Newsweek September 30, 2022

First Battalion Grenadier Guards carry the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II out of Westminster Abbey after a state funeral service on September 19. Huge crowds, including approximately 500 world leaders, gathered to pay tribute to Britain’s longest-serving monarch and watch the royal procession escort her casket through the streets. The Queen’s final resting place is in King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle alongside her late husband, Prince Philip. COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/GETTY (2); PHIL NOBLE/AFP/GETTY; CARL COURT/AFP/GETTY; RYAN PIERSE/GETTY; STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP/GETTY; CHRIS RATCLIFFE/BLOOMBERG/GETTY. CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: DANNY LAWSON/AFP/GETTY; KARWAI TANG/GETTY; DOMINIC LIPINSKI/GETTY…

Swedes cast their votes at the Royal College of Music polling center in Stockholm on September 11. Right wing parties took the race, marking a new era for a country known for its progressive ideals. The victory is due in part to the rising power of the once-fringe anti-immigration Democrats party. The issue has been contentious since an influx of asylum seekers from the Middle East sought refuge in the Nordic region in 2015. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: WOJCIECH GRZEDZINSKI/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY; KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY; JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/GETTY…

WHILE THE UNOFFICIAL SLOGAN OF SIN CITY— “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”—seems set for all time, change is otherwise a constant in Nevada. That applies as much to politics as it does to the transient residents who flood through the state in search of work in the gaming and hospitality industries. Right now, as the country heads into the general election season, Republicans see an opening to wrest control of the battleground state from Democrats for the first time since 2014, making Nevada an important indicator not only for this year’s midterms, but also for America’s 2024 presidential vote. Nevada has backed the White House winner in 10 of the last 11 elections. GOP hopes of winning the state’s governorship and its open U.S. Senate seat have been lifted by…

BANNED BY TWITTER AND OTHER social media outlets, QAnon adherents have flocked to Truth Social, former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, which bills itself as a free-speech haven. A NewsGuard review found that Trump and top executives working for the platform actively promote these QAnon accounts. QAnon supporters contend, falsely, that Democrats and the “deep state” operate a network of child sex traffickers Trump and an anonymous government operative known as “Q” are engaged in a struggle to take down. QAnon has been linked to numerous violent incidents, including the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; an armed standoff at the Hoover Dam in 2018; and the 2021 killing of two infant children by their father, who allegedly told prosecutors that he had been “enlightened by QAnon and…

“WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO HATES AT LEAST HALF OF [THE U.S.]”—Harris Faulkner, anchor“Hair should not be a barrier which stops people from participating.”—ALICE DEARING, BRITISH OLYMPIC SWIMMER, ON A CAP FOR BLACK HAIR“I have definitely had those conversations with him over and over again.”—GISELE BÜNDCHEN ON TOM BRADY’S EVENTUAL RETIREMENT“As strong as this storm may be, I know the British people are stronger.”—PRIME MINISTER LIZ TRUSS“I SMILED A BIT TOO HARD AND IT MADE MY FACE LEAK.”—Brendan Fraser, on his standing ovation for The Whale at the Venice Film Festival“We have not lost anything and will not lose anything.”—Vladimir Putin on Ukraine“WHAT WE JUST WENT THROUGH WITH COVID IS A WINDOW TO WHAT CLIMATE COULD DO.”—Kyle Meng, environmental economics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara FROM LEFT: MORGAN…

FIVE YEARS AGO MARK HOROWITZ seemed an unlikely skeptic of psycho-pharmaceuticals. He had been taking the popular antidepressant Lexapro virtually every day for 15 years. He was so fascinated by the drugs that he spent three years hunched over a dish of human brain cells in a laboratory at King’s College London, measuring the effect of human stress hormones and drugs like Prozac and Zoloft. Then, when he tried to wean himself off the medication, he suffered panic attacks, sleep disruptions and a depression so debilitating that he had to move back to his parents’ house in Australia—symptoms that he says were far worse than anything he experienced prior to going on the drugs. He went online and found thousands of others in a similar pickle. They had been unable to…