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REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Joys of Data Centers’…

The Joys of Data Centers

Contrary to the claims of the not-in-my-backyard technophobes, all this growth comes with minimal environmental downsides. By Christian Britschgi

The Enduring Fight Over ‘Fighting Words’

More than eight decades ago, the Supreme Court invented a vague First Amendment exception that would-be censors continue to invoke. Jacob Sullum

Trump 2.0, Year 1: A Libertarian Nightmare

Trump’s second term lurches forward, powered by monarchical authoritarianism by Brian Doherty

Police Drug Tests Are Notoriously Unreliable. They Got This Man Wrongly Charged With Trafficking Fentanyl.

Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested because of unreliable field drug tests, according to one estimate. C.J. Ciaramella

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- FEB. 22, 2026

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 2.22.26 Issue features Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviews Gisèle Pelicot; Caitlin L. Chandler on Europe’s harsh new immigration policy; Reid Forgrave on the olympic cross-country skier Jesse Diggins; and more.

Toni Morrison Was a Master of the Unthinkable

What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds couldn’t confront.

“I Had No Idea How to Handle That”: The Drama Behind a Tense Ice Skating Moment

In 1994, the Olympics were rocked by a giant skating scandal. When it was all over, three athletes waited for their medals. Interviews by Charley Locke

Is Love Addictive? Many Say Yes, and It’s Changing Our Idea of Romance.

Poems and songs say love should be world-shattering. The logic of love addiction suggests that it shouldn’t. By Sophie Haigney

How Intense Should Love Really Be? We Want to Hear Your Thoughts.

Have you ever been called a “love addict?” Ever suspected somebody else was?

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE – MARCH 2026 PREVIEW

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SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A New Dawn For The Sahara?’…

Shifting Sands

The Sahara has cycled between eons of bountiful life and arid desolation. What will it mean when the world’s largest desert turns green once again? By Henry Wismayer | Photographs by Marcus Westberg

Modern Moves

Choreography that changed the language of dance, avant-garde costumes by runway designers, music that defined a new American sound. As her company turns 100, an inside look at the enduring world of Martha Graham. Photographs by ioulex | Text by Jacoba Urist

Voice of Deception

She was known as Vicky With Three Kisses—a German radio star whose singing and sweet talk comforted weary Nazi soldiers. She was actually a secret weapon in a little-known Allied propaganda effort. By April White

Paw Patrol

In central Texas, ranchers are beset by threats, from coyotes to drought and foreign competition. To protect their flocks from predators and help preserve their own way of life, they’re turning to the ancient know-how of man’s best friend. By Chris Pomorski | Photographs by Jordan Vonderhaar

BARRON’S MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 23, 2026

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Dollar – In – Decline’. The U.S. currency has lost its dominance. What investors should do now.

The Reign of the Dollar Is Coming to an End. What Investors Can Do About It.

Investment in foreign stocks and debt could be juiced by a falling dollar.

Trump Plans to Double Down on Tariffs After Court Defeat. What’s Ahead for Investors.

The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the president’s signature trade policy will stoke further uncertainty and add to the government’s debt.

Want to Win the Warner Bros. Discovery Takeover Battle? ‘Walk Away Now.’

Both Netflix and Paramount Skydance are prepared to overpay for Warner Bros. Discovery and take on significant debt.

Does Your Retirement Plan Own a Piece of Your Favorite Football Team?

The NFL loosened ownership rules in 2024. Private-equity firms and institutions like pension funds are now trying to get a piece of the action.

Now Is the Time to Buy Alternative Funds

There’s a strong case for hedging your bets with alts. The question is which kind to buy.

These Dividend Stocks and Funds Are Worth a Trip Abroad

Yields over 4% are plentiful in foreign markets. These stocks and funds look appealing.

This Fintech Uses Blockchain to Streamline Lending. Its Stock Is Up 50% Since Its IPO.

Figure says blockchain technology will slash transaction costs and prove to be a cheaper way to show ownership of assets.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2026

‘Murky Waters’ for Global Businesses After Trump’s Tariff Loss

Even after the Supreme Court invalidated many of the levies, foreign leaders and executives assume that U.S. tariffs are here to stay, in one form or another.

Why Attacking Iran Could Be Riskier Than Capturing Venezuela’s Ex-Leader

Iran’s extensive military abilities and network of regional proxies could draw the United States into a prolonged conflict.

Dozens of U.S. Planes Are at Jordan Base, Satellite Images and Flight Data Show

Trump Doubles Down on Closing Tax Loophole on Cheap Imports

Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Group Before Trump Blasted Competitor

The PAC and the White House say the donation had nothing to do with President Trump’s tirade against a new bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2026

U.S. Economy Grew More Slowly at End of 2025

Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.4 percent annual rate in the last quarter of the year, hit by the effects of the government shutdown.

Can an A.I. Productivity Boom Clear a Path for More Rate Cuts?

Kevin Warsh, the president’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, thinks so. But he may face a tough task persuading his colleagues to lower borrowing costs.

Cuba Nears Collapse as a New U.S. Blockade Strangles the Country

An analysis of ship movements shows that the Trump administration is isolating the island at one of its most vulnerable moments.

Venezuela Passes Amnesty Bill Denounced by Some as ‘Unjust’

The bill may bring the release of political prisoners. But critics say the legislation, passed after pressure from the Trump administration, raises concerns.

As Trump Weighs Iran Strikes, He Declines to Make Clear Case for Why

Rarely in modern times has the United States prepared to conduct a major act of war with so little explanation or public debate.

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – MARCH 12, 2026

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features

If These Walls Could Talk

In A House for Miss Pauline, the Jamaican novelist Diana McCaulay examines her family’s shadowy history by telling the story of a woman who builds her house with the remains of the manor of a former slave plantation.

A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay

A Bitter Winter in Ukraine

Four years after their full-scale invasion, the Russians are trying to freeze Ukraine into submission by relentlessly attacking the country’s energy grid.

A Real Live Socialist

What Bernie Sanders brought to the job of mayor of Burlington and what he did with it help explain what matters to him and how he fits into American political argument.

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician and the Transformation of One American Place by Dan Chiasson

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 21, 2026 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features The Robin Hood state

Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets

It will not work, and is wrong in principle

Vladimir Putin is caught in a vice of his own making

Russia’s president cannot win the war, but fears peace

Saudi Arabia and the Emirates must resolve their own differences

America’s neglect is allowing an unwelcome tension to fester between two of its allies

Why insider trading isn’t always bad

At least on prediction markets

How to improve American legislators’ lot

Doing so would be good for members of Congress, and for democracy

THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, FEB. 19, 2026

In 2025, Trade Deficit in Goods Reached Record High

The trade deficit remained historically large last year, new data showed, as President Trump’s steep tariffs scrambled trade but did not halt it.

Trump Mulls a North American Trade Pact Without Canada

After Avalanche Warnings, a Sierra Nevada Tragedy

Eight skiers were killed and one other was presumed dead in the deadliest snow disaster in modern California history. Six were found alive.

Trump Says U.S. Will Commit $10 Billion to His Board of Peace

President Trump did not specify the source of the funding for the body created for the security and redevelopment of the Gaza Strip.

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – FEBRUARY 20, 2026 PREVIEW

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘One Day In Rio’ – The untold story of Brazil’s deadliest police raid.

The first shots of an infamous day were fired in Rio’s Complexo da Penha favela at 4.30am. It was 28 October 2025 and the deadliest police raid in Brazil’s history had just begun. By the end of the day, 122 people, including five police, were dead.

The raid, nicknamed Operation Containment, was intended to apprehend members of one of the country’s most powerful organised crime groups, the Red Command – and in particular its kingpin, Edgar Alves de Andrade, who is also known as “the Bear”.

But the list of 100 arrest warrants justifying the operation featured none of the 117 people killed, and at least one of the dead was not involved in organised crime at all. The Bear, meanwhile, remains at large. Activists, security experts and even Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have described the operation as a futile massacre.

Now, in a forensic investigation encompassing interviews with community leaders, lawyers, security specialists and bereaved relatives, the Guardian’s South America correspondents Tom Phillips and Thiago Rogero have pieced together the full, previously untold story of what happened.

The big story | Continental drift in Munich
Europe’s leaders met to discuss the continent’s future safety at the Munich Security Conference, a gathering characterised by mistrust of the US Trump administration and divisions over Ukraine. Patrick Wintour was there

Spotlight | Pressure mounts for Andrew to talk to police
As calls for the former prince to cooperate with the investigation become deafening, this may be the reckoning the British king’s brother cannot escape. Caroline Davies and Alexandra Topping investigate

Interview | Tracey Emin on reputation and radical honesty
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now Tracey Emin is as frank as ever, as Charlotte Higgins discovered

Opinion | Iran’s 1979 revolution offers some present-day pointers
The similarities between Iran’s current crisis and events preceding the shah’s exile are striking. The radical clerics benefited then – but, asks Jason Burke, who would prevail this time?

Culture | Thundercat on funk, lost friends and being fired by Snoop Dogg
The genre-hopping bass virtuoso has backed Ariana Grande and Herbie Hancock, appeared in Star Wars and become a boxer. Stephen Bruner explains his polymath mindset to Alexis Petridis

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