Innholdsfortegnelse for December 16, 2022 i Newsweek International

In FocusTHE NEWS IN PICTURES DOHA, QATAR Supporters of the U.S. Men’s National Team dejectedly mourn after their players are knocked out of the FIFA World Cup on December 3 by the Netherlands at the Khalifa International Stadium. The round of 16 match ended 3-1, with the U.S. squad’s goal coming in the 76th minute thanks to Haji Wright. A lack of experience and finishing might have been the U.S.’ downfall this year, but with the second-youngest team in the competition, hope abounds for them at the 2026 World Cup in North America. ▸ MOHAMMAD KARAMALI…

IN RECENT YEARS, AND ESPECIALLY WITH the rise in popularity of “ESG” (environment, social and corporate governance) focused investing, “corporate responsibility” has become a phrase many companies are happy to use in their advertising. There is no set definition, but generally it is used as shorthand for “our company is not a soulless machine designed to do absolutely anything—no matter how destructive, reckless or dishonest—in pursuit of a buck.” In any given case, it can be hard to tell whether such a statement means a corporation really tries to treat its customers, employees and planet decently or is just public relations blather. Talking the talk is easy, but walking the walk is hard. To highlight those corporations that are actually serious about trying to be good guys, Newsweek has partnered…

Periscope NEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISRELIGION WHEN A 22-YEAR-OLD MAN OPENED FIRE IN A Colorado Springs nightclub during a drag performance on November 19, leaving five people dead, he put new light on a long-simmering debate within the Mormon Church about its stance on gay, lesbian and transgender people. The alleged shooter Anderson Lee Aldrich was brought up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the days following the shootings, Aldrich’s father, a former adult film star and mixed martial arts fighter with a history of substance abuse, appeared in a television news interview admitting that he condoned his son’s violent behavior as a child while alluding to the values of their Mormon heritage, saying “You know Mormons don’t do gay. We don’t do gay.” “We don’t get…

NO STATE IS MORE CAR-CRAZY THAN California—and they’ve paid a big price for it, not just in $6-per-gallon gas. The heat waves, droughts and calamitous wildfires that have ravaged the state in recent years are by-products of climate change, to which greenhouse-gas emissions from California tailpipes (and elsewhere) have contributed. To Governor Gavin Newsom and other state political leaders, the fix is clear: Regulate the tailpipe out of existence. In August, in a continuation of its half-century-plus tradition of setting the nation’s auto emissions standards, California ruled that by 2035 all new cars and trucks sold in the state must be fossil-fuel-free. Instead, electric vehicles, or EVs, will become the law of the land. Shifting the world to zero-emissions all-electric vehicles would in theory eliminate about one-fifth of all carbon-dioxide…