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October 22, 2012 | | BLOW-BY-BLOW The stakes couldn't be higher for for tonight's final presidential debate, and the whole thing may hinge on what the candidates say about last month's attack in Libya. Who was responsible, what happened when—and how much did Obama know? With exclusive information from the special agent who was with Ambassador Christopher Stevens as well as intel from Libyan militia members, Newsweek's Jamie Dettmer, Christopher Dickey, and Eli Lake piece together the definitive account.
Plus, tune in to The Daily Beast's homepage tonight for our live coverage of the faceoff. Tweet your questions to #newsbeastlive @DailyBeastTV. HEROINE This time it's different. The Taliban shot a 15-year-old girl in the head for advocating education, but Malala Yousafzai is slowly recovering, and her story may finally turn the tide on extremism in Pakistan. In Newsweek, Shehrbano Taseer,whose own father was killed by a radical earlier this year, writes about the outpouring of support for Malala—and why she can now see an end to the madness. Plus, Angelina Jolie on how to help. HIGH TIMES There's a new breed of dealer in town: he's young, he's clean-cut, and he wants to get rich off marijuana—the legal way. For this week's Newsweek cover story, Tony Dokoupil headed to Colorado, where he got unprecedented access to the world's only regulated for-profit cannabis market, on track to generate $200 million in revenue this year. And it's not just Colorado: pot use is rising sharply around the country, and Washington may also make it legal this fall. These are the businessmen banking on that happening. CAMPAIGN 2012 Whether or not he keeps his job on Election Day, Barack Obama may have expanded the executive office forever, Daniel Klaidman and Andrew Romano report in Newsweek. From a landmark amnesty deal for young immigrants to releasing states from No Child Left Behind, Obama has made quite a habit of using executive orders to skirt around a historically stubborn Congress. One expert told Newsweek, "Obama is the first president to use his unilateral powers so routinely, especially in the domestic sphere. And in some ways, that may be more insidious than what came before." King Obama, anyone? PERSON OF INTEREST After it was discovered he was engaged to a much younger woman while still married to his wife, conservative leader Dinesh D'Souza was forced to resign from his post as president of The King's College last week. But even before that final humiliation, D'Souza was long past his days as a right-wing hero. Newsweek's David Sessions on how the author, once praised for a fact-based approach, veered course in his recent work—savaged by liberals and conservatives alike. | | 
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