The New Yorker, meanwhile, has an enticing illustration of an island paradise, accompanied by “Journeys” stories including Jonathan Franzen’s “On Crusoe’s Island” and Claudia Roth Pierpont’s “Arabian Adventures.” Hendrik Hertzberg also reports on “The Guantanamo Quagmire.”
Time suggests that most Americans can’t agree on what the Civil War was about in its “150th Anniversary of the Civil War” cover, which depicts a weeping Abraham Lincoln. (Spoiler alert: It was about slavery.) Other stories include Joe Klein’s take on “The climate in Cairo” and Fareed Zakaria’s on Obama’s response to “Paul Ryan’s Gamble.” Over at Newsweek it’s “Inside the Gabby Giffords Drama”—a story none of us must forget. Interesting, though, that in “The 20 stupidest laws in America,” as cited by everyone from ex-NFL commish Paul Tagliabue (“increase visa cap for highly skilled workers”) to Vince Gill (“ease import-export documentation”), no one mentions the dumbest law of all—marijuana prohibition. Too obvious.
Time suggests that most Americans can’t agree on what the Civil War was about in its “150th Anniversary of the Civil War” cover, which depicts a weeping Abraham Lincoln. (Spoiler alert: It was about slavery.) Other stories include Joe Klein’s take on “The climate in Cairo” and Fareed Zakaria’s on Obama’s response to “Paul Ryan’s Gamble.” Over at Newsweek it’s “Inside the Gabby Giffords Drama”—a story none of us must forget. Interesting, though, that in “The 20 stupidest laws in America,” as cited by everyone from ex-NFL commish Paul Tagliabue (“increase visa cap for highly skilled workers”) to Vince Gill (“ease import-export documentation”), no one mentions the dumbest law of all—marijuana prohibition. Too obvious.
Ghostface is the star of Entertainment Weekly’s “Scream returns!” cover hyping “the bloody battle over Scream 4” with recollections on the original Scream by stars Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore and Neve Campbell.
Billboard has a confrontational Brad Paisley on the cover declaring that country music “is a format that isn’t afraid.” He explains inside that country artists sing about things that other people don’t sing about, that an artist can have on the same album songs about patriotism, faith, divorce and the beach—and that country stations will play them. “There’s nothing off limits,” he says. Oh yeah? Ask the Dixie Chicks, or any other country artist—and there are many others—who question patriotism, faith, faithfulness and the polluted beach just how unafraid the mainstream country music industry really is.
Billboard has a confrontational Brad Paisley on the cover declaring that country music “is a format that isn’t afraid.” He explains inside that country artists sing about things that other people don’t sing about, that an artist can have on the same album songs about patriotism, faith, divorce and the beach—and that country stations will play them. “There’s nothing off limits,” he says. Oh yeah? Ask the Dixie Chicks, or any other country artist—and there are many others—who question patriotism, faith, faithfulness and the polluted beach just how unafraid the mainstream country music industry really is.
Finally, Forbes’ fronts “The 100 Most Powerful Venture Capitalists” (the photo goes to Accel Partners’ Jim Breyer). But inside is “Body & Mind: A track-your-life revolution begins.” It’s about the “Quantified Self” phenomenon, or self-tracking, by which people obsessively track biometric, behavioral and environmental information with smartphone applications and body-monitoring devices in striving for self-improvement. Sounds to us like too much information.
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