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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.15.25 Issue features Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV; Nicholas Casey on how the MAGA right became obsessed with the Romanian presidential election; Irina Aleksander on how Jon Bernthal became Hollywood’s most dependable tough guy; David Marchese interviews Misty Copeland about her retirement; and more.

We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.

Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. By Parul Sehgal

Why the MAGA Right Became Obsessed With the Romanian Election

Misty Copeland Changed Ballet. Now She’s Ready to Move On.

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025 – INVESTMENT VIEWS

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Internet Interrupted’ – The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.-

Google Search Is Fading. The Whole Internet Could Go With It.

The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.

X’s New Show Was Postponed After a Barron’s Investigation

“Going Public,” a show hosted by X, allows viewers to invest in start-ups. Two of the featured entrepreneurs have a checkered past, Barron’s found.

These Are the Hottest Bond ETFs This Year—and for Good Reason

Treasury-bill ETFs are rapidly gaining in popularity and challenging money-market funds and bank deposits as a place for retail investors to park cash.

This Vanguard Economist Won’t Rule Out 9% Bond Yields

Joe Davis, the firm’s global chief economist, says rates could shoot up if the benefits of AI don’t outweigh the costs of the deficit in coming years.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES – SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2025

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Israel and Iran Defy Calls for De-Escalation With 2nd Day of Attacks

More than 70 people have been killed in Iran. Retaliatory strikes by Iran killed at least three people and injured dozens in Israel.

Israel said its campaign would continue for days, if not longer, and Iran said its response was not over.

Iran Retaliates and Israel Vows More Strikes After Devastating Attack

Waves of Israeli airstrikes hit two nuclear enrichment sites, multiple military bases, and military scientists and commanders. Iran replied with a barrage of missiles and drones.

In N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race, Top Democrats Take On Trump and Their Own Party

The primary has taken on national implications, with the top two candidates tapping into Democratic voters’ hunger for a fight.

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NATIONAL REVIEW – AUGUST 2025 OPINION PREVIEW

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NATIONAL REVIEW (June 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘In Search of Normalcy’ – What the two parties aren’t giving Americans…

In Search of Normalcy: What the Two Parties Aren’t Giving America

People just want things to work. Charles C. W. Cooke

Trump’s Apology Tour

By Noah Rothman

DOGE Takes a Nibble Out of Big Government

By Jim Geraghty

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THE NEW YORK TIMES – FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025

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Israeli Attack Targets Iran’s Nuclear Sites and Its Top Officials

Stunning Series of Strikes Wipe Out Top Military Chain of Command

Mexican Flags Have Become Republican Fodder, but Protesters Keep Waving Them

Images of Los Angeles protesters waving Mexican flags have gone viral in conservative circles this week. Many protesters say they are aware of the political reaction but won’t put their flags away.

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 13, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Who won the war?’ We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies. By Martin Ivens

Friends like these

The wartime alliances that could not survive the peace By Omer Bartov

Symmetry in motion

Capers and wallpaper: a new film from Wes Anderson By Keith Miller

You’re the tops

What Americans understand by greatness By Andrew Stark

Exploring the occult

A practical and literary guide to modern magic By Russell Williams

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JUNE 13, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features the last male northern white rhino socializes with a southern white rhino. Since his death in 2018, the northern subspecies is functionally extinct after decades of illegal killing for their horns. A study from the Greater Kruger region of South Africa offers some hope for remaining rhino species, proving that dehorning operations can achieve poaching reductions under certain circumstances and in conjunction with other interventions.