Innholdsfortegnelse for January 21, 2022 i Newsweek

1981 “His Administration will confront an economy that teeters on the brink of a new recession, suffers from high interest rates and a massive budget deficit and grows increasingly unstable and inefficient,” Newsweek wrote the week before Ronald Reagan took office. Similarly, the Biden administration began with a COVID-19 related economic crisis and high federal debt and unemployment numbers. A year into his term, Biden’s approval rating is low as Americans continue to confront not only an ongoing global pandemic, but also inflation as well as intense political polarization. 1969 “For hundreds of thousands of Americans, the Hong Kong flu this winter has been a reminder of the constant battle between man and the virus enemy,” Newsweek wrote. Americans today are facing an even more more serious and enduring challenge…

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NAFTALI BENNETT is seeking to build upon a series of peace deals with Arab countries by fortifying ties with the United Arab Emirates, even as he wages war on a particularly contagious strain of COVID-19 at home. Bennett’s historic December trip to Abu Dhabi marked the first by an Israeli leader to one of the five nations that signed the Abraham Accords, through which four countries—the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco—defied a decades-long Arab boycott to normalize relations with Israel. The four are the first to do so since Egypt and Jordan did decades ago. Bennett’s reception by an honor guard at Abu Dhabi International Airport emphasized the level of relations being built by the two countries. “It was a meeting that would have been unimaginable a…

“I started my normal 2 hour drive to DC at 1 pm yesterday. 19 hours later, I’m still not near the Capitol.”—VIRGINIA SENATOR TIM KAINE, AMONG THOSE STRANDED ON I-95 BY A SNOWSTORM “I WORK AT FOX. I WANNA SEE DISARRAY ON THE LEFT. IT’S GOOD FOR AMERICA. IT’S GOOD FOR OUR RATINGS.”—CO-HOST JESSE WATTERS, THE FIVE “What other people think is none of your business and even sometimes what you think of yourself is none of your business.”—TRACEE ELLIS ROSS “We’re used to being unseen. We’re used to the micro aggressions, we’re used to the constant battles of trying to just be who you are.”—MICKEY GUYTON ON RACISM AND SEXISM IN COUNTRY MUSIC “WHEN A MAYOR HAS SWAGGER, THE CITY HAS SWAGGER.”—New York City Mayor Eric Adams “The planet…

EVA CHEN, DIRECTOR OF FASHION PARTNERSHIPS AT INSTAGRAM, KNOWS how to tell a story expertly through clothes. “My job at Instagram is two glorious things: fashion and shopping.” But when she became a mother, she was eager for a children’s book that reflected her first-generation Chinese American background, which is why she wrote I Am Golden (Feiwel & Friends, February 1), a children’s book illustrated by Sophie Diao. “I tried to write a book that I didn’t have growing up. I didn’t feel reflected in most children’s books.” Chen, previously the editor in chief of Lucky magazine, has written other children’s books, but this one hits closer to home. “I just wrote my personal experience, about the first time I was bullied, about how sometimes I felt like I was…

LESS THAN A YEAR BEFORE PRESIDENT JOHN F. Kennedy delivered his Commencement Address at the American University in 1963, the Cuban Missile Crisis had brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Though the prospect of a lasting peace remained a distant hope, in his remarks JFK rejected the inevitability of war as “a dangerous and defeatist belief,” and argued against the view that “mankind is doomed” or “gripped by forces we cannot control.” Rather, he offered a global challenge, powerfully declaring that: “Our problems are manmade—therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man’s reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable—and we believe they can do it again.” That…

KURT WARNER NEEDED BELIEF to become the proud owner of a Super Bowl ring, two Super Bowl MVP awards and one of the NFL’s most unlikely success stories. At times, belief in himself and the belief of those around him was all he had as he worked in a grocery store, waiting for his NFL dream to come true. The events that led to his meteoric rise in the NFL, via a $5.50 per hour job and the Arena Football League (AFL), are played out in the new movie American Underdog, which arrived in theaters on Christmas Day. Shazam! star Zachary Levi has the honor of playing the Hall of Famer but his co-star Anna Paquin has an equally as important role. American Underdog is more family drama than sports…