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{"entries": [{"title": "Xi Jinping celebrates China\u2019s rising power \u2014 and his own", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "Xi Jinping celebrates China\u2019s rising power \u2014 and his own"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/xi-jinping-celebrates-chinas-rising-power/"}, {"length": "8000000", "type": "audio/mpeg", "href": "https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171018_XiJinpingcelebrates.mp3", "rel": "enclosure"}], "link": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/xi-jinping-celebrates-chinas-rising-power/", "comments": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/xi-jinping-celebrates-chinas-rising-power/#respond", "published": "Wed, 18 Oct 2017 22:35:21 +0000", "published_parsed": [2017, 10, 18, 22, 35, 21, 2, 291, 0], "authors": [{"name": "PBS NewsHour"}], "author": "PBS NewsHour", "author_detail": {"name": "PBS NewsHour"}, "tags": [{"term": "china", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Communist Party of China", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Xi Jinping", "scheme": null, "label": null}], "id": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/?post_type=bb&p=231043", "guidislink": false, "summary": "President Xi Jinping opened China\u2019s twice-per decade Communist Party Congress on Wednesday hailing the reforms he put in place during his first five-year term and sharing his vision for where he hopes to take the nation. William Brangham reports on the congress as it prepares to announce Xi\u2019s successor and how new leadership may transform China\u2019s role as a global economic partner.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "President Xi Jinping opened China\u2019s twice-per decade Communist Party Congress on Wednesday hailing the reforms he put in place during his first five-year term and sharing his vision for where he hopes to take the nation. William Brangham reports on the congress as it prepares to announce Xi\u2019s successor and how new leadership may transform China\u2019s role as a global economic partner."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<p><strong>HARI SREENIVASAN:</strong> President Xi Jinping opened China&#8217;s twice-per-decade Communist Party Congress today with a lengthy list of his achievements during his first five-year term, and his vision of where he hopes to take his nation.</p>\n<p>But beyond the words, Xi is asserting power like no Chinese leader in decades.</p>\n<p>William Brangham reports.</p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAM BRANGHAM:</strong> The applause, the music, it was a reception befitting the commanding role that Xi Jinping has taken since being named party leader five years ago.</p>\n<p>He opened today&#8217;s proceedings by hailing reforms he&#8217;s put in place, and proclaiming a &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;new era for China.&#8221;</p>\n<p><strong>PRESIDENT XI JINPING,</strong> China (through interpreter): The Chinese nation has realized a great leap, from declining in modern history to twisting its fate fundamentally and continuously moving to prosperity.</p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAM BRANGHAM:</strong> Over 3.5 hours, Xi laid out his vision to shape the nation of 1.4 billion people into what he called a &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;great modern socialist country&#8221; over the next three decades.</p>\n<p><strong>PRESIDENT XI JINPING</strong> (through interpreter): Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will be no walk in the park, and it will take more than drumbeating and gong-clanging to get there. The whole party must be prepared to make more arduous, strenuous efforts.</p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAM BRANGHAM:</strong> Susan Shirk is chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego.</p>\n<p><strong>SUSAN SHIRK,</strong> University of California, San Diego: Xi Jinping has a vision of China&#8217;s role in the world that is much more ambitious than anything we have seen before, talking about China kind of moving toward the center of the world and having a lot more influence than it did before.</p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAM BRANGHAM:</strong> In his address, Xi largely ignored the question of political reforms in China, and he didn&#8217;t mention President Trump or North Korea&#8217;s nuclear weapons program.</p>\n<p>But in a rare move, he did acknowledge that with global demand weakening, there were challenges facing China&#8217;s export-driven economy.</p>\n<p><strong>PRESIDENT XI JINPING</strong>\u00a0(through\u00a0interpreter):\u00a0 While China&#8217;s overall productive forces have significantly improved and in many areas our production capacity leads the world, the more prominent problem is that our development is unbalanced and inadequate.</p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAM BRANGHAM:</strong> Xi was one of the first foreign leaders to meet with President Trump.</p>\n<p><strong>PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:</strong> The relationship developed by President Xi and myself, I think, is outstanding.</p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAM BRANGHAM:</strong> That was decidedly warmer than Mr. Trump&#8217;s past criticism of China and its economic and trade policies.</p>\n<p>But other U.S. officials are more critical of Beijing&#8217;s actions.</p>\n<p><strong>REX TILLERSON,</strong> Secretary of State: China, while rising alongside India, has done so less responsibly.</p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAM BRANGHAM:</strong> Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today criticized China&#8217;s aggressive displays of economic and military power, particularly its expansion on man-made islands in the South China Sea.</p>\n<p><strong>REX TILLERSON:</strong> We will not shrink from China&#8217;s challenges to the rules-based order, and where China subverts the sovereignty of neighboring countries and disadvantages the U.S. and our friends.</p>\n<p><strong>SUSAN SHIRK:</strong> I think there are things to worry about in Chinese foreign policy that are mostly related to these maritime sovereignty issues and to a kind of bullying in Asia, but the global ambition could turn out to be positive.</p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAM BRANGHAM:</strong> Susan Shirk says China has filled a vacuum left by the United States&#8217; withdrawal from global agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris climate accords.</p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important thing to watch for in the next few days is who Xi establishes as his likely successor.</p>\n<p><strong>SUSAN SHIRK:</strong> That is why there is a lot of speculation now that he may be trying, much like Putin, to stay on beyond his normal term or to rule behind the scenes even after he retires.</p>\n<p><strong>WILLIAM BRANGHAM:</strong> President Trump will be traveling to Beijing to meet Xi next month.</p>\n<p>For the PBS NewsHour, I&#8217;m William Brangham.</p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/xi-jinping-celebrates-chinas-rising-power/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Xi Jinping celebrates China&#8217;s rising power &#8212; and his own</a> appeared first on <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS NewsHour</a>.</p>"}], "wfw_commentrss": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/xi-jinping-celebrates-chinas-rising-power/feed/", "slash_comments": "0", "itunes_duration": "4:06", "media_content": [{"url": "http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/RTS1G5ZZ-1024x686.jpg", "medium": "image"}]}, {"title": "The battle for Mosul is over, but this hidden ISIS danger could lurk for years", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "The battle for Mosul is over, but this hidden ISIS danger could lurk for years"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/battle-mosul-hidden-isis-danger-lurk-years/"}, {"length": "14000000", "type": "audio/mpeg", "href": "https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20171018_ThebattleforMosul.mp3", "rel": "enclosure"}], "link": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/battle-mosul-hidden-isis-danger-lurk-years/", "comments": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/battle-mosul-hidden-isis-danger-lurk-years/#respond", "published": "Wed, 18 Oct 2017 22:20:26 +0000", "published_parsed": [2017, 10, 18, 22, 20, 26, 2, 291, 0], "authors": [{"name": "Patty Morales"}], "author": "Patty Morales", "author_detail": {"name": "Patty Morales"}, "tags": [{"term": "iraq", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "islamic state", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "land mines", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Mosul", "scheme": null, "label": null}], "id": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/?post_type=bb&p=231045", "guidislink": false, "summary": "Iraq may have ousted Islamic States militants from the city of Mosul over the summer, but the major task of finding and destroying the mines, booby traps and bombs remains. A security firm hired by the U.S. and Iraqi workers are making progress to clear major areas, but it could take years or even decades. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports on the safety of Mosul after ISIS.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "Iraq may have ousted Islamic States militants from the city of Mosul over the summer, but the major task of finding and destroying the mines, booby traps and bombs remains. A security firm hired by the U.S. and Iraqi workers are making progress to clear major areas, but it could take years or even decades. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports on the safety of Mosul after ISIS."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<p><strong>HARI SREENIVASAN:</strong> But first: The de facto capital of the Islamic State, Raqqa, in Syria fell yesterday to U.S.-backed forces.</p>\n<p>However, the largest city the militants once held was Mosul in Iraq. They were ousted from it in July after a brutal 10-month-long fight that killed thousands.</p>\n<p>Now a new major task: finding and destroying the ISIS mines, booby-traps and bombs that litter the city.</p>\n<p>Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports from Iraq.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS, </strong>Special Correspondent: It was once a center of learning for over 6,000 students of technology, agriculture, and medicine.</p>\n<p>Today, Mosul Technical Institute&#8217;s classrooms are burnt to the ground, laboratories reduced to rubble, and books charred and shredded. It&#8217;s one of the city&#8217;s five universities ravaged by the Islamic State and the battle to oust it.</p>\n<p>Now that the battle is over, a new danger looms, the trail of land mines and booby-traps left by ISIS.</p>\n<p>So this is the wire, and this is where it was buried.</p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN,</strong>\u00a0Team Leader, Janus Global Operations: Yes, they would cut the asphalt, and then they lay the wire in and put the main charge here.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> We spent the day with Christian, a team leader from Janus Global, a security and risk management firm hired by the U.S. government to sweep and clear major areas of unexploded ordnance and mines.</p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not allowed to show his face or use his last name, for security reasons.</p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN:</strong> There&#8217;s actually two more on that road before we get to the target building that have to be excavated and/or rendered safe.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> So, the first building you have to clear, you have got to get rid of the IEDs on the road to that building?</p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN:</strong> Yes.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> It&#8217;s a long process.</p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN:</strong> It is, but that&#8217;s what makes it interesting.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> The United States has sunk $30 million this year into clearing former ISIS territories all over Northern Iraq. Under this program, Janus has already cleared 727 buildings, removing 3,000 IEDs, which they say ISIS was producing on assembly lines at an industrial scale.</p>\n<p>But State Department officials and experts say the number of unexploded ordnance in Mosul itself is unprecedented.</p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your first line of attack, in terms of trying to clear Mosul?</p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN:</strong> Our priority is more the community, rather than the individual, you know, infrastructure. You have got schools, power, sewer, water, so that the area can accept people back into it. And then, once this stabilization phase is over, we can move into the individual homes, so that they can be safer.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> Clearing Mosul is a process that they say could take years, even decades. So Janus is training local Iraqis to do the job, sending them out as a front-line search team, then investigating and removing any suspicious items themselves.</p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN:</strong> We&#8217;re not going to be here the whole time, so when we &#8212; it&#8217;s our time to leave, they will have the capacity built from us, and the mentoring we have done, so that they can do it on their own.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> How are they doing?</p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN:</strong> They&#8217;re &#8212; a lot of them are very apt to learn. They&#8217;re quick. They&#8217;re smart.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> Fawzi al Nabdi is the team leader for the Iraqi local partner. He&#8217;s cleared mines all over Iraq for the last six years.</p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN:</strong> What you got?</p>\n<p><strong>FAWZI AL NABDI,</strong> Team Leader, Al Fahad Company (through interpreter): We are ready for this, because it&#8217;s my job and I love it. The Americans are here to complete our work and to help us. They have greater experience than we do. If we find any mines, we have to stop and they will investigate it and make a plan to remove it.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> But he says Mosul is the biggest project he has ever seen, and we&#8217;re told it could take at least a month to just get the campus cleared of mines. Only then can they start cleaning it up, so that students can resume classes, this itself a huge task.</p>\n<p>ISIS fighters closed the university back in 2014, and used it as a military base. As coalition forces pounded ISIS targets, this seat of higher learning became a battleground.</p>\n<p>Ghassan Alubaidy is the institute&#8217;s dean.</p>\n<p><strong>GHASSAN ALUBAIDY,</strong> Dean, Mosul Technical Institute (through interpreter): ISIS used our university to manufacture mines and bombs. For this reason, it was the target of airstrikes in the beginning. They struck the institute nine times, and they struck our workshops, too. Now we can&#8217;t use them.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, recently listed 81 locations where bombs were dropped, but had not yet exploded.</p>\n<p>Facilities used to make weapons were often on the list of high-value targets for the coalition. So now those places are twice as likely to contain dangerous items.</p>\n<p>So, this was once a workshop for electrical engineering students. You can still see the lab tables here. It was hit by an airstrike in 2015. Afterwards, members of the university staff found bomb-making instructions among the rubble. This was likely an ISIS bomb-making factory, and judging by the crater, a high-value target.</p>\n<p>Despite the damage, Dean Alubaidy says he will hold classes this fall in alternate buildings, until the campus is ready. He&#8217;s expecting registration to be in the thousands, students who lost three years of education during the fighting and don&#8217;t want to lose another one.</p>\n<p><strong>GHASSAN ALUBAIDY</strong> (through interpreter): On our Facebook pages, we found a great number of students posting that they were full of encouragement to come back. For us, it was unbelievable. We couldn&#8217;t imagine it, to see how many students wanted to start again, how they were dreaming of the first day of classes, when they could sit in front of teachers again and start to live their lives again.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> Next door, Mosul University has already started classes. Students even volunteered to help in the cleanup.</p>\n<p>But across the river, West Mosul was the site of ISIS&#8217; last stand and bore the brunt of the battle. It&#8217;s densely packed Old City, with its flattened buildings, is a challenge for mine-sweeping.</p>\n<p><strong>FAWZI AL-NABDI</strong> (through interpreter): Most of the homes here were full of mines. And just here in front of us, a man with two kids came back to his home, and when he opened the door, the bomb killed him and his kids.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> Ahmed Younes fled back in early July with only the clothes on his back. Residents have been virtually banned from returning to his neighborhood on the outskirts of the Old City, but Ahmed said he got special permission, in order to retrieve some personal items.</p>\n<p><strong>AHMED YOUNES,</strong> Local Resident (through interpreter): We came on our own. We got permission to come, but they are not responsible if anything happens to us.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> Right now, there is no plan to begin clearing the Old City or even to determine how many mines there are. It is still out of bounds to anyone but the Iraqi security forces.</p>\n<p>So the Janus team is focusing on progress in the rest of the city, building by building, bomb by bomb.</p>\n<p><strong>CHRISTIAN:</strong> Whoever made this device had a set goal. And to allow him to win, people get hurt. So you kind of compete against him to be better than him to take it out before it can do any harm.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> So, you feel like you&#8217;re winning the battle against ISIS?</p>\n<p>CHRISTIAN: Yes, one IED at a time.</p>\n<p><strong>MARCIA BIGGS:</strong> For the PBS NewsHour, I&#8217;m Marcia Biggs in Mosul, Iraq.</p>\n<p><strong>HARI SREENIVASAN:</strong> Tune in later.</p>\n<p>Frontline&#8217;s latest film, &#8220;Mosul,&#8221; was on the ground filming the fight as it unfolded street by street and house by house. That&#8217;s tonight on PBS.</p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/battle-mosul-hidden-isis-danger-lurk-years/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The battle for Mosul is over, but this hidden ISIS danger could lurk for years</a> appeared first on <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS NewsHour</a>.</p>"}], "wfw_commentrss": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/battle-mosul-hidden-isis-danger-lurk-years/feed/", "slash_comments": "0", "itunes_duration": "7:28", "media_content": [{"url": "http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/RTSUCOP-1024x565.jpg", "medium": "image"}]}, {"title": "As Rohingya refugees continue to flee from persecution, here\u2019s how you can help", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "As Rohingya refugees continue to flee from persecution, here\u2019s how you can help"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rohingya-refugees-continue-flee-persecution-heres-can-help/"}], "link": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rohingya-refugees-continue-flee-persecution-heres-can-help/", "comments": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rohingya-refugees-continue-flee-persecution-heres-can-help/#respond", "published": "Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:58:34 +0000", "published_parsed": [2017, 10, 18, 20, 58, 34, 2, 291, 0], "authors": [{"name": "Joshua Barajas"}], "author": "Joshua Barajas", "author_detail": {"name": "Joshua Barajas"}, "tags": [{"term": "Bangladesh", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "myanmar", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Rohingya Muslims", "scheme": null, "label": null}], "id": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/?post_type=rundown&p=231028", "guidislink": false, "summary": "More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes since August to escape systematic violence at the hands of government soldiers in Myanmar. Here's how you can help.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes since August to escape systematic violence at the hands of government soldiers in Myanmar. Here's how you can help."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_231031\" style=\"width: 2200px;\"></div>\n<p>More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes since August to <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/500000-rohingya-flee-rape-fire-murder-myanmar/\">escape systematic violence</a> at the hands of government soldiers in Myanmar. The U.N. has called the actions taken by Myanmar forces against the group <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/500000-rohingya-flee-rape-fire-murder-myanmar/\">\u201ca textbook example of ethnic cleansing.\u201d</a></p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa16/7288/2017/en/\">report released by Amnesty International</a> on Wednesday documents widespread rape, killings and burnings of Rohingya across the Rakhine State in Myanmar. The report includes extensive interviews of Rohingya refugees who tell stories of live burnings, sexual violence and mass shootings at the hands of soldiers. </p>\n<p>To escape persecution, Rohingya refugees are <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/flooding-bangladesh-rohingya-refugees-flee-harrowing-violence/\">fleeing in droves</a> to neighboring Bangladesh, a country described by some as a <a href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/16/558042344/for-half-a-million-rohingya-fleeing-myanmar-bangladesh-is-a-reluctant-host\">reluctant host</a> for the thousands of refugees behind its borders. Conditions within Bangladesh show refugee camps <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/10/18/in-photos-the-rohingyas-harrowing-escape-from-burma/?utm_term=.df842a88e95a\">beyond capacity</a>, as organizations struggle to keep up with humanitarian aid. </p>\n<p><strong>Find out more:</strong> Rohingya Muslims have been <a href=\"http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/08/rohingya-muslims-170831065142812.html\">denied citizenship</a> in Myanmar since 1982, though they\u2019ve lived in the area since the 12th century.  They are not considered one of the country\u2019s official ethnic groups. As such, their <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/09/06/how-burmas-rohingya-crisis-went-from-bad-to-worse/?utm_term=.e0b24ecd13dc\">lack of official identity</a> bars them from government services and travel.</p>\n<p>Officials from Myanmar, a majority Buddhist state, claim Rohingya are <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-muslim.html\">actually immigrants</a> from Bangladesh to justify their exclusion of the group. This most recent burst of violence comes from <a href=\"https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/rohingya-crisis\">Myanmar\u2019s crackdown</a> following clashes with the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). After the government declared ARSA a terrorist organization, the retaliation escalated into hundreds of Rohingya villages. </p>\n<p><strong>Where to give:</strong> BRAC, a top-ranked NGO based out of Bangladesh, is scaling up humanitarian efforts for clean water, health, sanitation and child care for refugees from Myanmar. You can learn more about their efforts here. </p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/emergency-appeal\">emergency appeal</a> was made by the Disasters Emergency Committee for immediate crisis relief funds. DEC <a href=\"https://www.dec.org.uk/how-we-work\">distributes funds</a> to 13 member aid organizations.<br />\n<a href=\"https://donate.unhcr.org/gu-en/rohingya\">UNHCR</a>, <a href=\"https://www.unicefusa.org/donate/help-rohingya-children-escaping-violence-myanmar/32942\">UNICEF</a> and <a href=\"https://secure.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.9535467/k.A7EB/Rohingya_Crisis_Childrens_Relief_Fund/apps/ka/sd/donor.asp\">Save the Children</a> have donation pages dedicated to the crisis, as does the <a href=\"https://help.rescue.org/donate/choose-monthly-giving?ms=gs_ppc_ch_myanmar_sust_es_171002&#038;initialms=gs_ppc_ch_myanmar_sust_es_171002&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQjw95vPBRDVARIsAKvPd3IoF9Sqs50hLiraEqGV0eVoqDvfM4sQYW7ICISvyEOCo4_FSSP3ynEaAgNWEALw_wcB\">International Rescue Committee</a>. CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https://publicgood.com/media/cnn/campaign/help-rohingya-refugees?utm_campaign=Do-Public-Good&#038;utm_medium=button&#038;utm_source=cnn&#038;utm_content=http:%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2017%2F09%2F13%2Fworld%2Fiyw-rohingya-refugees-flee-violence%2Findex.html&#038;title=Rohingya%20refugees%20need%20your%20help\">Public Good page</a> provides a user-friendly resource to find NGOs that match your giving goals. </p>\n<p>To give to <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/oct/16/severe-lack-of-food-drives-thousands-more-rohingya-into-bangladesh-myanmar\">starvation relief</a>, try <a href=\"https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/story/rohingya-refugee-crisis-bangladesh\">Action Against Hunger</a> or the <a href=\"http://cdn.wfp.org/donate/\">World Food Programme</a>.</p>\n<p><em>Be sure to research organizations receiving your financial contributions, not only to find the best organization aligned with your goals, but also to avoid potential scams. For the latest information on aid organizations and charities, visit <a href=\"http://www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx\">GuideStar</a> or <a href=\"https://www.charitynavigator.org/\">Charity Navigator</a> to ensure your donations are going in the right direction.</em></p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rohingya-refugees-continue-flee-persecution-heres-can-help/\" rel=\"nofollow\">As Rohingya refugees continue to flee from persecution, here\u2019s how you can help</a> appeared first on <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS NewsHour</a>.</p>"}], "wfw_commentrss": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rohingya-refugees-continue-flee-persecution-heres-can-help/feed/", "slash_comments": "0", "media_content": [{"url": "http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/RTS1H1VN-1024x683.jpg", "medium": "image"}]}, {"title": "Tillerson: \u2018Heartbreaking\u2019 reports of suffering in Myanmar", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "Tillerson: \u2018Heartbreaking\u2019 reports of suffering in Myanmar"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/tillerson-heartbreaking-reports-suffering-myanmar/"}], "link": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/tillerson-heartbreaking-reports-suffering-myanmar/", "comments": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/tillerson-heartbreaking-reports-suffering-myanmar/#respond", "published": "Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:36:51 +0000", "published_parsed": [2017, 10, 18, 15, 36, 51, 2, 291, 0], "authors": [{"name": "Larisa Epatko"}], "author": "Larisa Epatko", "author_detail": {"name": "Larisa Epatko"}, "tags": [{"term": "myanmar", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Rex Tillerson", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "rohingya", "scheme": null, "label": null}], "id": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/?post_type=rundown&p=230996", "guidislink": false, "summary": "WASHINGTON \u2014 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is condemning reported atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and he says those responsible \u2014 perhaps the country's military \u2014 will be held accountable.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "WASHINGTON \u2014 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is condemning reported atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and he says those responsible \u2014 perhaps the country's military \u2014 will be held accountable."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<p></p>\n<p><em>Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Wednesday.</em></p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is condemning reported atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and he says those responsible \u2014 perhaps the country&#8217;s military \u2014 will be held accountable.</p>\n<p>Tillerson says accounts of the suffering of the Rohingya are &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; \u2014 and that if those reports are true, then &#8220;someone is going to be held to account for that.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Tillerson \u2014 who&#8217;s set to visit South Asia next week \u2014 is urging the Myanmar government to improve humanitarian access to the population in western Rakhine state.</p>\n<p>Amnesty International has accused Myanmar&#8217;s security forces of killing hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel the Rohingya. More than 580,000 refugees have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August.</p>\n<p>&#8220;We really hold the military leadership accountable for what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; Tillerson said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. &#8220;What&#8217;s most important to us is that the world can&#8217;t just stand idly by and be witness to the atrocities that are being reported in that area.&#8221;</p>\n<p>He also called Wednesday for the U.S. and India to expand strategic ties. He pointedly criticized China, which he accused of challenging international norms needed for global stability.</p>\n<p>He said the world needed the U.S. and India to have a strong partnership. 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To make his point, he alluded to China&#8217;s island building and expansive territorial claims in seas where Beijing has long-running disputes with Southeast Asian neighbors.</p>\n<p>&#8220;China&#8217;s provocative actions in the South China Sea directly challenge the international law and norms that the United States and India both stand for,&#8221; Tillerson said in an address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.</p>\n<p>He added that the U.S. seeks constructive relations with China but &#8220;won&#8217;t shrink&#8221; from the challenges it poses when it &#8220;subverts the sovereignty of neighboring countries, and disadvantages the U.S. and our friends.&#8221;</p>\n<p>U.S.-India relations have generally prospered in the past decade, in part because of their shared concerns about the rise of China. 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Earlier, a strengthened far-right party dealt a blow to returning leader Angela Merkel in Germany\u2019s election. As Sweden\u2019s election approaches next year, special correspondent Michael Brabant surveys the changing political landscape in Europe.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "Sunday\u2019s election in Austria brought victory to 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, who was elected chancellor on an anti-immigrant platform. Earlier, a strengthened far-right party dealt a blow to returning leader Angela Merkel in Germany\u2019s election. As Sweden\u2019s election approaches next year, special correspondent Michael Brabant surveys the changing political landscape in Europe."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> But first: Sunday&#8217;s elections Austria were the latest ample of a shift to the right Europe&#8217;s politics, as 31-year-old Christian Kurz was elected chancellor on an anti-immigration platform.</p>\n<p>He may now form a government with a far-right party founded in the 1950s by former Nazis.</p>\n<p>That follows recent elections in Germany, where a far-right party roiled the race and dealt a blow to returning leader Angela Merkel.</p>\n<p>In Sweden, too, there is a strong challenge from the right and a neo-Nazi group that looks stand in elections next year.</p>\n<p>Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant ha been surveying the political landscape in Germany and Sweden, and he begins his report in Scandinavia.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT, </strong>Special Correspondent: In a Gothenburg parking lot, supporters of the Nordic Resistance Movement form up for what they hope will be their biggest-ever march, to propagate an ideology espoused by mother of eight Paulina Forslund.</p>\n<p><strong>PAULINA FORSLUND,</strong> Nordic Resistance Movement: When white becomes the minority, they will be destroyed. I want my children to have a secure future. I want them not only for them to have a secure Sweden. I want them to have a secure world. And I want other people to fight for the same thing.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> When addressing her fellow neo-Nazis, Forslund&#8217;s rhetoric sharpens.</p>\n<p><strong>PAULINA FORSLUND</strong> (through interpreter): I&#8217;m the welder&#8217;s daughter, the forester&#8217;s grandchild. My line consists of hardworking men and women. It&#8217;s people like them we can thank for the welfare system that our lying politicians are now giving away to imported scum.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> Clearly expecting trouble, the movement&#8217;s leaders have a muscular protection detail, marching past a silent protest. The sign reads &#8220;No Nazis on our streets.&#8221;</p>\n<p>This protester would only give her name as Johanna.</p>\n<p><strong>JOHANNA,</strong> Anti-Nazi Protester: They are racist people. They are people who think that certain people are better than others, and I will not stand for that. It&#8217;s not something I think has a place in a modern society.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> Experts say the resistance movement is recruiting aggressively, and believe this demonstration is emblematic of the rise of the far right.</p>\n<p>It took place on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.</p>\n<p>Allan Stutzinky is leader of Gothenburg&#8217;s Jewish community.</p>\n<p><strong>ALLAN STUTZINKY,</strong>\u00a0Jewish Community Leader (through interpreter): Nazism has returned. The descendants of the murderers are organizing the same marches today, waving the same flags, shouting the same slogans, and have the same racist agenda.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> Anna Johansson is a member of the governing Social Democrat Party. It&#8217;s considering outlawing the Nordic Resistance Movement.</p>\n<p><strong>ANNA JOHANSSON,</strong>\u00a0Swedish Social Democratic Party: In Sweden and in Denmark, and in other countries, extreme parties are growing, and the hatred is spreading around.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> &#8220;Go home to mama,&#8221; he shouts. &#8220;Nazi pigs,&#8221; chant the anti- fascist protesters, as a bottle flies through the air.</p>\n<p><strong>DAMON,</strong> Nordic Resistance Movement: If someone calls themselves a Nazi, most of us would dissociate with that person. That&#8217;s nothing we stand for ourselves. I never call myself a Nazi. I&#8217;m a national socialist.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> Hitler&#8217;s party was also called National Socialist, but Damon, a 40-year-old welder, insists he&#8217;s a nonviolent family man.</p>\n<p><strong>DAMON:</strong> The demographic landscape of our &#8212; of the whole of Europe is changing, so, basically, it&#8217;s a concern on preserving my heritage for my family and our kin.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> This demonstration has been stopped short of its destination. The Nordic Resistance Movement is currently trapped between a line of police and anti-fascist protesters. And it looks as though this demonstration isn&#8217;t going any further.</p>\n<p>Violence briefly erupts as the resistance movement tries to break through police lines, and several marchers are arrested.</p>\n<p><strong>PAULINA FORSLUND</strong>: We are not your enemy. We are the government&#8217;s enemy.</p>\n<p>They say we live in a democracy, but we have never had an election about if we want to take all these people in.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> When Europe&#8217;s refugee crisis began in 2015, Sweden copied Germany&#8217;s open-door policy, and 160,000 migrants entered the country. Two years on, Sweden has tighter borders and has begun deporting some of the newcomers.</p>\n<p>The new atmosphere alarms Floid Gumbo, entertaining an anti-Nazi rally.</p>\n<p><strong>FLOID GUMBO,</strong> Singer Originally from Zimbabwe: I came to Sweden over 20 years ago. The climate in Sweden, the people were so friendly, and things were completely different, more welcoming. And I feel like things have sort of gradually changed.</p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very concerned, because I have children, because I&#8217;m thinking what I experienced here is not the same kind of climate, atmosphere that they are going to experience here.</p>\n<p><strong>ANNA JOHANSSON:</strong> It&#8217;s not so long ago that the Nazis ruined Europe. And that makes me very worried. The German elections were terrifying, I think.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> Johansson is referring to last month&#8217;s success of the right-wing Alternative For Germany Party, or AFD, when it entered Parliament for the first time with 13 percent of the vote.</p>\n<p><strong>HUGH BRONSON,</strong> Alternative For Germany Party: The AFD only came into existence because Merkel deserted the traditional conservative Christian voters. They were looking for a home, and the AFD has offered them a safe place.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> Hugh Bronson is deputy leader of the AFD in Berlin.</p>\n<p>Now his party, the third largest in Parliament, is demanding that Angela Merkel imposes tougher immigration rules.</p>\n<p>Your opponents claim that you are a party of hate. What&#8217;s your response to that?</p>\n<p><strong>HUGH BRONSON:</strong> We embrace foreigners who respect our laws, pay their taxes, send their children to school, and go about their normal life. The problem is with people who abuse the system to have a better life, or let others pay for their better lives, or who are criminals.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> Outside the opera house in Dresden, former East Germany, singer Luca Bergelt is dismayed by the political landscape shifting to the right.</p>\n<p><strong>LUCA BERGELT,</strong>\u00a0Singer: My fear is that they will tear Europe apart. They are going to raise up the walls again. They&#8217;re going to build new walls between the countries, and that Europe will get more close into itself.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> Anti-immigrant sentiment is strong in Dresden. The city was the birthplace of a pan-European anti-Islamic movement, and it delivered the largest number of votes for the right-wing party.</p>\n<p>On a holiday to celebrate German unification after the fall of communism, retired engineer Wilfried Schmidt explained why he sent a message to Angela Merkel.</p>\n<p><strong>WILFRIED SCHMIDT,</strong>\u00a0Retired Engineer\u00a0(through interpretor): Let&#8217;s put it this way. We all need to recognize that Germany is undergoing social changes that are becoming harder to control. For one, there is mass immigration from difficult regions that is increasingly uncontrollable, of people with entirely different concepts of life, from fundamental differently structured societies that are problematic.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> About one million migrants poured into Germany in 2015. Chancellor Merkel consistently defended her pro-refugee policies, but now she has been punished by voters who believe she ignored their concerns.</p>\n<p>Chancellor Merkel has promised to listen to the people who voted for the AFD, and she says she&#8217;s going to try to win them over with what she calls good politics. But she will not countenance having the party in her coalition.</p>\n<p>But the chancellor needs to find new partners who are prepared to be tough on immigration.</p>\n<p>As she tries to forge a coalition, the chancellor has agreed to put an annual cap of 200,000 on the number of immigrants, something she previously refused to do. But will it be enough to woo back people who deserted her at the election?</p>\n<p>A question for Werner Patzelt, a political scientist at Dresden University.</p>\n<p><strong>WERNER PATZELT,</strong> Dresden University: Since Chancellor Merkel has made so many U-turns in German domestic politics, it wouldn&#8217;t be a surprise if she would try to do a U-turn, also winning back AFD voters.</p>\n<p>But this is a really hard political task, because so many of them are so much disappointed by the Christian Democratic Union in general, and by Chancellor Merkel in particular, that they will do anything to avoid going back.</p>\n<p><strong>MALCOLM BRABANT:</strong> Back in Sweden, the governing party is horrified at the concept of conceding ground to right-wingers, and is trying to isolate them.</p>\n<p><strong>ANNA JOHANSSON:</strong> Experience shows that, when you adopt the ideas from these right-wing parties, they spread. These parties have their agenda implemented by other parties. 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A formal declaration would be announced after operations to clear any remaining sleeper cells and to remove landmines in the city were completed, Sello added.</p>\n<p>The move is a major setback for the Islamic State which considered Raqqa the de-facto capital of its self-declared caliphate. It comes on the third <a href=\"http://www.inherentresolve.mil/News/News-Releases/Article/1345075/operation-inherent-resolve-observes-task-forces-third-anniversary/platform/hootsuite/\">anniversary</a> of the global effort to defeat ISIS.</p>\n<p>Raqqa was the first provincial capital to fall from government control in <a href=\"https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/timeline-rise-and-spread-the-islamic-state\">March 2013</a> after it was captured by a rebel army. The army included both Syrian opposition groups and more hard line \u00a0parties including al-Nusra and the Islamic State.</p>\n<p>A civilian government \u00a0that was established in the city divided two months later, and less than a year later ISIS recaptured Raqqa and named the the capital of their <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/caliphate/\">caliphate</a>.</p>\n<p>About 900 civilians have been killed since the the start of the five-month operation, including 570 people in coalition air raids, according to the <a href=\"http://sn4hr.org/\">Syrian Network for Human Rights</a>. The Britain-based <a href=\"http://www.syriahr.com/en/\">Syrian Observatory for Human Rights</a> put the civilian death toll at 1,130 people. American journalist <a href=\"http://thegroundtruthproject.org/jim-foleys-legacy-journalism-public-service/\">James Foley</a> was beheaded in the mountains south of the city.</p>\n<p>SDF fighters pulled down the Islamic State\u2019s black flag from the city\u2019s National Hospital near the city\u2019s stadium, according to a Reuters <a href=\"https://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKBN1CM0VC-OCATP\">report</a>.</p>\n<p>Special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Brett McGurk <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/how-trumps-decision-to-delegate-is-a-key-difference-in-syria/\">said</a> in August that the U.S. would attempt to perform a \u201cstabilization\u201d in Raqqa &#8212; including demining, removing rubble from major pathways to allow trucks and equipment through, and \u201cbasic electricity, sewage, water, the basic essentials to allow populations to come back to their home.\u201d</p>\n<p>It is not clear when the <a href=\"https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/syria-flash-update-recent-events-11-october-2017\">300,000 civilians</a> who have fled Raqqa since April during the operation will be able to return.</p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/u-s-backed-syrian-forces-recapture-raqqa-from-islamic-state-group/\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S.-backed Syrian forces recapture Raqqa from Islamic State group</a> appeared first on <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS NewsHour</a>.</p>"}], "wfw_commentrss": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/u-s-backed-syrian-forces-recapture-raqqa-from-islamic-state-group/feed/", "slash_comments": "0", "media_content": [{"url": "http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/RTS1GULB-1024x650.jpg", "medium": "image"}]}, {"title": "WATCH: Trump and Greek prime minister hold joint news conference", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "WATCH: Trump and Greek prime minister hold joint news conference"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-live-trump-and-greek-prime-minister-hold-joint-press-conference/"}], "link": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-live-trump-and-greek-prime-minister-hold-joint-press-conference/", "comments": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-live-trump-and-greek-prime-minister-hold-joint-press-conference/#respond", "published": "Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:28:24 +0000", "published_parsed": [2017, 10, 17, 16, 28, 24, 1, 290, 0], "authors": [{"name": "Larisa Epatko"}], "author": "Larisa Epatko", "author_detail": {"name": "Larisa Epatko"}, "tags": [{"term": "Alexis Tsipras", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Donald Trump", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Greece", "scheme": null, "label": null}], "id": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/?post_type=rundown&p=230911", "guidislink": false, "summary": "President Donald Trump says the U.S. stands with Greece as they recover from their economic crisis.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "President Donald Trump says the U.S. stands with Greece as they recover from their economic crisis."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<p><br />\n<em>Watch President Donald Trump and the Greek prime minister&#8217;s joint news conference in the player above.</em></p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump says the U.S. stands with Greece as they recover from their economic crisis. 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The U.S. must be prepared to defend itself and its allies, he said.</p>\n<p>Sugiyama, briefing reporters separately, reiterated Japan&#8217;s support for President Donald Trump&#8217;s policy of keeping all options open, but stressed the need for a diplomatic solution by bolstering cooperation among Japan, U.S. and South Korea, as well as via cooperation with China and Russia.</p>\n<p>The two diplomats will join their South Korean counterpart in Seoul for further talks Wednesday on North Korea.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rex-tillerson-says-continue-diplomacy-north-korea-first-bomb-drops/\"><strong>READ MORE: Rex Tillerson says continue diplomacy with North Korea \u2018until first bomb drops\u2019</strong></a></p>\n<p>The talks come as the U.S. and South Korea hold joint naval drills this week. 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Also, 31-year-old conservative Sebastian Kurz is set to become the Austria\u2019s next leader in another shift to the right in European politics."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> And in the day&#8217;s other news: More than 300 people are now confirmed dead after Saturday&#8217;s massive truck bombing in Somalia, one of the world&#8217;s worst attacks in years.</p>\n<p>Nearly 400 more were wounded. The government blamed the al-Qaida-linked Al-Shabaab group. Rescue crews today searched for survivors at the scene of the bombing, a crowded street in the capital, Mogadishu. With dozens still missing, officials say they expect the death toll to rise.</p>\n<p><strong>OSMAN LIBAH IBRAHIM,</strong> Deputy Minister for Natural Resources, Somalia\u00a0(through interpreter): More bodies are gradually being found and removed from the rubble. There are other people who are under the rubble. We have heard them as they scream for help. My biggest worry is that even the wounded are succumbing to their injuries.</p>\n<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> The attack happened two days after Somalia&#8217;s defense minister and army chief resigned for undisclosed reasons.</p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been yet another shift to the right in European politics; 31-year-old conservative Sebastian Kurz, Austria&#8217;s foreign minister, is set to become that country&#8217;s next leader. But he&#8217;s short of a majority in Parliament and will likely form a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party. It was founded by ex-Nazis in the 1950s.</p>\n<p>Kurz has called for the European Union to focus more on internal trade and securing borders. He celebrated in Vienna.</p>\n<p><strong>SEBASTIAN KURZ,</strong> Austrian\u00a0People&#8217;s Party (through interpreter): I have a big request for you. Use today to celebrate. You all have earned it through hard work and dedication. At the same time, I need to tell you that tomorrow the work starts. We didn&#8217;t just run to win the elections. We did so to bring Austria back to the top. We ran in this election to achieve real change.</p>\n<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> A final result in the election is likely to be decided on Thursday.</p>\n<p>Wildfires that broke out over the weekend in Portugal have killed at least 35 people, including a one-month-old infant. Today, more than 5,300 firefighters with some 1,600 vehicles were battling the fires, some of which officials say were started by arsonists. Wildfires have also left at least four people dead in neighboring Spain.</p>\n<p>Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty today to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He was captured by the Taliban in 2009, after leaving his post in Afghanistan. It prompted an intense search and a prisoner swap. Bergdahl appeared before a military judge in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, today. The 31-year-old could be sentenced to life in prison. He said his actions were very inexcusable, adding he didn&#8217;t &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;think there&#8217;d be any reason to pull off a crucial mission to look for one guy.&#8221;</p>\n<p>The truck driver in deadly immigrant smuggling run has pleaded guilty in court. San Antonio police found at least 39 immigrants, 10 of whom died, packed into a sweltering semi-trailer last year and died. The driver, James Matthew Bradley Jr., pleaded to conspiracy and transporting immigrants, resulting in death. He faces now up to life in prison.</p>\n<p>A New Jersey man has been convicted of planting two pressure-cooker bombs on New York City streets last year. Ahmed Khan Rahimi faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for charges including using a weapon of mass destruction. One of the bombs exploded in Manhattan&#8217;s Chelsea neighborhood, wounding 30. The second didn&#8217;t detonate. Officials said Rahimi was inspired by ISIS and al-Qaida.</p>\n<p><strong>JOHN MILLER,</strong> Deputy Commissioner, NYPD Intelligence &amp; Counterterrorism: Ahmed Khan Rahimi learned a lesson which we keep reminding people of. This is the wrong place to try and carry out an act of terrorism. Witnesses will come forward, evidence will be developed, arrests will be made, prosecutions will be brought forth, and they will be successful.</p>\n<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> Prosecutors said Rahimi also planted a pipe bomb in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, but no one was injured.</p>\n<p>Colin Kaepernick has filed a grievance against the national football league. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback says that he remains unsigned due to collusion by team owners over his national anthem protests. 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After months of simmering tensions, national military forces and militia moved to push Kurdish forces out of the disputed city of Kirkuk. Three weeks ago, the Kurds held a referendum to split from Iraq. Lisa Desjardins reports and Judy Woodruff talks with Emma Sky of Yale University and Feisal Istrabadi of Indiana University.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "Two vital American allies have reignited their rivalry in Iraq. After months of simmering tensions, national military forces and militia moved to push Kurdish forces out of the disputed city of Kirkuk. Three weeks ago, the Kurds held a referendum to split from Iraq. Lisa Desjardins reports and Judy Woodruff talks with Emma Sky of Yale University and Feisal Istrabadi of Indiana University."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> Longstanding rivalries were re-ignited in Iraq today between vital American allies.</p>\n<p>Iraqi military forces and militia moved to push Kurdish forces out of the disputed city of Kirkuk in the country&#8217;s north.</p>\n<p>Lisa Desjardins begins our coverage.</p>\n<p><strong>MAN</strong> (through interpreter): The commander in chief of the armed forces, Dr. Haider al-Abadi, gave orders to protect the people of Kirkuk and to impose security in the city.</p>\n<p><strong>LISA DESJARDINS:</strong> After months of simmering tensions, Iraqi federal troops moved to retake the disputed city of Kirkuk from Kurdish forces.</p>\n<p>The effort launched before dawn. By midday, Iraqi soldiers, along with state-backed militias, quickly took control of several massive oil fields north of the city. Iraqis also captured Kirkuk&#8217;s military airport and various government buildings. They lowered what had been a symbolic Kurdish flag at the governor&#8217;s compound.</p>\n<p>Journalist Rebecca Collard in Irbil was in Kirkuk this morning.</p>\n<p><strong>REBECCA COLLARD,</strong> Journalist: You could hear some clashes, some gunfire in the distance, but for the most part, the city seemed more or less abandoned. Now, the Iraqi army, by the end of today, was essentially in control of the whole city and many of the outskirts of Kirkuk.</p>\n<p><strong>LISA DESJARDINS:</strong> The spokesman for an Iraqi Shiite militia said they achieved all their goals with little resistance.</p>\n<p><strong>AHMED AL-ASSADI,\u00a0</strong> Spokesman for al-Hashed al-Shaabi\u00a0(through translator): As the troops approached the area, they were confronted by some rebels, who tried to hinder the progress of the advancing units. Our troops returned fire and silenced its source.</p>\n<p><strong>LISA DESJARDINS:</strong> This comes three weeks after the Kurds held a nonbinding independence referendum that included the disputed province of Kirkuk.</p>\n<p>More than 90 percent of the Kurdish region&#8217;s residents voted to split from Iraq. The Iraqi federal government, Turkey, Iran and the U.S. all rejected the independence drive.</p>\n<p>The multiethnic region of Kirkuk lies just outside of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq&#8217;s north. Called the country&#8217;s oil capital, Kirkuk produces around 500,000 barrels a day.</p>\n<p>In 2014, amid the ISIS onslaught across Northern Iraq, the Kurds took control of Kirkuk, as the Iraqi military fled the city. In the three years since, the Kurds, led by their president, Massoud Barzani, sought to cement their hold, despite tensions with the central government.</p>\n<p>Today, Kurdish officials accused Iraq of carrying out a major multipronged attack.</p>\n<p><strong>MAJ. GEN. AYOUB YUSUF SAID,</strong> Peshmerga Commander (through interpreter): I don&#8217;t know what is happening exactly, because we have been in this fight since 4:00 in the morning. We have suffered casualties, including martyrs, and now we have withdrawn to this position. Some of the other Kurdish forces have pulled out. They didn&#8217;t fire a single shot.</p>\n<p><strong>LISA DESJARDINS:</strong> While Kurdish forces withdrew from posts south of the city, some residents vowed to die fighting. Thousands of others fled north.</p>\n<p><strong>REBECCA COLLARD:</strong> For the last few years, the Iraqi forces, these primarily Shia militia, the Hashed Shaabi, and the Kurdish forces have been focused on fighting ISIS. Now that fight is coming to an end, and what the fear is that now these internal division in Iraq are going to become more apparent and possibly more violent.</p>\n<p><strong>LISA DESJARDINS:</strong> These clashes pit one substantially American-armed military force against another. Both the Kurdish forces and Iraqi government troops are part of the coalition fighting ISIS. The U.S. sought to downplay the fighting, labeling the exchange of gunfire a misunderstanding.</p>\n<p>And, in the Rose Garden, President Trump tried to stay neutral.</p>\n<p><strong>PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:</strong> We don&#8217;t like the fact that they&#8217;re clashing. We&#8217;re not taking sides. But we don&#8217;t like the fact that they&#8217;re clashing.</p>\n<p><strong>LISA DESJARDINS:</strong> For the PBS NewsHour, I&#8217;m Lisa Desjardins.</p>\n<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> For more, I&#8217;m joined now by Emma Sky. She served as an adviser to General David Petraeus while he was commander of U.S. forces in Iraq from 2007 to 2010, and by Feisal Istrabadi. He&#8217;s a former Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations and he helped write Iraq&#8217;s interim constitution.</p>\n<p>Welcome to both of you.</p>\n<p>Let me start with you, Emma Sky.</p>\n<p>This has happened so quickly. What exactly has the Iraqi government done?</p>\n<p><strong>EMMA SKY,</strong>\u00a0Yale University: The Iraqi government has deployed its forces back up north into Kirkuk.</p>\n<p>And since 2003, the Kurds have made it clear that they want to include Kirkuk within their territory in order to proceed with gaining independence, which has always been their goal. But Kirkuk is important to Iraq itself, and no Iraqi prime minister can afford to lose Kirkuk.</p>\n<p>So you can see this reaction that has taken place following the referendum on independence, which happened September the 25th, and also included the disputed territories and the city of Kirkuk.</p>\n<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> Feisal Istrabadi, what can you add to why the Iraqi government is so set on taking over the city?</p>\n<p><strong>FEISAL ISTRABADI,</strong> Former Deputy UN Ambassador, Iraq: Well, a couple of reasons.</p>\n<p>First, as Emma just said, it is a part of the disputed territories, which are legally and constitutionally under the jurisdiction of the federal government in Baghdad. The KRG expanded into these disputed territories at the time when ISIL was expanding its territory, and then began to take steps to unilaterally declare that these areas were now incorporated into the Kurdistan region, including when it held the referendum that Emma talked about.</p>\n<p>It included holding the referendum in these disputed territories. Now, so long as Iraq &#8212; so long as we&#8217;re talking about a single country, it matters a little less who controls Kirkuk, but once the referendum was held, this gave rise then to the second reason for Baghdad choosing to act now.</p>\n<p>As Emma said, Kirkuk is an important oil-producing zone in Iraq. And it is vital for the economic viability of an independent Kurdish state and an important part of the economic viability of the Iraqi state. So there was never going to be a scenario, I think, in which Baghdad would allow a unilateral exercise of control by Kurds to occur over Kirkuk, so long as independence is on the table.</p>\n<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> Emma Sky, we heard President Trump say today the U.S. is not taking sides in this.</p>\n<p>Is that accurate, that the U.S. isn&#8217;t taking sides? What is the U.S. role here?</p>\n<p><strong>EMMA SKY:</strong> Well, the U.S. has stipulated over and over again that its policy is to support a united Iraq.</p>\n<p>So you can see the U.S. has given support to Iraqi security forces, but also to the Kurdish Peshmerga, to fight against ISIS. The U.S. policy for the last few years has really been focused on ISIS and not on the day after ISIS.</p>\n<p>But what we&#8217;re witnessing at the moment is that different groups are already moving to the day after, which is the power struggle for control of different territories in Iraq.</p>\n<p>And Barzani believed that during the fight against ISIS, he became stronger because he got weapons directly from the international community. And, as Feisal said, he was able to extend his control over the disputed territories.</p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also facing domestic problems within Kurdistan. There are tensions between the different Kurdish groups, and some believe that Barzani has overstayed his term as president.</p>\n<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> Which reminds us just how complicated this is, Feisal Istrabadi.</p>\n<p>What does the Iraqi central government want here? They&#8217;re not going to get rid of the Kurds. What is it that they want?</p>\n<p><strong>FEISAL ISTRABADI:</strong> Oh, well, I mean, the Kurds of course are a vital part of Iraq. They&#8217;re a vital part of the political process, and they have been represented in Baghdad. The president of Iraq is a Kurd and has been since 2005.</p>\n<p>I think what needs to occur and I hope what the government of Iraq wants is a negotiated settlement, in which no party dictates terms to the other, but a negotiated settlement.</p>\n<p>Look, Irbil has some legitimate agreements with respect to Baghdad. Baghdad has some legitimate agreements with respect to Irbil. I think we need a mediator perhaps or somebody to convene a roundtable &#8212; the United States is who I&#8217;m thinking of, of course &#8212; to address some of those issues.</p>\n<p>Most of the issues are, from the Irbil side, economic issues of payments, and from Baghdad&#8217;s side, transparency of how much oil Irbil is producing and exporting, which Irbil has never accounted for to Baghdad.</p>\n<p>I think if those issues are resolved, perhaps hopefully some of these other issues can at least be delayed for another day. But at the end of the day, neither government &#8212; neither the regional government nor the federal government in Baghdad can really tolerate dictation of terms to it by the other side. My hope is that a negotiated settlement obtains.</p>\n<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> Emma Sky, where do you see this going from here? Do you see the peace that different sides have worked to hard to create in Iraq unraveling as a result of this?</p>\n<p><strong>EMMA SKY:</strong> I think there is an opportunity for a deal, and I think the sort of deal that could be negotiated is one that looks at a special status for the city of Kirkuk and negotiated terms for Kurdistan&#8217;s separate, whether that be towards confederation or towards independence.</p>\n<p>But there needs to be negotiation. There needs to be a look at where should the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq actually be, and that requires mediation district by district through those territories.</p>\n<p><strong>JUDY WOODRUFF:</strong> Well, we know there are other players who are playing an important role here in Iran and Turkey, and this is all very much playing out as we watch, watch it happen in Iraq.</p>\n<p>Emma Sky, Feisal Istrabadi, thank you very much.</p>\n<p><strong>FEISAL ISTRABADI:</strong> Thank you.</p>\n<p><strong>EMMA SKY:</strong> Thank you.</p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/power-struggle-broken-kirkuk/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Why a power struggle has broken out over Kirkuk</a> appeared first on <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS NewsHour</a>.</p>"}], "wfw_commentrss": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/power-struggle-broken-kirkuk/feed/", "slash_comments": "0", "itunes_duration": "10:32", "media_content": [{"url": "http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/RTS1GMUL-1024x629.jpg", "medium": "image"}]}, {"title": "Rex Tillerson says continue diplomacy with North Korea \u2018until first bomb drops\u2019", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "Rex Tillerson says continue diplomacy with North Korea \u2018until first bomb drops\u2019"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rex-tillerson-says-continue-diplomacy-north-korea-first-bomb-drops/"}], "link": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rex-tillerson-says-continue-diplomacy-north-korea-first-bomb-drops/", "comments": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rex-tillerson-says-continue-diplomacy-north-korea-first-bomb-drops/#respond", "published": "Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:08:00 +0000", "published_parsed": [2017, 10, 16, 11, 8, 0, 0, 289, 0], "authors": [{"name": "Laura Santhanam"}], "author": "Laura Santhanam", "author_detail": {"name": "Laura Santhanam"}, "tags": [{"term": "Donald Trump", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Kim Jong Un", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "North Korea", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Rex Tillerson", "scheme": null, "label": null}], "id": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/?post_type=rundown&p=230760", "guidislink": false, "summary": "That statement comes despite President Donald Trump's tweets a couple of weeks ago that his chief envoy was \"wasting his time\" trying to negotiate with \"Little Rocket Man,\" a mocking nickname Trump has given the nuclear-armed nation's leader, Kim Jong Un.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "That statement comes despite President Donald Trump's tweets a couple of weeks ago that his chief envoy was \"wasting his time\" trying to negotiate with \"Little Rocket Man,\" a mocking nickname Trump has given the nuclear-armed nation's leader, Kim Jong Un."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<div class=\"wp-caption alignright\" id=\"attachment_229698\" style=\"width: 689px;\"></div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says diplomatic efforts aimed at resolving the North Korean crisis &#8220;will continue until the first bomb drops.&#8221;</p>\n<p>That statement comes despite President Donald Trump&#8217;s tweets a couple of weeks ago that his chief envoy was &#8220;wasting his time&#8221; trying to negotiate with &#8220;Little Rocket Man,&#8221; a mocking nickname Trump has given the nuclear-armed nation&#8217;s leader, Kim Jong Un.</p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he does want to be clear with Kim Jong Un and that regime in North Korea that he has military preparations ready to go and he has those military options on the table. And we have spent substantial time actually perfecting those,&#8221; Tillerson told CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; on Sunday. &#8220;But be clear: The president has also made clear to me that he wants this solved diplomatically. He&#8217;s not seeking to go to war.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Recent mixed messaging from the top of the U.S. government has raised concerns about the potential for miscalculation amid the increasingly bellicose exchange of words by Trump and the North Korean leader.</p>\n<p>Trump told the U.N. General Assembly last month that if the U.S. is &#8220;forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.&#8221; Trump also tweeted that Korea&#8217;s leadership &#8220;won&#8217;t be around much longer&#8221; if it continued its provocations, a declaration that led the North&#8217;s foreign minister to assert that Trump had &#8220;declared war on our country.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Tillerson acknowledged during a recent trip to Beijing that the Trump administration was keeping open direct channels of communications with North Korea and probing the North&#8217;s willingness to talk. He provided no elaboration about those channels or the substance of any discussions.</p>\n<p>Soon after, Trump took to Twitter, saying he had told &#8220;our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man &#8230; Save your energy Rex, we&#8217;ll do what has to be done!&#8221; Trump offered no further explanation, but he said all military options are on the table for dealing with North Korea&#8217;s nuclear and missile programs.</p>\n<p>Analysts have speculated about whether the president and his top diplomat were playing &#8220;good cop, bad cop&#8221; with North Korea, and how China might interpret the confusing signals from Washington. 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It has threatened to explode another nuclear bomb above the Pacific.</p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rex-tillerson-says-continue-diplomacy-north-korea-first-bomb-drops/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rex Tillerson says continue diplomacy with North Korea &#8216;until first bomb drops&#8217;</a> appeared first on <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS NewsHour</a>.</p>"}], "wfw_commentrss": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/rex-tillerson-says-continue-diplomacy-north-korea-first-bomb-drops/feed/", "slash_comments": "0", "media_content": [{"url": "http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/statedept2-1024x618.jpg", "medium": "image"}]}, {"title": "Iraqi, Kurdish forces in standoff, weeks after Kurdish vote for independence", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "Iraqi, Kurdish forces in standoff, weeks after Kurdish vote for independence"}, "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/iraqi-kurdish-forces-standoff-weeks-kurdish-vote-independence/"}, {"length": "1396000", "type": "audio/mpeg", "href": "https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Morris_INTV_WEB.mp3", "rel": "enclosure"}], "link": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/iraqi-kurdish-forces-standoff-weeks-kurdish-vote-independence/", "comments": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/iraqi-kurdish-forces-standoff-weeks-kurdish-vote-independence/#respond", "published": "Sun, 15 Oct 2017 20:33:23 +0000", "published_parsed": [2017, 10, 15, 20, 33, 23, 6, 288, 0], "authors": [{"name": "PBS NewsHour"}], "author": "PBS NewsHour", "author_detail": {"name": "PBS NewsHour"}, "tags": [{"term": "iraq", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "Kurdistan", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "middle east", "scheme": null, "label": null}, {"term": "NewsHour Weekend", "scheme": null, "label": null}], "id": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/?post_type=bb&p=230716", "guidislink": false, "summary": "Iraqi army and Kurdish troops are in a standoff in Kirkuk, a city located in the Kurdistan region, which voted for independence from Iraq last month. Kirkuk holds 10 percent of Iraq\u2019s oil reserves. Washington Post reporter Loveday Morris, who is covering the standoff, joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Baghdad.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "Iraqi army and Kurdish troops are in a standoff in Kirkuk, a city located in the Kurdistan region, which voted for independence from Iraq last month. Kirkuk holds 10 percent of Iraq\u2019s oil reserves. Washington Post reporter Loveday Morris, who is covering the standoff, joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Baghdad."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<p><strong>HARI SREENIVASAN:</strong> The desire of the Kurds along Iraq&#8217;s northern border to govern themselves is receiving more resistance from Iraq&#8217;s central government. Iraqi army forces are demanding Kurdish troops withdraw from oil fields and military bases around Kirkuk, a city in the Kurdistan region that voted for independence last month. Kirkuk also has 10% of Iraq&#8217;s known oil reserves. Washington Post&#8217;s Loveday Morris is in Baghdad covering this standoff joins me now via Skype. First of all the significance of this. Why is it so important?</p>\n<p><strong>LOVEDAY MORRIS:</strong> There&#8217;s been a longtime conflict between Baghdad and Kurdistan over these disputed territories. Most significant of which is Kirkuk because of the oil reserves. But the referendum last month has really sharpened these disputes because you have Baghdad opposing independence and so it feels like they have to restate its territorial claims these areas. So that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re seeing a lot of tension right now. </p>\n<p><strong>HARI SREENIVASAN:</strong> And just to give people a little bit of a brief timeline &#8211; Iraqi forces control this area for a while and then in June ISIS took over the area and now it&#8217;s kind of back in Kurdish hands?</p>\n<p><strong>LOVEDAY MORRIS:</strong> Right. So in June 2014 Iraq lost control of a lot of the areas and we have this huge collapse in the face of an ISIS offensive. Over 100,000 soldiers fled and Kurdish forces moved in some of these areas &#8211; some of them maybe took from ISIS and others just moved into into the vacuum. And so Iraqi forces have been in these areas since June 2014. And that&#8217;s their main demand that they return to the areas. </p>\n<p><strong>HARI SREENIVASAN:</strong> What&#8217;s the likelihood that this standoff right now turns violent? 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With support from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum\u2019s Center for the Prevention of Genocide, NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Simona Foltyn and journalist Jason Patinkin traveled to Uganda to meet people desperate for asylum."}, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewshourWorld", "value": "<p>The United Nations says South Sudan\u2019s four-year-old civil war has left half of the nation\u2019s population &#8212; 6 million people &#8212; in need of humanitarian aid. The conflict began when South Sudan\u2019s army split between factions loyal to President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar. The two men mobilized their respective tribes, the Dinka and the Nuer. The war has caused what is now one of the world\u2019s worst refugee crises.</p>\n<p><strong>SIMONA FOLTYN</strong>: Civil war is emptying huge swaths of South Sudan. The violence has uprooted four million people, including two million who\u2019ve fled to neighboring countries. In the last year, more than a million South Sudanese have poured into northern Uganda alone, crossing makeshift bridges like this one to flee fighting, hunger, and brutal attacks on civilians.</p>\n<p><strong>SEME LUPAI, REFUGE</strong>E: They started fighting very, very severely. So that made us to escape with our properties to this side.</p>\n<p><strong>SIMONA FOLTYN</strong>: When Seme Lupai\u2019s family went to one of the refugee camps, initially, he stayed behind to look after the family\u2019s most precious commodity &#8212; their cattle. He hid for a year to escape the violence. The refugees carry whatever they can salvage &#8212; mattresses, pots, clothes, notebooks &#8212; remnants of once peaceful lives turned upside down. At checkpoints, Ugandan soldiers search their belongings for weapons, before the refugees proceed to reception centers. After entering Uganda, the refugees sign in at small waystations. For many, it\u2019s the first night spent in safety after walking for days to escape fighting. Levi Arike fled with his wife and four children.</p>\n<p><strong>LEVI ARIKE, REFUGEE</strong>: When the gunshots started, we laid under a tree with the whole family, because there was nowhere else to hide. We waited for the fighting to stop, and then we got up and started walking to Uganda.</p>\n<p><strong>SIMONA FOLTYN</strong>: Uganda now shoulders most of the burden of Africa\u2019s biggest refugee crisis, managing a constellation of camps which require food, water, healthcare, and policing. At Imvepi Camp, now home to more than 120,000 South Sudanese, new arrivals receive vaccinations, hot meals, and basic items such as soap and plastic tarps to build a house. The government also gives each refugee family a small plot of land, about a twentieth of an acre, where they can build a tent shelter and grow crops to eat or sell. But the land often proves too rocky for farming.</p>\n<p><strong>SIMONA FOLTYN, IMVEPI REFUGEE CAMP, NORTHERN UGANDA</strong>: After completing the registration process, the new arrivals will receive their plot, to start a new life as refugees in Uganda. While they are safe here, there are many challenges ahead, not least processing the trauma of what they experienced back home.</p>\n<p>This woman, who we\u2019ll call \u201cAgnes,\u201d agreed to tell us about her harrowing experience. She says four government soldiers from President Salva Kiir\u2019s Dinka tribe stopped her as she was fleeing South Sudan and raped her right in front of her family.</p>\n<p><strong>AGNES</strong> (translated to English): When they started raping me, they told me not to raise alarm, otherwise they would shoot me. Still when I\u2019m sleeping, I\u2019m dreaming of the Dinka, that they are coming to rape me again.</p>\n<p><strong>SIMONA FOLTYN</strong>: How often do you have those dreams?</p>\n<p><strong>AGNES</strong>: Daily, every time I lie down, those dreams come.</p>\n<p><strong>SIMONA FOLTYN</strong>: A recent Human Rights Watch report on South Sudan found \u201c&#8230;a clear pattern of government forces unlawfully targeting civilians for killings, rapes, torture&#8230;and destruction of property..\u201d The victims are from ethnic groups suspected to support the rebels.</p>\n<p><strong>AGNES</strong>: They are doing it, because they know very well that those soldiers are our brothers. So they do it to punish them..</p>\n<p><strong>SIMONA FOLTYN</strong>: Although the rebels, known as the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army In Opposition, purport to protect local communities, there are also reports of their fighters assaulting civilians near the Ugandan border. Josephine Yanya told us she didn\u2019t feel safe in the presence of either side\u2019s soldiers. Her family and neighbors fled their village after government soldiers killed her uncle.</p>\n<p>They hid in the mountains only to find themselves under attack again, this time by opposition fighters from the Nuer tribe loyal to former vice president Riek Machar. Yanya says ethnic Nuer soldiers from the SPLA-IO rebel group raped a member of her group and stole her father&#8217;s\u2019 cattle.</p>\n<p><strong>JOSEPHINE YANYA</strong> (translated to English): Before we were thinking that the rebels would protect us, but if they are lacking food, they just come and take things by force.</p>\n<p><strong>SIMONA FOLTYN</strong>: With nowhere left to hide, Yanya fled to Uganda with her son.<br />\nBut instead of finding a place to rebuild their lives, they are in limbo. And aid groups don\u2019t have enough food to distribute.</p>\n<p><strong>JOSEPHINE YANYA</strong> (translated to English):We are getting small food rations. I know it won\u2019t be enough even for one month.</p>\n<p><strong>SIMONA FOLTYN</strong>: According to the United Nations, the international community has given less than a-third of the $1.4 billion dollars needed for the refugee response in South Sudan\u2019s neighboring countries. 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Witnesses described a devastating scene with large-scale carnage, as doctors worked feverishly to attend to the dead and injured, many badly burned. </p>\n<p>&#8220;The hospital is overwhelmed by both dead and wounded,&#8221; Dr. Mohamed Yusuf, the director of Medina hospital located near the blast, <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/truck-bomb-rocks-mogadishu-hotel-killing-85-police-n810781\" target=\"_blank\">told </a>the Associated Press. &#8220;We also received people whose limbs were cut away by the bomb. This is really horrendous, unlike any other time in the past.&#8221;</p>\n<p>Photos and videos of the bombing, which took place on a busy street near a section of the city housing foreign embassies, showed collapsed walls, twisted metal, and sporadic fires spewing smoke. The Qatari government said its embassy was &#8220;severely damaged&#8221; in the strike. </p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The truck bombing in Mogadishu is the deadliest in conflict-riven Somalia so far. Here are other major attacks: <a href=\"https://t.co/owNEZlqslj\">https://t.co/owNEZlqslj</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/HxUaSA85q2\">pic.twitter.com/HxUaSA85q2</a></p>\n<p>&mdash; AFP Africa (@AFPAfrica) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/AFPAfrica/status/919591758564134918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2017</a></p></blockquote>\n<p></p>\n<p>Family members searched through the wreckage and waited at local hospitals with the hopes of finding relatives who survived the bombing. </p>\n<p>Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed announced three days of mourning. 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Over the course of four days, we walked more than 40 miles through the bush, escorted by rebel soldiers, to shed light on one of the world&#8217;s most underreported conflicts.</p>\n<p>Reporting on South Sudan&#8217;s war, which began in 2013, has always been a challenge due to the risk and logistical hurdles associated with accessing remote areas where fighting takes place. But over the past year, covering the war and its humanitarian fallout has become particularly difficult. Since the beginning of this year, South Sudan&#8217;s government has banned at least 20 foreign journalists in an apparent effort to silence reporters who had a track record of critically reporting on the government.</p>\n<div class=\"nhpullquote right\"> The war has had a devastating impact on South Sudanese communities, but much of it has remained out of the limelight of international media. </div>\n<p>This systematic crackdown on the foreign press (South Sudanese journalists have long risked imprisonment and death for doing their work) coincided with two important developments. In November 2016, the United Nations warned that the violence being committed against civilians in the southern region of Equatoria risked spiraling into genocide. Then, in February, the UN declared a man-made famine, warning that 100,000 people were at risk of starving to death as a result of civil war.</p>\n<p>Journalists seeking to cover these events were left with two equally unsavory options: self-censorship or a risky trip to rebel-held parts of the country. Only a handful of journalists have attempted the latter since fighting escalated in July last year. For us, this was our second embed with the rebels this year.</p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_230700\" style=\"width: 689px;\"></div>\n<p>We set off from a town in northern Uganda at five in the morning, bouncing along a bumpy dirt track towards the South Sudan border. Crammed into our four-wheel drive were rebel commander Martin Abucha, a dual American and South Sudanese citizen who we planned to profile for our PBS NewsHour Weekend segment, a couple of guides, and several duffle bags stuffed with our tents, sleeping bags, emergency medical kits and provisions to last us four days.  </p>\n<p>Just as the sun began to rise above a distant range of hills that we aimed to cross later that day, our car came to a halt in front of a stream. Because of the rainy reason, it carried more water than usual. It was time to disembark and start walking, or &#8220;footing,&#8221; as South Sudanese tend to call it.</p>\n<p>We took off our shoes and waded through the stream&#8217;s chilly waters. This was the first of a many rivers we&#8217;d have to cross along the way, either on foot or in small flimsy canoes dug out from tree trunks. Each time, we dreaded the idea of falling in with our camera gear. </p>\n<p>The first part of our journey in northern Uganda felt very much like a hike through a national park. Passing beautiful landscapes and idyllic farming villages, one could almost forget we were headed into a war zone &#8212; but we were about to get a reality check.</p>\n<p>We had just crossed into South Sudan when out of nowhere, two dozen armed men popped out of the tall grass and surrounded us at gunpoint.</p>\n<p>&#8220;Stop! Who are you and where are you going?&#8221; a soldier called out in Juba Arabic from his hideout no more than 20 yards away, pointing his AK47 at us. Another one next to him had a rocket-propelled grenade propped on his shoulder, also unequivocally aiming it in our direction.  </p>\n<p>Instinctively, we threw our hands in the air and exchanged a baffled glance. Had we accidentally bumped into government soldiers? Or perhaps we had come onto the &#8220;wrong&#8221; rebels? Abucha&#8217;s group, called the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Army In Opposition, is the biggest but not the only armed group in Equatoria, an area rife with rival militia and bandits who exploit the security vacuum left by war.</p>\n<p>To our relief, and only after Abucha answered a series of questions, this routine security check quickly gave way to a warm welcome. The platoon would be our escort for the next four days as we trekked to their base and to Loa, Abucha&#8217;s hometown.</p>\n<p>Keeping up with the rebels was no easy task. Given the country&#8217;s pervasive lack of basic infrastructure, South Sudanese grow up walking for dozens of miles just to go about their daily lives. For sedentary Westerners, keeping the target pace of &#8220;two meters per second&#8221; (around five miles an hour) proved challenging amid 90-degree temperatures, all while filming and plowing our way through dense, itchy elephant grass. </p>\n<p>The upside of the cumbersome terrain was that it kept us safe. During our four-day trip, we didn&#8217;t cross a single road, instead walking along a dizzying network of narrow bush paths the rebels seemed to know like the backs of their hands. An unwanted encounter with government troops, who tended to stick to roads and move around in vehicles as opposed to on foot, was highly unlikely.</p>\n<p>The closest we got to government-controlled area was a visit to Loa, located just two kilometers away from a main road frequently patrolled by government soldiers. We couldn&#8217;t stay long, but the hour we spent on the ground offered us a glimpse into what villages must look like in many parts of Equatoria: burned mud huts, looted schools and clinics, fallow fields and \u2013 most strikingly \u2013 no civilians.  </p>\n<p>The war has had a devastating impact on South Sudanese communities like the one in Loa, but much of it has remained out of the limelight of international media. Our four-day venture into rebel-held South Sudan offered us a rare opportunity to report ground truths, and we are thankful for that.</p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/reporters-notebook-reporting-south-sudan-difficult-critically-needed/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Column: Why reporting from South Sudan is so difficult &#8212; and critically needed</a> appeared first on <a href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS NewsHour</a>.</p>"}], "wfw_commentrss": "http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/reporters-notebook-reporting-south-sudan-difficult-critically-needed/feed/", "slash_comments": "0", "media_content": [{"url": "http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Simona-Foltyn-walks-down-a-mountain-slope-shortly-after-crossing-into-South-Sudan-1024x684.jpg", "medium": "image"}]}]}


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created_at: 2024-03-19 00:09:31
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Despite international pressure on Israel to allow more aid in, it hasn't been enough."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:42:30 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 21, 42, 30, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239283031/immediate-action-is-needed-to-avoid-mass-starvation-in-northern-gaza-wfp-says"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239283031/immediate-action-is-needed-to-avoid-mass-starvation-in-northern-gaza-wfp-says", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239283031/immediate-action-is-needed-to-avoid-mass-starvation-in-northern-gaza-wfp-says", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "<p>More than half of Gaza's population is experiencing catastrophic food insecurity, according to a new report. 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She'd been working at a fish processing plant that illegally employed underage migrants.</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239282989\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Nadine Sebai | The Public\u2019s Radio"}], "author": "Nadine Sebai | The Public\u2019s Radio", "author_detail": {"name": "Nadine Sebai | The Public\u2019s Radio"}}, {"title": "How six more years under Putin will shape the war in Ukraine", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "How six more years under Putin will shape the war in Ukraine"}, "summary": "NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dara Massicot of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about how Vladimir Putin's reelection impacts the war in Ukraine.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dara Massicot of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about how Vladimir Putin's reelection impacts the war in Ukraine."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:59:44 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 59, 44, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239282969/how-six-more-years-under-putin-will-shape-the-war-in-ukraine"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239282969/how-six-more-years-under-putin-will-shape-the-war-in-ukraine", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239282969/how-six-more-years-under-putin-will-shape-the-war-in-ukraine", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "<p>NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dara Massicot of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about how Vladimir Putin's reelection impacts the war in Ukraine.</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239282969\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Jonaki Mehta"}], "author": "Jonaki Mehta", "author_detail": {"name": "Jonaki Mehta"}}, {"title": "What Another Putin Term Means For Ukraine", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "What Another Putin Term Means For Ukraine"}, "summary": "Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for a quarter century. This weekend's election results confirmed that he will reign for another six years. <br /><br />Putin's hold on the Kremlin gives him control of the world's largest nuclear arsenal and a military that's been at war in Ukraine for more than two years, ever since he launched an invasion in February 2022.<br /><br />That war has killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, but despite these losses, the Russian military is pressing forward.<br /><br />Ukraine faces the stark prospect of a fight in which key US military assistance is in question. So what will six more years of Vladimir Putin mean for the war in Ukraine? And where do both militaries stand at this point in that brutal war?<br /><br />For sponsor-free episodes of <em>Consider This</em>, sign up for <em>Consider This+</em> via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"http://plus.npr.org/\">plus.npr.org</a>.  <br /><br />Email us at <a href=\"mailto:considerthis@npr.org\"><em>considerthis@npr.org</em></a><em>.</em>", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for a quarter century. This weekend's election results confirmed that he will reign for another six years. <br /><br />Putin's hold on the Kremlin gives him control of the world's largest nuclear arsenal and a military that's been at war in Ukraine for more than two years, ever since he launched an invasion in February 2022.<br /><br />That war has killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, but despite these losses, the Russian military is pressing forward.<br /><br />Ukraine faces the stark prospect of a fight in which key US military assistance is in question. So what will six more years of Vladimir Putin mean for the war in Ukraine? And where do both militaries stand at this point in that brutal war?<br /><br />For sponsor-free episodes of <em>Consider This</em>, sign up for <em>Consider This+</em> via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"http://plus.npr.org/\">plus.npr.org</a>.  <br /><br />Email us at <a href=\"mailto:considerthis@npr.org\"><em>considerthis@npr.org</em></a><em>.</em>"}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:36:19 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 36, 19, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1198910850/consider-this-from-npr-what-another-putin-term-means-ukraine-03-18-2024"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1198910850/consider-this-from-npr-what-another-putin-term-means-ukraine-03-18-2024", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1198910850/consider-this-from-npr-what-another-putin-term-means-ukraine-03-18-2024", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking on a visit to his campaign headquarters after a presidential election in Moscow.  What will another six years of Putin mean for Russia\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/18/ap24077764994481-resize-d800b655b43d02740f1e545fe0a3d40816d4da78.jpg\" /><p>Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for a quarter century. This weekend's election results confirmed that he will reign for another six years. <br /><br />Putin's hold on the Kremlin gives him control of the world's largest nuclear arsenal and a military that's been at war in Ukraine for more than two years, ever since he launched an invasion in February 2022.<br /><br />That war has killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, but despite these losses, the Russian military is pressing forward.<br /><br />Ukraine faces the stark prospect of a fight in which key US military assistance is in question. So what will six more years of Vladimir Putin mean for the war in Ukraine? And where do both militaries stand at this point in that brutal war?<br /><br />For sponsor-free episodes of <em>Consider This</em>, sign up for <em>Consider This+</em> via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"http://plus.npr.org/\">plus.npr.org</a>.  <br /><br />Email us at <a href=\"mailto:considerthis@npr.org\"><em>considerthis@npr.org</em></a><em>.</em></p><p>(Image credit: Alexander Zemlianichenko)</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1198910850\" />"}]}, {"title": "In Unsurprising Result Putin is Reelected", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "In Unsurprising Result Putin is Reelected"}, "summary": "Russian President Vladimir Putin was reelected with a reported 87% of the vote. The US government said the election was neither free nor fair. Our correspondent in Moscow tells us about why the Kremlin wanted to be sure of a high turnout and lopsided result.  <br /><br />And the legacy in the Middle East of a young American activist who died in Gaza 21 years ago.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "Russian President Vladimir Putin was reelected with a reported 87% of the vote. The US government said the election was neither free nor fair. Our correspondent in Moscow tells us about why the Kremlin wanted to be sure of a high turnout and lopsided result.  <br /><br />And the legacy in the Middle East of a young American activist who died in Gaza 21 years ago."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:24:08 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 24, 8, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1196979929/in-unsurprising-result-putin-is-reelected"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1196979929/in-unsurprising-result-putin-is-reelected", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1196979929/in-unsurprising-result-putin-is-reelected", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"A woman casts her ballot as service members register to vote during Russia\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/18/gettyimages-2079423915_custom-aef90d7e1fb57e809cf3909ac3c634233a31fc0e.jpg\" /><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin was reelected with a reported 87% of the vote. The US government said the election was neither free nor fair. Our correspondent in Moscow tells us about why the Kremlin wanted to be sure of a high turnout and lopsided result.  <br /><br />And the legacy in the Middle East of a young American activist who died in Gaza 21 years ago.</p><p>(Image credit: Natalia Kolesnikova)</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1196979929\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Charles Maynes"}], "author": "Charles Maynes", "author_detail": {"name": "Charles Maynes"}}, {"title": "New Banksy mural in north London puts a little greenery in a dense neighborhood", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "New Banksy mural in north London puts a little greenery in a dense neighborhood"}, "summary": "Banksy posted before-and-after photos on Instagram of the artwork, which provides a burst of green foliage to a denuded, severely pruned tree in Islington North.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "Banksy posted before-and-after photos on Instagram of the artwork, which provides a burst of green foliage to a denuded, severely pruned tree in Islington North."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:03:00 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 20, 3, 0, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239253357/banksy-confirms-new-london-tree-mural"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239253357/banksy-confirms-new-london-tree-mural", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239253357/banksy-confirms-new-london-tree-mural", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"A new Banksy artwork near Finsbury Park in north London shows a stencil of a person having spray painted tree foliage onto a wall behind a leafless tree.\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/18/gettyimages-2087308558_custom-7c2377d01735823f00244ea7b1a339aa67fc078f.jpg\" /><p>Banksy posted before-and-after photos on Instagram of the artwork, which provides a burst of green foliage to a denuded, severely pruned tree in Islington North.</p><p>(Image credit: Adrian Dennis)</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239253357\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Anastasia Tsioulcas"}], "author": "Anastasia Tsioulcas", "author_detail": {"name": "Anastasia Tsioulcas"}}, {"title": "The improbable victory over smallpox holds lessons for health threats in 2024", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "The improbable victory over smallpox holds lessons for health threats in 2024"}, "summary": "Physician C\u00e9line Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh to bring back unheard stories from the eradication of smallpox, many from health workers whose voices have been missing from the record.", "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "Physician C\u00e9line Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh to bring back unheard stories from the eradication of smallpox, many from health workers whose voices have been missing from the record."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:00:16 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 14, 0, 16, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/03/18/1238310146/smallpox-victory-lessons-health-threats-pandemic"}], "link": "https://npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/03/18/1238310146/smallpox-victory-lessons-health-threats-pandemic", "id": "https://npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/03/18/1238310146/smallpox-victory-lessons-health-threats-pandemic", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"Rahima Banu had the last recorded case of naturally occurring variola major smallpox, a deadly strain of the virus, in 1975. At left: Banu in her mother\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/14/01_smallpoxdiptych_wide-1a13805a111d235b239495d8655386c25dfb8afa.jpg\" /><p>Physician C\u00e9line Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh to bring back unheard stories from the eradication of smallpox, many from health workers whose voices have been missing from the record.</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1238310146\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Dr. C\u00e9line Gounder"}], "author": "Dr. C\u00e9line Gounder", "author_detail": {"name": "Dr. C\u00e9line Gounder"}}, {"title": "Putin wins Russian election; Supreme Court tackles misinformation, censorship case", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "Putin wins Russian election; Supreme Court tackles misinformation, censorship case"}, "summary": "Putin hails his victory in a Russian election with no real opposition. 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The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that examines whether the government can combat misinformation online."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:10:30 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 12, 10, 30, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239123421/up-first-newsletter-russia-putin-election-supreme-court-censorship"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239123421/up-first-newsletter-russia-putin-election-supreme-court-censorship", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239123421/up-first-newsletter-russia-putin-election-supreme-court-censorship", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking on a visit to his campaign headquarters after a presidential election in Moscow, Russia, early Monday.\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/18/ap24077768828433_wide-ef96c3801a3ace9e99c253327eea01211d8c9454.jpg\" /><p>Putin hails his victory in a Russian election with no real opposition. 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The Gaza Ministry of Health says the raid violates humanitarian law."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 08:02:55 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 12, 2, 55, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239108816/gaza-al-shifa-hospital-israel-raid"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239108816/gaza-al-shifa-hospital-israel-raid", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239108816/gaza-al-shifa-hospital-israel-raid", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"Displaced Palestinians gather in the yard of Gaza\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/18/gettyimages-1839084983-1--9b8a12235d2be46263f1fe355a5ec0e0f546ec2e.jpg\" /><p>The Israeli military said it was \"operating to thwart terrorist activity\" at Al-Shifa Hospital. 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Here are three things to know about the contest that could see Prime Minister Narendra Modi winning a third term."}, "published": "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:18 -0400", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 9, 0, 18, 0, 78, 0], "links": [{"rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html", "href": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239006305/what-to-know-india-elections-modi"}], "link": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239006305/what-to-know-india-elections-modi", "id": "https://npr.org/2024/03/18/1239006305/what-to-know-india-elections-modi", "guidislink": false, "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "<img alt=\"Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters hold cutout pictures of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a public meeting in Barasat on the outskirts of Kolkata on March 6. In India, Modi\" face=\"face\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/03/16/gettyimages-2054828546-32b7fff055fffad94236f8ab7f2a1ff3a9845749.jpg\" /><p>India goes to polls in a month in the world's largest elections. Here are three things to know about the contest that could see Prime Minister Narendra Modi winning a third term.</p><p>(Image credit: Dibyangshu Sarkar)</p><img src=\"https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=1239006305\" />"}], "authors": [{"name": "Omkar Khandekar"}], "author": "Omkar Khandekar", "author_detail": {"name": "Omkar Khandekar"}}, {"title": "First charter flight with U.S. citizens fleeing Haiti lands in Miami", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": null, "base": "https://feeds.npr.org/1004/rss.xml", "value": "First charter flight with U.S. citizens fleeing Haiti lands in Miami"}, "summary": "More than 30 U.S. citizens were on the government-chartered flight, officials said in a statement. 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title: The Atlantic National
created_at: 2024-03-19 00:09:31
entries:
{"entries": [{"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677769", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/03/israel-gaza-russia-putin-trump-biden-washington-week/677769/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> Washington Week With The Atlantic <em>is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and </em>The Atlantic <em>airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em> <br /></p><p>Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer set off a fierce debate in Washington on Thursday after criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and calling for Israel to hold new elections to replace him.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">In Russia, where the presidential election is being held this weekend, Vladimir Putin is on track to win a fifth term, as he continues his war against Ukraine. The U.S. will send a small military aid package to Ukraine, the first in months, but the larger $60 billion aid package remains stalled in Congress.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, President Biden is campaigning in key battleground states, while Donald Trump, his Republican rival, contends with developments in his various legal battles.<br />\n<br />\nJoining guest moderator and White House Correspondent at PBS NewsHour, Laura Barr\u00f3n-L\u00f3pez, to discuss this and more are Zolan Kanno-Youngs, White House Correspondent for The New York Times; Jim Scuitto, Anchor and Chief National Security Analyst at CNN; and Scott MacFarlane, Congressional Correspondent for CBS News.</p><p>Watch the full episode and read the transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2024/03/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-31524\">here</a>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "\u201cYou don\u2019t see the president condemning Schumer's statements, criticizing it at all \u2026 That does say a lot.\u201d", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/x73AjoMXKTKIgtREST8sEVNiruA=/media/img/mt/2024/03/still1/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "The Wars That Divide Washington", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "The Wars That Divide Washington"}, "published": "2024-03-16T11:39:00-04:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 16, 15, 39, 0, 5, 76, 0], "updated": "2024-03-18T14:14:55-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 18, 18, 14, 55, 0, 78, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "\u201cYou don\u2019t see the president condemning Schumer's statements, criticizing it at all \u2026 That does say a lot.\u201d"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/03/israel-gaza-russia-putin-trump-biden-washington-week/677769/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677688", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/03/state-of-the-union-super-tuesday-biden-trump-washington-week/677688/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <br />\nWashington Week With The Atlantic <em>is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and </em>The Atlantic <em>airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em> <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">Between the Super Tuesday results and the president\u2019s State of the Union address, a Joe Biden\u2013Donald Trump face-off\u2014the first presidential rematch since the 1950s\u2014has become all but certain.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">The end of political centrism continues to be a prevailing theme. This week, Trump secured an endorsement from the Senate\u2019s top Republican, Mitch McConnell, who had previously denounced the former president after the January 6 insurrection. Additionally, the decision of independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to not seek reelection signals further bipartisanship decline and likely increased polarization in the Senate.</p><p>Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Eugene Daniels, a White House correspondent for <em>Politico</em> and a co-author of Playbook; Asma Khalid, a White House correspondent for NPR<em> </em>and political contributor for ABC News; and Carlos Lozada, a columnist at <em>The New York Times</em> and the author of <em>The Washington Book</em>.</p><p>Watch the full episode and read the transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2024/03/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-3124\">here</a>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "The State of the Union \u201cwas the kickoff of a general election campaign and it was a clear contrast from Republicans on everything from abortion to immigration, to the economy.\u201d", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/B7WAE8R7MEKtzimF0lJ-i3943CE=/media/img/mt/2024/03/still5-1/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "The End of Political Centrism", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "The End of Political Centrism"}, "published": "2024-03-09T16:33:12-05:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 9, 21, 33, 12, 5, 69, 0], "updated": "2024-03-09T16:37:20-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 9, 21, 37, 20, 5, 69, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "The State of the Union \u201cwas the kickoff of a general election campaign and it was a clear contrast from Republicans on everything from abortion to immigration, to the economy.\u201d"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/03/state-of-the-union-super-tuesday-biden-trump-washington-week/677688/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677611", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/03/mitch-mcconnell-trump-biden-2024-washington-week/677611/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> Washington Week With<em> </em>The Atlantic<em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and </em>The Atlantic<em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em> <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">The race to become the Senate\u2019s top Republican is already under way. Mitch McConnell made the surprise announcement this week that he will step down from his role as Senate minority leader in November\u2014ending his tenure as the longest-serving Senate leader in U.S. history and solidifying former President Donald Trump as the leader of today\u2019s Republican Party.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, both President Joe Biden and Trump won their respective primaries on Tuesday, but the results underscored vulnerabilities in their 2024 bids for the White House.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Adam Harris, a staff writer for <em>The Atlantic</em>; Leigh Ann Caldwell, a co-author of the Early 202 newsletter at <em>The Washington Post</em> and an anchor at <em>Washington Post Live</em>; Ed O\u2019Keefe, a senior White House and political correspondent at CBS; and Nancy Youssef, a national-security correspondent at <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>.</p><p>Watch the full episode and read the transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2024/03/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-3124\">here</a>.</p>"}], "summary": "\u201cMcConnell was the final backstop against the complete Trumpification of the Senate.\u201d", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/iIzjE5BgaJZ28a-UVLQ8Zzr69mY=/media/img/mt/2024/03/still5/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "The Leader of Today\u2019s Republican Party", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "The Leader of Today\u2019s Republican Party"}, "published": "2024-03-02T10:36:43-05:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 3, 2, 15, 36, 43, 5, 62, 0], "updated": "2024-03-02T10:36:43-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 2, 15, 36, 43, 5, 62, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "\u201cMcConnell was the final backstop against the complete Trumpification of the Senate.\u201d"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/03/mitch-mcconnell-trump-biden-2024-washington-week/677611/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:260-677585", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/02/photos-texas-panhandle-smokehouse-creek-wildfire/677585/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n        \n        \n            <img alt=\"A nighttime view of a ranch house with a forest fire burning in the background\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/u5J0SFnDjZKgPOFoxFEcXw83Z8Q=/900x550/media/img/photo/2024/02/texas-wildfires/a01_RC2EB6A371OO-1/original.jpg\" title=\"Wildfires Rage Across the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma\" />\n            \n            <figcaption>\n                \n                \n                    <span class=\"credit\">Nick Oxford / Reuters</span>\n                \n            </figcaption>\n            \n        \n        </figure>\n    \n\n<p>The Smokehouse Creek Fire, which was sparked on Monday, has already burned across more than 500,000 acres, pushed by high winds and dry conditions. 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Gathered below are some early images from the region.</p>"}], "summary": "Early images from a broad area affected by several wildfires", "authors": [{"name": "Alan Taylor", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/alan-taylor/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Alan Taylor", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/alan-taylor/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/alan-taylor/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Alan Taylor", "title": "Wildfires Rage Across the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Wildfires Rage Across the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma"}, "published": "2024-02-28T13:35:27-05:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 2, 28, 18, 35, 27, 2, 59, 0], "updated": "2024-02-28T14:00:12-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 2, 28, 19, 0, 12, 2, 59, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Early images from a broad area affected by several wildfires"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/02/photos-texas-panhandle-smokehouse-creek-wildfire/677585/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677543", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/02/ukraine-war-russia-washington-week/677543/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <br />\nWashington Week With<em> </em>The Atlantic<em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and </em>The Atlantic<em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em> <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">As the war in Ukraine enters a third year\u2014and while a crucial aid package stalls in the House\u2014Russia has gained recent momentum from its capture of Avdiivka, while Ukrainian forces face intensifying shortages of man power and ammunition. Can Ukraine win this war? What would winning look like for Ukraine?</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Anne Applebaum, a staff writer for <em>The Atlantic</em>; David Ignatius, a foreign-affairs columnist for <em>The Washington Post</em>; and Lara Seligman, a defense reporter at <em>Politico</em>, join the moderator and editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em>, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more as they mark the second anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.</p><div class=\"oembed\">\n<div class=\"oembed\">Watch the full episode and read the transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2024/02/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-22324\">here</a>.</div>\n\n<div class=\"oembed\">\n<div class=\"oembed\"></div>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"oembed\">\n<p></p>\n</div>\n</div>"}], "summary": "Anne Applebaum, David Ignatius, and Lara Seligman discuss with Jeffrey Goldberg what winning would look like for Ukraine.", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/dDq6P4GhQdZFo3ox2ZYi2oYGCps=/media/img/mt/2024/02/still6/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "Can Ukraine Win This War?", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Can Ukraine Win This War?"}, "published": "2024-02-24T09:40:28-05:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 2, 24, 14, 40, 28, 5, 55, 0], "updated": "2024-03-01T15:20:30-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 3, 1, 20, 20, 30, 4, 61, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Anne Applebaum, David Ignatius, and Lara Seligman discuss with Jeffrey Goldberg what winning would look like for Ukraine."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/02/ukraine-war-russia-washington-week/677543/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677489", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/02/navalny-trump-nato-washington-week/677489/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> Washington Week with The Atlantic <em>is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and </em>The Atlantic<em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>.</em> <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">A New York judge has set March 25 as the start date in Donald Trump\u2019s hush-money case, making it the first criminal trial against a former American president in U.S. history. 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But his final primary opponent, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, has rejected calls to drop out of the race and continued to campaign in her home state. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have also ramped up their campaign, making reproductive rights a central theme of their reelection efforts.\u00a0\u00a0</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, the fate of a bipartisan border-security deal, which Republican lawmakers had insisted upon before considering additional funding for Ukraine and Israel, has been complicated by Trump\u2019s opposition to the deal.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more are Laura Barr\u00f3n-L\u00f3pez, a White House correspondent at <em>PBS NewsHour</em>; Tom Nichols, a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em>; Ashley Parker, a senior national political correspondent for <em>The Washington Post</em>; and Chuck Todd, a chief political analyst at NBC News.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Read the full transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2024/01/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-12624\">here</a>, or watch the episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, January 26, 2024:</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, January 26, 2024", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/EqPCmbtHPb5BTKLRSQMqh-ZEBIw=/media/img/mt/2024/01/still8/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "Trump Gets One Step Closer", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Trump Gets One Step Closer"}, "published": "2024-01-27T12:25:05-05:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 1, 27, 17, 25, 5, 5, 27, 0], "updated": "2024-02-01T17:33:46-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 2, 1, 22, 33, 46, 3, 32, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, January 26, 2024"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/01/donald-trump-nikki-haley-2024-presidential-washington-week/677255/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677166", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/01/trump-haley-stefanik-houthis-gaza-washington-week/677166/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> Washington Week With The Atlantic <em>is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and </em>The Atlantic <em>airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>.</em> <br /></p><p><small><i>Sign up for </i><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/the-decision-a-2024-newsletter/?utm_source=feed\"><i>The Decision</i></a><i>, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage.</i></small></p><p dir=\"ltr\">With just days until New Hampshire\u2019s presidential primary election, tension is growing between Republican rivals former President Donald Trump and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Trump, fresh off his win in Iowa and leading in the polls, is weighing possible vice-presidential running mates, including Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.\u00a0\u00a0</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, concerns about the war in Gaza expanding into a wider regional conflict are mounting after Iran\u2019s recent strikes in Iraq and Pakistan. 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It\u2019s kind of a dangerous job to take. Why would anybody want that job?\u201d"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/01/trump-haley-stefanik-houthis-gaza-washington-week/677166/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677094", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/01/iowa-caucuses-gop-trump-trials-washington-week/677094/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and <em>The Atlantic</em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">Just days before the Republican caucuses in Iowa officially kick off the presidential nominating process, the GOP field narrowed after former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie exited the race. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, the former president and current front-runner for the Republican nomination, spent the week campaigning in Iowa and appearing in courts in Washington, D.C., and New York City.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Josh Gerstein, a senior legal-affairs reporter at <em>Politico</em>; Steve Inskeep, the host of <em>Morning Edition</em> on NPR; Nikole Killion, a congressional correspondent for CBS News; and Adrienne LaFrance, the executive editor of <em>The Atlantic</em>.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Read the full transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2024/01/title-washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-11224\">here</a>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, January 12, 2024.", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/SvOpJPVgvNO9MxQmnS4nCDSoVV0=/media/img/mt/2024/01/Washington_Week_8_25_24_pm_2024_01_12_0/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "Trump on Trial\u2014And on the Trail", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Trump on Trial\u2014And on the Trail"}, "published": "2024-01-13T10:58:13-05:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 1, 13, 15, 58, 13, 5, 13, 0], "updated": "2024-01-13T11:03:08-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 1, 13, 16, 3, 8, 5, 13, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, January 12, 2024."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/01/iowa-caucuses-gop-trump-trials-washington-week/677094/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2024:50-677033", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/01/january-6-biden-trump-claudine-gay-washington-week/677033/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and <em>The Atlantic</em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">On Friday, the day before the third anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, President Joe Biden delivered his first speech of the new year at Valley Forge in battleground Pennsylvania, and warned voters about what\u2019s at stake this November. His likely Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is meanwhile hitting the campaign trail in Iowa to cement his lead before the caucuses, while juggling several legal cases against him.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">And, while Democrats are attempting to motivate voters over access to abortion, Republicans are seizing on-campus speech and DEI initiatives as the next front of the culture war\u2014Claudine Gay\u2019s resignation as president of Harvard on Tuesday was only one recent flare-up.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Joining the moderator and editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em>, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at <em>The New York Times</em>; Laura Barr\u00f3n-Lopez, the White House correspondent at <em>PBS NewsHour</em>; Josh Dawsey, a political enterprise and investigations reporter at <em>The Washington Post</em>; and Jerusalem Demsas, a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em>.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Read the full transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2024/01/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-1424\">here</a>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, January 5, 2024.", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/m5tKi7bvaH1ZUODCcL5mlYMwSmk=/media/img/mt/2024/01/still4/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "After January 6", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "After January 6"}, "published": "2024-01-06T10:10:17-05:00", "published_parsed": [2024, 1, 6, 15, 10, 17, 5, 6, 0], "updated": "2024-01-06T10:10:17-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2024, 1, 6, 15, 10, 17, 5, 6, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, January 5, 2024."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/01/january-6-biden-trump-claudine-gay-washington-week/677033/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-676957", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/trump-2024-second-term-washington-week/676957/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and <em>The Atlantic</em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">In this year-end episode, some of the contributors to the <em>The Atlantic</em>\u2019s <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/toc/2024/01/?utm_source=feed\">January/February issue</a> forecast what a second Trump term might look like. For the magazine, 24 <em>Atlantic</em> writers\u2013\u2013experts in foreign and domestic policy, economics, and national security\u2013\u2013examined Trump\u2019s record and his recent statements, and wrote about what they believe his agenda would be in a theoretical second term.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Joining editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are McKay Coppins, staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em> and author of <em>Romney: A Reckoning</em>; Franklin Foer, staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em> and author of <em>The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden\u2019s White House</em> and the <em>Struggle for America\u2019s Future</em>; Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor of <em>The Atlantic</em>; and Clint Smith, staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em> and author of <em>How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America</em>.</p><p dir=\"ltr\"><b>Read the full transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2023/12/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-122923\">here</a>.</b></p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 29, 2023.", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/QBxp0s4R-uwEvASOCBiraxy0yJs=/0x2:1920x1081/media/img/mt/2023/12/still3/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "What a Collapse Could Look Like", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "What a Collapse Could Look Like"}, "published": "2023-12-30T07:00:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 12, 30, 12, 0, 0, 5, 364, 0], "updated": "2023-12-30T09:33:47-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 12, 30, 14, 33, 47, 5, 364, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 29, 2023."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/trump-2024-second-term-washington-week/676957/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-676914", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/colorado-supreme-court-trump-2024-washington-week/676914/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and <em>The Atlantic</em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">On Tuesday, Colorado\u2019s Supreme Court disqualified Donald Trump from the state\u2019s primary ballot after determining that his actions on January 6, 2021, made him ineligible under the U.S. Constitution\u2019s insurrection clause.</p><p>The Colorado court\u2019s actions come on the precipice of another tumultuous year in politics, one featuring a general election and a likely rematch of the 2020 race between the former and present U.S. presidents.</p><p>Joining editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to look back at 2023 and discuss what to expect in 2024 are Lisa Desjardins, correspondent at <em>PBS NewsHour</em>; Adam Harris, staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em>; Zolan Kanno-Youngs, White House correspondent at <em>The New York Times</em>; and Susan Page, Washington bureau chief at <em>USA Today</em>.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Read the full transcript <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2023/12/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-122223\">here</a>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 22, 2023.", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/ZBXUFy3vh5hmKNnAbDq3kODyjPo=/media/img/mt/2023/12/Still2_16/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "A Tumultuous Year in Politics", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "A Tumultuous Year in Politics"}, "published": "2023-12-23T07:00:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 12, 23, 12, 0, 0, 5, 357, 0], "updated": "2023-12-30T09:33:20-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 12, 30, 14, 33, 20, 5, 364, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 22, 2023."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/colorado-supreme-court-trump-2024-washington-week/676914/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-676887", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/12/shonda-rhimes-emmett-till-barn-memorial/676887/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p class=\"dropcap\">F<span class=\"smallcaps\">rom the graveled bend</span> on Drew Ruleville Road, the barn is barely visible. A knot of trees obscures its weathered cypress panels; a driver could easily miss the structure from across the bayou. There is no indication that this is the place where Emmett Till was beaten and tortured.</p><p>That is about to change. In the September 2021 issue of <i>The Atlantic</i>, Wright Thompson <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/barn-emmett-till-murder/619493/?utm_source=feed\">reflected on the barn\u2019s history</a> and what its erasure says about how Mississippi remembers the lynching of Emmett Till. His story caught the attention of the television producer and screenwriter Shonda Rhimes, who today <a href=\"https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/shonda-rhimes-honor-emmett-tills-story-new-passion-105699839\">announced a donation to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center</a>, which will buy the barn and convert it into a permanent memorial.</p><p>\u201cThe murder of Emmett Till was the real fire that lit the civil-rights movement,\u201d Rhimes <a href=\"https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/shonda-rhimes-honor-emmett-tills-story-new-passion-105699839\">told <i>Good Morning America</i>\u2019s Robin Roberts this morning</a>. Thompson\u2019s article, she said, \u201cchanged the course of how I was thinking about charitable giving; it changed the course of how I was thinking about even preserving history.\u201d</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/barn-emmett-till-murder/619493/?utm_source=feed\">From the September 2021 issue: Wright Thompson on what we still don\u2019t know about Emmett Till\u2019s murder</a>]</i></p><p>Till was 14 when he was abducted by two white men, Roy Bryant and his half brother J. W. Milam, and brought to the barn, rented at the time by Leslie Milam, another of Bryant\u2019s half brothers. There, he was savagely beaten; most historians believe that at least seven people were present. Investigators believe that he was then shot in the head, and the men dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River.</p><p>Till\u2019s murder brought national attention to the resurgence of lynching in the South, but in Sumner, Mississippi, an all-white jury acquitted Bryant and Milam, the only two men charged with Till\u2019s murder. Protected by the Fifth Amendment\u2019s double-jeopardy clause, they later confessed to the crime in a magazine profile that neglected to mention Leslie Milam or his barn. The site faded from public memory.</p><p>After Till\u2019s murder, the owner of the property sold the land and turned out Leslie Milam. A series of families cycled through it, either not knowing or not paying attention to what had occurred there. The property was purchased in the 1990s by Jeff Andrews, a dentist. When Thompson first visited, in 2020, Andrews was using the barn to store Christmas decorations, a lawnmower, and a boat motor.</p><p>Rhimes\u2019s donation may at last guarantee that the barn receives the attention it deserves.</p><p>\u201cI\u2019m just overwhelmed,\u201d Reverend Willie Williams, the chair of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center\u2019s board of directors, told me. Williams was born in 1955, the same year Till was murdered; he grew up not far from where Till was kidnapped. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to really enhance this journey that we are on, to allow people to learn and allow people to heal, and hopefully we\u2019ll be a better community and a better nation.\u201d</p><p><i>[<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/emmett-till-and-the-ghosts-of-the-mississippi-delta/565097/?utm_source=feed\">Read: Vann R. Newkirk II on Emmett Till and the ghosts of the Mississippi Delta</a>]</i></p><p>In July, the Biden administration declared a new <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/us/politics/emmett-till-national-monument-biden.html\">Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument</a> comprising three places: the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, the site of Emmett\u2019s open-casket funeral; Graball Landing on the Tallahatchie River, where many believe his body was recovered; and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Bryant and Milam were tried and acquitted of his murder. Past markers meant to commemorate places associated with Till\u2019s lynching have been <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/us/emmett-till-sign-bullets.html\">stolen, shot up, and destroyed</a>. The new national monument is managed by the National Park Service.</p><p>Gloria Dickerson, a Sunflower County supervisor and local community organizer, told me she hopes that a memorial at the barn will help revitalize the surrounding area. Dickerson is the daughter of sharecroppers, and in 1965, she and her siblings were the first students to integrate the public schools of Drew, Mississippi. When she moved back to the community after retiring, in 2009, more than half of all children lived below the poverty line. Dickerson thinks that a memorial will bring not only visitors and jobs to Drew but also, most important, she said, pride. Growing up, her mother, active in the struggle for civil rights, made sure she knew Emmett Till\u2019s story. \u201cThe Mississippi Delta is really the ground zero for the civil-rights movement,\u201d Dickerson said. \u201cIn order for us to move along and to heal and to do good, we need to know where we come from.\u201d</p><p>\u201cMy hope is that this story never gets lost,\u201d Rhimes said. \u201cHistory is always told by the victors. I think it\u2019s important that the Till family is the victor in this story.\u201d</p>"}], "summary": "After an <em>Atlantic</em> story about the lynching of Emmett Till, the barn where he was murdered will be converted into a memorial.", "authors": [{"name": "Andrew Aoyama", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-aoyama/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Andrew Aoyama", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-aoyama/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-aoyama/?utm_source=feed", "author": "Andrew Aoyama", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/6bVTfC3OC1vTJghEaDp27VJmcHc=/media/img/mt/2023/12/Shonda/original.png"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Illustration by The Atlantic; Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post / Getty; Bettmann / Getty"}], "credit": "Illustration by The Atlantic; Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post / Getty; Bettmann / Getty", "title": "A Memorial at the Barn", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "A Memorial at the Barn"}, "published": "2023-12-18T11:30:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 12, 18, 16, 30, 0, 0, 352, 0], "updated": "2023-12-18T11:56:51-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 12, 18, 16, 56, 51, 0, 352, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "After an <em>Atlantic</em> story about the lynching of Emmett Till, the barn where he was murdered will be converted into a memorial."}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/12/shonda-rhimes-emmett-till-barn-memorial/676887/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-676344", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/washington-week-biden-ukraine-netanyahu/676344/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and <em>The Atlantic</em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">President Joe Biden faced a convergence of issues this week\u2014domestic, foreign, and familial.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">The Biden administration\u2019s request for additional aid for Ukraine has stalled as House and Senate Republicans are prioritizing negotiations over border-security policies. Tensions between President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the war in Gaza have spilled into the open. And Hunter Biden, the president\u2019s only surviving son, defied a congressional subpoena and instead offered again to testify in public in front of the Republican-led House committees investigating him. All of this comes as the House voted along party lines to officially open its impeachment inquiry into the president.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Joining the guest moderator and a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em>, Franklin Foer,\u00a0 to discuss this and more are Steve Inskeep, a co-host of NPR\u2019s <em>Morning Edition</em>; Jonathan Karl, the chief Washington correspondent at ABC News and the author of <em>Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party</em>; and Asma Khalid, a White House correspondent at NPR and a political contributor at ABC News.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 15, 2023", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/yaXUA9a5QWM894bPEVP9R7Soc-U=/media/img/mt/2023/12/WW15/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "Biden\u2019s Domestic, Foreign, and Familial Issues", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Biden\u2019s Domestic, Foreign, and Familial Issues"}, "published": "2023-12-16T12:57:06-05:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 12, 16, 17, 57, 6, 5, 350, 0], "updated": "2023-12-20T14:43:28-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 12, 20, 19, 43, 28, 2, 354, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 15, 2023"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/washington-week-biden-ukraine-netanyahu/676344/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-676246", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/washington-week-biden-israel-ukraine-policy/676246/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and <em>The Atlantic</em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s been a difficult week for President Joe Biden. His agenda on funding Israel, Ukraine, and border security is stalled in Congress, and his approval ratings are nearing a record low.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">With just 11 months until the general election, will debate over foreign policy determine whether Biden is reelected president in 2024?</p><p>Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em>; Leigh Ann Caldwell, a co-author of the Early 202 newsletter at <em>The Washington Post</em> and an anchor at <em>Washington Post</em> Live; Vivian Salama, a national-security reporter at <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>; and Chuck Todd, the chief political analyst at NBC News.</p><p>Read the full transcript <i>[<a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2023/12/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-12823\">here</a>]</i>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 8, 2023", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/vrHZf6pZU3IPnpPSKrX2LtRtm-I=/media/img/mt/2023/12/WW8/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "Will Foreign-Policy Debates Decide Biden\u2019s Fate?", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Will Foreign-Policy Debates Decide Biden\u2019s Fate?"}, "published": "2023-12-09T16:40:21-05:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 12, 9, 21, 40, 21, 5, 343, 0], "updated": "2023-12-11T17:56:13-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 12, 11, 22, 56, 13, 0, 345, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 8, 2023"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/washington-week-biden-israel-ukraine-policy/676246/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-676190", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/washington-week-republicans-kissinger-santos/676190/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week with The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">On Wednesday, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger passed away at the age of 100. As the country remembers the former statesman\u2019s complicated legacy, his fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill are working to overcome their internal dysfunction: In the House, Republican Representative George Santos of New York was expelled from Congress in a rare bipartisan vote for ethics violations. And in the Senate, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama attempted to reassure colleagues that his monthslong blockade of Pentagon nominations will end soon.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">All of this comes as former President Donald Trump continues to lead in polls of Republican and evangelical voters six weeks before the Iowa caucuses.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Tim Alberta, a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em> and the author of <em>The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism</em>; Elisabeth Bumiller, the assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief at <em>The New York Times</em>; Eugene Daniels, a White House correspondent at <em>Politico</em> and a co-author of Playbook; and Philip Rucker, the national editor at <em>The Washington Post</em>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 1, 2023", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/oEzoAD2CLJADfeZRoggoCd08l0w=/media/img/mt/2023/12/WWD2/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "The GOP\u2019s Internal Dysfunction", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "The GOP\u2019s Internal Dysfunction"}, "published": "2023-12-02T14:56:30-05:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 12, 2, 19, 56, 30, 5, 336, 0], "updated": "2023-12-02T14:56:31-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 12, 2, 19, 56, 31, 5, 336, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, December 1, 2023"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/12/washington-week-republicans-kissinger-santos/676190/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-676054", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/11/washington-week-mike-johnson-house-republicans/676054/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week with The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">Anger and frustration are growing among some members of House Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s caucus over government spending. Johnson has a long legislative to-do list when the House returns to Washington after Thanksgiving, and with Republicans holding a razor-thin majority, his moves will be scrutinized by Republicans and Democrats alike.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Joining this week\u2019s guest moderator of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, Lisa Desjardins, to discuss this and more are Carl Hulse, chief Washington correspondent at <em>The New York Times</em>; Nikole Killion, congressional correspondent at CBS News; Toluse Olorunnipa, White House bureau chief at <em>The Washington Post</em>; and Susan Page, Washington bureau chief at <em>USA Today</em>.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Read the full transcript <i>[<a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2023/11/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-112423\">here</a>]</i>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, November 24, 2023", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/HmepEEMtLG5bQZiarnhYZVOmNds=/media/img/mt/2023/11/WW24-1/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "Anger and Frustration Grow in the House", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Anger and Frustration Grow in the House"}, "published": "2023-11-25T18:15:37-05:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 11, 25, 23, 15, 37, 5, 329, 0], "updated": "2023-11-25T21:27:00-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 11, 26, 2, 27, 0, 6, 330, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, November 24, 2023"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/11/washington-week-mike-johnson-house-republicans/676054/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-676010", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/11/washington-week-trump-rhetoric/676010/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week with The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">Former President Donald Trump has never been moderate in rhetoric and action. But there\u2019s a real sense out there that, as he comes under further legal pressure, he\u2019s become more apocalyptic: During a Veterans Day speech, echoing the language of authoritarian dictators, he described his political foes as \u201cvermin.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, a rash of angry altercations erupted this week. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, allegedly elbowed fellow GOP Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee in the kidneys, and Senator Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, challenged a hearing witness to a fight.</p><p>Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more are Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at <em>The New York Times</em>; Leigh Ann Caldwell, a co-author of <em>The Washington Post</em>\u2019s Early 202 newsletter and an anchor on <em>Washington Post Live</em>; Idrees Kahloon, the Washington bureau chief at <em>The Economist</em>; and Elaina Plott Calabro, a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em>.</p><p>Read the full transcript <i>[<a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2023/11/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-111723\">here</a>]</i>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, November 17, 2023", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/rriRUL5Y3LeLGI7JPN5whPRAesk=/media/img/mt/2023/11/WW18/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "Trump\u2019s Apocalyptic Rhetoric", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Trump\u2019s Apocalyptic Rhetoric"}, "published": "2023-11-18T16:16:31-05:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 11, 18, 21, 16, 31, 5, 322, 0], "updated": "2023-11-20T10:56:50-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 11, 20, 15, 56, 50, 0, 324, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, November 17, 2023"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/11/washington-week-trump-rhetoric/676010/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-675960", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/11/democrats-biden-election-2024/675960/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week with The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia\u2019s announcement that he will not seek reelection in 2024 capped a paradoxical week for Democrats. Manchin\u2019s news puts Democrats\u2019 control of the Senate at greater risk at the same time that polling for President Joe Biden continues to decline. But there was good news for Democrats: They scored a number of victories in Tuesday\u2019s off-year election, including swing state Ohio voting to codify the right to an abortion in the state\u2019s constitution.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are David Brooks, a columnist at <em>The New York Times</em> and the author of <em>How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen</em>; Eugene Daniels, a White House correspondent and a co-author of <em>Politico</em>\u2019s Playbook; Asma Khalid, a White House correspondent at NPR; and Ed O\u2019Keefe, a senior White House and political correspondent at CBS.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">Read the full transcript <i>[<a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2023/11/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-111023\">here</a>]</i>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, November 10, 2023", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/rWX3bUJahqy5AfZ4wv_m19MnBCI=/media/img/mt/2023/11/WW10/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "A Paradoxical Week for Democrats", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "A Paradoxical Week for Democrats"}, "published": "2023-11-11T15:54:44-05:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 11, 11, 20, 54, 44, 5, 315, 0], "updated": "2023-11-11T15:54:44-05:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 11, 11, 20, 54, 44, 5, 315, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, November 10, 2023"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/11/democrats-biden-election-2024/675960/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-675854", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/11/biden-trump-age-presidential-race/675854/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week with The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">President Joe Biden is facing a unique set of challenges as he prepares to run for reelection. The most unique of all: No one his age has ever run for president. And voters are worried, even those who give him credit for an improving economy. It\u2019s also worth pointing out that Donald Trump is 77, and has been afflicted by more than the usual number of gaffes lately.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">On Capitol Hill, the GOP\u2019s new House Speaker, Mike Johnson, is a full week into the job and working to regain order. But the ideological divide among House Republicans is now attracting attention in the upper chamber after GOP anger over Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville stalling military promotions erupted on the Senate floor.</p><p>Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Dan Balz, a chief correspondent at <em>The Washington Post</em>; Adam Harris, a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em>; Susan Page, the Washington bureau chief at <em>USA Today</em>; and Alex Thompson, a national political correspondent at <em>Axios</em>.</p><p>Read the full transcript <i>[<a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2023/11/washington-week-with-the-atlantic-full-episode-11323\">here</a>]</i>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, November 3, 2023", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/vFOt6dy6ChoZ5NfFTL4X9D1p-nw=/media/img/mt/2023/11/WW3/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "America\u2019s Aging Presidential Front-Runners", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "America\u2019s Aging Presidential Front-Runners"}, "published": "2023-11-04T14:53:11-04:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 11, 4, 18, 53, 11, 5, 308, 0], "updated": "2023-11-04T14:53:12-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 11, 4, 18, 53, 12, 5, 308, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, November 3, 2023"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/11/biden-trump-age-presidential-race/675854/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}, {"id": "tag:theatlantic.com,2023:50-675794", "guidislink": true, "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/10/mike-johnson-speaker-trump-gop-romney-mckay-coppins/675794/?utm_source=feed", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "<p><em>Editor&rsquo;s Note:</em> <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em> is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and <em>The Atlantic</em> airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/tv-listing\">Check your local listings</a> or watch full episodes <a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/\">here</a>. <br /></p><p dir=\"ltr\">The House of Representatives finally has a new speaker. After a bruising battle and several weeks without a leader, Republicans have elected Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana to be the 56th speaker of the House.</p><p dir=\"ltr\">But how did this little-known, far-right ally of former President Donald Trump become second in line to the presidency? 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Legislating is at a standstill as House Republicans have yet to reach a consensus on who will be their next speaker.</p><p>Joining the editor in chief of <em>The Atlantic</em> and moderator, Jeffrey Goldberg, this week to discuss this and more are Dana Bash, the chief political correspondent and anchor of <em>Inside Politics With Dana Bash</em> on CNN; Franklin Foer, a staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em> and the author of <em>The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden\u2019s White House and the Struggle for America\u2019s Future</em>; Steve Inskeep, the host of <em>Morning Edition</em> on NPR and the author of <em>Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America</em>; and Nancy Youssef, a national-security correspondent at <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>.</p><div class=\"oembed\"></div>"}], "summary": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, October 20, 2023", "authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed"}, "href": "http://www.theatlantic.com/author/the-editors/?utm_source=feed", "author": "The Editors", "media_content": [{"url": "https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/8GljThDyNi3ZoL337Qx8TTR-quc=/media/img/mt/2023/10/WW_20/original.jpg"}], "media_credit": [{"content": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic"}], "credit": "Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic", "title": "A Paralyzed House Complicates Biden\u2019s Plans for Israel", "title_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "A Paralyzed House Complicates Biden\u2019s Plans for Israel"}, "published": "2023-10-21T16:40:25-04:00", "published_parsed": [2023, 10, 21, 20, 40, 25, 5, 294, 0], "updated": "2023-10-21T16:40:26-04:00", "updated_parsed": [2023, 10, 21, 20, 40, 26, 5, 294, 0], "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/AtlanticNational", "value": "Watch the full episode of <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic</em>, October 20, 2023"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2023/10/washington-week-israel-war-congress-house-republicans/675704/?utm_source=feed", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}]}]}


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{"entries": [{"authors": [{"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/", "author": "Spencer Kornhaber", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt518082", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/RTS10LLR/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"The 'Only' Profession to 'Celebrate What It Means to Live a Life'\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-power-of-viola-daviss-oscars-speech/517944/\">I praised</a> Viola Davis\u2019s Oscars speech for being memorable without being explicitly political\u2014for simply talking about her job in a moving and well-written way. Twitter quickly let me know I missed something. On social media and conservative-leaning news sites, Davis\u2019s speech had in fact sparked outrage.</p>\n\n<p>After explaining that she felt her mission was to \u201cexhume \u2026 the stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition, people who fell in love and lost,\u201d Davis said this:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>I became an artist\u2014and thank God I did\u2014because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>This claim has become one of the discussion items of the right-wing internet following the Oscars ceremony. \u201cArt is wonderful; art is enriching; art can connect us with each other,\u201d writes Ben Shapiro <a href=\"http://www.dailywire.com/news/13885/viola-davis-gives-self-important-tearful-speech-we-ben-shapiro\">at <em>Daily Wire</em></a>. \u201cBut the utter arrogance of stating that artists are \u2018the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life\u2019 is astounding. How about doctors? How about stay-at-home mothers, who help shape lives rather than pursuing their own career interests? How about morticians? How about pretty much everybody in a free market economy, giving of themselves to others to improve lives?\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Variants of that sentiment have ricocheted online, with Davis sometimes misquoted as though she\u2019d said only \u201cactors\u201d celebrate what it means to live a life, or, worse, are the only ones who \u201cknow\u201d what it means to live a life.</p>\n\n<p>Are people right to be offended? Did she say artists are better than anyone else? Reading her words literally, within the context of her speech, and extending her the slightest benefit of the doubt, it\u2019s hard to see backlash against Davis as anything other than a symptom of our overblown culture wars.</p>\n\n<p>Anyone might \u201ccelebrate what it means to live a life\u201d in their own personal ways, but for whom is that a primary function of their profession? Artists, definitely. Clergy, maybe. Doctors <em>save</em> lives rather than celebrating them, and it doesn\u2019t denigrate them to say so. Stay-at-home parents <em>help</em> others, and Davis might even agree that that\u2019s more noble, important, and essential than \u201ccelebrating\u201d the meaning of life.</p>\n\n<p>Her point was simply that artists serve a specific role in telling stories about the human experience, and that she\u2019s glad she\u2019s a part of that.</p>\n\n<p>Certainly, she could have edited herself to make a less controversial, though arguably less interesting<strong>,</strong> statement. If she\u2019d simply said, \u201cI became an artist\u2014and thank God I did\u2014because we celebrate what it means to live a life,\u201d complaints may have been harder to come by. The \u201conly\u201d highlights a specific way that artists are special, but it also is a dogwhistle to anyone holding strong resentment about Hollywood elitism and condescension. And there\u2019s rarely been a better time to air such resentment than right now.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">Artists are now treated like candidates\u2014expected to choose their words not for truth but for politics.</aside>\n\n<p>On the right, reflexive disgust for the entertainment industry has taken on new fervor under Donald Trump. During the <a href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/27/fox-friends-provides-laughably-bad-analysis-of-la-la-land-vs-moonlight-oscar-flub.html\"><em>Fox and Friends</em> after the Oscars</a>, the snafu whereby <em>La La Land</em> mistakenly was announced as Best Picture was spun by Steve Doocy as, \u201cHollywood got the election wrong, and last night Hollywood got the Oscars wrong.\u201d Guest Tucker Carlson agreed but added that <em>Moonlight</em> \u201chad to win\u201d because the moralizing, politically correct establishment willed it to. Yes, the Oscars were both an out-of-touch catastrophe and an insidiously rigged game.</p>\n\n<p>Donald Trump has given his own interpretation of the Academy\u2019s screwup: \u201cI think they were focused so hard on politics that they didn\u2019t get the act together at the end,\u201d he told <em>Breitbart</em>, as if the PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant who <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/business/media/pwc-oscars-best-picture.html\">handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope</a> did so because he\u2019d been cackling too hard at Kimmel <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/liveblogs/2017/02/2017-oscars/517761/14940/\">tweeting</a> the president \u201cu up?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0</p>\n\n<p>Liberals may groan at Trump taking credit for his critics making a logistical mistake. But, of course, both sides see a lot of politics in entertainment these days: See <a href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/did-the-oscars-just-prove-that-we-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation\">all the takes</a> making like Doocy and comparing the end of the Oscars to election night.</p>\n\n<p>To many viewers on Sunday, Davis\u2019s speech seemed remarkable for how it nearly transcended partisan fray and just passionately talked about acting. But one word\u2014\u201conly\u201d\u2014was enough to make her a culture-war litmus test. Maybe she wanted to pick a fight about art\u2019s place in society, or maybe she was simply portraying her profession as she genuinely sees it. Either way, it was a defiant move in an era where artists are increasingly held to the same standards as candidates for office: expected to choose their words not for truth but for politics.</p>"}], "summary": "In another strange sign of the mounting culture wars, Viola Davis\u2019s emotional Oscars tribute to artists has become political fodder.", "title": "The 'Only' Profession to 'Celebrate What It Means to Live a Life'", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The 'Only' Profession to 'Celebrate What It Means to Live a Life'"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/viola-davis-pos-oscars-only-profession-artists/518082/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/viola-davis-pos-oscars-only-profession-artists/518082/", "published": "2017-02-28T12:57:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 28, 17, 57, 0, 1, 59, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-518082", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "In another strange sign of the mounting culture wars, Viola Davis\u2019s emotional Oscars tribute to artists has become political fodder."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Megan Garber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/megan-garber/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Megan Garber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/megan-garber/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/megan-garber/", "author": "Megan Garber", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt518076", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/corinne/lead_large.png\" title=\"Corinne Found the Perfect Way to Rebel Against &lt;em&gt;The Bachelor&lt;/em&gt;\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p><b><em>This post reveals \u201cplot\u201d points of episode 10 of </em>The Bachelor <em>season 21.</em></b></p>\n\n<p>According to the fabricated lexicon of <em>The Bachelor</em>, the show\u2019s characters do not participate in a mere televised dating competition. They have been brought together, instead, on an emotional adventure that the show refers to, infallibly, as \u201ca journey.\u201d</p>\n\n<p><em>The Bachelor</em>\u2019s insistence on <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces\">its own vague Campbelliness</a> is ironic for several reasons. The biggest is that, while the show does offer a kind of momentum\u2014things proceed week after week, Rose Ceremony after Rose Ceremony, with romantic tensions inevitably mounting\u2014its participants, for the most part, do very little in the way of their own development. There are characters, yes, but very few arcs. The Bachelor or Bachelorette in question might learn some things as the season proceeds, sure; for the most part, though, the contestants are who they are, and they stay who they are. The tensions come not as those contestants grow and change, but instead as their different facets are systematically revealed to the Bachelor(ette). Different sides of their personalities are glimpsed; people are kept around or kicked to the curb based on the facets of themselves that manifest as the Journey continues apace. <em>The Bachelor</em>, basically, is a show that offers a lot of movement, but very little evolution.</p>\n<!-- START \"MORE ON\" SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 -->\n\n<aside class=\"callout\">\n<hr />\n<h4>Related Story</h4>\n\n<div><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/in-praise-of-corinne-the-bachelors-human-conspiracy-theory/514217/\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2017/01/corinne/lead_960.png?1485268353\" width=\"242\" /> </a></div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/in-praise-of-corinne-the-bachelors-human-conspiracy-theory/514217/\">In Praise of Corinne, <em>The Bachelor\u2019</em>s Human Conspiracy Theory</a></p>\n\n<hr /></aside>\n<!-- END \"MORE ON\" SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 -->\n\n<p>Which made Monday\u2019s episode especially striking. First, because, at the Rose Ceremony at the episode\u2019s outset, Nick \u201csaid goodbye\u201d (another term of <em>Bachelor </em>art) to Corinne Olympios, the season\u2019s appointed villain. Corinne, who is dramatic and zany and materialistic and Good TV in human form, had long been a front-runner both despite and because of her antics (as <em>SB Nation</em> <a href=\"http://www.sbnation.com/2017/2/14/14604780/the-bachelor-season-21-episode-7-recap-nick-viall\">summed it up</a> earlier this month, \u201cOh God, Corinne\u2019s gonna win this whole dang thing, isn\u2019t she?\u201d). Her ouster on Monday, right before the Fantasy Suite dates, was a shock\u2014to viewers of the show including, but definitely not limited to, <a href=\"http://www.glamour.com/story/the-bachelor-corinne-olympios-nick-viall-sent-her-home\">Corinne herself</a>.</p>\n\n<p>What was doubly striking about Corinne\u2019s departure, though, was that she used the show\u2019s elaborate farewell ritual to contradict <em>The Bachelor</em>\u2019s dynamic stasis: While being broken up with by Nick and, by extension, Bachelor Nation, Corinne demonstrated that, against all odds, she had grown. As a person! Sort of! (I\u2019d use another <em>Bachelor</em>ism here, but of course, for this kind of thing, there is none.)</p>\n\n<p><em>The Bachelor\u2019</em>s traditional departure scene\u2014Woman, Weeping Alone in a Limo\u2014typically involves the said-goodbye-to contestant crying, wiping away mascara-tears, and discussing how much she wants\u2014really, how <em>ready</em> she is\u2014to \u201cfind love.\u201d Not so Corinne. The woman who had spend the season defying the show\u2019s long-established norms had one more trick up her faux-fur-covered sleeve. Corinne, Weeping Alone in a Limo, told the show\u2019s invisible cameras not about how sad she was, but instead about \u2026 how changed she was. The season\u2019s villain and cipher and punchline and <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/in-praise-of-corinne-the-bachelors-human-conspiracy-theory/514217/\">living, breathing conspiracy theory</a> used her final moments within the <em>Bachelor</em> spotlight to talk about what she had taken away from her experience on the show. She used them to talk not about The Journey, but about her own.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">Corinne, in the end, did something that is rare and almost rebellious within <em>The Bachelor</em>\u2019s gauzy confines: She learned a lesson.</aside>\n\n<p>It went like this: Nick did not call Corinne\u2019s name at the New York City-based Rose Ceremony. He walked her out to the limo. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d she told him, as they embraced. \u201cI\u2019m sorry if I ever did anything to make you upset.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>He replied: \u201cYou never did! Listen, you never did anything wrong. Ever. You have nothing to regret. You have nothing to second guess. Look at me\u2014nothing. Not a thing. You need to know that. Okay?\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Corinne stepped into the limo. The traditional departure ritual began. She wept, as plaintive piano notes surrounded her. \u201cSaying goodbye to Nick,\u201d she told the camera, \u201cis like, I feel like my heart is like, literally like\u2014it\u2019s never going to be repaired. I just want to feel loved\u2014the way it\u2019s supposed to be, like the <em>normal way</em>.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>It was all standard-issue <em>Bachelor</em> stuff, right down to the invocation of \u201cthe normal way\u201d \u2026 until things\u2014as they so often will when Corinne is involved\u2014took a turn. \u201cI\u2019m trying to, you know, say things that men think are appropriate,\u201d she said, as her tears gave way to a slow smile. \u201cAnd you know what? I\u2019m <em>done</em>. Done trying to show my men how much I worship them and I love them and I care for them and I support them. <em>I</em> need that! So if someone feels that way about me? They can come and tell me. And they can bring a ring to go along with it.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>It was \u2026 feminist? Sort of? It was also inflected with Corinne\u2019s characteristic self-absorption and materialism, yes\u2014and the probable result of some liberal editing, with that quick shift from weeping to grinning\u2014but still. Corinne, with this, was rejecting the stuff of all those <em>Cosmo</em> stories offering advice on <a href=\"http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/advice/g3011/how-to-please-your-man/\">How to Please Your Man</a>\u2014and the stuff, for that matter, of a culture that tends to assume that women, and women alone, should do the work of making sure that men feel supported, and cherished, and, indeed, \u201cworshipped.\u201d Corinne had spend her season of <em>The Bachelor</em> myopically\u2014even maniacally\u2014focused on Nick. She had been, in <em>Bachelor</em>ese, There for Nick and There for the Right Reasons and Not There to Make Friends. And in the end, if the aim is to be the woman before whom Nick \u201cgets down on one knee,\u201d it had all failed.</p>\n\n<p>Corinne took all that and then did something that is rare and almost rebellious within <em>The Bachelor</em>\u2019s gauzy confines: She learned a lesson. She took the show\u2019s truisms about coupledom and transformed them into other clich\u00e9s: Corinne will, she suggested, from here on out, Focus on Herself and Do It for Herself. Corinne will do Corinne. She will <a href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/bachelor-recap-season-1-episode-3.html\">Make Corinne Great Again</a>. \u201cI\u2019m going to be me,\u201d Corinne told the show\u2019s invisible camera, as its invisible piano played her off. \u201cAnd whatever happens, happens. But I will never kiss up to a man again in my entire life.\u201d</p>"}], "summary": "Over the course of the season, the show\u2019s latest villain just might have \u2026 grown as a person.", "title": "Corinne Found the Perfect Way to Rebel Against <em>The Bachelor</em>", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Corinne Found the Perfect Way to Rebel Against <em>The Bachelor</em>"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/corinne-the-bachelor/518076/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/corinne-the-bachelor/518076/", "published": "2017-02-28T12:49:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 28, 17, 49, 0, 1, 59, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-518076", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Over the course of the season, the show\u2019s latest villain just might have \u2026 grown as a person."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/", "author": "Spencer Kornhaber", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517944", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/RTS10HLK/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"Viola Davis's Urgent Call to 'Exhume the Ordinary'\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>Viola Davis\u2019s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress began with a thanks to the Academy and this observation: \u201cYou know, there\u2019s one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Pause. Some viewers may have felt a queasy pang. Was the <em>Fences</em> actress about to give a sequel to Meryl Streep\u2019s Golden Globes speech? Was the next line going to be \u201cthis room,\u201d so as to stand up for the presidentially denounced entertainment industry, so as to preach for truth and inclusion, so as to spark another skirmish about whether Hollywood is too self-regarding?</p>\n\n<p>No. The next line: \u201cOne place, and that\u2019s the graveyard.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Whew. Davis\u2019s speech quickly went viral and received wide acclaim for a lot of reasons, and prime among them was simply good writing. She opened with a question and gave an answer few would have guessed. She exploited the power of surprise, a power <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-oscars-that-thing-that-happened-at-the-oscars-and-the-rare-power-of-shock/517917/\">demonstrated amply</a> elsewhere at the Oscars.</p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Viola Davis' <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash\">#Oscars</a> acceptance speech was AMAZING. Watch it here <a href=\"https://t.co/fs8vScFX3b\">https://t.co/fs8vScFX3b</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/cope2GlkKv\">pic.twitter.com/cope2GlkKv</a></p>\n\u2014 The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/836051675681075201\">February 27, 2017</a></blockquote>\n\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>The speech also made self-evident why Davis deserves an Oscar. She seemed to be heaving with emotion, almost out of breath, and yet her words were clear and her sentences deftly paced. She gestured with the precision of her <em>How to Get Away With Murder</em> character Annalise Keating in law lecture, yet she showed the rawness of feeling that Mrs. Miller had in <em>Doubt</em>. But this was not acting. Or if it was, it was so good as<strong> </strong>to not seem like it. Which is, as Leonardo DiCaprio said from the stage elsewhere in the night, the definition of great acting.</p>\n\n<p>Most remarkable: the speech\u2019s content. Typically, memorable Oscar acceptances make explicit political points, feature gaffes, or mark milestones. But Davis\u2019s commanded attention through the mere discussion of art, as well as through specific, heartfelt shoutouts to colleagues and loved ones.</p>\n\n<p>\u201cPeople ask me all the time: \u2018What kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I say, exhume those bodies, exhume those stories. The stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition, people who fell in love and lost. I became an artist\u2014and thank God I did\u2014because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>The resonance with Davis\u2019s work was obvious: <em>Fences</em> is based on August Wilson\u2019s play about a 1950s black working-class family whose members aren\u2019t famous, who simply strive and spar against the backdrop of society and history. Wilson \u201cexhumed and exalted the ordinary people,\u201d Davis said; his story was \u201cabout people, and words, and life, and forgiveness, and grace.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>But the resonance with other themes of the night, and the era, was also unmissable. The Best Picture nominees included many tales of the culturally invisible and frustrated: post-recession Texans bereft of opportunity in <em>Hell or High Water</em>, low-level NASA mathematicians mostly forgotten by history in <em>Hidden Figures</em>, orphans and destitute families in India in <em>Lion</em>. Most notably, Best Picture winner <em>Moonlight </em>unspooled the tale of a poor black gay man simply surviving, an ordinary life of the sort that is portrayed so infrequently as to seem extraordinary.</p>\n\n<p>So there is, in fact, politics here, though subtle. In the context of conversations about diversity and inclusion at the Oscars and in America more generally, Davis\u2019s praise of stories about common people of thwarted dreams necessarily has a political meaning:<strong> </strong>Portraying previously unportrayed struggles means that lives other than white, straight, well-off, and/or male matter.</p>\n\n<p>The point was reinforced, lightly, as she thanked her sisters, remembering, \u201cWe were rich white women in the tea party games<em>.\u201d </em>They played as white and wealthy, perhaps, because that was what society had told them to fantasize about. Davis has shown the power of offering alternatives.</p>"}], "summary": "The <em>Fences</em> Best Supporting Actress testified to art\u2019s ability to tell the stories of regular people.", "title": "Viola Davis's Urgent Call to 'Exhume the Ordinary'", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Viola Davis's Urgent Call to 'Exhume the Ordinary'"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-power-of-viola-daviss-oscars-speech/517944/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-power-of-viola-daviss-oscars-speech/517944/", "published": "2017-02-27T14:45:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 27, 19, 45, 0, 0, 58, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517944", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The <em>Fences</em> Best Supporting Actress testified to art\u2019s ability to tell the stories of regular people."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "David Sims", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "David Sims", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/", "author": "David Sims", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517947", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/AP_17058201688885/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"What &lt;em&gt;Moonlight&lt;/em&gt;\u2019s Win Says About the Oscars\u2019 Future\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>The manner of <em>Moonlight</em>\u2019s Best Picture win at the Oscars may have been <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/liveblogs/2017/02/2017-oscars/517761/\">bizarre and shocking</a>, but in toppling expected favorite <em>La La Land</em>, Barry Jenkins\u2019s film set a number of milestones. It\u2019s the lowest-budgeted film to win the prize since Delbert Mann\u2019s <em>Marty</em> in 1955; if adjusting for inflation, it\u2019s the lowest ever. It\u2019s the first movie centered on an LGBTQ character to be named Best Picture, and the first whose cast is entirely people of color. Beyond that, it\u2019s incredible that <em>Moonlight</em> beat <em>La La Land</em> simply because the latter seemed like a film aimed at Academy voters\u2014a well-made original musical about artistry and Hollywood dreams, shot through with nostalgia for the industry\u2019s Golden Age.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>But maybe it shouldn\u2019t be so surprising that <em>Moonlight </em>took Best Picture. <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/moonlight-barry-jenkins-review/505409/\">It\u2019s a stunning film</a>, but also in some ways one that fits a mold the Academy has been leaning toward in recent years. For decades, it was very unusual for the movie with the most awards of the night to lose the Best Picture race. But in recent years, that\u2019s been the norm. For decades, splits between Best Picture and Best Director (as happened at last night\u2019s Oscars) were a relative rarity; in the last 20 years, it\u2019s happened 8 times. <em>Moonlight</em> is a unique film, and one that tells the kind of story the Academy Awards have largely ignored through its history\u2014but it\u2019s also the kind of smaller, more intimate tale that voters have started warming to.</p>\n\n<p><em>Moonlight</em> won three Academy Awards this year: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney. Last year\u2019s Best Picture winner <em>Spotlight</em> took only two trophies, and in 2015, <em>Birdman </em>won four. The year before that, <em>12 Years a Slave </em>won three, as did <em>Argo </em>in 2013. In every case, there was another more opulent production that won at least as many trophies, if not more: <em>The Revenant</em>, <em>The Grand Budapest Hotel</em>, <em>Gravity</em>, and <em>Life of Pi</em>, respectively (with all but <em>Budapest </em>winning Best Director but not Best Picture). <em>La La Land</em> seems to belong to this new ticket-splitting norm, where voters chalk up a bunch of technical wins for the glitzy frontrunner, but give Best Picture to the more critically acclaimed, smaller production.</p>\n\n<p>Again, this is not to discount <em>Moonlight</em>\u2019s game-changing triumph. Though movies like <em>Spotlight</em> and <em>Birdman</em> were independent works, they were made on a much bigger budget and distributed by more established indie wings of major studios (<em>Moonlight</em>\u2019s distributor was A24, a company <a href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/09/profile_of_the_independent_film_distributor_a24_the_company_behind_spring.html\">founded only five years ago</a> that has quickly become one of the most respected names in American art cinema). Still, only one major studio has won Best Picture in the last decade\u2014Warner Bros. (for <em>Argo </em>and <em>The Departed</em>). As Hollywood\u2019s major production companies have tilted away from prestige films to focus more heavily on big tentpole franchises, the Best Picture nominations list is mostly filled with indie and \u201cmid-major\u201d companies, (with streaming service Amazon making <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/how-amazon-got-a-best-picture-oscar-nomination/514325/\">its own breakthrough</a> this year for <em>Manchester by the Sea</em>).</p>\n\n<p>If things had been already edging in this direction, then <em>Moonlight</em> might be the beginning of an even bigger sea change. Of this year\u2019s nine Best Picture nominees, it is the lowest-grossing (having made $22 million in the fourth months since its release, behind the next lowest <em>Hell or High Water</em> with $27 million). The Oscars used to have a certain reverence for perfectly well reviewed films that broke out in a major way. It\u2019s how consensus choices like <em>A Beautiful Mind</em>, <em>Gladiator</em>, <em>Braveheart, </em>and <em>Forrest Gump </em>took the prize over more acclaimed movies. <em>La La Land </em>fits that mold well\u2014but that mold may have been broken.</p>\n\n<p>It helps that <em>Moonlight </em>was universally heralded, getting the kind of rapturous critical raves that come once in a generation, rather than once a year. It was also a beautifully made film on every level, attracting support from a wider swath of Academy branches (it was nominated for its music, cinematography, and editing along with the expected writing, acting, and directing nods). That\u2019s crucial for a Best Picture win, because people from every Academy branch get to vote on the winners, and it\u2019s what had kept smaller, less technically impressive indie movies from winning in the past. Perhaps next year the trophy will go to some big epic that hits at the box office, like Christopher Nolan\u2019s <em>Dunkirk</em>, and this recent pattern will be upended. Either way, <em>Moonlight</em>\u2019s win is shocking enough to be remembered forever. The thing to watch for now is if it\u2019s a magical Oscars anomaly, or a sign of profound change for the Academy.</p>"}], "summary": "The stunning film\u2019s unexpected triumph is part of a larger trend toward more small and intimate projects for the Academy.", "title": "What <em>Moonlight</em>\u2019s Win Says About the Oscars\u2019 Future", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "What <em>Moonlight</em>\u2019s Win Says About the Oscars\u2019 Future"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/what-moonlights-win-says-about-the-oscars-future/517947/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/what-moonlights-win-says-about-the-oscars-future/517947/", "published": "2017-02-27T12:49:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 27, 17, 49, 0, 0, 58, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517947", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The stunning film\u2019s unexpected triumph is part of a larger trend toward more small and intimate projects for the Academy."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/", "author": "Spencer Kornhaber", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517899", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/AP_17058233854185/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"Five Ways of Seeing Five Minutes of 'Real People' at the Oscars\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>If the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/liveblogs/2017/02/2017-oscars/517761/\">last-minute twist at the Oscars</a> was <a href=\"https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/836085336027455489\">seen</a> to echo all the last-minute twists in American culture lately\u2014the Super Bowl, the election\u2014a silly <a href=\"http://abc.go.com/shows/oscars/video/most-recent/VDKA3703864\">five-minute segment</a> earlier in the night should be noted for what it captured about the country\u2019s ongoing tensions and tastes in iPhone peripherals.</p>\n\n<p>Host Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s team arranged for a sightseeing bus of supposedly \u201creal\u201d tourists to walk into the room, expecting a museum exhibit about the Oscars but instead finding themselves in the middle of the actual thing. \u201cWelcome to the Dolby Theater,\u201d Kimmel announced. \u201cThis is the home of the Academy Awards, which are, in fact, happening right now.\u201d</p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The greatest Hollywood tour bus trip EVER ... <a href=\"https://twitter.com/starlinetours\">@StarLineTours</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash\">#Oscars</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/hUsuhPQf0I\">pic.twitter.com/hUsuhPQf0I</a></p>\n\u2014 Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/836210583246548992\">February 27, 2017</a></blockquote>\n\n\n<p>The bit was both amusing and squirmy: a weird microcosm of Hollywood\u2019s relationship with America, America\u2019s relationship with the media, and Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s ability to make everything a little more awkward than it needs to be.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<h4><font face=\"Lyon Display, Georgia, Times, serif\">The Hunger for Folk Heroes (and Memes)</font></h4>\n\n<p>At the front of the pack was the man who would be the moment\u2019s breakout star, \u201cGary from Chicago.\u201d In a room of tuxes, he wore basketball shorts, a baseball cap, and a \u201cHollywood\u201d sweatshirt, with the gender-progressive touches of a purple phone case and a bag that might have been his fiancee\u2019s purse. If the glitz ambush intimidated him, he showed no signs of it, happily introducing himself to stars and snappily replying to Kimmel\u2019s jokes. On social media, pop culture\u2019s craving for quirky symbolic everymen\u2014see: Ken Bone, Joe the Plumber\u2014quickly <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/movies/oscars-audience-wonders-who-is-gary-from-chicago.html?_r=0\">made itself known</a>. So did the cravings of<strong> </strong><a href=\"https://twitter.com/ginoseast/status/836059060168425472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">various corporate marketing teams</a>.</p>\n\n<h4>Our Collective Phone Addiction</h4>\n\n<p>The dozen or so tourists seemed to realize what was happening at different rates, and with different emotions\u2014fear, elation, nonchalance\u2014but were united in keeping their phones in front of their faces. \u201cYou know we\u2019re on TV so you don\u2019t need to do that,\u201d Kimmel said as Gary kept filming the room. His reply: \u201cI know but I want to. I want to.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>The phone accessories themselves could make for a post-show fashion column: one woman had a sparkling jeweled case, another wielded a selfie stick as if it were a talisman. Devices in hand, the group pulled celebs in for selfies; Gary even handed his phone to Mahershala Ali as he posed with the actor\u2019s Oscar.</p>\n\n<p>For the tourists, it was a rare chance to see in the flesh people normally only ever seen on a screen. Yet they still insisted on having a screen between them.</p>\n\n<h4>Piercing the Hollywood Bubble \u2026</h4>\n\n<p>In an era when Americans have become sharply aware of how isolated its various niches are\u2014politically, socially, geographically\u2014workaday citizens from around the country were literally bussed in for cultural exchange with the cultural elite. The stars received them warmly: Ryan Gosling offered up some sort of present to Gary, Jennifer Anniston handed over her sunglasses, Meryl and Mahershala and others grinned and hugged. Denzel Washington even<strong> </strong>\u201cmarried\u201d<strong> </strong>Gary and his fiancee Vicky, though it must be said this particular cinematic icon seemed in a bit of a hurry to return to his seat.</p>\n\n<h4>\u2026 or Reinforcing It</h4>\n\n<p>The alternate political reading of the moment was that the regular folks were treated patronizingly, expected to react with gratitude and awe at the mere fact of breathing the same air as famous people. Kimmel seemed a little too insistent that the tourists be wowed, and an awkward image was set when Gary started kissing actresses\u2019 hands: He wanted to do it, but it looked a lot like royalty receiving a supplicant. \u201cWell that was the most condescending moment in Oscars<strike> </strike>history,\u201d the writer Walter Kirn <a href=\"https://twitter.com/walterkirn/status/836054075263217664\">tweeted</a>. \u201cReal people on parade. Weren\u2019t they cute?\u201d</p>\n\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"390\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/RTS10HTH/efe2c175b.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">Lucy Nicholson / Reuters</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<h4><font face=\"Lyon Display, Georgia, Times, serif\">Oscars (Host) So White</font></h4>\n\n<p>The tourists were a mix of white and black and brown men and women. But Kimmel made the diversity seem anything but normal by using tired humor about \u201cfunny\u201d names\u2014which is to say, names unusual to white Americans. As the tourists entered the room, he had the crowd shout out \u201cMAHERSHALA!,\u201d the name of <em>Moonlight</em>\u2019s Best Supporting Actor winner. Later, Kimmel reacted with horror when a woman of Asian descent told Kimmel her name rhymed with \u201cjewelry.\u201d When her husband said his name was Patrick, Kimmel replied with mock relief, \u201cSee, that\u2019s a name.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>At an event that has recently been accused of white supremacy, this was a pretty tone-deaf shtick. But Gary, of course, helped deflate it. \u201cI feel like you\u2019re ignoring the white celebrities,\u201d Kimmel said. Gary: \u201cBecause I am, though!\u201d</p>\n\n<h4><font face=\"Lyon Display, Georgia, Times, serif\">The Insanity of Live TV</font></h4>\n\n<p>My stress reflexes were in full effect watching the segment, and judging from the cringing reactions on Twitter, I wasn\u2019t alone. It\u2019s definitely possible the tourists were just actors, or that they\u2019d at least been coached to a greater extent than we were led to believe. But still, the spectacle of chaos in a space as highly choreographed, as widely watched, and as culturally fraught as the Oscars was riveting. At the very end of the night, viewers would be reminded of what makes live TV like this so electrifying\u2014the potential for disaster, and miracles.</p>"}], "summary": "Did the prank with \u201cGary from Chicago\u201d and his band of tourists humble Hollywood\u2014or just condescend?", "title": "Five Ways of Seeing Five Minutes of 'Real People' at the Oscars", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Five Ways of Seeing Five Minutes of 'Real People' at the Oscars"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/oscars-real-people/517899/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/oscars-real-people/517899/", "published": "2017-02-27T12:23:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 27, 17, 23, 0, 0, 58, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517899", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Did the prank with \u201cGary from Chicago\u201d and his band of tourists humble Hollywood\u2014or just condescend?"}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Megan Garber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/megan-garber/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Megan Garber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/megan-garber/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/megan-garber/", "author": "Megan Garber", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517917", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/RTS10ILQ-1/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"'&lt;em&gt;Moonlight&lt;/em&gt;, Best Picture': The Oscars and the Rare Power of Shock\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>Last year, the comedian Marc Maron brought the author Chuck Klosterman on as <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHfg1mnZN3Y\">a guest on his <em>WTF</em> podcast</a>. The two <a href=\"http://screencrush.com/2016-the-year-of-surprise-10-cloverfield-lane-lemonade/\">discussed many things</a> (including Klosterman\u2019s then-new book, <i>But What If We\u2019re Wrong?</i>, which he was there to promote), but one of them was sports\u2014and the particular thrill that they offer to audiences. Sporting events, Klosterman argued, promise that most dramatic of things: an unknown outcome. Unlike other widely watched events\u2014the Super Bowl halftime show, the Grammys, the Oscars\u2014the primary selling point of sporting events is that their endings are, by definition, unpredictable. Within them, anything can happen.</p>\n\n<p>Well. While you can say a lot about the Oscars on Sunday, you can\u2019t say that the glitzy awards show was boringly predictable. The 89th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, right at its conclusion, brought a mixture of confusion and shock and full, deep delight to its viewers as Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway teamed up to announce the Best Picture winner and proceeded to, because of a backstage flub, announce the wrong movie. Chaos\u2014and really, really good TV\u2014ensued. Tired East Coasters were summoned back to their living rooms from their bedrooms, on the grounds that \u201cohmyGodyou\u2019veGOTtoseethis.\u201d Twitter erupted with jokes\u2014about Bonnie and Clyde being at it again, about <a href=\"https://twitter.com/burritojustice/status/836086396792156161\">Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s envelope</a>, about \u201cDewey Defeats Truman\u201d getting <a href=\"https://twitter.com/_MightyMarc_/status/836088378030379008\">an Oscars-friendly update</a>. It was late on a Sunday evening, and the unexpected had happened in the most unexpected of ways, and the whole thing was, as my colleague Adam Serwer <a href=\"https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/836081965778546689\">perfectly summed it up</a>, <i>Moon-lit</i>.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">During a time when Google has made so much information attainable, knowingness has become a default presence in American cultural life.</aside>\n\n<p>The whole thing was also, however, a reminder of how rare it has become for audiences to witness, collectively, something that is truly Unexpected. This was live TV, with all the potential human error that live TV can bring\u2014chaos, correction, drama, grace\u2014at its depths but also its heights. What happened on Sunday hewed to roughly the same mechanics that gave the world all those <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/02/consider-the-left-shark/385258/\">Left Shark memes</a>, and those \u201c<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/nevertheless-she-persisted-and-the-age-of-the-weaponized-meme/516012/\">Nevertheless, She Persisted</a>\u201d tattoos, and the term \u201c<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/the-legacy-of-janet-jacksons-boob/283499/\">wardrobe malfunction</a>\u201d: The Oscars evoked caring by way of surprise. The Best Picture flub has become infamous overnight<strong> </strong>for roughly the same reason its predecessors did: It is exceedingly rare, in the highly produced world of mass media, for expectations to be thwarted.</p>\n\n<p>We know so much, nowadays. We are, in fact, <i>sure</i> of so much\u2014about politics and human psychology and Hollywood awards shows and <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/i-made-the-pea-guac/397565/\">the correct ingredients of guacamole</a>. During a time when Google has made so much information instantly attainable, knowingness has become a default presence in American cultural life. <em>Oooh, that show is supposed to be excellent. That movie is supposed to be terrible</em>. <em>Poke bowls are the thing now</em>. Big cultural events, the stuff of the Grammys and the Emmys and the Oscars, are in many ways the culmination of that posture: We know precisely what to expect of them. We can report, as they play out, that everything went according to plan, because we knew from the beginning what they were supposed to be; we can do that reporting, as well, with a note of disappointment. There are few things duller, after all, than met expectations.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">There are few things duller than met expectations.</aside>\n\n<p>In that context, the Beatty-Dunaway-Oscars flub was a gift to audiences (and perhaps to ABC\u2019s future live-audience ratings). It was also Chuck Klosterman\u2019s point to Maron, at once proven and proven wrong. Here was the anything-can-happen logic of the live sporting event, applied to Hollywood\u2019s highest, most ceremonialized, and most expectation-driven, of rituals. That was a powerful thing: During a moment in the United States that so often takes for granted that \u201creality\u201d is something that can be produced as well as experienced, the Best Picture Oscars flub was a powerful reminder that reality, still, has its own production values.</p>\n\n<p>Yes, the flub was many other things, too: a shame for <i>Moonlight</i>, which so richly deserved to win Best Picture and whose victory threatens to be overshadowed by the mistake and its ensuing dramas. A shame for <i>La La Land</i>, whose producers delivered their full acceptance speeches before learning that their \u201cwin\u201d had been announced in error. A field day for photographers both professional and non-, who snapped reaction shots onstage and backstage and among the celebrity audience. A moment of grace, as <i>La La Land</i>\u2019s producer, Jordan Horowitz, met Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s cheeky suggestion that everyone should get an Oscar with a politely defiant \u201cI\u2019m going to be really thrilled to hand this to my friends from <i>Moonlight.</i>\u201d And also, sure: a metaphor for the slings and arrows of the 2016 election. A ratification of pop culture's <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/the-oa-stranger-things-westworld-metaphysical-moment-alternative-realities-tv/511808/\">current obsession</a> with <a href=\"https://twitter.com/MNightShyamalan/status/836084032798670848\">alternate realities</a>. A vehicle for many, many jokes <a href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=steve%20harvey%20oscars&amp;src=tyah\">at the expense of Steve Harvey</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Mostly, though, it was a twist ending that arrived, by the looks of things, in the twistiest of ways: a shock that came not at the hands of a savvy producer, but at the hands of quirky reality. Twist endings may have been a defining feature of the events of 2016 and early 2017\u2014the reality show that was the 2016 presidential campaign found its pundit-ratified frontrunner vanquished in the final episode; the 2016 World Series featured another victorious underdog; Super Bowl LI found the expected winners winning, but only after its game went into nail-biting overtime. Their twists, however, took place within events whose endings were, by definition, unknown. The Oscars was a ceremony, shockingly interrupted. It was expectation, compellingly thwarted.</p>\n\n<p>And so: It was powerful in a way that few things can be, anymore, in a world that knows so much and expects, in the end, so little. In <a href=\"http://screencrush.com/2016-the-year-of-surprise-10-cloverfield-lane-lemonade/\">an essay</a> for <i>Screen Crush</i> last year, Erin Whitney argued that \u201cours is a culture built on anticipation, where movies end with scenes teasing the next installment in the franchise, never allowing a moment\u2019s rest to absorb what we just saw. We talk about movies years before they debut, we <a href=\"http://screencrush.com/tv-character-deaths-jon-snow-glenn-kevin-garvey/\">analyze TV plot twists</a>, and <a href=\"http://www.fuse.tv/2016/03/frank-ocean-new-album-guide-info\">anticipate albums</a> for years before hearing a single song.\u201d This whole process has led, Whitney argued, to \u201cthe slow death of surprise.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>The best evidence for that may be the fact that marketers have recently been focused on surprising consumers\u2014capitalism doing its best to keep that particular kind of magic alive. The <a href=\"http://www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/\">dropped album</a>. The <a href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/louis-c-k-surprise-releases-new-series-horace-and-pete-with-steve-buscemi-20160130\">surprise TV show</a>. The <a href=\"http://pcmreviews.com/news/2016/01/j-j-abrams-drops-surprise-trailer-for-secret-bad-robot-movie-titled-10-cloverfield-lane/\">secretly produced trailer</a>. The live-aired, anything-could-happen <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/hairspray-live-nbc-review/509972/\">TV musical</a>. They are trying to capture <a href=\"http://screencrush.com/2016-the-year-of-surprise-10-cloverfield-lane-lemonade/\">what Klosterman was conveying to Maron</a> in that <em>WTF</em> interview: \u201cSports is a connection to authentic aliveness,\u201d the author <a href=\"http://screencrush.com/2016-the-year-of-surprise-10-cloverfield-lane-lemonade/?trackback=tsmclip\">put it</a> to the comedian. \u201cThis is not something that anybody can control or script. It\u2019s this unknown thing.\u201d He added: \u201cThere\u2019s something real interesting about \u2018nobody knows,\u2019 because you just don\u2019t experience that anymore.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>You don\u2019t, until you do\u2014until that mistake makes its way onto the glitziest and scriptiest of all of Hollywood\u2019s stages. Sunday\u2019s Best Picture flub is not only already iconic; it is also already the subject of conspiracy theories from a wide range of Oscar truthers who suggest that, among other things, the mistake was <a href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/02/27/oscars-conspiracy-theory-trumps-revenge-kimmel/\">the result of President Trump exacting revenge on Jimmy Kimmel</a>; or <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/02/27/was-the-oscars-best-picture-mix-up-a-jimmy-kimmel-prank-conspiracy-theories-begin/?utm_term=.c3087d74cd54\">a prank pulled by Kimmel himself</a>; or <a href=\"https://twitter.com/accesshollywood/status/836084974033915904\">the dark dealings of Leonardo DiCaprio</a>. They may have a point; it is unclear, for now, how the wrong card got into Warren Beatty\u2019s hands. What they forget, though, is what Klosterman knows, and what all those delighted audiences, on Sunday, knew along with him: that the best conspirator is often people\u2019s great capacity to make big, and dramatic, mistakes.</p>"}], "summary": "In an era when audiences are so sure about so much, the mistake\u2014simple, dramatic, human\u2014can be a wonderful thing.", "title": "'<em>Moonlight</em>, Best Picture': The Oscars and the Rare Power of Shock", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "'<em>Moonlight</em>, Best Picture': The Oscars and the Rare Power of Shock"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-oscars-that-thing-that-happened-at-the-oscars-and-the-rare-power-of-shock/517917/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-oscars-that-thing-that-happened-at-the-oscars-and-the-rare-power-of-shock/517917/", "published": "2017-02-27T12:05:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 27, 17, 5, 0, 0, 58, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517917", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "In an era when audiences are so sure about so much, the mistake\u2014simple, dramatic, human\u2014can be a wonderful thing."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Sophie Gilbert", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/sophie-gilbert/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Sophie Gilbert", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/sophie-gilbert/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/sophie-gilbert/", "author": "Sophie Gilbert", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517902", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/RTS10HYU/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"The Shadow of Trump at the Oscars\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>President Donald Trump was 3,000 miles away from the Academy Awards on Sunday night, but his presence loomed larger in the Dolby Theatre than anyone else in the room. From Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s opening monologue to acceptance speeches to the ads punctuating the ceremony, it felt at times like the Oscars were more focused on delivering an extremely public rebuke to Trump than they were on celebrating the art of filmmaking.</p>\n\n<p>The question is how effective such forms of protest are, in a media environment in which more than half of Americans think <a href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/majority-thinks-press-is-too-tough-on-trump-poll-finds-2017-02-26\">the press is too critical</a> of the current president. Kimmel was one of the few personalities in the room who mentioned Trump; others largely chose to subtweet, <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-power-of-not-saying-his-name/516483/\">without saying his name</a>. While jabs about the president and his Twitter fixation made for easy punchlines, the most cutting and memorable moments of the night were the ones that elected to show, not tell\u2014to reveal how Trump\u2019s policies stand in direct opposition to the spirit of art in general and film in particular.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>Trump was an irresistible target for Kimmel, who laid into the one-time Oscar presenter right from the start. \u201cThis broadcast is being watched live by millions of Americans,\u201d he quipped, \u201cand around the world in more than 225 countries that now hate us.\u201d He was briefly earnest, compelling everyone watching to reach out to one person they disagree with and have \u201ca positive, considerate conversation, not as liberals or conservatives\u201d\u2014something that, he affirmed, could truly make America great again. But then it was back to business as usual: thanking Homeland Security for letting the French actress Isabelle Huppert into the country, pointing to Andrew Garfield\u2019s drastic weight loss for a role as proof that Hollywood discriminates not against nationality, but against age and weight. An extended gag lampooning Meryl Streep\u2019s \u201cuninspiring and overrated performances\u201d seemed directly ripped from Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/818419002548568064?lang=en\">own critique</a> of the actress after the Golden Globes.</p>\n\n<p>The second award presented, for makeup and hairstyling, went to Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson for <em>Suicide Squad. </em>\u201cI\u2019m an immigrant. I come from Italy,\u201d Bertolazzi said, accepting the award. \u201cI work around the world and this is for all the immigrants.\u201d His sentiments were echoed in more specific terms by the Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, who won best foreign-language film for <em>The Salesman</em>, but elected not to attend the ceremony in protest of Trump\u2019s immigration ban on seven majority-Muslim countries. His award was accepted by the Iranian American astronaut Anousheh Ansari, who read Farhadi\u2019s statement aloud. \u201cDividing the world into the <em>us</em> and <em>our enemies</em> categories creates fears,\u201d she read, with Farhadi calling out the \u201cinhumane\u201d immigration law earlier this year. \u201cFilmmakers can turn their cameras to capture shared human qualities and break stereotypes of various nationalities and religions. They create empathy between us and others. An empathy which we need today more than ever.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>One presenter, too, took the opportunity to put a human face on Trump\u2019s policies. The actor Gael Garcia Bernal, co-presenting the award for best animated feature, slipped in a quick statement, saying, \u201cAs a Mexican, as a Latin-American, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I\u2019m against any form of wall that separates us.\u201d And last year\u2019s winner for best supporting actor, Mark Rylance, briefly pondered how actors and filmmakers might work to unite Americans. \u201cOpposition\u2019s great in film and stories, it\u2019s wonderful in sport, it\u2019s really good in society,\u201d he said. \u201cThe things these films made me remember and think about was the difficulty\u2014something women seem to be better at than men\u2014of opposing without hatred.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>But Kimmel\u2019s well of Trump jokes never ran dry. The Marvel movie <em>Doctor Strange</em> wasn\u2019t just nominated for visual effects, it was also \u201cnamed secretary of housing and urban development.\u201d Introducing the Academy\u2019s president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Kimmel noted how refreshing it was to have \u201ca president who believes in arts and sciences.\u201d At one point, noting Trump\u2019s Twitter silence during the ceremony, Kimmel had his phone projected onto a screen at the back of the stage, and tweeted, \u201cHey @RealDonaldTrump u up?\u201d at the president, followed by the hashtag \u201c#merylsayshi.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>This was trolling on an expert level, with its purpose solely to belittle Trump, and to remind him that he\u2019s more in disrepute in Hollywood than ever before. It\u2019s cathartic, perhaps, but it comes from a place of power\u2014there\u2019s not much the president can do that directly threatens the film industry. But he can, for instance, defund the NEA, which has a long history of helping projects (such as the 2012 drama <em>Beasts of the Southern Wild</em>) and artists who later ascend to Academy glory. Pointing out the president\u2019s personal failings will almost certainly lead to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/836060793783267328\">viral tweets</a>, but pinpointing how his policies damage the arts and entertainment industries might have a more profound impact in the long run.</p>\n\n<p>The most powerful moments of the ceremony, in the end, were the ones that illuminated the people excluded by the president\u2019s policies. Accepting the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for <em>Moonlight, </em>also the best-picture winner, Barry Jenkins had a message for the people the movie was made for. \u201cFor all you people out there who feel there is no mirror for you,\u201d he said, \u201cthat you feel your life is not reflected, the Academy has your back, the ACLU has your back, we have your back, and for the next four years ... we will not forget you.\u201d In one of the most remarkable Oscar acceptance speeches of all time, Viola Davis explained her mission for making art. \u201cYou know, there is one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered and that\u2019s the graveyard,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople ask me all the time\u2014<em>what kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola? </em>And I say exhume those bodies. Exhume those stories\u2014the stories of the people who dreamed big and never saw those dreams to fruition, people who fell in love and lost.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s this kind of message that seems poised to have the most impact over the next four years. For one thing, President Trump\u2014for once\u2014seemed remarkably resistant to all the trolling happening onstage. \u201cSome of you will get to come up here on this stage tonight and give a speech that the president of the United States will tweet about in all caps during his 5 a.m. bowel movement tomorrow,\u201d Kimmel said at one point. As yet, though, there\u2019s been <a href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump\">no such response</a>.</p>"}], "summary": "Despite being 3,000 miles away, the president loomed larger in the Dolby Theatre than the Academy itself.", "title": "The Shadow of Trump at the Oscars", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The Shadow of Trump at the Oscars"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-shadow-of-trump-at-the-oscars/517902/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-shadow-of-trump-at-the-oscars/517902/", "published": "2017-02-27T11:53:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 27, 16, 53, 0, 0, 58, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517902", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Despite being 3,000 miles away, the president loomed larger in the Dolby Theatre than the Academy itself."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Sophie Gilbert", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/sophie-gilbert/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Sophie Gilbert", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/sophie-gilbert/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/sophie-gilbert/", "author": "Sophie Gilbert", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517647", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/Sunday_in_the_Park_with_George_Jake_Gyllenhaal_0965_photo_credit_Matthew_Murphy/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"The Magnificent Harmony of &lt;i&gt;Sunday In the Park With George&lt;/i&gt;\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p><em>Sunday In the Park With George</em>, currently playing in a limited run at New York\u2019s Hudson Theatre starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is blissfully free of politics\u2014a two-and-a-half hour respite from contemporary anxieties, a holiday on the banks of the Seine, bathed in sunlight and glorious harmony. And yet, without ever straining to, it makes one of the most persuasive cases imaginable for the power of artists, and how deeply integral their work is to a well-ordered society. Art shows us, as Gyllenhaal\u2019s George demonstrates to his mother in one of the first act\u2019s most moving songs, how life can be beautiful.</p>\n\n<p>But rather than simply celebrating the fruits of creative labor, <em>Sunday In the Park </em>is a testament to the <em>process</em> of making art; a substantial peek inside the mind of someone wrestling with their own genius. When the show\u2014with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine\u2014debuted in 1984, it was interpreted as one of Sondheim\u2019s most personal expressions, coming on the heels of his critical and financial bomb, <em>Merrily We Roll Along.</em> George, the show\u2019s hero, is obsessed with his paintings, to the detriment of everything else in his life. But as the show unfolds, moving from 19th-century France to 1980s Chicago, it explores the reasoning behind his single-minded fixation, and how George\u2019s role as an observer lets everyone else see the world differently, too.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>That\u2019s largely because this revival, directed by Sarna Lapine (James Lapine\u2019s niece), is so magnificent and so emotionally rich, anchored by performances by Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford as George\u2019s mistress and artist\u2019s model, Dot. The show is based around Georges Seurat\u2019s 1884 pointillist masterwork, <em>A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, </em>and George is a loose version of Seurat, with his life broadly fictionalized. As he sketches studies of Dot, who grumbles about the discomfort, the heat, and George\u2019s fierce focus on his work, projections of his sketches appear on a backdrop onstage, rendered for the audience to witness in real time. All the while George narrates his thought process: the challenge of bringing order and harmony to a blank canvas.</p>\n\n<p>Gyllenhaal\u2019s gifts as an actor are well-documented by now, so it\u2019s his vocal talents that may come as a surprise (observe, if you haven\u2019t already, Cary Fukunaga\u2019s short <a href=\"http://www.indiewire.com/2017/02/jake-gyllenhaal-sunday-in-the-park-with-george-cary-fukunaga-1201779232/\">video</a> of Gyllenhaal singing George\u2019s \u201cFinishing the Hat\u201d at the Hudson). His voice is rich, measured, and emphatic. But it\u2019s the acting behind it that really cuts deep, in a remarkable fusion of technical accomplishment and intense absorption in a role. When he sings about mapping out a sky, sensing voices outside but being totally lost in focus, \u201cdizzy from the height\u201d of falling back to earth, you\u2019re tempted, like Dot, to forgive him everything.</p>\n\n<p>Ashford, who won a Tony for the 2014 revival of the<strong> </strong>daffy comedy <em>You Can\u2019t Take It With You</em>, is George\u2019s perfect foil as Dot: sassy, practical, and infinitely charming. But she also conveys the exquisite pain of loving someone so inaccessible, and her chemistry with Gyllenhaal is pure. Toward the end of the first act, when<strong> </strong>George<strong> </strong>directs the many elements and characters to come together in a synergy of music and visuals, he places Dot<strong> </strong>at the front of the \u201cpainting,\u201d as if to keep her close. But the supporting cast, too, are adept at bringing comic relief, and balancing the harmony of the show: Robert Sean Leonard as Jules, an accomplished artist; Penny Fuller as George\u2019s mother, lost in nostalgia; Phillip Boykin as a foulmouthed and obstreperous boatman. The peripheral characters by their nature are fleeting archetypes, included to provide contrast with the more textured portrayals of George and Dot.</p>\n\n<p>The second act of <i>Sunday In the Park</i>, which leaps ahead to 1984\u2014with Gyllenhaal playing another artist named George and Ashford his grandmother, Marie, Dot\u2019s daughter\u2014has often seemed jarring after the perfection of the first act, but Lapine manages to make the two halves more symbiotic by emphasizing how George\u2019s art is tied to his great-grandfather\u2019s. Just as Seurat used pointillism and the science of light to create new colors and impressions, 1984 George debuts a light installation called a \u201cchromolume\u201d at the Art Institute of Chicago. The work, created by the scenic designer Beowulf Boritt, looms above the audience in a dazzling display of illuminations, weaving and undulating overhead. Ashford, seamlessly segueing into playing a 90-year-old southern grandmother, spells out George\u2019s isolation and creative frustration in \u201cChildren and Art,\u201d a song addressed to her mother in the painting. The cracks in her vocals, and the deliberate weakness of Marie\u2019s voice, make it one of the most moving numbers in the show.</p>\n\n<p>Modern George\u2019s frustrations are different but rooted in the same fears\u2014unlike his great-grandfather, he has to fundraise for his expensive, technologically advanced works, and respond to the criticism it inevitably receives. But in the song \u201cMove On,\u201d it becomes clear that the two are one and the same, straining to make art that counts, and to do something new. The resolution in the show comes from realizing that just doing the work is enough\u2014everything else is out of an artist\u2019s hands. This production, so deftly directed, emphasizes both the value in the struggle, and the timelessness of great art. It\u2019s powerful indeed to have the experience, even briefly, of seeing the world through the eyes of a visionary.</p>"}], "summary": "The Broadway revival of the Sondheim musical, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is a glorious tribute to the process of making art.", "title": "The Magnificent Harmony of <i>Sunday In the Park With George</i>", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The Magnificent Harmony of <i>Sunday In the Park With George</i>"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/sunday-in-the-park-with-george-jake-gyllenhaal-annaleigh-ashford-review/517647/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/sunday-in-the-park-with-george-jake-gyllenhaal-annaleigh-ashford-review/517647/", "published": "2017-02-26T07:00:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 26, 12, 0, 0, 6, 57, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517647", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The Broadway revival of the Sondheim musical, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is a glorious tribute to the process of making art."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/the-editors/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/the-editors/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/the-editors/", "author": "The Editors", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517695", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/AP_9801010993/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"Andy Warhol and &lt;em&gt;Get Out&lt;/em&gt;: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/thirty-years-after-his-death-andy-warhols-spirit-is-still-very-much-alive-9695838\">30 Years After His Death, Andy Warhol\u2019s Spirit Is Still Very Much Alive</a><br />\nR.C. Baker | <i>The Village Voice</i><br />\n\u201cHow much responsibility does a mirror bear for whatever beauty or ugliness it beholds? Warhol loved both the heights and depths of American culture, and reflected it back at us through his work, which remains resonant to this day. Here is the spin he put on the concept of American exceptionalism in the 1985 <i>America</i> book: \u2018Maybe you think it's so special that certain people shouldn't be allowed to live [here], or if they do live [here] that they shouldn't say certain things or have certain ideas.\u2019\u201d</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.bkmag.com/2017/02/22/rise-roxane-gay/\">The Rise of Roxane Gay</a><br />\nMolly McArdle | <em>Brooklyn Magazine</em><br />\n\u201cGay has been persistent and precise when so many others have not: She believes in a substantial variety of writers and writing that includes not only race and gender and sexuality but also class, ability, geography. She also takes as long and hard a look at herself as she does anyone else. When considering, in her 2010 <em>HTMLGiant</em> essay \u2018A Profound Sense of Absence,\u2019 whether or not she read diversely, Gay concludes: \u2018I don\u2019t, nor do I know how to.\u2019\u201d</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/magazine/the-age-of-rudeness.html?partner=socialflow&amp;smid=tw-nytmag&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=3\">The Age of Rudeness</a><br />\nRachel Cusk | <em>The New York Times Magazine</em><br />\n\u201cAre people rude because they are unhappy? Is rudeness like nakedness, a state deserving the tact and mercy of the clothed? If we are polite to rude people, perhaps we give them back their dignity; yet the obsessiveness of the rude presents certain challenges to the proponents of civilized behavior. It is an act of disinhibition: Like a narcotic, it offers a sensation of glorious release from jailers no one else can see.\u201d</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p><br />\n<a href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/frederickmckindra/nothingscarierthanbeingblackinamerica\">In <em>Get Out</em>, Racism Is the Horror Story Black People Try to Survive</a><br />\nFrederick McKindra | <em>BuzzFeed</em><br />\n\u201cHorror films constantly reinforced the concept of the white body\u2019s vulnerability, and subtly advised their audiences to treat only those bodies with concern. Meanwhile, for black characters, and by extension, black people, if no one ever saw you scream, tremble, or bleed, they never learned to see you as human. In the aughts, black characters in horror films were either disposable, not worth depicting at all, or rendered racial amnesiacs when it came to issues that would concern any black person in real life.\u201d</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2017/02/seijun-suzuki-dead-japanese-director-was-absurdist-auteur.html\">Remembering Seijun Suzuki, an Absurdist Auteur in Hired-Gun Clothing</a><br />\nEmily Yoshida | <em>Vulture</em><br />\n\u201cThe Japanese film-production world was a kind of temporary Wild West, no longer locked into the hierarchical promotion system that brought up Ozu and Kurosawa. Suzuki rose up through the reshuffling almost by accident, but once he became a director, he made sure nobody forgot his name.\u201d<br />\n<br />\n<a href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/harry-belafonte-and-the-social-power-of-song\">Harry Belafonte and the Social Power of a Song</a><br />\nAmanda Petrusich | <em>The New Yorker</em><br />\n\u201cBelafonte was strikingly prescient about the ways in which taste could and would be politicized, and especially about how treacherous it is to confuse consumption with action. This seems, to me, to be an unspoken but profound hindrance to all popular rebellions: If a person reads the right authors, and buys the right records, and vouches for those preferences loudly and repeatedly, it can feel like all the necessary work has been done to align oneself with the proper causes.\u201d<br />\n<br />\n<a href=\"http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/7/14442410/jackie-kennedy-accent-natalie-portman\">Jackie Kennedy\u2019s Strange, Elegant Accent, Explained by Linguists</a><br />\nAlex Abad-Santos | <em>Vox</em><br />\n\u201cMerely reading that line doesn\u2019t do justice to the voice Portman adopted for the role. If you\u2019re not aware of how Jackie Kennedy spoke, listening to Portman\u2019s Jackie is like the tingle of soda in your throat. It often feels familiar, but in certain spots it pops and jumps. The way she lops off the end of \u2018bitter,\u2019 the funny hop in \u2018artifact,\u2019 the way she rolls through \u2018remembered\u2019\u2014it\u2019s like she\u2019s invented her own unique way of speaking English.\u201d</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.mtv.com/news/2985787/moonlight-forgotten-frequencies/\"><em>Moonlight</em>\u2019s Forgotten Frequencies</a><br />\nDave Tompkins | <em>MTV News </em><br />\n\u201c<em>Moonlight</em>'s score is part of this allowed emotional space, internalizing the Miami environment. (In terms of pressing bass to vinyl, wider spaces between the grooves make room for longer wavelengths and lower frequencies.) According to [Nicholas] Britell, the composer, everything in <em>Moonlight</em>\u2019s score has at some point been pitched down and lived an alternate bass life before reaching your ears, whether you hear it or not.\u201d</p>"}], "summary": "Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment", "title": "Andy Warhol and <em>Get Out</em>: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Andy Warhol and <em>Get Out</em>: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/andy-warhol-and-get-out-the-week-in-pop-culture-writing/517695/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/andy-warhol-and-get-out-the-week-in-pop-culture-writing/517695/", "published": "2017-02-25T08:00:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 25, 13, 0, 0, 5, 56, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517695", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment"}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/", "author": "Spencer Kornhaber", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517575", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/f228a9df30eb758469fd41020f6c0467fa051eee9ca50b092fa67b98dc2244cc/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Girls&lt;/em&gt;'s Powerful Insight on Trauma\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>Why do the girls of <em>Girls</em> act that way? That\u2019s the question underlying five years of baffled cultural responses to Lena Dunham\u2019s epic of questionable decisions, cruelty, narcissism, and grace. <em>Girls</em> has never given a straightforward answer to the question. Despite unflinching confessional dialogue and occasional backstory development and sharp cultural satire, Hannah Horvath and her friends still have an air of Athena, sprung into existence fully formed. Asking why these girls spill drinks and impulsively marry and vomit off of bunkbeds is like asking why anyone exists at all.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>This has made <em>Girls</em> unusual in a cultural landscape where the tragic flashback is the go-to decoder of individual motivation. To take two recent examples from HBO, <em>The Young Pope</em> <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-young-pope-season-one-finale-hbo/516600/\">connected Pope Pious\u2019s childhood abandonment</a> to his adult torment, and <em>Westworld</em>\u2019s so-called \u201ckey insight\u201d was that <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/westworld-finale-the-bicameral-mind-storytelling-fiction/509552/\">to be human is to remember suffering</a>. In society more broadly, ongoing dialogues about trauma, triggering, and privilege\u2014dialogues that Dunham often wades into as a public figure\u2014insist that personal history needs to be taken as seriously as present conduct does.</p>\n\n<p>On <em>Girls</em>, parental issues occasionally surface\u2014Jessa\u2019s flaky dad, Hannah\u2019s closeted one, Marnie\u2019s controlling mom\u2014and brain chemistry came to the fore in Hannah\u2019s OCD plot line. But sometimes it has seemed like the show wants to satirize the notion of explaining character through trauma. Once, Hannah recalled telling her mom that her babysitter touched her vagina at age 3\u2014but added that she had probably been lying at it.<strong> </strong>At the Iowa Writer\u2019s Workshop, her peers insisted her short story about violent sex must have been nonfiction from an abusive past<strong>;</strong> the joke was that it actually reflected her adventuresome present: \u201cthe time that I took a couple Quaaludes and asked my boyfriend to punch me in the chest.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>This week\u2019s<strong> </strong>sure-to-be-provocative episode \u201cAmerican Bitch\u201d\u2014posted to online platforms now and airing on HBO Sunday night\u2014sharpened the show\u2019s point of view on psychological cause and effect. In it, Hannah visits with a famous author, Chuck Palmer (Matthew Rhys), after writing an essay about accusations that he\u2019d serially preyed on college-aged female fans. Chuck makes his case for innocence, Hannah relates some details from her past, and the two seem to come to an understanding\u2014and then Chuck takes his penis out and presses it against Hannah. It\u2019s a story of personal monstrousness and trauma, but it\u2019s also a story about a system: a gender dynamic that ensures a common experience of degradation for women, whether in their pasts or in the present.</p>\n\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Chuck Palmer has a surprising amount in common with Hannah. His fussiness hints at OCD. He proposes that writers need stories more than anything else, echoing Hannah\u2019s experiences-at-all-cost outlook throughout <em>Girls</em>. The two bond over their love of Philip Roth, agreeing that \u201cyou can\u2019t let politics dictate what you read or who you fuck\u201d (Chuck\u2019s words). And most tellingly, Chuck professes to want to understand the person he\u2019s talking to but constantly interrupts with his own observations\u2014perhaps a sexist tic, but also a narcissistic one plenty familiar to <em>Girls</em> viewers. In all of these things, Dunham may be sketching some ideas about the intrinsic traits that make a writer.</p>\n\n<p>But most of their conversation is a clash of biographies. Chuck emphasizes his loneliness, his daughter\u2019s depression, his ex-wife\u2019s hostility, and the sadness of book-tour life. When Hannah suggests an inappropriate power balance in him hooking up with girls on the road, Chuck shoots back that the real imbalance is that \u201cshe looks like a Victoria\u2019s Secret model and I didn\u2019t lose my virginity till I was 25 and on Accutane.\u201d He is the victim in this reading. The women complaining online are exploiting his fame and desperation as well as the power of the internet to amplify harmful claims.</p>\n\n<p>It appears that this version of events nearly persuades Hannah, who apologizes for having written something that upset Chuck. But the apology is colored by all the buttering-up that has come before. Chuck repeatedly tells her how smart he thinks she is. He gives her a signed copy of Roth\u2019s<strong> </strong><em>When She Was Good. </em>And he claims that he invited her over to try and correct his true error with his accusers: not \u201cpushing\u201d enough to get to know them as people. When he then asks questions about her life, Hannah giggles and blithely<strong> </strong>answers.</p>\n\n<p>But during an earlier, tenser point in the conversation, Hannah relates a less happy bit of her history. In fifth grade, her English teacher Mr. Lasky took a liking to her based on her talent as a writer:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>He liked me, he was impressed with me, I did like special creative writing, I wrote like a little novel or whatever. Sometimes, when he was talking to the class he would stand behind me and he\u2019d rub my neck. Sometimes he\u2019d rub my head, rustle my hair. And I didn\u2019t mind. It made me feel special. It made me feel like someone saw me and they knew that I was going to grow up and be really, really particular. It also made kids hate me and put lasagna in my fucking backpack, but that\u2019s a different story.</p>\n\n<p>Anyway, last year I\u2019m at a warehouse party in Bushwick, and this guy comes up to me and he\u2019s like, \u201cHorvath, we went to middle school together, East Lansing!\u201d And I\u2019m like, \u201cOh my god, remember how crazy Mr. Lasky\u2019s class was? He was basically trying to molest me.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>You know what this kid said? He looks at me in the middle of this fucking party like he\u2019s a judge, and he goes, \u201cThat\u2019s a very serious accusation Hannah.\u201d And he walked away. And there I am and I\u2019m just 11 again, and I\u2019m just getting my fucking neck rubbed. Because that stuff never goes away.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>If this is Hannah Horvath\u2019s long-awaited revelation about her past, it\u2019s a relatively mild<strong> </strong>one: no rape, no violence, just some neck rubbing in class. But the insidiousness of it is in how it fits a pattern of warped gender relations. Chuck is like Mr. Lanksy: an older, powerful man praising a younger woman\u2019s<strong> </strong>intellectual talents\u2014but also tying that praise to flesh. Hannah\u2019s value as a writer and her value as a body were long ago swirled together by a gatekeeper, and Chuck did something very similar to the young would-be authors he had sex with. If they consented, what were they consenting to? A validation of their mind, or the notion that what really matters is their body?</p>\n\n<p>The trauma here is not merely <em>what</em> happened, either. It\u2019s in how honest expressions of discomfort by women are met with hostility and invalidation by men on legalistic pretenses. Consent is hugely important, but the issue isn\u2019t entirely a legal one in this case. It is a moral one, a social one, and an emotional one. Hannah doesn\u2019t seem to want either Chuck or Mr. Lasky in jail. She just wants to tell the truth about a troubling, degrading dynamic, and she is told\u2014both by the guy at the Bushwick party and by Chuck\u2014that she is wrong to do so.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">The earlier trauma itself didn\u2019t create the new one.</aside>\n\n<p>The sick twist is that the trauma has now been amplified and reenacted on Hannah for speaking out. Chuck flatters her, convinces her he\u2019s no monster, and then unzips and thrusts against her without warning. For a moment, Hannah seems confused; for another moment, she seems to consider going along with it\u2014she grabs him. Then she freaks out and screams at him.</p>\n\n<p>He gives her an evil grin. All the respect he had previously paid her has been rendered a joke. His praise of her mind was foreplay to the reminder that what he really liked was her body. And in Hannah\u2019s moment of her considering whether to give in\u2014for the rush, the faux validation, and the avoidance of conflict that would come with saying \u201cyes\u201d\u2014she was in the same impossible situation as so many women before her.</p>\n\n<p class=\"dropcap\">As a public figure, Lena Dunham has written a lot about trauma, especially about how a rape in early adulthood has had a<a href=\"http://www.lennyletter.com/health/a716/one-of-a-kind/?src=nl&amp;mag=LEN&amp;list=nl_LEN_news&amp;date=021217\"> concrete effect on her life over the years</a>. But she also, recently,<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/the-lena-dunham-cycle-of-internet-outrage/511388/\"> apologized</a> for saying she \u201cwished\u201d she had had an abortion so as to help destigmatize the practice\u2014a very inartful expression of the idea that a person and their worldview is not merely a result of biography.</p>\n\n<p><em>Girls</em> seems to be trying to reconcile the need to honor the past's influence on the present while recognizing that no individual's history is an island. Did the Mr. Lasky experience change Hannah forever? Maybe. He could be the reason why she wants \u201cto write stories that make people feel less alone than [she] did,\u201d the exact kind of story that brought her to Chuck\u2019s apartment. But that earlier trauma, in itself, didn\u2019t create the new one she experienced in this episode. Nor was it, theoretically, necessary for Hannah to have gone through what she went through in order to care about Chuck's accusers.</p>\n\n<p>Why is Chuck such a creep? <em>Girls</em> doesn\u2019t say that it\u2019s because of any specific circumstance in his past. It\u2019s not just because he\u2019s what he calls a \u201chorny motherfucker.\u201d It\u2019s simply because he <em>can</em> be this way. Because he is successful and male, he can put women in spots like the one he put Hannah in. He can expect them to often consent, queasily or not. He can even expect that other men will tell the women not to complain about it later.</p>\n\n<p>What he can\u2019t expect anymore, <em>Girls</em> suggests, is for the women to actually remain silent. In the final moments of the episode, Hannah watches Chuck\u2019s daughter play flute. She alternates her gaze between the girl and her father, perhaps weighing the implications of what just happened and what she should do about it. If Hannah writes about his actions, she may hurt him in a way that harms his daughter. But she keeps staring at the girl. She may well be one day put in a situation like the one Hannah was just put in. She may already have been.</p>\n\n<p>As Hannah leaves, we see a handful of women walking the opposite direction up the sidewalk, and then turning to enter his building. 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It\u2019s October 28, 2015, and for a moment the setting is beautiful: blue sky, blue water, horizon tilting in and out of view. Then you hear the screams. A gloved hand reaches out of frame and returns pulling a young boy to safety aboard a coast-guard boat. Then the captain spins around with a baby girl in his arms. \u201cPut the camera down,\u201d he says to the person behind the lens. \u201cTake this.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Just over four miles from Turkey, the Greek island of Lesbos has been on the front lines of the global refugee crisis. Since January 2014, <a href=\"http://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/mediterranean\">more than 1.5 million people</a> have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, with many fleeing the Syrian civil war, the rise of ISIS, and oppressive regimes and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Upwards of 12,000 have died or gone missing along the way, but many of those who\u2019ve survived the short but treacherous journey have landed on Lesbos, which received <a href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-01-27/the-growing-refugee-toll-on-lesvos\">more than 500,000 migrants</a> in 2015 alone.</p>\n\n<p>Daphne Matziaraki\u2019s 20-minute Oscar-nominated film <em>4.1 Miles</em> follows Greek Coast Guard Captain Kyriakos Papadopoulos as he and a small crew on Lesbos head out to sea again and again to pluck desperate men, women, and children from the swells. Before thousands of Syrians, Afghans, and Iraqis started setting out in boats in the hopes of finding refuge in Europe, Papadopoulos spent his days making routine patrols. But the film finds the captain thrust into the role of professional savior without any additional training or equipment\u2014an average citizen trying to deal with a humanitarian disaster.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>Of the 10 films nominated for the 2017 Academy Awards in the documentary categories, four deal with the Syrian conflict or refugee crisis. Along with <em>4.1 Miles</em>, the Netflix original <em>The White Helmets </em>and <em>Watani: My Homeland </em>are up for the short-form documentary Oscar, while <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/fire-at-sea-documentary-review/517359/\">the Italian film <em>Fire at Sea</em></a> was nominated for best feature documentary. The strength of these projects lies in the emotional, and often stark, portraits they paint of their characters. If audiences can imagine themselves in the shoes of Syrian rescue workers, a Greek coast-guard captain, an overwhelmed physician, or a migrant mother, these films may do more than enlighten or inform. Their creators all told me they hoped that, like other documentaries that have mobilized viewers and influenced lawmakers, their films can make far-away problems feel more immediately urgent.</p>\n\n<p>The films\u2019 nominations were announced just four days after President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration and three days before <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/01/trump-immigration-order-muslims/514844/\">he issued an executive order</a> suspending refugee admissions from Syria indefinitely and from all other countries for 120 days. The order also temporarily halted arrivals from seven majority-Muslim nations and cut the total number of refugees that would be admitted to the U.S. in 2017 by more than half to 50,000. While the travel ban has since been <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/trump-ninth-circuit-defeat/517095/\">suspended by federal courts</a>, Trump\u2019s executive order set off protests at airports across the country and pushed the people and issues portrayed in these documentaries back into the national spotlight.</p>\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I made the film [in 2015], I thought it was very timely because it was when the refugee crisis was in the news,\u201d Matziaraki told me. \u201cI would never ever imagine that unfortunately the film would be so much more timely now in the U.S.\u201d<strong> </strong>While it\u2019s unusual to have so many Oscar nominees address the same topic, <em>The White Helmets </em>producer Joanna Natasegara told me it makes sense in this case: \u201cStorytelling has always engaged with the most pressing issues of any given time, and documentary perhaps even more than narrative [film].\u201d Those issues today, she said, are the refugee crisis and the war in Syria.</p>\n\n<p>As a medium, documentaries offer an intimacy and focus often missing in daily news. Since the Syrian conflict began in 2011, the escalating violence and resulting flood of migrants have been covered by the international press, but in the face of constant coverage, it\u2019s difficult for many readers to sustain the same level of attention day to day. It often takes a particularly horrifying image\u2014a dead toddler washed up on a beach, a blank-faced 5-year-old covered in blood and dust\u2014to re-galvanize interest.</p>\n\n<p>Matziaraki, who grew up in Greece but is now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, said even she felt disconnected from the disaster playing out in her homeland. When she arrived on Lesbos, she found the situation was worse than she\u2019d imagined. \u201cI really wanted to make a film that would [bridge] this gap between our comfort zone and the reality of the world,\u201d she said.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">\u201cI asked them, \u2018Why go across the sea if you might die?\u2019 They said, \u2018It\u2019s the word \u201cmight\u201d that makes us go across the sea. The word \u201cmight\u201d is hope.\u2019\u201d</aside>\n\n<p><em>The</em> <em>White Helmets </em>director Orlando von Einsiedel also admitted to feeling numb to the tragedy. The film, made with Natasegara, tells the story of the Syrian Civil Defense, a group of volunteer rescue workers in the country who respond to attacks on civilians. When the filmmakers saw a YouTube video of the White Helmets pulling a newborn from a bombed-out building, they recognized a story missing from the mainstream representation of Syria. \u201cThere\u2019s a confusing, unbalanced picture of what is left behind for Syrian civilians on the ground, and a vacuum of any narrative about Syrians helping themselves or being active in their own saving,\u201d Natasegara told me. \u201cThe idea of the Syrian hero was almost completely absent from the media landscape.\u201d The White Helmets were the \u201cperfect anecdote\u201d to that gap: They were former bakers, builders, tailors, and students who\u2019d banded together to save their fellow Syrians.</p>\n\n<p>The other Syria-specific film, <em>Watani: My Homeland </em>follows the family of a rebel commander in Aleppo who has been kidnapped by ISIS. His wife, Hala, and their four children make the heartbreaking decision to flee the country and begin a new life in Germany. The director Marcel Mettelsiefen, a veteran photojournalist who covered the Arab Spring, said documentaries offer an emotional way into a story that can otherwise feel abstract. \u201cThe importance of documentary filmmaking is to humanize the conflict,\u201d he told me.</p>\n\n<p>In the feature category, Gianfranco Rosi\u2019s <em>Fire at Sea </em>focuses on Lampedusa, an Italian island where hundreds of thousands of African refugees have landed since the 1990s. The filmmaker moved to Lampedusa for a year and a half to understand both the rhythms of daily life and the harrowing journey migrants endure to get there. \u201cThe film is a cry of help to raise awareness,\u201d Rosi told me, recounting a conversation with one migrant. \u201cWhen I asked them, \u2018Why go across the sea if you might die?\u2019 They said, \u2018It\u2019s the word \u201cmight\u201d that makes us go across the sea. The word \u201cmight\u201d is hope.\u2019\u201d</p>\n\n<p>While documentaries may have once been considered stale educational fare, their reputation as an exciting and mainstream art form <a href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/edelstein-documentary-is-better-than-filmmaking.html\">has undoubtedly grown in recent years</a>. Because of new distribution options and social media, documentaries now have the potential to reach a more global audience. By licensing <em>The White Helmets</em> to video-streaming giant Netflix, von Einsiedel and Natasegara made their film available in 190 countries (fellow documentary Oscar nominee <em>13th</em> is also on Netflix). Matziaraki\u2019s <em>4.1 Miles\u2014</em>produced while she was a graduate student in journalism at the University of California-Berkeley\u2014<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004674545/41-miles.html\">can be viewed</a> on the <em>New York Times</em>\u2019 website, free to anyone with an internet connection. <em>Fire at Sea </em>has been released in 64 countries, including Japan, where it opened earlier this month. <a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-asylum-idUSKBN15O0UV?il=0\">According to <em>Reuters</em></a>, the country accepted only 28 refugees in 2016, yet the 10 p.m. showing sold out in Tokyo on opening night.</p>\n\n<p>Documentaries can often have clear, measurable consequences\u2014whether driving politicians to action or investing the general public in an issue that affects them. A <a href=\"http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122415598534\">2015 study</a> found that <em>Gasland</em>, the 2010 documentary on the dangers of fracking, led to greater discussion on social media and increased mass-media coverage, after its release and subsequent nomination for an Oscar in 2011. Sometimes films are credited with inspiring legislation\u2014as was the case with the 2012 Oscar-nominated film <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_War#Response\"><em>The Invisible War</em></a>, which investigated sexual assault in the military, and the 2013 documentary <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish_(film)#Impact\"><em>Blackfish</em></a>, which explored the treatment of orca whales at SeaWorld. Of course, some films have been criticized for misleading audiences by omitting inconvenient details or twisting statistics to make a more convincing argument or interesting story (as was the <a href=\"http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/11/11/myth-charter-schools/\">accusation leveled</a> at the 2010 documentary <em>Waiting for \u201cSuperman</em>,\u201d which portrayed charter schools as the prescription for an ailing public education system.)</p>\n\n<p>While it\u2019s too soon to tell if this year\u2019s Oscar-nominated documentaries have had a broader effect on people\u2019s understanding of the migrant crisis or Syrian conflict, some of the filmmakers have already seen their work resonate on a smaller scale. Matziaraki said she\u2019s received letters from viewers asking how they can help or donate, including from one who traveled to Lesbos to volunteer after seeing<em> 4.1 Miles</em>. \u201cPeople that write to me and say, \u2018Thank you for changing my mind. Thank you for making me realize what is happening.\u2019 This is really maybe the most important thing,\u201d Matziaraki said.</p>\n\n<p>In the <em>Fire at Sea</em> director Rosi\u2019s experience, the emotional connection fostered by these documentaries inevitably leads to a question: \u201cWhat can I do?\u201d Over the phone from New York, one of Rosi\u2019s film subjects, Pietro Bartolo, offered one answer. As the physician on Lampedusa, Bartolo is often the first person to have real human contact with the refugees who arrive; he\u2019s also the man who performs autopsies on those who don\u2019t make it alive. He told me it\u2019s important to simply show migrants they are welcome. \u201cPeople say, \u2018Can I come to Lampedusa to help?\u2019 We don\u2019t need the help. We never asked for any help,\u201d he said. \u201cOn Lampedusa, we are the door. That we leave it open, this is not enough. [When the refugees] arrive in Europe they need to feel that they are home.\u201d</p>"}], "summary": "The films <em>4.1 Miles, Watani: My Homeland</em>, <em>The White Helmets</em>, and <em>Fire at Sea</em> are all up for Academy Awards this year\u2014and all deal with the migrant crisis or the Syrian conflict.", "title": "A Common Theme for This Year's Oscar-Nominated Documentaries", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "A Common Theme for This Year's Oscar-Nominated Documentaries"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/a-common-theme-for-this-years-oscar-nominated-documentaries/517638/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/a-common-theme-for-this-years-oscar-nominated-documentaries/517638/", "published": "2017-02-24T14:41:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 24, 19, 41, 0, 4, 55, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517638", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The films <em>4.1 Miles, Watani: My Homeland</em>, <em>The White Helmets</em>, and <em>Fire at Sea</em> are all up for Academy Awards this year\u2014and all deal with the migrant crisis or the Syrian conflict."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Megan Garber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/megan-garber/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Megan Garber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/megan-garber/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/megan-garber/", "author": "Megan Garber", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517674", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/GETTYIMAGES_544338083_74/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"Why Are They 'Stars'?\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>It makes so much sense to refer to certain kinds of celebrities as \u201cstars.\u201d At their heights, those people inspire the rest of us. They shine, larger than life, above us, and around us. They suggest, in their insistent omnipresence, a certain order to the world. To see the stars\u2014or, more specifically, to believe in them, taxonomically\u2014is to endorse a notion that the people before us on our screens, far from us and yet so close, exist, as the author Jeanine Basinger <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=20cCO6sQnwgC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&amp;q=star&amp;f=false\">puts it</a>, \u201con some plane between ours and that of the gods.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>But: Why are they \u201cstars,\u201d specifically? Why is Hollywood\u2019s Walk of Fame populated by pentagrams of pale pink, rather than some other arbitrary shape? Why is it \u201cstars\u201d who are, obviously and incorrectly, <a href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_next_20/2016/09/the_invention_of_us_weekly_s_stars_they_re_just_like_us_feature.html\">Just Like Us</a>?</p>\n<!-- START \"MORE ON\" SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 -->\n\n<aside class=\"callout\">\n<hr />\n<h4>Related Story</h4>\n\n<div><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-demagogues/419514/\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/12/lead_960-1/lead_960.jpg?1449610048\" width=\"242\" /> </a></div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-demagogues/419514/\">What We Talk About When We Talk About \u2018Demagogues\u2019</a></p>\n\n<hr /></aside>\n<!-- END \"MORE ON\" SINGLE STORY BOX v. 2 -->\n\n<p>The answer has to do with Ovid. And Shakespeare. And Thomas Edison. And Mary Pickford. Stars are stars, certainly, because they sparkle and shine\u2014because, even when they are bathed in the limelight, they seem to have an incandescence of their own. But they are \u201cstars,\u201d much more specifically, because they are part of Western culture\u2019s longstanding tendency to associate the human with the heavenly. They are \u201cstars\u201d because their audiences want them\u2014and in some sense need them\u2014to be.</p>\n\n<p>The broad use of the word \u201cstar\u201d to indicate a leader among us dates back, <a href=\"https://theatre.illinois.edu/portfolio/peter-davis-theatre-studies/\">Peter Davis</a>, a theater historian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told me, to the Middle Ages. Chaucer, who was also <a href=\"http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/chaucer-in-the-house-of-fame/\">the first recorded user</a> of the word \u201ccelebrity\u201d and <a href=\"http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/chaucer-in-the-house-of-fame/\">one of the first to use</a> the word \u201cfamous,\u201d also <a href=\"http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/01/chaucer-in-the-house-of-fame/\">hinted at</a> the lexical convergence of the human and the celestial: In <i>The House of Fame</i>, Chaucer\u2019s dreamer worries that he might find himself \u201cstellified.\u201d \u201cO God Who made nature,\u201d <a href=\"http://ummutility.umm.maine.edu/necastro/chaucer/translation/hf/hf.html\">the dreamer thinks</a>, \u201cam I to die in no other way? Will Jove transform me into a star?\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Chaucer, Dean Swinford <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=rdtEAQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT61&amp;lpg=PT61&amp;dq=chaucer+stellify&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=E4bGAvPvCk&amp;sig=zXF7T_X6WLS6EDSGIxJuf2uewyA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwirw467gqfSAhVIxFQKHQrXCNIQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&amp;q=chaucer%20stellify&amp;f=false\">points out</a> in his book <i>Through the Daemon\u2019s Gate</i>, was recalling Ovid\u2019s <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses\">notion of metamorphosis</a>\u2014the idea that humans could be transformed, in this case, into the shiny stuff of constellations. Chaucer\u2019s words also <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=rdtEAQAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT61&amp;lpg=PT61&amp;dq=chaucer+stellify&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=E4bGAvPvCk&amp;sig=zXF7T_X6WLS6EDSGIxJuf2uewyA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwirw467gqfSAhVIxFQKHQrXCNIQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&amp;q=chaucer%20stellify&amp;f=false\">carried architectural implications</a> that would likely have been apparent to his audiences: \u201cFixing with stars,\u201d Swinford points out, \u201cimplies the creation of a mosaic-like decoration of the interior of a cathedral.\u201d The building was an intentional mimicry of the sky, and an unintentional anticipation of Hollywood\u2019s own kind of firmament: It presented stars as a constellation of gleaming lights, always above.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">It was through the wily dynamics of public relations that \u201cstar,\u201d in the United States, was born.</aside>\n\n<p>The <i>US Weekly</i>fied version of stellification is in many ways a direct descendant of Chaucer\u2019s: It emphasizes the role of the celebrity as a body both distant and accessible, gleaming and sparkling and yet reassuringly omnipresent. Stars have long suggested a kind of order\u2014and orientation\u2014within chaotic human lives. They have long hinted that there is something bigger, something beyond, something more.</p>\n\n<p>Little surprise, then, that\u2014especially as the world of science became more familiar with the workings of celestial bodies\u2014the world of the theater seized on their symbolism. Moli\u00e8re, Peter Davis told me, made Chaucerian use of the personified \u201cstar\u201d: In <i>School for Wives</i>, in 1662, Horace <a href=\"http://www.searchengine.org.uk/ebooks/85/18.pdf\">describes</a> Agnes as \u201cthis young star of love, adorned by so many charms.\u201d Shakespeare, too, neatly anticipated Hollywood\u2019s blending of the personal and the celestial in both his plays and his poems. \u201cWe make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars,\u201d <a href=\"http://nfs.sparknotes.com/lear/page_36.html\">Edmund laments in </a><i><a href=\"http://nfs.sparknotes.com/lear/page_36.html\">King Lear</a>, \u201c</i>as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion.\u201d Love, too, in Shakespeare\u2019s mind, makes its highest sense as a heavenly force, reassuring in its constancy: In \u201c<a href=\"http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/116.html\">Sonnet 116</a>,\u201d the bard finds love to be \u201c...an ever-fixed mark / That looks on tempests and is never shaken; / It is the star to every wand\u2019ring bark, / Whose worth\u2019s unknown, although his height be taken.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>It was in this context, Davis explains, that the notion of the human star came to refer, in particular, to the decidedly grounded firmament of the theater\u2014and to the decidedly human person of the actor. According to the<i> Oxford English Dictionary</i>, the first reference to a \u201cstar\u201d of the stage came in 1751, with the <i>Bays in Council </i>announcing, \u201cYou may Shine the brightest Theatric Star, that ever enliven\u2019d of charm\u2019d an Audience.\u201d Around the same time, in 1761, the book <i>Historical Theatres of London & Dublin</i> noted of an apparently Meryl Streepian actor named Garrick: \u201cThat Luminary soon after became a Star of the first Magnitude.\u201d Garrick would appear again in 1765, in <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=F_gRAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA424&amp;dq=bright+star+appearing&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj95c-2wpLKAhVM8GMKHX3dBaY4MhDoAQhLMAY#v=onepage&amp;q=bright%20star%20appearing&amp;f=false\">an extremely effusive article written about him in <i>The Gentleman\u2019s and London Magazine</i></a>: \u201cThe rumor of this bright star appearing in the East flew with the rapidity of lightening through the town, and drew all the theatrical Magi thither to pay their devotions to his new-born son of genius\u2026.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>By the 1820s, it was common to refer to actors as \u201cstars\u201d\u2014for purposes of salesmanship as much as anything else. Theater touring became popular during that time, in both England and America. British actors, in particular, Davis told me, were often promoted as \u201cstars\u201d for their tours in the U.S. as a way to ensure that large audiences would come to witness their performances. Actors like <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kean\">Edmund Kean</a>, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frederick_Cooke\">George Frederick Cooke</a>, and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kemble\">Charles</a> and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Kemble\">Fanny Kemble</a> were celestially sold to American audiences. Sometimes, Davis notes, the actors were considered to have passed their prime in Britain; they used their American tours to reboot their careers back home. It was fitting: Through the wily dynamics of public relations, \u201cstar,\u201d in the U.S., was born.</p>\n\n<p>The term carried through as theater acting gave way to movie acting\u2014as silent films gave way to talkies. \u201cThe observable \u2018glow\u2019 of potential stardom was present from the very beginning of film history,\u201d Jeanine Basinger notes in her book<i> </i><a href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=20cCO6sQnwgC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&amp;q=star&amp;f=false\"><i>The Star Machine</i></a>. But it also took hold, as with so much else in Hollywood history, fitfully. As <a href=\"http://newsroom.ucla.edu/experts/preview/54d13d506eafb561bd00038a/\">Jan-Christopher Horak</a>, the director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, told me, the earliest films didn\u2019t name the actors who starred in them. That was in part because the actors, many of whom had been trained in the theater, were initially embarrassed to be putting their hard-won skills to the service of this strange new medium.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">The earliest films didn\u2019t bother to name the actors who starred in them.</aside>\n\n<p>It was also, however, because of the mechanics of the medium itself. On film, Anne Helen Petersen suggests in her book <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/Scandals_of_Classic_Hollywood.html?id=NehhAwAAQBAJ\"><i>Scandals of Classic Hollywood:</i><em> Sex, Deviance, and Drama From the Golden Age of American Cinema</em></a>, the Hollywood star was a function of technology as much as it was one of culture. As early cinema developed in the early 20th century, bulky and unwieldy cameras made it difficult for cinematographers to capture anything beyond full-length shots of actors. \u201cBecause viewers couldn\u2019t see the actor\u2019s face up close,\u201d Petersen writes, \u201cit was difficult to develop the feelings of admiration or affection we associate with film stars.\u201d As cameras improved, though, close-ups became more common, emphasizing actors\u2019 faces and humanity. As sound became part of the cinema experience, voices, too, substituted full personas for lurching images. The \u201cpicture personality\u201d had arrived. The \u201cstar,\u201d yet again, was born.</p>\n\n<p>With that came the star system that would give structure to Hollywood for much of its young life. Mary Pickford, Horak notes, one of the first movie actors to be billed under her (stage) name, soon began making films under her own banner. Charlie Chaplin, long before Andy Warhol would <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhol_superstars\">ironize the term</a>, became a superstar. The star itself, in the era of spotlights and marquis banners, soon became a metonym\u2014a convenient and fitting way to describe the people who studded Hollywood\u2019s new and expanding firmament. The term that had taken life in the age of Shakespeare and Moli\u00e8re and early romanticism\u2014a time that would, in some places, find art becoming obsessed with the dignity of the individual and the fiery workings of the human soul\u2014came alive yet again in the glow of the screen.</p>\n\n<p>It may be quaint, today, to talk of \u201cmovie stars.\u201d This is an age defined, after all, by that other Chaucerian term: the \u201ccelebrity.\u201d It\u2019s an age of <a href=\"http://goop.com/\">actor-founded lifestyle brands</a> and <a href=\"https://www.grumpycats.com/\">internet-famous felines</a> and <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/lessons-in-capitalism-from-kim-kardashian/375252/\">people starring in reality itself</a>. But our current celebrities, too, suggest something similar to what \u201cstar\u201d has long evoked: orientation, transcendence, a kind of union between mortals and the gods they have chosen for themselves. \u201cCelebrity\u201d <a href=\"http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=celebrity\">comes from the Old French</a> for \u201crite\u201d or \u201cceremony\u201d; it suggests that even the most frivolous of the famous are filling a role that is, in its way, profound. Stars\u2014fusions of person and persona, of the fleshy human and the flinty image on the stage and screen\u2014have long offered a kind of structure within the hectic hum of human lives. They have long promised that most basic and inspiring of things: that we can be something more than what we are. \u201cI am big,\u201d Norma Desmond, that fading star, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(film)\">insisted</a>. \u201cIt\u2019s the pictures that got small.\u201d</p>"}], "summary": "Celebrities are celestial because of Shakespeare. And because of Chaucer. And because of the weird workings of the movie camera.", "title": "Why Are They 'Stars'?", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Why Are They 'Stars'?"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/why-are-celebrities-known-as-stars/517674/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/why-are-celebrities-known-as-stars/517674/", "published": "2017-02-24T13:41:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 24, 18, 41, 0, 4, 55, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517674", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Celebrities are celestial because of Shakespeare. And because of Chaucer. And because of the weird workings of the movie camera."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Spencer Kornhaber", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/spencer-kornhaber/", "author": "Spencer Kornhaber", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517707", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/C5No152VYAAXONH/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"Frank Ocean's Surprising Slide Back to Pop\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>\u201cFrank Ocean appears courtesy of Frank Ocean,\u201d reads the liner notes to Calvin Harris\u2019s new single \u201cSlide,\u201d which in this unseasonably warm late February has kicked off the 2017 song-of-the-summer battle. Most artists only ever appear anywhere courtesy of their record label, but Ocean is a free agent and this song is another surprise move in his ongoing rewriting of pop stardom.</p>\n\n<div class=\"oembed\">\n<div class=\"oembed\"></div>\n</div>\n\n<p>Last summer, the buzzy R&amp;B singer broke years of unexplained silence with a duo of albums, <em>Endless </em>and <em>Blond(e)</em>, that defied conventions both musically and business-wise. The latter of the two releases\u2014the one that was actually for sale and had distinguishable songs, in contrast to the<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/08/frank-oceans-endless-released-early-thoughts/496598/\"> free-form streaming audiovisual project</a> <em>Endless</em>\u2014arrived not via his record company, Def Jam, but <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/arts/music/frank-ocean-blonde-interview.html?_r=0\">independently</a>. Through years of wrangling (and <a href=\"http://pitchfork.com/news/71866-listen-to-frank-oceans-new-beats-1-radio-show-right-now/\">the help of Apple</a>, the new corporate patron of label-agnostic pop artists), he had freed himself of the kind of contract that once was considered both prize and necessity for new singers.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>It seemed possible he\u2019d then use this newfound liberty to burrow deeper into an anti-commercial, anti-pop mindset. <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/albums-of-the-year-2016/510404/\"><em>Blond(e) </em>is a masterpiece</a>, but a <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/08/frank-ocean-blond-blonde-review-endless-time/496985/\">weird one</a>: mostly free of drums, recognizable song structures, and anything that could be a hit. It took him four years to make, had <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/08/blond-or-blonde-frank-ocean-spelling-album-def-jam-universal-exclusives/497204/\">two competing spellings for its name</a>, and featured a tie-in print magazine. You can understand why its creator might not want to have to run all of his material past Universal Music Group\u2019s A&amp;R. And you might guess that future Ocean projects would become even more esoteric.</p>\n\n<p>But today brings the mostly good news that Ocean has not entirely decided to withhold his talents\u2014a voice that imparts both feeling and attitude, an adventuresome ear, a smart and funny lyrical sensibility\u2014from the radio race. He\u2019s paired up with Calvin Harris, the Scottish EDM star famous for unsubtle but irresistible Top 40 fare like \u201cThis Is What You Came For\u201d (his 2016 summer smash, featuring Rihanna) and \u201cWe Found Love\u201d (his 2011 summer smash, featuring, again, Rihanna). Rounding out the bill are two-thirds of Migos, the Atlanta rap group enjoying breakthrough national success in 2017 with <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/migos-culture-number-one-album/515916/\">the tricky-fun album <em>Culture</em></a> and the No. 1 hit \u201cBad & Boujee.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>Harris\u2019s knack for consolidating popular trends and nudging them ever-so-slightly forward is on display here, with the beat for \u201cSlide\u201d sucking in Bruno Mars\u2019s recent revivalist funk and Justin Bieber\u2019s airy tropical house for a blend that will only reveal its full potential when heard on the beach. One of Ocean\u2019s latter-day signatures, a squeaky manipulated voice, opens the track with the couplet \u201cI might empty my bank account / And buy that boy a wooden pipe.\u201d I won\u2019t pretend to know exactly what the wooden pipe is supposed to mean here. But the sentiment comes across, to these ears, as a boy hitting on a boy.</p>\n\n<p>Which is not insignificant in 2017 pop, especially in light of <a href=\"http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.42294/title.migos-questions-support-for-ilovemakonnen-coming-out-as-gay\">recent comments</a> by Migos: Asked about the rapper Makonnen who\u2019d just come out as gay, they said it seemed \u201cfucked up\u201d and \u201cwack\u201d that he\u2019d previously put on a tough, streetwise persona. The group later gave an apology that said they were fine with gays but that didn\u2019t quite address the stereotypes they\u2019d seemed to endorse. In any case, they are now on a track with Frank Ocean, who <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/07/the-love-letter-that-shook-hip-hop/259510/\">shook hip-hop</a> with a 2012 admission of an affair with a man\u2014and who has since scrambled all sorts of expectations about culture, machismo, and sex.</p>\n\n<p>Migos themselves sound great, the stickiness of their distinctive flows suddenly plainer than ever over such a sturdy and sunny beat. Ocean\u2019s verses seem to cryptically, wearily talk about the moment at the end of a night in the club when the lights come up and you see who you might take home; Migos\u2019s lyrics are explicit boasts of wining and dining and heterosexual screwing around the world. The divides between Ocean, Migos, and Harris\u2019s sensibilities couldn\u2019t be clearer, but the song is a reminder of pop\u2019s power to make very different elements slide together.</p>"}], "summary": "His team-up with Calvin Harris and Migos on \"Slide\" scrambles some expectations, but mostly just sounds like summer.", "title": "Frank Ocean's Surprising Slide Back to Pop", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Frank Ocean's Surprising Slide Back to Pop"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/frank-ocean-calvin-harris-migos-slide-review-song-of-summer/517707/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/frank-ocean-calvin-harris-migos-slide-review-song-of-summer/517707/", "published": "2017-02-24T13:10:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 24, 18, 10, 0, 4, 55, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517707", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "His team-up with Calvin Harris and Migos on \"Slide\" scrambles some expectations, but mostly just sounds like summer."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Christopher Orr", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/christopher-orr/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Christopher Orr", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/christopher-orr/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/christopher-orr/", "author": "Christopher Orr", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517677", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/LLL_D33_05656_R/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"My 2017 Oscar Predictions: A Lot of &lt;em&gt;La La Land&lt;/em&gt;\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>It\u2019s that time of year again, when we can all grouse about the inanity of the Oscars: how the Academy ignores blockbusters or ignores indie films or ignores people of color. Only this time, there seems less to grouse about than usual. There are snubs here and there of course (cough, <em>Amy Adams</em>), and actors who through error or pretense find themselves in the wrong categories. But overall the Academy did a pretty credible job this time\u2014credible enough that for this year I\u2019m abandoning my customary categories of \u201cwho was nominated but shouldn\u2019t have been\u201d and \u201cwho wasn\u2019t nominated but should have been.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>But who is going to <em>win</em>? Before attempting to answer that question, I should disclose that I\u2019ve gone 25 for 30 on my picks over the last three years (you can find them <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/02/my-2016-oscar-predictions/471027/\">here</a>, <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/02/my-2015-oscar-predictions/385655/\">here</a>, and <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/my-2014-oscar-predictions/284125/\">here</a>), but I missed on Best Picture last year. (I thought <em>The Revenant </em>would beat <em>Spotlight</em>, and I was delighted to be wrong.) It is also perhaps worth noting that I was so spectacularly certain that <em>Avatar</em> would beat <em>The Hurt Locker</em> back in 2010 that I wrote an <a href=\"https://newrepublic.com/article/73539/buy-me-love\">entire article</a> on the subject. (In that case, I was even happier to be wrong.) Also, as before, I\u2019m only going through ten of the top categories, so if you need help with your picks for sound editing or live-action short, you\u2019ll have to seek assistance elsewhere.</p>\n\n<p>So keep all that in mind. As always, I obviously cannot condone any form of gambling, and will in no way consider it my fault if anyone happens to lose money based on my advice. Anyone who <em>makes </em>a little scratch, by contrast, and might be inclined to share it with their Oscar Whisperer, will find me easy enough to track down. Those curious about my own end-of-the-year awards, some of which are notably eccentric, can find them <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/the-best-movies-of-2016/511049/\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"438\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/xLLL_D13_02600_R/988176bbe.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">A still from <em>La La Land </em>(Lionsgate / Summit)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Picture</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Nominees: </strong><em>Arrival</em>, <em>Fences</em>, <em>Hacksaw Ridge</em>, <em>Hell or High Water</em>, <em>Hidden Figures</em>, <em>La La Land</em>, <em>Lion</em>, <em>Manchester by the Sea</em>, <em>Moonlight</em></p>\n\n<p>This has long been, and remains, <em>La La Land\u2019s </em>race to lose. It\u2019s become fashionable to lament that this is a bad thing and it would be better if <em>Moonlight</em> were to win instead. There are perhaps good arguments to be made on this score, but most of the arguments being made aren\u2019t very good.</p>\n\n<p>It is without question a promising sign that <em>Moonlight</em>, a movie about the romance between two black men coming of age in inner-city Miami, directed by a black man, is not only a Best Picture nominee but a genuine contender to win. This is especially true given the Academy\u2019s <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/oscarssowhite\">much-noted</a> shortcomings over the last couple of years.</p>\n\n<p>But the widespread critique that <em>La La Land</em> is \u201conly\u201d the frontrunner because it is about Hollywood\u2019s love for itself dramatically shortchanges Damien Chazelle\u2019s film, which is a tremendously ambitious undertaking on its own terms, <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/la-la-land-review-damien-chazelle-ryan-gosling-emma-stone/510092/\">novel and nostalgic in equal measure</a>. This is not <em>The Artist</em>. Should <em>La La Land </em>come away with the statue, as I strongly suspect it will, it will mean nothing other than that it was a terrific film.</p>\n\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for the upset, definitely go with <em>Moonlight</em>. If you\u2019re looking for a really big upset, try <em>Manchester by the Sea</em> or <em>Hidden Figures</em>. If you want an upset even bigger than that, buy a lottery ticket.</p>\n\n<p><strong>What will win:</strong> <em>La La Land</em></p>\n\n<p><strong>What ought to win: </strong><em>Arrival</em></p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"419\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/LLL_D10_01983_R/33a75c2d1.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">Damien Chazelle on the set of <em>La La Land </em>(Dale Robinette / Lionsgate / Summit)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Director </strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Nominees: </strong>Damien Chazelle <em>(</em><em>La La Land</em><em>), </em>Mel Gibson<em> (</em><em>Hacksaw Ridge</em><em>), </em>Barry Jenkins<em> (</em><em>Moonlight</em><em>),</em> Kenneth Lonergan<em> (</em><em>Manchester by the Sea</em><em>)</em><em>, </em>Denis Villeneuve (<em>Arrival</em><em>)</em></p>\n\n<p>The big surprise here, of course, is that Mel Gibson was nominated, despite the facts that a) <em>Hacksaw Ridge</em> was good but not great; and b) not so long ago, Gibson had a very-well-earned reputation as a depraved maniac. But Hollywood can be forgiving, especially <a href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/mel-gibson-best-director-oscars.html\">if you have the right friends</a>.</p>\n\n<p>In any case, Mel will not be repeating his <em>Braveheart</em> feat by taking home the actual statue. Here, again, the safe money is on Chazelle who, at 32, is already filling up his trophy case. For those who want to split their picture/director votes, Jenkins and Lonergan both have a shot here. Just not a very good one.</p>\n\n<p>Which seems like as good a time as any\u2014and no, it won\u2019t be the last\u2014to express my unhappiness that <em>Arrival</em>, <a href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/mel-gibson-best-director-oscars.html\">the best film of the year</a>, is not really in the running for any of the major awards. My best explanation for this is that the film ultimately found itself betwixt and between: too big to be the kind of arty film that critics love to champion, but not big enough (its domestic box office was almost exactly $100 million) to force its way into the conversation, \u00e0 la <em>Avatar</em>, in a \u201cthe people have spoken\u201d fashion. Regardless, it\u2019s terrific. Go see it if you haven\u2019t already.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who will win: </strong>Damien Chazelle</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who ought to win: </strong>Denis Villeneuve</p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"419\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/LLL_D09_01624_R/273036bf2.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">Emma Stone in <em>La La Land </em>(Lionsgate / Summit)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Actress</strong></p>\n\n<p><b>Nominees: </b>Isabelle Huppert (<em>Elle</em><em>), </em>Ruth Negga (<em>Loving</em><em>)</em>, Natalie Portman (<em>Jackie</em><em>), </em>Emma Stone<em> </em><em>(</em><em>La La Land</em><em>)</em>, Meryl Streep (<em>Florence Foster Jenkins</em><em>)</em></p>\n\n<p>This is an unusually strong category this year, and would be stronger still if Academy voters hadn\u2019t briefly lost their minds and forgotten to nominate Amy Adams, who gave one of the year\u2019s truly indelible performances in <i>Arrival</i>. Shame on you, Academy voters.</p>\n\n<p>Emma Stone is the favorite here, and she\u2019s a perfectly solid pick\u2014even if I\u2019d prefer Negga or Huppert. The strongest challenger is probably Portman, which would be extremely dispiriting. <i>Jackie</i> was not a good movie, nor was hers a particularly good performance. When it comes to portrayals of well-known figures from the 20th century, there are two ways an actor can go: pure mimesis (the accent, the mannerisms, maybe a little prosthetic enhancement) or actually digging beneath the surface to find the real person underneath the fame. The examples I typically think of are Cate Blanchett\u2019s <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2005/05/the-movie-review-the-aviator/69440/\">grating, empty portrait</a> of Katherine Hepburn in <i>The Aviator</i> (for the former category) and Christopher Plummer\u2019s deft and nuanced work as Mike Wallace in <i>The Insider</i> (for the latter).</p>\n\n<p>Portman\u2019s portrait of Jackie Kennedy falls firmly into the former set. Still, if you want to bet against Stone, this is probably the way to go. There\u2019s a reason Blanchett won for <i>The Aviator</i> and Plummer wasn\u2019t even nominated for <i>The Insider</i>.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who will win: </strong>Emma Stone</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who ought to win: </strong>Amy Adams (had she been nominated<strong>);</strong><strong> </strong>of the nominees, Ruth Negga or Isabelle Huppert</p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"420\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/MBTS_0194_11476815340/bb611145f.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">Casey Affleck in <em>Manchester by the Sea</em> (Amazon Studios)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Actor</strong></p>\n\n<p><b>Nominees: </b>Casey Affleck (<em>Manchester by the Sea</em><em>), </em>Andrew Garfield (<em>Hacksaw Ridge</em><em>), </em>Ryan Gosling (<em>La La Land</em><em>), </em>Viggo Mortensen (<em>Captain Fantastic</em><em>)</em>, Denzel Washington (<em>Fences</em><em>)</em></p>\n\n<p>What was that I was saying about how Hollywood can be forgiving if you have the right friends? Well this is particularly true if those friends are Matt Damon and your big brother Ben Affleck. One can debate the ways in which <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/why-the-allegations-against-casey-affleck-should-stand-alone/512234/\">the cases of Nate Parker and Casey Affleck are similar and are different</a>, but the former\u2019s early Oscar hopes vanished entirely and the latter\u2019s appear to be chugging along unimpeded.</p>\n\n<p>It helps Affleck considerably that his performance was genuinely remarkable and his competition is relatively weak, especially given the customary strength of the category. Denzel Washington has the best chance of pulling off an upset here\u2014and it\u2019s a pretty decent one. He\u2019s hampered a bit by the fact that <em>Fences</em> (which Washington directed himself) has very much a \u201cfilmed play\u201d quality to it, as does his notably theatrical performance. Gosling may have a (very) outside shot here, too. But if you\u2019re looking for an upset in the major categories\u2014or you just don\u2019t feel good about picking Affleck\u2014Washington is probably the way to go.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who will win: </strong>Casey Affleck</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who ought to win: </strong>Casey Affleck</p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"421\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/FEN_11554R/5020d8f55.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">Viola Davis in <em>Fences</em> (Paramount)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Supporting Actress</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Nominees: </strong>Viola Davis <em>(</em><em>Fences</em><em>),</em> Naomie Harris (<em>Moonlight</em><em>),</em> Nicole Kidman (<em>Lion</em>), Octavia Spencer (<em>Hidden Figures</em>), Michelle Williams (<em>Manchester by the Sea</em>)</p>\n\n<p>Every year, there is at least one performer who competes a weight class lower than he or she should in order to get a win. Last year, Rooney Mara and Alicia Vikander both submitted what were really lead performances, but were both nominated for supporting actress\u2014a category that Vikander wound up winning.</p>\n\n<p>Viola Davis is no dummy. She\u2019s been nominated for Oscars twice before without winning (for <em>Doubt </em>and <em>The Help</em>), and she wants to take home that statue. Which, as it happens, she is overwhelmingly likely to do. I said it last year and I\u2019ll say it again. The Academy has to take firmer control of its own nominating process if we don\u2019t want to see category fraud like this every season. Davis is a great actress, and was the best thing in <em>Fences</em>. But she should be competing\u2014and perhaps winning\u2014against Stone, Portman, Negga, and Huppert.</p>\n\n<p>If you must bet against Davis, Naomie Harris and Michelle Williams have about equal chances of pulling off an upset\u2014which is to say, very little chance at all.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who will win: </strong>Viola Davis</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who ought to win: </strong>Viola Davis</p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"420\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/moonlight_20151022_Moonlight_D07_C1_K1_0236_rgb/b67907a80.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">Mahershala Ali (left) in <em>Moonlight</em> (A24)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Supporting Actor</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Nominees: </strong>Mahershala Ali <em>(</em><em>Moonlight</em><em>), </em>Jeff Bridges (<em>Hell or High Water</em>), Lucas Hedges (<em>Manchester by the Sea</em><em>),</em> Dev Patel (<em>Lion</em><em>), </em>Michael Shannon (<em>Nocturnal Animals</em>)</p>\n\n<p>Well, at least the Academy realized that if it was going to nominate a performance in <em>Nocturnal Animals</em> it should be Michael Shannon\u2019s slightly creepy lawman and not Aaron Taylor-Johnson\u2019s totally forgettable outlaw. The fact that the latter was nominated\u2014<em>and won!</em>\u2014at the Golden Globes is yet further evidence (as if any were needed in this age) that voters are capable of doing strange and awful things.</p>\n\n<p>Let\u2019s assume that the universe has righted itself sufficiently to correct at least this injustice, by giving Mahershala Ali the award he so very clearly deserves. His work in <em>Moonlight </em>was nothing short of stunning.</p>\n\n<p>Jeff Bridges is no doubt just happy to be nominated for his <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/08/hell-or-high-water-is-an-iconic-tale-of-the-modern-west/495551/\">outstanding work</a> in <em>Hell or High Water</em>. But if you\u2019re looking for someone to upset Ali, Dev Patel may have a very small shot. Or who knows? Maybe Aaron Taylor-Johnson can win again, this time by write-in vote. My capacity for astonishment has been pretty much exhausted of late.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who will win:</strong> Mahershala Ali</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who ought to win: </strong>Mahershala Ali</p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"420\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/MV5BNDE1Y2MwZmEtY2IxZC00MjM5LWE4YTEtNzY5YjNjMDFlMzQyL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMDc2NTEzMw._V1_SY1000_SX1500_AL_/7822f422a.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">A still from <em>Manchester by the Sea</em> (Amazon Studios)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Original Screenplay</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Nominees: </strong><em>Hell or High Water, La La Land, The Lobster, Manchester by the Sea, 20th Century Women</em></p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s awfully nice to see <em>The Lobster</em>, Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019s <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/05/the-lobster-a-dystopian-tour-de-force/482619/\">dystopian tour de force</a>, get some attention here, though if it somehow manages an out-of-nowhere victory, I\u2019ll eat \u2026 a lobster? That actually doesn\u2019t sound so bad.</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s also nice to see what could be a genuinely close race here, between <em>La La Land</em> and <em>Manchester by the Sea</em>. There are a number of ways of looking at this one. Will voters go with director Lonergan\u2019s screenplay as an alternative to voting for Affleck as best actor? Or will any Affleck-related drag be able to sink the movie in a close race (like this one) but not in a possible blowout in the acting category? Will <em>La La Land</em> benefit, sweep-like, from its many awards? Or could Chazelle fatigue set in?</p>\n\n<p>This is the category in which I am least confident of all, but I\u2019m going with <em>Manchester by the Sea</em> by a nose.</p>\n\n<p><strong>What will win: </strong><em>Manchester by the Sea</em></p>\n\n<p><strong>What ought to win: </strong><em>La La Land</em></p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"420\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/moonlight_20151014_Moonlight_W1D1_8679_rgb/bbc3951b4.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">A still from <em>Moonlight </em>(A24)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Adapted Screenplay</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Nominees: </strong><em>Arrival, Fences, Hidden Figures, Lion, Moonlight</em></p>\n\n<p>Apart from Supporting Actor, this is the category in which <em>Moonlight</em>\u2014which is adapted from Tarell Alvin McCraney\u2019s play <em>In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue</em>\u2014is most likely to come away a winner. <em>Arrival </em>once looked like it had a solid shot here, like its fellow \u201cthinking person\u2019s sci-fi\u201d movie\u2014and <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/12/why-em-her-em-is-the-best-film-of-the-year/282544/\">best film of the year</a>\u2014<em>Her</em> three years ago. But my best efforts notwithstanding, it seems to have lost any momentum it ever had.</p>\n\n<p>If there\u2019s an upset in the making, it\u2019s likely to be either <em>Hidden Figures </em>or <em>Lion</em>. But neither seems particularly likely.</p>\n\n<p><strong>What will win: </strong><em>Moonlight</em></p>\n\n<p><strong>What ought to win: </strong><em>Arrival</em></p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"418\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/LLL_D41_D42_06803_R/3d503e701.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">A still from <em>La La Land </em>(Lionsgate / Summit)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Cinematography</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Nominees: </strong>Greig Fraser (<em>Lion</em>), James Laxton (<em>Moonlight</em>), Rodrigo Prieto (<em>Silence</em>), Linus Sandgren (<em>La La Land</em>), Bradford Young (<em>Arrival</em>)</p>\n\n<p>So what do we know about the cinematography award? We know that, because he is not nominated, Emmanuel Lubezki is probably not going to win for a fourth year in a row (following <em>Gravity</em>, <em>Birdman</em>, and <em>The Revenant</em>). And, nothing against Lubezki, but that\u2019s probably a good thing. We also know that Roger Deakins, who has been nominated an incredible 13 times without ever winning, isn\u2019t going to win\u2014because he\u2019s not nominated either. Nor is (three-time winner, nine-time nominee) Robert Richardson. Keeping track of the award this year is a little like watching the NBA Finals with LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, Kyrie Irving, Draymond Green, and Kevin Love all sitting out hurt.</p>\n\n<p>Bradford Young is the first African-American cinematographer ever nominated for the award, which is shocking, and he\u2019d be my pick in a heartbeat for his magnificent work on (you guessed it) <em>Arrival.</em> (He also shot my two favorite films of 2014, <em>Selma </em>and <em><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/a-most-violent-year-is-a-most-extraordinary-film/384392/\">A Most Violent Year</a></em>.) But here, again, <em>Arrival </em>doesn\u2019t seem likely to get much love.The safest bet, as so often this year, is probably on <em>La La Land </em>and its cinematographer Linus Sandgren. If you want to look elsewhere, <em>Lion</em> probably has the best shot at an upset. Or partisans of <em>Moonlight</em> and <em>Arrival</em> can just cross their fingers and take their chances.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who will win: </strong>Linus Sandgren</p>\n\n<p><strong>Who ought to win: </strong>Bradford Young</p>\n\n<hr />\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"420\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/zootopia_270.0_107.00_0341/9bc0a44bc.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"credit\">A still from <em>Zootopia </em>(Disney)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p><strong>Best Animated Feature</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Nominees: </strong><em>Kubo and the Two Strings</em><em>, <em>Moana, My Life as a Zucchini,</em></em> <em>The Red Turtle</em>, <em>Zootopia</em></p>\n\n<p>One of the most remarkable inversions in recent cinema is the way Pixar and Disney Animation\u2014which are both owned by the same company and run by the same executives\u2014have essentially switched places. (I\u2019ll be writing more about this soon.) Disney scored two nominations in the Animated Feature category this year, with <em>Zootopia</em> and <em>Moana</em>. Pixar, meanwhile, couldn\u2019t manage a nod for <em>Finding Dory</em>, despite the fact that it was the second-highest grossing movie of the year behind <em>Rogue One</em>. Go figure.</p>\n\n<p>It was actually a banner year for animated movies, especially if you managed to avoid the truly awful <em>Sing. The Red Turtle</em> is a <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/the-elegant-simplicity-of-the-red-turtle/514190/\">gorgeous, almost-silent fable</a>. <em>Moana</em> is a <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/moana-a-big-beautiful-disney-smash/508568/\">classic Disney musical showstopper</a>. And <em>Kubo and the Two Strings</em> may be the best stop-motion marvel yet produced by the always excellent Laika (<em>Coraline</em>, <em>ParaNorman</em>, <em>The Boxtrolls</em>.)</p>\n\n<p>But barring a borderline-shocking upset by <em>Kubo</em>, the Oscar will be going to <em>Zootopia</em>. Which is <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/disneys-zootopia-is-a-giddy-delight/472197/\">exactly as it should be</a>.</p>\n\n<p><strong>What will win: </strong><em>Zootopia</em></p>\n\n<p><strong>What should win: </strong><em>Zootopia</em></p>"}], "summary": "Who will win at the 89th Academy Awards?", "title": "My 2017 Oscar Predictions: A Lot of <em>La La Land</em>", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "My 2017 Oscar Predictions: A Lot of <em>La La Land</em>"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/my-2017-oscar-predictions/517677/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/my-2017-oscar-predictions/517677/", "published": "2017-02-24T11:18:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 24, 16, 18, 0, 4, 55, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517677", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Who will win at the 89th Academy Awards?"}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/the-editors/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "The Editors", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/the-editors/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/the-editors/", "author": "The Editors", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt385584", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2015/02/BigQuestionPollArt/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"The Big Question: Reader Poll\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>We asked readers to answer our question for the April issue: <strong>What is the most significant fad of all time?</strong> Vote for your favorite response below, and we\u2019ll publish the results of the poll in the next issue.</p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/customer-satisfaction-surveys\" style=\"font: 12px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; text-decoration: none;\">Create your own user feedback survey </a></p>\n\n<p></p>"}], "summary": "Vote for your favorite reader response to next month's question.", "title": "The Big Question: Reader Poll", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The Big Question: Reader Poll"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-big-question-reader-poll/385584/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/the-big-question-reader-poll/385584/", "published": "2017-02-24T11:00:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 24, 16, 0, 0, 4, 55, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-385584", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Vote for your favorite reader response to next month's question."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "David Sims", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "David Sims", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/", "author": "David Sims", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517623", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/i_dont/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;I Don\u2019t Feel at Home in This World Anymore&lt;/em&gt; Is a Dark, Goofy Neo-Noir\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d an exasperated petty criminal asks Ruth Kimke (Melanie Lynskey), who\u2019s in the middle of the strange vigilante rampage at the heart of the new film <em>I Don\u2019t Feel at Home in This World Anymore</em>. Ruth thinks for a second. \u201cFor people to not be assholes!\u201d she replies, which feels as good a battle cry as any in these angry, polarized times. Ruth is a fitting anti-hero for 2017: She\u2019s depressed, she\u2019s being taken for granted in her job, and she has no idea where to direct her resentment.</p>\n\n<p>So when it does come spilling out, it has all kinds of unintended consequences, some comical and others decidedly not. The debut film from Macon Blair, <em>I Don\u2019t Feel at Home in This World Anymore</em> is a shambling piece of neo-noir that swerves between gentle indie comedy and horrifying violence with ease\u2014a combination that helped it win this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize. The movie, released Friday on Netflix, is grounded by Blair\u2019s eye for the gruesome, which he surely picked up working as an actor on projects like Jeremy Saulnier\u2019s gory <em><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/green-room-jeremy-saulnier-review/479244/\">Green Room</a></em>. At its best, Blair\u2019s film is like <em>Blood Simple</em> crossed with The Three Stooges\u2014a clever, gritty tale of revenge at its most inept, anchored by performances that brim with goofy fury.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>The protagonist, Ruth, is a nurse living a fairly dull life in an unnamed town. Blair takes special care to focus on the tiny, insignificant details that clearly weigh on her, whether it\u2019s someone cutting in front of her at the supermarket, or a local dog constantly using her front yard as a bathroom. When Ruth\u2019s home is burglarized, the loss of her possessions seems to matter less than the sheer indignity of the matter. The local cops do little more than take a report, leading her to decide to take the matter in her own hands.</p>\n\n<p>But <em>I Don\u2019t Feel at Home in This World Anymore</em> is less like Joel Schumacher\u2019s <em><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Down\">Falling Down</a> </em>than it sounds, at least for most of its running time. Ruth\u2019s confused mission is largely focused on finding her stuff at local pawn shops and taking it back; she\u2019s more interested in reclaiming a little pride than in finding her laptop. She enlists her weirdo neighbor Tony (played by Elijah Wood) as backup, drawn to (if disgusted by) his shamelessness in letting his dog defecate on her property.</p>\n\n<p>Tony is the kind of neighbor you\u2019d probably try to avoid interacting with too much if he lived near you; he has a collection of nunchucks and ninja stars but little social aptitude. But he proves a perfect companion for Ruth, and is eager to use her quest for some ineffable sort of justice as an outlet for his own boundless rage. They\u2019re an odd pair of heroes to root for, and there is something darkly alluring about watching them run amok. Ruth finally secures some small moments of petty triumph\u2014that is, until she meets the shady perpetrators of her burglary and things really descend into chaos.</p>\n\n<p>Blair started out as an actor working with his childhood friend Saulnier, the American indie-horror director who expertly deploys very realistic, very shocking scenes of violence in films like <em>Green Room</em> and <em>Blue Ruin</em>. So <em>I Don\u2019t Feel at Home in This World Anymore</em>\u2019s eventual nightmarish turn makes sense, and there\u2019s certainly something to be said for the bloody creativity on display. But as the film goes on, it gets hard to figure out just what kind of a larger point Blair is looking to make. Is Ruth a modern-day <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver\">Travis Bickle</a>, similarly angry at society but far less adept at resorting to violence? If so, her heart doesn\u2019t really seem to be in it by the time the stakes get truly deadly.</p>\n\n<p><em>I Don\u2019t Feel at Home in This World Anymore</em> is most effective as a grumpy, shambolic comedy, a weird buddy picture for Lynskey and Wood that sees the former\u2019s character dabbling in brutish selfishness and the latter\u2019s enjoying a rare chance at a normal human friendship. It\u2019s less interesting as a gory slapstick thriller, but the ending is memorable and Blair\u2019s skill at directing action is undeniable. Still, the film perhaps works best of all as an unexpected treatise on the state of American manners in 2017\u2014and as a story in which the real villain is humans\u2019 collective lack of empathy.</p>"}], "summary": "Macon Blair\u2019s directorial debut, a big winner at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, swerves wildly between indie comedy and ultra-violence.", "title": "<em>I Don\u2019t Feel at Home in This World Anymore</em> Is a Dark, Goofy Neo-Noir", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<em>I Don\u2019t Feel at Home in This World Anymore</em> Is a Dark, Goofy Neo-Noir"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/i-dont-feel-at-home-in-this-world-anymore-is-a-dark-goofy-neo-noir/517623/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/i-dont-feel-at-home-in-this-world-anymore-is-a-dark-goofy-neo-noir/517623/", "published": "2017-02-24T09:26:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 24, 14, 26, 0, 4, 55, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517623", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Macon Blair\u2019s directorial debut, a big winner at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, swerves wildly between indie comedy and ultra-violence."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "Yasmeen Serhan", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/yasmen-serhan/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "Yasmeen Serhan", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/yasmen-serhan/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/yasmen-serhan/", "author": "Yasmeen Serhan", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517155", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/RTSYFOR/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"Marine Le Pen: Madame Pr\u00e9sidente? \" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marine Le Pen is hoping the wave of populism sweeping the Western world carries her to the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe wind of history has turned,\u201d Le Pen, who heads the far-right National Front (FN), <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHPOW91K-fM\">told</a> a crowd of supporters at the kickoff of her presidential bid earlier this month in Lyon, the industrial city in southeastern France. \u201cIt will carry us to the summit.\u201d</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Opinion polls have shown Le Pen winning the first round of France\u2019s presidential election in April, only to lose to whomever she faces in the second round of voting in May. That candidate will likely be <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/11/francois-fillon-france/508607/\">Fran\u00e7ois Fillon</a>, the center-right candidate, or <a href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwir1_nk_aPSAhUFj1QKHcLnCocQFggaMAA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fnews%2Farchive%2F2017%2F02%2Fmacron-economics%2F515919%2F&amp;usg=AFQjCNH2xaKOZJsUIoPfpTzqFN_AfzC6og&amp;sig2=fUSJncYjv0HPXoPFDu6Ewg&amp;bvm=bv.147448319,d.eWE\">Emmanuel Macron</a>, the independent; polls show the two men seesawing between second and third place in the first round. If no candidate achieves a majority in the first round, the top-two vote getters advance to a second round run-off. Although it\u2019s still early, and polling can be wrong, the likelihood of Le Pen beating either Fillon or Macron in the second round is slim. Still, with the Western establishment reeling from Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the U.S. presidential election, the U.K.\u2019s decision to leave the European Union, and growing anger at political elites throughout Europe, Le Pen and other far-right, populist leaders in Europe fancy their chances.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Le Pen envisions a France with closed borders, its own currency, and tough immigration controls; a country that is independent of international bodies like NATO, and one that ultimately puts itself first. This inward thinking, Le Pen reminded supporters, would not be unique to France.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOther people have shown the way,\u201d she said, alluding to the Brexit vote last summer and Trump\u2019s election last November.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Although such sentiments might be experiencing a resurgence, many of Le Pen\u2019s policies are not new. Indeed, her <a href=\"https://www.marine2017.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/projet-presidentiel-marine-le-pen.pdf\">144-point manifesto</a> outlining her vision for France reflects many of the policies the FN has put forward since it was founded more than four decades ago by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. From the onset, the party has opposed the European Union, economic protectionism, and same-sex marriage. It has also been characterized by anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and anti-Semitic sentiment (Jean-Marie Le Pen has repeatedly dismissed the Holocaust as a minor \u201c<a href=\"http://www.bfmtv.com/politique/jean-marie-le-pen-persiste-sur-les-chambres-a-gaz-873716.html\">detail</a>\u201d of history and defended collaborators of the Vichy government, which deported tens of thousands of French Jews to death camps during World War II).</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Those views haven\u2019t earned the FN much electoral success. The party <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/12/marine-le-pen-front-national-france/420348/\">didn\u2019t win</a> a single local election in 2015, and claims only two<strong> </strong>seats in French parliament. The FN\u2019s previous best performance in the presidential election was in 2002 when Jean-Marie Le Pen advanced to the second round for the first time in the FN\u2019s history; voters handed then-incumbent President Jacques Chirac 82 percent of the vote\u2014an unprecedented victory that was widely regarded more<strong> </strong>as a rebuke of the FN than approval of Chirac. By the time Marine Le Pen took over as the leader of the FN in 2011, the party began a period of transformative rebranding\u2014one which retained its far-right values with less emphasis on the homophobic, anti-Semitic elements. This ultimately resulted in the expulsion of the elder Le Pen from the party in 2015 in a family battle played out in the media.</p>\n\n<figure><img alt=\"\" height=\"403\" src=\"https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2017/02/RTR1NKLE/1c1c25aa7.jpg\" width=\"630\" />\n<figcaption class=\"caption\">National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen delivers a speech next to his daughter, Marine Le Pen, in Britany, France on March 17, 2007. (Daniel Joubert / Reuters)</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cVoluntarily or not, he gave ammunition to our adversaries,\u201d Le Pen <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/01/the-ruthlessly-effective-rebranding-of-europes-new-far-right\">said</a> of her father in November, adding: \u201cToday our adversaries no longer have that ammunition.\u201d</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Still, the younger Le Pen\u2019s rebranding efforts alone may not be enough. Dr. David Lees, a researcher on French politics at Warwick University, told me last November<strong> </strong>that though Le Pen\u2019s outsider status has certainly helped her anti-establishment image, it could also pose a challenge.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>\u201c</b>The FN has only got two members of the National Assembly in France \u2026 so if she does win, she wouldn\u2019t be able to form a government,\u201d Lees said. \u201cShe would find it very hard to govern without having any sense of support in Parliament. She just wouldn\u2019t get anything through because the options of ruling by decree in France are very small for a president.\u201d</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Indeed, finding common ground with other members of the government would prove difficult for Le Pen\u2014especially in comparison to competitors like Macron, whose centrist, business-orientated agenda could be more appealing to swing votes on the left and right than the FN\u2019s populist agenda. Still, Le Pen\u2019s rebranding has proven effective in communities previously marginalized by the FN. The party has actively pursued more progressive causes such as promoting women\u2019s rights and gay rights, as well as protecting France\u2019s Jewish community from anti-Semitism\u2014often by presenting Muslim immigration as a threat to all three.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe do not want to live under the rule or threat of Islamic fundamentalism,\u201d she told supporters in Lyon, and accused Muslim immigrants of \u201clooking to impose on us gender discrimination in public places, full body veils or not, prayer rooms in the workplace, prayers in the streets, huge mosques.\u201d</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The FN has found common cause with far-right parties throughout Europe who share its anti-Islam and anti-globalist agenda, as well as other governments. Le Pen has praised both Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, <a href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-le-pen-idUSKBN13B230\">noting</a> that if she were elected, the three leaders \u201cwould be good for world peace.\u201d Le Pen has been a vocal proponent of rapprochement with Russia. In addition to rejecting the notion of Russia\u2019s actions in Ukraine\u2019s Crimea as an invasion, she also condemned U.S. and EU sanctions on Moscow as \u201c<a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/02/01/france-intv-amanpour-marine-le-pen-b.cnn\">completely stupid</a>.\u201d The FN received an 11-million euro (about $11.6 million) loan from the Moscow-based First Czech Russian Bank in 2014, and Le Pen has <a href=\"http://www.politico.eu/article/le-pen-russia-crimea-putin-money-bank-national-front-seeks-russian-cash-for-election-fight/\">reportedly</a> asked Russia for another loan to finance her current presidential bid, citing French banks\u2019 refusal to lend.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fredrik Wesslau, the director of the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told me in January that<strong> </strong>Moscow\u2019s ideological affinity with the FN is what attracts it to most of Europe\u2019s far-right populist parties.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThey see a country that\u2019s willing to stick up for socially conservative rights, that\u2019s embraced authoritarian populism, that\u2019s also xenophobic, in particular anti-Islam, which is something that many of these parties can relate to,\u201d Wesslau said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of overlap.\u201d</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And while the FN leader isn\u2019t the only French presidential candidate to support better relations with Russia (Fillon, the center-right candidate, has also supported reconciliation), reports of Russian media coverage favoring Le Pen against other contenders has sparked <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/opinion/russian-meddling-and-europes-elections.html\">concerns</a> Moscow might try to interfere in France\u2019s elections similar to the way it did in the U.S. elections.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But for all the challenges Le Pen faces as an untested leader of historically fringe party, one that is often overlooked is her role as France\u2019s sole female candidate. Women have historically been underrepresented in French politics, with female lawmakers making up <a href=\"http://www.ipu.org/wmn-f/classif.htm\">25 percent</a> of the National Assembly and <a href=\"http://www.ipu.org/wmn-f/classif.htm\">27 percent</a> of the Senate. \u00c9dith Cresson became the first and only woman to serve as prime minister in 1991 under President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, but suffered low approval ratings and lost the post after less than a year\u2014a loss some attribute to <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=4wQe6IcBaMQC&amp;pg=PA189#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">misogynist attitudes</a> among the Socialist party elites. Socialist party member S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal made French history in 2007 when she became the first woman to be nominated as a presidential candidate by a major party. She lost to Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If Le Pen advances to the second round as polls suggest she could, she\u2019ll only be the second female candidate to have done so since Royal. It\u2019s a glass ceiling Lees said she may have a difficult time shattering.</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019ve never had a female president, we\u2019ve never had a female leader really in France,\u201d Lees said. \u201cSo there really isn\u2019t precedent there.\u201d</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">With the first round of voting less than two months away, Le Pen has the task of maintaining the lead polls have given her since the start of the election. But it will also involve not being derailed by recent <a href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/liveblogs/2017/01/europe-elections/513677/14799/\">allegations</a> she misused 300,000 euros of EU funds to pay her parliamentary assistants. It\u2019s a charge Le Pen denies, and one that has resulted in the arrest of her chief of staff, Catherine Griset, who has been <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/liveblogs/2017/01/europe-elections/513677/14799/\">charged with breach of trust</a>. Le Pen\u2019s lawyers say the investigation is an attempt to harm the presidential hopeful \u201cat the very moment when her candidacy is making a major breakthrough.\u201d</p>\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\"></p>"}], "summary": "The far-right candidate leads in French polls, but her challenges may prove insurmountable.", "title": "Marine Le Pen: Madame Pr\u00e9sidente?", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "Marine Le Pen: Madame Pr\u00e9sidente?"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/02/marine-le-pen-france/517155/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/02/marine-le-pen-france/517155/", "published": "2017-02-24T09:08:20-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 24, 14, 8, 20, 4, 55, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517155", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The far-right candidate leads in French polls, but her challenges may prove insurmountable."}, "tags": [{"term": "News", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "David Sims", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "David Sims", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/", "author": "David Sims", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517581", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/fences/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"On Denzel Washington's Enduring Stardom\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>The list of actors who have won three Oscars is vanishingly short. Walter Brennan (a character actor from Hollywood\u2019s Golden Age), Jack Nicholson, and Daniel Day-Lewis are the only men to do it, with Meryl Streep, Katherine Hepburn (who won four), and Ingrid Bergman the only women. Awards season can be fickle, sometimes memorializing films and performances that don\u2019t linger in the public eye, but multiple wins are rare enough that they usually cement an actor\u2019s iconic status in the industry. This year\u2019s Oscars are a mostly decided affair, with <em>La La Land </em>expected to sweep the major categories, but there\u2019s one top award that still seems up in the air: Best Actor, for which Denzel Washington is nominated.</p>\n\n<p>For months, the obvious frontrunner for the Best Actor trophy was Casey Affleck, whose work in <em>Manchester by the Sea </em>drew raves and a slew of critics\u2019 awards. Washington, the director and star of August Wilson adaptation <em>Fences</em>, looked to be overshadowed by his co-star Viola Davis (still tipped to win for Best Supporting Actress). But the momentum shifted after Washington won the Screen Actors Guild Award to make it more of a toss-up. With every Oscar race comes a narrative, and for Denzel it\u2019s a simple one\u2014winning a third trophy would be an acknowledgment not just of his skill as an actor, but of the ubiquity of his stardom, which has lasted longer, and gone in more fascinating directions, than almost any of his peers.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>Proof of that stardom is the simple fact that Washington made <em>Fences</em>, a project that has long been ignored by Hollywood because its author, August Wilson, had always insisted on hiring an African American director to adapt his Pulitzer Prize-winning play to film. In 1991, <em>The</em> <em>New York Times </em><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/movies/film-did-hollywood-sit-on-fences.html?pagewanted=all\">reported on</a> Wilson\u2019s efforts to convince Paramount Pictures to hire someone like Spike Lee, Gordon Parks, or Charles Burnett\u2014legendary names in the industry\u2014and the studio\u2019s intransigence on the issue, despite the involvement of A-lister Eddie Murphy.</p>\n\n<p>In the intervening 25 years, the script bounced around the industry and was reworked by Wilson before his death in 2005. In 2009, the producer Scott Rudin offered it to Washington, who agreed but wanted to mount it as a Broadway revival first. Even after the play\u2019s short Broadway run in 2010, it took years for Washington (who had directed two other films, <em>Antwone Fisher </em>and <em>The Great Debaters</em>) to make the movie, and what he produced feels reverent and intimate. <em>Fences </em>is a hallowed piece of playwriting, and the film radiates respect for Wilson\u2019s words, stripping away almost everything (from elaborate sets to camera movements) to live in its long, winding monologues and shocking, dense bursts of exposition and plot.</p>\n\n<p><em>Fences </em>at times feels like a showcase\u2014a preservation of Wilson\u2019s most famous work that is truest to his vision, rather than its director\u2019s. But it\u2019s also a showcase for Washington as an actor, a chance for him to channel his incredible charisma into a part that slyly comments on it. Troy Maxson, the protagonist of <em>Fences</em>, is a charming motormouth who spends much of the film holding court on various topics, some trivial, others not. His magnetism belies his malevolence. Troy is a seemingly settled, stable family man, but he boils with resentment, real and imagined, over the errant path of his life and the athletic achievements of his son, who he fears will eclipse his own past as a baseball prospect.</p>\n\n<p>There aren\u2019t many actors who could pull off what Washington attempts in <em>Fences</em>\u2014to make a stagey film that\u2019s profoundly un-cinematic in a lot of ways and that leans heavily on its performances. There\u2019s little for Washington to hide behind. It\u2019d be so easy for the film to feel inauthentic, like a museum piece in which monologues are delivered direct to camera just for some archival purpose. But <em>Fences </em>feels like a living, breathing work of character, a granular examination of a man\u2019s passions and insecurities, and, especially as it races to its conclusion, the story of a woman (Troy\u2019s wife Rose, played by Davis) who finally begins to acknowledge and push back against her husband\u2019s stifling flaws.</p>\n\n<p><em>Fences </em>simply could not have been produced without Washington\u2019s sway, but more importantly, it\u2019s a film that succeeds (and was nominated for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay along with its leads) because of Washington\u2019s understanding and care for the material. In recent years, his movie appearances had largely concentrated on action films and thrillers, a genre in which he has always excelled\u2014projects like <em>The Equalizer, The Magnificent Seven</em>, and <em>2 Guns</em>. <em>Fences</em> was a departure only in that it was the first serious non-genre work he had taken on since <em>Flight </em>in 2012 (which led to his last Oscar nomination).</p>\n\n<p>But<strong> </strong>Washington has taken that bifurcated approach\u2014balancing roles in genre movies and weightier films\u2014 for most of his career, after breaking out on TV\u2019s <em>St. Elsewhere</em> and getting his first Oscar nomination for playing the anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko in 1987\u2019s <em>Cry Freedom</em>. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for <em>Glory </em>in 1990, and filmed his first of four collaborations with Spike Lee (<em>Mo\u2019 Better Blues</em>) the same year. He began working with great directors like Lee, Jonathan Demme (<em>Philadelphia</em>), Mira Nair (<em>Mississippi Masala</em>), and Norman Jewison (<em>The Hurricane</em>) while also churning out blockbuster action films like <em>Crimson Tide</em>, <em>Out of Time</em>, and <em>Man on Fire</em>.</p>\n\n<p>Unlike most of today\u2019s biggest actors, who are often propelled to success by a franchise, Washington has never even appeared in a sequel. He has achieved a long-lasting run of <a href=\"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=denzelwashington.htm\">sterling box-office success</a> solely on the back of his on-screen presence. <em>Fences</em>, which has earned a terrific $55 million at the box office (more than double its budget) may mark a new stage in his career\u2014one where he uses his clout to adapt less commercial work, such as Wilson\u2019s entire 10-play <a href=\"https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/denzel-washington-august-wilson-hbo/\">Pittsburgh cycle</a>, which he is working to bring to HBO. That influence is part of what the Academy would be honoring with a third Oscar on Sunday night. If Washington wins, his trophy would be a recognition of his rare, enduring star power.</p>"}], "summary": "The <em>Fences</em> actor might collect his third Oscar this year, an achievement only attained by a handful of Hollywood\u2019s biggest icons.", "title": "On Denzel Washington's Enduring Stardom", "title_detail": {"type": "text/plain", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "On Denzel Washington's Enduring Stardom"}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/denzel-washingtons-enduring-stardom/517581/", "rel": "alternate", "type": "text/html"}], "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/02/denzel-washingtons-enduring-stardom/517581/", "published": "2017-02-23T13:29:00-05:00", "published_parsed": [2017, 2, 23, 18, 29, 0, 3, 54, 0], "id": "tag:thewire.com,2017:50-517581", "guidislink": false, "summary_detail": {"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "The <em>Fences</em> actor might collect his third Oscar this year, an achievement only attained by a handful of Hollywood\u2019s biggest icons."}, "tags": [{"term": "Culture", "scheme": null, "label": null}]}, {"authors": [{"name": "David Sims", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/"}], "author_detail": {"name": "David Sims", "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/"}, "href": "http://www.thewire.com/authors/david-sims/", "author": "David Sims", "disqus_shortname": "thewire", "disqus_identifier": "mt517524", "disqus_thread": "", "content": [{"type": "text/html", "language": "en-us", "base": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAtlanticWire", "value": "<figure class=\"lead-image\">\n\n    \n        \n        \n        \n            \n            <img alt=\"Image \" src=\"http://cdn.thewire.com/media/img/mt/2017/02/get_out/lead_large.jpg\" title=\"&lt;em&gt;Get Out&lt;/em&gt; Is a Funny and Brilliantly Subversive Horror Film\" />\n        \n        \n    \n\n\n    \n    \n\n</figure>\n\n<p>The opening scene of <em>Get Out</em> is a familiar horror-movie image\u2014a stranger walking an unfamiliar street, in the dead of night, nervously looking over their shoulder at every rustle of sound. The setting is the suburbs, a frequent favorite of the slasher genre, only the victim is not a scantily clad teen girl, but an African American man, uneasily navigating what seems like hostile territory. A car pulls up alongside him, blasting the dirge-like old-fashioned ditty \u201c<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmk8dbFv_o\">Run Rabbit Run</a>.\u201d \u201cNot today,\u201d he mutters, turning around and walking in the opposite direction. But of course, his fate is already sealed.</p>\n\n<p><em>Get Out</em> was written and directed by Jordan Peele, one half of the legendary sketch-comedy duo behind <em>Key & Peele</em>. That show had a remarkable grasp on the visual hallmarks of the film genres it often mimicked, and its humor often lay in the preciseness of its parody. But <em>Get Out </em>is no mere pastiche. It\u2019s an atmospheric, restrained, extremely effective work of horror with a clear point of view, a darkly hilarious movie that never trips over itself in search of a cheap laugh or scare. What might sound like a one-joke premise turns into something richly textured; what might seem like an easy metaphor is, in fact, anything but.</p>\n\n<aside class=\"callout-placeholder\"></aside>\n\n<p>Like so many horror films, <em>Get Out</em> is exploring the creepy menace of the suburbs. Usually, similar slasher movies exist to puncture the false veneer of safety that comes with a white picket fence, but in <em>Get Out</em>, the threatening vibe is present from minute one. Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) is about to meet the parents of his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) for the first time and is nervous when he realizes she hasn\u2019t told them that he\u2019s black. After a long drive, their manse turns out to be exactly what you might imagine\u2014giant, secluded, pristine, and filled with trinkets from trips around the world.</p>\n\n<p>Rose\u2019s father Dean (Bradley Whitford) is a little too eager to call Chris \u201cmy man,\u201d her mother Missy (Catherine Keener) is icy and standoffish, and her brother Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones) is weirdly aggressive, but there\u2019s nothing that unusual going on at first. Peele layers in a familiar awkwardness before slowly introducing elements of dread. The house\u2019s maid Georgina (Betty Gabriel) and the groundskeeper Walter (Marcus Henderson), both black, have strangely placid demeanors; Missy is a psychiatrist who keeps offering to hypnotize Chris (just to help him stop smoking, you understand); and, naturally, there\u2019s a locked basement no one\u2019s allowed to go into (just a nasty case of mold, of course).</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s best to know as little as possible about <em>Get Out</em>\u2019s second and third acts. Peele\u2019s plotting is as crisp as his knack for visual storytelling, and he doles out tidbits of information with glee, letting the audience slowly figure out the particulars of Rose\u2019s family while they guess at just how deep the malevolence goes. Chris is on edge from minute one, understandably; behind the family\u2019s friendly surface is the kind of passive prejudice he obviously feared from the get-go. The delight comes in watching how Peele heightens that into real terror. <em>Get Out</em> is clearly playing on the discomfort a young African American man might have in visiting a largely white community\u2014something rarely explored by the horror genre.</p>\n\n<p>There are few more frightening monsters to conjure than racism, after all. It\u2019s a topic the genre has brushed up against\u2014with the black protagonist of <em>Night of the Living Dead</em>, a rare sight in 1968, or in Bernard Rose\u2019s 1992 classic <em>Candyman</em>, in which the titular figure in part represented America\u2019s history of slavery and repression. But racism is still a surprisingly uncommon subject matter, and Peele addresses a more insidious fear\u2014of the fallacy of America being a post-racial society, and of the nightmares one can imagine under that benign surface.</p>\n\n<p>Kaluuya, a British actor who was extraordinary in the <em>Black Mirror </em>episode \u201cFifteen Million Merits\u201d and, more recently, played Emily Blunt\u2019s stoic partner in <em>Sicario</em>, is terrific in the lead role. Williams excels as Rose, weaponizing the lack of self-awareness she deploys so well on HBO\u2019s <em>Girls</em>. The entire cast is perfectly restrained, save for maybe Jones, who feels unhinged from the start, and the delightful Lil Rel Howery, who plays Chris\u2019s friend Rod, a TSA agent with the kind of moxie and deductive powers one might not expect from an employee of that particular agency.<strong> </strong>He\u2019s a vehicle for the film\u2019s biggest laugh lines\u2014but <em>Get Out </em>is funny throughout, wringing jokes from even the tensest moments.</p>\n\n<p>Best of all, though, is that <em>Get Out </em>is truly frightening. Not because it\u2019s loaded with jump scares (though it does have a couple of good ones), nor because it features excessively visceral violence. It\u2019s so perfectly calibrated that every escalation feels organic: What begins as an awkward tale of meeting the parents becomes something much, much worse, but it\u2019s all part of a fully realized whole. <em>Get Out </em>is an extremely confident debut feature for Peele, one steeped in the language of horror cinema rather than merely copying it. 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