Innehållsförteckning för 7/3/2020 från Newsweek

1964 Newsweek reported that Dr. John Rock, a Catholic, had developed a new form of birth control: a pill that did not harm the woman taking it. He hoped this would make it morally-acceptable to the Church. Newsweek wrote, “Not since the Copernicans suggested in the sixteenth century that the sun was the center of the planetary system has the Roman Catholic Church found itself on such a perilous collision with a new body of knowledge.” However, However, the Catholic Church is to this day governed by Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae prohibiting the use of artificial contraception. 1983 The U.S. and Japan were competing to build the most powerful computers, said Newsweek, in a bid for “increased geopolitical control.” The 74 super-computers in existence then could perform…

BILLIONAIRE BUSINESS MAN, SHARK TANK regular and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has never been shy about saying what was on his mind. Recently he sat down with Jordan Harbinger, host of the The Jordan Harbinger Show podcast and a Newsweek contributor, to share his thoughts on protest and racism in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, how he learned some tough lessons about leadership and what America needs to do if it really wants to compete economically with China. Here are the highlights, lightly edited for clarity: His Advice to Businesses Now I’M TELLING THEM ALL THE EXACT SAME THING. One, you have to be transparent. Two, you have to be honest. Three, you have to be authentic. Four, you have to talk. You have to communicate, because everybody’s…

The Universe Smiles Upon You 2015 Starting with the jazzy opener “Mr. White” (which sounds like it could’ve appeared on a Herbie Hancock record), Khruangbin’s debut album was heavily influenced by ’60s and ’70s Thai music: the sounds of Southeast Asian rock and pop are evident on such tracks as the majestic “Dern Kala” and the ornate “The Man Who Took My Sunglasses.” The debut also showcases the group’s penchant for reflective subdued numbers (“White Gloves,” “Balls and Pins”) and uptempo funk (“People Everywhere [Still Alive]”). This hazy and groove-filled record also marked the first time Khruangbin added vocals to their mostly instrumental repertoire. Con Todo El Mundo 2018 Khruangbin’s second album released three years after The Universe Smiles Upon You does not suffer the dreaded sophomore jinx. Instead it…

EVERY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT SHOULD HAVE EQUAL WEIGHT by Eugene Kontorovich THE GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 epidemic has perhaps seen the most sweeping peacetime restrictions of constitutional rights in U.S. history. A wide array of constitutional rights have been intruded on by lockdowns, closures, quarantines, isolation measures and social distancing requirements. The states’ measures have led to a wave of lawsuits and court rulings about their impact on constitutional rights, with the most high-profile ones involving prayer and abortion. However, the basic legitimacy of the government depriving millions of their basic liberties and livelihood has not been a large part of the debate. Instead, it has been about how these measures apply to certain particular, and highly politicized, rights. Whatever the merits of the harsh measures imposed in response to…

I am a policeman who wore the uniform and badge for over thirty years, and for twenty-six of those years still worried about police encounters with my Black son. I joined the law enforcement profession because of the good I saw in it--and also because of the inequities I saw. I am honored to have served the citizens and visitors to the state of Missouri and to have served with the brave men and women across the country that adorn the uniform. I’m proud to have served as Commander of Protest Security in Ferguson during the demonstrations in reaction to the 2014 police-involved shooting of Michael Brown Jr. Law enforcement must not be managed by policies and procedures that are compromises between agencies and unions. Communities themselves—their voices and expectations—must…

“If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”—PRESIDENT TRUMP “HOLLYWOOD IS A GRIM MICROCOSM OF LARGER SOCIETY.”—SCREENWRITER ROB EDWARDS ON BEING BLACK IN SHOW BUSINESS “An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex.”—SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NEIL GORSUCH “Here’s our day, and if you love us, it’ll be your day too.”—PHARRELL WILLIAMS ON VIRGINIA DECLARING JUNETEENTH A STATE HOLIDAY “IT’S TIME FOR PEOPLE TO REALIZE THAT WE ARE ALL HUMAN.”—Carlotta Walls LaNier, who was one of the first black students admitted to Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957 “We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype.”—QUAKER FOODS NORTH AMERICA CHIEF MARKETING…

THE MUSICAL RANGE OF KHRUANGBIN, which consists of bassist Laura Lee, guitarist Mark Speer and drummer Donald ‘DJ’ Johnson, is, to put it mildly, broad. Starting with the trio’s 2015 The Universe Smiles Upon You, their songs have incorporated Thai funk, ’60s psychedelia, Jamaican dub, Middle Eastern and West African music, surf rock, jazz fusion, R&B, disco and more. But while their latest album Mordechai is music that sounds like it came from everywhere, its roots are very much in Khruangbin’s hometown. “In trying to sound like the world,’’ Lee says, “we hoped that it would really be reflective of Houston, which is where we’re from, because it’s such a multicultural city. We wanted to show some hometown pride. “The city’s diversity stems from the oil and gas industry which…

The 1975’s fans are obsessed with “every f*** ing song” by the pop/rock band, says lead singer Matty Healy. That gives the band no reason to backtrack over content they’ve already created on topics from politics to climate change, addiction and religion. But their latest album, Notes On A Conditional Form, released May 22, dives even deeper with a breath of added vulnerability. Notes’ first single was a hard-rock rager titled “People,” followed by “Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America,” an acoustic track that speaks to strict religious views on sexuality. The band topped off their pre-releases with the bubbly “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know), which fans have already declared one of the band’s best thus far. “By now, I expect people expect the unexpected to a certain…