Newsweek Magazine

October 26, 2018 Issue

Features

Cover story U.S.

Russia May Have Already Hacked the 2018 Midterms

It's possible the Russians perfected their attacks on electronic voting machines in the 2016 elections without tipping their hand.

SpyTalk

Is Trump Ready to 'Get the Hell Out' of Afghanistan?

A "devastating" new intelligence estimate on Afghanistan will give Trump cover to order a complete retreat, analysts fear.

World

Sebastian Kurz Remaking Europe's Future From Dark Past

Young Austrians see themselves in their 32-year-old chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, a conservative populist with big ambitions. In championing him, they also flirt with the country's dangerous past.

In Focus

Walking on Water

Bonn, Germany—Children play inside the water-filled Circular Appearing Rooms by artist Jeppe Hein on October 9. The installation is part of the Playground Project, a traveling exhibition running here through October 28 that aims to provide kids with an ideal play environment and to rethink communal and urban life. The weather obliged with a rare 70-degree day.

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Horizons

Science

NASA Satellite to Show How Much, How Fast Seas Rise

Loss of ice at the North Pole could shut down the Gulf Stream, plunging Northern Europe and Scandinavia into a deep freeze.

Entertainment

'Night of the Living Dead' Still Terrifying Audiences

The simple horror of 'Night of the Living Dead' is the realization that society has gone dreadfully wrong, as frightening a concept now as it was in 1968.