Innholdsfortegnelse for 02/09/2018 i Newsweek International

BY 9:30 A.M., THOUSANDS HAD CROWDED INTO a parking lot—mostly women in pussy hats, hoisting signs with mordant slogans, like “Grab ’em by the midterms,” or “What Oprah said.” It was late January, and they had created their own Themyscira on the outskirts of Las Vegas, a city better known for gambling and nightlife than feminism. Kelley Tucky, a 54-year-old lifelong Republican, was one of those women. A year ago, she might not have shown up for something like this. In 2016, she “voted her conscience” in the presidential election, casting her ballot for Hillary Clinton. But when Donald Trump won, Tucky was willing to give him a chance. She sat out last year’s Women’s March, while millions flooded the streets, lambasting the new president and calling for his removal.…

WHAT MOTIVATED MILITARY ANALYST DANIEL Ellsberg to risk a lifetime in prison by leaking the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Defense Department history of U.S. deception in Vietnam? In the movie The Post, a contender for best picture at the Academy Awards, it was Ellsberg’s disenchantment with the war, which flared after a 1966 flight back from Vietnam with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Talking to Ellsberg aboard the plane, McNamara had privately agreed that the war was a bloody stalemate, but he later told the press that the U.S. was making progress. However, another three years passed before Ellsberg made the momentous decision—and it was not McNamara’s lie that festered until it became intolerable. It was something else entirely. In 1969, a Green Beret unit suspected that one of its top…

IN AMERICA, THE INSULT HAS BEEN nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film. It is the first time Lebanon has had a horse in the Oscar race, a rare moment of artistic recognition for a country better known for a savage civil war that pitted Christians against Muslims and their Palestinian allies. But don’t expect parades in Lebanon. Theaters in predominantly Muslim West Beirut are boycotting The Insult, as are Palestinians on the West Bank. And left-wing critics are campaigning to get the film banned throughout the rest of Lebanon. Ziad Doueiri has come to expect this mixture of acclaim from abroad and opprobrium at home. Last September, after winning international praise for his film The Attack, the Lebanese director flew back to Beirut, where authorities stopped…

THE LAZY SEEM RIVER MAY like a pleasant diversion, but it is that rare aspect of life capable of eliciting bipartisan outrage. Those of us who do not enjoy lazy rivers condemn them, especially if their cost figures into the tuition we pay for our children to attend an institution of higher learning. The lazy river is not yet a staple of the American college campus, but there was a time when science laboratories on campus were rare too. By a lazy river, I don’t mean the backwoods of Arkansas, midsummer, willows bowing to the muddy water. That is not, in fact, a lazy river. Imagine instead a swimming pool stretched into a sinuous strip. Give it a gentle current. Give kids inflatable tubes. You now have a lazy river.…

IF VERGE GENOMICS CO-FOUNDER Alice Zhang is right, the kind of technology that allows you to search the web for “Japanese baseball jerseys” and find a $49.99 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters shirt will help discover a cure for Alzheimer’s. And that’s just the beginning. Her company could make traditional drug research in a lab seem more outmoded than an Amish wagon on an eight-lane highway. Most new Big Pharma drugs have gone through a painstaking process of lab research and trials that went on for 10 to 15 years and cost as much as $2 billion. Verge seems to be showing how to take that analog process and make it digital. And we all know what happens when anything goes from analog to digital: costs dive and supply shoots up. People…

ON APRIL 18, 1938, ACTION COMICS No. 1 hit newsstands, and the world was introduced to Superman. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—two young guys out of Cleveland—the character was so primal, so evocative, so revolutionary that he instantly connected with readers (kids and adults alike), altered the fortunes of the lowly comic book and birthed a new concept: the superhero. Without Siegel and Shuster’s imagination, without Superman—indeed, without Action Comics—our pop culture landscape would be a blander place. Eighty years later, and Action Comics is still making history: The 1,000th issue will hit stands on April 18. To coincide with that milestone, its publisher, DC, will release a hardcover book, Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman. Curated by longtime DC writer and editor Paul Levitz (75 Years…