Evan Thomas

The following special report was published by Newsweek in 1990, following a statement from then-President George H.W. Bush about America's strategy in the embroiled Persian Gulf. He told the American public, "This will not be another Vietnam." On November 30, 2018, the former president died at 94 years old.

In a 2008 cover story, Newsweek reported on John McCain's long, hard journey from "rebel without a cause" to leading presidential candidate.

In a 2004 feature story for Newsweek, Nancy Reagan showed us how to mourn with dignity and grace.

In Newsweek, Evan Thomas asks: For his second inauguration, can the president still reassure and inspire?

The epic competition betweeen Newsweek and Time as told by two of the finest veterans of the weekly wars.

Appearances can deceive. We picture John F. Kennedy's inauguration, 50 years ago this month, through a warm haze of nostalgia and regret. How romantic it seems now, how far away, and how unlike our own dreary time. Washington must have been Camelot then, or so the mythmakers tell us, and so we wish to believe.

For all its excesses, America is an extraordinarily stable country. The overlooked consolation of terrible, seemingly earth-shattering events like the slaughter in Tucson is that the country is not forever changed by lunatics with guns or even zealots flying airplanes into buildings.

Can the United States go the way of Germany in the past—a great society undone by terrible social turmoil?

Obama's only real hope to be an effective president and secure his legacy: talk straight about the looming economic disaster facing the country.

Officers have been complaining about the politicians back in Washington for as long as anyone can remember, but they generally do it privately. But while Gen. Stanley McChrystal was foolish to be so unguarded around Rolling Stone, it's better to have a commander who feels compelled to speak the truth than one who just tells his civilian bosses what they wish to hear.

Some 15 of NEWSWEEK's top 100 public high schools are charter schools. Since charter schools amount to only about 4 percent of all public schools, that would seem to suggest that charter schools are a runaway success story, right?

As the oil continues to flow, the political and environmental fallout is just getting started.

With the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant no longer reigns supreme.

The reasons and causes—territory, ideology, WMDs—may change with the times, but our lust for it is eternal.

Frustrated sons of privilege, caught between East and West, sometimes make for dangerous militants. Mohamed Atta, the lead 9/11 hijacker, was the son of a Cairo lawyer and the grandson of a doctor.

An exclusive excerpt from 'The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898.'

What Gov. Rick Perry's hard-right turn says about America in the age of Obama.

Antigovernment extremists are on the rise—and on the march.

John Paul Stevens went from judicial conservative to liberal light, but the court he served for 35 years stayed mostly in the middle.

Obama is more of a persuader than a fighter—but he's still a work in progress.

NEWSWEEK's Evan Thomas and The New York Times's Elizabeth Green discuss whether educators are born or made.

In no other profession are workers so insulated from accountability.

A leading reformer and a union head square off over teacher tenure.

Washington is working just fine. It's us that's broken.

American universities are accepting more minorities than ever. Graduating them is another matter.

The president needs to tell the truth on taxes, entitlements, and how to really reform health care—before it's too late.

Is he a lawyer too cautious in his approach to terror? Or is he a fighter who has failed to restore the rule of law? Yes.

While the political parties duke it out over divisive social issues, the majority of Americans remain steadfastly in the middle.

Moderate Republicans—yes, they are not yet extinct, though most are in hiding—scoff at Sarah Palin and wish she would go away. But she's not going away.

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal believes he can win in Afghanistan. It's the rest of the world that needs convincing.