Newsweek Magazine

November 18, 2016 Issue

Features

Cover story U.S.

How Donald Trump Courted White Americans to Victory

Blue-collar whites say Trump understands how to get the jobs back. We're about to find out if that's true.

U.S.

The Role Gender Played in the Presidential Election

Women voted against Trump by one of the most significant gender gap margins in history, but their support for Clinton was tinged with ambivalence.

U.S.

The Almost Americans

Former Russian spies Jan and Victorya Neumann helped the FBI fight the Kremlin and its mafia cohorts. Now they're stuck without a country.

In Focus

Cannon Ball, North Dakota—For months, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has inveighed against plans to build a oil pipeline on land it claims to own. The U.S. government temporarily suspended construction on part of the pipeline in September. But the demonstrations have continued, as protesters like this one on horseback, remain undeterred. “The best way to resolve this,” says Dave Archambault II, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux, “is to reroute this pipeline.”

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U.S.

How Donald Trump Surfed Public Anger to the Presidency

Trump has become the champion of Americans fed up with the "connected class."

U.S.

America's Top Brothel

Backpage.com has long been the Amazon Prime of prostitution. Now it could close for good—and some say that's a bad thing.

World

Brazil's Black Power Outage

"It's time Brazil wakes up to its blackness. The current climate will only make things harder."

Horizons

Science

Cave Yields One of the World's Most Unusual Creatures

A newly discovered inch-long millipede has more legs than the chorus line at Radio City Music Hall.

Science

Cut the IBS

Food giants are hustling to develop palatable products low in short-chain carbohydrates to ease the burden of digestive disorders.

Science

Texas Fines Whooping Crane Killer, Revokes Guns

There are fewer than 500 whooping cranes left in the wild.

U.S.

Using Uber While Black—New Service, Same Discrimination

New study shows individual drivers may discriminate against patrons with "African-American-sounding" names, making them wait longer than white riders.