Innholdsfortegnelse for December 23, 2022 i Newsweek International

1955 Cartoonist Walt Kelly—“creator of Pogo and all the other denizens of the Okefenokee Swamp, the famous and greatly loved comic strip characters who disport themselves in Christmas gaiety on Newsweek’s cover”—turned lyricist for Newsweek, unveiling the words to a brand-new carol, “Bright Christmas Land,” in the magazine along with his Christmas-themed cover art. Last year, Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum opened an exhibit featuring Kelly: “Into the Swamp: The Social and Political Satire of Walt Kelly’s Pogo.” 1990 “The oppressed have no monopoly on truth. But surely they have earned the right to critique the society that enslaved them,” Newsweek said of “politically correct” campus policies. Recently a Florida judge, partially blocked a law limiting the discussion of racism and sexism on campus for violating…

“OUR PEOPLE ARE OUR GREATEST source of competitive advantage.” This sentiment is often heralded in companies by everyone from middle managers to HR professionals to CEOs. It is a great sound bite. The problem: It is not true—at least, not entirely. An organization’s star performers are its source of competitive advantage, and only if they are strategically assigned to the most critical roles. Employees who are simply good at their jobs do not provide an advantage over competitors, and having star performers in jobs that are less than critical is a waste of talent. In order to identify the right roles and people, leaders and managers have to consider their strategy and then their talent. What is the organization’s five-year strategy and what roles will be critical in executing it?…

NFLATION IS HITTING ALL OF US IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. FOR AMERICA’S chain restaurants, it’s been something of a mixed bag. While sales at chain restaurants have been up lately, the number of visits to them is actually down somewhat. The higher sales figures come in part from the higher prices diners are being charged. Nonetheless, Americans still like going to chain restaurants—a lot. There are over 100,000 chain restaurant locations in the U.S. and total annual sales at them are expected to be close to $900 billion this year. For the second year, Newsweek and global data firm Statista are proud to award America’s Favorite Restaurant Chains in selected categories. The awards are based on the results of a survey of more than 4,000 customers and employees of…

Periscope HEALTH Rounding on three years into the coronavirus pandemic, scientists project there are over 100 million COVID long haulers worldwide. A recent Brookings Institution study estimated that around 16 million working-age Americans currently have Long COVID, costing $168 billion a year in lost earnings, not to mention the missed personal and professional opportunities and the high toll it takes on families. And countless more will suffer from it before the pandemic is in our collective rearview mirror. Post-viral illnesses, like chronic fatigue syndrome among others, are not new, but in the wake of Long COVID, how they are analyzed and treated is groundbreaking. The patient-led medicine that has come to the fore to seek answers will have long-lasting ripple effects on the medical establishment and on how post-viral illnesses…

“WE CANNOT LET PUTIN STEAL OUR CHRISTMAS.”—Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko “Cancer is scary, but the climate crisis is scarier.”—JANE FONDA “I was not deeply aware of what was going on.”—SAM BANKMAN-FRIED ON THE COLLAPSE OF HIS CRYPTO TRADING FIRM ALAMEDA RESEARCH “When the stakes are this high, doesn’t it make more sense to hear our story from us?”—MEGHAN, THE DUCHESS OF SUSSEX “THE ESTIMATE IS BETWEEN 400 AND 500.”—Qatar’s World Cup chief Hassan al-Thawadi on deaths of migrant workers preparing for the tournament “I knew every inch of his brain.”—Shannon Abloh on her late husband, designer Virgil Abloh “WE NEED TO FINE-TUNE OUR SANCTIONS. IT’S NOT THE ANSWER.”—Robert Malley, U.S. Special Representative for Iran…

Q _ As a teen, you suffered through a debilitating “invisible” illness that eluded diagnosis for months. What is the most validating thing a doctor can do for a patient in that situation? A _Three simple words, “I believe you.” As Sir William Osler, the 19th century father of modern medicine, would say, “Listen to the patient and he will tell you what the disease is.” Know what the patient’s goals are. Why do they want to get better? To visit their grandchildren? To pursue grad school? To take surf lessons? The true end of medicine is to give patients back their sacred ability to dream. How can patients help doctors? Understand doctors are human: they want to help you, but they too are constrained by the realities of the…

AS A SOCIETY, THE HORRORS OF SLAVERY CAN STILL BE FELT AND ONE OF the ways we process these vitally important stories from history is through projects like FX’s Kindred (December 13). Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Octavia E. Butler, the new limited series stars Mallori Johnson in a breakout role as Dana, a young writer pulled from the present day to a 19th century plantation. “To me, the only way that you can go forward, is to go back.” Though difficult, it’s the “only way that we’re able to reconcile with ourselves and our place on this land…have those conversations and look at what brought us here, what brought us to this point.” To Johnson, the “show poses something that’s really beautiful, which is…