1
ON THE COVER
AND ABOVE:
Photograph by
Christopher
Anderson—
Magnum
Photos for
TIME
2 | Conversation
6 | For the Record
The Brief
News from the U.S.
and around the world
7 | Iran escalates,
Trump vacillates
11 | Walter Isaacson
remembers Cokie
Roberts
12 | Trump’s take on
global mail
14 | TIME with...
producer Brian
Grazer
16 | After the storm
in the Bahamas
The View
Ideas, opinion,
innovations
19 | U.S. colleges
must decide: Do
they want to be
equal or elite?
21 | Ian Bremmer
on Boris Johnson’s
Brexit box
21 | What people
really want in long-
term partners
Time Off
What to watch, read,
see and do
45 | The sad state of
network television
48 | Movies: A
weathered Brad
Pitt in Ad Astra;
the documentary
Where’s My Roy
Cohn?; a wide-
screen Downton
Abbey
50 | Books: A
Brooklyn family in
Red at the Bone;
debut novel The
Secrets We Kept; YA
Frankly in Love
52 | 7 Questions for
Renée Zellweger
Features
Macron’s Moment of Truth
The French President is in a hurry to
prove his reforms are not only
for the rich
By Vivienne Walt 22
The Cloud Over Juul
The e-cigarette maker claiming to
be a public-health savior is getting
another generation hooked on
nicotine
By Jamie Ducharme 30
Our Bodies, Our Fight
Women must reveal personal stories
to assert their humanity. Why is
that?
By Lyz Lenz 38
VOL. 194, NO. 13 | 2019
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French President
Emmanuel Macron
leads a meeting at
the Élysée Palace
in Paris on Sept. 9