Umm, Newsweek? Really?   As you can see the cover story is about great restaurants around the world. Naturally you would illustrate that… well, this way. I'm not naive about the apparent desire among the surviving newsweeklies to drum up interest by putting something on the cover that will make people stop and take a look– Newsweek calling Obama the "first gay president," or Time's recent cover featuring a breast feeding three-year-old. Over the years we've noticed other odd covers; Time seems to have a thing for representing breast cancer with, well, breasts: Newsweek/Daily Beast editor Tina Brown recently told the [...]

The new issue of Newsweek magazine is full of lists. This is a surefire way to generate buzz, since people are bound to disagree with who's on your list– and then write about it. Which is exactly what I'm doing. But one of the lists really jumped out. The magazine selected the top "Opinionists," who are apparently the "best online writers at war with the obvious." The first thing you notice is that two of the five judges are Newsweek-affiliated columnists: conservative David Frum and the right-leaning Andrew Sullivan. And who made the list of top opinion writers? Frum and [...]