Rob Verger
Foreign Coordinator & Associate Editor
Rob Verger is liaison to Newsweek’s foreign editions and also reports, writes, and edits. In addition to Newsweek and its international editions, he’s also written for The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast, World Hum, and other publications. He’s interested in a wide range of topics, including international affairs, health and science, and arts and culture. In 2013 he was granted a fellowship to travel to Kazakhstan with the International Reporting Project. A former high school English teacher, he holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, where he also taught undergraduate composition for two years.
Mapping Any Location on Earth With Just Three Words
A new mapping system divides the world into 57 trillion geotagged locations, each with a unique three-word name.
Dr. Mulu Muleta And The Afterbirth Miracle
A surgeon who grew up barefoot is changing women's lives
Kangaroo Mother Care Could Save Millions of Lives In Poor Countries
Premature birth is a mass killer in developing countries. But it doesn't have to be.
Newsweek Rewind: The Ebola Outbreak of 1995
Our magazine did little to calm the fears of the virus killing people in Africa
Newsweek Rewind: 'Murder in the Air'
If Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was indeed shot down, it won't be the first civilian plane to have been brought down by hostile fire
Newsweek Rewind: When the Sky Fell
On this day 35 years ago, America's first space station burned up over Australia
Newsweek Rewind: 'Tear Down This Wall'
Reagan's famous directive to Gorbachev, spoken on this day in 1987, foretold the end of the Cold War
Indian Official Says Rape Is 'Sometimes' Right
After two girls were gang-raped and murdered, several politicians have tried to minimize the severity of the crime
Newsweek Rewind: The Day Hillary and Norgay Climbed Everest
The successful climb highlight the tragedies that have recently befallen climbers, and their guides, on the Earth's highest peak
Poet Maya Angelou on Leadership, Politics and Race
She wrote for presidents, was interviewed by Oprah, was spoofed by Saturday Night Live, and mentioned by rappers
Newsweek Rewind: Debunking Global Cooling
The writer of our famous article "The Cooling World" has retracted it
Teenage Survivor of Boko Haram Recounts Ordeal to U.S. Congress
A 15-year-old Nigerian girl who got away tells her story of Boko Haram's atrocities
Newsweek Rewind: 60 Years Since Brown v. Board of Ed Desegregated U.S. Schools
The Supreme Court's unanimous decision changed the country and was a major win for the civil rights movement
Watch Chris Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' While You Still Can
The copyright has caught up with the best music video ever filmed in space
Newsweek Rewind: Inside Seal Team 6
Osama bin Laden was killed in a covert nighttime raid in Pakistan three years ago Thursday
Deaths on Everest Put Spotlight on Sherpa Labor
The deaths of 16 Nepali expedition workers hasn't officially canceled the climbing season yet, but it has made things tense
Scientists Find Distant Earth-Sized Planet That Could Support Water and Life
About 500 light years away, the fifth planet orbiting a small dim star could harbor life
Newsweek Rewind: 15 Years After Columbine, a Nation Still Asks 'Why?'
Columbine was not the first school shooting, nor was it the last, but it was nonetheless an event of extreme national trauma.
The Heartbleed Logo: How to Get People Talking About Internet Security
The logo for the massive browser-security hole is evocative and simple and, most importantly, has people talking
Newsweek Rewind: The Genocide in Rwanda
To cover the brutal mass murder, Newsweek interviewed a survivor who lost nearly everything—except for one of his daughters
Ocean as Large as Lake Superior Found on Enceladus, a Tiny Moon Orbiting Saturn
Saturn's moon Enceladus is only 300 miles wide—it would fit between New York City and Charlottesville, Va.
For Soldiers With Gulf War Illness, a Clue to the Mystery in Their Cells
Doctors found changes in mitochondria of veterans of the first Gulf War suffering from a variety of mysterious aliments
Newsweek Rewind: The War in Iraq, 11 Years Later
Two Newsweek reporters look back at the mistakes and trauma of the first days of the Iraq War
The Geography of Autism
A new study hints at why autism clusters, but experts caution seeking an easy solution
Malaria Cases Could Rise with Temperatures, Study Says
In at least two countries, higher elevations had more cases in warm years
Study Offers a Clue in Autism's Gender Divide
A study of mutations in boys and girls with autism points to female resilience — and male susceptibility
And How Many WhatsApps Does That Cost?
An aircraft carrier, vaccines for every child, a colony on Mars — those are some of the things Facebook could have bought instead of the messaging service
Newsweek Rewind: How We Covered the Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII
In the midst of racial fears, 120,000 U.S. citizens lost their property and their freedom
Newsweek Turns 81
The limits of a president's power, a foreclosure crisis, and naval exercises in the Pacific ... sound familiar?
