White House Rebel

It's the dirty secret about business travel. Many married men expect sex along with their room service, according to a NEWSWEEK poll. But will the Strauss-Kahn scandal change the rules of the game? More ›

A rare inside look at Syria, a land where the regime rules with a murderous impunity. More ›

It was the chess match of the century. Harry Benson, author of a new book about the late, troubled champion, recalls his friend’s battle against Spassky. More ›

Last month Elizabeth Smart stared defiantly into the face of her kidnapper for the first time in nearly a decade, telling him to his face, “I want you to know that I have a wonderful life now.” And so she does. More ›

Recently awarded full custody of my kids, I now know what winning really means. More ›

Almost everyone agrees that America’s health-care system has the incentives all wrong. So what happens when someone proposes that we alter the incentives to reward better care, not more care? Democrats slams them for “ending Medicare as we know it.” More ›

I recently sat at the desk where John Maynard Keynes wrote The Economic Consequences of the Peace, his coruscating 1919 polemic against the Versailles Treaty. I asked myself what Keynes would be writing if he were with us today. I think the answer is The Economic Consequences of the Arab Spring. More ›

Four stupid misconceptions the West needs to shake. More ›

Middle Eastern diners used to shun “peasant food.” But slow, fresh, and rural are gaining ground thanks to Beirut’s trendy tawlet. More ›

Macho men are back with a vengeance—and they’re making the U.S.A. feel good again. More ›

The Stanford economist and author of The Next Convergence talks to Newsweek’s R. M. Schneiderman about American inequality, the Chinese economy, and how to score a Nobel. More ›