While Time's cover story is about powerful dudes, Newsweek is tapping into the working women zeitgeist with a heaping dose of "Mommy porn" with its cover story, "The Fantasy Life Of Working Women." Hey, what about stay-at-home moms? Don't they get fantasies? The Republican Party is gonna love this lamestream media snub of women who raise five kids while their husbands are out firing people! more ›

Newsweek's cover story does not feature a female politician looking MILFy or crazy-eyed. Nor does it feature Don, Roger, Peggy or Joan. It actually has Jesus on it—as imagined as a present day man in Times Square. The headline reads, "Forget the Church, Follow Jesus," but the image really suggests, "Forget the Church, Follow Jesus To Urban Outfitters." more ›

When Mad Men returns on March 25th, Newsweek will be going back in time to the 1960s. According to AdAge, the magazine will (hopefully) even be running the same ads... except for tobacco ads, which the magazine no longer accepts. more ›

For those on the right who feel that Michele Bachmann's Newsweek cover photo was a blatant hit job, you have an unlikely supporter with a massive platform: Jon Stewart took to The Daily Show last night to lampoon Newsweek editor Tina Brown for choosing such an unflattering image. After showing a few examples of how photogenic Bachmann is, Stewart asserts, "You gotta go pretty far out of your way to find a crappy photo of Michele Bachmann." more ›

Sidney Harman, the stereo magnate-turned-Newsweek owner, died last night at age 92. According to a statement from the family on the Daily Beast (which merged with Newsweek late last year), he died from "complications from acute myeloid leukemia at the young age of almost 93. He first learned of his illness one month ago and remained vigorously engaged as Executive Chairman of Newsweek, and Chairman of the Academy for Polymathic Study at the University of Southern California." more ›

From the Observer's exclusive on how the Newsweek-Daily Beast marriage was hatched, fun factoids about Tina Brown! "For about 21 hours of every day, someone is on call to answer her late-night/early-morning email blasts on random topics (1:21 a.m., Jan. 22, to 30 or so people: "Can u tell me where exactly Bhutan is?"). In April 2009, 11 people were enlisted to help prepare Ms. Brown for a quartet of TV appearances. It is not a coincidence that her assistant, Lena Jensen, was a contestant on TV's The Amazing Race: To meet Tina Brown's every beck and call, it apparently helps to have experience sprinting across the globe, performing impossible tasks." more ›

The Newsweek merger with The Daily Beast is pretty official, since Tina Brown acknowledged the news with a post on The Daily Beast, "What does this exciting new media marriage mean? It means that The Daily Beast’s animal high spirits will now be teamed with a legendary, weekly print magazine in a joint venture, named The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, owned equally by Barry Diller’s IAC and Sidney Harman, owner (and savior) of Newsweek. As for me, I shall now be in the editor-in-chief’s chair at both The Daily Beast and Newsweek." more ›

Tomorrow morning, it's expected that Newsweek and The Daily Beast will announce they are merging their operations. The Observer reports, "It will be a 50-50 merger of the two companies. The editorial staffs will combine under the editorship of [The Daily Beast founder] Tina Brown, who will again run a high-profile glossy. Newsweek owner Sidney Harman, 92, and IAC chairman Barry Diller had for weeks disagreed over an operating structure for the hybrid publication. The deal reached today establishes a daily role for Mr. Harman and strong editorial independence for Ms. Brown." more ›

From Newsweek itself: "The Washington Post Co. announced today that it has retained Allen & Company to explore the possible sale of NEWSWEEK magazine. The newsweekly was launched in 1933 and purchased by The Washington Post Co. in 1961." Washington Post chairman Donald Graham said, "The losses at NEWSWEEK in 2007-2009 are a matter of record. Despite heroic efforts on the part of NEWSWEEK's management and staff, we expect it to still lose money in 2010. We are exploring all options to fix that problem. NEWSWEEK is a lively, important magazine and website, and in the current climate, it might be a better fit elsewhere." more ›

Newsweek reporter Jonathan Darman has a "First Person" article, What Rielle Hunter Told Me, based on his interactions with "campaign filmmaker"-John Edwards's mistress before it was known she was John Edwards's mistress. Darman saw her on a commuter flight, as he followed the Edwards campaign back in July 2006, "I had no reason to suspect there was anything between them." more ›

Forget the debate over whether Clinton should drop out; there’s a more divisive argument going on at Newsweek, where two critics are locking horns over whether “Seinfeld” (the TV series, not the car-crashing Bee Movie star) is still funny after all these years. more ›

For an avowed non-presidential candidate, Mayor Bloomberg certainly gets more attention than some of the actual candidates. Newsweek devotes its cover story to "Mike" Bloomberg, "The Billion Dollar Wild Card," a reference to the billion dollars Mayor B has at his disposal, should be decide to run for president next year. That is so much more flattering than the "Lazy Like a Fox" cover Newsweek had of Fred Thompson! Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham got to... more ›