I was reminded in an email from Beyond the Beltway's Bruce DuMont some years ago that Evan Thomas' grandfather was the founder of the ACLU and the Socialist standard bearer in six presidential elections.
The Newsweek personage who truly fascinates is Eleanor Clift. Imagine Eleanor Clift and Hillary Clinton interogating detainees.
I bought a Readers Digest a few months ago and it has changed tremendously, now it is a brochure of advertisements!
Eleanor Clift is on a par with Helen Thomas as to looks, lol.