This Week on the Newsstand, April 20th

TIME to End Global Warming
TIME goes green for Earth Day and outlines a plan that would make the U.S. more eco-friendly without killing the GDP. The plan includes a national cap-and-trade system along with tougher energy efficiency mandates and new public and private investment in green technologies aided by grants and cuts provided by the government. The article cites many of the initiatives many states have undertaken on their own, especially California, and how it hasn't ruined their economies. The bottom line is worrying about the economy (as terrible shape as it is in) is short term thinking, long term thinking is investing in environmentally friendly technologies and thinking green -- which may cost money in the short term, but will be an investment that pays off in the long term.
Newsweek Deconstructs Martyrs
Newsweek looks at who the resistance fighters are after papers found in a raid suggested that many of them came from Libya and not Saudi Arabia. Even more shocking of the 112 Libyan fighters listed, 52 came from one coastal town, Darnah. So Newsweek goes to Darnah and talks to the relatives of the fighters. While no one reason can explain why all theses young men go off to Iraq, the jihadist recruits seem to have been driven by personal factors like psychological trauma, sibling rivalry and sexual longing. It's a fascinating article looking at the history of town and Libya and where some of the jihadists come from, showing them as troubled humans rather than simply evil monsters. EW... Summer Movies!
Entertainment Weekly ends the month with a double issue looking at all the upcoming summer movies. The movies I'm most interested in seeing are: Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Get Smart, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Speed Racer -- though 'm sure I'll see plenty more than these five. Interesting enough the preview ends with EW's predictions for the box office -- I don't doubt Indiana Jones will be on top, but they think Iron Man will make more than The Dark Knight? We'll have to see about that...