Newsweek Magazine

December 08, 2017 Issue

Features

Cover story U.S.

Catholic Church Priests Raped Children in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Detective Joe Walsh was admired by peers and prosecutors, but he is most proud of the fact that he never locked up an innocent person. Then he got sucked into a massive cover-up of sexual abuse by priests.

In Focus

Slow Burn

A Zimbabwean national burns a shirt of the Zimbabwe's ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF), as hundreds of Zimbabweans living in South Africa celebrate the resignation of Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe in the streets of the district of Hillbrow in Johannesburg on November 21, 2017. The announcement came after days of mounting pressure on the 93-year-old leader, whose long and authoritarian rule made him feared by many of his citizens.

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Periscope

Analysis

Will Anything Come of Congress's Trump-Russia Probes?

Special counsel Robert Mueller has announced his first charges, but the investigations by lawmakers are mired in partisan politics.

U.S.

Science

Asteroid Had Just a 13% Chance of Killing Dinosaurs

You have never had luck this terrible.

Science

How to Fix a Boy With No Skin

"You can't call it a cure...but it's probably getting close."

Downtime

Entertainment

Youngest Manson Family Member Shares Cautionary Tale

Before Manson coerced his cult members into murder, he was a musician who seduced and preyed on young women. Dianne Lake, whose new memoir recounts her years with him, was one of his victims.