As the news magazines decline and fall into snarky opinion journals, Newsweek this week has a cover titled "We Are All Socialists Now." They’re recalling Richard Nixon saying "We are all Keynesians now" in 1971. But conservatives uniformly would reply on a rebuttal cover, if th...

Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas are tired of all this talk of socialism. We need to stop talking about yesterday's news, they say, and embrace the great new fact that America is already a socialist country. They chortle that America is just like France. Meacham and Thomas chide Sean Hannity f...

On Monday, both The New York Times and The Washington Post noticed a long-simmering trend: Time and Newsweek have increasingly abandoned news reporting in favor of being more opinionated "thought leaders." In the Post, reporter Howard Kurtz bluntly declared, "The rival editors are tur...

NEW YORK -- When Rick Stengel joined Time in 1981, every story in progress filled a thick binder -- the reporter's version, the editor's rewritten version, the top editors' version, the fact-checked version -- that would be unimaginable in today's cut-to-the-bone corporate culture....

Presidential inaugurations can be more illuminating than presidential campaigns....

7 P.M. Steven Johnson discusses and signs The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919. He will also speak on Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 6:30 p.m. at Borders Books-Tysons, 8027 Leesburg Pike,......

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Dec. 7, 2008....

As you may know, Newsweek is planning to cut its rate base and the number of staffers and change its look. The Wall Street Journal reports that it'll look a lot more like The Economist , every American editors' favorite magazine to copy. But does Jon Meacham even like The Economist? He didn't have n...

This news item led me to ask the question posed in the headline: (Reuters) - Newsweek magazine is planning staff cuts as part of a major editorial makeover likely to result in a slimmer publication, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people close to the magazine. The cuts are expected to be outlin...

The rumors appear to be true: Newsweek will amputate up to one million copies from its 2.6 million circulation, according to Wall Street Journal sources, and no fewer than 500,000. There will be an unknown number of layoffs, announced Thursday, to be achieved through voluntary buyouts like the 111 f...