Newsweek back issues from April 2009:
The Columbine Generation.(Entertainment; ESSAY)(Essay)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh A decade later, the school shooting is still causing collateral damage. Just before noon on April 20, 1999, high-school students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 kids and one teacher before killing themselves. We all remember, and ...
Obama's Nobel Headache.(Business; COVER STORY: THE ECONOMY)(Paul Krugman's criticism iof Barack Obama and his economic policy)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Evan Thomas; With Pat Wingert, Daniel Stone, Michael Hirsh and Dina Fine Maron Paul Krugman has emerged as Obama's toughest liberal critic. He's deeply skeptical of the bank bailout and pessimistic about the economy. Why the establishment worries he may be right. ...
The Education of Timothy Geithner.(Business; COVER STORY: WASHINGTON)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Michael Hirsh For weeks he's looked like a deer in the headlights, flubbing speeches and rattling markets. But the Treasury chief retains the support of his boss--and he's starting to hit his stride. Tim Geithner can't stop smiling and laughing--he's actually ...
A Few Rays Of Hope.(Business; INSIDE BUSINESS)(United States economy)
Apr 06, 2009 ... Economy: The stock market is up. Housing numbers are improving. But NEWSWEEK's Business Roundtable doesn't see a bottom yet--and gives mixed reviews to Obama's early moves to fix things. Confidence Is the Key to a Turnaround Mark Zandi, chief economist, Moody's ...
Mad Man.(Business; MARKETING)(Arnell Group's Peter Arnell)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Daniel Lyons; With Nick Summers in New York Brand genius Peter Arnell says one design flub won't tarnish his rep. Rivals aren't so sure. It's a gray Wednesday morning and I'm chasing Peter Arnell through the streets of midtown Manhattan. We're supposed to be ...
The Peril Of Financial Linguistics.(Business; THE MONEY CULTURE)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Daniel Gross Apparently, 'legacy' derives from an ancient root meaning 'it wasn't my fault and I should still get a bonus this year.' In his timeless 1946 essay, "Politics And the English Language," George Orwell condemned political rhetoric as a tool used ...
Laments From a Fearless Laureate.(Business; THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL)(Paul Krugman's works)
Apr 06, 2009 ... Krugman savaged Bush, but his twice-weekly criticisms of Obama's team and its economic plans are just as pointed. It was just two decades ago that Paul Krugman's writing was aimed at the handful of Ph.D. readers who subscribe to the Journal of Development Economics. But in the ...
Rage Against the Art Gene.(Darwinism)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Jeremy McCarter Darwin revolutionized our understanding of mankind's origins. Now scientists think they can apply his theories to the source of our creativity without it sounding like a lot of monkey business. The notion that the origin of the arts-- crowning ...
The Texas-Size Debate Over Teaching Evolution.(; CULTURE)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Sure, discuss Darwin's 'strengths and weaknesses.' Just not in biology textbooks. Mention the name "Texas" and the word "schoolbook" to many people of a certain age (such as my own) and the resulting free association will come up with the word "depository" and the image of Lee ...
Uncle Sam Wants You to Open Your Wallet.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Apr 06, 2009 ... 'I Want YOU to Start Spending!': Readers were skeptical of the March 23 cover recommendation that spending more would improve the economy. Easier said than done, many wrote. One reader, whose husband's salary was cut, said spending more isn't an option right now. "I hope your words reach ...
The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Jon Meacham During a Democratic fundraiser at the Warner Theatre near the White House last Thursday night, the president offered one of his periodic--and true--assessments of the vicissitudes of the culture of the capital. "I know that in Washington sometimes it's easy ...
Spring Brain Training.(Columnist; THE LAST WORD)(baseball trivia)(Column)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: George F. Will In which we solve the mystery of how a team hit into a triple play without any fielder touching the ball. Spring training for a fan requires limbering up that lobe of the brain devoted to baseball arcana. Not "baseball trivia." Nothing about ...
The Return of the Baathists.(International; IRAQ)(Saleh al-Mutlaq)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Larry Kaplow For years this man has spoken out for members of Saddam's old party. Now Iraqis are listening. Grinning with vindication, Saleh al-Mutlaq says he knew this day would come. For years the amiable, disheveled parliamentarian, now 61, has been the ...
Hello, Cleveland!(Entertainment; MUSIC)(James Hetfield)(Interview)
Apr 06, 2009 ... Metallica rocks and rolls into the hall of fame. Metallica has already received the ultimate pop-culture seal of approval: a guest-starring role on an episode of "The Simpsons." On April 4, the thrash-metal band takes another step toward the mainstream when it is inducted into ...
Digital Dad Versus the Dinosaurs.(My Turn)(Barry Bingham, Jr.)
Apr 06, 2009; ... My father, a third-generation newspaper publisher, warned of the industry's demise. None of us listened. Sometimes, being right hurts the most. I imagine that's how my father, Barry Bingham Jr., would have felt about the crisis that could end America's golden age of print ...
Caught In the Act Of Thinking.(Nation; BETWEEN THE LINES)(Barack Obama)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Jonathan Alter Obama is following Roosevelt's approach of making early down payments on big ideas. Mid-tweet in last week's press conference, reporters were already complaining that President Obama wasn't making news. And by the old standards, they were ...
An Awkward Obituary.(Nation; THE MEDIA)(Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Kurt Soller ***** Correction: In "An Awkward Obituary" (APRIL 6), we failed to properly attribute a quote from a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter. The quote, "A little bit of the enamel ground off my teeth on that flight," was given to a reporter at ...
Say Hello to Emily's Cello.(Newsmakers; Q&A)(Emily Blunt)(Interview)
Apr 06, 2009 ... In "Sunshine Cleaning," Emily Blunt's job is even worse than being an assistant at a certain fashion magazine. She scrubs up bloody crime scenes. She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Hi, Emily. Hi. And I now have my mouth full of a bar I'm eating. A bar of what? ...
Hollywood's New Odd Couples.(Newsmakers)(Hollywood weddings)(Brief article)
Apr 06, 2009 ... Someone must've poured love potion in the Hollywood punch bowl, because everybody's getting married this spring. It's one thing to be a blushing bride, but some of these newlyweds should be ashamed: (1) Tom Brady and his Mrs. Brady, Gisele, already got hitched in February. Now they're ...
Perspectives.(Perspectives)
Apr 06, 2009 ... "This will be seen as tacit acceptance of the president's abortion views." New York GOP Rep. Peter King, on the news that Notre Dame University, his alma mater, will give President Obama an honorary degree when he delivers the Catholic school's commencement address in May ...
There's Plenty Of Blame For All.(Periscope; CHINA)(China on United States economy)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Melinda Liu The latest recession-fueled outburst of America-bashing in China might worry Washington, but it's even scarier to the rulers in Beijing. Millions of ordinary Chinese are in trouble, and they're asking why their government is continuing to prop up the United ...
A Detainee Dilemma.(Periscope; GITMO)(Shaker Aamer and the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball The case of a Guantanamo detention-camp detainee named Shaker Aamer, an alleged former associate of Osama bin Laden, has evolved into a perfect example of the dilemmas facing the Obama administration as it tries to shutter the facility: is Aamer truly ...
A Gun Ban Gets Shot Down.(Periscope; POLITICS)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now the second member of President Obama's cabinet to get shot down by the White House over the politically sensitive issue of assault weapons. After meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Clinton said that ...
Let Me Share My Top-Secret Plan.(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(dubious behavior)(Brief article)
Apr 06, 2009 ... A weekly mathematical survey of a dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go. RNC chair Michael Steele says his feeble apology for daring to cross Rush Limbaugh was "all strategic." Score: 11 Top GOP Rep. Eric Cantor blows ...
Apocalypse Then And Now.(Periscope)('Hearts and Minds')(Interview)
Apr 06, 2009 ... FAST CHAT When Peter Davis's account of the Vietnam era, "Hearts and Minds," won the Oscar for best documentary at the 1975 Academy Awards, coproducer Bert Schneider took the podium and read a telegram from the Viet Cong delegation to the Paris Peace Accords. Bob Hope, the host ...
Clawback Joe Edition.(Periscope; CONVENTIONAL WISDOM)(AIG executive pay)(Brief article)
Apr 06, 2009 ... As the congressional fever to tax AIG bonuses fades, let's not forget the Brooklyn guy who caused the crisis and still has his dough. Obama UP-First prez to host online video chat, and the big question is about weed. Talk about wasted. J. Gregg SIDEWAYS-Old CW: Wants ...
South of the Border.(Periscope; A CW LOOK AT MEXICO'S DRUG WAR)(Brief article)
Apr 06, 2009 ... Kidnappings in Phoenix, gun battles in Tucson, 6,000 deaths in Mexico last year alone: the drug trade is out of control. Now what? H. Clinton UP-Says American guns, drug demand are fueling Mexican violence. Accion, por favor. F. Calderon SIDEWAYS-Wonders aloud about a ...
'There's No Glass Ceiling For People Who Are Good'.(Periscope)(Obituary)
Apr 06, 2009 ... TRANSITION John Hope Franklin, 94 Author and Historian Born into a world of segregation and a history of race written by whites, Franklin made himself into a great public intellectual-- a bespoke black historian who put African-Americans on even ground in ...
The Other Love Guv.(Periscope; CLOSURE)(Jim McGreevey)(Brief article)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Eliza Gray In the mass-media age, news stories captivate us, then vanish. We revisit those stories to bring you the next chapter. Starting Point Aug. 12, 2004: New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey announces his resignation and confesses to an adulterous ...
No, Really, You Shouldn't Have.(Periscope; DIPLOMACY)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Katie Connolly and Holly Bailey In the world of international diplomacy, small missteps can cause big problems. When George W. Bush gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel a quick shoulder rub--in what he thought was a friendly gesture--he was mercilessly pilloried for ...
Michael Chabon.(Periscope; A LIFE IN BOOKS)(Brief article)
Apr 06, 2009 ... The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" is blessed with literary chops and a Hollywood touch. The film version of "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," Chabon's 1988 debut novel, hits theaters on April 4. His picks: My Five Most Important Books ...
One 'Everlasting Moment': A Picture Within A Picture.(Periscope; WORTH YOUR TIME)(Movie review)(Brief article)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Malcolm Jones Visual acuity is at the heart of "Everlasting Moments," the beautiful new film by Sweden's Jan Troell ("The Emigrants"). Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen) is the working-class wife of an abusive drunk. After winning a camera in a lottery, she stumbles on her ...
A Gamble On Art Doesn't Hit Jackpot.(Periscope; LAS VEGAS)(Las Vegas Museum of Art)(Brief article)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Steve Friess It was always an odd combination: Sin City and serious art. A decade ago, Las Vegas was full of brio about becoming the next Miami--a cultural mecca and art-tourism destination. But with the closure of the Las Vegas Museum of Art in February, the desert ...
No Rest For An AIDS Veteran.(Periscope; HEALTH MATTERS)(Patricia Nalls)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Claudia Kalb Three percent of D.C. residents are living with HIV or AIDS. Three quarters of them are black. When the District of Columbia's health department released its shocking statistics in March--3 percent of the city's residents have HIV or AIDS--one ...
Dial 9 to Speak With An Imbecile.(Periscope; PAGE TURNER)(Brief article)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Matthew Philips After death, taxes and inclement weather, it's one of life's most inescapable downers: the customer-service call. Getting help can be an automated hell, an eternity of Muzak, code punching and security questions. Which is why the title of Emily Yellin's ...
Watching For Supreme Surprises.(Periscope; THE VERDICT)(Supreme Court)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Institutional penchants for privacy and drama mean there is rarely warning of big news. Washington is obsessed with the Supreme Court right now, scrutinizing every judicial cough and comment for hidden evidence of illness or retirement plans, in the manner of New Yorkers on the ...
The Myth of Early Detection.(Society; ON SCIENCE)(cancer screening)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Sharon Begley The (false) message that cancer screening cuts mortality is 'in our bone marrow.' Talk about missing the point. In the fortnight since two studies, taken together, showed that the PSA test for prostate cancer does not decrease mortality from ...
A Ceasefire in the Culture War.(Society; OPINION)(Barack Obama's domestic policy)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Lisa Miller By making 'abortion reduction' a priority, Obama courts his frenemies. How does a democratic, pro-choice president avoid engaging in a culture war? This is the question that faces Barack Obama as he begins to shape his domestic policy. His ...
Tales of a Modern Diva.(Society)(vanity; early obsession with beauty)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Jessica Bennett; With Aku Ammah-Tagoe Call it the high-maintenance generation. How our obsession with beauty is changing our kids. There's a scene in "Toddlers & Tiaras," the TLC reality series, where 2-year-old Marleigh is perched in front of a mirror, ...
Stealth Health For Kids.(Society; HEALTH)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Sarah Kliff Forget banning junk. Try 'X-ray vision carrots.' What's the best way to make sure a kid eats an apple? Ask him if he wants one. It's really that simple, according to a recent Yale University study in which cafeteria workers asked students if they ...
Poehler's Opposites.(Entertainment; TELEVISION)(Amy Poehler's Parks and Recreation)
Apr 06, 2009; ... Byline: Joshua Alston If you take your comedy as seriously as your politics, the 'SNL' alum's new sitcom is for you. Of all the television characters to emerge in the era of Obama, none captures the zeitgeist quite like Leslie Knope. Leslie, the central character of ...
A Walk In The Dark.(Entertainment; BOOKS)('Don't Cry' and 'Pygmy')(Book review)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Seth Colter Walls Mary Gaitskill doesn't do pretty, but her new stories are still gorgeous. Like all underground art movements, the world of "transgressive fiction" comes with a built-in defense against critical scrutiny. If you appear not to dig the ...
Saturn was Supposed To Save GM.(Business; BUSINESS: THE AUTO INDUSTRY)(Saturn Corp. and General Motors Corp.)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Paul Ingrassia; With Julie Halpert In Detroit Instead, GM crushed Saturn. Here's how. It's hard to remember a time when the top man at GM was the most celebrated industrialist in America, maybe even the world. But that was the case on Jan. 8, 1985, when Roger ...
'There Will Be Bankruptcies'.(International)(Oleg Deripaska)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova A year ago he was Russia's richest oligarch. Now he's a warning to the others. Oleg Deripaska had no time for empty formalities. By his 40th birthday he had risen to be the wealthiest man in Russia, with a $44 billion global ...
A Message of Hope From a Pile of Bones.(International; AFRICA)(John Rucyahana)
Apr 13, 2009; ... If Rwanda can recover, says an Anglican bishop, others can, too. Rwanda is one of the most enchanting places on earth--and one of the most haunted. With its rolling hills and lush greenery, it could easily pass for paradise--if not for memories of 1994. Fifteen years ago, on ...
Slouching Toward Fatherhood.(My Turn)(Essay)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Joel Schwartzberg; Schwartzberg is a writer and PBS producer living in Montclair, N.J. I thought being a dad would come easily to me. But soon after my son's birth, I was looking for a way out. Nearly every night of the first few weeks of my son's life, I'd ...
The End of Christian America.(Nation; RELIGION)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Jon Meacham; With Eliza Gray The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now--and what, as a nation, we are about to become. It was a small detail, a point of comparison ...
Suddenly Seeking Specter.(Nation; POLITICS)(Arlen Specter)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Katie Connolly and Daniel Stone Why both parties have to be super-nice to a senator who can be kind of prickly. In his 28 years in the Senate, Arlen Specter has been accused of many things. Some of his Republican colleagues grouse in private that he is ...
What Else Are We Wrong About?(Nation; THE BIG IDEA)(Column)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Homeownership encourages longer commutes. And at least one study says it makes you fat and unhappy. A lot of premises have turned out to be wrong lately. I'm not talking about evanescent bits ofaconventional wisdom, but about overarching assumptions that were widely shared ...
What Was That About?(Nation; LIVING POLITICS)(Judd Gregg)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Howard Fineman Only two months ago, Sen. Judd Gregg embodied a new spirit of bipartisanship in Washington. To the surprise of everyone (and the dismay of his Republican colleagues), he cut a deal to join Barack Obama's cabinet. The president, Gregg said last week, ...
Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
Apr 13, 2009 ... "If there's just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy, that's an easier negotiation. But that's not the world we live in, and it shouldn't be the world we live in." President Obama, during a news conference with the international media at the G20 conference ...
Bracing For Blago's Trial.(Periscope; JUSTICE)(Rod Blagojevich)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Michael Isikoff Rod Blagojevich's run as Illinois governor may be over, but the political fallout from his 16-count corruption indictment last week is just beginning. Blago's trial is likely to feature a number of high-profile figures, including White House chief of ...
Mehsud's Pals In High Places.(Periscope; PAKISTAN)(Baitullah Mehsud)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Mark Hosenball Baitullah Mehsud, the brazen jihadist operating along the violent, lawless border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, has a curious gift for escape. On several occasions over the past couple of years, security forces in Pakistan have launched operations to ...
The Best Waterboarding in the Caribbean!(Periscope; THE DIGNITY INDEX)(Brief article)
Apr 13, 2009 ... A weekly survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of 1 to 100, just how low a person can go. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, the latest tax headache for Team Obama, pays $8,000 in back taxes and interest two days before her confirmation hearings as HHS secretary ....
Mark-To-Market My Words.(Periscope; CHEAT SHEET)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Matthew Philips To most people, it's an arcane accounting rule. But to bankers, it's the whole ballgame: "mark to market" pricing is the practice of requiring banks to value their assets based on their current market value. Not what banks paid for those assets ...
The Senator Who Saw This Coming.(Politics; FAST CHAT)(Interview)
Apr 13, 2009 ... Future historians rummaging through the archives of the Washington Monthly might stumble upon a chilling article about a coming "financial conflagration -- [E]very taxpayer in the country is on the line." The author was not some alarmist wacko, but a U.S. senator. And the year was not ...
Take Me Out Edition.(Periscope; A CW LOOK AT THE 2009 BASEBALL SEASON)(Brief article)
Apr 13, 2009 ... Change is the watchword for the sport this year, and it's more than just the switch from Moneyball to Recession Ball. Aging vets down--Pedro, Big Hurt can't find jobs; Gary Sheffield dumped, one HR shy of 500 (but Mets pounce) Young studs up--Phenom Tim Lincecum is ...
A (Designer) Dog's Life.(Society)(Essay)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Suzanne Smalley If the Obamas choose a hybrid, unethical breeders will try to cash in--and puppies are likely to suffer. The White County sheriff's department noticed the stench from a mile up the road. By the time rescuers entered the series of sheds in ...
Free At Last.(Technology; ENVIRONMENT & LEADERSHIP)(energy independence)(Essay)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Fareed Zakaria How to achieve genuine energy independence. Energy independence sounds like such a great idea. If only we could be free -- of what, exactly? The single biggest energy exporter to the U.S. is Canada. And even the petrostates we don't like have to ...
Our Tanks Are On Full.(Technology; DRILL, BABY, DRILL)(Viewpoint essay)
Apr 13, 2009; ... The energy crisis is an artificial one, created by bad policies. For the past 30 years, America has grown increasingly dependent upon foreign sources of energy, sending American dollars to countries that are hostile to American interests and leaving us vulnerable to wild ...
Pulling The Plug On Oil.(Technology; CONSERVATION)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Steven Chu; Chu, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, is the U.S. Secretary of Energy. Buy a hybrid, join a carpool. Why we should consume less. It's no accident that we've become dependent on oil, which is one of the highest energy-density fuels found ...
It's Still The Motor City.(Technology; BEYOND THE BAILOUT)(Michigan)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Jennifer M. Granholm; Granholm is the governor of Michigan. Even as automobiles go electric, Michigan wants to build them. In the 20th Century, the road to the American Dream began in Michigan. Our state not only put the nation on wheels, but well-paying jobs ...
The Lioness In Spring.(Technology; POLITICS)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Michael Hirsh A kinder, gentler Carol Browner is backing Obama's green agenda. Carol Browner is in a better place than she was a decade ago. Back in the '90s, Browner was the agitator on the ramparts, the true-blue protege of Mr. Environment himself--Al Gore ....
GETTING RID OF 'GREEN'.(Technology; INTERVIEW)(Tom Friedman )(Interview)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Sharon Begley Why columnist Tom Friedman thinks we're dumb about energy. In his bestselling book "Hot, Flat, and Crowded," New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman argues that countries that pioneer renewable-energy technologies will increase their national ...
Grey's Anatomy.(Entertainment; TELEVISION)('Grey Gardens' and 'The Surreal Life')(Television program review)
Apr 13, 2009; ... Byline: Steve Daly Before reality TV, before dysfunction became chic, there were the Beales of 'Grey Gardens.' If a bizarrely dysfunctional family chooses to bare itself on camera--perhaps without grasping how bizarre they are--who's the most screwed-up party? The ...