Indholdsfortegnelse for September 30, 2022 i Newsweek

First Battalion Grenadier Guards carry the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II out of Westminster Abbey after a state funeral service on September 19. Huge crowds, including approximately 500 world leaders, gathered to pay tribute to Britain’s longest-serving monarch and watch the royal procession escort her casket through the streets. The Queen’s final resting place is in King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle alongside her late husband, Prince Philip.…

Newsweek Banking customers around the world are demanding much more from their financial institutions than simply being safe places to keep money. With the growth of the Environmental and Social Corporate Governance (ESG) movement, customers are asking a lot of questions about their banks’ corporate policies. Is the bank transparent with its public disclosures? Does the bank use its resources responsibly? Does it treat its customers and employees fairly? Does the bank fight corruption? To help our readers select banks that best align with their own values, Newsweek and global data firm Statista have joined forces to name and rank for the first time “The World’s Most Socially Responsible Banks.” The 175 rankings are based on a careful analysis of publicly available corporate responsibility data for 750 banks in 35…

CultureHIGH, LOW + EVERYTHING IN BETWEENUNCHARTED Shipping containers, currently in the midst of a major shortage, have a lifespan of 10 to 15 years when used to transport freight across oceans. So what happens to these massive and durable structures after that? Often they’re recycled into low-cost storage—other times they simply sit in docks around the world. Now, architects are finding new and improved ways to unlock their low-cost and sustainable development potential. From upscale vacation rentals to housing for the unhoused, wineries, ski lodges and sculptures, here are some ways former shipping containers are getting second lives. 01 Sustainable Support System LOS ANGELES On land that was meant to become a men’s jail, instead stands a 60,500 square-foot housing facility supporting unhoused people. The Hilda L. Solis Care…

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISPOLITICS WHILE THE UNOFFICIAL SLOGAN OF SIN CITY— “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”—seems set for all time, change is otherwise a constant in Nevada. That applies as much to politics as it does to the transient residents who flood through the state in search of work in the gaming and hospitality industries. Right now, as the country heads into the general election season, Republicans see an opening to wrest control of the battleground state from Democrats for the first time since 2014, making Nevada an important indicator not only for this year’s midterms, but also for America’s 2024 presidential vote. Nevada has backed the White House winner in 10 of the last 11 elections. GOP hopes of winning the state’s governorship and its open U.S.…

FIVE YEARS AGO MARK HOROWITZ seemed an unlikely skeptic of psycho-pharmaceuticals. He had been taking the popular antidepressant Lexapro virtually every day for 15 years. He was so fascinated by the drugs that he spent three years hunched over a dish of human brain cells in a laboratory at King’s College London, measuring the effect of human stress hormones and drugs like Prozac and Zoloft. Then, when he tried to wean himself off the medication, he suffered panic attacks, sleep disruptions and a depression so debilitating that he had to move back to his parents’ house in Australia—symptoms that he says were far worse than anything he experienced prior to going on the drugs. He went online and found thousands of others in a similar pickle. They had been unable…