Newsweek Magazine

November 30, 2018 Issue

Features

Cover story World

Can Xi Jinping Make a Chinese Alternative to Democracy?

Cult of personality: Xi has broken from Deng Xiaoping's stance of keeping a low profile, even if it involves identifying the U.S. as its great 21st-century enemy.

Business

Chick-fil-A Customers Love More than the Waffle Fries

"Hey, you left your money here." Whole corners of the Internet are devoted to stories about Chick-fil-A's feats of service.

Business

You Will Be Replaced. Here's How

Economists were skeptical that robots could permanently displace humans on a large scale. But look at what's happening to retail jobs: The economists were wrong.

Business

Companies That Customers Love to Recommend

Chick-fil-A, Publix, Cracker Barrel, Lands' End: Meet the companies that consumers were most likely to recommend to friends and family.

In Focus

Hump Day

An Indian herder walks his camels at the Pushkar Camel Fair on November 15. The five-day fair is one of the world’s largest camel festivals. Thousands of people from the region come to the annual event to trade livestock. Part tourist attraction, part religious ceremony, the fair also features horse-dancing competitions.

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Periscope

Entertainment

Bryan Cranston Is Mad as Hell In 'Network' on Broadway

The play didn't need much adaptation "because the problems of 1976 are the same problems we have today."

Opinion

Who Cares for the Carer?

In attending to his mother after her breast cancer diagnosis, actor Rob Lowe experienced an increasingly common stress: tending to an aging parent.

World

Maduro's House of Pain: An Interview With Lorent Saleh

In an interview with Newsweek, Lorent Saleh describes his ordeal in prison, what the Trump administration should do to help Venezuela and why the world should no longer ignore one of its worst humanitarian crises.

Horizons

Entertainment

Ron Howard Talks 'Mars' Season 2

"I certainly hope [the show] works as a metaphor for the way we're coexisting and the way we're problem-solving here on Earth," the executive producer tells Newsweek.