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2003 “The battle—over gay marriage, gay adoption, gays in the military and gays in the workplace—will be fought out court to court, state to state for years to come,” Newsweek reported. “Nonetheless, there is no question that the Lawrence case represents a sea change, not just in the Supreme Court, a normally cautious institution, but also in society as a whole.” Advocacy for LGBTQ+ civil rights legislation has since intensified. Twelve years later in 2015, Obergefell v. Hodges made gay marriage legal in all 50 states, and in June 2020, discrimination of LGBTQ+ workers was barred in the workplace. 1961 Newsweek wrote, “As summer burst across the land last week, millions of Americans were making plans to spend as much of it as possible out of doors.” In 2020 the pandemic…

THIS OCTOBER, NEWSWEEK AND my company, the Best Practice Institute, will unveil a group of companies—small, medium and large—that employees love working for. (Or where they may want to work.) We’re calling it our “Most Loved Workplaces” list. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that it has never been more critical for companies to up their game. Because of the pandemic, employees and potential employees need to feel much more connected to their employers. Workers are starting to head back to the office, but many will continue to work remotely, at least for a while. Either way, it is clear that employees’ personal and work lives are in some turmoil. They need to know three things: Do they stay with their current employers? Find another boss? Or, if unemployed,…

MAY 30, 2021 Brazil-based JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company, is the victim of a ransomware attack attributed to the Russian-speaking cybercrime group REvil. The attack shut down facilities in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Ransom: $11 million. MAY 7, 2021 The Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S., is the target of a ransomware attack attributed to DarkSide, a Russian-speaking hacking group, causing a run on gasoline in the southeast. Ransom: $4.4 million, of which the Justice Department recovered $2.3 million. APRIL 15, 2021 U.S. Cyber Command announces that it “released eight files attributed to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)/APT 29 to enable public defense against further compromise” during a “Hunt Forward” operation conducted in connection with the SolarWinds hack. MARCH 2021 U.S.-based insurance company,…

FOR MOST OF LAST YEAR, THE IDEA THAT THE coronavirus pandemic could have been triggered by a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, was largely dismissed as a racist conspiracy theory of the alt-right. The Washington Post in early 2020 accused Senator Tom Cotton of “fanning the embers of a conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked by experts.” CNN jumped in with “How to debunk coronavirus conspiracy theories and misinformation from friends and family.” Most other mainstream outlets, from The New York Times (“fringe theory”) to NPR (“Scientists debunk lab accident theory”), were equally dismissive. (Newsweek and a few other media outlets were exceptions.) Recently, however, the story has burst into the public discourse. President Joe Biden has demanded an investigation by U.S. intelligence. And the mainstream media, in an…

REGRETS—I’VE HAD A FEW. I wish I could say they’re too few to mention, but that wouldn’t be true. If you have ambition, you have regrets. It comes with the territory. I recently made the mistake of writing a memoir recounting adventures from my life and career as a physician and scientist. Naturally, the writing process led me to also meditate on my many regrets, which unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to detail in the book because my publisher wanted to “keep things positive.” One of my biggest regrets is that I never mastered a musical instrument. I played percussion as a student and also took piano lessons, but didn’t stick with it. I was in such a hurry as a young man to achieve my dream of becoming…

IF YOU HAD TO PICK ONE THING THAT DEFINED THE 1980S, YOU’D LIKELY include aerobics. From leotards to Olivia Newton-John’s “Let’s Get Physical” to Jane Fonda’s iconic fitness videos, aerobics became a cult-like obsession, and Rose Byrne’s new Apple TV+ series Physical (June 18) recreates that time. “The era is documented so much and it’s parodied so much, it’s easy to be funny.” Byrne plays Sheila, a wife and mother who finds purpose in her life, and eventually fame and fortune, through the world of aerobics. “She has ideas, she has ambition, she wants to sit at the table. Yet she’s also harboring a horrible illness and an addiction and this secret life full of lies. We meet her at a breaking point.” As for whether Byrne was influenced by…

“Whenever the church gets in bed with politics, it gets pregnant. And the offspring does not look like our Father in heaven.”—OUTGOING SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION PRESIDENT J.D. GREEAR “I CRY ON PLANES.”—ACTOR ANYA TAYLOR-JOY ON WHAT SHE DOES BETWEEN ROLES “Biden’s message at these meetings has been simple: America’s back. You know, like the McRib. America’s back for a limited time only. Offer not valid in Florida.”—SETH MYERS ON THE PRESIDENT’S TRIP TO EUROPE “At the end of the day, we train for so long to compete for two, three minutes total. It’s like, Where’s the fun in that? If you’re not having fun, it’s not worth it.”—SIMONE BILES ON FINDING JOY IN GYMNASTICS “THERE’S A HISTORY OF FOREIGN SUBSTANCES BEING USED ON THE BALL, BUT WHAT WE ARE SEEING…

OVER A CAREER THAT HAS LASTED MORE than 50 years, Sparks, the Los Angeles-based art-rock/pop outfit of brothers Ron and Russell Mael, have released 25 studio albums, scoring occasional chart success in various parts of the world and influencing countless other musical acts. Their idiosyncratic yet ruthlessly catchy music has encompassed various genres, among them glam rock, power pop, synthpop, techno and classical, with quirky and ironic lyrics, Russell’s vocals and Ron’s keyboards the only constants. On stage, they’ve cultivated two of the weirdest and most distinct personas in rock. One thing they’ve aimed for that has eluded them till now: bringing their vision to the silver screen. The brothers had started out as film fans who studied cinema as students at UCLA during the late 1960s but their subsequent…