Giving the New Newsweek Another Crack

I'm not sure if either article is characteristic of the new Newsweek as different from the old, but these two from a recent international edition (the one with Venezuela's disappearing middle class on the cover) were quite good: Jennie Yabroff's piece on Judd Apatow's movies, and Michael Hirsch's profile of Joseph Stiglitz. 

Although I think Yabroff's sees Apatow's work as a bit darker than it really is; there's definitely an undercurrent of romantic and (especially) marital discontent, but there sure are a lot of happy (or at the very least, not-sad) endings in his pictures. Most of them are closer to absolute optimism than absolute pessimism.