Innehållsförteckning för January 05-12, 2024 från Newsweek International

THE PROPORTION OF REGIS-tered Democrats who have a firearm in their home has jumped significantly over the past few years, with some analysts saying rising crime in urban areas could be behind the increase. The November 2023 survey by NBC News found 41 percent of Democrats said they live in a household with a gun, up from 33 percent in a similar survey they conducted with the Wall Street Journal in August 2019. Notably, in a similar NBC survey conducted in March 2004, 33 percent of Democrats also said they lived with a gun, indicating the sharp rise has been concentrated over the past four years. The latest poll of 1,000 registered voters was conducted between November 10 and 14. The data also showed a rise in Republicans having a…

In Focus THE NEWS IN PICTURES THE GAZA STRIP An Israeli soldier on December 15 secures a 2.5-mile-long tunnel near Israel’s Erez border crossing believed to carry Hamas weapons and fighters. The largest tunnel unearthed since October 7, it runs nearly 160 feet below the ground with openings as wide as 10 feet, allowing vehicle passage. In 2021, Hamas said they had built 311 miles of tunnels beneath Gaza. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has found hundreds of tunnel shafts—which they’ve dubbed the “Gaza Metro”—that connect miles of underground passageways and say they have destroyed at least 500 of them. The IDF has begun tests to flood some with seawater in an attempt to flush out Hamas fighters. It is believed that some of the roughly 130 remaining hostages might…

I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT HURT more: The antisemitism directed at our seventh-grade son or our public school administration’s attempts to silence us about what happened to him. Both seared like a brand. As a documentary filmmaker and journalist, much of my work has been reporting on the worst of humanity. My late mother named me after the civil rights worker Andrew Goodman, who was killed by racists in Mississippi. It was her way of telling me to at least try to be part of the solution. One thing I’ve covered for years is antisemitism. I’d considered myself lucky because, until recently, it never came in any large dose for me or my family. I live in Westport, Connecticut, with my wife and three children. We moved here because it has…

PALESTINIAN CIVILIAN CASUALTIES have become the issue in the Israel-Hamas war, precipitating worldwide condemnation of Israel. “A staggering and unacceptable number of civilian casualties,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said. “Far too many” Palestinians have been killed, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. President Joe Biden summed up the dilemma on December 12, saying that while Israel has had European support in addition to U.S. backing, “they’re starting to lose the support by indiscriminate bombing that takes place.” The high number of Palestinian deaths has provoked accusations of Israeli war crimes and even genocide, on the premise that civilians are being intentionally targeted. Government officials from around the world and media outlets have sustained the impression that Israel is attacking hospitals, schools, refugee camps and humanitarian facilities, all seemingly…

YOUNGER GENERATIONS IN THE U.S., including millennials and Gen Zers, are much more likely to believe that the Social Security system needs reforming than those in their 60s and 70s, according to a recent survey conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek. A majority of 63 percent of Americans “strongly agreed” (28 percent) or “agreed” (35 percent) that the Social Security system needs to be reformed, according to the Redfield & Wilton Strategies/Newsweek poll. Only 10 percent “strongly disagreed” (5 percent) or “disagreed” (another 5 percent). The poll was conducted on December 8 among a sample population of 1,500 eligible voters in the U.S. Some 40 percent of respondents said they believe that the Social Security program currently pays out more to retirees than it is receiving…

Culture HIGH, LOW + EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN OPINION AT THIS POINT, THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING TRUMP AND AVERTING TOTAL DYSTOPIAN DISASTER IN 2024. by MATT ROBISON WHEN NEWSWEEK ASKED ME “WHO DO I WISH was running for President,” I thought the answer was pretty obvious. As in, “Do you like ice cream?” or “Is the Pope Catholic?” DUH-level obvious. After all, if we’ve learned one thing from the past seven years, it’s how much competence matters. Donald Trump’s ineptitude led to cataclysm. Trump’s own COVID-19 response leader said his incompetence killed more than 130,000 Americans, one of thousands of stupid decisions from someone who had no idea what he was doing and couldn’t have cared less about government, other than as a reality show-esque ego trip, money…