TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An extraordinary woman’ = Gisele Pelicot’s dignity before a watching world; What I learnt from Athol Fugard; Caspar David Friedrich; Stalin’s don and Hitler’s royal allies…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he had ordered the aerial attacks after Hamas’s “repeated refusal” to release the remaining hostages it holds. “This is just the beginning,” he said.
The attacks on the judge, James E. Boasberg, elicited a rare public rebuke by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who essentially told critics to knock it off.
In a call with President Trump, Russia’s leader agreed to pause strikes on energy infrastructure. Ukraine also appeared willing to accept such a halt, though it fell short of the unconditional cease-fire the country had already agreed to.
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
THE NEW ATLANTIS (March 18, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features How the water system works, how virologists lost the gain-of-function debate, living well with AI, a physics that cares, and more…
For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.
From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.
Between SpaceX’s breakthroughs and Trump’s inaugural promise, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity. But it can’t be realized as an eccentric’s project or a pork banquet. Here’s a science-driven program that could get astronauts on the Red Planet by 2031.
GUERNICA MAGAZINE (March 17, 2025): The March Issue features Olivia Cheng’s short story Bathhouse Gossip…
“Indeed, growing up, moving between the United States and Palestine made me feel as if I shed one self and inhabited another, over and over again… But today, instead of observing the gaps in my knowledge and experience in either culture, I focus on my access to other languages and understandings.”By Jenine Abboushi
“They’ve swung in the opposite direction and they’re all done with democracy and liberalism.”By Olivia Cheng
“Trinidad was brewing with a sense of premonition, that time was either running out or coming to a head.”By Eskor David Johnson
THE PARIS REVIEW (MARCH 18, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features
Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.
The Trump administration tried to have the hearing canceled and sought to remove the judge overseeing it, as White House officials took a confrontational stance.
Israel’s Newest Army Recruits: the Ultra-Orthodox
The relationship between the billionaire philanthropist and the Indian leader helps both men meet their missions. But it also papers over the erosion of rights under Mr. Modi.
THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE (March 17, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘Democrats must become the Workers Party Again’
The party’s base is right to be angry at Chuck Schumer, but the country’s fate hinges on the fight against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Michael Tomasky
Trump is cutting power to the EV industry. It’s unclear if it can recover.
Legal skirmishes between the administration and lower court judges have highlighted the way the federal court system itself has become a thorn in the president’s side.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 17, 2025): Amy Sherald’s “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” – The artist adds some whimsy to her thought-provoking techniques.
Young men have gone MAGA. Can the left win them back? By Andrew Marantz
Ruth Stout didn’t plow, dig, water, or weed—and now her “no-work” method is everywhere. But her secrets went beyond the garden plot. By Jill Lepore
The former Vanity Fair editor recalls a time when the expense accounts were limitless, the photo shoots were lavish, and the stakes seemed high. What else has been lost? By Nathan Heller
At the height of the campaign, Ukrainian forces controlled some 500 square miles of Russian territory. Now they hold just a small sliver of land along the border.
The tornadoes, dust storms and wind-fanned wildfires have led to at least 40 deaths across the United States this past week.
The storied group has a remarkable history of daring protests and high-profile blunders. It faces a reckoning in North Dakota.
Merchants worried that a trade war could wreak financial havoc in a region that has a robust business exporting the world’s finest bubbly to the United States.
MONOCLE RADIO (March 16, 2025): Emma Nelson is joined by Nina dos Santos and David Bodanis to break down the week’s biggest stories. Plus: Iona Craig on US airstrikes in Yemen, Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, joins from Marbella and Monocle’s Oslo correspondent, Lars Bevanger, brings the latest from the region.
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