President Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on metal imports, sparking new global trade spats as he attempts to shield the U.S. economy from foreign competition.
The system America took 80 years to assemble proved surprisingly fragile in the face of Trump’s assault, a revolution in how the country exercises power across the globe.
The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.
At Columbia, Tension Over Gaza Protests Hits Breaking Point Under Trump
There were protests, arrests, the departure of the school’s president. Then, a new administration arrived in Washington.
Civilization is a product of canons. The Bible is a canon, and while the Iliad and Odyssey were not quite sacred scripture to the ancient Greeks, the Homeric epics went a long way toward establishing what it meant for a man or a city to be part of the Greek world. That world was almost a synonym for civilization itself. What was not Greek was barbarian.
Noam Chomsky has attained fame in two different areas. He is a world-renowned authority in linguistics and also a major public intellectual. But while in the former area his achievements are universally recognized, even by those who disagree with him, this is not so for his work as a public intellectual, where he is idolized by some, respected by others, tolerated by yet others, and execrated by more than a few.
The president had threatened to hit Canadian metals with 50 percent tariffs but opted not to go ahead after Ontario lifted a charge on U.S. electricity.
The deal announced on Tuesday delivered new momentum to efforts to halt the fighting, with the ball for any truce now in Russia’s court, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights
Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.
Features The Pool at The LINE by Maya Binyam Dark Waters and Sorcerer by Sam Bodrojan
Nonfiction Points of Entry: On Lebanon and broken glass by Mary Turfah Rising from Her Verses: The poetry and politics of Julia de Burgos by Sophia Stewart Mann Men: Exploring an oeuvre of men in crisis by Clayton Purdom Jolted out of Our Aesthetic Skins: Mario Kart and fiction in Las Vegas by Simon Wu Beautiful Aimlessness: The cultural footprint of Giant Robot by Oliver Wang In Its Purest Form: Reading Lolita on its 70th anniversary by Claire Messud Perfect Momentum: How to crash someone else’s car by Dorie Chevlen
Comic Mafalda by Quino, translated by Frank Wynne
Fiction The Tragedy Brotherhood by O F Cieri The Eagle’s Nest by Devin Thomas O’Shea
Excerpt The Heir Conditioner: from Mother Media by Hannah Zeavin
Poetry Minister of Loneliness by Ansel Elkins Iterations by Tracy Fuad Moon over Brooklyn by Daniel Halpern You by Laura Kolbe Third Act by Tamara Nassar Still, my brother’s flag flies by Jorrell Watkins
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (March 11, 2025): The cover of Country Life’s 12 March 2025 issue, featuring The Garden Hall at Pitshill House, West Sussex, as photographed by Paul Whitbread.
Water you wading for?
The village pond, once the hub around which community life revolved, is being reinvented as a ‘superpower’ habitat for rare species, finds Vicky Liddell
Sorry seems to be the easiest word
Deborah Nicholls-Lee makes no apology for asking why there is nothing more British than saying sorry (up to eight times a day, we regret to say)
Two’s company, three’s a crowd farmer
Jane Wheatley is impressed by a new European project linking farmers direct to consumers in an effort to ensure fair pricing
Peak sugar
Harry Pearson is sweet on Kendal Mint Cake, the original energy snack that is still going strong after conquering Everest and crossing the Antarctic
Arts & antiques
Nature’s beauty and vulnerability are laid bare in a new exhibition at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, as Carla Passino discovers
Josh Eggleton’s favourite painting
The chef and restaurant owner chooses a contemporary collage that keeps the viewer guessing
Like cats on a hot tin roof
A feline stand-off in a Wiltshire farmyard has echoes of tax and trade talks for Minette Batters
Gothic splendours
John Goodall hails the rebirth of Victorian gem Allerton Castle in North Yorkshire, some two decades after a devastating fire
The legacy
Kate Green lauds the brilliant, but tragically brief blooming of cello prodigy Jacqueline du Pré
The red army
Ian Morton reveals why we don’t want wood ants in our pants
The good stuff
Pretty pastels are back for spring, so think pink, says Hetty Lintell
Bring me everlasting flowers
Catriona Gray meets a man crafting blooms from coppiced hazel
If you want colour…
Picture-perfect primulas offer an easy way to festoon the garden with a kaleidoscope of colour, suggests Charles Quest-Ritson
Foraging
John Wright savours the peppery crunch and kick of black mustard, but he’ll never pick it in Yeovil
It’s a Scream
The wild work of Edvard Munch betrayed a troubled soul, but the Norwegian artist found salvation in Nature, declares Jessica Lack
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