Innehållsförteckning för August 26, 2022 från Newsweek

In the 2020 U.S. election, six women ran for president. The winner was a white man. In all the years of presidential elections, only one woman has made it onto the ticket for a major party presidential nominee—Hillary Clinton in 2016. But why? What are the invisible—and very present—barriers preventing the election of the first female president of the United States? In her new book, ELECTABLE: WHY AMERICA HASN’T PUT A WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE…YET (Dey Street Books, August), NBC News Congressional Correspondent Ali Vitali investigates the double standards and limitations that keep women politicians from being judged purely on merit. She asks what will make a candidate electable. In this excerpt from her book, Vitali discusses Kamala Harris’ attack on Joe Biden at the June 2019 Democratic presidential…

DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDIC-tion are responsible for an enormous amount of suffering and death in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics, there were an estimated 106,622 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year, an increase of about 15 percent over 2020. Meanwhile, the CDC has estimated that alcohol-induced deaths rose to more than 52,000 in 2021, an increase of 34 percent. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 21 million Americans are drug or alcohol addicts. The number of friends and family members who suffer with and because of them is much larger. There are thousands of treatment facilities across the country and finding the right one for yourself or somebody you care about can be difficult. To try to help ease…

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISSPACE “Is it possible there could be something in that stack that is very damning to the President?”▸ P.15 SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT DATA FROM THE JAMES Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will enable them to figure out whether a group of nearby exoplanets are habitable or not, a NASA expert says. JWST should be able to determine whether any of the planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 have atmospheres, according to NASA astrobiologist Shawn Domagal-Goldman. And If the exoplanets have the right kind of atmospheres, they may also have life. Despite decades of scanning the skies for radio signals and an ever-growing list of exoplanets—the name given to planets orbiting other stars—scientists have never found evidence that life exists anywhere but Earth. The TRAPPIST-1 System The TRAPPIST-1 star system…

Foodies worldwide are gearing up for some of the most anticipated culinary festivals of the year. Each of these not only offers tasty bites, but also a glimpse into the cultures and communities they come from, and the opportunity to learn from the most renowned chefs in their regions. From mooncakes at China’s Mid-Autumn festival to a fashion runway populated by chocolate-clad models in France to a giant omelette celebration in Louisiana, here are some of the world’s most unique food fests. Bon appetit! Oktoberfest MUNICH September 17-October 3 (See #04 on following spread) A Magical Augustldris Elba talks fighting lions and granting wishes in his upcoming summer films. ▸ P.48 01 Giant Omelette Celebration ABBEVILLE, LOUISIANA November 5-6 You’re going to want a good seat for this. Every…

In FocusTHE NEWS IN PICTURESMATANZAS, CUBA Black smoke billows from blazing oil tanks at Matanzas Supertanker Base on August 7. The fire, set off by a lightning strike, destroyed 40 percent of the Caribbean nation’s main fuel storage facility, caused massive blackouts, forced the evacuation of 800 people, injured 121 and killed one during the five days it burned. Officials say it is the worst fire in the island’s history, with additional firefighters and specialists from Mexico and Venezuela needing to be brought in for assistance.…

WITH INFLATION AND GAS PRICES soaring and President Joe Biden’s approval ratings near historic lows, the Republican Party should have a strong wind at its back in its quest to retake control of the United States Senate. Yet as Labor Day, the traditional launch of general election campaigns, fast approaches, one big shock in American politics is that the stage appears set for Democrats to keep the upper house of Congress—and possibly even expand their current razor-thin control. Such a prospect seemed far-fetched only a few weeks ago—before Republicans picked extremists as their Senate nominees in several states (“our parade of kooks,” one GOP insider calls it), before those candidates committed a series of political faux pas and before the U.S. Supreme Court redefined the stakes by overturning the constitutional…