Innehållsförteckning för October 21, 2022 från Newsweek

WHAT SHOULD REPRESENTATION LOOK LIKE? ▸ How did one social media post lead to a 14,000-person-strong effort to reform redistricting laws in Michigan? Why does gerrymandering essentially strip the power of a vote in many areas, especially in districts where independents aren’t permitted to participate in primary elections? HOST ▸ Kristal Knight, Democratic political operative IN THEIR WORDS ▸ “It will impact the next 10 years worth of elections…an issue that Democrats and Republicans need to be upset about.” FAST WOMEN Test-driving the newest cars on wild adventures Fantastic Madrid ▸ Churros with a mug of melted chocolate and four Range Rover Sport versions, including a plug-in hybrid. Plus: The most organized baggage claim ever and dealing with traffic cops abroad. THE DEBATE A civil discussion of hot-button issues Red-State…

The National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, estimates that U.S.consumer spending will grow somewhere between 6 percent and 8 percent this year, to $4.86 trillion. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Commerce Department, about 14.5 percent of that spending happens online. To point our readers to the Best Online Shops 2023, Newsweek has once again paired with respected global data-research firm Statista. We’ve ranked retailers according to numerous criteria important to shoppers, among them usability, security and how likely consumers said they were to make a purchase at a particular online shop. This year our rankings recognize 1,000 shops across 39 categories. “Single-Brand Fashion” is the largest category this year with 80 shops recognized in the list. We found that the multiproduct retailers we defined as…

“I DIDN’T MAKE IT TO THE END BUT THAT WAS ALL I COULD DO.”—Jingyao Liu on settling her rape case against Chinese billionaire Richard Liu “It’s never, ever OK to be a racist.”—SENATOR RICK SCOTT ON EX- PRESIDENT TRUMP MOCKING EX-TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY ELAINE CHAO “My ex-wife left the place that the court assigned her for house arrest and, together with my 11-year-old daughter, fled in an unknown direction.”—IGOR OVSYANNIKOV, ON JOURNALIST MARINA OVSYANNIKOVA, WHO HELD UP A “NO WAR” SIGN ON RUSSIAN TV “The things that I do can cause pain and damage to the people that I care about the most.”—COMEDIAN HASAN MINHAJ “YOU ARE A VISIONARY AND ONE OF ONE.”—Beyoncé to her sister Solange, the first Black woman to compose music for the New York City Ballet “We’ve…

CultureHIGH, LOW + EVERYTHING IN BETWEENUNCHARTED 01 Corned Beef Hash PENNSYLVANIA To make corned beef—also called salt beef or salt brisket—the meat is soaked in a brine for 8 days, then gently boiled in water aromatic with spices for three to four hours, resulting in meltingly tender meat. Use it to make this classic breakfast dish found in Pennsylvania and New England. But it can be comfort food for any time of day. The name comes from the French hâcher, meaning to chop, because the beef and all the other ingredients are chopped small. 02 Acadian Salted Scallions NOVA SCOTIA Salted scallions—oignons verts salées—are a staple of the Acadian pantry. Acadians have a distinctive culinary culture and their language is a distinctive version of French. In the Acadian…

NGIE LANDEROS KNEW HER DAUGHTER had always been shy. “Very, very shy,” she says. “She always felt awkward talking to other kids her age.” Then came the COVID-19 lockdowns in March, 2020. Ten years old, Landeros’ daughter began feeling unbearably self-conscious seeing herself on the computer screen during Zoom lessons. When her elementary school went to a hybrid format that required most kids to attend in person, some days she’d refuse to go. Once she had a full-blown panic attack in the car and began kicking and screaming. On another day, says Landeros, “she literally ran out the door to hide from us.” Since Landeros and her husband, Michael Bloch, are psychiatrists at the Yale Child Study Center, they knew what their daughter was going through: social anxiety disorder. She…

DO YOU SOMETIMES MISS THE CHILDLIKE JOY OF MAKING THAT SINGLE cookie in an Easy-Bake Oven? Well, Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski is ready to scratch that nostalgic itch with Netflix’s Easy-Bake Battle: The Home Cooking Competition (October 12). “It was a long time in the making,” Porowski says about the reality series where home cooks compete in both sweet and savory cooking challenges for a $100,000 grand prize, using full-size ovens with restrictions mimicking the classic toy ones. “These innovative home cooks...show the genius stuff they come up with.” The contestants’ diversity was important to Porowski, an executive producer of the series. “I think in the food space, we have such a wonderful opportunity to tell diverse stories.” No matter who you are, “show us who you are through your…