Design for the Mind

Can better interiors help us live, work and feel better? One architect is making the case

In the Mood To Remember

Lincoln Center pays tribute to jazz great Duke Ellington and his musical legacy

Less Is More

Restaurateur Dara Mirjahangiry pulls in an A-list crowd at his New York City eatery Sei Less. Now he's eyeing his next phase

America's Best FERTILITY CLINICS and MATERNITY HOSPITALS 2025

THE JOURNEY TO PARENTHOOD IS ONE OF LIFE'S MOST profound and personal experiences.

FROZEN OUT

Why College Grads Are Getting the Cold Shoulder From Employers

Penn Badgley

IS THERE A SATISFYING WAY TO BRING AN END TO JOE GOLDBERG’S STORY on Netflix’s You? To Penn Badgley, who has played the serial killer and sexual predator for the past five seasons, “We give a nod and a wink to the kind of satisfaction you want.”

America's Greatest Workplaces for Mental Well-Being 2025

THE MODERN WORKPLACE IS EVOLVING, AND WITH it, expectations around employee well-being.

Gay Moms, Irish Catholics and the Pope

In a world where LGBTQ people are too often dismissed, Pope Francis welcomed their voices

Christopher Meloni

WHEN YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING A CHARACTER off and on for 25-plus years like Christopher Meloni has been with Detective Elliot Stabler, first on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and now on Law & Order: Organized Crime (Peacock), you're always looking for new ways to approach it.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Inside the Execution Room

As Florida ends Michael Tanzi’s life, a Newsweek reporter observes his final breath and the ritual of state-sanctioned death

Harvard Lawsuit Could Reign Supreme

Experts tell Newsweek how the university may win over conservative judges in legal action against the Trump administration’s freeze on research funding

THE Beautiful AND THE Damned

How GLP-1 drugs like MOUNJARO and OZEMPIC are redefining the debate about size, weight loss and PRIVILEGE

Health Matters

MERE HOURS AFTER BIRTH, MOST newborns are tested for two things: whether they have signs of hearing loss and whether they have a range of rare conditions that could severely affect their health and their lives.

How concerned are you about the current measles outbreak in the U.S.?

Dr. Peter Marks The longtime head of vaccine and drug approvals at the FDA on measles, missed opportunities, and resigning

Bearing Witness

THE ARTIST PERSPECTIVE ON PROGRESS

This pill could forever change how people lose weight

Potential delivery methods for orforglipron, photographed at Eli Lilly's Indianapolis headquarters on March 31. The ultimate form has yet to be finalized

THE SELFIE POPE AND MEME-ING THE FAITH

Pope Francis knew how to preach in the social media era.

POPE FRANCIS 1936-2025

An Argentine with a gift for empathy, a discomfort with opulence, and a profound love for the poor changed the face of the Catholic Church

A Life of Activism

A Q&A WITH BASKETBALL STARS MAYA MOORE AND CARMELO ANTHONY

THE RETURN OF THE DIRE WOLF

FOR THE FIRST TIME, SCIENTISTS SAY THEY'VE SUCCESSFULLY BROUGHT A SPECIES BACK FROM EXTINCTION. THAT HAS BIG IMPLICATIONS FOR ENDANGERED ANIMALS

NEW LAB PARTNER

Why AI models could help prevent—or cause— the next pandemic

Art Is a Way: Struggle, Loss, And Black Living

LARCENIA FLOYD DIED IN 2018, TWO years before George. But when her son was being asphyxiated to death by Derek Chauvin, he screamed for her. It was the “Mama!” heard around the world, an anguished incantation that called millions into the streets to protest.

The Battle for Our Memory Is the Battle for Our Country

ON JUNE 7, 2020, REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LEWIS MADE HIS last public appearance at the Black Lives Matter mural, painted on the road adjacent to the White House.

Building a Moon Shot for Racial Justice

MY DISSERTATION ADVISER, A VETERAN OF SEGregated Chicago, liked to say that social science is not rocket science—it’s a lot harder. Social systems and social progress have a lot more variables than physical ones and behave much less predictably.

Fear of the 'other' in a nation of immigrants

THE U.S. HAS ALWAYS HAD A TRICKY RELATIONSHIP WITH immigrants and refugees, even if part of the American mythology is that we are a land of newcomers. In this mythology, they—migrants—are a part of us.

RADICAL MERCY

Pope Francis’ greatest achievement was pushing the church to prioritize compassion

5 questions you should always ask at doctor's appointments

When you go to the doctor, you’re probably the one answering most of the questions. Yet it’s essential to make sure you're asking plenty of your own. “We need to get someone to fund a bazillion-dollar PSA to tell people to be bolder when they talk to their doctors,” says Risa Arin, founder and CEO of XpertPatient, a patient-education platform. “I see this over and over again: people aren’t asking any questions, never mind the right ones.” We asked experts to share the questions you should ask your doctor to help you get well or stay that way.

A man who can't make friends, played for laughs

TIM ROBINSON, THE FORMER SATURDAY NIGHT Live writer and performer who now co-stars with Paul Rudd in the prickly cringe comedy Friendship, is probably a genius.

A FEY FOR ALL SEASONS

Tina Fey's new Netflix series The Four Seasons reveals a humanistic sensibility hiding in plain sight

Will a trade war with China bring back U.S. factory jobs?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS PROMISED HIS TARIFFS will usher in a “new golden age” for American workers, harking back to an industrial past that has been lost to decades of globalization.