Newsweek Magazine

November 28, 2014 Issue

Features

Cover story U.S.

A fundamental misreading of the Zapruder film led to 50 years of faulty theories. Here is what actually happened in Dallas that day.

World

Blood Lines: How Europe's Cocaine Habit Funds Beheadings

Europe's appetite for drugs is helping keep African countries in the sewer and feeding the coffers of extremists

U.S.

The End of Eyewitness Testimonies

As science seeps into the courtroom, memory-as-evidence fades into the background.

World

The Local Heroes Reopening a Coal Mine With a Revolutionary New Business Model

Former miners are attempting to start their own coal mine in a community devastated by pit closures

In Focus

Happy Days

Forget the limo, hold the Rolls Royce, singer Solange Knowles and her fiance, music video director Alan Ferguson, choose to arrive at their nuptials on bicycles. Here, they make their way through the French quarter of New Orleans en route to the Marigny Opera House for the ceremony. Many of the guests also wore white, including Knowles's sister, Beyonce, and her brother in law Jay Z. But only Solange showed off three different outfits during her special day.

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Periscope

Business

A Different Kind of Oil Crisis

Gas prices are plunging. That hurts Putin and helps consumers, but producers around the world are about to get rocked.

World

Juncker Unlikely to be Unseated Despite 'Tax Haven' Scandal

An investigation into an ugly tax scandal in Europe is set to deepen David Cameron's woes at home

World

Tiny Baltic States Prepare to Hit Back at Mighty Russia

Putin's air force and navy have repeatedly intimidated its neighbours, who are mounting an armed response

World

Global Conflicts Create Record Numbers of Missing

Over one million people vanish every year. Now there's a new drive to solve 'a problem as old as mankind'

World

Dead Cleric Walking

Saudi Arabia has sentenced a Shiite Muslim cleric dissident to death.

The Scoop

Barack Obama and the Great Dictator Debate

President after president has read the grant of executive power in Article II as providing the authority for them, and the judicial branch has repeatedly found this to be constitutional.