Newsweek August 12, 2022

2007 A conservative think tank paid scientists $10,000 to write pieces undermining climate change research, exemplifying a larger trend: “Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of doubt around climate change,” Newsweek wrote. While views on global warming remain ideologically divided, recently the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication showed 72 percent of U.S. citizens believe the climate is changing. In July, the U.K. reported record high temperatures. 1978 “During a lot of those years, I wondered if anybody out there was listening. But now, the word seems to have gotten around about me,” Nelson told Newsweek after the success of his album Shotgun Willie. Today, at age 89, Nelson continues to tour across the U.S. 1996 “Are we all as…

IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING RUSSIA’S INVASION of Ukraine on February 24, a relative handful of foreign-based companies announced they would be leaving Russia. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale School of Management professor who is tracking the companies that have left and the ones that are staying, estimates the original number at “several dozen.” Since then, as international revulsion at the war has grown, more than 1,000 companies from around the world have disengaged to varying degrees from Russia. If the moral case against President Vladimir Putin’s attack on his neighbor is undeniable, the business arguments for and against pulling out of Russia can be more complicated. For any company, leaving Russia is complex and time-consuming. And the question of what actually constitutes leaving—sell everything? close temporarily?—can get murky. Not to mention expensive: Shell Oil has…

“I’M AN INCOMPARABLE TALENT.”—Keke Palmer“I believe that my work on this committee is the single most important thing I have ever done professionally.”—REPRESENTATIVE LIZ CHENEY“We joke that fascism could never work in Russia—because nothing works here.”—SOCIOLOGIST BORIS KAGARLITSKY“We are not a mixed race …and we do not want to become a mixed race.”—HUNGARIAN PRESIDENT VIKTOR ORBÁN“THE FEAR OF FAILURE IS WHAT KEEPS ME MOTIVATED.”—Yankees pitching star Nestor Cortes“I’m not into being out of control anymore.”—Kate Moss“THE LAST BASTION OF NONPARTISANSHIP IS PUPPIES AND KITTENS.”—Libby Post, executive director, New York State Animal Protection Federation FROM LEFT: SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY; BEATA ZAWRZEL/GETTY; MIKE STOBE/GETTY…

EREMY BOREING HAD NEVER PLANNED to get into the razor business. That changed in March when online shaving gear seller Harry’s yanked its ads from his conservative news site over what it called “inexcusable” views and a “values misalignment” relating to the LGBTQ+ community. The Daily Wire CEO launched his own line of razors in March under the Jeremy’s Razors brand—selling products remarkably similar to those of Harry’s. “They left us for saying boys are boys and girls are girls,” complained Boreing, whose news site is known for its podcasts with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. The battle of the razors is the latest in a growing war against “woke business” by conservatives who are starting their own companies or investment funds, using activist shareholder tactics and drafting legislation to target firms espousing liberal…

WITH UKRAINE CLAIMING THAT RUSSIA HAS COMMITTED as many as 25,000 war crimes, more than a dozen organizations are busy putting together indictments that they hope will eventually land soldiers, commanders and even Vladimir Putin in court. On the surface, most of these are open-and-shut cases: unlawful killings including summary executions, forced detention, deportations and ‘disappearances’ of civilians, torture and sexual assault. But in the bombing of Ukraine, establishing the basis for war crimes is far more difficult. Newsweek examined the 25 top incidents of civilian deaths in the war. That two-month investigation has found that there is some truth to Moscow’s assertion that it is not intentionally targeting civilians. The Russians have bombed civilian areas in cities where the ground fighting has been the most intense: in places like Mariupol, Kharkiv…

HIGH, LOW + EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN IT HAS BEEN A BIG YEAR FOR SQUID GAME STAR Lee Jung-jae. He’s won Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice awards, been nominated for a Golden Globe, an Emmy (Squid Game got 14 Emmy nods) and received a 7-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival in May, for the premiere of Hunt, a spy thriller he both directed and stars in. In one of his first in-depth interviews with a major U.S. publication, Lee spoke to Newsweek from Seoul, where he’s been working on post-production for Hunt, which opens in South Korea August 10 (a U.S. release date is in the works). He reflected on directing his first film, his Hollywood aspirations and the “greater responsibility” he feels since the enormous success of Squid Game. ‘A…