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DISCOVER MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2026 PREVIEW

Summer 2026 Issue | Discover Magazine

Discover Magazine: The latest issue features ‘Countless lifeforms sense, remember, and communicate, all without brains’…

Slowing Biological Aging May Be GLP-1 Drugs’ Next Medical Frontier

Learn how studying DNA-based age markers in people with HIV helps us understand how GLP-1 drugs could slow molecular clocks.

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid May Have Came From a Rare Class of Meteorites

Learn more about the rare composition of the Chicxulub impactor. 

A Full Moon May Hide the Faint Meteors of the 2026 Southern Delta Aquariids — Here’s How to See Them Anyway

1.3 Billion Years Vanished From the Grand Canyon’s Rock Record — a Cold Case That Has Puzzled Geologists Since the 1860s

BARRON’S MAGAZINE ———- JULY 20, 2026 PREVIEW

Barron's | Financial and Investment News

BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Software’s Hart Truth’ – AI is eating away at software’s superpower: profit-rich recurring revenue. The good news? Companies – and investors- are starting to adapt.

How to Find the Bargains in the Software Stock Wreckage

AI is eating away at software’s superpower: profit-rich recurring revenue. The good news? Companies—and investors—are starting to adapt.

After an Epic Fall, IBM Faces a Long Road Back to Relevance

The blue chip’s biggest wipeout on record will force the company to reinvent itself—again.

America’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors: How to Lift More Women Into Leadership Roles

Barron’s annual ranking of Top 100 Women Advisors shows that most leading female advisors work on teams. That could be a key to attracting more …

NFL Players Targeted in E-Commerce Scheme Using Fake Shopify Stores

The alleged scam, organized by a 24-year-old from Philadelphia, offered athletes ownership of bogus websites as a place to park cash from their lucrative careers.

The Unanswered Questions Driving the Stock Market Drop

The biggest problems aren’t caused by what you don’t know, but what, as Mark Twain put it, “you know for sure that just ain’t so.” And that’s a massive problem for the stock market right now.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2026

Fighting Intensifies With Strikes on Critical Infrastructure

The U.S. and Iran have expanded the scope of their attacks in recent days, with reports of water facilities and other structures coming under fire.

Israel Recruits Rabbis to Warn Followers: Don’t Spy for Iran

The Israeli authorities have enacted a broad array of countermeasures to contain what they describe as online recruiting efforts by Iranian agents.

They Were Charged With Assaulting ICE Agents. The Cases Are Crumbling.

The Trump administration has lost or abandoned hundreds of criminal cases against protesters and immigrants, a Times investigation found.

As Trump Scraps With Meloni, His Envoy to Italy Is at Sea

Tilman J. Fertitta, the U.S. ambassador to Rome, is summering on his superyacht as President Trump squabbles with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.

NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026 PREVIEW

NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Running the Border’ – Our obsolete asylum laws…

America’s Asylum System Is Broken

How to make our humanitarian immigration policies serve national interests. Dan McLaughlin

Something Is Going to Happen

The gathering geopolitical crisis. Daniel Foster

Reading Is Not Dead

The future of literacy, literature, and liberal democracy. Dominic Green

THE NEW YORK TIMES – FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2026

A Trump Obsession That Carries a Cost for Democracy

In demanding steps to address the integrity of voting, President Trump persisted in relitigating his 2020 election defeat while casting doubt on the 2026 outcome.

U.S. Hits Bridges and a Port in Country’s South, Iranian Media says

The U.S. military’s Central Command said the latest round of attacks had “hit dozens of Iranian military targets” but made no mention of civilian infrastructure.

Andy Burnham Becomes Labour Leader and Is Set to Be Britain’s Prime Minister

In a speech, Mr. Burnham promised more public control of essential services, a shift of power toward local governments and a push for economic growth.

How the ‘King of the North’ Conquered U.K. Politics

New Prime Minister Faces an Old Problem: Making Britain’s Economy Grow

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JULY 18, 2026 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Degradation in progress’…

Donald Trump’s gutting of the Department of Justice

What the degraded institution means for America

It’s too darn hot. Blame global dimming

Earth is absorbing a lot more sunshine

Donald Trump’s blind alley

America’s president looks bereft of good options for solving the stand-off in the Gulf

China’s rulers have a woman problem

Antagonism between the sexes does nothing to address China’s demographic problems

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JULY 17, 2026

Andy Burnham knows our nostalgia - New Statesman

THE NEW STATESMN: The latest issue features ‘After Keir Starmer’…

After Keir Starmer

Can we move past our decade of failure? By Tom McTague

Madam President, Marine Le Pen?

With Marine Le Pen now free to run in next year’s election, France is entering uncharted political territory By Julian Jackson

Vladimir Putin has no way out

But he may not want one By Katie Stallard

King Charles’ decency is irrelevant

Andrew is no abberation. None of the royals deserve their moral authority By Oli Dugmore

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2026

Prospect Magazine - Britain's leading monthly current affairs magazine

PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features …

Britain’s next generation is all grown up

Young Britons are locked out of housing and jobs and crushed by the cost of living. Marie Le Conte argues that it’s time they were given back their future. Elsewhere, Alona Ferber visits Israel ahead of key elections and Jen Stout reports from Ukraine

Inside the battle to oust Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel is more divided than ever, perpetually at war, a global pariah— and it’s going to the polls. The alternatives may not offer that much hope

Trump’s Anthropic spat has made the case for AI sovereignty

Ethan Zuckerman

THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2026

Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, a Proponent of Drone Warfare, Is Forced Out

Mykhailo Fedorov announced he was leaving the ministry after conflicts with generals and military contractors over the role of innovative weaponry.

Mass Protests Across Ukraine Oppose Ouster of Defense Minister

In Iran, Trump Risks Another American ‘Forever War’

President Trump, who promised to “end wars,” not start them, may have fallen into a familiar presidential trap.

U.S. and Iran Escalate Attacks, While Hinting at Diplomacy

Global Opinion Shifts Toward Favoring China Over the U.S., Poll Finds

An annual survey from the Pew Research Center found that more countries felt positively about China than America.

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY —- JULY 17, 2026 PREVIEW

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘Andy Burnham’s path to No 10″…

Andy Burnham is to become Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade, having secured the Labour leadership with the landslide support of his party’s MPs.

The former Manchester mayor is now set to replace Starmer as Labour leader on Friday before walking through the doors of No 10 and becoming prime minister next Monday.

For our big story this week, Daniel Boffey looks at how Burnham charted the route from school politics to No 10, while Jessica Elgot runs through the bulging in-tray awaiting him when he steps into the new role. And Gaby Hinsliff examines how the PM-in-waiting might fare on the global stage, asking whether, unlike Keir Starmer, he has the skills to deal with Donald Trump.

Spotlight | A revolution in ruins
Discontent with Venezuela’s Trump-backed government is mounting as Chávez heirs struggle to respond to the earthquake disaster, writes Tom Phillips

Science | We’re going on a water bear hunt
Scientists hope DNA sequencing tardigrades – tiny yet virtually indestructible creatures – could help us understand the secrets of their superpowers. Patrick Barkham reports

Feature | The battle of the Bell hotel
Tim Burrows visits the town of Epping in Essex to hear from local people about the impact of last year’s far-right protests that centred on a hotel housing asylum seekers

Opinion | The real source of Trump’s power exposed
The Nato summit showed the US president’s willingness to violate all norms, rules and laws – and leave everyone else to pick up the pieces, argues Robert Reich

Culture | Never-ending story
With Christopher Nolan’s take on the Odyssey set to break box office records, Charlotte Higgins asks why a poem from 600BC holds a vice-like grip on pop culture