Innholdsfortegnelse for January 24, 2025 i Newsweek

Once home to the rich and famous, properties along the Malibu coastline lie in ruins on January 9, destroyed by the Palisades fire—one of four in the area that had killed at least 24 as of press time and was still raging. The Palisades fire is the most destructive in Los Angeles’ history, with thousands of structures destroyed over 20,000 acres as hurricane-force winds fanned its flames. Over 180,000 people had been told to evacuate their homes, and AccuWeather estimated the damage and economic loss at around $150 billion.…

“Max, this is Jimmy. Jimmy Carter.” It was an early Sunday morning. I was about to go out for a morning run when my telephone rang. “Can you join Rosalynn and me for Sunday school and church? We can talk between the services. Be at the White House at 10:30 a.m.? We’ll drive over to the church together.” It was during the “malaise” period of his presidency, in the late 1970s. Several advisers and friends were suggesting ways to turn around his falling poll numbers. Energy prices and interest rates were soaring. My patriotic blood was flowing. I wanted to help, to give this good man my two cents, but not every president would find the time to listen to a young, second-term congressman. Jimmy Carter was different. “Absolutely, Mr.…

BLOSSOMING INTO PANSY Marianne Jean-Baptiste on building her Hard Truths role. ▸ P.64 Patricia arquette’s belief that the premise of her hit TV show Severance reflects modern reality might raise some eyebrows ahead of its sophomore season premiere. After all, the highly acclaimed Apple TV+ drama follows the lives of seemingly ordinary office workers who turn up to what seems to be a standard office building in a nondescript American town. They clock in, greet security, sit at a cubicle in an open-plan office space for eight hours, say farewell to the security guard and then head to their average cars in the dreary parking lot before returning home. But of course, in the age of premium television, there is a twist. The memories of these office workers reset as…

Tributes to President Jimmy Carter ▸ P.18 The u.s. is not prepared enough for a possible long-range missile strike from Russia, China or North Korea, a new report revealed, offering one potential road map for Donald Trump to piece together the American version of Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome system he has pledged to build around the U.S. The report, penned by Robert Soofer, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy in the previous Trump administration, said the threat of long-range strikes—including those using intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads—hitting U.S. territory is “real and growing.” Soofer, writing for the Atlantic Council, recommended the incoming Trump administration quickly build up U.S. stocks of specific types of interceptor missiles to knock out a possible incoming…

Like many cancer patients, michael Wolff wanted answers. But, like many cancer patients in 2015, he wasn’t getting them. After years of lymphoma treatment, the renowned jazz musician was still sick and unable to play. His wife insisted that he seek a second opinion at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. MSK doctors found that, rather than lymphoma, Wolff had histiocytic sarcoma: a rare blood cancer affecting 300 Americans each year. He was referred to Dr. Mrinal Gounder, a sarcoma medical oncologist and early drug development specialist. The pair—now friends—recounted their first meeting for Newsweek. “Look,” Wolff recalls telling Gounder, “if you don’t know about this, get me to the doctor seeing the most of these.” “I’ve seen the most of these,” Gounder replied. “How many?” “Ten.”…

Born less than five years apart in Georgia, the late President Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr. both came up during the civil rights movement, rising to the top of American politics to be remembered as statesmen of their time. And despite having never met, Carter and King would spend more than half a century tangled in a dance that would forever shape the legacy of the other. “When I look at his life and I look at my father’s life, they both started from [a] different place,” Bernice King, the youngest daughter of the civil rights icon, told Newsweek in an interview following Carter’s death at 100 last month. “But in an interesting way, they both operated from a similar frame of reference, which was the belief that…

Regional banks and credit unions are the financial backbone of communities nationwide. They serve as vital engines at the local level as they support small businesses, fund projects and ensure easy access to essential banking services. With intimate knowledge of local economies, these banks often form strong bonds with customers, enabling them to better meet their needs. Credit unions are operated as member-owned cooperatives, driven by a mission of service rather than profit. This approach often translates to lower fees, competitive loan rates and a genuine focus on member satisfaction. Credit unions serve as more than just financial institutions—they are partners in their neighborhoods, actively participating in local events and initiatives that strengthen bonds among members. To spotlight the banks and credit unions positively impacting their communities, Newsweek and Plant-A…