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1969  An otherworldly cover—literally. Weeks after Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, on July 20, Newsweek published the color photographs he snapped on the lunar surface with his 70 mm camera, including this image of Buzz Aldrin. “Truly, these are great leaps for mankind,” declared the article, which predicted that the U.S. might land a soft probe on the surface of Mars by 1973 (it happened in 1976). Twelve years later, on August 1, 1981, MTV adopted moon landing images for its debut broadcast. 1945 “The man in the Kremlin held the keys to Potsdam, and its consequences to the new peace,” reported a story on Josef Stalin, one of the “Big Three” (with Harry Truman and Winston Churchill) who met to discuss how to administer…

“Democracy is dead in this election and is totally a sham.” LAST NOVEMBER, IGOR RUDNIKOV WAS AT HOME in his apartment in the tiny Russian region of Kaliningrad when he received some unexpected visitors: masked FSB security officers. They accused Rudnikov, an outspoken opposition lawmaker and newspaper editor, of trying to blackmail a senior law enforcement official and arrested him. Rudnikov’s paper, Novye Kolyosa, built its reputation on exposing government corruption, and it had recently published a story questioning how the public official, Viktor Ledenyov, a general on Russia’s Investigative Committee, which answers only to President Vladimir Putin, had come into possession of a lakeside luxury home. Rudnikov denied the charge that he had demanded $50,000 from Ledenyov to stop publishing stories about him. During hours of interrogation, he says,…

IN 2013, A MOVEMENT SPARKED a national conversation and demanded a place on the global stage. In the years since, “Black Lives Matter,” a phrase Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 34, first used as a hashtag in response to the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, has mobilized countless people in the fight to end racial injustice and violence toward black communities in the United States and across the world. Newsweek spoke to Khan-Cullors about BLM’s achievements and the challenges that remain. What has BLM accomplished? Culturally, we’ve changed our entire understanding of blackness and anti-blackness. We’ve created avenues to talk about gendered violence against black women and about black trans women and the queer community. We’ve created a successful global network, with strong chapters leading the…

BY THE TIME ASTRONOMER SCOTT SHEPPARD STARTED LOOKING AT JUPITER’S MOONS in a serious way in the 2000s, the planet had already been picked over like a Thanksgiving turkey. Galileo found four moons in 1610, another nine came in the first half of the 20th century, and the Voyager spacecraft added three more in 1979. But Sheppard had an advantage on all of them: When he was a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, astronomers started attaching highly sensitive digital cameras to telescopes. By the time Sheppard got his Ph.D. in 2004, he and his colleagues had discovered dozens of Jovian moons, as well as some around Neptune, Uranus and Saturn. Last month, Sheppard found another 12. That brings his personal tally to 59 and the total number of…

HARMONY KORINE FOUND HIS spiritual home when his family moved from a California commune to Nashville, Tennessee, in the early ’80s. Sol, his father, made documentaries for PBS and would take his son along on trips to the small towns, carnivals and backwoods of the Deep South, capturing an array of vivid characters—“goldfish swallowers, moonshiners, kids who ride bulls,” as Korine once described them. “I always liked that crazy part of America the most,” he said, “where things are seething, everything is incongruous, it seems anything can happen.” Eccentrics, outliers and the margins of society preoccupy Korine, whose work is laden with diverse references—the tragicomic slapstick of vaudeville, the writing of Southern gothic novelist Flannery O’Connor, the visions of William Blake and the vernacular of African-American art (among others). But…

THREE DECADES INTO THE RULE of Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodians went to the polls on July 29 to give the strongman another five-year term. The win was predetermined. Not only had Hun Sen’s cronies terminated his main opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), but he had the support of a colossal and deep-pocketed ally: China. Under Hun Sen’s rule, billions of dollars in Chinese investments have helped Cambodia become one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The financial influx has been part of an aggressive Chinese strategy to win power in Cambodia after years of U.S. influence. By 2017, China became Cambodia’s largest trading partner, with total trade volume reaching $5.8 billion, up 22 percent from 2016. With this move toward China, “Hun Sen has explicitly come…

DONALD TRUMP REMADE THE GOP IN HIS OWN IMAGE. WILL IT COST REPUBLICANS? The Senate race in Arizona is ground zero A BLOW-DRYER HOT WIND DISTORTED THE MICROPHONES as Arizona Representative Martha McSally and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen took their places at an outdoor podium in the Sonoran Desert. It was late May, and the two stood under the baking sun on sandy soil near a section of steel border wall in Nogales. “If you crossed the border illegally with your family, we take the parents, and we prosecute them,” Nielsen said, as U.S. agents were separating parents from children from Tijuana, Mexico, to McAllen, Texas. “People seem to think there should be no critical consequences if they have children.” A cluster of TV cameras and a crew from…

RHEA SEEHORN HAS JUST TWO LINES OF dialogue in the pilot of Better Call Saul. In her first scene, she’s seated at a conference table at Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill, or HHM, the Albuquerque, New Mexico, law firm where she works. Jimmy McGill, who will become Breaking Bad’s slippery lawyer Saul Goodman (played by Bob Odenkirk), has barged into a meeting with his usual comic bravado—arms raised, quoting Ned Beatty in Network: “You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and I won’t have it!” He’s there to confront Howard Hamlin about money owed his brother, Chuck, the McGill of HHM. Seehorn’s character, observing impassively, registers only because she’s the only woman at the table. The meeting does not go well. Jimmy heads down to the parking garage, where…

“I like to take parts that scare me a little. And there were elements of Detroit that really scared me.” BOOTS RILEY’S UNLIKELY SUMMER HIT, THE SURREAL POLITICAL SATIRE Sorry to Bother You, is full of eye-popping detail. Among the most entertaining are the earrings worn by Tessa Thompson, who plays Detroit, the performance-artist girlfriend of the lead character, played by Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta). Each oversized pair comes with a political message, like “Tell Homeland Security/We Are the Bomb.” In most cases, “it’s a song lyric tied thematically to something in the scene,” Thompson tells Newsweek. “Detroit uses every inch of herself as a canvas.” The character is fighting for social justice through her work. “I love that the film leaves you with the idea that a small group of…

The ship will follow a carefully planned cosmic choreography, taking 24 turns around the sun and seven close flybys of Venus. WHEN A CAMPFIRE IS TOO HOT, TAKE A STEP back. This advice is brought to you by common sense and basic physics. But here’s a mystery: Why isn’t this true for the sun, whose surface is actually cooler than its fiery atmosphere? Eugene Parker was puzzling over this and other mysteries when he got his big eureka moment: The sun, he realized, emits a steady stream of hot particles that causes the northern lights and occasionally fries power grids and communications satellites. This “solar wind,” as Parker called it, didn’t exactly explain the campfire conundrum, but it earned the 30-year-old grad student a Ph.D. and a reputation as one…

NICK OFFERMAN IS A NOTED gentleman and something of a soft touch. On each episode of Making It, the NBC crafting competition show that he co-hosts with Amy Poehler, he dreads the inevitable moment of elimination, when contestants are voted off. “It’s heartbreaking and teary,” says the actor. “From the get-go, Amy said, ‘Isn’t there some way we can do this without anyone ever having to be cut?’ It was a running joke, but coming from a serious emotional place.” Fortunately, Making It also has Simon Doonan, creative ambassador at Barney’s New York, and Etsy trend expert Dayna Isom Johnson, as the judges tasked with delivering the bad news. “I come from a really nice family and the world of small Chicago theater. I’m predisposed to be encouraging,” says Offerman,…