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Gen Z’s Pockets Full of Cash
GENERATION Z IS EMBRACING cash, despite digital money being the primary way of spending, saving and investing in 21st century life. Some 69 percent of Gen Zers (born between 1997 and 2012) in the U.S. and U.K. were using cash more than they did in 20
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Biden’s Age Problem Tears Democrats Apart
JUST OVER A MONTH AFTER A SPECIAL COUNSEL report brought questions over Joe Biden’s age to the forefront of the 2024 presidential campaign, Democrats are torn about the best way of addressing what is becoming one of the election’s defining issues. Th
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GLOBAL EDITOR IN CHIEF _ Nancy Cooper VICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL _ Laura Davis DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS _ Melissa Jewsbury OPINION EDITOR _ Batya Ungar-Sargon GLOBAL PUBLISHING EDITOR _ Chris Roberts SENIOR EDITOR-AT-LARGE _ Josh Hammer EDITORIAL Managi
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The Fall and Rise of Katt Williams
KATT WILLIAMS’ WILD RIDE OF AN APPEAR-ance on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast started the year with one clear message: the comedian has far more than nine lives. In a conversation spanning almost three hours, Williams, 52, discussed his famil
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Tobias Menzies
HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE assassination of President Abraham Lincoln? That’s a question Tobias Menzies hopes to answer in Apple TV+’s Manhunt (March 15). “The thing that really struck me was the newness of the nation, that it wasn’t really
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Valerie Bauman
Q _ Were you ultimately successful in your quest to conceive? A _ I am currently pregnant, due in mid-May. I can’t wait to meet my son! Is there anything you would have done differently along the way? There is a donor I mention in the book who I wo
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Ramy Youssef
DESCRIBING RAMY YOUSSEF’S WORK ISN’T EASY, BECAUSE HE REFUSES TO settle on just one thing. “I feel really inspired to connect in the way that it makes sense.” That started out with stand-up, but has since morphed into acting, writing, directing and p
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AMERICA’S Greatest Workplaces for JOB STARTERS 2024
Getting a career started is never easy. First-day stumbling blocks can give way to larger questions about choosing the right career path. Imposter syndrome, information overload, the challenge of new colleagues: it’s almost enough to make you miss th
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Ramadan Reflections
A Kashmiri Muslim elder recites the Quran at Dastgeer Sahib, a Sufi shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir, on March 12, the first day of Ramadan in the region. The ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, Ramadan is a time of deep spiritual reflectio
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I’m Suing Harvard Over Rife Antisemitism
IN JUDAISM, THERE IS AN IDEA of passing down knowledge and traditions “l’dor v’dor”—from generation to generation. As if called to fulfill my part, I learned that I was accepted to Harvard Divinity School while visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau concent
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The Inconceivable Search For Sperm
SINGLE WOMEN AND LGBTQ+ COUPLES are increasingly pursuing pregnancy via known donors—people they find on the internet, in Facebook groups and through dating-like apps. In her own quest to become a solo mother by choice, investigative journalist Valer
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Marine Menace
The cargo ship Rubymar lists sideways as it sinks off the coast of Yemen on March 7, three weeks after a Houthi missile attack damaged its hull. It was the first vessel sunk in the rebel group’s violent campaign against alleged Israeli assets to show
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Millennials Are Shifting the Housing Market
FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF MILLEN-nials, the generation born between 1981 and 1996, the time to buy a home has never been quite right. Older millennials were not yet 30 when the financial crisis of 2007-2008 upended the housing market and the U.S. economy
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Could A European Military Go It Alone?
PIPE DREAM, A FANTASY—JUST TWO OF the phrases bandied about whenever the idea of a European or European Union army resurfaces. This time, it was Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, who prodded the conversation awake. “If we want to be peacekeep
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Country Has Won Our Achy Breaky Hearts
COUNTRY MUSIC IS ENJOYING A HUGE RESUR-gence—and showing signs that it is becoming more inclusive. With both Beyoncé and Lana Del Rey having announced that they’re releasing country albums this year, and country songs regularly going viral on TikTok,
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Exit Plans
Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Rod Nordland has covered global conflicts for almost five decades for the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, NEWSWEEK and THE NEW YORK TIMES. Reporting on wars and government upheavals in over 150 countries from Nicar
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America’s Best Regional Banks And Credit Unions 2024
REGIONAL BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS PLAY A PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE financial fabric of communities nationwide. Unlike their larger counterparts, these institutions are deeply rooted in local economies, understanding the unique needs of the people they serve
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‘Deadly Risk’ of Fat-Loss Drugs
“MIRACLE” FAT-MELTING DRUG OZEMPIC HAS been linked in a study to a series of rare but potentially fatal psychiatric episodes, scientists have warned. The injectable prescription drug was developed to manage blood sugar levels in patients with Type 2
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Rod Nordland
Q _ You’ve been up close with some of the world’s worst terrorist leaders, giving you a unique perspective. What should we understand about extremism? A _ You can’t understand it in isolation. You have to see it in context of the conflict that’s taki
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Regina King
BRINGING THE LIFE STORY OF ACTIVIST SHIRLEY CHISHOLM TO SCREEN wasn’t an easy task for Regina King. “This has been a labor of love. My sister [Reina] and I have been at this for close to 15 years now.” Netflix’s Shirley (March 22) focuses on Chisholm
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James Marsden
JAMES MARSDEN IS GOOD AT KEEPING FANS on their toes. Following his Emmy-nominated success with Jury Duty, Marsden has three very different projects in 2024, the first being Michael Keaton’s Knox Goes Away (March 15). “I like to take opportunities tha
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Chaos Engulfs Capital
A man points toward burning tires in Haiti’s capital on March 7, the same day Haiti’s government extended its state of emergency. As gangs demand the prime minister resigns, they have attacked government buildings, freed more than 4,500 prison inmate
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Newsweek US
GLOBAL EDITOR IN CHIEF _ Nancy Cooper VICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL _ Laura Davis DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS _ Melissa Jewsbury OPINION EDITOR _ Batya Ungar-Sargon GLOBAL PUBLISHING EDITOR _ Chris Roberts SENIOR EDITOR-AT-LARGE _ Josh Hammer EDITORIAL Managi
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The Eastern Front
NEWSWEEK POLSKA: Are you a minister of peace or war? WŁADYSŁAW KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ: The Minister of Defense must be prepared for any situation. Until the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, most of us thought that we lived in times of peace and viewed the M
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Earning Her Stripes
Kala, a 3-month-old Sumatran tiger cub, plays with her father at Bioparco, the zoological gardens in Italy’s capital, on March 7. The smallest species of tigers and critically endangered, with barely 400 left in the world, Kala made her world debut t
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The Archives
“[Michael] Jordan was the greatest player in the game, and after he retired, he vowed ‘I’m never coming back to play basketball... Unless I change my mind.’ Sometime in the last two weeks, Jordan appears to have done just that,” Newsweek wrote. After
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Setting the Agenda
President Joe Biden delivers the annual State of the Union address—the final one of this presidential term—on March 7 in the nation’s capital. Addressing his “predecessor” and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump throughout, without mentioning
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Scoring Legend
Iowa Hawkeyes’ star Caitlin Clark helps defeat the Minnesota Golden Gophers on February 28 at the sold-out Williams Arena. With her 33 points, she became the all-time leading scorer in women’s college basketball. Four days later, on March 3, she brok
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Annette Bening
UNDERSTANDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN DARK COMEDY AND MYSTERY is a unique quality of Annette Bening, which she puts to good use in Peacock’s limited series Apples Never Fall (March 14), based on Liane Moriarty’s book. “Everybody has a secret, and that’s
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How China’s ‘Thought Eradication’ Led to Genocide
CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JIN-ping’s crackdown on the “disease” of separatism encouraged officials in the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang to sweep up as many detainees as possible for internment camps, where they faced what the U.S. has described as ge
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