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By the People, Poliwood: Bittersweet look at 2008 election

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

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.

The Public Necessity

Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics


Tom Sullivan

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.

Jon Meacham: Fox News Attack Makes Obama Seem More Progressive Than He Really Is

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...

Just Say "No" to Adult Children Wanting Money

Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business


Don McNay

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.

MAZIAR BAHARI RELEASED: Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter On Bail

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...

Positively Stinking Thinking

Jim Selman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living


Jim Selman

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.

Memo To The Media: Fox News Is Now the Opposition Party

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media


Eric Boehlert

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.

Reading The Pictures: Nobel Slam Not Enough, Newsweek Tries To Set White House on Fire

Michael Shaw | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media


Michael Shaw

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Getting Revenge on Howard Fineman for Stealing My Idea: The Musical

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics


Josh Rosenblatt

A one-act musical written after discovering that Howard Fineman had shamelessly stolen from my Unfit story from Sept. 28.

Munchkin Reunion Video: Aging Cast Reunites To Celebrate Wizard Of Oz 70 Years After Its Release (VIDEO)

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...

Racism Against Native Americans Must Be Addressed

Tim Giago | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home


Tim Giago

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: Credit Rating Agencies Are Getting Off Easy

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...

5 Awesome Cases of The Internet Owning The MSM

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...

The Time The President Didn't Intervene

John R. Bohrer | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York


John R. Bohrer

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.

How America's Greenest Companies Can Become the Most Peaceful

David Sullivan | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green


David Sullivan

Commanding four of the top five rankings in Newsweek, the electronics industry appears to be leading the way in environmental sustainability.

Love the Bomb?

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics


Amitai Etzioni

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.

The Newsweek Green Companies List

newsweek.com | Posted 09.21.2009 | 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 ...

This Week in Magazines: Drive-Through Mastectomies and Glenn Beck Gives Us Some Tongue

James Warren | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media


James Warren

It's perfectly fitting that cable shouter Glenn Beck stuck out his tongue for the Sept. 28 Time. It nicely captures the intellectually- underwhelming, angst-ridden media phenomenon.

Robert Samuelson Cites Dodgy Numbers to Attack Health Care Reform

David Fiderer | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business


David Fiderer

By referencing dubious numbers from a tainted source, Samuelson seeks to establish a bogus equivalency. Yes, the Republicans lied about death panels, but Obama is dishonest too, he argues.

Are You Perfect?

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 09.09.2009 | Living


Dr. Susan Corso

I no longer expect myself to be perfect. Instead, I borrow the verb form of that word. I definitely expect myself to be perfecting at all times.

Take 1 Minute to Help Free Maziar Bahari

Alex Higgins | Posted 09.25.2009 | World


Alex Higgins

Following the opening of a mass show-trial of detainees, the Iranian state media have reported that Maziar has confessed to trying to overthrow the government, and you don't need me to speculate how that statement was likely procured.

This Week in Magazines: Jenny Sanford Exacts Revenge, Newsweek Provides Helpful Alien Advice

James Warren | Posted 09.23.2009 | Media


James Warren

Some jilted lovers don't get mad, they get even. Jenny Sanford, wife of the South Carolina governor, decided to get Anna Wintour.

Jason Linkins

Newsweek's Alter Accuses the "Angry" Left Of Forsaking The "Moral Core" Of Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media


Today, on MSNBC, the notion of "moral obligation" was offered both as a central driving principle behind reform -- and as a brickbat against the "angry" left, and their pursuit of a public option.

Hate Speech

Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media


Jim Lichtman

Apparently, executives at Fox do not know the difference between opinion and hate speech.

Decline Can Make Britain a Better Country

Alex Higgins | Posted 09.11.2009 | World


Alex Higgins

There is a distinct lack of enthusiasm for attempting to govern other parts of the world by force, let alone envy of the global superpower.