Newsweek US
MOST TRUSTED BRANDS - 2024
THE FOUNDATION FOR ALL RELATIONSHIPS is trust. This applies to our personal relationships and to our dealings with the businesses and brands we depend on daily. You want to be confident that when you pay for a product or service, it will live up to your expectations time and time again. While it isn't easy to measure trust, it's a quality critical for success that is challenging to earn and easy to lose.
4 min |
February 02 - 09, 2024
Newsweek US
Collegiate Swifties Rejoice
Here's why schools from the Ivy League to the U.K. are offering electives on Taylor Swift - from her social significance to her business acumen
6 min |
February 02 - 09, 2024
Newsweek US
Common
'What I'm doing is just sharing things that have worked for me. I think each individual has to find what works for them.'
2 min |
February 02 - 09, 2024
Newsweek US
Jake Johnson
'If the business is gone and the dream is over, [Self Reliance] was the movie I wanted to make.'
2 min |
February 02 - 09, 2024
Newsweek US
WHAT WOULD AN INDEPENDENT TEXAS LOOK LIKE?
SECESSION CAMPAIGNERS HAVE PUSHED TO GET A FREEDOM REFERENDUM ON THE BALLOT IN THE LONE STAR STATE. IS THE RETURN TO BEING A REPUBLIC A PIPE DREAM OR IS IT COMING DOWN THE PIPE?
10+ min |
February 02 - 09, 2024
Newsweek US
Harvard in Turmoil
Campuses are hotbeds of protest, but it's nothing new. Nor is it as bad now as in the '60s and '70s
9 min |
February 02 - 09, 2024
Reason magazine
COVID Vaccine Injuries Deserve a Day in Court
SOME 270 MILLION Americans received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Tens of thousands have since claimed they suffered a COVID vaccine injury, ranging from minor side effects to severe adverse reactions.
2 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
The Life and Death of a Company Town
MORE THAN A century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling was segregated, and blacks and whites received the same wages for the same work. They also enjoyed many appealing amenities, from high-quality homes to a three-story YMCA.
2 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
Ski Jump Snow Job
IN 1994, COPPER Peak, a ski-flying hill located in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, hosted its last ski-jumping competition-or so it thought.
2 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
Sheriff 'Floored and Shocked' by Deputies' Brutality
\"I'M JUST FLOORED and shocked,\" Rankin County, Mississippi, Sheriff Bryan Bailey said last August after five of his former deputies admitted to punching, kicking, tasing, torturing, and humiliating two men during an unlawful home invasion the previous January.
2 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
Claudine Gay's Defenders Shoot the Messenger
CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNED as president of Harvard University in January, following numerous allegations that she plagiarized passages in her published works. But in some corners of the media, the fact that she committed plagiarism mattered much less than the fact that it was conservative writers who caught her.
2 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
Big Brother in the Driver's Seat
IF YOU'VE SEARCHED online about buying a car, you know you're in for a wave of aggressive come-ons and sales pitches. But I found a way to make car sellers clam up: All you have to do is start asking questions about the increasingly intrusive \"nanny\" nature of automobiles.
3 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
Feds Make a Pharma Patent Grab
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION may take redistribution to new extremes if a policy revision floated in December comes to fruition. The White House wants to give federal agencies the right to seize some pharmaceutical patents when they deem drug prices too high.
2 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
Creating Our Own Simulations
FOR RENÉ DESCARTES, minds were essentially thinking (or feeling) things. For the founding fathers of behaviorism, minds were identical with behaviors-talking, habits, dispositions to act in one way or another. More recently, minds have been imagined as a kind of computer: the software running on the hardware of the brain.
5 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
THE REAL STUDENT LOAN CRISIS
MISLED BY A BAD LAW, GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE DROWNING IN DEBT.
10+ min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
REEXAMINING THE REALIGNMENT
CAN FREE MARKETS WIN VOTES IN THE NEW GOP?
10+ min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
Indonesia's Free Market 'Superblocks'
YOU DON’T NEED CENTRAL PLANNERS TO GET PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN.
7 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
The Revolting Mr. Taxpayer
THOUGH ANIMUS TOWARD tax increases was a key reason for the American Revolution, historians have not shown much interest in the topic in other contexts. One reason may be that the history of tax revolts, much like the history of mutual aid or of nonunion workers during strikes, cannot easily be subsumed under the most popular analytical categories, such as economic class. So Linda Upham-Bornstein's \"Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender\": Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law During the Great Depression is a welcome sign.
5 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
Predictably, No Progress on Global Emissions
EIGHT YEARS AFTER the Paris climate agreement, where do we stand on global emissions? The title of a new United Nations Environment Programme report sums the situation up: Broken Record: Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again).
2 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
The beginning of Godzilla Minus One, the latest installment in the 70-year series of kaiju flicks made by the Japanese production company Toho, upends one part of the usual formula: Tokyo is already a smoldering wasteland.
1 min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
THE LAST LIBERAL
Bill Maher on weed, wokeness, and 30 years of free speech
10+ min |
March 2024
Reason magazine
The Bankruptcy of Bidenomics
BIDEN'S ECONOMIC POLICIES GAVE US THREE YEARS OF EXCESSIVE, WASTEFUL, AND POORLY TARGETED FEDERAL SPENDING.
10+ min |
March 2024
Newsweek US
Michelle Yeoh
IF YOU THOUGHT MICHELLE YEOH WAS GOING TO SLOW DOWN AFTER winning last year's Best Actress Academy Award for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you'd be mistaken.
2 min |
January 26, 2024
Newsweek US
Unleash the Molecules!
How turned science into pop art
4 min |
January 26, 2024
Newsweek US
Go-Big Experiences
These unmissable adventures will make 2024 a year to remember
7 min |
January 26, 2024
Newsweek US
Bring White Men Into the Conversation
A very powerful group has been mostly missing from discussions about diversity, equity and inclusion. That can change
8 min |
January 26, 2024
Newsweek US
Black Voters Could Win It for Trump
Polls show the Republican front-runner is poised to secure more votes from African Americans than any Republican in history—which could tip the presidential election in his favor
3 min |
January 26, 2024
Newsweek US
Hamas, Inc
The property empire that funds the militant group's attacks
10+ min |
January 26, 2024
Newsweek US
The Archives
1989 - Sammie Harbour, a 27-year-old with sickle-cell anemia, was \"forced to choose between a job he liked and doctors he trusted,\" Newsweek wrote.
1 min |
January 26, 2024
Newsweek US
Josh Hutcherson
JOSH HUTCHERSON ISN'T CONCERNED WITH doing what you think he should. \"There was an obvious path to take post-Hunger Games. But I made a conscious choice to say 'no' to a lot of things and not really just follow a predetermined [path].\"
1 min |