Innehållsförteckning för August 19, 2022 från Newsweek

2018 “Critics and allies alike began asking: What happened to Elon Musk, the hero of Silicon Valley, the high-tech visionary who was going to save the planet with electric vehicles?” Newsweek wrote, citing the Tesla CEO’s Twitter rampages against journalists and others who spoke critically of the company. Since then, Musk has used his account to comment on the platform itself, questioning its position on free speech. This year, the billionaire struck a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter—one he is now trying to back out of. A Musk-Twitter trial is set for October. 1976 “Behind them lay a very real threat that the Republican ultras, if they didn’t get a ticket to their liking, would split off into a rightwing third party,” Newsweek wrote. Now, some might say “Trumpism”…

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISAFGHANISTAN ALMOST EXACTLY A YEAR AGO, THE LAST AMER-ican troops left Afghanistan and the Taliban regained full control of the country. Since then, Afghanistan has descended into worsening poverty, repression, particularly of women and girls, and international isolation, underscored by the killing last week of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri by an American drone strike in Kabul. Azra Jafari, an Afghan politician and human rights activist, who was the sole woman co-author of the country’s 2003 constitution and in 2008 became her nation’s first female mayor, has watched all this from exile in the U.S. with growing despair. “We were a working democracy for 20 years and during this 20 years we were hopeful,” she tells Newsweek. “Now, we have nothing. What we worked on for 20…

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FEATURED EPISODE Declassified With Naveed Jamali Former FBI double agent talks national security COMIC RELIEF ON BASE ▸ At the commissary? In a Facebook group for military spouses? Air Force wife and comedian Ashley Gutermuth dishes about the best place to score joke material. Plus: That time at the international spouses club when she shared American culture by demonstrating how to make s’mores with a blowtorch and explained Groundhog Day through a translator. HOST ▸ Naveed Jamali, author of How to Catch a Russian Spy IN THEIR WORDS ▸ “I’m not calling my husband by his rank unless I’m married to Cap’n Crunch. We respect cereal in this house.” THE LEISURE CLASS Dire Straits’ Jack Sonni gathers an eclectic group of creatives ‘I Want My MTV’ ▸ Ever notice that…

On the Sunday before Juneteenth, the Rev. Ryan Marsh stood in front of about 50 mostly white parishioners to announce a “reparations distribution” program for the church. Marsh’s congregation at Salt House, a young Lutheran church in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, is among dozens of churches that in the last two years have begun taking the initiative in making reparations for centuries of slavery that many religious leaders, at the time, justified on theological grounds. These faith-based groups are giving donations to Black-led organizations, gifts to Black individuals (not necessarily church members) and royalties for Black musicians each time a congregation sings a Black spiritual. Salt House dedicates 1 percent of the church’s budget—roughly $6,000 annually—to reparations efforts and encourages parishioners to donate for a reparations fund that distributes…

USING A BELOVED FILM LIKE A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN AS SOURCE MATE-rial for a new Amazon Prime series of the same name comes with more than just anxiety, as co-creator and star Abbi Jacobson is acutely feeling now. “This is people’s favorite f**king movie. There’s so much pressure.” Not based on the film, the dramedy (August 12) explores a more diverse set of stories about the women who made up the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1943. “It was really important to us to get to tell those stories that were missing from the film, but also try to maintain the spirit and the energy.” The show explores the queerness of some of the players, the stories of Black women denied entry into the league and the treatment…