Innholdsfortegnelse for 01/05/2018 - 01/12/2018 i Newsweek International

THE RALLY IN DOTHAN, ALABAMA, OPENED WITH prayer, a furious verse from Psalm 5 hurled at enemies of the Lord: “Their heart is filled with malice. Their throat is an open grave.” These messengers of malice were also presumably the enemies of Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court then running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. Foremost among those enemies was The Washington Post, which had recently published the accounts of several women accusing Moore of extremely disturbing sexual misconduct with underaged girls. But they also included Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who’d equivocated in his support of Moore, and Richard Shelby, the senior Alabama senator who’d taken his turn as Judas by declaring on national television that he would “absolutely not” vote for…

DRINKING WINE TODAY IS A very different experience from how it was some 300 years ago. For one thing, a typical glass of vino filled to the rim in 2017 would be the equivalent of nearly seven glasses in 1700, according to research published in the medical journal The BMJ, which found that the capacity of the average wineglass steadily increased from 2.2 ounces in the 1700s to 15 ounces today. Theresa Marteau, a professor of behavior and health at Cambridge University, and her fellow Cambridge researchers obtained measurements of over 400 glasses in museums and shops in England, from 1700 to the present, and found a steady uptick in size over time. Marteau says this change may have been driven by more than just people wanting to drink more…

“We weren’t sure if [Spielberg] was a Mr. Show fan, trying to celebrate our legacy.” IT’S BEEN A SLOW BURN, FROM CULT COMEDIAN TO ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST compelling character actors. After co-creating the irreverent sketch comedy series Mr. Show with David Cross in 1995, Bob Odenkirk, among other things, wrote for Dana Carvey. But in 2009, he broke out as the sleazy, opportunistic lawyer Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad. He was so good, show creator Vince Gilligan built a prequel series around him: AMC’s Better Call Saul, for which he’s been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes three years in a row. None of that was obvious prep for working with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep on the Steven Spielberg film The Post. “It’s intimidating,…

WATCH MILLIE MARCH OR COLE McCafferty, both of them 12, expound about their love of President Donald Trump and the platforms and candidates he endorses (most recently, Millie deployed to Alabama for a cuteif-it-weren’t-so-contextually-creepy interview with Senate candidate Roy Moore), and you’ll notice that they both speak like Trump. And like him, they seem very comfortable in front of the cameras. Here’s Millie on Trump in a 2017 video interview with Jennifer Lawrence, vice president of the America First Project, a populist-nationalist super PAC: “One of the other reasons I like him is because, and this is my favorite reason: ‘We will build a waaaallll on our southern borders. And Mexico, no buts about it, Mexico will paaaay for the wall.’” Or Cole, to Infowars’s Alex Jones, last October: “By…

WHEN RUSSIA’S FSB SECURITY service raided Fyodor Maryasov’s apartment in Siberia last year, the authorities seized his computer and a scathing report he had compiled about Rosatom, the Kremlin-owned nuclear corporation. Among other things, the authorities accused him of inciting hatred against nuclear industry employees, an unusual charge that carries a maximum sentence of five years behind bars. “They accused me of revealing state secrets in my report,” the 49-year-old environmental activist says. “But every single thing in it was taken from open sources.” The raid came as activists are increasingly criticizing Rosatom over a range of issues, including the way it handles nuclear waste. This fall, critics alleged that one of its facilities was the source of a mysterious cloud of radioactive pollution that drifted across Europe. Russian authorities…

OVER THREE DECADES AGO, music critic Greg Tate co-founded the Black Rock Coalition (BRC), an organization dedicated to both promoting black rock bands and righting a historic wrong. While African-American stars like Chuck Berry and Little Richard pioneered key elements of rock ’n’ roll in the early ’50s, the genre became overwhelmingly associated with white artists by the mid-’60s, leaving many black listeners and musicians feeling angry, alienated or both. In just the past few years, a shift has occurred, one that helps young black rock acts succeed in ways that would have been impossible when the BRC began. “The younger black person getting into music now would be much more encouraged,” Tate says. “This is a great moment to be a genuinely ‘weird’ black artist.” Tate isn’t talking Bootsy…