1
ON THE COVER:
Photograph
by Hans Peter
Stiebing—
Ullstein Bild/
Getty Images2 | 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
Congresswoman21 | Ian Bremmer on
populism’s return to
Argentina21 | Nintendo
chief Shuntaro
Furukawa on the
entertainment
company’s futureTime Off
What to watch, read,
see and do
43 | Martin
Scorsese’s
masterwork,
The Irishman46 | Movies:
A disintegrating
Marriage Story;
an ambitious
Motherless
Brooklyn; and an
iconic Harriet48 | TV: A-listers in
The Morning Show;
live at The Apollo;
and a lively His
Dark Materials50 | Books:
Exploding twins
and a fantasy epic52 | 8 Questions for
playwright David
Henry HwangFeatures
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 29When 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 36Till Debt Do Us Part
The rise of financial therapy
for married couples
By Belinda Luscombe 38
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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 1989Photograph by
Nanna Heitmann—
Magnum Photos
for TIME