Innholdsfortegnelse for 8/20/2021 i Newsweek

1971 Gloria Steinem was dubbed “The New Woman” by Newsweek for her relentless allegiance to the women’s rights movement and her efforts cultivating a united sisterhood amongst American women. “What gets nearly everyone about Steinem as Liberationist is that she didn’t have to,” Newsweek wrote. Fifty years later, she still doesn’t have to, but continues to champion the cause through publications and media interviews. Her inspiring story is passed down to younger generations through the 2020 film The Glorias based on her autobiography My Life on the Road. 1969 “The $18 billion U.S. advertising industry is going through a ‘creative explosion,’” Newsweek reported as agencies boomed. Today, social media allows advertisers to engage with consumers who can purchase goods with the click of a button, making advertising on apps such…

CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE BIGGEST THREAT WE’RE FACING—PERIOD. by Heather Goldstone AN EMERGENCY IS AN URGENT life-threatening situation that is actionable. If you have an extreme threat and it’s completely unactionable, it’s not an emergency. It’s just a tragedy. That’s a really important distinction when it comes to climate change, which is an actionable emergency. Recently, a group of about 14,000 scientists published a signed re-declaration that we’re in a climate emergency. There is extensive science that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are completely unprecedented. Carbon dioxide levels have not been this high in over 800,000 years. Modern humans have been around for a little bit less than half that. If you look at the last 10,000 years, at the evolution of agriculture, at the entire development of…

THERE ISN’T THAT MUCH distance between funny and sad. As Saturday Night Live’s Cecily Strong says, “When people talk about comedy, you talk about tension. It’s one in the same.” Take for example, Strong’s own life during 2020. First there was shooting SNL during the pandemic. Then it was figuring out how to safely film her new Apple TV+ musical comedy series Schmigadoon! At the same time, amid waves of anxiety and depression, Strong was grappling with having to put a new relationship on hold over a COVID-19 diagnosis and the death of her beloved 30-year-old cousin, Owen Strong, from brain cancer. “My cousin just passed away and the guy I finally started dating gets COVID. I had this busted thermometer, and I’m like, ‘Am I gonna die? Is…

THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS OBVIOUSLY been bad for a lot of things. But it might end up being a good thing for entrepreneurship. For instance, it has forced many folks to rethink their careers. In 2020, per Bloomberg citing IRS numbers, 4.3 million people applied for employer I.D. numbers, up nearly 25 percent over 2019. But like anything—and especially going into business for yourself—there are things to consider before taking the plunge. Success, after all, is far from a sure thing. History and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tell us that about 20 percent of those new pandemic-era businesses will fail within the first two years. The first five years? About 45 percent of those businesses won’t make the cut. So, what does it take to make it? To…

“Be Cool. Get Vax'd”—PAUL McCARTNEY “NO MATTER THE OUTCOME, I'VE WON.”—ACTOR LEVAR BURTON, ON COMPETING TO BE THE NEW HOST OF JEOPARDY “Patty and I faced political prosecution for having the audacity to defend our lives and property from an angry mob.”—ST. LOUIS ATTORNEY MARK MCCLOSKEY, WHO WITH HIS WIFE BRANDISHED GUNS AT BLM PROTESTERS, AFTER BEING PARDONED BY MISSOURI GOVERNOR MIKE PARSON “We’re not shutting down. These interventions have failed time and time again throughout this pandemic, not just in the United States but abroad. They have not stopped the spread.”—FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS “IT’S EASIER TO CANCEL SOMEONE THAN TO FIND FORGIVENESS AND COMPASSION IN OURSELVES OR TAKE THE TIME TO CHANGE HEARTS AND MINDS. THERE’S NO MORE ROOM FOR DIVISION IF WE WANT TO KEEP SEEING PROGRESS!”—Miley…

LATE LAST MONTH 10 YOUNG dancers and choreographers of color were being honored at a dinner in Los Angeles hosted by the JaQuel Knight Foundation and Logitech. Knight is the choreographer behind Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” and Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” videos, among others. Logitech is a maker of cameras and other computer peripherals. The honorees—among them TikTok dance creators Keara Wilson (the “Savage” dance), Young Deji (“The Woah” dance), Mya Johnson and Chris Cotter (the “Up” dance) and Shayné and Zhané Stanley (the “Savage Remix” dance)—were surprised by the announcement at the dinner that the star choreographer and the tech company were offering to help each of them secure copyrights for their dances. The move was the latest in a long struggle by Black artists for recognition…

TWENTY YEARS AFTER HOLLAND TAYLOR BECAME EVERYONE’S FAVORITE professor in Legally Blonde, she’s back to giving lessons in Netflix’s The Chair, but this time they’re about ageism, not feminism. “I think one of the most difficult things about ageism this character reveals is her lack of impact, her lack of ability to even be heard,” Taylor says about her character Joan, a distinguished senior professor on the verge of forced retirement—unless the new chair of the department (Sandra Oh) can stop it. But she says these kinds of stories are exactly what there need to be more of. “We are now as a society becoming more alert to all the different ways people are marginalized.” Adding to her already successful year, Taylor will next appear in the second season of…

I’VE NEVER BEEN AS NERVOUS in my life as the day in 2019 I competed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Somehow I managed to keep my cool and when it was officially announced that I would be representing Jamaica in gymnastics, it was the best feeling. I was able to finally see my name on that list of qualifiers after years of hard work. The general public mainly sees gymnastics every four years, and you see the best of the best in their sparkly leotards. It looks very easy at that point. But getting to that place has taken a lot of strength and determination, mentally as well as physically. When I got to Tokyo, I was training with girls from all different countries and the main feeling…