Innholdsfortegnelse for 5/22/2020 i Newsweek International

1970 On May 4, 1970, four unarmed anti-war protesters at Kent State University were killed by members of the Ohio National Guard, and nine others were injured. “The bloody incident shocked and further divided a nation already riven by dissent over the war in Indochina,” said Newsweek, and because this massacre took place in small-town Ohio, it “echoed even more loudly than it might have at one of the capitals of campus protest such as Berkeley or Columbia.” Today, this event is still remembered as a turning point for national support of the Vietnam War. 1988 Newsweek reported on new findings about the ever-fascinating question of “How smart are animals?” Studies of sea lions, dolphins and chimpanzees showed that each could be taught symbolic language, long-believed to be the ability…

BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, THE PLAN would have seemed like something ripped from a distant dystopian future in which the human race fully surrenders to Big Tech. On the April 10 online document, the logos of Google and Apple sat atop a description of the companies’ joint plan to enable America’s cellphones to keep track of everyone with whom their owners come into contact. Who would sign on to such extensive surveillance? Much of the world already has. In South Korea, health officials use apps and video cameras to track down people who came into contact with COVID-19 patients before symptoms appeared. China, Singapore and Australia already have phone-based contact-tracing in place, and much of Europe is following suit. The UK’s National Health Service, for instance, has endorsed a scheme that’s…

Sanders-Style Socialism TRENDING BLUE The CARES act is perhaps the greatest expansion of the social safety net since the New Deal, certainly since the Great Society. It’s intended to be temporary. It’s easy to see across-the-board monthly checks becoming an entitlement like Social Security or Medicare. As the recession hits hard in the third quarter, expect to see debt-relief programs like those in the CARES act for small business extended to individuals. Post-election, expect a push for a wealth tax or rollback of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Health Care Reform TRENDING BLUE It’s hard to imagine health care remaining the same, says Jerry Nickelsburg, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast. “After the pandemic we’re going to have a very serious discussion about how we’ll deliver health care…

Past Economic Contractions This is how much GDP fell, from the peak of the economic cycle to when it hit bottom, during other notable downturns of the past century. $191,200,000,000 How much the U.S. economy lost in the first quarter of 2020 –89% How much stock prices fell, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, during the first three years of the Depression. Nothing since has come close: Stocks fell 54 percent during the financial crash of 2007-09 and 36 percent from the February peak to March this year (but no telling yet if the worst is behind us) –39.6% → The projected annualized drop in U.S. GDP for the second quarter of 2020 (based on an estimated 11.8 percent decline for the period vs. the first quarter) PEAK…

BESTSELLING AUTHOR JENNIFER WEINER HAS PROVEN HERSELF TO BE THE queen of the beach read, and her new book Big Summer (Atria Books), is destined to continue the trend. “My previous book was Mrs. Everything, which was a historical novel that took place over 70 years and had this very intricate timeline. When I finished that book, I said, ‘I want to do something fun.’” Big Summer tells the story of a young social-media influencer forced to attend the wedding of a high school friend over a long summer weekend. As she has made a point of doing throughout her career, Weiner uniquely tells the story of plus-sized women through a broader lens. She says typically, “they would lose a hundred pounds and then suddenly all this good stuff would…

AS STATES LOOSEN UP ON SOCIAL DIS­ tancing rules, people aren’t the only thing that will go back to work—so will the virus. Removing restrictions will allow the pathogen to move more freely through the population, possibly causing a second wave of illness that threatens to overwhelm hospital resources and drive death rates higher. The key to avoid lurching from one lockdown to another, experts say, is contact tracing. When a patient tests positive to COVID-19, health-care workers would reach out to all the people who might have been exposed before the patient became ill and advise them to self-quarantine. The idea is to extinguish small pockets of new cases before they explode into big outbreaks like the ones that steamrolled New York City and New Orleans last month. Governors,…

ONCE UPON A TIME, MEL GIBSON WAS BOX-OFFICE gold as the face of the Lethal Weapon franchise and as star and director of Best-Picture Oscar winning Braveheart. In 2004 he reset the record books with The Passion of the Christ, his intense and bloody depiction of Jesus’ crucifixion, which became the most successful R-rated movie of all time. But after several PR nightmares, starting with a 2006 DUI arrest accompanied by a rant about Jews, Gibson became persona non grata in Hollywood. Since then, he has been in rebuilding mode. He’s appeared in a few forgettable films, but his most recent effort as a director, the 2016 war drama Hacksaw Ridge, won mostly favorable reviews and respectable box office numbers. Now he’s embarking on a big gamble, a sequel to…

“Don’t be a knucklehead, keep a safe distance” —NEW JERSEY HIGHWAY SIGN “WE’RE NOT GOING BACK TO NORMAL.” —CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM “They’re contributing a whole lot more than some of the people that came out of the right womb, or got lucky and things, or know how to arbitrage bonds or whatever it may be.” —WARREN BUFFETT ON ESSENTIAL WORKERS “I’ve only washed my hair twice for the show: once for Elton John and once for Senator Warren.” - MILEY CYRUS ON HER INSTAGRAM LIVE INTERVIEW SHOW BRIGHT MINDED: LIVE WITH MILEY “SHAME ON US IF WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TESTS BY THE TIME THIS SO-CALLED RETURN MIGHT OCCUR IN THE FALL AND WINTER.” —Dr. Anthony Fauci “Of course, everybody wants to save every life they can—but the question…

Why this book? To find answers to questions that kept running through my mind while my daughters were in middle school: Why is this phase of life so incredibly hard—for parents? Why is everyone (parents again) looking so unhappy and acting so weird? Why does it hurt me so much when my daughters have a hard time with friends? Is my emotion getting in the way of my helping them? What could I do differently or better? And why is no one talking about any of this? What is your single most important piece of advice for parents about how to advise their children who are subject to middle school nastiness? Acknowledge their pain without amplifying it. Listen closely and non-judgmentally. Ask open-ended questions that give them the opportunity to…