Innholdsfortegnelse for 2/26-3/5/2021 i Newsweek

FOLLOWING THE VIOLENT storming of the U.S. Capitol in January—two weeks before the inauguration of President Joe Biden—misinformation about what happened during the riots found a home overseas. Several European sites that had recently delved into promoting the U.S.-centric QAnon conspiracy theory and falsehoods about the 2020 U.S. election have now turned to the Capitol riots, claiming—as have right-wing commentators, misinformation publishers and some politicians in the U.S—that it was actually the left who caused the violence. Many of those same sites continued to push falsehoods about the U.S. election until right before President Biden was sworn in or even during the inauguration. Claims that antifa, a coalition of left-wing activists, was responsible for the Capitol riots have proven popular on European misinformation sites and social media accounts, despite the…

JODIE FOSTER HASN’T MADE MANY POLITICAL FILMS BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT SO entertaining to her. “Everybody is born and then they die. There’s nothing new about that.” But all that changed for the Oscar-winner with her latest film The Mauritanian (in theaters and streaming on February 12), which tells the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was held without being charged at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 until 2016 on allegations he was a member of Al-Qaeda. Foster plays defense attorney Nancy Hollander. “We let fear and terror discard the rule of law and discard our own humanity,” says Foster, who adds it was the “first-person look at the life and the character of this Muslim man” that inspired her to do this film. “We were all there to serve his…

THE MAURITANIAN “It’s about a dark moment in our history as a country.” P.48 THE END OF WINTER AND THE BEGINNING OF SPRING is a fickle time, weather-wise. You might see snow, rain or sun on any given day. But whether you’re curling up in front of a cozy fire or catching some rare rays of sunshine on a park bench, you can depend on good books to keep you company. Looking for a small-town feel-good love story, a hair-raising thriller about the subject of a true-crime podcast, inside looks at two famous first ladies, the history of how a famous publishing house got started in the shadow of the Nazis—or more? Newsweek has chosen some of the best new fiction and nonfiction available this spring for your reading pleasure.…

In early February, just one day after the House banished Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from congressional committees for incendiary behavior and two days after GOP lawmakers decided by secret ballot to allow Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney to retain her leadership position despite her vote to impeach Donald Trump, a third drama involving Republican women was unfolding in upstate New York. In a case over disputed ballots in the state’s 22nd congressional district, a judge ruled in favor of Republican Claudia Tenney, handing her victory over Democrat Anthony Brandisi by a mere 109 votes—thereby settling the last undecided race of the 2020 election. That decision makes Tenney the 38th Republican woman to serve in Congress this year, smashing the previous record of 30 set in 2006 and more than doubling…

She’s been dubbed the “world’s favorite artist.” But while images of her kaleidoscopic infinity rooms are hot on Instagram, she’s no derivative newcomer to the art scene. This Japanese pop-art icon has been creating fresh work since the 1950s, and her creative output hasn’t subsided. Now a nonagenarian who has voluntarily made a home for herself in a Tokyo psychiatric asylum, Yayoi Kusama continues to produce the signature larger-than-life polka-dotted pumpkins, reflective rooms and myriad other pieces that first captivated the world long before social media. This year, shows of her work that had been postponed in 2020 by the pandemic are scheduled to open, including the New York Botanical Garden’s much anticipated “Cosmic Nature” exhibit. From Japan’s rural islands to Berlin’s avant-garde museums, this eccentric master’s art work will…