Newsweek Magazine

January 24, 2014 Issue

Features

Cover story U.S.

'They grow up so fast' used to be a wistful sigh; now it's a panicked cry for help from parents watching their 10-year-old daughters critique Miley Cyrus's twerking and discuss oral sex with their friends

U.S.

Kentucky-Fried Politics

Electricity just got a lot more expensive in the Northwest thanks to some deft work by two senators

World

What I Saw at the Revolution

The Occupy Bangkok! movement has shut down the city with a well-coordinated and peaceful demonstration, but violence seems inevitable

In Focus

Peace Talks Aside, War Continues in Syria

A girl cries near a damaged car at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by government forces in Aleppo's Dahret Awwad neighborhood January 29, 2014.

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Periscope

World

Ban's Syrian Bungle Defriends Iran's Mullahs

How Iran was invited, then disinvited to the Montreux peace talks to discuss the future of Assad

U.S.

Snowden's Red Dawn

He wasn't a Russian spy when he exposed the NSA, but he's all theirs now

U.S.

Why Adam Lanza Killed Those 20 Children

The answer to the last, great mystery about the massacre last year at Sandy Hook Elementary School has been in plain sight for years

Entertainment

The New Auction Action

The head of Christie's talks about where art is going… and to whom… and how

U.S.

The Funny-Money Man Behind McDonnell's Fall

The ever-hustling businessman who brought down the former governor of Virginia has left a trail of slime and deceit going back 30 years

World

I Met the Black Widow Suicide Bomber

Angry women Islamist terrorists are heading for Sochi to attack the Winter Olympics

Horizons

Science

Tell Me More About Me, Please

People don't want to share personal information, but they are learning to mine it themselves

U.S.

Two Numbers: The Pay Stinks

The job crisis may be going away only to be replaced with wage concerns

Entertainment

Gadget Lust: Is 'Fat-Free Fryer' an Oxymoron?

She fries through the air with the greatest of ease (though you're lyin' if you say fryin')

World

One-Child Policy Is One Big Problem for China

A dangerous gender imbalance will take years to fix, if it can be fixed at all

Science

Rev Up Your REM

You can be more productive by teaching yourself to have lucid dreams – unless that sounds like a nightmare to you

Downtime

Hello, Neumann

He might be the best basketball player you've never heard of, but hoops isn't why you need to hear Johnny Neumann's story of weed, women, rebellion and homework