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other magazinesOther MagazinesSummaries of what's in Time, Newsweek, etc.1NA=1154&NC=1286&DI=4098&PS=58294&PI=7315OtherMagsfalsefalseNewsspacernotembeddedother magazinesGirl PowerSonia SmithfalseThe New York Times Magazine on how women's rights are key to fighting poverty.noGirl PowerWhat's new in Time, Texas Monthly, and Mother Jones.nospacer100122New York Times falsefalse1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090822_OMAG_nytm.jpghttp://img.slate.com/mediayesStandardImage1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090822_OMAG_nytm.jpg100122http://img.slate.com/mediafalse200912570055AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:55 PM633955932551139976200912570055AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:55 PM633955932551139976200912570055AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:55 PM633955932551139976false200982152852PMFridayAugAugust178/21/2009 9:28:52 PM633864725320000000200982152852PMFridayAugAugust178/21/2009 9:28:52 PM633864725320000000New York Times Magazine, Aug. 23The cover story, penned by husband-and-wife team Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, argues that empowering women is key to stamping out global poverty and extremism. When women work, they are more likely than men to spend their paychecks in ways that will benefit their families—on food and education instead of alcohol. "If poor families spent only as much on educating their children as they do on beer and prostitutes, there would be a breakthrough in the prospects of poor countries," they write. Access to education, iodized salt, microcredit loans, and maternal health care are inexpensive ways that women's welfare can be improved worldwide. … Dexter Filkins returns to Mirwais Mena School for Girls outside Kandahar, the site of acid attacks against 15 girls and teachers last November. After Filkins' initial story on the attacks ran in January, he collected more than $25,000 in donations for the injured girls and the school. Much of the money was to be used to send the subject of his January story, 17-year-old Shamsia Hussein, to the United States to repair her facial scars, but threats from the Taliban scared her family into not sending her.truenotochyperlinkno200982155455PMFridayAugAugust178/21/2009 9:54:55 PM633864740950000000200982155455PMFridayAugAugust178/21/2009 9:54:55 PM633864740950000000other magazinesManhattan MediciSonia SmithfalseThe New Yorker on Michael Bloomberg's unopposed election bid.noManhattan MediciWhat's new in New York, Newsweek, and the Weekly Standard.nospacer100137The New Yorkerfalsefalse1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090818_OMAG_nyer.jpghttp://img.slate.com/mediayesStandardImage1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090818_OMAG_nyer.jpg100137http://img.slate.com/mediafalse200912570055AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:55 PM633955932554447888200912570055AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:55 PM633955932554447888200912570055AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:55 PM633955932554447888false200981825622PMTuesdayAugAugust148/18/2009 6:56:22 PM633862041820000000200981825622PMTuesdayAugAugust148/18/2009 6:56:22 PM633862041820000000The New Yorker, Aug. 24Ben McGrath evaluates Michael Bloomberg's re-election bid for mayor of New York and finds that he is today so powerful he "seems more a Medici than a mayor." Bloomberg, "unusually adept at governing the ungovernable city," has decided again to throw enormous amounts of money at his re-election bid, after the problem of term limits was pushed aside. Running unopposed so far, Bloomberg is likely to win. Polls show that "a majority of the city's voters would prefer a new mayor but also believe the current one is the best available man for the job," McGrath writes. … Tad Friend profiles Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley startup that is developing a $50,000 highway-ready electric car. Determined to bring electric cars to the masses, Musk, the co-founder of PayPal, hopes the next vehicle will cost only $25,000. He also wants to spur larger auto manufacturers into action: "Our success will make Toyota worry about what BMW will do, and G.M. worry about Honda—will create a concern about being late for the party."truenotochyperlinkno200981841414PMTuesdayAugAugust168/18/2009 8:14:14 PM633862088540000000200981841414PMTuesdayAugAugust168/18/2009 8:14:14 PM633862088540000000other magazinesA Dicey SituationDavid SessionsfalseTime on how the recession is killing Las Vegas.noA Dicey SituationWhat's new in the Economist, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation.nospacer100133Timefalsefalse1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090814_OMAG_Time-8-14.jpghttp://img.slate.com/mediayesStandardImage1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090814_OMAG_Time-8-14.jpg100133http://img.slate.com/mediafalse200912570056AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:56 PM633955932563635660200912570056AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:56 PM633955932563635660200912570056AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:56 PM633955932563635660false200981442315PMFridayAugAugust168/14/2009 8:23:15 PM633858637950000000200981442315PMFridayAugAugust168/14/2009 8:23:15 PM633858637950000000Time, Aug. 24The cover story surveys how the recession has devastated Las Vegas. The once-booming city is now dotted with unfinished hotels and visited by travelers paying deeply discounted rates. Casino owners lost financing for the multibillion-dollar projects, residents are abandoning the mortgages of their now-valueless homes, and strippers are taking online classes to compete with the thousands of unemployed women flooding into town. It adds up to huge trouble for the Nevada government, which depends almost completely on the city for tax revenue. … An article observes that as the majority of job losses have come in male-dominated industries, men's unemployment could produce significant cultural effects. While there are no historical instances of men handing an economy over to women, there do exist plenty of examples in which "women do all the arduous work while men sit around smoking and pontificating in coffeehouses and barbershops."truenotochyperlinkno200981444834PMFridayAugAugust168/14/2009 8:48:34 PM633858653140000000200981444834PMFridayAugAugust168/14/2009 8:48:34 PM633858653140000000other magazinesLast Man StandingDavid SessionsfalseEsquire on America's lone late-term abortion doctor.noLast Man StandingWhat's new in Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and Texas Monthly.nospacer100135Esquirefalsefalse1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090811_OMAG_Esquire.jpghttp://img.slate.com/mediayesStandardImage1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090811_OMAG_Esquire.jpg100135http://img.slate.com/mediafalse200912570053AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:53 PM633955932538406780200912570053AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:53 PM633955932538406780200912570053AMSaturdayDecDecember712/5/2009 12:00:53 PM633955932538406780false200981132857PMTuesdayAugAugust158/11/2009 7:28:57 PM633856013370000000200981132857PMTuesdayAugAugust158/11/2009 7:28:57 PM633856013370000000Esquire, September 2009An article profiles the last man in America still performing risky late-term abortions. Warren Hern practices behind walls of bulletproof glass and talks about the people who earlier this year killed his friend and fellow late-term abortionist George Tiller. "It's a violent terrorist movement, and they have a fascist ideology." Hern believes helping women whose babies have serious or fatal deformities—not people who accidentally got pregnant and waited to abort—is "the most important thing I could do in medicine." … An article describes the painful psychological effects of going without solid food. The author, who has Crohn's disease, subsisted for two months on total parenteral nutrition—"a mixed bag of nutritional fluids"—while feeling an intense hunger he eventually realized was more mental than physical. His taste buds disappeared, and when his doctor allowed him to eat again, "there [was] no sensation of hunger or feelings of digestion or satiation."truenotochyperlinkno200981150420PMTuesdayAugAugust178/11/2009 9:04:20 PM633856070600000000200981150420PMTuesdayAugAugust178/11/2009 9:04:20 PM633856070600000000other magazinesCruel and UnusualDavid SessionsfalseThe Economist on America's exceptionally harsh sex-offender laws.noCruel and UnusualWhat's new in Time, New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone.noEconomist, Aug. 8The cover story calls America's harsh punishment of sex offenders "unjust and ineffective." In multiple instances, high-schoolers have been convicted for having consensual sex with their underage sweethearts and forced to enter the public registry for life. Others have been harassed in their homes and even murdered. Though the United States' harsh laws have little effect—recidivism rates are high and public registries have not reduced rates of offense at all—other countries are now copying a trend that has careened out of control. … An article charts the rise of home-schooling in the United States. The number of children who are home-schooled—1.5 million—has doubled in the past decade, and 83 percent of home-schooling families do so for religious or moral reasons. The Internet has helped home-schoolers communicate and share materials, and having Barack Obama in the White House may motivate more conservatives to take their children out of public schools.truenotochyperlinkno20098752139PMFridayAugAugust178/7/2009 9:21:39 PM63385262499000000020098752139PMFridayAugAugust178/7/2009 9:21:39 PM633852624990000000200311442518PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:25:18 PM631781583180000000200311442518PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:25:18 PM631781583180000000falsetruefalsefalsefalsetruetrue20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001102953601PMMondayOctOctober1710/29/2001 9:36:01 PM631399737610000000By xSeth StevensonspacerStevenson, SethyeshyperlinkSethStevenson1/123122/123123/2055721/2056596/sstevenson.jpg4242http://img.slate.com/mediafalse2009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371362796762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371362796762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM633956137136279676false20091661508PMTuesdayJanJanuary181/6/2009 11:15:08 PM63366862508000000020091661508PMTuesdayJanJanuary181/6/2009 11:15:08 PM633668625080000000false13Seth Stevenson is a frequent contributor to Slate. He is the author of Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World.513SethStevenson@hotmail.com202-518-08011439 Corcoran St., NW,WashingtonDC20009USA111054420011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001101875039PMThursdayOctOctober1910/18/2001 11:50:39 PM63139031439000000011Assorted1997710120000AMThursdayJulJuly07/10/1997 4:00:00 AM630040896000000000191320011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM63139043683000000020011024105608AMWednesdayOctOctober1010/24/2001 2:56:08 PM631395177680000000x41000/41356/econ_980328.JPG10013462221http://img.slate.com/mediafalseEconomist2009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371364359262009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371364359262009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM633956137136435926Pfalse20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001101912533AMFridayOctOctober110/19/2001 5:25:33 AM631390515330000000Economist, March 28 (posted Saturday, March 28) The Economist, like everyone else, is baffled by Boris Yeltsin's recent dismissal of his Cabinet. The cover editorial says Russia is in surprisingly decent economic shape, but Yeltsin's infirmity could quash reforms and lead to "crony capitalism" or possibly even communism. ... An editorial slams India's recent moves toward becoming a nuclear power. Hemmed in by unreliable neighbors (China and Pakistan), India has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and will shortly hold a confidence vote to explore going nuclear. The move would boost the government's popularity but would provoke worldwide trade sanctions and heighten regional tensions. ... A story explains a new theory that algae create wind. Algae on the surface of the ocean emit gases that heat the air. The pressure change stirs up wind, which lifts the algae off the water and up into the clouds. The algae then travel in the clouds and are redistributed by rain. x41000/41357/newrep_980327.JPG9913462221http://img.slate.com/mediafalseNew Republic2009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371364359262009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371364359262009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM633956137136435926Pfalse20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001101912533AMFridayOctOctober110/19/2001 5:25:33 AM631390515330000000New Republic, April 13 (posted Friday, March 27) A story warns of the flood of Monica merchandise about to hit stores. Scandal-related T-shirts, wigs, berets, dolls, and sex toys are all part of what novelty sellers hope will be an $80 million payday. A pro-Clinton group called Patriotic Profits hopes to block the exploitation. ... The "TRB" column says blacks score poorly on standardized tests because they don't take test-prep courses. A prep course, which typically costs $900, can boost LSAT scores 7 points on a 60-point scale. ... An article argues that, Buchananites to the contrary, the United States is not a nativist, xenophobic country. Americans generally support immigration, and our laws still welcome law-abiding, self-supporting aliens. x41000/41358/NYTM_980326.JPG10012562221http://img.slate.com/mediafalseNew York Times Magazine2009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371365921762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371365921762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM633956137136592176Pfalse20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001101912533AMFridayOctOctober110/19/2001 5:25:33 AM631390515330000000New York Times Magazine, March 29 (posted Thursday, March 26) The cover story argues that Kofi Annan's success in Iraq marks his arrival as the first important U.N. Secretary-General since Dag Hammarskjöld. Annan was chosen partly because the United States thought he would be "more secretary than general," but he has proved to be a wily negotiator, restrained and persuasive. He now must convince the United States to accept a powerful United Nations--and to pay the $1 billion it owes the organization. (For Slate's take on Annan, see David Plotz's "Assessment.") ... A story follows Mary Bono's bid to assume her late husband Sonny's seat in Congress. Widowhood wins votes: Between 1916 and 1993, "84 percent of first-time female candidates for the House who were running to succeed their dead husbands won their races." Only 14 percent of other first-time female candidates won. Bono leads all opponents despite lacking any political experience. On her side: Her main opponent is best known for having played Pa on The Waltons. x41000/41359/TimeNews_980324.JPG20012962221http://img.slate.com/mediafalseTime and Newsweek2009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371365921762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371365921762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM633956137136592176Pfalse20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001101912533AMFridayOctOctober110/19/2001 5:25:33 AM631390515330000000Time and Newsweek, March 30 (posted Tuesday, March 24) The magazines split over Kathleen Willey. Time's revelations: 1) Willey friend Julie Steele says Willey asked Steele to lie to Newsweek (Willey asked Steele to confirm Willey's claim that the president groped her). 2) In 1995, Willey took revenge on a lover named Shaun Docking by faking a pregnancy and miscarriage and asking Steele to lie about it. 3) Democratic donor Nathan Landow, accused of trying to silence Willey's testimony against Clinton, may in fact have been the target of Willey's romantic advances--"an easy mark for a calculating gold digger." Newsweek's story grants that some flaws have been exposed in Willey's character but asserts that her story regarding her encounter with Clinton (as told to Newsweek last July) has remained unchanged. Both magazines print Willey's letters to Clinton, post-incident, in which she lobbies for a job. Newsweek goes U.S. News, with a "news you can use" education cover package. It claims parents are hiring tutors to supplement their children's public-school educations. Why? To counteract mushy curricula (whole math, multiculturalism) and keep pace on the highly competitive college track. Newsweek (more U.S. News plagiarism) also ranks the country's top 100 public high schools. Time's cover story, pegged to Clinton's Africa tour, says the continent is not the economic basket case it used to be: A number of countries (Uganda, Ghana, Eritrea, Mali) are embracing free market capitalism and thriving. ... Also, Time visits Nike factories in China and Vietnam and rejects claims that the company exploits workers. The plants are "modern, clean, well lighted and ventilated, and paying decent wages by local standards." However, workers still have no voice at the plants and "fear reprisal from bosses." x41000/41360/usnws_980324.JPG10013162221http://img.slate.com/mediafalseU.S. News & World Report2009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371367484262009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371367484262009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM633956137136748426Pfalse20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001101912533AMFridayOctOctober110/19/2001 5:25:33 AM631390515330000000U.S. News & World Report, March 30 (posted Tuesday, March 24) Like Newsweek, U.S. News goes with a kid cover story. U.S. News calculates the cost of raising a child from birth to age 22: more than $1.45 million. Most of that is lost parental wages, but the average middle-class 15-year-old costs $1,920 per year to feed. Nachos aren't cheap. x41000/41361/nwyrkr_980324.JPG10013862221http://img.slate.com/mediafalseThe New Yorker2009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371369046762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371369046762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM633956137136904676Pfalse20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001101912533AMFridayOctOctober110/19/2001 5:25:33 AM631390515330000000The New Yorker, March 30 (posted Tuesday, March 24) An article applauds the growing automation of medicine: Computers using statistical evidence make more accurate diagnoses than doctors, who are misled by irrelevant "human" factors. Some doctors have responded by becoming more like computers: One Canadian hospital does nothing but hernia operations, and its automaton-like doctors have become the world's best hernia surgeons. ... An essay claims, regretfully, that we lose our taste for new music, food, and fashion by age 35. It's possible to have big, new ideas after that age, but usually you have to change disciplines to do so. ... The lead article in the large fashion package is a profile of "fabulous monster" Leigh Bowery, a profoundly weird, masochistic clothing designer/performance artist. Bowery wore scab makeup and pubic wigs, dribbled glue over his skull, slept with a tea cozy on his head, and vomited and shat on his audiences. The London fashion world adored him, of course. (He was also Lucian Freud's chief model.) x41000/41362/wklystd_980324.JPG10013562221http://img.slate.com/mediafalseWeekly Standard2009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371369046762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371369046762009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM633956137136904676Pfalse20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001101912534AMFridayOctOctober110/19/2001 5:25:34 AM631390515340000000Weekly Standard, March 30 (posted Tuesday, March 24) Dick Morris predicts a Republican landslide in the 1998 elections but a Gore victory in 2000 (because voters want a split government). The scandals, plus the traditional off-year swing against the president's party, will drive voters toward clean-cut Republican candidates. ... The Standard runs a damaging still taken from an ABC News videotape: The prez is gripping the thigh of the flight attendant seated next to him on a 1992 campaign flight. In the next frame (not shown), the attendant allegedly pushes away Clinton's hand. x41000/41363/nation_980324.JPG10013562221http://img.slate.com/mediafalseThe Nation2009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371370609262009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM6339561371370609262009125124153PMSaturdayDecDecember1212/5/2009 5:41:53 PM633956137137060926Pfalse20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001101912534AMFridayOctOctober110/19/2001 5:25:34 AM631390515340000000The Nation, April 6 (posted Tuesday, March 24) The cover story defends Ron Carey, ex-Teamsters president, claiming Carey was unfairly booted from the union without due process. While aides may be guilty of laundering campaign money, much evidence suggests that Carey was unaware of their transgressions. ... An essay calls for liberals to stop bashing organized religion. There needs to be a "Christian Left" that recognizes the strong faith much of America holds. ... A "manifesto" proclaims the beginning of "Technorealism." The platform: strong ambivalence toward technology, shunning of both technophobia and technophilia. For Slate's take on the movement, see Michael Kinsley's "Readme" from March 21. --Seth Stevenson10The New yorkerNew yorker, TheN10NewsweekNewsweekN10United StatesUnited StatesU10Campaign moneyCampaign moneyC10CandidatesCandidatesC10Weekly standardWeekly standardW10Dick MorrisMorris, Dick People10Sex toysSex toysS10U.s. news & world reportU.s. news & world reportU10The NationNation, TheN10Free marketFree marketF1 1111false2310falsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsetruefalsefalse242.0199832933000AMSundayMarMarch33/29/1998 7:30:00 AM630267390000000000199832933000AMSundayMarMarch33/29/1998 7:30:00 AM630267390000000000