Recently added articles from Newsweek:
The Capitalist Manifesto.(Letters)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Fareed Zakaria reminds us that no economic system is perfect, so we cannot always expect a bump-free ride. Katherine Mancuso, Incline Village, Nev. The freeloading lemmings are marching toward the cliff and taking the rest of us with them. We need less government ...
Theocracies Are Doomed. Thank God.(The Editor's Desk)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Jon Meacham For years American conversation about Iraq has included a refrain about how we cannot expect to create a Jeffersonian democracy on the Euphrates. The admonition is true: if you think about it, America itself is not really a Jeffersonian democracy either (we ...
Gitmo North? Bring it On.(Scope; My Turn)(Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Two Rivers Detention Center )
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Greg Smith; Smith is the Executive Director of the Two Rivers Authority. In 2004, the state of Montana was faced with overcrowded prisons. With the endorsement of our then governor, Judy Martz, the Two Rivers Authority, the -economic--development arm of the town of ...
Kathryn Bigelow: Road Warrior.(Movies)(The Hurt Locker )(Movie review)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Jennie Yabroff Just before dawn one July morning, Kathryn Bigelow was setting up a shot for The Hurt Locker in the Jordanian desert. The movie follows an Explosive Ordnance Disposal bomb technician, one of the hundred or so soldiers in Iraq who dismantle roadside IEDs ...
Donald Ducks the Truth.(Books)(By His Own Rules: The Story of Donald Rumsfeld )(Book review)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Fred Kaplan; Kaplan is Slate's national-security columnist and author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed. Donald Rumsfeld may be the most tarnished figure from the George W. Bush administration--his theories of warfare discredited, his swagger undercut, his managerial ...
Speak Softly And Carry--.(Television)(Hung)(Television program review)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Joshua Alston In "Impossible to Tell," former poet laureate Robert Pinsky refers to "the rude, full-scale joke, impossible to tell in writing." Hung, a new HBO dramedy, is that kind of rude, full-scale joke. It stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a high-school basketball ...
Neil's Blu-Plate Special.(Music)(Neil Young)(Video recording review)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Seth Colter Walls Neil Young is a pain in the ass. A brilliant one, but a pain nonetheless. When the initial volume of his long-promised Archives landed on my desk in the form of 10 Blu-ray discs, my first thought was "Wow." My second thought was "I don't have a Blu-ray ...
Living With The Dead.(Culture)(Najaf's vast cemetery)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Larry Kaplow; With Hassan Al-Jarrah in Najaf Gaze over the road circling the Iraqi city of Najaf's compact center and it's clear that this spiritual capital of Shiite Islam is first and foremost a vast cemetery. Shiite forefather Imam Ali is said to have been buried here ...
Trent Reznor.(Music)(Interview)(Brief article)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Long known as one of rock's angriest men, the Nine Inch Nails frontman is engaged to be married and is planning to put his band on hiatus after a summer tour. He spoke with NEWSWEEK'S Seth Colter Walls about life after angst. YOUR COMEBACK HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL, BOTH CRITICALLY ...
The Supreme Leader.(International; COVER STORY)(Ayatollah Ali Khamenei)(Cover story)
Jun 29, 2009; ... "They are not going to answer your greeting," begins a poem that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, knows well, and loved once. "Nobody is going to raise his head to answer a question or to see a friend." The verse was written in the time of the shah, in the 1950s, when ...
Hey, Small Spender.(Business)(China's economy)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Rana Foroohar Are Chinese consumers ready to save the world by finally taking their place alongside profligate American shoppers? A glance at the sales numbers seems to indicate they are. While U.S. consumers stayed home fretting over their depressed home values and ...
Reagan Was Wrong.(Politics)(Cassandra Henry Fairlie)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Jeremy McCarter To conservative Cassandra Henry Fairlie, republicans sowed their present-day destruction from the start. When Henry Fairlie came to America, the editors of this magazine deemed his arrival sufficiently momentous to run a page-long story about ...
Why Do We Rape, Kill and Sleep Around?(Science)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Sharon Begley; With Jeneen Interlandi The fault, dear Darwin, lies not in our ancestors, but in ourselves. Among scientists at the university of New Mexico that spring, rape was in the air. One of the professors, biologist Randy Thornhill, had just coauthored ...
Theocracy and its Discontents.(International; COVER STORY)(Cover story)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria We are watching the fall of Islamic theocracy in Iran. I don't mean by this that the Iranian regime is about to collapse. It may--I certainly hope it will--but repressive regimes can stick around for a long time. We are watching the failure of the ideology ...
Perspectives.(Scope)(Quotation)(Brief article)
Jun 29, 2009 ... '[It's] like a parent giving his son a bigger, faster car right after he crashed the family station wagon.' Sen. CHRIS DODD,on a proposal to give the Federal Reserve more power to regulate the financial system. 'He does not need people to bring him women -- He could ...
Africa: Fights Off the Flu.(Scope; InternationaList)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Andrew Bast The World Health Organization recently declared swine flu a global pandemic, but to the bafflement of epidemiologists, the H1N1 virus has left an entire continent almost completely untouched. Of the world's 35,000 confirmed cases, fewer than three dozen have ...
China's Leaky Dam.(Scope; InternationaList)(Green Dam)(Brief article)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Mary Hennock Rest easy, bill Gates: Microsoft's soft-ware dominance seems safe enough from Chinese rivals, at least if their recent ineptitude is any guide. Beijing's IT ministry was forced to backpedal last week after a storm of public mockery over its decision to ...
Crime and Publicity in Italy.(Scope; InternationaList)(Amanda Knox)(Brief article)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Barbie Nadeau The saga of Amanda Knox, the American student currently on trial in Perugia, Italy, for the murder of her British roommate, has garnered plenty of headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. And as the courtroom battle continues, a parallel public-relations ...
A Royal Headache in Britain.(Scope; InternationaList)(Prince Charles )(Brief article)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: William Underhill Prince Charles is no fan of modernist architecture--last year he referred to a new lecture hall at the University of Essex as a "dustbin." The latest target of his ire: a $5 billion, 13-acre steel-and-glass complex meant for the Chelsea Barracks site in ...
Obama Closes Doors on Openness.(Scope)(public transparency)
Jun 29, 2009; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act ...