Newsweek Magazine

February 09, 2024 Issue

Features

Cover story U.S.

How Greg Abbott's border fight bolsters calls for an independent Texas

Campaigners want a 'Texit' referendum on the ballot in the Lone Star State. But is a return to being a republic just a pipe dream?

In Focus

Bills Fans Rally

Orchard Park, New York: A Buffalo Bills fan shovels snow off the bleachers at the team’s Highmark Stadium before the National Football League’s first round of playoffs on January 15. Hundreds of loyal fans, earning $20 an hour, came to clear up to one-and-a-half feet of snow following a winter storm that pushed the Bills game against the Pittsburgh Steelers back a day. The Bills won 31-17.

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Periscope

Politics

Harvard turmoil no worse than in Vietnam War era says Joe Nye in new book

"Younger colleagues sometimes ask me if I have ever seen things so disrupted. My answer is "yes"—the Vietnam War years were worse!"

Politics

Don't 'jeopardize free speech that is fundamental' to Harvard, says prof

Foreign policy expert Joe Nye shares his thoughts on what Harvard's president should do, wars in Ukraine and Gaza and more.

Downtime

Entertainment

Common is sharing his secret for wellness with 'And Then We Rise'

"The better we are physically, it helps sharpen the mind," hip-hop artist Common tells Newsweek's Parting Shot about his new book.

Entertainment

Jake Johnson's 'Self Reliance' shows the impact of reality TV on society

"If the business is gone, and the dream is over, [Self Reliance] was the movie I wanted to make," Jake Johnson told Newsweek's Parting Shot about Hulu's 'Self Reliance.'

February 09, 2024 Issue

Bills Fans Rally

Don't 'jeopardize free speech that is fundamental' to Harvard, says prof

Jake Johnson's 'Self Reliance' shows the impact of reality TV on society

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Pro-Palestinian Protests Could Change Student Loan Forgiveness

Rafah Offensive: Biden Faces Questions Over Israel Aid Block

1.6 Million Americans Could See Their Minimum Wage Rise

Donald Trump Trial Docs 'Close to Being Smoking Guns'—Ex-Special Counsel

February 09, 2024 Issue

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