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Editor’s letter
My dog, Teddy, is depressed. A beagle-pug mix who usu-
ally bounds onto beds and couches with the power and grace
of Baryshnikov, he pulled a muscle or strained a tendon while
springing into my car the other day, and is hobbling. He’s 10,
the age at which dogs’ bodies start to betray them. Am I an-
thropomorphizing in reading a perplexed sadness in Ted’s soul-
ful brown eyes, or in detecting depression in his hangdog de-
meanor and sighing exhalations? Of course not. Scientists used
to view animals as simple bundles of instincts and learned be-
haviors, but in recent years, those who closely study species such
as apes, crows, dolphins, and even octopuses have become quite
certain that our evolutionary brethren think and feel, solve prob-
lems creatively, and have inner lives of some mysterious kind.
(See Talking Points.)
In a new book,
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart
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Animals Are,
primatologist Frans de Waal argues that it’s ego-
centric for
Homo sapiens
to presume we sit at the pinnacle of
evolution, separate and apart from all other creatures. Evolution,
he says, is a continuum. The human mind did not spring into
being overnight when we began farming or writing or putting on
pants. “How could our species arrive at planning, empathy, con-
sciousness, and so on,” de Waal asks, “if we are part of a natu-
ral world devoid of any and all stepping-stones to such capaci-
ties?” Elephants and sea lions mourn their dead. Dogs and dol-
phins communicate their feelings, and empathize with their own
kind and with humans. Chimps outperform people in instantly
memorizing a series of numbers. And my dog can experience the
same kind of sadness I did when all the basketball mileage on
my knees added up, and robbed me of the ability to sprint and
leap with abandon and joy. Ted, my good buddy,
William Falk
Editor-in-chief
I know just how you feel.
NEWS
4
Main stories
Trump wins big in New
York primary; Clinton
extends her delegate lead
over Sanders
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Controversy of the week
Will the Supreme Court
overturn Obama’s
immigration orders?
The U.S. at a glance
Floods in Houston;
charges over Flint water
crisis; widespread racism
in Chicago police force
The world at a glance
Impeachment looms for
Brazil’s president; more
U.S. troops head to Iraq;
Obama lands in Riyadh
People
Jennifer Lopez’s staying
power; Hugh Laurie’s
struggle with depression
Briefing
What happens if Britain
quits the European Union?
Best U.S. columns
Our loophole-riddled
tax code needs reform;
abortion rights activists’
language problem
Best international
columns
Ecuador reels from a
devastating earthquake
Talking points
Saudi Arabia’s alleged
terrorist connections; the
octopus’s remarkable
brain; does the U.S. need
to radically slash its debt?
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Trump checks in to vote at a New York City polling station.
ARTS
24
Books
In defense of
pretentiousness
25
Author of the week
Ta-Nehisi Coates turns
to superhero comics
26
Art & Stage
The shape-shifting work
of artist Robert
Irwin
27
Film & Music
A Dublin
coming-of-
age tale with
catchy tunes;
PJ Harvey’s
protest album
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LEISURE
30
Food & Drink
Three new spots for
standout Italian fare
31
Travel
Exploring Helsinki’s
under-the-radar delights
34
Consumer
The best sites for
streaming indie movies and
foreign TV shows
BUSINESS
35
News at a glance
Intel announces big
layoffs; what new CEOs
have in common
36
Making money
Major changes to a key
Social Security strategy
38
Best columns
The swift demise of Big
Coal; keeping bankers on
their toes
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NEWS
The main stories...
New York, he had won 45 percent
of delegates with only 37 percent
of the vote, and got an even more
lopsided windfall in his home state.
A victorious Trump attacks a ‘crooked’ system
What happened
Donald Trump swept to an emphatic
victory in the New York primary this
week, as he stepped up attacks on the
GOP’s primary process as “crooked”
Trump is right to say the process is
and “rigged,” and shook up his cam-
undemocratic, said the
Los An-
paign team to better handle a possible
geles Times.
So what? “Primaries
convention battle. The billionaire
and caucuses aren’t designed as
businessman took 60 percent of the
exercises in direct democracy”—
vote in his home state; he won at least
they’re designed to help the party
89 of the 95 delegates available, while
pick a nominee “with broad-based
Ohio Gov. John Kasich picked up
support” and the best chance of
four. Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump’s nearest
winning a general election. And if
rival for the nomination, who has
delegates weren’t allowed to “switch
repeatedly denounced the billionaire’s
horses after the first round or two
“New York values,” came away with
of balloting” at the convention, the
nothing. Cruz, like Kasich, can no
possible stalemate between Trump
longer mathematically win a majority
Trump: If I don’t get the nomination, there will be ‘problems.’
and Cruz would never be broken.
of pledged delegates. Both candidates
are hoping to deny Trump a majority and then win at a contested
What the columnists said
convention, where most delegates will be free to vote for any
candidate after the first ballot. With 1,237 delegates needed to win, Trump is “preparing to be a sore loser,” said
Rich Lowry
in
and 625 still to be allocated, Trump has 845, Cruz 559, and Kasich
Politico.com.
All his whining about the delegate system is a “dress
rehearsal” for the convention, should he come up short and be
148 (with two delegates yet to be allocated in New York).
denied the nomination. Trump now realizes he’s come up against a
far superior campaign. Cruz’s success with delegates isn’t a nefari-
Trump spent much the past week complaining about the primary
ous establishment plot; it’s a testament to his impressive ability to
process, especially after Cruz won all 14 of the available delegates
“connect with and organize the party’s activists.”
at a state convention in Wyoming on Saturday. The front-runner,
who has brought in several experienced political operatives to help
Even if Trump doesn’t win a majority, “don’t assume he’s done
his campaign, railed against Cruz for getting his supporters ap-
pointed as delegates in many states. He also warned of “problems” for,” said
Andrew Prokop
in
Vox.com.
In all likelihood, the bil-
lionaire will enter the convention in Cleveland with more delegates,
if he’s denied the nomination at the July convention in Cleveland.
states, and votes than any other candidate. The delegates “won’t
“I hope it doesn’t involve violence,” he said. “I’m not suggesting
be making their decisions in a vacuum”—they’ll be under huge
that. But I will say this: It’s a rigged system, it’s a crooked system,
pressure to reflect the will of the people. The “whispers” within the
it’s 100 percent corrupt.”
party are that Trump doesn’t even need to reach 1,237 before the
convention, said
Eli Stokols
in
Politico.com.
About 200 delegates
What the editorials said
will arrive in Cleveland as free agents. If the front-runner ends up
Despite the scale of Trump’s “romp” in New York, the result
50 or even 100 short, he’ll probably be able to persuade enough of
doesn’t “significantly alter the trajectory” of the Republican race,
those unbound delegates to carry him over the line.
said
USA Today.
The reality TV star always had to do well in his
home state to keep alive his hopes of
Either way, Trump “finally appears to
reaching 1,237 delegates, and he still
What next?
be thinking strategically,” said
Doyle
“faces a narrow path.” To “clinch the
With Trump expected to clean up in next week’s
McManus
in the
Los Angeles Times.
deal,” he needs to win a substantial
Atlantic primaries, the most crucial battleground
Since he demoted his pugnacious cam-
majority of delegates in the five Atlantic
will be Indiana, on May 3, said
Tim Alberta
in
paign manager, Corey Lewandowski,
states voting next week—Pennsylvania,
NationalReview.com.
Cruz’s team has identified
and hired experienced campaign
Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut,
the Hoosier State as crucial to denying Trump
professionals Paul Manafort and Rick
and Rhode Island—and then pull off a
a majority, and they’re trying to “reapply the
Wiley, he has “stopped giving nonstop
“string of impressive victories” in Indi-
formula that worked to such devastating effect
television interviews,” started courting
ana, Nebraska, and California.
in Wisconsin. That approach—heavily focus-
”
GOP power brokers, and planned a se-
ing on big population centers and securing
ries of scripted policy speeches. He has
For a man who claims he “wants to
endorsements from the state’s most influential
also released $20 million to his team
unite the Republican Party, [Trump]
for campaigning in May—vastly more
Republicans—may not be replicable in Indiana.
keeps acting as if he’s mounting a hostile
than in any previous month. All this
But Cruz is working on Gov. Mike Pence, and
takeover,” said
The Wall Street Journal.
has prompted speculation that Trump
The party’s delegate rules are the same
plans to project “party unity against Trump”
is already “pivoting” for the general,
for everyone; Trump and his campaign
by bringing in Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina, and
said
Isaac Chotiner
in
Slate.com.
But
were simply “too lazy or inept” to learn
perhaps Mitt Romney. If Cruz can secure most or
for him to convince the electorate
them. What’s more, the front-runner
all of the state’s 57 delegates, it would “effectively
that he is “presidential,” he’d have to
has “arguably benefited more than
end [Trump’s] hopes of entering Cleveland with
change his brash, arrogant personality.
other candidates” from the convoluted
1,237 delegates.
”
“Don’t count on it.”
delegate-allocation system. Going into
THE WEEK April 29, 2016
On the cover: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman.
Illustration by Howard McWilliam.
Cover photos from Corbis (2), Everett Collection
AP
... and how they were covered
Clinton regains aura of inevitability
What happened
NEWS
5
Hillary Clinton recaptured the momen-
tum in the Democratic presidential race
this week with a resounding New York
primary victory over Sen. Bernie Sanders,
setting up potentially decisive clashes in a
string of Atlantic states next week. Clinton
won 58 percent of the vote in her home
state to 42 percent for her Brooklyn-born
 
rival. While Sanders swept upstate counties
What the columnists said
and won 67 percent of voters under 30,
Fans of Sanders argue that he’s the stronger
she crushed him in New York City and its
general election candidate, but “they’re
suburbs and overall captured 75 percent
wrong,” said
Paul Waldman
in
TheWeek
of the African-American vote, 64 percent
After a big New York win, she’s closing in.
.com.
Right now, he outpolls Clinton against
of Latinos, and 61 percent of women. The
Trump and Cruz, but that’s because Republicans haven’t attacked
result followed a run of Sanders victories and weeks of acrimoni-
him yet. If Sanders were the nominee, the GOP would paint him as
ous campaigning in which the Vermont senator hammered Clinton
an America-hating Trotskyite who admires the Castros and wants to
for giving lucrative speeches to Wall Street firms and questioned her
presidential qualifications. “The race for the Democratic nomination raise everyone’s taxes, put the government in charge of everything,
is in the home stretch,” Clinton told supporters. “Victory is in sight.” and cripple the military. By the time they’re through with him, most
Americans will think Sanders is too dangerously radical to run “their
local food co-op, let alone the U.S. government.”
Sanders remained defiantly optimistic heading into next week’s
primaries in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware,
Sanders’ odds of winning the nomination are diminishing by the
and Maryland. “We think we have a path toward victory,” he
day, said
Jeet Heer
in
NewRepublic.com.
But he “can still be
said. Clinton now has 1,428 pledged delegates to Sanders’ 1,151,
the future of the Democratic Party—if he plays his cards right.” By
with 2,383 required for the nomination. Add in superdelegates,
further damaging Clinton, he risks “being seen as a Ralph Nader–
party leaders who can vote as they please regardless of their state’s
like spoiler.” But if he works within the party, Sanders can use his
results, and her advantage grows to 1,930-1,189. To win, Clinton
needs 28 percent of the remaining delegates, while Sanders requires considerable leverage as a power broker. He has mobilized the
Left—albeit with one Achilles’ heel, Southern blacks. If a subse-
73 percent. To do that, said chief Clinton strategist Joel Benenson,
quent candidate can better pitch his economic populism to that
“he’s going to have to win massive landslides.”
crucial electoral bloc, “the future will belong to Sanders.”
peril,” said the
Chicago Tribune.
To keep
pace with her democratic socialist challenger,
Clinton has eschewed centrism and “tried
to sound like populist firebrand Elizabeth
Warren on banking issues.” She’ll likely stick
“in the left lane” in the run-up to November
to keep Sanders’ supporters onside, but that
could alienate moderates who voted for her
husband and President Obama.
What the editorials said
Sanders “has no reason to give up his fight,” said
The New York
Times.
“Yes, Clinton’s lead is nearly insurmountable, but it should
be voters who erase the ‘nearly.’” Sanders has energized young vot-
ers and forced the party to confront “issues like wealth inequality,
college tuition costs, and the toll of globalization.” Moreover, his
reliance on small donors has shown that Democrats don’t need to
play the big-money game, a welcome reminder for “the party that
first championed campaign finance reform.”
This leftward shift could put the Democrats’ “political future in
Meanwhile, Democrats are left with Clinton, in “an unpopularity
contest of unprecedented proportions,” said
Ruth Marcus
in
The
Washington Post.
When she launched her campaign last April, polls
showed Clinton’s favorables slightly ahead of her negatives. But in a
new
Wall Street Journal/NBC
News poll, 56 percent of Americans
view her unfavorably and only 32 percent favorably. Trump is even
more disliked, Cruz not far behind, and Gallup data show all three
“are more unpopular than the
losing
presidential candidate at
any
point during the past five election cycles.” That can’t be a good
omen “for the presidency to come.”
Greg Pena is a real-life Spider-
Man. The CrossFit coach was
preparing to teach a class at a Los
Gatos, Calif., gym when he heard
a loud crash and saw smoke
coming from a nearby elevated
highway. Pena leapt into action,
nimbly using a chain-link fence
to climb a 25-foot retaining wall
before pulling himself up onto the
road. An SUV had flipped, trap-
ping six people inside, including
a mother and three young kids.
Pena cut the children free from
their seat belts and helped every-
one inside to safety. “I don’t like to
be called a hero, he said. “I hope
”
anybody would’ve done this.
”
THE WEEK April 29, 2016
It wasn’t all bad
For many children in war-torn
Afghanistan, books are an unobtain-
able luxury. Saber Hosseini is trying
to change that. Six months ago, the
schoolteacher from the central city of
Bamiyan began delivering boxes of
kids’ books to remote villages on his
bicycle. His project now has 20 volun-
teers and a collection of 6,000 books—
by authors ranging from Jack London
to the Iranian poet Ferdowsi. “Every
week, we bring kids new books and
take back the old ones. Hosseini has
”
received threats from the Taliban, but
refuses to stop. “We want to keep
delivering a bit of joy.
”
Reuters, Getty
Adrianne Haslet-Davis keeps her promises. The dance
instructor was standing among the spectators at the 2013
Boston Marathon when explosions ripped through the
crowd. Haslet-Davis lost the lower part of her left leg, but
while recovering vowed she’d run the race someday. This
week she did just that.
Haslet-Davis, 35, had to
stop at the seventh mile
for an hour because her
stump began to swell up,
causing problems with her
prosthetic running blade. “I
kept thinking, ‘I can’t pull
[out].’” With the help of her
“pit crew,” she soldiered on
for an emotional finish. “If
you put your mind to some-
thing, you can get there.”
Haslet-Davis: Triumphant

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