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May 15, 2013 Issue

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Cover story U.S.

How Gitmo Imprisoned Obama

Five years later, Guantánamo remains open. It is the president's biggest failure. Now he tries to close it—again.

The Way They Hook Us—For 13 Hours Straight

Newsweek talks to the creators of today's most addictive shows about what they're doing to make sure we just can't stop.

(Some) Crime Pays

The new art of the heist.

In Focus

Captive to A Monster

Missing for nearly a decade each, Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, and Gina DeJesus are finally free—but will they ever really escape what happened to them in Cleveland’s House of Horrors?

Launch Slideshow 4 PHOTOS

Periscope

Rainy With A Chance Of Art

MoMA's new exhibit gives visitors godlike powers over weather.

Pakistan's Comeback Kid

Nawaz Sharif is once more the prime minster.

Siren Song

Can a drug help men resist beautiful women?

Orwell on the Potomac

The Justice Department targets journalists.

Meet The Melon

What a talking headband can tell you about your brain.

What a Strange Sjón

Three Summer reads come out of Iceland.

A Blow To Blow

Is this the end of the cocaine high?

Broken China?

The world's second-largest economy takes a fall.

Bugs À La Mode

Good for you. Good for the earth. Good to eat?

Houston, We Have a Viral Video

The astronaut who built a fan base from outer space.

Where The Cool Kids Live

Meet the new cities, not the same as the old cities.

Bidding Her Breasts Adieu

Angelina's brave decision to go public.

Horizons

Building Mosques for Peace

How religion prevents radicalism.

Location, Location, Location

The geographical explanation of American exceptionalism.

Printing Prosthetics

The creation of 3-D digits.

Grand Grandparents

How the Older Generation Shapes the New.

Mapping the Twittersphere

The geography of 140 characters.

Downtime

Adam Driver's So-Called Life

The romantic antihero of 'Girls' is poised to be the next indie heartthrob.

Donatella's New Man

Versace hired one of the London design scene's brightest stars.

The Man With the Bomb

Why Robert Oppenheimer haunts us still.

When Modernism Lost Its Way

A serious look at Los Angeles architecture finds small miracles in a hollowed-out landscape.

'Cumberbitches,' Rejoice!

In Newsweek, the actor talks to Marlow Stern about kicking butt, meditation—and playing Julian Assange.

Editor's Picks

Boomers Are Refusing to Give Up Their Large Homes

Baby boomers are staying in their large homes despite their kids having long left the nest, contributing to a lack of inventory.

By Giulia Carbonaro

2 MIN READ

Iran's Axis of Resistance Claims New Front Against Israel

Bahrain's Al-Ashtar Brigades warned "it will not stop its operations unless the Zionist aggression against Gaza stops."

By Tom O'Connor

7 MIN READ

Donald Trump Using Pseudonym in Settlement Agreement Raises Questions

By Sean O'Driscoll

2 MIN READ

Letitia James Stung by New Lawsuit

2 MIN READ

Gen Z Left Out of Biden's Student Debt Relief

By Suzanne Blake

3 MIN READ