The Archives

2002

“Depressed teens usually suffer for years before they are identified, and fewer than one in five who needs treatment gets it,” Newsweek said. “Most of the nearly 3 million adolescents struggling with depression never get the help they need because of prejudice about mental illness, inadequate mental-health resources and widespread ignorance about how emotional problems can wreck young lives.” In 2020, the number of adolescents grappling with depression climbed to 4.1 million, 17 percent of the U.S. population aged 12 to 17; 41.6 percent of them received treatment.

1975

“Many Spaniards still share Generalissimo’s bunker mentality,” wrote Newsweek of those rallying for an ailing Francisco Franco, who died soon after. In 2019, the dictator’s remains were exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen, a Spanish Civil War memorial, and moved to a Madrid cemetery.

1991

“Someday the mushroom clouds and classroom air-raid drills…will seem like a brief, bad dream?” asked Newsweek of a proposal by President George H.W. Bush to eliminate shortrange nukes. “Not so fast.” This summer, Congress proposed funding for a sea-launched nuclear cruise missile.