Newsweek Magazine

May 31, 2019 Issue

Features

Cover story Health

We're Running Out of Effective Drugs to Fight Off an Army of Superbugs

Antibiotics have saved countless lives over the years, but as deadly bacteria grow immune, those miracle drugs stop working.

Health

Poor Economic Incentives Have Left Doctors Without New Antibiotics

Medical researchers have known for decades that the pipeline for new drugs to stave off bacterial infections would one day run dry. That day is now at hand.

Health

Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome Cases Are on the Rise

Thousands of people each year continue to show symptoms after treatment.

In Focus

After the Storm

A woman sits with her child next to storm-ravaged buildings on May 4 after Cyclone Fani swept through the eastern state of Odisha. The cyclone killed at least 34 people in India and 15 in Bangladesh. Reports credited the vastly improved disaster readiness efforts of the countries, which evacuated millions of people from the powerful storm’s path, with preventing a much larger death toll.

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Periscope

World

Could U.S. Defeat Iran's Navy? This Exercise Shows War Would Not Be Easy

"We get carried away by our weapons, firepower, superiority, technology, all this kind of stuff, and we fail to look at the human factor," diplomat Robert Oakley told Newsweek in 2003.

U.S.

Conservatives Use Social Media to Move Agendas Much More Than Liberals Do

Conventional wisdom says it is liberals who use the internet best to enhance activist causes, but that may not really be the case.

Horizons

Science

What's Your Moonshot? Meet the Man Using Fish Protein to Feed the Hungry

Mazi Ghorbani is an entrepreneur and inventor whose latest venture involves creating a sustainable protein derived from fish in an effort to combat childhood hunger.

May 31, 2019 Issue

Poor Economic Incentives Have Left Doctors Without New Antibiotics

Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome Cases Are on the Rise

After the Storm

Conservatives Use Social Media to Move Agendas Much More Than Liberals Do

Editor's Picks

What Scientists Say About the Viral Atlantic Diet

90-Year-Old Man Breaks Space Travel Record: 'Everybody Needs to Do This'

Donald Trump Scores Poll Boost in Critical Battleground States

How Meghan Markle's Wedding Dress Was an Act of Royal Rebellion

High-Speed Rail Backed As Future of US Transport

May 31, 2019 Issue

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