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Micheal Ward

IMAGINE BEING A YOUNG ACTOR AND GETTING CAST IN A FILM DIRECTED by Sam Mendes. Oh, and your co-stars are going to be Olivia Colman and Colin Firth....all of whom have earned Oscars. Most would be intimidated, but not Micheal Ward, who plays Stephen in Empire of Light (December 9).

California Dreaming

THE STATE'S PLAN TO PHASE-OUT SALES OF NEW GAS GUZZLERS BY 2035 IN FAVOR OF ELECTRIC CARS IS BOLD, VISIONARY, IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY RISKY

America Takes Its Shot – Weston McKennie

Current and legendary players reflect, in their own words, on what it takes to win on soccer's biggest stage

Grammy Nomination Snubs, Surprises and New Categories

This year's list of potential winners omits some big current stars while tapping a few who have been around for decades

'I WANT TO INSPIRE GENERATIONS AT THE QATAR WORLD CUP'

MLS_YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR HOPES TO BE THE KIND OF LEADER 7 ASPIRING SOCCER PLAYERS LOOK UP TO

'BEING PART OF THE U.S.SQUAD WASN'T ALWAYS EASY'

SOCCER HALL OF FAMER WEIGHS IN ON THE EXTRAORDINARY EVOLUTION OF THE SPORT IN AMERICA SINCE HIS PLAYER DAYS

'I TREAT EVERY GAME LIKE A WORLD CUP FINAL'

GOALKEEPER MATT TURNER IS KEEN TO SHOW THE U.S. TEAM DESERVES RESPECT AND HELP IGNITE A LOVE OF THE GAME AT HOME

'MY WORLD CUP HAT TRICK IN '66 CHANGED MY LIFE'

LEGENDARY ENGLISH FOOTBALLER SIR GEOFFREY HURST LOOKS BACK ON THE SINGULAR RECORD HE'S HELD FOR SIX DECADES

'I MISS THE PRESSURE AND PURPOSE OF SOCCER'

ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEGEND MICHAEL OWEN TALKS ABOUT THE SWEET ADRENALINE RUSH OF SCORING GOALS -AND HOW THE WORLD CUP CHANGED HIS LIFE

QATAR 2022 IS JUST THE START FOR AMERICAN SOCCER

HEAD COACH GREGG BERHALTER HOPES HIS YOUNG TEAM CAN HELP CHANGE THE WAY U.S. PLAYERS ARE VIEWED AROUND THE WORLD

Books for Anyone on Your List

Newsweek's staff picks for best books of 2022 to give others...or pick up for yourself

Delectable Local Desserts

Desserts can be a sweet, lasting memory of an extraordinary travel experience. When the hosts of Newsweek’s Fast Women podcast travel, we don’t leave finding the best pastries in town to chance. Instead, we ask the locals which restaurant, shop or stand makes the very best; the hotel concierge is often a great resource, too. From coffee cake at Olsen’s Danish Village Bakery in California to milkshakes at Diesel Créme in South Africa or Sacher Torte at the Café Sacher in Austria, the sweet treats on this list are some of our favorites around the globe—and well worth a trip to discover. EILEEN FALKENBERG-HULL AND NICOLE WAKELIN

Bringing Almost Famous to Broadway

The creators and cast of the new musical talk about turning a beloved movie into alive show

Tim Allen

FOR TIM ALLEN, REVISITING HIS ICONIC LEAD ROLE IN THE SANTA CLAUSES November 16, Disney+) was more than just creating content” for a nostalgic streaming audience. We had a great responsibility.”

Ending Cuban Sanctions: 'It’s the Right Thing to Do’

In an exclusive interview, Cuba’s top diplomat calls the U.S. embargo lethal,’ urging President Biden to change this situation with a signature’

Birth of the Fake Pelosi Story

Limited information, unintentional misreporting and bad actors on social media turned the Pelosi attack into a false narrative

EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY

Dinos Soar

JOHN CLEESE ON HOW WOKENESS SMOTHERS CREATIVITY

IN A CAREER that has spanned seven decades—and included such classic shows and movies as Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Life of Brian, and A Fish Called Wanda—the comedian John Cleese has relentlessly satirized politics and religion while stretching the boundaries of decorum and good taste.

D.C. METRO GOES OFF THE RAILS

PUTTING WASHINGTON’S TRAIN SYSTEM BACK ON TRACK WILL TAKE MORE THAN BETTER BUREAUCRACY.

PUERTO RICO INCHES TOWARD SELF-DETERMINATION

REP. RAÚL GRIJALVA (D-Ariz.), chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, was pissed. The prominent progressive had just left a July 26 committee meeting on the Puerto Rico Status Act, a legislative compromise negotiated by the territory's nonvoting House member, Rep. Jenniffer GonzálezColón of the New Progressive Party (PNP).

How Venture Capital Made the Future

LIBERATION CAPITAL,\" AS investor Arthur Rock called it, \"was about much more than keeping a team together in the place where its members happened to own houses.\" In 1957, Rock took a gamble on the \"traitorous eight\"-a team of promising engineers at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory-and counseled them to free themselves of their authoritarian boss by quitting en masse and striking out to form Fairchild Semiconductor.

GOVERNMENTS SCRAMBLE TO MANAGE REGULATE, AND THROTTLE CRYPTO

MOST DANGEROUSLY OF ALL, THEY'RE STARTING TO MAKE THEIR OWN CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES.

THE LABOR MARKET IS BROKEN

INFLATION IS UP. The stock market is down. Unemployment is just 3.5 percent. Yet labor force participation remains stubbornly low, with only 62.3 percent of the civilian population working or actively looking for work-well below pre-pandemic levels. And even before the pandemic, that figure had been steadily declining for years.

RELIGION: AGAINST GAME OF THRONES CHRISTIANITY

FOR MANY MEMBERS of the so-called New Right, one thing is clear: Classical liberal principles are not getting the job done.

Psychiatrists Do Not Know What They Are Treating

AS A BOY, especially while lying in bed or suffering a fever, I was periodically troubled by harshly critical voices that vaguely charged me with misconduct and failures of character. As I grew up, the murmuring Greek chorus was replaced by a single voice, which by then I recognized as my own.

Stop Spazzing Out About 'Spaz'

SOCIAL MEDIA, STREAMING, AND A NEW ERA OF DIGITAL SELF-CENSORSHIP

PROSECUTORS SHOULDN'T BE ABOVE THE LAW

BY GIVING POWERFUL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY, THE SUPREME COURT LEAVES THEIR VICTIMS WITH NO RECOURSE.

Keri Blakinger Is a Figure Skater and a Felon

KERI BLAKINGER IS many things: a former elite figure skater, an Ivy League graduate, a prolific criminal-justice journalist, a convicted felon. The Texas-based writer recently published Corrections in Ink (St. Martin’s Press), a memoir that strings these seemingly disparate lives—from her near-Olympic rise to her drug addiction to her two-year prison stint to her Cornell graduation—into one very compelling narrative about redemption, second chances, and what you’re probably getting wrong about the legal system.

THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST

Otto Frank-father of Anne, the teenager whose posthumously published diary became standard reading for students learning about the Holocaustfled with his family from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933. But the Nazis eventually followed him there. One target of their 1940 bombing campaign was the U.S. consulate in Rotterdam, where Frank's visa application was destroyed along with everything else.

THE NEW DEAL AND A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN

THE U.S. SUPREME Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, has raised the possibility of a future Republican-controlled Congress seeking to ban abortion nationwide. If that happens, the resulting courtroom battles will likely center on a New Deal-era precedent that vastly expanded the scope of congressional power.