Time USA - August 19, 2019

1

ON THE COVER:

Illustration by

John Mavroudis

for TIME

2 | From the Editor
4 | For the Record

The Brief
News from the U.S.
and around the world

7 | Narendra Modi
plays with fire in
Kashmir

9 | New freedoms
for women in
Saudi Arabia raise
questions

10 | The stigma of
flying in Europe

11 | Milestones:
documentarian
D.A. Pennebaker

12 | TIME with...
actor Jake
Gyllenhaal

14 | Glacial melt in
Greenland

The View

Ideas, opinion,

innovations

17 | Brittany

Packnett on

Ferguson, five years

later

18 | Plan better for

death

19 | Ian Bremmer on

the escalating U.S.-

China trade war

19 | Making middle

school bearable

Time Off

What to watch, read,

see and do

49 | Dating for

all ages

52 | Television:

growing up in

David Makes

Man; Season 2 of

Succession; the

cost of conflict in

Our Boys

54 | Movies: a

rapper’s ordeal in

Free Meek; China’s

One Child Nation;

shaggy wisdom in

The Art of Racing in

the Rain

56 | 7 Questions for

author Ibram X.

Kendi

Features

American Terror

How the nation failed to

reckon with the growing

threat of white nationalism

By Vera Bergengruen and

W.J. Hennigan 20

Viewpoints: Bill Clinton,

Jon Meacham, Julissa Arce,

Rod Rosenstein, David French,

Jessica Gold and Megan Ranney

Seeking Justice

Three journalists were killed in

Africa while reporting on Russian

mercenaries. A year later, their

families press for the truth

By Irina Gordienko 36

Moral Visionary

Honoring the legacy of

Toni Morrison

By Tayari Jones 40

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VOL. 194, NO. 6 | 2019

△

Morrison visits

the University of

Mississippi in 1985

for a conference on

William Faulkner

Photograph by

William R. Ferris

Collection—Wilson

Library/UNC

Chapel Hill

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