Innehållsförteckning för 1/1-1/8/2021 från Newsweek

1964 “The widowed Jacqueline Kennedy is finding a way to live with her sorrow,” wrote Newsweek. “In these incredibly painful days, no detail of the Kennedy legend is too insignificant to console her, no aspect of her husband’s life too alien to offer solace…With the fervor of a curator, Mrs. Kennedy culls the memories of those she talks with for stories about her husband.” The nation looked to her as a symbol of poised “Spartan grief.” In 1999, five years after her death, Gallup listed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as one of the most admired people of the 20th century. 1984 Newsweek reported “the tattered ranks of America’s homeless are swelling,” from 250,000 to 2 million. Lacking an address, they are “unable to receive food stamps and welfare in most states,…

AS A PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT Yale and host of The Happiness Lab podcast, I’ve spent the last few years teaching simple science-backed tips to improve our well-being. I know the research inside out—but the giant dumpster fire of a year that was 2020 has had me struggling, too. The COVID-19 pandemic has cheated us out of all the good times we live for—the weddings, the vacations, the graduations and celebrations. Our work lives have been upended and our livelihoods threatened. There are people we love who we haven’t seen in months and some we’ll never see again; millions of us are mourning someone close who’s been taken by this awful disease. These overwhelming losses have had a devastating effect on our mental health, with rates of depression, anxiety and…

THE KARATE KID SAGA CONTINUES ON NETFLIX’S COBRA KAI, STARTING ITS third season on January 4. The first two seasons started as YouTube Originals. For 19-year-old actor Xolo Maridueña, who plays Miguel, the show is successful because it “caters to both the fans of the original Karate Kid and anyone younger.” For this new season, Maridueña says “we’re gonna see some really tough times. I think it’s definitely going to get worse before it can get better” and that “we’ll see if Miguel survives getting kicked off of a balcony.” Besides “two years of karate training in like the first grade [laughs],” martial arts was new to the young actor. “There was nothing that could have prepared me for the amount of stretching and body contorting martial arts requires.” With…

BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS, A DEAL MAY HAVE been agreed upon between the European Union and the British government on Brexit. It is equally possible that no deal will have been agreed. This deal/no-deal crisis has been ongoing since the 2016 referendum decision by the British to leave the EU. It should be remembered that the people of the North of Ireland and of Scotland voted to remain in the EU. Every decision taken since then to advance the Brexit agenda by Prime Minister Theresa May and her successor Boris Johnson flies in the face of the democratic vote of the people of these two places. Brexit was driven by a Little Englander mentality—a particularly myopic view of the world mixed with an idiotic Colonel Blimpish conception of…

THERE IS MUCH TO ANTICIPATE in the new year, and the thought of getting out and about is not the least of them. But until social distancing is a distant memory, you can still snuggle up with a good read. Enjoy the rare pleasure of turning the crisp pages of some of these intriguing books coming out in the first half of the year. Newsweek has chosen some of the best new fiction and nonfiction for your reading pleasure. FICTION People We Meet on Vacation By Emily Henry MAY | BERKLEY | $16 The author of the widely praised Beach Read is back with a witty and satisfying trip of a book, where two best friends take a final vacation together and try to determine whether they’re really just friends.…

“If I see you do it again, you’re f***ing gone.”—TOM CRUISE TO CREW OF THE SET OF MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 WHO WERE NOT STANDING 6-FEET APART “I DO NOT KNOW WHO THIS IS. INVENTOR OF THE SWIFFER?”—ACTOR RAINN WILSON ON TAYLOR SWIFT “I’ve just been informed that although the Covid vaccine won’t contain microchips, it will have the new U2 album”—BLONDIE GUITARIST CHRIS STEIN “Travel in my mind is synonymous with growth, with adventure—even love. So much so that I proposed to my husband Chasten in an airport terminal. Don’t let anybody tell you that O’Hare isn’t romantic.”—PETE BUTTIGIEG, SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION APPOINTEE “THIS PANDEMIC HAS BEEN A WRECKING BALL IN THE LIVES OF AMERICANS ALREADY STRUGGLING.”—MacKenzie Scott, on making billions in donations “His name is Joe.”—THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CORRECTING…

While there are still a lot of unknowns about the coming year, one thing is certain: we need an escape. With a vaccine finally greenlighted, the future of travel is looking up, but what will be the safest trips to take while the world is still in flux? Think wide-open spaces, small-group adventures and responsible tourism. Playing it safe doesn’t mean you can’t get outside your comfort zone and have a novel adventure next year, though. From a polar bear micro-cruise to Svalbard, the northernmost inhabited archipelago, to chasing the shadow of the moon on an eclipse expedition in Antarctica, to closer-to-home adventures in the U.S., such as a train ride through the Red Rocks or an e-bike tour through Cajun Country, here are the epic pandemic-friendly escapes we’re dreaming…