Innholdsfortegnelse for 10/22/2021 i Newsweek

1979 “Wall Street was hit by a selling panic last week as investors reacted to the new tight-money policies of the Federal Reserve,” Newsweek reported as interest rates were raised in an attempt to control inflation. How to go about battling inflation has been an ongoing debate in America. Prices on consumer goods have spiked recently—with the Consumer Price Index up 5.3 percent in the last 12 months—and some contend that the higher inflation rates are only temporary. However, as the Delta variant threatens more possible shutdowns, the economy’s recovery for the upcoming year is still up in the air. 1991 “Beyond the ‘he said, she said’ of last week’s testimony, the whole political process and society itself went on trial,” Newsweek said about Anita Hill’s sexual harassment claims against…

ANDREW HILL KNOWS FIRSTHAND WHAT IT’S like to bring a breakthrough drug to fruition. The pharmacology researcher at the University of Liverpool in the U.K. helped develop antiviral medications for HIV. “You think about helping to save millions of lives,” he says. “It was a wonderful feeling.” Last year Hill was also excited about ivermectin, a 40-year-old generic drug shown in early laboratory experiments to inhibit reproduction of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Since ivermectin was already being produced in industrial quantities as a treatment for parasites in people and animals, it could potentially provide a lifeline to thousands of COVID patients struggling for breath in emergency rooms around the world—but only if it proved effective in the clinic, not just in a petri dish. Some of the early,…

AMERICANS SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ONLINE. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, during the second quarter of this year, retail sales totaled $1.333 trillion and about $222.4 billion or roughly 13 percent of all that spending happened online. Online shopping and buying has long since stopped being a novelty and is now a part of the daily life of almost every American. ¶ On the internet, shoppers want the same things they look for in brick-and-mortar retailers, but they also want something else: sites that are easy to use and navigate. To point our readers to the Best Online Shops 2022, Newsweek has once again paired with respected global data-research firm Statista. Our rankings recognize 1,000 shops across 39 categories in eight groups. This year, Fashion (Single-brand) is the…

MICKEY GUYTON IS PROOF THAT good things come to those who wait. After years of going through what she describes now as the “Nashville hamster wheel,” the Texas-born country music singer has become a breakout star following the 2020 release of her much-talked-about single “Black Like Me,” a powerful commentary about being a Black person in America. For that song, Guyton became the first Black female artist to be nominated in the Grammy category of Best Country Solo Performance; she also performed “Black Like Me” at the ceremony this March. A month later, she co-hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards with Keith Urban. Most recently, Guyton received a nomination for New Artist of the Year from the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, which will be held on November 10…

“It’s so frustrating to see young girls held to a completely different standard than other people.”—OLIVIA RODRIGO “I FEEL YOUR HEARTS AND YOU FEEL MINE… THAT MUCH I KNOW IS TRUE!!!!!”—BRITNEY SPEARS “Republicans say they will not do their part to avoid this needless calamity. So be it. But they need to stop playing Russian roulette with the U.S. economy.”—PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ON THE DEBT CEILING “I think most of us just don’t recognize the false picture of the company that is being painted. Many of the claims don’t make any sense.”—MARK ZUCKERBERG ON CRITICISMS OF FACEBOOK BY FORMER EMPLOYEE FRANCES HAUGEN “GOT SOME CREDIBILITY TO MY NAME NOW.”—Bubba Wallace on becoming only the second Black driver to win a NASCAR Cup race “It’s just too soon to tell.”—DR. ANTHONY…

FEW ACTORS ARE ABLE TO BOUNCE BETWEEN COMEDY AND DRAMA AS WELL as Niecy Nash. Whether she’s playing Desna on Claws, a nail artist and leader of a criminal empire; or Deputy Raineesha Williams on Reno 911, the role that made her famous, Nash is able to effortlessly blend genres. Part of her gift is being able to add a little bit of Niecy to every role. “I always try to find the place where my character intersects with who I am.” But it wasn’t until HBO’s Getting On that Nash was able to be seen in a more dramatic light. She earned two Emmy nominations for her performance, and it led to her collaboration with Ava DuVernay in Selma and When They See Us, which earned Nash her third…