Innholdsfortegnelse for 5/14/2021 i Newsweek

1993 “Looking to a possible next war, the Pentagon is fighting the last one, seeing intervention in Bosnia as Desert Storm II,” Newsweek wrote. There were 2.28 million refugees displaced or trapped within Bosnia and Herzegovina, with another 1.76 million scattered across Europe. U.N. troops were already on the ground in opposition to the Serbs, but what was needed was “to give those forces more clout.” The Clinton administration opted for a strategy of embargos and air strikes until, in 1995, the atrocities kept growing. That year, the U.S. deployed troops and assisted the negotiation of the Dayton Peace Accords. 1963 Concerned by the “rapidly expanding knowledge of the biochemists who may soon possess the ultimate secret of life,” some scientists feared they were “playing God,” said Newsweek. Since the…

@lindseypollak WEARING A CAP AND GOWN. Listening to inspiring words from assorted luminaries. Hearing the dean of students read off your name—not in person, but from a Zoom screen. Such is the state of college graduations these days. But this isn’t only about missing out on experiences most of us have enjoyed. The Class of 2021 is entering a challenging job market, perhaps like none other. While recent unemployment numbers have been encouraging, hiring for entry level, college grad positions has fallen 45 percent since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Burning Glass Technologies, a labor-market analytics firm. The bottom line: Four million graduates are going to need a lot of help and shouldn’t have to go it alone. Here’s how we—educators, parents and friends—can help. Become…

I’M A PRACTICING LAWYER OF 49-plus years in Los Angeles, who in March of 1990 became involved in the tragic case of Rodney King. Although Mr. King was my most notable client, I have represented numerous individuals who were assaulted and killed at the hand of police officers, and have tried these cases in both state and federal court. Now that the trial of Derek Chauvin has resulted in the jury finding the former police officer guilty on three charges—including the most serious charge of second-degree murder— we can see how far our nation has come since the Rodney King beating. Officers from multiple law enforcement agencies pulled over Mr. King following a pursuit on a California freeway. He was suspected of speeding, and possibly driving under the influence. Mr.…

@newbeats Like DavidBowie before her, Annie Clark, the innovative singer-songwriter-guitarist who goes by the stage name of St. Vincent (the moniker, she says, comes from a line in a Nick Cave song), has come up with alter egos tied to each of her albums. For 2011’s Strange Mercy, she told Billboard, she was a “housewife on pills;” for 2017’s Masseduction, she was a “dominatrix at a mental institution.” On her latest Daddy’s Home (due May 14), she’s gone back to the early 1970s as an Andy Warhol-esque character living in gritty and bohemian New York City, the kind of downtown scenester Lou Reed celebrated in “Walk on the Wild Side.” This era has always fascinated the Tulsa-born Clark, 38. “It was this period of time in downtown New York where…

Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant is very busy; when she’s not brilliantly portraying characters on SNL, she’s producing and starring in Shrill on Hulu (final season premieres May 7). “There’s a lot of juicy new fun,” Bryant says about the season. Based on the bestselling book by Lindy West, Bryant plays Annie, a plus-size woman on a mission of personal growth that has nothing to do with her size. “I feel really proud that we gave a fat character a lot of dignity.” Like her character, Bryant says she too made an active choice to not lean into shame. “In college I was kind of like, ‘Oh I see these cool young women who are not hating themselves, and I want to be like that.’ Things got quite a bit…

@AnitaDiamant “The economic divide has never been as clear in history as we are witnessing now.” » P.61 Period poverty encompasses the lack of access to the basic necessities for menstruation—hygiene products, of course, but also clean water, sanitation and education about biology and reproduction—and it includes a great deal more than this as well. Without access to these basic necessities, people who menstruate the world over are marginalized and regularly unable to participate in school, work and other activities. With 800 million people menstruating at any given time, removing the barriers to affordable menstrual products are essential. In her new book, PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE (Scribner, May), Anita Diamant tackles the causes of menstrual inequity, why it is such a problem, which countries and organizations are taking the lead…

@meghan_roos New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, became a popular leader in the fight against COVID-19 in the pandemic’s early stages, but recent scandals involving sexual harassment allegations and accusations about the state covering up virus deaths among nursing home residents have battered his image. As the scandals heated up earlier this year, Democratic New York Assemblyman Ron Kim publicly called out the governor, a man not known for forgiving slights. In February, Kim accused Cuomo of threatening him in response and called for the governor’s removal from office. Cuomo has denied any wrongdoing and said he does not intend to leave office before the end of his term. In the meantime, Kim and his colleagues have focused on pushing through a budget for the new fiscal year. Kim recently…

Marry Me Beggars Banquet 2007 After performing with the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens, Clark released her full-length debut as St. Vincent. (The stage name comes from the line “Dylan Thomas died drunk in St. Vincent’s Hospital” from Nick Cave’s 2004 “There She Goes, My Beautiful World”). The hallmarks of her sound are all here: theatrical art pop arrangements and surreal lyrics. Actor 4AD 2009 In a 2009 interview with NPR, St. Vincent said watching movies provided the inspiration for her second album. The jagged “Marrow” drew from The Wizard of Oz, while “The Strangers” came from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; another standout was the frenetic-sounding yet catchy single “Actor Out of Work.” Strange Mercy 4AD 2011 St. Vincent’s third album was released in 2011, a difficult period…

How’d you get interested in this? I’ve written a lot about women’s health issues. I had recently published some essays about women who died in menstrual tents in rural Nepal, and the need for menstrual justice worldwide when Melissa Berton asked if I would be interested in writing this book. Perfect timing. What is most important for everyone to understand about the danger in stigmatizing periods? When menstruation is stigmatized, women become second-class citizens, and their self-esteem suffers. (The same holds true for non-female-identified menstruators.) The curse is one of the oldest and most common euphemisms for menstruation, which makes a healthy function of human anatomy into something shameful, polluting and even dangerous (to others). Menstruation isn’t a curse, but stigma is. In your bestselling novel, The Red Tent, women…

At least 1,050 civilians and law enforcement personnel died in police encounters between George Floyd’s murder and the conviction of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis Police Department officer who killed him. Chauvin’s conviction is a statistical anomaly. In the 1,127 police killings recorded in 2020, only 16 cases—1.4 percent—resulted in a charge against the offending officer. Even as jurors were deliberating in the Chauvin trial, a police officer shot and killed 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. She was seen charging at someone with a knife on police body cam footage. Between Floyd’s death and Chauvin’s conviction, at least 979 people were killed in encounters with law enforcement personnel, according to data collected by the Mapping Police Violence website. At the same time, 181 Black people died in police encounters.…

01 The BeltLine Atlanta In a massive, 22-mile loop around the city, the BeltLine connects many Atlanta neighborhoods with parks, trails, restaurants and art installations. Although it is not yet fully completed, the sections that are open to the public act as alternative transportation options and a space to enjoy the outdoors in the middle of the sprawling city. 02 Dumbarton Oaks Washington, D.C. The garden at this historic estate in Georgetown was listed as one of the 10 best gardens in the world by National Geographic in 2014. It has both a formal, carefully manicured garden as well as a naturalistic garden—allowing visitors the ability to choose what they want to see. The property is also home to a museum and a humanities research library. 03 Sky Garden London…