Maziar Bahari is a Newsweek reporter, a documentary filmmaker, a playwright, author, artist and, since June 21, a prisoner being held in Iran without ...
James Warren | Posted 08.12.2009 | Media
Attorney General Eric Holder might not heed what seems to be the White House preference not to look back and investigate allegations of Bush-approved torture of detainees and enemy combatants.
Emptywheel | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...
Jim Luce | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York
Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
Here are some issues that need to be resolved to get the romance between evolutionary psychology and the public media back on the right track.
Newsweek | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
Among the dozens of people arrested overnight in Tehran was NEWSWEEK reporter Maziar Bahari, who has covered Iran for the magazine for over a decade. ...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
With each new day of demonstrations comes an erosion of the Supreme Leader's power and moreover, an erosion of the system's legitimacy, which is partly based on the Supreme Leader's infallibility.
Wall Street Journal | RUSSELL ADAMS | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
Washington Post Co.'s Newsweek will cut an issue this summer, a spokesman for the magazine said, in another sign of the deteriorating advertising clim...
Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 07.16.2009 | Style
Remember Imelda Marcos? The woman who was the epitome of despotic greed, proudly showing off her walk-in wardrobe of 3000 pairs of shoes?
Rebecca Booth, MD | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
Many women may benefit from hormone therapy. But treatment needs to be supervised by someone who can give women information in a fair and educated manner.
James Warren | Posted 07.15.2009 | Media
This may be a golden era of betrayal. Bernie Madoff, Eliot Spitzer, Chris Brown, Rod Blagojevich, Alex Rodriguez and Mel Gibson are among the liars and cheats who've hurt their biggest fans and chums the most.
Dan Brown | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media
Obsessive focus on cleaning house and demanding expecting superhuman performance misses a larger point.
Dr. John Grohol | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media
Perhaps it never occurred to Oprah that nobody is paying much attention to the likes of Somers or McCarthy because their story is a bunch of malarkey based upon anecdotes and stories.
Dan Brown | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media
Scoring high on Newsweek's top US high schools Index has created an incentive for schools to push students who have no shot at passing the exams into high-intensity classes.
Claire Shipman and Katty Kay | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media
Whatever case the reporters were trying to make about Oprah, it would have helped them tremendously to have done it in a dignified manner.
Daily Finance | Jeff BercoviciJun 8th 2009 at 11:30AM | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
For its current issue, Newsweek tried something new, bringing in Stephen Colbert as its first-ever guest editor. But for the issue's cover, it resorte...
Newsweek | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
I wanted to find the answers. So when Jon Meacham asked me to guest-edit NEWSWEEK, I jumped at the chance, particularly because my guest editorship at...
James Warren | Posted 07.08.2009 | Media
It's been a tough week for Oprah. First a terrific Newsweek cover underscored her penchant to legitimize wacky medical claims on her show. Now June 22 Forbes dethrones her as the "most powerful celebrity."
Lee Schneider | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media
Oprah does cover some fringe stuff that is wacky and sometimes wrong. But I think she's right to do it. Here's why.
New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
In the two weeks since Newsweek has redesigned, the magazine's editors have sent out a statement that they intend to sever any and all connection to t...
Newsweek | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Power and public discourse in the Islamic Republic are dominated by fewer than two dozen heavyweights, ranging from ayatollahs to entertainers (and on...
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...
Newsweek | Robert J. Samuelson | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
When the trustees of Social Security and Medicare recently reported on the economic outlook for these programs, the news coverage was universally glum...
Newsweek | Fareed Zakaria | Posted 06.23.2009 | World
verything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could w...
Nicholas Carlson | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media
We asked Newsweek CEO Tom Ascheim -- whose magazine re-launched today -- to explain how his competitor does it. He gave us three reasons for The Economist's success.
Washington Post | Jon Meacham | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media