THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE – JUNE 2026

The Magazine - June 2026

THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features a cover story analyzing the president’s mental fitness alongside reporting on administration impacts on higher education, energy, and agriculture. The issue also explores social issues, including the anti-abortion movement, the rise of digital misogyny, and cultural critiques of television and literature.

Donald Trump Is Finally Cracking Up for Real

His recent tirades confirmed what more than half of America now believes: The president is mentally unfit. How will we survive two and a half more years of this? And what’s he got in store for us?

Trump’s January 6 Slush Fund Is a Criminal Enterprise

The president has long been operating under the assumption that he is immune from prosecution. His latest scheme, however, may be a step too far.

Losing It

Seriously – 2 1/2 more years of this?

The Election Fraudsters Who Will Follow in Tina Peters’s Footsteps

We can debate all day whether Colorado Governor Jared Polis should have commuted her sentence. Meanwhile, state and local officials are openly preparing to meddle in the midterm elections.

Why Trump Is So Afraid of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and The View

Political scientist Meredith Conroy says that late-night shows are still politically relevant in as their audiences shrink.

SCIENCE MAGAZINE ———– MAY 21, 2026 Preview

This depiction of viral threats confronting both bacteria and people, and  the protein and cellular defenses

SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Shared Defenses’ – Bacterial antiviral systems are echoed in human immunity.

The oscillatory biology of sleep: Linkage to dementia

Magnon hydrodynamics in an atomically thin ferromagnet

Interacting effects of human presence and landscape modification on birds and mammals

A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

THE NEW YORK TIMES – FRIDAY, MAY22, 2026

In a Rarity, Republicans Stand Up to Trump

President Trump faced a wall of opposition from Senate G.O.P. lawmakers, in part over his plan to create a $1.8 billion fund to reward his allies.

Inside the Senate G.O.P. Meltdown Over Trump’s Fund

The acting attorney general went to Capitol Hill to allay Republicans’ concerns over a fund to pay people who claim government mistreatment. It did not go well.

Iran and Oman in Talks Over Strait of Hormuz Ship Payment System

The discussions suggest that the U.S. and the Iranian government may not be close to reaching a deal to end a war that has badly damaged the global economy

House G.O.P. Cancels Vote to End War as More Party Members Defect

Oil Prices Jump on Impasse Over Reopening the Strait of Hormuz

Before Europe Anoints Someone to Talk to Putin, It Debates What to Talk About

Europeans are considering appointing an envoy to Ukraine peace talks with Russia. First, many warn, they need to decide what to ask.