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Newsweek International
Newsweek International is a consumer magazine covering general interest issues with editorial content. Newsweek Inc. publishes this periodical weekly. Fareed Zakaria is the Editor.
Articles from March 20
A New Fashion Frontier; the Arrival of Fast Fashion European Giants Is Starting to Shake Up the American Retail Scene
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Byline: Rana Foroohar There are no fashion seasons at H&M's store on New York's Fifth Avenue. Trucks hauling brand-new items pull in almost every day. Ever since the Swedish purveyor of cheap chic first brought its mix of trendy fashions and...
A Protectionist Backfire; the U.S. Trade Deficit Is Closing in on $800 Billion per Year, or about $3 Billion per Business Day
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Byline: Stephen Roach (Roach is the chief economist at Morgan Stanley.) America is turning protectionist at just the time when its need for foreign capital has never been greater. China-bashing is on the rise again, and a political firestorm forced...
A Risky Feud; A War of Words with Pakistan's President Only Underscores How Dangerously Weakened Afghanistan Has Become
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Byline: Ron Moreau, Zahid Hussain and Sami Yousafzai Summit meetings are meant to improve relations. But two recent high-level confabs--one in February between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart, Pervez Musharraf, and the...
A Smoke Screen; China Needs Better Leadership, Not Another Morality Campaign
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Byline: Minxin Pei So China has at long last found something to fill its "values vacuum." Once the party hoped that communist ideology would bind the masses to its will. After the catastrophic Cultural Revolution thoroughly discredited radical communism,...
Can the Sage Save China? Beijing Is Hoping a Return to Confucian Values Will Help Quell Growing Dissent, and Inspire New Loyalty
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Byline: Benjamin Robertson and Melinda Liu (With bureau reports) China's official buzzword these days is "harmony." Whether the audience is Chinese or foreign, rich or poor, Beijing's leaders are spreading the message: can't we all just get along?...
Castro's Comeback; Fidel Has More Fans in the Region Than He's Had in Years. but Is the Hype, like the Resurgence of Latin America's Left, More Style Than Substance?
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Byline: Joseph Contreras Anyone who doubts that symbolism matters to the Latin American left need only have looked last week to Venezuela, where fire-breathing President Hugo Chavez forced several critical changes to the country's flag through a...
False Friends; Fidel's Newfound Supporters Are Doing Ordinary Cubans No Favors
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Byline: Raul Rivero (Rivero is a prize-winning journalist and poet who was jailed for political reasons with dozens of other Cuban dissidents in March 2003. He was released from prison on medical grounds in the fall of 2004 and now lives in Madrid.)...
Fixing the Potholes; Why One Town Threw Hamas out, Even as Others Were Voting Them In
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Byline: Kevin Peraino Poor Muayyad Shraim. Ten months ago the 37-year-old physical education teacher was one of Hamas's rising stars. After the Islamist group swept local elections in the West Bank town of Qalqilya last May, he won a seat on the...
Gaming the Market; Videogame Makers Are Struggling to Cope with the Once-Every-Five-Years Transition to New Platforms
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Byline: N'Gai Croal (With Kay Itoi in Tokyo) Alex Ward shouldn't have a care in the world. After all, the lauded creative director of Criterion Studios is about to fly to Hawaii for some well-deserved R&R, having just completed a pair of very...
Graphic Content; since Vietnam, Baby Boomers Have Led a Design Revolution. Turning into Rich Retirees Won't Stop Them Now
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Byline: Peter Plagens From their arrival after World War II to their imminent retirements, baby boomers have been the most prosperous and protected generation in history. But since coming of age in an era of turmoil and rebellion--from rock and...
Interview: The Wrong Answer; Charlie McGreevy Says Europe Must Dump the Status Quo, or Doom Future Generations
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Byline: Rana Foroohar Protectionism is undermining Europe's future, says EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, and Brussels needs to stop it. Last week McCreevy ordered the French government to explain its role in the merger of state-owned...
Japan Is Back, So Beware
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Byline: Peter Tasker (TASKER is a founding partner of Arcus Investment, a money management firm in Tokyo.) It's been a long time coming--about 15 years, in fact. The Japanese central bank has just embarked on its first real monetary tightening since...
Periscope
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Byline: Dan Ephron and Rod Nordland (Owen Matthews, Anna Nemtsova and Michal Kacewicz Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey Ron Moreau and Zahid Hussain John Sparks Robert Stein Nicki Gostin Robert Stein) Iran: Rhetoric and Reality "Harm and pain"...
Rising Barriers; French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin Is Leading a New Wave of Protectionism-In Europe-But Also, Possibly, One of Reform
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Byline: Eric Pape and Christopher Dickey (With Karen Lowry Miller in Brussels and William Underhill in London) Like his hero Charles de Gaulle, Dominique de Villepin sees himself as a man of action. When France's prime minister mulls tough decisions...
The Good Life; Issue Dated March 20, 2006
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Byline: Raina Kelley and Michelle Jana Chan (by Emily Flynn Vencat by Sana Butler by Lauren Mack by Tara Weingarten) Travel: The Play's the Thing By Raina Kelley and Michelle Jana Chan All the world may be a stage, but many of this year's...
The Last Word: John Edwards-'Real Moral Leadership'
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Byline: Malcolm Beith Republican opposition killed the proposed takeover of some American port facilities by a Dubai company, but congressional Democrats were the first to fan the flames of the controversy. Eager to capitalize on President George...
The Lessons of History; in a New Book, British M.P. Boris Johnson Wonders: Why Can't the EU Be More like the Roman Empire?
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Byline: William Underhill Good news for Euro-skeptics: a spiritual forefather has been uncovered--an ax-wielding barbarian from the boondocks of first-century Germany, no less. Almost 2,000 years ago the tribal chieftain Arminius thrashed three...
Why GM Is Good for Us; Genetically Modified Foods May Be Greener Than Organic Ones
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Byline: Lee Silver Farm-raised pigs are dirty, smelly animals that get no respect. They're also an environmental hazard. Their manure contains phosphorus, which, when it rains, runs off into lakes and estuaries, depleting oxygen, killing fish, stimulating...
