THE WEEK MAGAZINE —– APRIL 10, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE WEEK MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘IRAN’S ADVANTAGE’ – Controlling the Strait of Hormuz with drones and mines.

Has Trump’s unpredictability broken the oil market?

How could rising gas prices affect the EV market?

Just because gas is up doesn’t mean EVs will take over

Trump’s White House Makeover Halted: A federal judge ordered a work stoppage on a $400 million ballroom project intended to replace the demolished East Wing, ruling the project lacked Congressional approval.
The Reinvention of War: The editor’s letter and lead features examine how cheap, deadly drones in Ukraine and Iran have transformed combat, turning sophisticated hardware into “knights in shining armor” vulnerable to modern technology.
Supreme Court Blocks Conversion Therapy Ban: The Court overturned a Colorado law prohibiting conversion therapy for minors, focusing on freedom of speech for mental health professionals.
Social Media Liability Inflection Point: Coverage of landmark jury awards in Los Angeles and New Mexico against Meta and Google for failing to protect children from psychological harm and online predators.
The Cicada Covid Variant: A new variant of Covid-19, dubbed “Cicada,” is reported to be spreading across the United States.
The German Deepfake Scandal: An investigative look into a scandal in Germany that has brought the issue of “virtual rape” and deepfake technology into the international spotlight. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

BARRON’S MAGAZINE —— APRIL 6, 2026 PREVIEW

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Vegas Plays A Tough Hand’ – The city faces intense competition from online gambling. How it’s fighting back.

Who Needs Las Vegas When You Have a Casino in Your Pocket?

Las Vegas is hoping that rapid growth in high-tech businesses and logistics will offset its stagnant gaming industry.

The Stock Market Is More Expensive Than It Looks. Tread Carefully.

Corporate profits have been wonderful, but they seem puffed up by an accounting quirk and more.

Alternative Assets Are Coming for Your 401(k). Do They Deserve the Hype?

They offer diversification and the potential—but no guarantees—for higher returns than publicly traded stocks and bonds. A final rule is expected later this year.

Smart Glasses Might One Day Replace Your Phone. These Stocks Can Benefit.

Investors looking to play the trend can focus on retailers and suppliers set to benefit from the wave of demand. 

Why the Stock Market Has Held Up So Well Despite the Spike in Oil Prices

By Randall W. Forsyth

The AI Trade Is Steaming Ahead, at Least in Private Markets

By Adam Levine

THE NEW YORK TIMES – SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2026

U.S. Searches for Airman as Israel Launches Fresh Strikes on Tehran

The U.S. military was racing to find a pilot who bailed out of a fighter jet that was shot down over Iran on Friday.

Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.

Since 1979, Iran has repeatedly used Americans and Europeans detained on its territory to win concessions over more powerful adversaries.

Europe’s Options in the Strait of Hormuz: Few, and Risky

European leaders and other officials have ideas for bringing shipping back to the strait once the Iran war ends. But none of them are sure bets.

New Attorney General, Same Albatross: Trump’s Quest for Retribution

The name atop the Justice Department’s organizational chart matters less than the presence of a president whose demands for revenge have become extreme.

Trump Wants to Make Deportation Deals. Autocrats Are Ready to Listen.

The White House has turned deportations, a signature domestic issue, into a major piece of foreign policy. Here’s what we know about the program.

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- APRIL 5, 2026

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How the generation raised on smartphones is imagining life without them” by Matthew Shaer

The Novel Will Never Die. Ben Lerner’s Latest Book Shows Us Why.

With “Transcription,” the writer makes a case for the vitality of the form.

The Unlikely TV Show Restoring Everyone’s Faith in Dating

Without exploitation, “Love on the Spectrum” captures the triumphs and travails of dating. It has become one of Netflix’s most popular shows. By Anna Peele

Worried About A.I. Taking Your Job? That’s Not Very ‘Agentic’ of You.

Today’s spin on the idea of personal agency is convenient for tech C.E.O.s, who boast that their models work just fine without us. By Nitsuh Abebe

What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O.

    THE NEW YORK TIMES – FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2026

    Drone Hits Kuwaiti Oil Refinery in New Attack on Gulf Energy Sites

    The strike set several refinery units ablaze, its operator said. President Trump threatened to destroy Iran’s infrastructure but there was no sign of a deal to end the war.

    White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Military Spending

    The massive proposed increase would be offset in part by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the administration describes as wasteful.

    Strong Showing for Job Market in Latest Report

    U.S. employers added 178,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.3 percent, a robust showing after a run of weakness.

    Jobs and Workers Are in Balance. Nobody Is Happy About It.

    Lower immigration has brought labor supply in line with shaky demand, but economists worry that such a slow-moving job market is at risk of toppling over.

    Bondi Wanted a Graceful Exit, but Trump Wanted Her Gone

    Pam Bondi had a feeling her days as attorney general were numbered. But she didn’t expect President Trump to drop the curtain quite so soon.

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    THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – APRIL 4, 2026 PREVIEW

    THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features How China hopes to win from the war

    How China hopes to win from the war

    Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

    The perils of a ground war in Iran

    Donald Trump may send in troops. Does he know what to do with them?

    Lessons for the world from tiny Hungary

    A regime loved by MAGA may soon lose power. That matters

    How worried should you be about private credit?

    Its humbling could raise borrowing costs

    Index providers should not bend the rules for Elon Musk

    They will only expose ordinary investors to unnecessary risks

    THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – APRIL 23, 2026

    THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features a dispatch from Tehran, Jed Perl on Morgan Meis’s funky kind of art criticism, Francine Prose on MAGA fiction, Caroline Fraser on the dump, Michael Gorra on Civil War diaries, David Cole on the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Hermione Lee on Virginia Woolf’s letters, Trevor Jackson on American “retirement,” Kathryn Hughes on Tennyson’s cosmos, Colm Tóibín on Irish reunification, a collage by Lucy Sante, poems by Andrea Cohen and Timmy Straw, and much more.


    From the Rooftops of Tehran

    We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.

    Living Through the Civil War

    George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.

    George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries edited by Geoff Wisner

    ‘A Vast Symphony of Stone’

    In his renovation of Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc projected his own Romantic vision of the Middle Ages onto the Gothic cathedral.

    Viollet-le-Duc: Drawing Worlds an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York City, January 28–May 24, 2026

    The Aging Class

    Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people.

    Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

    Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy by Teresa Ghilarducci, with a foreword by E. J. Dionne Jr.

    TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – APRIL 3, 2026 PREVIEW

    TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features Claude Rawson on the British Imagination; ‘Trump’s Whisperers; Hardy’s breakthrough novel; Thomas Mann today…

    Cultural superpower?

    An argument for ‘British is best’

    The argument of Peter Watson’s hugely ambitious The British Imagination: A history of ideas from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II is that “The essential arc of British history – intellectual and creative history, just as much as political, economic and military history – is of a small, indeed tiny, country sequestered on the north-west coast of Europe that over the centuries would forge the largest and most unlikely empire the world has seen”. It may seem odd to be reading this in the present depressed state of the nation, although Watson stresses from the outset that the concept of “the British imagination” embraces its hospitality to foreign influences and eventually to the power of a wider “Anglosphere”.

    English virtue battles the pagan

    The genesis of Far from the Madding Crowd

    The texture of etcetera

    What smartphones can’t record

    Freeing Thomas Mann

    Modern English translations that do justice to the work

    THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – APRIL 3, 2026 PREVIEW

    THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘The Tipping Point’ – A watershed moment for big tech’…

    In a landmark case, a California jury last week found social media companies Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately designing addictive products. The ruling came the day after Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, was ordered to pay $375m after a jury in a separate trial in New Mexico found it misled consumers about the safety of its platforms.

    Meta, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok are facing thousands of similar lawsuits in US courts, while governments around the world are starting to introduce measures to curb social media’s grip on children’s attention.

    Guardian technology editors Dan Milmo and Robert Booth assess whether what has been called a “big tobacco” moment for the industry will lead to significant change. And in our opinion section, Jonathan Freedland argues that the court verdicts must be just the start of a global fightback.

    The big story | A war of regression
    Weeks into a war that was going to take days and has cost billions, Donald Trump has bombed the US into a worse position with Iran, writes Patrick Wintour

    Science | ‘On the shoulders of giants’
    Plant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin have been unearthed and will be used for the first time to teach contemporary students about botany, Donna Ferguson reports

    Feature | Circuit training
    After touring 11 Chinese companies making humanoid robots, Chang Che asks: just how close are we to a robotic future?

    Opinion | Labour needs a thinker
    Ed Miliband’s stock is rising in a party in need of an old-style intellectual heavyweight, argues Gaby Hinsliff

    Culture | Gimme shelter
    Catherine Slessor visits Henry Moore’s former countryside home Hoglands, now home to studios and a vast sculpture garden, to learn about a new exhibition of the drawings he made as a war artist, capturing people as they took sanctuary from the blitz

    THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2026

    Oil Prices Surge After Trump Threatens to Escalate Attacks

    In his address, President Trump also insisted that the military campaign was an overwhelming success but failed to offer a clear exit strategy.

    House Takes No Action on Bill to End D.H.S. Shutdown

    The Senate’s bipartisan bill to fund the agency is now formally back with the House, and the shutdown will continue at least through Monday, when the chamber will hold its next session.

    How Bondi’s Missteps on the Epstein Files Jeopardized Her Job

    Markets Recoil After Trump Threatens to Escalate Attacks Against Iran

    In his address, President Trump also repeated his threats to hit Iranian infrastructure, including electrical plants, unless a deal was struck.

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