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Why Gay Marriage is Good for America

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Andrew Sullivan - Jul. 18 (Opinion) - You can have as many debates about gay marriage as you want, and over the last 22 years of campaigning for it, I’ve had my share. You can debate theology, and the divide between church and state, the issue of procreation, the red herring of polygamy, and on and on. But what it all really comes down to is the primary institution of love. The small percentage of people who are gay or lesbian were born, as all humans are, with the capacity to love and the need to be loved. These things, above everything, are what make life worth living

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The Billion-Dollar Bank Heist

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:22:56 -0700

Newsweek - By Gary Rivlin - Jul. 10 - How the financial industry is buying off Washington.

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NPR's Toothless Defense Strategy

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Howard Kurtz - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - Steve Inskeep, A veteran National Public Radio correspondent, is calling from Cairo, having just visited a 23-year-old man with welts on his back who says the Egyptian Army tortured him. “That, to me, is a real story,” he says. At a time when he is trying to get flak jackets to his colleagues in Libya, Inskeep has little patience for charges that NPR leans to the left. “What’s important to us is the work we do,” he says. “I actually get accused of being a conservative as often as I get accused of being a liberal.” In Chicago, Ira Glass, who hosts This American Life, has used his own network’s airwaves to challenge his bosses for being timid. “Public radio is being hit with a barrage of criticism that it’s left-wing media–biased, reprehensible—and we’re doing nothing to stand up for our brand,” he tells NEWSWEEK. “They’re not responding like a multimedia organization that’s actually growing and superpopular.” These exasperated reporters are speaking out against their embattled company in what amounts to a revolt in the ranks. NPR, reeling from an undercover sting that cost the network its chief executive and a chunk of its credibility, is facing the biggest threat in its 41-year history. The House just voted 228 to 192 to eliminate the federal funding that makes up 10 to 15 percent of public-radio budgets, an effort fueled by longstanding conservative complaints about NPR’s alleged leftist leanings. But with its future on the line, NPR’s decimated management has opted for quiet diplomacy rather than a full-throated defense of one of the few news operations that is actually expanding, reaching an impressive 27 million listeners a week.

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How Ignorant Are Americans?

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Andrew Romano - Mar. 20 - NEWSWEEK gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship Test--38 percent failed. The country's future is imperiled by our ignorance.

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The Scariest Earthquake Is Yet to Come

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Simon Winchester - Mar. 13 (Opinion) - The tsunami that struck Japan was the third in a series of events that now put California at risk.

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George Clooney: 21st-Century Statesman

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By John Avlon - Feb. 20 (News Report) - In the age of Twitter-shortened attention spans, fame is an increasingly powerful weapon of diplomacy. How George Clooney is helping to bring change—and a hefty dose of hope—to Sudan.

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Shell Shocked

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Ron Moreau - Dec. 06 (Special Report) - U.S. troops aren’t the only ones in Afghanistan who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. It also afflicts Afghan civilians—and the Taliban, too.

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Anti-Defamation League Should Withdraw Award It Gave Rupert Murdoch

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Ben Adler - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - FOX News President CEO Roger Ailes called NPR a bunch of "Nazis." The Anti-Defamation League has accepted his tepid apology when the group should be calling for his resignation.

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Why Health-Care Reform Will Survive

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Wendell Potter - Nov. 05 - Conservatives who voted for congressional candidates because they pledged to repeal and replace the health-care-reform law are in for a rude awakening.

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America’s Worst Politician

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By George F. Will - Oct. 24 (Opinion) - Americans of all political persuasions can come together in affirming one proposition: Public life would be improved by scrubbing Rep. Alan Grayson from it. This act of civic hygiene probably will be performed Nov. 2 by voters of Florida’s Eighth Congressional District.

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The Immigrant Experience Gone Wrong

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Jennie Yabroff - Oct. 14 - Yosef Woldemariam came to America from Ethiopia by way of Sudan, first walking through war-ravaged villages to a port town, then stowing away on a ship in a packing crate.

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The World's Best Countries

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - Sep. 27 (Special Report) - Forget the World Cup, the Olympics, even the Miss Universe pageant. Newsweek ranks nations by economy, politics, health and quality of life, proving the globe's true national champions.

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Do Ask, Do Tell

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Eve Conant - Sep. 27 (Special Report) - Many gay veterans aim to reenlist if the controversial policy is repealed. Will they be allowed to?

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We're Safer Than We Think

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Fareed Zakaria - Sep. 11 (Opinion) - Special service police officers on duty in Times Square. Are we safer now than we were on 9/11? It sounds like a simple question, amenable to an answer or at least a serious conversation. But we are so polarized in America these days that it almost

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Prop. 19: California's Home-Grown Reefer Madness

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:23:42 -0700

Newsweek - By Jessica Bennett - Sep. 09 - Opponents of Proposition 19, the California ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana, argue that it would create a world where lackadaisical employees would show up to work with bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. But at the heart of the debate is not the morals of pot use, or even the technical issues related to consumption on the job, but the matter of cold, hard cash.

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Zakaria: Why America Overreacted to 9/11

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Fareed Zakaria - Sep. 04 (Editorial) - Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden’s terror network has been unable to launch a single

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Is China's Xinhua the Future of Journalism?

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Isaac Stone Fish,Tony Dokoupil - Sep. 04 (Editorial) - For decades Xinhua has been an unavoidable presence in China. It has a monopoly on official news and the regulatory power to complicate life for other media outfits. But as China has grown in wealth and international stature, Beijing has tired of feeling overlooked or maligned by the Western press.

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Newsweek: A more subtle oppression in Iran?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Ravi Somaiya - Sep. 03 (News) - The world's attention may have wandered from Iran, but recent reports from the country reveal a government that is as willing as ever to suppress dissent, and a judiciary that still plans to kill a woman saved from a stoning sentence last month.

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How Obama Got Rolled by Wall Street

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Michael Hirsh - Aug. 29 (News Analysis) - Barack Obama was “incredulous” at what he was hearing, said one of his top economic advisers. The president had spent his first year in office overseeing the biggest government bailout of the financial industry in American history. Together with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, he had kept Wall Street afloat on a trillion-dollar tide of taxpayer money.

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Newsweek: Dumb things Americans believe

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By David A. Graham - Aug. 24 (News) - Chances are that by now you've heard about the Aug. 19, 2010, Pew poll that found that nearly one fifth of Americans (mistakenly) believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Perhaps you think that a terrifying outlier; or perhaps you're a believer, and then you are in good company. Either way, you're wrong: in fact, remarkably high numbers of Americans believe the most unusual things. Although the portion of poll respondents who believe Obama is a Muslim has risen recently, some of these oddball opinions contain more consistent numbers of believers. Here's a sampling of the nuttiest.

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China's Neighbors Move To Hedge Its Power

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Alan Mascarenhas - Aug. 01 - Brinkmanship is making for a testy summer in East Asia. In recent years, China has been building up its naval fleet, enabling it to maintain control over trade routes. Now, its activities are provoking pushback from neighbors, and attempts to contain the rising superpower appear to be entering a new phase.

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A Military Record Made for Washington?

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Ravi Somaiya - Jul. 22 (News) - Wags are suggesting that the patchy military record of Alvin Greene, the unexpected Democratic Senate nominee in South Carolina, implies he could be a perfect fit in D.C. He was, reports the AP, "usually capable of handling mundane tasks with supervision."

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Time to Get Out of Afghanistan

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Richard N. Haass - Jul. 18 (Opinion) - After nearly nine years of war, however, continued or increased U.S. involvement in Afghanistan isn’t likely to yield lasting improvements that would be commensurate in any way with the investment of American blood and treasure. It is time to scale down our ambitions there and both reduce and redirect what we do.

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Why Doesn't the Media Interrogate Tea Partiers' Beliefs?

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Ben Adler - Jun. 24 (Editorial) - The media keeps treating the Tea Partiers as a sociological phenomenon instead of analyzing the validity of their political platform. It's time to treat them like anyone else who wants to govern.

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Why the Immigration Issue May Just Fade Away

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Arian Campo-Flores - May. 28 (Special Report) - Yet again, Americans are suffering a period of national distress over illegal immigration. However a little-known, but enormously significant, demographic development is unfolding south of our border that could make all this angst ultimately an over-reaction.

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