newsweek archives

In a 2008 cover story, Newsweek reported on John McCain's long, hard journey from "rebel without a cause" to leading presidential candidate.

In 1978, Louise Brown became the first human ever born after conception by in vitro fertilization.

In this 1997 piece, Newsweek reports on how Princess Diana raised her sons, and how her death affected them.

As America's First Volunteer, Barbara Bush has had to cut back on what she loves best: the hands-on volunteer work that has given her so much satisfaction over the years.

America's best-known Christian evangelist died has died at 99. Jon Meacham profiled profiled him in 2006.

"The Beatles have lost their innocence, certainly, but loss of innocence is, increasingly, their theme."

"U2 is turning itself into the rock phenomenon of 1987."

24 years after being featured on Newsweek's 1992 "Gays Under Fire" cover, Brad Lamm writes what has changed since he and his then partner were attacked in New York.

In 1966, we seemed to think the Beatles were finished.

Newsweek profiled the boxer in 1964 after he became the world heavyweight champion.

Radiohead's fourth album, 'Kid A,' does its best to disassociate itself from a pop music world that's gone terribly wrong.

Dole wrote us an angry letter in 1990. Twenty-five years later, we asked him about it.

More than 30 years ago, Jim Miller wrote about "David Bowie's New Look," describing the many incarnations the world had already seen.

In "Explain Your Letter," we track down a person whose letter was published in 'Newsweek' long, long ago.

"We want to be the biggest band in the world," Oasis told Newsweek in 1996.

In "Explain Your Letter," we tell the story behind a letter in Newsweek's print archives. Gandhi's grandson tells us about the one he sent in 1995.

"Tasteless, graphic and gratuitously sexual songs saturate the airwaves and filter into our homes," Newsweek reported in 1985.

Mark, known for her powerful images that highlighted the day-to-day life of marginalized communities, died May 26, 2015.

In 1942, 'Newsweek' foreign editor Loren Carroll explained the diplomatic cost of the fascist menace.

The Veteran's History Project at the Library of Congress preserves firsthand accounts that, like these, show the full scope of the wartime experience.

Celebrate The New Yorker's 90th anniversary by reading this profile of the magazine, published in Newsweek 50 years ago next month.