Innholdsfortegnelse for August 16-23, 2024 i Newsweek

MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE working for the weekend—the one that never comes. Matthew Kallish, 45, of Oak Ridge, New Jersey, labors up to 50 hours weekly as a U.S. Postal Service rural carrier associate, starting shifts at 7.30 a.m. that last until his route gets fully served, sometimes as many as six days each week. The married father also works a second job as a night auditor at a hotel in Parsippany on weeknights from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., leaving Kallish little time to enjoy the fruits of his exertion. “It’s been tough for sure,” Kallish told Newsweek of the grueling schedule he’s endured for more than 2 1/2 years. “Working the two jobs has definitely impacted my family in many ways.” Kallish’s grit helps afford his family occasional…

AFTER JULIE SIMONSON SURVIVED A SEXUAL assault, she turned to the 7-Eleven across the street for comfort food. Her weight skyrocketed, along with her shame. “I would cope by basically overeating,” the psychotherapist from Philadelphia says, recalling how her health declined in the aftermath of the attack. Eventually she turned to gastric bypass surgery and lost 160 pounds. Simonson, 50, endured skin removal surgery, a tummy tuck and an arm lift, but the pounds slowly came back, despite her best efforts to restrict calories and work with a trainer. Finally, in 2023, Simonson’s doctor put her on Mounjaro, one of the new class of highly touted diabetes and weight-loss drugs, and the pounds finally came off and stayed off. She says she feels amazing. But beneath Simonson’s joy, she’s found…

A funeral procession for Hamas political head Ismail Haniyeh winds through the streets of Tehran on August 1. Haniyeh was killed in an explosion the previous day—with Israel presumed to be behind the attack, though they have not claimed responsibility—at a guest residence in the capital city following the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Haniyeh’s assassination, along with Israel’s killing of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr hours before, has heightened fears of full-scale war in the Middle East, with Iranian officials vowing to retaliate.…

AS THE ARCTIC SUMMER MELTS THE POLAR BEAR tracks on the sea ice around Norway’s Spitsbergen Island, dozens of Chinese scientists are arriving at a facility guarded by a very different kind of white creature—stone lions from Shanghai. About 50 researchers from China are expected this year in the Norwegian science station of Ny-Ålesund in the Svalbard archipelago, where a male and a female lion watch the door of China’s “Yellow River Station.” It is the highest number of researchers since the COVID pandemic began, with some expected to stay through the polar winter. The growing Chinese presence is a sign of the Arctic’s increasing importance to Beijing as China emerges as a global power to challenge the United States and its allies, even though at its closest China is…

Culture HIGH, LOW + EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN ENTERTAINMENT SHE BECAME A CHILD STAR ALONGSIDE THE likes of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, and now actress Nikki DeLoach has compared the program to New York City’s most prestigious performing arts school, calling it “Juilliard on steroids for kids.” DeLoach, 44, a mother of two, is an actor known for her roles in the TV series Awkward, North Shore and Days of Our Lives as well as multiple Hallmark movies. But she got her start on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club in 1993 when she was 12 years old. The young cast—known as Mouseketeers—performed in a variety of musical and dance numbers, with the show particularly known for its sketch comedy. It was a springboard for…

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISISRAEL-HAMAS WAR FOR AS LONG AS THE HOLY LAND HAS BEEN HOLY, pilgrims have made their way to Jerusalem. They have come to offer sacrifices to God, or to bear witness to his suffering. They have come to pray and to contemplate their place in God’s creation—and to buy cheap souvenirs, including T-shirts freshly made with the emblem of their colleges back home. The point is, they have always come. But since October 7, they haven’t. “Work stopped instantly,” after October 7, said guide Dvir Hollander of Just Jerusalem Tours, sitting in his kitchen at Kibbutz Ramat Rahel, just outside Jerusalem. A fixture leading tours of the Old City for many years, Hollander has spent the last months largely at home, picking cherries and teaching tennis. The…

ADDICTION IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN the United States—and a common one. Nearly 60 percent of Americans over the age of 12 used drugs that were not prescribed for medical use in 2022, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s most recent national survey. Of the 168.7 million people who consumed alcohol, tobacco, nicotine or illicit drugs throughout the year, 48.7 million had a substance use disorder. Addiction is a complex disease, and not an easy one to conquer alone. Many people with substance abuse disorders will seek professional treatment—24 percent of people who were classified as needing substance abuse treatment received it in 2022, per SAMHSA’s survey. There is hope for Americans struggling with substance abuse disorders: 71 percent of adults who perceived that they have…