Newsweek Magazine

June 25, 2021 Issue

Features

Cover story Politics

Chris Evans was Captain America. Now He's Helping Gen Z Reshape Politics

The 39-year-old star's new media venture, A Starting Point, is bringing politicians directly to the most engaged young cohort in modern American history.

Politics

Chris Evans, Mark Kassen on Young Voters and "Famous People Interviews"

Evans and Kassen talked exclusively with Newsweek about "A Starting Point" and the need to get young people interested in politics and issues.

In Focus

Cleanup

Colombo, Sri Lanka: On May 27 Sri Lankan navy troops collect debris that had washed ashore from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl which was burning for the eighth consecutive day in the ocean off Colombo Harbor. The vessel, carrying chemicals and sinking, is one of the country’s worst sea disasters.

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Periscope

Politics

Liz Cheney's Ouster Makes a Third Political Party More Likely

Could Cheney, along with other prominent Republicans on the outs with the party because they have withheld fealty to the former president, mount their next election bids as independents—or even form a third party?

Analysis

How a U.S. government database fuels dangerous vaccine misinformation

Natural News picked up the false claim from a familiar source of pandemic misinformation: Red-rated website Great Game India, which in January 2020 also spread a different falsehood that the COVID-19 virus was stolen from a Canadian lab.

Downtime

Entertainment

Escape With Summer's Most Transporting Books

Get inspired for post-pandemic travel with these recent books set all over the map. Wander the world through the pages of these tales whose setting is often a main character.

Entertainment

The Handmaid's Tale's Joseph Fiennes Says This Season the Most 'Expansive'

"This season we geographically open up, we get to see outside of Gilead. And I guess the expanse played into that wonderful paradox of freedom," Joseph Fiennes tells Newsweek about the fourth season of the Hulu series 'The Handmaid's Tale.'