False Starts
After a series of demoralizing failures, Alzheimer’s researchers now think they are on track to deliver effective treatments. How soon will they come?
BY ADAM PIORE

How the Courts Thwarted Donald Trump
The judiciary has been his biggest stumbling block.
BY STEVE FRIESS

Can Biden Succeed Where Obama Failed? 
The previous Democrat showed you can make friends or make progress–but not both.
BY DAVID SIROTA

The Choice: Accountability or Unity
Joe Biden has a critical choice to make about the best way to move the country forward.
BY STEVE FRIESS

Arab Spring Reckoning - Gains and Losses 10 Years After the Uprisings.

Baked With Love - An 11-Year-Old Cake Entrepreneur.

Red Alert
Donald Trump’s talk about martial law has the military secretly planning how to respond to possible chaos around the inauguration and transition.
BY WILLIAM M. ARKIN

The Year in Misinformation
Facts did not always flourish in 2020. Web rating service NewsGuard names the last 12 months’ worst (and best) online news sources.
BY GABBY DEUTSCH

How to Be Happier
A leading Yale psychologist offers five data-based techniques to boost your mood and protect your mental health.
BY LAURIE SANTOS

Use Science for Better Resolutions
How to adopt healthier habits, improve your finances and spend more time with the people you love.
BY KERRI ANNE RENZULLI

A Quantum Leap
The U.S. and China are spending billions to develop powerful technology that could transform computing and the world. Who will get there first?
BY FRED GUTERL

Overtreated & Overbilled
The $1 trillion problem jacking up American’s medical costs. An exclusive excerpt from the new book Get What’s Yours for Health Care.
BY PHILLIP MOELLER

The Vaccine Resistance
Even a highly effective COVID-19 vaccine won’t rein in the pandemic unless enough people take it.
BY FRED GUTERL

Most Responsible Companies
Newsweek teamed up with research firm Statista to find the companies that Americans trust most.

Welcome to the ‘Transition from Hell’
In the time he has left, Trump has lots of ways to make Biden’s life miserable. Here are some.
BY STEVE FRIESS

America’s Most Trusted Brands
Newsweek partnered with leading market research firm BrandSpark to find the companies that American shoppers have the most confidence in.

Biden’s First 100 Days
The President-elect wanted to come into office with FDR-like gusto. A bitterly divided country and a split Congress now have him rethinking those plans.
BY STEVE FRIESS

World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2021
Picking the right place for care is among the most important medical decisions you can make. Newsweek and Statista found the leaders in three specialities.

The New China Syndrome
Sowing unrest ahead of the election is just part of China’s efforts to expand its influence in the U.S.
BY DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW

Best in STEM 2021
Newsweek partnered with STEM.org to find the most fun, engaging and educational toys for tomorrow’s budding scientists, engineeers and mathematicians.

Rx for an Ailing Economy
Newsweek asked 12 top economic thinkers what the next president should do to restore America to financial health.
BY PETER CARBONARA + SCOTT REEVES

America’s Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2021
Newsweek and research firm Statista found the top places in the U.S.for same-day procedures.

Can Science Stop QAnon?
Hope to save America from misinformation and conspiracy theories may come from the study of how diseases spread.
BY DAVID H. FREEDMAN

Best Customer Service 2021
Newsweek and research firm Statista team up again to track down the retailers and service companies that take the best care of their customers.

Packing the Court
Could political game-playing be good for the Court—and the country? Plus, Biden’s likely nominees for Justice.
BY DAVID KAPLAN, STEVE FRIESS

America’s Best Banks 2021
Introducing Newsweek’s first ranking of the financial institutions that best serve their customers’ needs in these challenging times.

The Netanyahu Dilemma
After making two historic peace deals, has the controversial and embattled Israeli leader earned a Nobel Peace Prize?.
BY TOM O’CONNOR

Best Nursing Homes 2021
Newsweek partnered again with global research firm Statista to find and rank the top facilities for seniors in each state in the U.S., with a special focus this year on COVID-19 safety.

A Shot in the Dark
Everyone wants a COVID-19 vaccine, but the talk of rushing one out is making people nervous. How to assess the risk.
BY FRED GUTERL

World’s Best Specialized
Hospitals 2021 Newsweek teamed up with research firm Statista to find the leaders for care in six key medical fields.

Economy Class
An exclusive new survey reveals how the pandemic economy is changing the way we save, spend and even think about money—maybe forever.
BY PAUL KEEGAN

Best Online Shops 2021 
With internet shopping more important now than ever, Newsweek teamed up with research firm Statista to find the top 1,000 online stores in 39 categories.

The X Factor - A late break toward Trump by undecided voters helped decide the last presidential election. Can Trump persuade them to back him again— with the same results?

The Fateful Slate - In 2018 a lot of red House seats turned blue. To beat Trump in November Democrats need moderate-to-conservative voters in a handful of those districts to pull the lever for Biden.

The Addict’s Brain
As the coronavirus pandemic fuels a surge in overdoses, scientists race to halt addiction at its source.
BY ADAM PIORE

Get Your Life Back
Newsweek partnered with research firm Statista to find the best addiction and physical rehab facilities in the U.S.

The Office Makes a Comeback
You Can’t Work on the Couch Forever

The Coming Election Nightmare 
Chaos over mail-in ballots and other breakdowns in the voting process could trigger an existential crisis for American democracy.
BY DAVID H. FREEDMAN

Why Red States Have the Blues
The blues states are colonizing Electoral College-rich red states —and there’s nothing the red states can do about it.
BY SAM HILL & HANK GILMAN

The Utility Player
President Trump has asked his son-in-law Jared Kushner to handle everything from the wall to the West Bank. How’s that been working out?
BY BILL POWELL

Banned in Beijing
Hollywood has been quietly placating communist censors to get movies shown in China. Will rising tensions with the U.S. put an end to that?
BY PAUL BOND

“ We Didn’t Know What We Know Now”
The lessons doctors learned in early hot spots are likely to mean a higher survival rate for patients infected with COVID-19 in the second wave.
BY ADAM PIORE

Best Maternity Hospitals 2020
Newsweek and Leapfrog Group, a non-profit that reports on safety and quality of U.S. hospitals, teamed up to find the top 231 facilities in 36 states..

Stepping Up
Corporate philanthropy has often been slow, calculating and overly cautious. COVID-19 has changed all that at least for now.

A Global Reckoning
Black Lives Matter protests have sprung up in dozens of countries. Leaders of the movement speak out about the changes that need to happen now..

America’s Best Realtors 2020
Newsweek teamed up with REAL Trends—the trusted source of information on the residential brokerage industry—to find the top five realtors in all 50 states.

Where Do We Go From Here?
South Africa and Germany confronted their racist histories. It is time for America to do the same.
BY WESLEY LOWERY

‘Nobody Can Say No to Beijing’
China has gobbled up Hong Kong undeterred by widespread protests and international condemnation. Who’s next?

America’s Best-In-State Customer Service
Newsweek and data firm Statista name 556 outstanding retailers and service providers across the country..

Channeling FDR
Joe Biden wants to build his own New Deal. Whether he can pull it off if he becomes president is another question.

Diseases of Isolation
A rise in suicides, opioid abuse, domestic abuse and depression could rival the toll from the coronavirus..

THE BATTLE BETWEEN CHINA AND THE U.S. IS MORE THAN A WAR OF WORDS.

America’s Most Trusted Brands
In these uncertain times research firm BrandSpark and Newsweek reveal which brands in 175 categories Americans have the most confidence in.

Privacy vs. Public Health
Would you let the government track your smartphone if it meant we could reopen sooner?
BY DAVID H. FREEDMAN

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?
Here’s what our post-COVID-19 economy may look like—in plain English.
BY SAM HILL

All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
Gen Z is launching into adulthood in the middle of a pandemic..

The Giving Pledge: 10 Years After
Why are the billionaires donating much of their wealth being criticized now?

“I’m Pulling Out All the Stops”
Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s tough stay-at-home rules may save lives in Michigan but put her political future at risk.

“We’re All Looking for Answers”
Frontline doctors are fighting coronavirus with innovative techniques, sharing advice and learning on the fly...

Who Will Doctors Save?
Hospitals are preparing for the unthinkable: rationing treatment. How will they decide? PLUS: Five top healthcare experts weigh in. 
BY FRED GUTERL

Handicapping 2020
The pollsters got it wrong when Trump took on Hillary in 2016. Can we trust them to get it right this time?
BY SAM HILL

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