Innholdsfortegnelse for 04/26/2019 i Newsweek International

1964 “The Communist world is no longer a single flock of sheep,” Newsweek reported in 1964. “Once a unified world force, Communism has now become a thing of infinite variety,” banding together to create a red spectrum of parties across Europe and Asia. As socialist movements sweep across borders today, the debate about what socialism means in relation to the United States’ free-market economy and democratic values is a major point of contention between the political parties, and it is becoming ever more likely that the country will craft its own version of Marx’s ideology. 1978 “The once-familiar face of death has become increasingly remote and frightful to most Americans,” said the magazine. As Americans grappled with their mortality through aids like medicine and therapy, more came to realize “there…

THE REVIEWS FOR THE GLEAMING, ultra-posh New York development were bad. Police Academy 6 bad. New York magazine’s architecture critic, Justin Davidson, wrote that every time he approached Hudson Yards he felt “a volatile mix of wonder and dejection roil in my chest.” He added, “I can’t help feeling like an alien here.... I suppose this apotheosis of blank-slate affluence is someone’s fantasy of the 21-century city, but it isn’t mine.” Davidson wasn’t alone. Hudson Yards “is, at heart, a supersized suburban-style office park, with a shopping mall and a quasi-gated condo community targeted at the 0.1 percent,” Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times wrote of the 26-acre development on the West Side of Manhattan. “It gives physical form to a crisis of city leadership, asleep at the wheel…

IN DIRECTOR TIM BURTON’S 1988 CULT comedy Beetlejuice, the titular ghost, played by Michael Keaton, is on screen for a quarter of an hour, max. The film, an irresistible mix of anarchy and cartoonishness, focuses on the recently deceased Adam and Barbara Maitland (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis), a painfully nice couple now haunting their beloved Connecticut fixer-upper. When pretentious New York yuppies buy the place and give it a vulgar postmodern makeover, their alienated Goth daughter, Lydia (Winona Ryder), enlists the creepy Beetlejuice to aid the Maitlands in scaring her parents out of the house. Keaton made the most of his 15 minutes: Stardom followed that indelible and deliciously lecherous performance, which is why “those who grew up loving the movie forget it’s essentially about a dead, childless couple…

FOUR YEARS AGO, WHILE FILMING FANTASTIC FOUR, NELSON BEGAN WRITING a play. “Especially when doing a superhero movie, I find myself in need of intellectual succor,” says the actor, who most recently, and delightfully, appeared as the titular character in the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The result, Socrates (at New York’s Public Theater, starring Michael Stuhlbarg), is, in fact, a do-over: Nelson had made an attempt in 1987, after studying philosophy in college. “It was such a demeaning failure, I’m surprised I kept writing,” he says now. Socrates, credited with founding Western moral philosophy, was a brilliant oddball; he wrote nothing and claimed he had nothing to teach. Accounts of his ideas come primarily from his acolyte Plato, who published their dialogues after Socrates was sentenced to…

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY I LINK the legalization of adult-use cannabis with social and economic justice for communities of color. My answer is simple: Black and Latinx people, who make up those communities, have suffered the most under cannabis prohibition and the racially disparate enforcement of the “war on drugs.” To understand how this has occurred, a historical context is necessary. John Ehrlichman, who was counsel and assistant to the president for domestic affairs for President Nixon, told Dan Baum of Harper’s in 1994, “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people.… We couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and…

HERE THEY GO AGAIN. Attorney General William Barr is already under fire for his March letter to Congress, which reported the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in a way many feel was mostly beneficial to President Donald Trump. Now, Democrats are taking aim at Barr’s recent congressional testimony in which he slipped in his opinion that federal law enforcement officials may have “spied” on his boss’ successful presidential run. But if that wasn’t enough, some experts argue that Barr’s previous work in the private sector could conflict with his continuing supervision of the investigation into Russian tampering in the 2016 election campaign. Why? A few of Barr’s previous employers are connected to key subjects in the probe. And some argue that, even if Barr didn’t break any rules,…

Global health officials thought they had measles on the run. From 2000 to 2016, deaths caused by the highly contagious respiratory disease dropped by 84 percent worldwide, thanks to a vaccine that can be 97 percent effective. Yet poverty and misinformation undermined this progress. Inadequate medical-delivery systems in developing nations meant many children had no access to immunization. And in some wealthy countries, like the U.S., unfounded fears about safety led some parents to forgo vaccination, leaving their own children—as well as babies and people with compromised immune systems—vulnerable to the virus, which causes a rash, a fever and, in rare cases, even death. Reported worldwide spike in measles cases since 2016. 110,000 People who died worldwide from measles in 2017, mostly children under the age of 5. TWO HOURS…