Newsweek March 03-10, 2023

FROM OUR FIRST ISSUE ON FEB-ruary 17, 1933, Newsweek has been committed to journalism that is factual and fair, aiming to inform readers not just about the most important news developments of the week but also to provide insights and perspectives to help make sense of them. In the nine decades since, the world has changed, evolved and become, many would argue, increasingly polarized. What remains the same: our dedication to bringing you the highest-quality journalism, our belief that good-faith debate is in the public interest and our welcoming of diverse views and voices to the search for common ground. Looking back at Newsweek covers over the past 90 years is a time capsule of sorts, showcasing the breadth of our coverage and some common themes. War is a constant, political…

A Ukrainian mortar team waits for Russian shelling to cease before attempting to return fire toward an enemy position on February 16. The city of Bakhmut lies in the Donetsk province, part of Ukraine’s heavily industrialized eastern Donbas region, now partially occupied by Russia. Ukrainian forces have been holding the city for months against assaults led by Russian Wagner Group mercenaries, at great cost to both sides. As the February 24 one-year anniversary of the war approached, Russia intensified attacks across southern and eastern Ukraine. ▸ JOHN MOORE…

“These women trusted that science would be a meritocracy.” ▸ P.22 ONE YEAR SINCE THE START OF RUSSIA’S FULL-scale invasion, roughly half of Ukraine’s pre-war population of 40 million people has been driven from their homes, creating the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century. The big, unanswerable question: When, if ever, will they be able to return home again? As the conflict continues to displace additional Ukrainians every day, the resulting uncertainly has the potential to reshape a continent scarred by its deadliest war in decades. The experience of Yura Skobolev, a displaced father of five from Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, reflects the dilemma that families face. Skobolev, his wife and children endured eight months of occupation after the war began but were finally, and ironically, forced to flee after Ukrainian…

Women in academia and the sciences are finally getting their due: The key to mRNA vaccines—which helped bring COVID-19 vaccines to market so speedily—came from the lab of 65-year-old Katalin Karikó; Rochelle Walensky leads the Centers for Disease Control and this fall, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and six out of the eight Ivy League universities will be led by women presidents. While opportunities for women in academia and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers have a long way to go, things are significantly better, and that is a result of an unparalled group effort by 16 female members of the MIT faculty to bring about change. Their work resulted in a groundbreaking admission by the school in 1999 of a pattern of marginalization of its female faculty.…

Q _ Why write this book? Why now? A _ I started thinking about doing this book in January 2018, just as the #MeToo movement was surging. Those egregious cases made me reflect on the kind of discrimination the women at MIT had talked about in 1999: the subtle ways women are marginalized in the workplace, especially as they get older. I think it is more pervasive, and more insidious. The great insight of the MIT women was that it wasn’t enough to open doors to women, you had to make sure you valued and treated them equally into their careers. It struck me that the problems faced by women in science crystallize the broader problem, which is that we still don’t take women as seriously in intellectual and professional settings.…

TWENTY YEARS AGO, WHEN VIRONIKA WILDE was 12 years old, she began to lie. A lot. She lied about her age and her weight. She lied about having a speaking role on the hit TV show Degrassi when she had only been an extra. She lied that she had been in a car when a drive-by shooting occurred. Throughout her teen years and into her twenties, she lied constantly and blatantly, with little worry over whether or not her preposterous stories were believable. “When you’re in the habit of doing it, it’s hard to stop,” Wilde says. “The lies I told as a kid were pretty easy to figure out. But as I got older, I thought my lies were really clever.” Not until she suffered a mental breakdown in 2012 did…