Table of contents for July 11-18, 2025 in Newsweek

“RIGHT, LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT.” We are marching ourselves into madness, both in the crazy and angry senses of the word. We are caught in an epidemic of gun violence with no sign we can stop or change course. That’s why Chuck D and I created a new Public Enemy song, “March Madness,” a term usually reserved for basketball. To us, March Madness is not about the left or the right or politics—it’s about the need to unify, as human beings, to say what is right and what is wrong. Stop putting a price tag on the heads of our children. This track starts off with a 911 call report about a teacher calling in a school shooting and begging for help. I fear for my kids when I drop…

THE GLOBAL MOST LOVED WORKPLACES® stand out for reasons beyond just compensation. These are companies where employees feel respected, empowered and inspired to do their best work, places defined by trust, inclusion and purpose-driven culture. A fast-changing global workforce has made it clear: People want more than just a paycheck. According to statistics published by the Pew Research Center, only half of U.S. employees say they are “extremely or very satisfied” with their jobs overall. About 30 percent say they are “extremely or very satisfied” with their pay, just 37 percent expressed high levels of satisfaction with chances for training or ways to develop new skills and only 26 percent are satisfied with their job promotion opportunities. However, at the organizations recognized here, these priorities are not only met but…

A protester in Kenya’s capital city stands in front of a burning barricade as activists rally on June 25, the first anniversary of anti-tax demonstrations. The youth-led protests took place countrywide over poor governance and police brutality, fueled by the recent death of blogger Albert Ojwang in police custody. At least 16 people died in the unrest, with thousands—many identifying as Generation Z—joining the cause. last year’s actions, in which more than 60 demonstrators were killed, forced the withdrawal of a finance bill that raised taxes.…

AS A RELATIVELY NEW climber, I look up and think, There’s no way I’m getting up this. The limestone arches overhead in swirls of gray and rusty brown. Look closely, though, and it is carved and pitted with features where white chalk marks from the fingers of previous climbers show the ghost of a way up. The only way I can climb is to start. To think of the next places for my feet and for my hands, not the finish point 65 feet above—or anything else. I listen only to my breathing and my belay buddy, holding my life through the belay device on the rope between our harnesses. Clipping the rope to bolts set in the cliff face, I maneuver over a jutting fold. It goes surprisingly well…

FOR SOME, THE REAL HOUSEWIVES FRANCHISE is a means to achieve their 15 minutes of fame, but for other cast members, it has been a vehicle to break free from traditional roles expected of women and take financial control of their lives. “They’re finding their independence through the show,” Frances Berwick, chairman of Bravo and Peacock unscripted, told Newsweek. “It’s given a lot of them the ability to fulfill a dream or to evolve into something and realize their full potential.” When The Real Housewives started filming, host and executive producer Andy Cohen didn’t believe it had what it took to become a success. He didn’t even think it was worth putting “Orange County” in the title of the original series because he didn’t see it expanding to other areas.…

COMEDIAN JON STEWART NEVER EXPECTED TO nod in agreement with Tucker Carlson. But as the former Fox News host grilled Texas Senator Ted Cruz over U.S. involvement in Israel’s war with Iran, Stewart—a longtime critic of Carlson—found himself aligned with an unlikely ally. “We’re in such a bizarro world, you’ve got me nodding my head to Tucker Carlson videos,” Stewart said on his podcast recently. “You got Tucker Carlson going, ‘Why are we going to war with Iran again?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, you tell him, brother.’” The fiery exchange between Carlson and Cruz, part of a now-viral two-hour interview, illustrated the public civil war erupting among Trump allies over the conflict between Israel and Iran, and redefined Carlson’s role in the current landscape—not just as a conservative firebrand, but…

ON THE EVE OF HER BOOK release, E. Jean Carroll stepped into Newsweek’s Manhattan office in a muted olive-green jumpsuit, shimmery brown blazer and cream lace-up combat boots. With her signature blond bob in place, she restated her mission: to make President Donald Trump “so mad” by spending the $83.3 million he owes her in lawsuit settlements on causes he hates. At 81, Carroll—twice victorious against Trump in separate civil court cases—has penned a book, Not My Type, turning the infamous words the president used to dismiss her sexual assault allegations on themselves. Subtitled One Woman vs. a President, it chronicles Carroll’s legal battles against Trump in which juries unanimously found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation but she failed to prove he raped her. He is ordered to…

THE DARIÉN GAP, A REMOTE AND BIOLOGICALLY rich corridor between Central and South America, is becoming an unexpected conduit for a growing public health concern: the northward spread of the New World screwworm. Now challenging decades of containment efforts, the flesh-eating parasitic fly, whose larvae burrow into the wounds of living animals, has surged north through Central America since 2022, recently reaching the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Veracruz—roughly 700 miles from the Texas border. Scientists and federal officials now warn that the screwworm could cross into the U.S. as early as this summer if containment efforts falter. The screwworm, scientifically known as Cochliomyia hominivorax—roughly translated as “man-eater”—was eradicated from the U.S. by 1982 using the Sterile Insect Technique, or SIT, which involves releasing sterilized male flies to prevent reproduction…