Newsweek Magazine

August 23, 2013 Issue

Features

Cover story U.S.

Free at Last

Fifty years later, we're closer than you think to realizing Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream.

World

The Believer

Tzipi Livni still thinks peace is possible in Israel and Palestine. She's about to get her chance to prove it.

The Forgotten Cuisine

From Thai to Greek to Ethiopian, the U.S. is awash in foods from all over the world. But when will Native American cooking finally get its moment?

In Focus

Wildfires in the American West continue to rage, incinerating not only homes but also tax dollars. Fighting these fires has already cost more than $1 billion this summer, and the season’s not over yet. The Rim fire, near California’s Yosemite National Park, has been burning for nearly a week. It has spread over more than 16,000 acres.

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Periscope

World

The Unknown Nazi Hunter

Even his closest relatives didn't know that Hanns Alexander tracked down some of history's most notorious war criminals.

World

Preventing Pandemics

In a remote corner of the world, an American lieutenant colonel is helping with the construction of a high-tech laboratory to study and prevent the spread of anthrax and the plague.