1
ON THE COVER:
Photograph
by Hans Peter
Stiebing—
Ullstein Bild/
Getty Images
2 | Conversation
4 | For the Record
The Brief
News from the U.S.
and around the world
5 | The stories
behind al-Baghdadi
9 | Big Tech
makes a local play
10 | In Paris,
Leonardo still
draws crowds
12 | New life for an
Alzheimer’s drug
14 | TIME with...
actor Willem Dafoe
16 | California
ablaze, again
The View
Ideas, opinion,
innovations
19 | Charlotte
Alter on the fall
of a millennial
Congresswoman
21 | Ian Bremmer on
populism’s return to
Argentina
21 | Nintendo
chief Shuntaro
Furukawa on the
entertainment
company’s future
Time Off
What to watch, read,
see and do
43 | Martin
Scorsese’s
masterwork,
The Irishman
46 | Movies:
A disintegrating
Marriage Story;
an ambitious
Motherless
Brooklyn; and an
iconic Harriet
48 | TV: A-listers in
The Morning Show;
live at The Apollo;
and a lively His
Dark Materials
50 | Books:
Exploding twins
and a fantasy epic
52 | 8 Questions for
playwright David
Henry Hwang
Features
Mr. Fix-It
Rudy Giuliani used his perch as the
President’s lawyer for money and
power. What will it cost his client?
By Vera Bergengruen
and Brian Bennett 22
Viewpoint: When Hizzoner
had some By Tom Robbins 29
When the Berlin Wall Fell
Ten East Germans remember
what the West held for them
By Malcolm Jack 30
Plus: Our vision of hope
and peace is in peril
By Mikhail Gorbachev 36
Till Debt Do Us Part
The rise of financial therapy
for married couples
By Belinda Luscombe 38
VOL. 194, NO. 20 | 2019
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In their home in
Taucha, Germany,
Nora plays with
the Barbie that
her mother Susan
Penquitt went west
to buy in 1989
Photograph by
Nanna Heitmann—
Magnum Photos
for TIME