vol. 185, no. 22 | 2015

4 Conversation

BRIEFING

5 Verbatim

6 LightBox
The observatory at
One World Trade
Center opens

8 World
FIFA’s Sepp Blatter
resigns; a ferry
disaster in China;
Turkey’s elections;
Ian Bremmer on the
Iran deal

12 United States
Cities are seeing a rise
in crime

13 Small Business
Marketers find the
value in facial analysis

14 Tech
Big tech companies
seek to innovate with
new office designs

15 Health
Snoring isn’t the
only symptom of
sleep apnea

16 Milestones
Farewell to Beau
Biden; Dennis Hastert
indicted

COMMENTARY

17 Viewpoint
Martin Feldstein on
the long-term trouble
with low interest
rates

FEATURES

18 Refugees Adrift
The Rohingya fleeing persecution in Burma
by boat are finding themselves unwanted
elsewhere in Asia by Hannah Beech

23 Lifting the Curtain
FIFA graft probes and Switzerland’s effort to
reform its secrecy laws by Simon Shuster

24 Fear and Prejudice
Uganda’s gay-rights activists are fighting
the government’s plan to enact another
homophobic law by Aryn Baker

32 Hooked
How powerful painkillers created an
epidemic in the U.S. by Massimo Calabresi

40 In the Arena
Democrats Martin O’Malley and Bernie
Sanders challenge Hillary Clinton
by Joe Klein

THE CULTURE

42 Second Acts
How celebrities
like Gwyneth
Paltrow, Jessica Alba
and Blake Lively
are reinventing
themselves as
domestic divas

45 Movies
Melissa McCarthy
takes smart gender
commentary
undercover in the
espionage spoof Spy

46 Books
Two new books
on the glutenfree
trend seek to
separate the fad from
the facts

48 Pop Chart
Quick Talk with
R&B singer Jason
Derulo; new baby
names; a Lego hotel
opens in Florida;
Neverland Ranch
for sale

50 The Awesome
Column
Joel Stein talks back
to talking gadgets

52 10 Questions
Former U.S. First
Lady Barbara Bush