Innholdsfortegnelse for 5/7/2021 i Newsweek

1993 Newsweek wrote, “As dawn broke over Waco, the FBI moved armored vehicles up to the compound. They punched holes in the walls, then injected tear gas.” Inside were members of the Branch Davidian cult, led by David Koresh. “To his followers, Koresh was the chosen one, but the FBI saw only a grandiose fanatic who prophesied awful calamities.” During this conflict, the compound burned down in a fire and 76 Davidians died. In 2018, a Paramount miniseries called Waco detailed the cult and its tragic standoff with the federal government. The show came to Netflix last year. 1945 Adolph Hitler died, according to Newsweek, “as he had lived—by the sword.” At the time, Germany reported that he died in battle. “Never before had a single individual been hated by…

LAST YEAR, JAMAAL BOWMAN, a 45-year-old former educator, unseated 16-term U.S. Representative Eliot Engel in the Democratic primary for New York’s 16th District, which includes the northern Bronx and the southern portion of Westchester County. The district is so solidly Democratic that no Republican ran for the seat and Bowman easily crushed his Conservative Party opponent in the general election. Bowman had been inspired by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who had won her seat in New York’s 14th district in 2018 in a similar upset. Like Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman is a member of the nearly 100-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, part of “The Squad” (the informal group of Democratic congressional progressives which includes Ocasio-Cortez, Representatives Cori Bush of Missouri, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan). Also…

THE COMING ERA OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY by Marcus Johnson DEREK CHAUVIN KNELT ON GEORGE FLOYD’S neck for nine minutes. It took a Minnesota jury just 11 hours to reach a verdict. When Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts, of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, it was a watershed moment for the police accountability movement—one that represents the dawn of a new era in American policing. The Chauvin murder trial was perhaps the highest-profile criminal case against a police officer accused of killing an unarmed Black man. The trial began after a summer of some of the largest protests against police brutality in American history. And the case was not isolated; Floyd’s death was one of a string of highly publicized incidents in which white police officers…

KIMCHI, JJIGAE, JATJUK, PORK belly ssam, gimbap: the indie pop singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner, 32, can still vividly recall the many dishes her late Korean mother, Chongmi, made for her. More than just maintaining cultural heritage, food in Zauner’s household served as a sign of her mother’s love. Especially during those times when she would fly back home to Eugene, Oregon, from college, Zauner would be greeted with a celebratory and lavish meal prepared by Chongmi. “The thing that I always associate with her is her kalbi (Korean short ribs) recipe,” the New York City-based Zauner recalls. “She would marinate kalbi a couple of days before I came home. And she would buy these two different types of kimchi: dongchimi, this white radish kimchi that’s served with broth, sesame seed oil and gochugaru…

“I welcome the verdict but by itself this won’t heal the pain of their loss, which reverberated around the world. The guilty verdict must be the beginning of real change—not the end.”—LONDON MAYOR SADIQ KHAN “AMERICA, LET THIS BE THE PRECEDENT. LET THIS BE THE PRECEDENT WHERE WE LIVE UP TO THE HIGH IDEALS AND THE PROMISES WHEN WE SAY LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.”—Ben Crump, Floyd family lawyer “The truth of the matter is that the reason George Floyd is dead is because Mr. Chauvin’s heart was too small.”—prosecuting attorney Jerry Blackwell closing argument “The jury in the Derek Chauvin trial came to a unanimous and unequivocal verdict this afternoon: Please don’t hurt us. The jurors spoke for many in this country. Everyone understood perfectly well the consequences of…

JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER YOSHIHIDE Suga came to Washington at a tumultuous moment: The world is still dealing with the pandemic, the economies of the world’s richest countries—the U.S. and Japan included—haven’t yet recovered from the financial fallout and relations with China are increasingly tense. On April 16, the Japanese leader met with President Joe Biden at the White House for nearly three hours. The following day, in an exclusive interview, he spoke to Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad, Global Editor-in-Chief Nancy Cooper and Chief Washington Correspondent Bill Powell. Their conversation has been lightly edited for space and clarity. NEWSWEEK: You’re the first foreign head of state President Biden has met with during his presidency, which seems like an important statement. Many analysts say the U.S.-Japan alliance is now on a par…

Psychopomp Yellow K Records 2016 Japanese Breakfast’s first album was recorded in two weeks after the 2014 death of Michelle Zauner’s mother. Drawing from indie pop and shoe-gaze with tracks ranging from uptempo numbers (“Everybody Wants to Love You,” “Rugged Country”) to sweeping, meditative tracks (“Triple 7,” “Jane Cum”) Psychopomp became a critical hit upon its release. Soft Sounds From Another Planet Dead Oceans 2017 Following a 2016 tour with two other female Asian American indie musicians, Mitski and Jay Som, Japanese Breakfast heightened her profile with her second album that dealt with healing from trauma; among Soft Sounds From Another Planet’s standout songs are “Machinist” and “Boyish.” Zauner says, “A lot of the songs [on Soft Sounds] are kind of like a step back, whereas Psychopomp was more raw,…