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THIS SPRING, AS GLOBAL MARKETS GYRATED, SOME OF THE world’s most influential investors and executives sat in a Scottsdale, Ariz., conference room engaged in deep discussion. But rather than President

31 / CALLING FOR PEACE BY CATE BLANCHETT Those of us who know Emi Mahmoud can attest to her work’s unstoppable nature. In 2017, Emi created the first fully inclusive civilian peace talks in Sudan, lif

33 / MENTAL-HEALTH MAVEN BY AILEEN LEE In a year marked by rising mental-health challenges and attacks on our health care system, April Koh stands out as a powerful force for good. She co-founded and

Qatari spokesperson Majed al-Ansari tells Newsweek of Gulf leaders’ plans to warn President Donald Trump of a “new threat perception” following Israel’s strikes in Doha

Daniel Johnson worries that an illiberal America and a war-torn, world-weary Europe are failing to champion our Western civilisational values of liberty, democracy and the rule of law

A great upheaval is under way. Who will inherit the Earth? Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.