Innholdsfortegnelse for September 01, 2023 i Newsweek International

1994 “What is the Walt Disney Co. but a dream machine, a teller and seller of fairy tales? And at the heart of every Disney saga are some of life’s most basic themes: friendship, family and the struggle for independence,” said Newsweek. Disney’s magical reign in Orlando has hit some road bumps as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis limited much of Walt Disney World’s authority over the land on which it sits. In July, the new board eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion programs in an ongoing effort on behalf of the Republican governor to eradicate all DEI initiatives in the state. 1976 “At their most respectable, the consciousness cults merge Western psychotherapy with Eastern religion; at their most tawdry, they combine high-pressure salesmanship with outright charlatanism,” said Newsweek. Debates now over…

HIS SUMMER, THE HOTTEST ON RECORD, may go down in the history books as the turning point when climate change became truly personal. Extreme weather has become our new normal, affecting a majority of Americans and many millions more around the world: deadly heat waves across the U.S., Mexico, southern Europe and China; torrential rain and flash flooding in Chicago and the Hudson Valley; intense wildfires, first in Canada, blanketing cities a thousand miles away with smoke, then in Hawaii, which quickly became the deadliest such blaze in a century. It’s not exactly surprising then that nearly half of Americans now feel that climate change poses a serious threat in their lifetimes, according to a recent Gallup poll—including about 60 percent of people ages 18 to 34. With the most…

IN 1998 A TEN-YEAR-OLD ROBERT KABERA WAS TRY-ing to study a high-school science textbook by the light of a kerosene lamp in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana. But the strong desert winds kept blowing it out as soon as he lit it. “I didn’t know much about electricity back then,” he recalls. “I just knew that after living with darkness for six years, I had become obsessed with light.” The darkness Kabera is referring to isn’t just literal. A refugee from the Rwandan genocide, his family of six, along with 17 neighbors, had hid for weeks at a time crammed together in a tiny tunnel dug beneath his home until they could escape the country. His family eventually made their way to a refugee camp in the Kalahari. Kabera says…

Hannah Rothstein LAST YEAR HANNAH ROTHSTEIN WAS SITTING IN A lobby when she noticed a wall decorated with ‘60s psychedelic rock posters. Naturally, the display immediately brought climate change to mind. It’s not as big a leap as it might seem. Rothstein is an artist who in recent years has focused on climate-change-themed visual art. Those rock posters ended up serving as a muse for her latest project, a series of posters that use the groovy, swirly vibe of the iconic images that once graced the covers of Jefferson Airplane or Cream LPs to glamorize solutions to the climate conundrum. Rothstein has riffed on pop themes before—she’s done coloring books and illustrations of food that have gone viral. In 2017 she decided to turn her method to attracting attention to…

“IT IS A TRAGEDY BEYOND TRAGEDIES.”—Hawaii Governor Josh Green on the Maui wildfires “I would like to move to Mars. But I have to wait till my kids are good. Like 25.”—MUSICIAN GRIMES ON HOPING “TO DIE IN SPACE” “We are confident that this is an isolated issue.”NESTLÉ, ON RECALLING “BREAK AND BAKE” CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH BARS DUE TO REPORTS OF WOOD CHIPS “I never really cared much about the legal system as a whole until I got exposed to it myself.”—EX-CON AND FRAUDSTER ANNA DELVEY, WHILE UNDER HOUSE ARREST FIGHTING DEPORTATION “YOU BROUGHT JOY TO EVERY HUDDLE. KEEP DANCIN’ IN HEAVEN.”—Russell Wilson about former NFL teammate, 28-year-old Alex Collins, after his fatal motorcycle accident "We cannot afford that kind of backpedaling on a national scale.”—Education Secretary Miguel Cardona…

AT 21, SOPHIA KIANNI HAS ALREADY PACKED IN MORE experiences than many people have in a lifetime, all with a singular goal: to help educate people around the world about climate change. The heart of her work is Climate Cardinals, a nonprofit she founded when she was 17 that aims to make information and research about climate change more accessible to people who don’t speak English. That work led directly to her appointment in 2020 as a United Nations advisor on climate change—the youngest UN advisor in U.S. history—and this year to her selection for the steering committee of UNESCO’s youth-led climate group, YoU-CAN. She’s marched alongside Jane Fonda at a climate event she organized in Washington, D.C., given a TED talk (2.3 million views so far) and spoken about…

COBRA KAI’S XOLO MARIDUEÑA IS GOING FROM KICKING BUTT ON EARTH to doing so in the multiverse in the latest DC Comics film Blue Beetle (August 18). “I’m so excited about people meeting this character for the first time.” The film is not only the young actor’s big screen debut, but also the first DC Comics movie to focus solely on a Latin superhero. “I really feel like it’s taken all 22 years of my life so far to be ready for this moment.” Despite the movie’s groundbreaking progress and diversity, Maridueña wants people to see it for more than just that. “I hope people, with this movie, can start to marinate on the fact that this is a movie, that Latino is not the genre, that superhero was the…

OSH SPECTOR GOT THE MESSAGE ABOUT climate change early on. At age six, he was already passionate about the need to meet humanity’s existential challenge. In college, he majored in geographic data analysis at the University of Oregon and interned at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Upon graduating in 2020, he joined Planet Labs, a maker of tiny Earth-imaging satellites. But as the pandemic dragged on, and heatwaves and wildfires ravaged the western United States, his life began to unravel. Disillusioned with the values of his company’s corporate clients, he quit his job, moved back to his parent’s home in Portland and volunteered for a non-profit. “I was hyper-focused on the climate crises that were happening all around me,” he says. “Many days I would wake up, go on Twitter and…

KRISTY DRUTMAN WAS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT in New Jersey in 2013 when she heard the news about Super Typhoon Haiyan’s devastating impact on the Philippines, her mother’s home country. The typhoon, one of the worst the world has ever seen, killed more than 6,300 people. “It was my wake-up moment,” recalls Drutman. She awoke to the havoc that a changing climate is starting to have on the world, and the ways it hits some people harder than others. That realization started her on a journey that has made Drutman, now 27, a social-media influencer advocating for diversity and equity in environmentalism—and an entrepreneur whose much-watched business, Green Jobs Board, provides an important tool for that cause. Drutman studied environmental policy at the University of California in Berkeley but felt…

CONNER IVES HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN FASHION since he could speak. “I was always hanging out in my mom’s closet, or commenting on what people were wearing,” he says. Fame came in 2017, at the age of 21, when supermodel Adwoa Aboah went to the Met Gala wearing a custom dress he had designed—a swanlike ivory gown made of upcycled vintage pieces. Now his work is featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s permanent collection. “As a kid, I would go to the fashion exhibit every summer,” he says. “To know I have pieces I made myself in one of the greatest fashion archives in the world? No words.” Ives, now 27, is a leader in the slow fashion movement—a response to the current era of disposable clothes,…