APRIL 25, 2016 NEPAL’S DISASTER A year after devastating quakes, the Himalayan nation struggles to rebuild Photographs by James Nachtwey Reconstruction work has been slow in Barpak, a village at the epicenter of the earthquakes time.com NATURE SAVES LIVES of cancer-fighting drugs are derived from nature, such as coral reefs We are working with community leaders in more than 75 countries to make sure coral reefs have a fighting chance to survive and thrive into the future Learn how you can help us heal nature by visiting nature.org VOL 187, NO 15 | 2016 | Conversation | For the Record Cover Story The Brief A year after a pair of devastating earthquakes, Nepal remains in ruins | Are GOP insiders giving up on winning the White House? Unnatural Disaster By Nikhil Kumar / Photographs by James Nachtwey 22 News from the U.S and around the world | A bridge that would have saved Moses a lot of trouble | Difficult days for David Cameron | Ian Bremmer on our automated future The View Ideas, opinion, innovations 17 | Is Obamacare contributing to opioid abuse? 18 | The roots of the U.S.’s love of guns 19 | Betting on a water bottle that fills itself 19 | A Rust Belt success story 20 | Next-generation carpooling 10 | The link between money and life span 21 | Rana Foroohar: Janet Yellen is putting Main Street first 11 | Baltimore, a year after Freddie Gray’s death 40 | Joe Klein on what Bill Clinton’s crime bill got right 12 | Venezuela’s economic crisis gives rise to a vast smuggling industry Villagers in badly damaged Barpak, Nepal, aren’t getting much help 14 | The heat is on Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff 16 | The world’s coral reefs are in crisis In Debt We Stand Not much unites Americans these days—except the $13.9 trillion national debt Is that a problem? 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The U.S has the best intelligence in the world, and it could not prevent 9/11 After those attacks, the government had to install a new Department of Homeland Security And more recently, the U.S could not prevent the San Bernardino, Calif., shootings The U.S can trace and tap the phones of the world leaders but cannot prevent terrorists killing 14 people and injuring 22 others So, please, don’t say that Belgian authorities are incompetent Christian De Coninck, Zellik, Belgium EL DORADO Re “no man’s land” [April 4]: This article implies that the E.U is doing wrong in the refugee crisis Indeed, the crisis is being mishandled by the European authorities It is heartbreaking TALK TO US ▽ send an email: letters@timemagazine.com Please not send attachments ▽ follow us: facebook.com/time @time (Twitter and Instagram) to see those refugees living under dreadful conditions, desperate to reach Germany Migrants want to go to West European countries because they are the nearest free countries But if you asked them if they would be willing to live in the U.S., they would say yes So instead of criticizing Europe, I suggest the U.S send ships and planes to transport a few million migrants to their El Dorado in America What would be the reaction of the American people? Adel Courdi, Peillon, fRance THE REAL PROBLEM Re “india’s JoBs deficiT” [April 4]: “Make In India” is a good initiative by the government, but we have yet to see the benefits India’s jobs problem is largely caused by the country’s inherent attitude of not allowing manufacturing industries to flourish It is our government’s double standard— regardless of the political party—that causes a major setback for foreign companies, which are subjected to stringent and at times irrational checks, whereas local companies are allowed to produce anything, including food products, without meeting desirable quality standards It’s entrenched in the minds of people here that foreign companies “loot” the money from our country if they invest here, ignoring the job opportunities these companies can create The so-called demographic dividend will be possible only if the government changes the policies as well as the business environment to create massive job opportunities for Indians Suresh K Parappurath, BangaloRe, india BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Re “how BRussels will Affect Brexit” [April 4]: In Ian Bremmer’s piece regarding Brexit, he asserts that economically it would be “a leap into the unknown” should the U.K vote to leave the E.U He states that other E.U governments will seek to make negotiations as arduous as possible to discourage other members from leaving I would point out that this is very unlikely, but should it happen as described, then all I can see is that it would be of enormous benefit to our trade deficit with the E.U If the Germans were to decide it was in their best interests to stop selling us their cars, we would be forced to buy U.K.-manufactured cars instead Anything we buy from the E.U., we can either make ourselves or we can buy from other countries How is that a leap into the unknown? Anthony L Bonnici, welwyn, england SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ▶ In “Porn and the Threat to Virility” (April 18), we misstated the address of Noah Church’s counseling website It is addictedtointernetporn.com In the same story, we inaccurately described Reboot Nation founder Gabriel Deem’s sources of income He does not get paid for speaking Send a letter: Letters to the Editor must include writer’s full name, address and home telephone, may be edited for purposes of clarity or space, and should be addressed to the nearest office: HONG KONG - TIME Magazine Letters, 37/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong; JAPAN - TIME Magazine Letters, 2-5-1-27F Atago, Tokyo 105-6227, Japan; EUROPE - Time Magazine Letters, PO Box 63444, London, SE1P 5FJ, UK; AUSTRALIA - Time Magazine Letters, GPO Box 3873, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia; NEW ZEALAND - TIME Magazine Letters, PO Box 198, Shortland St., Auckland, 1140, New Zealand Please recycle this magazine and remove inserts and samples before recycling For the Record ‘NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT?’ PRESIDENT OBAMA, vowing that political considerations will not affect the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State $394,000 Price paid at auction for the chair J.K Rowling sat in while writing Harry Potter DAVID CAMERON, British Prime Minister, releasing his tax returns under pressure following revelations in the so-called Panama Papers that he once held interests in his late father’s offshore fund JENNIFER LAWRENCE, actor, saying the word feminism shouldn’t be controversial “because it just means equality” Monogamy A new study found married people are more likely to survive cancer GOOD WEEK BAD WEEK Distance in miles traveled by John Kerry during his tenure as U.S Secretary of State, surpassing predecessor Hillary Clinton’s mark BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, musician, canceling a concert in North Carolina to protest a state law requiring transgender people to use the bathrooms that correspond with their sex at birth Polygamy A federal court reversed a ruling that decriminalized the practice in Utah 1,200 1.06 million ‘SOME THINGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN A ROCK SHOW.’ Number of people who attached themselves to a line of mattresses before all falling down in Maryland, breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest human mattress domino chain ‘It is my lack of virtue and I am unbearably ashamed.’ TOSHIFUMI SUZUKI, chairman and CEO of the parent company of convenience-store giant 7-Eleven, blaming his own shortcomings as he resigned after losing a boardroom battle S O U R C E : L A W R E N C E : H A R P E R ’S B A Z A A R O B A M A , L A W R E N C E , C A M E R O N , S P R I N G S T E E N , R I N G S : G E T T Y I M A G E S; I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y B R O W N B I R D D E S I G N F O R T I M E ‘Aspiration and wealth creation are not dirty words.’ ‘I don’t know why that word is so scary to people.’ ‘IF THE WAVE IS HUGE AND BRINGS IN ALL OF THE SURFBOARDS, WE HAVE THE MARGINS.’ —NEXT PAGE “Count me out,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan, discussing the ongoing race for the GOP nomination CAMPAIGN 2016 The GOP’s plan to look past the presidency— and keep Congress REUTERS By Philip Elliott and Jay Newton-Small PHOTOGR APH BY YURI GRIPAS Ask RepublicAns in congRess these days whether they prefer Donald Trump or Ted Cruz and there is a good chance they will answer with a third name: Haley Barbour What does the former Republican National Committee chairman and power lobbyist who took a turn as Mississippi governor have to with the 2016 presidential election? Embattled Senators and Congressmen are holding him up as Example A of how they’d like to see the 2016 election go, though that doesn’t mean they want him on the ticket As RNC chief in 1996, Barbour bucked Bob Dole—ostensibly the head of the party as its White House nominee—and pulled funding from the presidential contest to funnel it to down-ballot races Dole lost to Bill Clinton, but Republicans ended up gaining two seats in the Senate and maintaining a majority in the House More than a few senior Republicans who see both Trump and Cruz as kryptonite in purple states with tough elections this year would be delighted to settle for such an outcome again “It’s more than O.K.,” said Tony Fratto, a top Treasury official and White House aide to President George W Bush “No one is happy that Hillary Clinton is going to be President, but there are worse things.” The current Republican Party chair, Reince Priebus, has told both Trump and Cruz that he will maintain personal control of the $126 million that donors have given him to spend as he sees fit Conservative patrons and the outside groups they fund, meanwhile, are signaling that they have thrown in 00 TheBrief Time April 25, 2016 INFRASTRUCTURE TRENDING HEALTH The Zika threat to the U.S is “scarier than we initially thought,” Dr Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, said April 11 Officials said two days later there was “no longer any doubt” the mosquito-borne virus causes the birth defect microcephaly DIPLOMACY Germany may prosecute a comedian who read a satirical poem about Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on live television Ankara requested criminal proceedings against Jan Böhmermann (above) under a German law that forbids insults to foreign leaders Bridging borders King Salman of Saudi Arabia and Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi agreed April to build a long-planned bridge across the Red Sea to connect the two countries The $1.7 billion project joins a list of ambitious attempts to build cross-border bridges CHINA AND RUSSIA The two countries plan to build a bridge by starting from either side of the Amur River, aiming to meet in the middle and complete construction within three years RUSSIA AND THE U.S A Russian oligarch proposed a plan in 2015 for a highway linking Siberia and Alaska via a 55-mile crossing over the Bering Strait The cost was projected to be in the trillions INDIA AND SRI LANKA In December, India’s Transport Minister announced a 14-mile sea bridge and tunnel had received funding, though Sri Lanka’s government said it wasn’t aware of the plans BAHRAIN AND QATAR Construction on the Qatar-Bahrain Friendship Bridge was first proposed in 1999 but, ironically enough, has been long delayed by squabbles between the neighbors DIGITS TERRORISM One in five suicide attacks launched by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in West Africa was carried out by children in 2015, according to a new report by UNICEF About 75% of the children used as bombers were female, some as young as $250 million The value of a grant by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sean Parker to fund research into immunotherapy for cancer; TIME explored the treatments—and the growing interest in them—in an April cover story H E A LT H , PA N D A , R H I N O : A P ; D I P L O M A C Y, T E R R O R I S M , C A M E R O N , T I G E R , C O N D O R , W H A L E : G E T T Y I M A G E S; I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y M A R T I N G E E F O R T I M E the towel on the presidential race and are looking at other races The network of groups backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, for example, plans to spend about $889 million before Election Day, roughly two-thirds of it on trying to drive how voters cast their ballots But neither Trump nor Cruz will see much of that cash “We will not get involved in a presidential election that descends into mudslinging and personal attacks while ignoring the critical issues facing our nation,” says James Davis, a spokesman for the Kochs’ umbrella group Instead, that cash is going to help Republicans like Senator Rob Portman of Ohio; Freedom Partners Action Fund recently spent $2 million on a TV ad for him Portman is following national Republicans’ advice carefully, running a hyperlocal campaign without betting on the nominee’s coattails “We’re running our race,” campaign manager Corry Bliss said “Hoping to be dragged across the finish line is not a strategy.” Similarly, New Hampshire Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte has been relentless in defending her state’s military bases and contractors; she says she won’t endorse in this GOP primary cycle and is likely to skip the convention in Cleveland altogether Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson would not even tell voters whom he supported before his state’s primary Some members of Congress have even been scrambling to avoid getting named as convention delegates, while North Carolina Senator Richard Burr plans to join Ayotte in skipping Cleveland to tend to his race back home Even Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, who some hoped would emerge as a white knight from a contested convention, has decided to focus on keeping his own House in order “Let me be clear: I not want, nor will I accept, the nomination for our party,” Ryan told reporters on April 12, ahead of a trip to New York City to meet with some of the party’s most generous donors That leaves the GOP down on its luck Polls show that Trump remains underwater with key constituencies in the general election, with 73% of female voters telling pollsters for CNN that they have a negative view of him The same goes for Latinos (85%), African Americans (80%) and young voters (80%) These groups view Cruz as slightly better, although he still loses to Hillary Clinton in most head-to-head surveys Democrats are looking down ballot as well, with seven Senate Republican seats rated as either tossups or leaning Democratic, and at least 14 House GOP seats—about half the number Democrats would need to take the majority—are up for grabs “If the wave is huge and brings in all of the surfboards, we have the margins,” says a House Democratic strategist “But it’s hard to predict the size of the November wave when we’re in April.” □ DATA NATURE’S COMEBACKS The global wild tiger population has increased to 3,890, according to the latest census by WWF and the Global Tiger Forum Here are other animals making returns from endangered conditions: California condor From 22 in 1982 to hundreds today MAIDEN OVER Kate Middleton takes part in a charity cricket match with former Indian cricketer Dilip Vengsarkar in Mumbai on April 10 Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge toured India and Bhutan in their first-ever official visit to the region Photograph by Kunal Patil—Hindustan Times/Sipa USA BRITAIN Hard times for David Cameron British Prime minister david cameron made his tax returns public on April 11, under pressure from revelations in the Panama Papers about his father’s offshore investment vehicle Although he has not been accused of any wrongdoing, the feud over his finances adds to the controversies the embattled PM is facing: FRACTURED PARTY The referendum on Britain’s membership in the E.U planned for June 23 has exposed a deep rift in Cameron’s ruling Conservative Party, with six members of his Cabinet breaking with the Prime Minister to lobby for a “Brexit.” Former party leader Iain Duncan Smith resigned from the front bench in March in a move widely seen as a challenge to Cameron’s leadership TAX TROUBLES Cameron unveiled new rules to tackle tax evasion after the Panama Papers, but the revelation that his family benefited from an offshore fund is embarrassing, as he has long been a critic of similar tax dodges The affair has drawn comparisons to scandals that helped bring down John Major’s Conservative government in the 1990s EUROPEAN DISUNION The sterling took a hit April 12 after a national poll found that more Brits wanted to leave the E.U than remain While the Brussels attacks have stoked nativist sentiment, Cameron’s tax issues have also hurt his credibility as the nation’s cheerleader for the “remain” camp If Britain does vote to leave the E.U in June, Cameron’s time in office is almost certainly up —dan stewart ◁ Cameron became the first British Prime Minister to publish his tax records Humpback whale Numbers are rising in Australia Indian rhino Conservation has lifted population to 3,000 Panda Wild panda totals rose 17% in China over 12 years TheBrief THE RISK REPORT presented by Trump and Sanders have tapped into a dangerous—and wrong—anti-trade sentiment By Ian Bremmer DonalD Trump anD Bernie SanDerS have BuilT their campaigns on opposition to trade Trump says the U.S has lost manufacturing jobs because American trade negotiators aren’t smart or tough enough to cut shrewd deals with China, Mexico and Japan President Trump, he promises, will bring those jobs “home.” Sanders, on the contrary, says that business elites, their lobbyists and their willing accomplices within the political establishment know exactly what they’re doing They are the “one percent,” crafting trade terms to enrich themselves at the expense of working people “Why I want to pay somebody in Michigan a living wage when I can pay slave wages in Mexico or China?” reasons Corporate America, according to Sanders Both candidates caricature reality Globalization—the processes by which ideas, people, money, goods and services cross borders at unprecedented speed—has created two sets of winners First, Sanders is right that the world’s richest have increased their share of global wealth Today, the world’s 85 richest people own the same amount of wealth as the bottom 50% of the global population There has been major progress—hundreds of millions of people in developing countries have been lifted out of poverty into the global middle class as emerging markets ramp up their industrial production But between 2001 and 2013, America’s trade deficit with China cost the U.S 3.2 million jobs, three-quarters of which were in manufacturing Trump is right about that 10 Time April 25, 2016 ing jobs over the past six years “Reshoring” has increased the number of U.S manufacturing jobs from about 11.5 million in 2010 to about 12.5 million today Trump and Sanders haven’t noted that BuT ThaT’s noT the end of the story The U.S remains far below the peak of 19.5 million manufacturing jobs in 1979, and the longer-term trend is toward technological change that increases efficiency by eliminating jobs for good Here’s where the Trump and Sanders messages are especially dangerous Most of these jobs are never coming back Just as the automobile killed the horse and buggy, so the automation of manufacturing will sideline the factory worker in coming years—in the U.S., in China and everywhere The winner from globalization’s next wave will not be the Chinese or American factory worker but those who profit from the fast-increasing efficiency of the developed world’s machines Those who claim they can restore lost jobs and those who cheer reshoring are missing this, and they will ignore the urgent need to retrain workers for the (very different) jobs of the 21st century Future factory jobs will go to those who can program, run and maintain fastevolving high-tech equipment in the age of robotics, and those flexible and resourceful enough to succeed in many different roles And there will always be fewer of these jobs than there were U.S assembly-line workers in 1977 or Chinese factory workers in 2007 The broader result will be a middle-class backlash against trade in both the developed and developing worlds, and greater pressure on governments to restore barriers This trend will be much harder on developing countries and their more brittle political systems, but it will fragment the entire global marketplace, ignite nationalist passions and provide a platform for the next wave of Trump/ Sanders-style populism— in rich and poor countries alike □ E R I C T H AY E R — G E T T Y I M A G E S The early losers are those in wealthier countries, like the U.S., who have fallen from the middle class as factory jobs have vanished These are the men and women nodding along with Trump or Sanders Their living standards are much higher than those of workers in China or Mexico, but their prospects aren’t as bright as they were taught to expect They have reason to be angry The globalized marketplace has benefited workers in China, Brazil, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey, Malaysia and Nigeria because they will work for much more modest wages, and because multinational companies have found ways to lower labor costs by outsourcing their operations You might be surprised to learn, however, that manufacturing jobs have been returning to the U.S for the better part of a decade The demand for higher wages in China and other emerging markets, the easy availability of low-cost energy for U.S businesses and the advantages of bringing production closer to wealthier consumers have together created nearly a million new manufactur- Sanders has been skeptical about the benefits of free trade America rallied around putting a woman on the $10 bill But what if Hamilton fans stick her on the back? By Maya Rhodan and David Von Drehle PHOTO-ILLUSTR ATION BY TIME White men on green paper From the days of ancient Rome, when Julius Caesar and his successors filled the empire with coins bearing their likenesses, rulers and nations have used their money—both coins and the folding stuff—to define themselves The unity of the U.K is summed up in the face of the Queen France, before the euro, decorated its currency with artists and philosophers In the U.S., for more than a century, the pantheon of faces featured on paper bills has been limited to a small number of Caucasian guys: Presidents, plus a pair of founders That monotony appeared to give way last year when the Obama Administration announced plans to put a woman on the $10 bill, with a design to be unveiled in 2020, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted voting rights to women More than a century after Martha Washington’s limited appearance on a silver certificate, the boys’ club of George, Abe, Al, Andy, Ulysses and Benjamin was going co-ed But hang on Nothing is simple in Washington With the Treasury Department poised to announce details of the plan, a battle has broken out over who, when and where And what seemed like a sure thing no longer looks likely Surging support for the current $10-bill occupant and Broadway hotshot, Alexander Hamilton, has collided with the slow and secretive process for designing counterfeitresistant money And the Treasury Secretary, who sent a memo to the President in early 2015 suggesting a woman’s portrait on the $10 bill, has since begun publicly emphasizing redesigns for the back of the note, where a woman might be featured In an interview with TIME, a Treasury Department official admits that some thinking has changed but won’t say what exactly Many advocates fear that the deal is already done: no female portrait on the front of the $10 bill And since Abe Lincoln will never be displaced from the $5 bill, no woman may arrive on the front of any currency until the Treasury sends redesigned $20 bills to the banks, which may not happen until 2030 At the center of the pileup is Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew Pressured by a powerful crew of Hamiltonians and beseeched by feminists, Lew’s hopes of pleasing everyone are sinking fast The Secretary has been urging audiences to think beyond the “one square inch”—as he puts it—of front-and-center portraiture on each U.S bill Don’t get up on that symbolism, he says, when Uncle Sam’s greenbacks have room for so many images: slogans and buildings, seals and signatures, eagles and eyeballs Instead of calling for a woman’s portrait, as he did last year, Lew now emphasizes that Hamilton is “one of my heroes.” 36 Time April 25, 2016 Americans have debated the pick for 10 months Eleanor Roosevelt The First Lady topped a 2015 poll to choose a woman for the $10 bill Harriet Tubman Democratic Senators have voiced support for the famous abolitionist Susan B Anthony The suffragist has appeared on a stamp and a $1 coin There have been dozens of men on various banknotes in the nation’s history, with forgotten names like Silas Wright and William Windom But the current roster of guys on the front of our legal tender is pretty formidable On the dollar is the Father of His Country, George Washington, for whom the capital is named He’s not losing his spot anytime soon The $5 and $50 bills belong to the two men most responsible for saving the Union when the U.S appeared doomed to implode: Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant G E T T Y I M A G E S ( ); J A C K S O N : N AT I O N A L N U M I S M AT I C C O L L E C T I O N AT T H E S M I T H S O N I A N I N S T I T U T I O N The Thing is, symbols maTTer, as does their placement To some leaders of the campaign for a woman’s portrait, a scene on the back of the bill is symbolic of second-class status “Our first representation in over 100 years, and this is going to be our representation? It’s akin to being on the back of the bus,” says Barbara Ortiz Howard, the activist who got a viral public conversation going in 2015 by pushing for a woman on the $20 bill In fact, when it comes to cash, symbolism is the whole point Bills are essentially worthless scraps of paper—except that they symbolize a store of value to back them up A Benjamin brings $100 of purchasing power, but take away a zero by decree and the same slip of paper would buy 90% less Put the correct combination of paper scraps in the hands of a cashier and they might respond with food, shelter, a flat-screen TV or a Fitbit This symbolic potency may even be increasing as money becomes more abstract When you can buy a house with a pen stroke, a car with your smartphone, a lifesaving surgery with the swipe of a plastic card, the symbol known as cash takes on the added heft of something tangible Cash isn’t real—ask inflation-racked Venezuelans—but at least you can put it in your pocket So of course there is a fight over that square SOME WOMEN IN THE RUNNING inch on the front of one bill It’s a fight that appeared to be won early by the likes of Rosie Rios, whose title is Treasurer of the United States, and whose signature appears on every bill printed during her tenure A fierce advocate for putting a woman on the currency, Rios began pushing for the change soon after she joined the Obama Administration in 2009 Her presentation to then Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner went so well, she told CNN afterward, that she left the room convinced the cause was sailing forward And in a way it was The Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence Steering Committee—a multiagency team that operates in secret to recommend and oversee currency redesigns—indicated which bill was next in line for an update The $10 note had proved most vulnerable to high-tech counterfeiters and desperately needed up-to-date security features such as three-dimensional security ribbons, multiple watermarks and color-changing inks It became the chosen vehicle for an overhaul not for any slight against Hamilton but because his bill’s time was up Meanwhile, support for women on U.S currency was growing President Obama himself joined the debate in 2014 after reading a handwritten inquiry from a 9-year-old girl named Sofia in Massachusetts, who suggested a number of candidates for the honor, including Obama’s wife Michelle Lew’s announcement in the summer of 2015 that the $10 bill would be “the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman” seemed to seal the deal But then the story got complicated, thanks to the intrusion of a couple of ghosts, a hip-hop genius and former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke “Hamilton’s demotion is intended to make room to honor a deserving woman on the face of our currency That’s a fine idea, but it shouldn’t come at Hamilton’s expense,” Bernanke wrote in a June op-ed To the nation’s financial leaders, Hamilton was not just any old white guy; he was the most important, influential and visionary of the white guys Asking a Treasury Secretary to demote Hamilton turned out to be a bit like asking a bird watcher to bury John James Audubon Either one would be hard to knock off On the $100 bill is Benjamin Franklin, who has been called “the original American”—a prototype of the self-made, entrepreneurial, clever and publicspirited man The brilliant yet idiosyncratic Thomas Jefferson gets a token nod on the littleused $2 bill, and other Presidents make footnote appearances on various high-denomination bills that are never seen in circulation That leaves the $10 and $20 bills and the two hugely influential and polarizing men whose unquiet ghosts have never stopped battling for the American mind Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Jackson, one an immigrant genius who basically invented the U.S economy, the other a charismatic President who largely created the Democratic Party The man of Wall Street and the man of Main Street The reputations of both men have oscillated wildly since their deaths in 1804 and 1845, respectively But it just so happens that Hamilton’s stock has jumped to an all-time high at precisely the moment when he’s faced with losing his, well, face His vision of the U.S as a continent-spanning, industry-based global financial power has been vindicated by history And at the same time, his singular biography (with its decidedly sexy undertones) captured the imagination of the hottest young artist on Broadway, Lin-Manuel Miranda Just when the bureaucracy seemed ready to take the wigged capitalist down a peg, Miranda’s multiethnic hip-hop musical Hamilton burst out as New York City’s hottest ticket in decades Lew went to see the production in August and soon after dropped hints that changing the face of the $10 bill might not be as simple as one face or even one bill The Secretary hosted the musical’s star at the department in March, where he told Miranda he would be “very happy” with the new note “There are multiple bills that are going to be redesigned,” the Treasury Secretary told CBS “One of the things that’s come out of this conversation is that very few people know what’s on the back of any of our bills.” Lew’s talk of the back side was the beginning of his public backslide “The notion that they might have shared real estate has struck a lot of scholars and a lot of cultural critics as disingenuous,” says historian and author Catherine Clinton, one of a group of scholars who met with Lew and Rios to discuss the matter In that meeting, she sarcastically asked if a woman might appear on 80% of the bills to represent the pay gap women have historically faced in the U.S Harvard historian Jane Kamensky attended the same meeting “You’re not going to fix gender inequality by putting a woman on the face of the $10, but boy will you emphasize gender inequal- THE HISTORY OF THE $10 BILL Change is rare in U.S currency design 1914 President Andrew Jackson appeared on the face of the first $10 bill; he is now on the $20 1929 The bill was reissued with the face of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton 2006 The last redesign includes symbols of freedom, like the torch from the Statue of Liberty ity by putting women on the back,” she says Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire who drafted a bill to put a woman on the $20 note, agrees “Whomever is chosen shouldn’t have to share the honor,” she says of the $10 bill To this, Hamilton’s defenders have pointed to a solution: Andrew Jackson, whose stock is trading at a steep discount these days, thanks to his slave-trading résumé and his record as a persecutor of Native Americans No President has fewer friends at Treasury: Jackson’s fierce crusade against national banking guaranteed that In fact, he so loathed the very concept of central banknotes that, if he came back from the dead, he might lead the charge to have his face removed from the $20 bill Deciding on the right woman for the $10 bill, either front or back, has been a struggle all its own Formidable figures from Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt to Susan B Anthony and Rosa Parks have all been suggested, with public polls showing a nation divided Complicating matters further (if that is possible) is the fact that among the women who care about this, there are surprising fault lines Hillary Clinton and her replacement in the Senate, New York’s Kirsten Gillibrand, have lined up for keeping Hamilton on the $10 bill and putting someone like Tubman on the $20 bill Exchanging a slave trader for an emancipationist heroine could send exactly the right message But even if there were agreement on which woman might get stamped on the $20 bill, the problem is timing While Lew could announce his decision any day now, the new design of the $10 bill is scheduled for unveiling in 2020, with the bills hitting pocketbooks by 2026 “The Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence Steering Committee has not made any recommendations regarding the $5 bill or the $20 bill,” said a senior government official familiar with the process That means, under a normal schedule, the U.S would be left waiting until at least 2030 to see a Tubman $20 bill at the bank (A Treasury official took issue with that timeline, saying advancements in technology as well as new and emerging threats could speed up the process.) To many proponents of a change, any additional delay for a woman front and center is too long And no proponent may have a louder voice in this fight than young Sofia of Massachusetts, who turns 11 in April She was the one, after all, whose winsome, clear-eyed letter caught the President’s eye in 2014 Asked by TIME about the current fight over the $10 note, she did not hold back “I think that putting a woman on the back of the bill would make women seem less important,” she said “You don’t pay a lot of attention to the back of the bill.” • 37 The View In the Arena What today’s Democrats can learn from Bill Clinton’s crime and welfare-reform bills By Joe Klein Given The pesTilence ThaT is passinG for a policy debate on the Republican side this year, it’s been easy to overlook the subtler follies of the Democrats But the party is slipping into ancient, discredited fantasies about social issues like criminal justice and welfare reform It took Bill Clinton to speak some truth unto protest recently, when he was interrupted by a clutch of young scholars claiming that his 1994 crime bill had “devastated” poor neighborhoods “I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-olds hopped up on crack and sent them out onto the street to murder other African-American children Maybe you thought they were good citizens,” he said, in a righteous distemper “You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter!” Clinton backtracked a bit the next day, saying the manner of his reproach was “ineffective.” And the political press skewered him for going “off message” and hurting his wife’s campaign But Hillary Clinton’s campaign could use a strong dose of politically incorrect truth telling She had a nice moment with Black Lives Matter protesters last summer, when she encouraged them to come up with a positive agenda to ease the angry dance between some police officers and some youths in black communities That was sort of courageous: too often the national conversation about race consists of “activists” screaming and white people feeling guilty Let’s stipulate that Black Lives Matter has a point Too many police are badly trained; too many act on their worst fears and think later Overt racism has declined, but it is still bred in the American bone I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood in the 1980s and saw friends of mine treated rudely by all sorts of people in authority, especially local shopkeepers The frustrations of middle-class African Americans in my neighborhood were bifurcated: they were disgusted by the louche and dangerous behavior in the black underclass, and they were infuriated by white people who mistook them for criminals or deadbeats simply because of their skin color Given the progress of the past 40 years, the growth of a substantial black middle class, the idiot vestiges of white racism must be even more infuriating now 00 Time April 25, 2016 In 1996, during his re-election bid, Bill Clinton promised to “break the gangs, ban those cop-killer bullets and give our children something to say yes to.” In 2015, following his wife’s speech asserting the need for criminaljustice reform, Clinton said the 1994 law had gone too far: “The way it was written and implemented, we have too wide a net.” Before Bill Clinton, Democrats had turned their backs on crime and welfare dependency Too many liberals subscribed to the old West Side Story “depraved on account of being deprived” theory of indigence: it was society’s fault But that theory failed to recognize the good choices made by the vast majority of African Americans who weren’t criminals or truants or drug addicts It is tragic, and wildly irresponsible, that Bill Clinton, who brought a measure of sanity to these complicated issues, is being vilified now • G E T T Y I M A G E S (2) But history and reality must be respected too The Clintonian responses to crime and welfare dependency in the 1990s were a reasonable, if imperfect, corrective to an anarchic situation There was a clamor for safer streets, which Clinton helped ease by funding 100,000 more cops For decades, Democrats had denied the truth of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s analysis of black family structure: that ONE LAW, TWO ERAS parental irresponsibility was causing a breakdown in the social order—an analysis that soon crossed racial borders “In the 10 years before the 1994 bill passed, crime had tripled among 16-to-24-yearold blacks,” a prominent sociologist told me, “but it had also doubled among 16-to-24-year-old whites.” The crime bill was belated—crime had already peaked, but no one knew it at the time The truly excessive sentencing, especially for drug crimes, had already been passed on the state level (most liberals and many conservatives now agree that prison isn’t the place for nonviolent drug offenders) The Clinton bill was as concerned with prevention programs—there was a big fight over “midnight basketball” leagues—as it was with providing Kevlar and weaponry to cops; it increased sentences for violent criminals and egregious drug dealers in the relatively minuscule federal prison system The majority of those in prison today are violent criminals who belong there The streets are much safer now Clinton’s landmark welfare-reform bill, which is also under fire, reduced the rolls by 60% Many recipients were gaming the system while working full-time jobs in the gray and black markets Truly debilitated individuals were moved onto Social Security disability According to Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution, the rolls have remained relatively stable ever since, rising slightly in the 2001 and 2008 recessions “They’re actually dropping now,” Haskins told me ‘NOT EVERY SURPRISE IS ABOUT CONVERTING INTERNET BUZZ INTO DOLLARS.’ —NEXT PAGE Lamar, West, Rihanna, Beyoncé and Cyrus have all experimented with surprise releases MUSIC Pop’s biggest stars are reviving the album by reinventing it G E T T Y I M A G E S ( ); L P : A L A M Y By Nolan Feeney On Feb 11, Kanye West threW himself a party at Madison Square Garden, partly to hype the new season of his Yeezy clothing line but also to unveil The Life of Pablo, the album he’d been dangling in front of fans since 2014 While models stood still in the center of the arena, dressed in clothes that looked ripped from a postapocalyptic thriller, West played new songs off a laptop like he was deejaying New York’s biggest house party West had long been tinkering with his new music, changing the title from So Help Me God to Swish and then Waves He’d also been amending the track list, which began with 10 songs, and sharing it on social media When he debuted the music in front of thousands at the Garden—plus 20 million or so watching the live stream—fans thought they had finally heard what The Life of Pablo was all about Kanye had other ideas One day later, he tweeted that he was adding more songs Two days later, he performed on Saturday Night Live On the third day, Pablo rose again, appearing in the wee hours on the streaming service Tidal, which West co-owns Now it had 18 tracks, and in the next 10 days it would be played 250 million times, Tidal said But Kanye wasn’t done yet That afternoon, he tweeted, “Ima fix wolves” and over the next few weeks he proceeded to change mixes, lyrics and even the guest list When he first premiered the track in 2015, “Wolves” showcased pop diva Sia and the rapper Vic Mensa; at the Garden, “Wolves” 00 Time Off Reviews featured R&B singer Frank Ocean; now the first version had been restored Some might call this rollout a mess; West calls it innovation On April 1, his label announced that The Life of Pablo— now at 19 tracks—is a “living” album with “new iterations” due in coming months It was added to Spotify and Apple Music, and as a result it is now the first album to reach No on the Billboard 200 from streaming—70% of its “sales” units were actually streams Industry pundits have long foretold the death of the album as file sharing and the digital-music revolution drove a 57% drop in sales and licensing revenue from 1999 to 2009 (Adele, who sold 3.38 million copies of her album 25 in its first week, knows those proclamations are slightly premature.) But West isn’t alone in dismantling conventions about how a major artist releases an album—or what makes an album in the first place While his peers explore the opportunities allowed by digital distribution, West has zeroed in on what streaming offers that other formats can’t: that the album you love today won’t be the same tomorrow ‘Pulling a Beyoncé’ quickly became the term for any album rollout with a surprise element 50 Time April 25, 2016 TIME PICKS MOVIES The lively comedy Elvis & Nixon (April 22) imagines the meeting that took place when the King (played by Michael Shannon) sat down with the 37th President (Kevin Spacey) in 1970 △ MUSIC Sturgill Simpson’s third album, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (April 15), is a letter to his new son, infusing his already nontraditional take on country with inflections of 1960s soul BOOKS My Struggle: Book Five (April 19), the penultimate installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s lauded autobiographical series, covers the trials of his writer’s block and his father’s death ▽ TELEVISION In Season of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (April 15), Ellie Kemper’s wholesome kidnapping survivor reunites with her mom and pursues new romantic opportunities U N B R E A K A B L E K I M M Y S C H M I D T: N E T F L I X The album as we know iT is old enough to retire Back in 1948, Columbia Records released the first successful 12-in., 33⅓-r.p.m vinyl record, nearly quintupling the amount of audio per side to around 22 minutes (Before that, an “album” referred to a bundle of 10-in., 78-r.p.m discs packaged together in paper sleeves.) Over the next few decades, the industry shifted focus from singles to albums, with artists following a rigorous pattern: record an album, promote it with a single, tour after release, repeat In recent years, a few high-profile artists have tried to break that cycle Radiohead announced its 2007 album In Rainbows 10 days ahead of its release and let fans pay what they wanted In 2010, Swedish pop star Robyn put out three minialbums so she could record and tour simultaneously before compiling the best tracks for her album Body Talk Then Beyoncé unwound everything when she chucked 14 songs with matching music videos onto iTunes with no warning in December 2013 “Pulling a Beyoncé” quickly became the term for any album rollout with a surprise element One of the most successful artists to borrow from her playbook is the rapper Drake, who released If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late with little fanfare in February 2015—only to watch it become the first million-selling album released that year Not every surprise is about converting Internet buzz into dollars Last year Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, a set of home recordings, was posted to the singer’s website; she announced it in the final seconds of her hosting duties at the MTV Video Music Awards Rihanna released Anti in late January, partly to cut her losses amid mounting expectations and bad press following three scrapped singles Rapper Kendrick Lamar used the tactic to issue material that may not have otherwise been commercially viable: last month’s untitled unmastered features rough outtakes from his Grammy-winning To Pimp a Butterfly (It managed to top the Billboard 200 albums chart anyway.) Some critics predict that fans and artists will—if they haven’t already—tire of the surprise strategy But the woman who inspired the trend offers clues about its future The week before West unveiled The Life of Pablo, Beyoncé surprisereleased the politically charged single “Formation,” with a music video referencing Hurricane Katrina and police brutality She performed the song at the Super Bowl and used the next commercial break to announce a world tour that sold $100 million in tickets in two weeks—all without a new album, which would be less lucrative (She is, however, rumored to be working on one.) It was a smart move, using the country’s biggest TV event as free advertising But it was also a glimpse at what the future might hold Perhaps the next big change to the album isn’t how much notice artists give us or how much they tinker—it’s whether they release one at all □ THEATER The biggest new sounds on Broadway ◁ BASED ON A 1921 SHOW ▷ BASED ON THE MOVIE ◁ BASED ON THE BOOK ▷ BASED ON THE BOOK ◁ REVIVAL OF A CLASSIC ▷ BY STEVE MARTIN AND EDIE BRICKELL The Broadway season has Been fairly quiet since the smash opening of Hamilton last summer But things are about to heat up with a burst of highly anticipated new musicals Along with the recently opened Bright Star—Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s tuneful if rather lumbering bluegrass show—they represent the most eclectic slate of new musicals to jam into one season in years The most buzzed-about is Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (opening April 28), partly a revival—of a landmark black musical revue with songs by Eubie Blake—and partly a backstage drama about the show’s troubled history George C Wolfe’s new production could become a landmark itself, with choreography by Savion Glover and a stellar cast headed by sixtime Tony winner Audra McDonald Also on the menu is Waitress (April 24), based on the 2007 indie film about a small-town hash slinger stuck in a loveless marriage, with a score by pop singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles Those with a taste for darker fare can whet their appetite with American Psycho (April 21), an unlikely musicalization of Bret Easton Ellis’ slasher novel about a Wall Street yuppie who’s a serial killer on the side; Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) wrote the music And for something more whimsical, there’s Tuck Everlasting (April 26), based on the children’s novel about a little girl who encounters a family that has found the secret to immortality All that’s missing is the usual big revival of an old Broadway classic Instead, a more modest revival of one of the lesser lights of the golden age will serve quite well A new production of She Loves Me, the 1963 musical about a pair of feuding co-workers in a Budapest parfumerie who don’t realize they’ve been writing anonymous love letters to each other, boasts a lovely score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, a cast that’s close to perfection and one of the most charming love stories ever put on stage A little jewel, polished up for the ages —richard zoglin BOOKS A battlefield memoir from an interrogator The vasT disTance Between war and war stories is typically filled, in books as in life, by the sort of bluster that gets people pushed onto battlefields in the first place Accounts true to the experience line a short shelf that includes E.B Sledge’s With the Old Breed, Paul Fussell’s Doing Battle and Neil McCallum’s Journey With a Pistol And now Eric Fair’s Consequence: A Memoir Fair saw no fighting in his war, yet his book has the stifled anger and hollow feeling of remembered combat Having left the Army before 9/11, he arrived in Iraq as a private contractor He knew Arabic and had a yearning to be part of things He interrogated Iraqis in plywood booths, the walls of which shook from the impact of thrown bodies He declined work in the worst part of Abu Ghraib But he posed beside a device that caused prisoners to pass out and soil themselves Consequence is Fair’s attempt to confront what he did, and failed to It reads like a compulsion, a barebones Dragnet narrative, if Detective Joe Friday were trying to find out why a man who once took refuge in church finds himself playing a Roman —Karl vicK 51 Time Off Reviews CHILDREN’S BOOKS ▽ Are you there, Allah? It’s me, Cindy MORE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS Three new books about big transitions By Sarah Begley Two years ago, There was an uproar in the usually quiet children’s-book world: frustrated by the overwhelming whiteness of kids’ books, readers took to social media to protest with the hashtag #WeNeedDiverseBooks Publishers took note In 2013, children’s books featuring black, Latino, Asian or Native American characters accounted for only 8% of those released in the U.S., according to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin– Madison In 2015, that number rose to 15% There’s still a long way to go One group that could perhaps especially use some fictional representation these days: Muslim-American kids As fear about ISIS has stoked hostile rhetoric in certain quarters, these kids have felt the effects MuslimAmerican parents have reported a spike in schoolyard bullying in recent months, with kids getting taunted for having “terrorist names.” According to the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune, some have wondered if they’d be deported if a socalled Muslim ban were put into effect Who can be these kids’ fictional hero? Enter Zomorod “Cindy” Yousefzadeh, the lovable protagonist of It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel Iranian-American author Firoozeh Dumas previously wrote about her life experiences in the best-selling memoir Funny in Farsi, and she’s applied some of those biographical details here, 52 Time April 25, 2016 ▼ The Wild Robot by Peter Brown Robot Roz boots up on a wild island after being shipwrecked in a storm; now she must learn how to survive in nature for younger readers Falafel opens in 1978, when sixthgrader Cindy (her chosen name) and her parents move to Newport Beach, Calif., straight outta Compton, where her dad was previously assigned on an oil project, and before that, straight outta Abadan, Iran She faces certain expected struggles in her first year in a new school and neighborhood: teachers can’t pronounce her name, kids ask ‘Zomorod is not a good name here   whose name starts with a Z? Nobody on this planet who counts.’ FROM IT AIN’T SO AWFUL, FALAFEL if she rides a camel, and neighbors think her mom’s cooking looks like mud But when the Iran hostage crisis begins, the Yousefzadeh family encounters a new level of nasty incidents, from a dead hamster left on their doorstep to a visit from a plumber whose T-shirt says wanTed: iranians for TargeT pracTice Yep, history will repeat itself But Dumas depicts each hurdle with compassion and laugh-out-loud humor She has created an endearingly plucky character—any kid who’s felt like an outsider could relate to Cindy Through it all, the young girl keeps in mind advice from her father: “Kindness is our religion and if we treat everybody the way we would like to be treated, the world would be a better place.” □ ▼ Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk When the bully of Annabelle’s hometown goes missing, she stands up for the loner WW I vet everyone thinks is responsible ▼ Booked by Kwame Alexander The Newbery-winning author of The Crossover returns with another book in verse about a soccer player who learns to love reading REVIEW Sing Street honors the DIY spirit When CGI panther Bagheera speaks, Ben Kingsley’s voice comes out REVIEW F R O M L E F T: D I S N E Y, E V E R E T T, T H E W E I N S T E I N C O Jon Favreau’s Jungle Book is a wild tale for a digital age filmmakers can so many terrible and excessive things with technology today Why not use it to make animals talk, a noble pursuit if ever there was one? In director Jon Favreau’s spirited, lush adaptation of The Jungle Book—based loosely on Rudyard Kipling’s stalwart fables, with dashes of the 1967 Disney version tossed in—computer-generated animals talk, sing, saunter, slink and slither around a live-action boy, Mowgli (Neel Sethi) This “man cub” has been raised by wolves, which are apparently a lot like ’70s Berkeley types when it comes to parenting: brimming with questions and quips, Mowgli is a precocious hippie child in red underpants He’s not totally carefree, though The meanest cat in the jungle, Shere Khan (Idris Elba supplies his velvety, malevolent purr), has vowed to kill him The allies who gather round include the wise panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley, in full masterthespian mode) and lover-of-life sloth bear Baloo (a fabulous Bill Murray—his voice sounds the way flannel pj’s feel) If it all sounds a little too calculated—it is Yet somehow this Jungle Book works, because Favreau has both a sense of humor and a sense of spectacle Even in 3-D, the colors—a riot of jades, cobalts and singing-canary yellows—are vibrant And where else can you see an obsessive-compulsive porcupine counting every stone he passes or a silky she-snake with a vocabulary of seductive, sinister sibilants (voiced by Scarlett Johansson, using every s in her name, and more)? She’s Eve and the devil rolled into one The Jungle Book, the movie’s credits tell us, was made entirely in downtown Los Angeles It may be an urban product, but there’s still wildness in its heart —stephanie zacharek △ JUNGLE BEAT The new Jungle Book features several songs from the 1967 animated version, including “I Wanna Be Like You” and “The Bare Necessities” from the minute some enterprising soul first plugged a guitar into an amp, bored kids everywhere have been making three-chord symphonies out of their crummy lives That’s the spirit John Carney (Once, Begin Again) captures in Sing Street, set in 1985 Dublin Fourteen-year-old Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) has been moved from his posh school to a terrible new one, and his parents, broke and unhappy, are splitting up With the spiritual guidance of his stoner older brother Brendan (sleepy-sexy Jack Reynor), he forms a band What else is there to do? Before long, Conor and his mates have come up with a handful of pure pop confections, with some cheerfully rough-around-the-edges music videos to match He also earns the affection of a winsome aspiring model (Lucy Boynton) You’ve seen every element of Sing Street hundreds of times before— it’s Carney’s knack for assembling them that makes the difference In his hands, this isn’t just a nostalgia trip It’s an homage to teenage kicks and the urgency of getting them any way you can.—s.z Duran Duran-imals and Adam Ant-alikes 00 Time Off PopChart Tokyo is getting its very own hedgehog café, where customers can pay to cuddle with the prickly creatures Three men stranded on a remote Pacific island were rescued after writing the word HELP in palm fronds on the sand, which was spotted by a military plane As part of an installation in Puglia, Italy, artist Edoardo Tresoldi built a new version of an ancient church using nothing but wire mesh After more than a century, the National Weather Service promised to cease using all capital letters in its announcements: After a recent meal in New York City’s Meatpacking District, Jim Carrey reportedly left a $225 tip on a $151 bill “[WE] WILL STOP YELLING AT YOU.” LOVE IT LEAVE IT WHAT POPPED IN CULTURE Eric and Ivanka Trump won’t be able to vote for their dad in New York’s April 19 primary because they missed the deadline to register as Republicans Several prints from Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans collection were stolen from an art museum in Springfield, Mo Starbucks faced backlash over a change to its loyalty program that could make it harder to earn free drinks Tesla had to recall 2,700 of its Model X vehicles because of a safety issue with its thirdrow seat back 00 Time April 25, 2016 The color scheme of Australia’s new $5 bill has been likened to “vomit” on social media A prank caller tricked Burger King employees in Coon Rapids, Minn., into smashing the eatery’s windows by telling them there was a gas leak By Nolan Feeney and Megan McCluskey C H U R C H : B L I N D E Y E F A C T O R Y; H E L P S I G N , $ B I L L : T W I T T E R ; W A R H O L : A P ; B U R G E R K I N G : YO U T U B E ; T E S L A ; H E D G E H O G , T E A C U P, R E C E I P T, B A L L O T B O X : A L A M Y; C A R R E Y, M C C A R T H Y, S O O K I E , I VA N K A T R U M P, E R I C T R U M P, S TA R B U C K S : G E T T Y I M A G E S TIME’S WEEKLY TAKE ON Melissa McCarthy revealed that she will be involved in Netflix’s upcoming Gilmore Girls reboot, despite earlier reports to the contrary Things get messy when Boss Lady takes her act home By Kristin van Ogtrop I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y L U C I G U T I É R R E Z F O R T I M E One Of the mOst mOrtifying mOments in my life as a working mother was the day I went to my eldest child’s elementary school to talk about my job and the teacher asked him what I did for a living My son’s answer? “She fires people.” A more accurate response would have been “She goes to meetings,” but I couldn’t really blame the kid for skipping the mundane parts Back then, in a (clearly misguided) attempt to help my children understand what I did during our time apart, I had taken a friend’s advice to make my job seem really dramatic! Full of extreme highs and lows! To hold their interest! Which I did, until I realized that if my children were asked to describe my workplace, it would have sounded like an acid trip starring the Big Fat Liar, the Woman Who Always Cries and the Most Boring Man in the World And reigning over this little nonsensical kingdom: Dear Old Mom, otherwise known as the Boss According to Hollywood, being a woman in charge is a pretty straightforward business I’ve just seen the new Melissa McCarthy movie, The Boss, in which she plays a scared, scarred self-made mogul who can’t handle the messiness and intimacy of a personal life She finds herself in a desperate situation that forces her to rely on the kindness of her long-suffering assistant and learns that there are more important things in life than making money because it’s people that really matter yada yada yada While I am an enormous fan of McCarthy’s and might even pay money to see her read the phone book, as I watched I thought: Haven’t I seen this plot before? Once again movies are neither the mirror nor the lamp but, well, an acid trip in which a woman can be great at having a career or great at having a personal life but seldom great at both In the real world, whether they like it or not, many women are in charge at work and at home (Imagine!) The other day I asked my 9-year-old if I was the family boss, to which he replied, “Yes, which is kind of annoying.” “Why?” I asked “I wish a boy could be a boss,” he said “Why?” “More fairness Boys let people more stuff No offense, Mom.” But this is progress, right? No more waiting by the front door with a martini in your hand for the big guy to get home and count out your spending money Progress! I suppose Over the course of my career I’ve had the great fortune of working for many women who balanced, sometimes gracefully, sometimes not, atop the three-legged stool of career, motherhood and marital success There are two beliefs I have held on to as I have risen through the ranks in corporate America The first is that if an idea is really hard to explain, then it’s probably not a very good idea The second is that it’s nearly impossible to simultaneously triumph in career, motherhood and marriage All too often, one of the three will be sacrificed for the benefit of the other two Not exactly selective elimination—more like survival of the fittest Years ago I had a conversation with a working friend who said she wouldn’t let her babysitter the grocery shopping while the kids were in school because “she would buy the wrong kind of lettuce.” While I regarded this as something of a management failure, I knew exactly what my friend meant When I can’t find my son’s gloves for a weekend lacrosse game because he came home with his babysitter from practice on Thursday afternoon and put them God knows where, my anger and frustration is not really about missing gloves It’s about my own failure as a mother and a working woman just trying to keep it all together And the feeling that one of the three legs of the stool is breaking Since Seeing The Boss, I’ve been racking my brain to come up with a movie that accurately reflects the triumphs and struggles of working motherhood, and bizarrely my mind keeps going back to Boyhood In which the Patricia Arquette character ends up, apparently by choice, alone Is she sad, or is she liberated? Yes This morning my husband and I were talking about a problem I am having with one of our children In an attempt to be helpful and take the long view, my husband said, “He’s not an employee, and you can’t fire him.” Which is true, and healthy, and as it should be But, oh man, even though I dearly love that child of mine, sometimes I really wish I could Van Ogtrop is the editor of Real Simple 00 10 Questions James McBride The National Book Award winner and musician talks stupidity, soul and Kill ’Em and Leave, his new biography of James Brown You write that most James Brown biographers aren’t stupid enough to try to present a complete picture of his life Why did you want to try? The American cultural landscape is skewed toward who can scream the loudest In his time, James Brown could scream—but there’s a deeper level of his cultural importance, which I felt wasn’t really addressed by other books And I look at him also from the perspective of being a black musician as well as a writer, so he was very important to me The subtitle is Searching for James Brown and the American Soul How you define soul? I don’t think soul is necessarily a black thing Dolly Parton has soul Willie Nelson is loaded with soul Jonathan Demme has soul Soul is really the American way of spreading love and also [conveying] information about people who have less That’s my definition of soul And in that regard James Brown was the king Is soul something you can develop? No, no Soul is in you Either you have it or you don’t Did you learn anything about James Brown that surprised you? That he was disappointed in the evolution of African-American life The business of people by the thousands, or the hundreds of thousands, who didn’t work He wasn’t a fan of welfare 60 Time April 25, 2016 Those masks also come up in your novel The Good Lord Bird What attracts you to the idea? We have a hard time talking to each other in America We just can’t seem to get past this business of race Which, by the way, I’m exhausted talking about You’re working on an HBO mini­ series about Martin Luther King Jr with Taylor Branch, David Simon and Ta­Nehisi Coates What’s that writers’ room like? David Simon is like Duke Ellington Ellington had this big band of great soloists, and he’d just turn ’em loose and let each play their solos Brown and King are such monu­ mental figures to tackle Where you even start? You go to the corners Everybody knows about James Brown, but very few people know about Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis, who helped create his sound In the case of the [HBO show], we’re not writing about Martin Luther King very much We’re writing about the sharecroppers and the college students in Mississippi who got their heads beat in, and the poor folks who went to town to register to vote and got their heads knocked in, and the white Southerners who tried to change and suffered the brutal rebuke of their own neighbors You go to the toe first and work your way to the eyeball, not the other way around It’s been 20 years since you wrote The Color of Water How does life compare with your expectations back then? When I wrote it I was a different person I was seeking a kind of peace in terms of my identity I have that peace now —LiLY ROTHmAN J AV I E R S I R V E N T F O R T I M E You’re pretty tough on the biopic Get On Up, calling it out as inaccurate for making him look more “wacko” than he was Is that your journal­ ism background showing? Part of the problem is that James Brown’s life was fictionalized by James Brown himself He felt white people didn’t really care where he came from He was just a poor black guy He could say anything he wanted; the Horatio Alger story sells well But as a journalist, when you go down to try to ferret out the facts, you find out a lot of different things How you that while telling the story of someone who wanted to keep those secrets? 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