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Our Brains are Wired for Hypocrisy

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Sharon Begley - Oct. 27 (Special Report) - It's not only the rich and famous who have made hypocrisy a fine art, though when advocates for the poor such as John Edwards build gargantuan homes, or family-values preachers such as Ted Haggard fess up to "sexual immorality", they sure make it seem so. But garden-variety hypocrisy is so rife—the "environmentalist" who bought a Hummer because, come to think of it, driving lots of kids to soccer practice would use much less gasoline than if every parent made the trip; the "humanitarian" who turns down the charitable appeal because, on second thought, it's much better for the poor to learn to fend for themselves—it seems as if the brain must have a special circuit for it.

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Zakaria on a Third Surge in Afghanistan

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Fareed Zakaria - Oct. 26 (Opinion) - The real question we should be asking in Afghanistan is not "Do we need a surge?" but rather "Do we need a third surge?" The number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan in January 2008 was 26,607. Over the next six months, the Bush administration raised the total to 48,250. President Bush described this policy as "the quiet surge," and he made the standard arguments about the need for a counterinsurgency capacity—the troops had to not only fight the Taliban but protect the Afghan population, strengthen and train the Afghan Army and police, and assist in development.

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Innocuation Misinformation

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Jess Henig - Oct. 24 (Special Report) - Wild rumors are flying about the newly developed vaccine for pandemic influenza H1N1, also known as "swine flu." We've seen e-mails stating that the vaccine is tainted with antifreeze or Agent Orange, causes Gulf War syndrome, or has killed U.S. Navy sailors. One says the vaccine is an "evil depopulation scheme." The claims are nearly pure bunk, with only trace amounts of fact.

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The Great American Ideological Crackup

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Jon Meachen - Oct. 24 (Opinion) - Which puts the Fox News affair in an interesting light. To the base, the White House looks tough, willing to hit back—all while the base is getting few of the substantive reforms it has fought for. I am not suggesting that the Obama administration has staged the Fox protest as a bread-and-circuses ploy in order to give otherwise dissatisfied Democrats something to cheer, but no matter what the intention, the contretemps has made the White House seem more progressive than it is.

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Why Fox News Is Un-American

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Jacob Weisberg - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox's model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to develop a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. In this way, Fox hasn't just corrupted its own coverage. Its example has made all of cable news unpleasant and unreliable.

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Localism: Fewer Americans are Relocating

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Joel Kotkin - Oct. 18 (Special Report) - Fewer Americans are relocating than at any time since 1962. That's good news for families, communities ... and even the environment.

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Nobel Peace Prize Feeds Into Obama Parodies | Newsweek Voices - Eleanor Clift

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Clift, Eleanor - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - Obama's Nobel Prize would feed nicely into a 'Saturday Night Live' parody. But comedy wouldn't be funny without an element of truth.

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Going Out of Business? | Print Article

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Justin Bank, Lori Robertson - Oct. 07 (News Analysis) - A new health care ad from a conservative group claims that "Medicare will be bankrupt in eight years." That gives a false impression. The program does have huge financial problems, but there's no reason to think it's going out of business as the word "bankrupt" implies.

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Containing a Nuclear Iran

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Fareed Zakaria - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - It is time to clarify the debate over Iran and its nuclear program. It's easy to criticize the current course adopted by the United States and its allies, to huff and puff about Iranian mendacity, to point out that Russia and China won't agree to tougher measures against Tehran, and to detail the leaks in the sanctions already in place. But what, then, should the United States do? The critics are eager to denounce the administration from the sidelines for being weak but rarely detail what they would do to be "tough." Would they attack Iran today? If not, then what should we do? It is time to put up or shut up on Iran.

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Seven Ways to Fix the U.S. Postal Service

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Daniel Stone - Oct. 05 (News Report) - Since the late 19th century, the unofficial slogan of the U.S. Postal Service (it doesn't have an official one) has been guaranteed delivery through rain, sleet, or snow. Nowhere mentioned in that motto is a crippling economy or revenue and budget shortfalls. The government-subsidized service faces a nearly $7 billion net loss by year's end, landing it on the government list of federal programs at “high risk” of collapse, right up there with Medicare and the 2010 census. President Obama even piled on, remarking this summer that America's postal agency looked pretty dismal compared with private competitors like FedEx and UPS.

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Torture Doesn't Work and Here's Why

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Sharon Begley - Sep. 27 (Special Report) - While we wait for Dick Cheney, the Pentagon, or the CIA to release evidence that "enhanced interrogation techniques" produced useful, truthful intelligence that could not be obtained without torture, neuroscientists are weighing in on how likely torture is to elicit such information—and they are not impressed.

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Copenhagen Climate Talks: Why They May Fail

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Sharon Begley - Sep. 24 (Opinion) - This is Climate Week here in New York City, so if you have been swept up in the excitement over Hugh Jackman's lending his celebrity to the cause of averting a catastrophic greenhouse effect ("people in developing countries have contributed the least to climate change and are suffering the most from it," he said at Monday's opening ceremony at the New York Public Library), or President Obama's speech at the United Nations Tuesday warning of “irreversible catastrophe" if the nations of the world do not cut carbon emissions, you might feel optimistic that the nations of the world will get their acts together enough to produce a climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. Forgive me for being the skunk at this greenhouse-gas-enhanced garden party.

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Copenhagen or bust

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Gordon Brown - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - If we miss this opportunity, there will be no second chance sometime in the future, no later way to undo the catastrophic damage to the environment we will cause. So when world leaders gather this week, first at the United Nations in New York and then at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, it is essential that we move toward resolving the issues that still divide our nations. As scientists spell out the mounting evidence both of the climate change already occurring and of the threat it poses in the future, we cannot allow the negotiations to run out of time simply for lack of attention. Failure would be unforgivable.

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Why No One Believes Obama

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By George Will, Newsweek - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - He says America's health-care system is going to wrack and ruin and requires root-and-branch reform—but that if you like your health care (as a large majority of Americans do), nothing will change for you. His slippery new formulation is that nothing in his plan will "require" anyone to change coverage.

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Even Babies Discriminate: A NurtureShock Excerpt

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman - Sep. 14 (Review) - Vittrup sent a third of the families home with multiculturally themed videos for a week, such as an episode of Sesame Street in which characters visit an African-American family's home, and an episode of Little Bill, where the entire neighborhood comes together to clean the local park.

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Medvedev's Anti-Alcohol Campaign Tries to Make Russia Sober Up

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Andrei Litvinov - Sep. 06 (Special Report) - When it comes to lost causes, attempts to wean Russians off their booze would seem to rank at the very top. But that’s precisely what President Dmitry Medvedev is trying to do. Last week he kicked off a new anti-alcohol campaign aimed at cutting the nation's per capita consumption of alcohol by nearly a quarter by 2012.

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Why Some Want Another Economic Meltdown

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Daniel Gross - Sep. 04 (News Analysis) - Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link. Most Americans have a lot riding on the success of the government's efforts to pull the U.S. economy out of its ditch: individual investors, bankers, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben

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Why We Believe Lies, Even When We Learn the Truth

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Sharon Begley - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - The same skewed thinking that supports a Saddam-9/11 link explains the power of health-care myths.

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Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff - Aug. 22 (Special Report) - Top Bush CIA officials, including Tenet's successors as CIA director, Porter Goss and Gen. Michael Hayden, strongly lobbied for the IG report to be kept secret from the public. They argued that its release would damage America's reputation around the world, could damage CIA morale, and would tip off terrorists regarding American interrogation tactics. "Justice has had the complete document since 2004, and their career prosecutors have reviewed it carefully for legal accountability," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "That's already been done."

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Lonely Planet: Isolation Increases In US

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Johannah Cornblatt - Aug. 21 (News Report) - Despite our inter-connectedness, we?re now more alone than ever. ...

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The Taliban Are Resurgent in Afghanistan's North

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafza - Aug. 18 (News Analysis) - The Taliban has opened a new front in Afghanistan, and Western soldiers are not prepared to fight them. ...

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The Economic Effect of Japan's Election

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Rana Foroohar - Aug. 16 (Special Report) - Japan is heading into a landmark election in a state of freefall. Stagnant since the early 1990s, Japan's economy fell off a cliff in the last quarter, dropping 15.2 percent in the worst collapse of any industrial nation in decades. Automakers—Toyota, Nissan, and Honda, once the heart of the Japanese industrial miracle—saw exports fall 70 percent in April, and were forced to shutter factories to clear inventory. Since pocketbook issues decide elections, it's not surprising that Japanese voters appeared poised to toss out the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), only the second time it has lost power in half a century.

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The Leaders America Hates to Love

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Zeynep Memecan - Jul. 30 (Special Report) - Washington cultivates its allies. But it?s not always proud of them. ...

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On Iran, Do Nothing. Yet

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Fareed Zakaria - Jul. 29 (Opinion) - The hyperbole in America and Israel about apocalyptic mullahs with nukes missed the big story in Iran, which was that the mullahs were not apocalyptic, and they were fading in influence anyway. One might have said that the Islamic Republic of Iran is losing its distinct religious basis of power and becoming another Middle Eastern dictatorship—except that it now hosts an opposition movement that does not seem ready to quiet down.

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The Recession Is Over! But Not for You--Yet.

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Daniel Gross - Jul. 26 (Special Report) - In Westport, Mass., about 60 miles southwest of Boston, traffic crawls along Route 6 as drivers make their way to the nearby Atlantic beaches like Horseneck or Baker's. A 10-worker crew pouring and raking asphalt onto the road slows their progress. It's the kind of small annoyance drivers nationwide face each summer. It's also one small manifestation of President Barack Obama's ambitious strategy for jump-starting the economy.

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