Innholdsfortegnelse for April 22-29, 2022 i Newsweek International

1966 “In five years, pop has grown like The Blob, from a label for what appeared to be a minor phase in art history to a mass psyche,” said Newsweek. “It has captivated the Great Society, thrived on its prosperity and exploited its restlessness.” America’s fascination with the pop culture phenomenon—“anything, basically, fun”—is as strong today as it was during the ’60s with Netflix’s recent debut of The Andy Warhol Diaries. The six-episode docuseries explores the iconic pop artist’s personal life alongside his professional career, revealing the origins of the mastermind behind the art. 1976 “Is it possible to sustain the ideal that college should be available to all Americans who want it, no matter how expensive?” Newsweek asked as higher education’s popularity diminished. With the value of a degree…

“You want to take the high road and sometimes it’s hard.” ▸ P.24 FOR REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN ADAM Kinzinger of Illinois, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the reaction of some of his House colleagues to it, has crystallized much of what he finds troubling lately about the GOP. And those concerns, in turn, have him questioning his own party affiliation. “Without correcting course, there will be a moment at which I say, ‘OK, I’m no longer a Republican,’” says Kinzinger, who revealed his misgivings during a candid conversation earlier this month for the Newsweek podcast Declassified, hosted by editor at large Naveed Jamali. While the U.S. response to the war in Ukraine has mostly united Congress around key bipartisan objectives, the conflict has also exposed ideological splintering among the two parties,…

PROGRESS IN THE AUTO industry used to just be about the cars—how they drove, what they looked like, how much they cost, how comfortable they were and how safe. Those things still matter greatly, of course, but now, the automotive landscape is far vaster. As technological advances expand the possibilities of what a car can be and new challenges—from climate change to the pandemic—present themselves, innovation in the auto world is extending into new vistas, including sustainability, mobility, alternative fuels and and a full embrace of the digital future. Cars, in other words, aren’t only vehicles anymore, getting you from Point A to Point B. They can be entertainment systems, tech centers, home offices and information hubs. They can be problem solvers, helping to address issues like carbon emission, soaring…

HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP’S Executive Chairman Euisun Chung isn’t just focused on the cars of today. He’s pushing the company, and its Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands, into the future in several key ways. The company is becoming more vertically integrated, with Hyundai acquiring stakes in many of the companies that supply it with materials and components. It is bringing numerous electric models to market and testing hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicles. And it has acquired a major robotics company with an eye toward a future in which wheeled devices will move people and things around their homes and workplaces. Those initiatives, which collectively put Hyundai Motor Group at the forefront of disruptive change in the industry, make Chung Newsweek’s Auto Disruptors Visionary of the Year. “From the very start, when my…

WHEN IT COMES TO AUTOMOtive design, the passion is in the process for Alfonso Albaisa, Nissan’s senior vice president of global design. That passion has led to a reinvigoration of Nissan and Infiniti design. “We create this minimalism, and this harmony, and this COMPLETENESS, with very few elements.” In just 20 months, Nissan has introduced, revised or launched nearly every key model it makes, from the fully electric Ariya to the highly-anticipated next-generation Z. The Rogue, Pathfinder and Frontier also underwent generational overhauls. This disruptive, accelerated cadence is why Albaisa earns Designer of the Year honors. In order to create a sense of uniformity in the line up, Albaisa and his team selected a list of terms to define their new design approach. One of them is ma, a Japanese…

SOME 1,597 BOOKS HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED OR removed from libraries over the past year, according to the latest figures from the American Library Association (ALA)—the highest number since the organization began keeping track 20 years ago. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, says, “We’re seeing an unprecedented volume of challenges since last September, honing in on books that deal with the experiences of Black persons and LGBTQIA persons.” Also unprecedented: Books like George M. Johnson’s memoir about growing up Black and queer, All Boys Aren’t Blue (published in 2020), and The 1619 Project (2021) by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine are not only facing removal from schools this year, but legal opposition as well. Several states including Florida, Texas and Iowa, recently passed…

“I really shouldn’t have been cast in role of Picard.” AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS PLAYING JEAN-LUC PICARD IN MANY ITERAtions of Star Trek: The Next Generation and now with the Paramount Plus series Star Trek: Picard (season finale May 5), it’s wild to think Patrick Stewart almost might not have gotten the iconic part. “Gene Roddenberry [series creator] didn’t want me.” Even Stewart was on the fence, with friends telling him, “Come to L.A., get to know Hollywood, make a little bit of money for the first time in your life and go home with a suntan. That’s what I expected. I shot the pilot episode expecting every day to be canceled.” Stewart says he was intrigued by the idea of “performing the same character 30 years later” and…

FOR ITS INITIAL LIST OF CANDIDATES, Newsweek asked America’s automakers to submit nominations for the World’s Greatest Auto Disruptors awards from within their ranks. Then, led by Newsweek Senior Autos Editor Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, the Autos team combed through a year’s worth of infotainment, powertrain, platform, marketing, business and other advances in the industry to further identify the accomplishments of nominees. To be considered, candidates had to be employing technology, marketing or vision in a way that is driving fundamental, transformative change in the automotive market, with measurable real-world results—or have clear and demonstrable potential to do so. The list was then narrowed by the Autos team, which includes editor Jacob Lingeman and writers Tatiania Perry and James McCandless. Winners were chosen after a consensus was reached amongst the Autos team…

FORD PRESIDENT AND CEO Jim Farley’s grandfather worked on the line that built the Model T more than 100 years ago. Now Farley has been tasked with advancing the Ford family legacy of auto disruption and innovation into the twenty-first century by moving the company to the forefront of the industry’s digital future. The steps taken in 2021 to push Ford forward toward this goal, blending the company’s storied history with goals around sustainability and digital innovation, are why Farley is Newsweek’s Auto Disruptors Executive of the Year. Farley has introduced electric vehicles starting with iconic nameplates: Ford Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning and Lincoln Zephyr. Those models can be modified without stops at dealerships. Their connected technologies allow for digital range, suspension and handling upgrades wirelessly. “This digital transformation…

LAND ROVER HAS BEEN supporting volunteer organizations and nonprofits across the world for almost a century. The company’s Defender Above & Beyond Awards are an extension of those efforts, combining the launch of a new vehicle with a marketing campaign that disrupts the traditional way of advertising a model, earning Land Rover Newsweek’s Auto Disruptors Marketing Campaign of the Year honors. “It was just such a great OPPORTUNITY for us to give back.” “For the last 70 years, we have a strong legacy of providing vehicles to organizations that are doing good not only for the community but also those that reach around the globe,” Joe Stauble, public relations and communications manager at Land Rover, tells Newsweek. “When we launched the Defender, after a hiatus of about 24 years in…

JUST PRIOR TO THEIR MOVE from Dublin to London a few years ago, the members of the Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. came across a newspaper story about Margaret Keane, a woman who was born in Ireland but lived in Coventry, England, for most of her life before her death in 2018. Keane’s family wanted her gravestone to carry the Gaelic inscription “In ár gCroíthe go deo” (“in our hearts forever”). However the Church of England denied the request, arguing that the phrase could be viewed as political. To Fon taines D.C. singer and songwriter Grian Chatten, the incident was like staring down the barrel of a gun given the tensions between the Irish and British that have lasted for centuries. “We were just about to move to a country…

“YOU WANT TO TAKE THE HIGH ROAD AND SOMETIMES IT’S HARD.” —Kim Kardashian on her fractious relationship with her ex, Kanye West “There’s only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music. Coincidence is bound to happen.” —SINGER-SONGWRITER ED SHEERAN, AFTER WINNING A PLAGIARISM LAWSUIT OVER “SHAPE OF YOU” “This is not the time for people to feel like there’s no hope. There is. People should carry forward and continue to try to make the system one we can all be proud of.” —KEITH ELLISON, MINNESOTA AG, AFTER NEWS THAT POLICE WON’T BE CHARGED IN AMIR LOCKE’S DEATH “Women have seen what it means to be educated, what it means to be empowered. This time is going to be much harder for the Taliban.” —NOBEL LAUREATE MALALA…

HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP’S engineering team developed the company’s new Electric Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), which underpins a new generation of vehicles aimed at democratizing an electrified future. It earns its creators Newsweek’s Auto Disruptors Research and Development Team of the Year Award. One of the benefits of electric powertrains is the ability to have a more spacious interior. Hyundai aimed to take advantage of this by creating an interior design the company says is a reflection of how people live and work today. “Over the past few years, humanity has gone through major changes,” Fayez Abdul Rahman, senior vice president of Hyundai’s Vehicle Architecture Development Center, tells Newsweek. “As a result, having mobility that provides a smart living space where we can safely and comfortably spend time has become more…

HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP went into development of its new generation of electric vehicles aiming to improve efficiency and range. The company is now offering buyers a choice of a 400- or 800-volt electrical system that enables long ranges and fast-charging capabilities—at prices that are far lower than those of cars previously on the market with the technology. The democratization of that advanced power technology, and its potential to disrupt the auto market, is why the company wins Newsweek’s Power-train of the Year award. With the creation of a new power distribution technology, engineers sought to emphasize Kia, Genesis and hyundai vehicles’ quick acceleration, made possible by the instantaneous throttle response that EVs deliver. The new system is capable of achieving up to 310 miles of all-electric range. Its architecture enables…

Dogrel, PARTISAN RECORDS, 2019 Fontaines D.C.’s debut album Dogrel left an impression on fans and critics with its passionate, guitar-charged rock and hard-bitten lyrics about life in Dublin. For instance, the cab driver in “Boys in the Better Land”: “He spits out ‘Brits out,’ only smokes Carroll’s” or the opening line from “Big,” “Dublin in the rain is mine/ A pregnant city with a Catholic mind.” In addition to the rave reviews, the LP netted Fontaines D.C. a nomination for Britain’s prestigious Mercury Prize. A Hero’s Death, PARTISAN RECORDS, 2020 The band avoided the sophomore jinx with A Hero’s Death, which was mostly written on tour. A sense of dislocation pervades from the opening track, “I Don’t Belong” with its chorus “I don’t belong to anyone/I…