Let Us Now Bash Robin Williams
Who is Sarah Ball and why is she saying awful things about Emo Phillips? And, why is she not saying awful things about Robin Williams?
Who is Sarah Ball and why is she saying awful things about Emo Phillips? And, why is she not saying awful things about Robin Williams?
Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Sarah Palin blew into Grand Rapids with all the stagecraft (and subtlety) of Lady Gaga, pulling up in a bus ensconced with the cover photo from her book, down to her glossy lips and heavenward gaze.
Ari Melber | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
Political journalism is often imaginative, but a Newsweek article about tax cuts by a former aide to George W. Bush verges on delusion.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
Sarah Palin took to Facebook Monday night to declare the Newsweek cover depicting her in runner's shorts as "sexist." In a Facebook note to her almos...
John Jeter | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books
Governor Mark Sanford -- the man who has confused the Appalachian Trail with Argentina and still holds public office writes about the Objectivist Philosopher.
Justin R. Rattner | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology
Despite one of the deepest recessions in history, Americans have an undiminished faith in technology and innovation as the primary engines of economic growth.
John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
If all the print publications in the U.S. alone were to eliminate inserts, how much would that reduce carbon emissions? Think of the deforestation it could prevent.
Marshall Fine | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
A year later, it's a bittersweet experience watching Amy Rice and Alicia Sams' documentary, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premieres on Tuesday on HBO.
Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
If America believes it needs not just a public option, but a public necessity, more Americans will have to get up off the couch and go get it.
Newsweek | Jon Meacham | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media
To the base, the White House looks tough, willing to hit back--all while the base is getting few of the substantive reforms it has fought for. I am no...
Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...
Jim Selman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Positive thinking tends to tranquilize us into a 'good feeling' about the future and blinds us to the facts of a given situation. We think our points-of-view are true -- that our 'will' can determine what happens.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media
The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players -- not to criticize the competition -- because those rules no longer apply.
Michael Shaw | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media
Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
A one-act musical written after discovering that Howard Fineman had shamelessly stolen from my Unfit story from Sept. 28.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment
Seventy years after the Lollipop Guild first sang to Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz, the actors who portrayed the Munchkins reunited. Newsweek caught up...
Tim Giago | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home
Less known in most of America, but well known to Native Americans, is the covert racism that afflicts those Americans with "red skin" as opposed to black.
newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business
Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the two giants of the industry, are still around despite causing the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars by badly r...
Cracked.com | Posted 09.26.2009 | Comedy
In case you haven't seen the ads framing Cracked.com these past few day, Family Guy starts back up tomorrow. Which is kind of strange when you conside...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York
In the first year of his first elected term, Lyndon Johnson made the presidency look easy. Landmark bills on education, health care and civil rights were flying through Congress. But he stayed out of New York politics.
David Sullivan | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Commanding four of the top five rankings in Newsweek, the electronics industry appears to be leading the way in environmental sustainability.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
In a Newsweek article, Tepperman announced that we are all dead wrong: "Nuclear weapons may not, in fact, make the world more dangerous." But it became clear there is no research to support his claim.
newsweek.com | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green
Many of the companies that finished in our Top 100 are recognized leaders in sustainability. Intel, No. 4 in NEWSWEEK's ranking, recently launched an ...
Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 11.23.2009 | Comedy