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1984 As “the most widely touted and hotly debated tour of recent years” began, “Michael [Jackson] bestowed a benediction with a jab of his trademark sequined glove, and the crowd of 45,000 roared its appreciation,” declared Newsweek. “After months of confusion, controversy and sporadic outbursts of popular hysteria, often fanned by frenzied media coverage, the Jacksons’ [Victory] tour—billed as the most lucrative rock and roll roadshow ever mounted—was officially under way.” Over a decade after Jackson’s 2009 death, the image of the former “King of Pop” is tarnished by the stain of pedophilia. 1979 Newsweek outlined a plan to “reduce the U.S. dependence on imported oil” saying that “America cannot count on any single solution” and must include a combination of private markets, tradeoffs and flexibility. The havoc caused by the…

“First of all, I’m taller than her”—REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ ON BEING CALLED A "LITTLE COMMUNIST" BY REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE “IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, THERE IS ALSO AN ALTERNATIVE: LEAVE THE UNION.”—DUTCH PRIME MINISTER MARK RUTTE TO HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAN ON LGBT RIGHTS “I came here to do the two-way thing. That’s a big motivation for me, to try to prove to everyone I’m capable of that.”—LOS ANGELES ANGELS STAR PITCHER AND SLUGGER SHOHEI OHTANI “I didn’t like being told that I couldn’t do certain things or that I wasn’t capable of doing certain things. I was too small, not strong enough, not fast enough, you know, not tall enough.”—KEVIN HART “WE HAVE HOPE BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT OUR SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM TELLS US, THAT THEY HAVE…

Newsweek, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LEAPFROG GROUP, an independent nonprofit that evaluates health care quality, compiles and publishes an ongoing series of ratings for health care facilities and products. We make selections and ratings using publicly available data, including information voluntarily submitted to the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey and Leapfrog Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey. We also have teams of experts and analysts review data and identify high performers. The following is our second annual review of the best infection prevention products, highlighting companies whose products are most promising for helping patients and the health care workforce avoid infection. Over the last year of pandemic, issues of infection and safety became top-of-mind for almost everyone, not just health care professionals. That concern is likely to remain with us for some time…

AFTER THE GREAT QUIET descended during the COVID-19 lockdown, we saw what the power of silence could do—to our over-stimulated brains and to the natural world. It was so quiet from March to May 2020, that scientists determined this “seismic silence” to be the longest period of quiet in recorded history. While we might have become more creative, whales migrated closer to shore due to the lack of ship noise interfering with their sound location, wildlife were free to roam—a puma sauntered through Chile’s deserted capital city, coyotes were spotted near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge—and in New York City, residents heard more birds than traffic. But as the world reopens and airplane engine roars increase can we keep the last quiet places…well, quiet? On a Quiet Quest Gordon Hempton,…

UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PRIME MINISTER Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland has taken a decidedly nationalist turn, winning high praise among many Western conservatives but scorn among some progressives. Like many of its peer countries in the Visegrad Group (an alliance of four countries in Central Europe) and the Three Seas Initiative (a coalition of 12 EU countries bordered by the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas), Poland sits at the crossroads of the Western European/German-centric hub of pro-European Union sentiment to the west and the broader umbrella of Vladimir Putin-led Russian influence to the east. Newsweek Opinion Editor Josh Hammer and Polish-American journalist Matthew Tyrmand sat down in Warsaw with Prime Minister Morawiecki on May 27. A member of the national conservative Law and Justice party, Morawiecki has served as prime minister…

From earning an Oscar nomination for the dramatic Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It to the shape-shifting worlds of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story and Marvel’s Black Panther, Angela Bassett has tackled every genre. But there’s one area where she truly shines: action. With Navot Papushado’s Gunpowder Milkshake (July 14 on Netflix), Bassett dominates as a hit woman alongside a team of other powerful women. “I mean, Michelle Yeoh! Oh my gosh! Carla Gugino! I never thought I would have an opportunity to work with them.” Bassett, Yeoh and Gugino play the three hit women Scarlet (Lena Headey) and Sam (Karen Gillan) turn to in order to protect their way of life. “It was planned to come out during the pandemic,” but got pushed back because…

WHEN TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG Abbott announced plans for a crowdfunded Texas border wall to be jump-started with a $250 million infusion from the state budget, it was clear that he was taking aim at a perceived weakness by the Biden administration on immigration. But to many Republicans and political observers, the latest salvo in Abbott’s gubernatorial reelection campaign was also an unmistakable public signal that with uncertainty surrounding another Trump run, Abbott has presidential aspirations of his own. The moves thus far have involved beefing up the team around the governor, but with an eye on early primary contests. Abbott’s team members reached out to at least one Republican strategist in Iowa to consult on the governor’s race from afar, with the idea being that they would then have someone…

DAN BONGINO A former Secret Service agent who protected Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Bongino is now a pro-Trump pundit whose life’s purpose, as his Twitter bio says, is to “Own The Libs.” A fixture on Hannity’s Fox show and host of his own popular podcast, Bongino Report, Bongino, 46, didn’t have enough followers to crack the TrumpWorld top 20. Still, he is a major player on Facebook, regularly topping its trending charts, and is quickly establishing himself as a brightest star in conservative media. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE Greene, 47, is a far-right Republican congresswoman from Georgia who has openly touted discredited conspiracy theories, such as QAnon, and endorses Trump’s false claim that Biden stole the 2020 election. She is a prolific, disputatious user of social media, regularly…