Innehållsförteckning för February 18, 2022 från Newsweek

2005 “Somewhere between the Stations of the Cross and a decathlon” was how Newsweek described modern motherhood and its “never-ending spin cycle of have-tos” over 15 years ago. The ideal new mother was now expected to shuttle her kids to soccer, arrange playdates and bake for bake sales, all while “trying to keep up with the woman at school whose kid gets A’s because she writes the papers herself.” Motherhood hasn’t gotten any less stressful since then; a recent study published in Frontiers in Global Women’s Health showed that the pandemic tripled symptoms of anxiety and depression among new mothers. 1975 “Mel’s interested in what’s funny about the human condition,” Gene Wilder, a frequent collaborator with comedian Brooks, told Newsweek. “He punctures our greed, our frustrations, our contradictions.” At 95,…

LittLe endures very Long in Super Bowl history. Dynastic teams come and go. Stadiums and commissioners, too. Even Tom Brady, it turns out, could not last forever. But on February 13, as he has on every single Super Bowl Sun-day, 93-year-old Jerry Green expects to don a collared shirt and dungarees, loop his credentials lanyard around his neck and head to “the office.” This time, that will be SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, where he’ll watch the L.A. Rams take on the Cincinnati Bengals and then tap out some observations for The Detroit News. In doing so, Green will extend an unbreakable streak: He’ll become the only newspaper reporter of the 338 credentialed journalists to document Super Bowl I in 1967 who will have attended and covered all 56 of…

It sounds lIke one of those too-good-to-be true propositions: Buy an item online, shell out just a fraction of the price at checkout and pay the remainder in installments over time, typically at no extra cost. As online shopping has soared during the pandemic, the popularity of these new payment programs, known as buy now, pay later (BNPL) plans, has skyrocketed as well. Last year alone, Americans spent $20.8 billion through these services, with purchases overall up 230 per-cent since the start of 2020, according to a study by Accenture commissioned by Afterpay, one of the leading players in the field. Traditionally offered just for online spending by financial tech companies like Affirm, Klarna and PayPay Credit in addition to Afterpay, the types of BNPL plans available and the companies…

Best Super Bowls: III: In 1969, the New York Jets of the AFL upset the heavily favored NFL Baltimore Colts, 16-7, fulfilling quarterback Joe Namath’s shocking guarantee of triumph. “The first two Super Bowls were so lopsided, we in the NFL side, thought the AFL would never catch up” Green says. “Joe Namath took care of that.” LI: In 2017, the New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime. “They were 25 points behind in the second half behind Atlanta and the Patriots tied the game, won the coin flip and Atlanta never got to touch the ball again. It was amazing to see.” Worst Super Bowls: II: In 1968, the Green Bay Packers crushed the Oakland Raiders, 33-14. “I was crossing the field to go to the…

IN EVERY PRODUCT CATEGORY YOU CAN THINK OF, American consumers now have almost unlimited choice. You can walk into any large supermarket and easily find 10 or 15 different brands of, say, hand soap, on the shelves. Then you could pull out your phone, look online and find dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands, more being sold everywhere from big retailers like Amazon and Walmart to small specialty stores to innumerable online-only small labels. New brands and varieties pop up everyday. It is probably not much of an exaggeration to say that if you can imagine a kind of hand soap, somebody either makes it now or will be making it soon. To help our readers navigate that problem and shop smarter, market re-search firm BrandSpark®, in partner-ship with Newsweek, has just…

PAMELA ADLON, THE EMMY-WINNING STAR, CREATOR, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, director and writer of FX’s Better Things (February 28th) never in her “wildest dreams” saw herself working behind the camera, but “where I am now came from me making decisions, creatively and practically, to keep moving this train forward.” For more than 30 years Adlon was a regular character actor and voice artist, appearing on shows like King of the Hill, Californication and Louie. In Better Things, ending after five seasons, Adlon plays Sam Fox, a Hollywood actress raising three daughters, a reality loosely based on Adlon’s own life. “If something hits close to home, and it makes me feel uncomfortable, it’s going to be used. Because if it makes you feel uncomfortable, it’s making you feel something, it’s gonna work.” And…

Heading into its second year in office, the Biden administration has been hit hard by rising inflation, another pandemic variant and a stalled agenda in Congress. As it struggles to salvage things, the administration can little afford a major international conflict—especially after finally winding down the 20-year fiasco in Afghanistan. That’s precisely the risk in Eastern Europe, where the administration is straining to confront Russia over its troop buildup on Ukraine’s borders. If handled improperly, the conflict could potentially spiral into a proxy war between the United States and Russia. But if the administration stops dealing with Ukraine as a dangerous distraction, it could turn this crisis into a profound foreign policy opportunity. The truth is, the United States has few levers of influence with Russia, and European allies are…

“Of course not, oh, my goodness, no.”—NEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR CHRIS SUNUNU ON WHETHER JANUARY 6 RIOTERS SHOULD BE PARDONED “I DID ALL THE RIGHT THINGS, BUT I STILL CAUGHT IT.”—U.S. OLYMPIC BOBSLEDDER ELANA MEYERS TAYLOR ON COVID “This is disturbing imagery. But you know what? It’s disturbing history.”—ART SPIEGELMAN WHOSE HOLOCAUST GRAPHIC NOVEL MAUSWAS BANNED BY A TENNESSEE SCHOOL BOARD “Black women are what, 6 percent of the U.S. population? He’s saying to 94 percent of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you.’”—SENATOR TED CRUZ ON PRESIDENT BIDEN’S PROMISE TO NOMINATE A BLACK WOMAN TO THE SUPREME COURT “THE MEDIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A DISGUSTING THING.”—Hailey Bieber “It’s a strange responsibility to have this many viewers and listeners.”—JOE ROGAN “MF YOU USED TO BE SEXY BUT NOW YOU’RE JUST…