Indholdsfortegnelse for April 01-08, 2022 i Newsweek

1981 “Of course I’m a black writer,” Toni Morrison told Newsweek. “I’m not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren’t marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call ‘literature’ is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be.” Morrison, the Nobel laureate and novelist of classics like Beloved, The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon, died in 2019. This February, Knopf Doubleday republished a hardcover standalone edition of her only short story, “Recitatif,” which originally appeared in a now out-of-print 1983 anthology. 1979 “It began with a brief but terrible bump in the night and quickly grew into the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history,” Newsweek wrote of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island meltdown. Now, nuclear threats…

“We should chop America into seven different countries. Seriously.” ▸ P.18 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shone the spotlight on a small coterie of fabulously rich Russians with ties to President Vladimir Putin. Many of these so-called oligarchs amassed great wealth through the privitazation of state assets after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Some played a role in Putin’s rise to president in 2000, though he subsequently clipped their influence on politics while allowing them to thrive. They’ve continued to do so despite the sanctions imposed when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. ’ The invasion of Ukraine has triggered condemnation of Putin and made his rich friends pariahs. The U.S., Europe and others have vowed to seize their big bank accounts, fabulously equipped yachts and…

IF YOU’RE A DIRECTOR LOOKING to cast a female actor to play a real-life person, a handful of actresses come to mind, and one of those actresses is Renée Zellweger. She won an Oscar playing one of the most recognizable entertainers in Hollywood history, Judy Garland. Now she’s taking these amazing skills of mimicry and applying them to her portrayal of alleged multiple murderer Pam Hupp in NBC’s ripped-from-the-headlines miniseries The Thing About Pam. The series premiered March 8. “I want it to be responsible,” Zellweger tells Newsweek. “It’s never to lampoon a person or humiliate a person.” In the series, Zellweger dons a suit to make her appear larger, in addition to prosthetics to assist her transformation into Hupp. But before people even knew much about the part Zellweger…

WHEN SHOULD THE U.S. INTERVENE IN FOREIGN CONFLICTS? ▸ When and where should America get involved, including the current Ukraine crisis? Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Jim Hanson, executive director of America Matters, face off about the role of the U.S. in disputes overseas. HOSTS ▸ Celeste Headlee, author of We Need to Talk and Andrew Tallman, host of The Daily Break IN THEIR WORDS ▸ “The stronger the U.S. is, the less problems the world has,” says Kupchan. Counters Hanson, “We [don’t have] an obligation to serve as [the world’s] firemen every time a blaze pops up.” THE PARTING SHOT Your weekly dose of everything pop culture The Renée Zellweger Interview ▸ The Oscar-winning actress chats with host H. Alan Scott about…

For the first time, Newsweek, in collaboration with market research partner Statista, recognizes America’s Most Trusted Companies in 22 industries according to U.S. residents’ evaluations. The Most Trusted Companies have been chosen based on a holistic approach to evaluating trust. The three main public touchpoints of trust have been considered: customer trust, investor trust and employee trust. The analysis followed a three-step process: 1 _ Market definition: All stock listed companies headquartered in the U.S. with revenue over $500 million have been considered in the study. 2 _ Extensive survey: The basis of the analysis is an independent survey from a sample of about 50,000 U.S. residents, who rated companies they know in terms of all three touch-points of trust. A total of 110,000 evaluations of companies were submitted. The…

IMAGINE YOU’RE AN ACTOR LOOKING FOR YOUR NEXT GIG, AND THEN poof, you’re cast as the lead on Bridgerton, but have no idea how big the show actually is. That’s exactly what happened to Simone Ashley, star of the second season of the Netflix period drama (March 25). “I didn’t have a furnished apartment where I could sit down and be like, ‘Oh, this is what everyone’s talking about.’ I was just always on the move.” This season focuses on a new pair of love interests. “Each season is based on a different sibling coming out into the marriage market in the 18th century and finding love.” Ashley plays Kate Sharma, the love interest of Lord Anthony Bridgerton, played by Jonathan Bailey. While Ashley’s character was written to reflect the…

A worker carries bundles of flowers while tending to giant tecolote ranunculus blooms at Carlsbad Ranch on March 16. The working agricultural flower farm in North San Diego County features approximately 70 million ranunculus flowers spread across nearly 50 acres. The plants bloom for six to eight weeks a year, typically from early March to early May.…