Strait Talk

TAIWAN'S NEW PRESIDENT LAI CHING-TE IS TAKING A HARD LINE ON CHINA. BEIJING IS NOT AMUSED

The way to a truly restful vacation

TRAVEL CAN DO WONDERS FOR YOUR well-being: expanding your mind, bonding you to loved ones, and connecting you with nature.

DO LESS. IT'S GOOD FOR YOU

Unproductive moments can boost health and happiness

Afghan women defying the Taliban

WHEN KABUL FELL TO THE TALIBAN, RETURNING Afghanistan to the fundamentalist group's control, women who did not flee faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire to their degrees.

Failure to Deliver

Multinational companies embraced Chinese factories to lower costs. Their excessive reliance ended up being a central cause of the COVID supply chain meltdown

The TikTok Election

With both Donald Trump and Joe Biden now on the app, could it help determine the next U.S. president in November?

How U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is navigating America's AI future

UNTIL MID-2023, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE was something of a niche topic in Washington, largely confined to small circles of tech-policy wonks.

The future is in Judge Merchan's hands

NOW THAT A JURY HAS FOUND DONALD TRUMP guilty of 34 felony charges, nearly everything about what happens next is up to Judge Juan Merchan.

BEST SPECIALISTS & SURGEONS

FINDING THE BEST MEDICAL SPECIALIST IS A DAUNTING TASK for anyone requiring specific treatment.

SURGEONS MAGIC TOUCH

Americans turn down syringes but go UNDER SCALPELS. What do these doctors know that the rest of medicine doesn't?

WESTWARD HO, AGAIN

Kevin Costner's risky western epic, Horizon, celebrates the height of the genre without quite getting there itself

As employers embrace Al, workers fret-and seek input

THE SWEDISH BUY-NOW-PAY-LATER COMPANY KLARNA has become something of a poster child for the potential benefits of generative artificial intelligence.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BIDEN

Inside the President’s eff orts to sustain the American century

How Trump prepared his allies for a guilty verdict

The Trump campaign was prepared. Minutes after a Manhattan jury convicted the former President, fundraising pitches inundated inboxes, right-wing influencers stormed social media, and Donald Trump emerged from the courtroom to delegitimize the verdict.

The Fight to Ban Child Marriage

Under-18s can legally wed in most U.S. states but young spouses are often left physically, emotionally and economically vulnerable, campaigners say

SHARING GRIEF AMID WAR

Spring and early summer are difficult times for both Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli Jews move from Passover, the holiday of freedom, to Holocaust Memorial Day, to Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror, to the triumphant celebrations of Independence Day. The days pass with rituals intended to give us a shared meaning as a society and to inculcate and frame Israel's official narrative.

Claudia Sheinbaum

A first for Mexico

GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS

TESSA BERENSON ROGERS, BRIAN BENNETT, ERIC CORTELLESSA

'I don't have faith in doctors anymore!'

How women get pressured into long-term birth control

Major League Error

Why baseball fans have long thought Ty Cobb to be a racist when he wasn't

ARABIAIN MIGHT

SAUDI ARABIA'S INCREASING STRENGTH MEANS IT NOW HAS MUCH MORE CLOUT WITH ITS PARTNERS, INCLUDING THE U.S.

Climate Conviction at What Price?

Fifty years ago experts doubted Americans would pay to save the environment. Only some of their fears are still true

Iran Examines the Nuclear Option

Tehran's rhetoric could spark an arms race in the Middle East like never before

Bringing Trump's Trial to Life

Sketch artist Isabelle Brourman tells Newsweek what it was like covering the former president's court case

MIDEAST LEADERSHIP CRISIS

Iran searched for a lost President hours before war-crime charges were sought against heads of Israel and Hamas

The decades-long build to Eruption

WHEN MICHAEL CRICHTON AND HIS WIFE SHERRI FIRST started dating, all they did was hike. Every weekend there they were, taking in the scenery from the coasts of California to the mountains of Hawaii. The island of Kauai was their favorite place, its rivers carving through volcanic rock and steep, jagged cliffs cutting the sky. The couple would wake before dawn to be first ones out on the trails, and together they'd take in the sunrise.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES

A new comedy takes on the unfiltered realities of pregnancy, motherhood, and friendship

Health Matters

TICK SEASON IS ONCE AGAIN UPON us, and so are fears of Lyme disease. Most people who contract Lyme after a tick bite fully recover after a course of antibiotics-but for roughly 10% of people, for reasons doctors don't fully understand, the medicine doesn't take, leaving them with chronic symptoms including fatigue, brain fog, and neurological issues that can be completely debilitating. Other people with Lyme are never treated at all, which can cause lasting issues without clear knowledge of where they originated.

Alice Munro

Master of the short story

EL LOCO

PRESIDENT JAVIER MILEI'S MISSION TO REMAKE ARGENTINA