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The Price of Complacency

The White House and Congress are fighting over pocket change even though the pandemic is still a threat

VISIONARY OF THE YEAR - Euisun Chung, EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP

HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP’S Executive Chairman Euisun Chung isn’t just focused on the cars of today. He’s pushing the company, and its Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands, into the future in several key ways. The company is becoming more vertically integrated, with Hyundai acquiring stakes in many of the companies that supply it with materials and components. It is bringing numerous electric models to market and testing hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicles. And it has acquired a major robotics company with an eye toward a future in which wheeled devices will move people and things around their homes and workplaces.

MARKETING CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR - Land Rover

LAND ROVER HAS BEEN supporting volunteer organizations and nonprofits across the world for almost a century. The company’s Defender Above & Beyond Awards are an extension of those efforts, combining the launch of a new vehicle with a marketing campaign that disrupts the traditional way of advertising a model, earning Land Rover Newsweek’s Auto Disruptors Marketing Campaign of the Year honors.

THE WORLD'S GREATEST AUTO DISRUPTORS 2022

The visionaries and innovators leading the industry into the digital future

Patrick Stewart

AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS PLAYING JEAN-LUC PICARD IN MANY iterations of Star Trek: The Next Generation and now with the Paramount Plus series Star Trek: Picard (season finale May 5), it’s wild to think Patrick Stewart almost might not have gotten the iconic part. “Gene Roddenberry [series creator] didn’t want me.”

Rethinking Republican Identity

Will Adam Kinzinger stay in the GOP? The retiring Congressman tells Newsweek and extremism could drive him away

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM OF THE YEAR - Hyundai Motor Group

HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP'S engineering team developed the company's new Electric Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), which underpins a new generation of vehicles aimed at democratizing an electrified future. It earns its creators Newsweek's Auto Disruptors Research and Development Team of the Year Award.

POWERTRAIN OF THE YEAR - Hyundai Motor Group

HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP went into development of its new generation of electric vehicles aiming to improve efficiency and range.

EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR - Jim Farley, PRESIDENT AND CEO, FORD MOTOR COMPANY

FORD PRESIDENT AND CEO Jim Farley’s grandfather worked on the line that built the Model T more than 100 years ago. Now Farley has been tasked with advancing the Ford family legacy of auto disruption and innovation into the twenty-first century by moving the company to the forefront of the industry’s digital future.

Forever in Their Hearts

Fontaines D.C. look at Irish identity from their new home in London

DESIGNER OF THE YEAR - Alfonso Albaisa, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL DESIGN, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.

WHEN IT COMES TO AUTOMOTIVE design, the passion is in the process for Alfonso Albaisa, Nissan’s senior vice president of global design.

Banned: Silenced Stories of the Marginalized

SOME 1,597 BOOKS HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED OR removed from libraries over the past year, according to the latest figures from the American Library Association (ALA)—the highest number since the organization began keeping track 20 years ago.

True Crimes

Renée Zellweger stars in a bizarre real-life murder story in NBC's The Thing About Pam

Trying to Stand Out

With customers increasingly willing to stray, brands are upping their game on loyalty programs

Wet Leg Gets the Joke

The hot British indie duo have been riding high since their single “Chaise Longue" became a smash. They're not taking their success too seriously

Noodles Around the World

For some people, noodles are a comforting bowl of chicken noodle soup; for others, they're a crazy-exotic spice bomb. Whether they are long or short, loopy or straight, noodles may be one of the most common food items in the world. Nearly every culture has a celebrated homegrown noodle dish—from macaroni to lasagna and from udon to pho-meaning there's a very good chance that most of us have tucked into a heap of incredible noodles at some point. Here are some of our favorite noodle dishes from cultures across the world.

Craig Robinson

WHAT DO SNAKES AND THE AMERICAN DREAM HAVE IN COMMON?

Another Battle Brews in Europe

As the war in Ukraine rages, a second conflict is heating up between Russian ally Armenia and neighboring Azerbaijan

In Focus

For the Children

Oscar-Worthy Film Locales

Despite the ongoing pandemic, this year the show did go on. Film crews navigated COVID-19 protocols in locations around the globe, from the Jordanian desert (Dune) to the New Zealand mountains (The Power of the Dog) to Hiroshima's cityscape (Drive My Car). Tune in on March 27 (ABC) to see which of the following nominations win top spots at the 94th Academy Awards, hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes.

America's Most Trusted Companies 2022

Trust is something that seems to be in short supply in the world right now.

More Cracks in the Glass Ceiling?

A new Harvard Business School analysis nds progress is being made toward workplace gender equity but it’s still slow going

Simone Ashley

PARTING SHOT

Russian Oligarchs Take Manhattan

The story of how a small coterie of fabulously wealthy Russians laundered billions in New York City's luxury condos—and how the Feds are now in pursuit

CHINA IS WATCHING

THE RUSSIAN INVASION IS RESHAPING BEIJING'S PLANS TO MAKE TAIWAN ITS OWN

Civil War 2.0: An Unmanageable Divorce

Splitting up red and blue America sounds good to some of us. But it would be an economic disaster

Seeking Sanctuary

More than 4 million Ukrainians are expected to flee their country in coming months, ushering in "Europe's largest refugee crisis this century”

'Shock and Awful'

Russian forces, fully prepared and operating from Russian soil, were able to move just tens of miles into an adjoining country. What Putin's military weakness means for the west.

A Bellwether for Democrats

The race for a newly created Colorado U.S. House seat may depend on Latino voters and offers some clues about the November midterms

Things Change

Harvey Fierstein's I Was Better Last Night is part memoir and part firsthand account of modern gay history