred tO as sexting rings. ln 2014 , more than ONAN OTHERWISE ordinary day in 2011 , HoIIy Jacobs decided to Google herself. a porn Site came up in her search results, JaCObs went intO what she now describes as "a complete state Of ShOCk. I could feel the blood rushing out 0f my head. I was turning white as the p age was buffering. She would S00 Ⅱ learn that ph0t0S Of her were posted on nearly 200 porn sites. A collage 0f nude images had been sent tO her bOSS and co-workers. Explicit pictures Ofher were shared with her father on Faceb00k. She says she almost lost her job at a Florida college after someone online accused her Of masturb ating with students there, and she eventually stopped working as a statistical consultant because ' every time I met with a client, I wondered ifthey had seen me naked. ' 59