The Most Popular Politician on Earth

For nearly seven years, he’s done a spectacular job as Brazil’s president. But can Lula resist the temptation to throw it away?

Source: Newsweek
Published: Sep 22, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,462 words)

The Case for Killing Granny

Rethinking end-of-life care.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Sep 12, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,983 words)

See Baby Discriminate

Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color. What’s a parent to do?

Source: Newsweek
Published: Sep 5, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,661 words)

The World According to Russia

Why, years after the cold war, the Kremlin’s still obsessed with getting respect.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Aug 29, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,291 words)

My Father The Dope Dealer

When I was young, we lived the high life. Then it all went up in smoke.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Aug 1, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,324 words)

The Recession Is Over

Now what we need is a new kind of recovery.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Jul 25, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,477 words)

The Cause of My Life

Inside the fight for universal health care.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Jul 18, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,342 words)

Independent’s Day

Obama doesn’t want to look back, but Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture anyway.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Jul 11, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,622 words)

The Write Stuff

Holden Caulfield had it right. The test of a great book, he said in “The Catcher in the Rye,” was whether, once you finished it, you wished the author were a great friend you could call up at home. I remembered Caulfield’s insight when we convened a roundtable of writers to come to Newsweek. The conversation was honest, and a persistent theme emerged: that for all the frustrations of writing, the uncertain future of publishing, and the terror of rejection by readers and critics, our authors couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Ever.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Jun 27, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,445 words)

Theocracy and its Discontents

Source: Newsweek
Published: Jun 20, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,829 words)