The Irresistible Islamist
Illustration by Riccardo Vecchio
Dan Ephron on Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, who may be Egypt’s next president.
Illustration by Riccardo Vecchio
Dan Ephron on Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, who may be Egypt’s next president.
How Sandra Fluke turned a sexist slur into a feminist battle cry.
Can Obama beat back the anti-incumbent fervor?
Sochi, the site for the 2014 winter Olympics, just happens to be where the Russians dispossessed an entire nation exactly 150 years earlier. the survivors’ descendants say it was genocide—and now they’re demanding justice.
Their teacher tried to tell them they were headed for trouble, but high on risk and volatility, the Quants of France didn’t listen.
Russia’s underground theater takes on Putin.
The cofounder of PayPal shoots for the stars.
On his ill-fated lab experiment.
A glimpse into the life of the quirky singer-songwriter.
Rob Verger explores the art of sacred books through the exhibit 'Illuminated' at New York's Rubin Museum.
The prolific author Mark Kurlansky on a picturesque Basque port that’s in, but not of, Spain.

If only we had Walter Cronkite today!
Buy a baseball team? Fine art? Zuckerberg has a bunch of options.
Can Obama beat back the anti-incumbent fervor?
With Europe on the brink, the U.K. faces its own crises.
After weathering the conservative host's slurs, Sandra Fluke has triumphed to become a rising star in liberal and feminist circles, reports Michelle Cottle. Is a run for public office next?

Will Smith’s sci-fi hit is set to conquer the box office again. But sources close to the movie tell Newsweek’s Chris Lee that filming was a disaster—and the studio weighed pulling the plug.
A glimpse into the life of the quirky singer-songwriter.
The Broadway director is back with a vengeance.
On his ill-fated lab experiment.
Travel must-haves from the host of Around the World in 80 Plates.


The cofounder of PayPal shoots for the stars.
A new French president and Greek drama are fanning the flames of crisis.
Rebekah Brooks’s strategy of victimhood.
Their teacher tried to tell them they were headed for trouble, but high on risk and volatility, the Quants of France didn’t listen.
