TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Plays for Today’ – On what makes Shakespeare great; Miracles of Siena; Conversations about Gaza; Cyber insecurity and a Letter from Greenland…
Scholars say that the Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end.
The blanket tariffs, once considered extreme, still threaten to harm world trade and make everything more expensive for businesses and consumers.
People in the Ukrainian city struck on Palm Sunday have little hope of a cease-fire.
President Trump is staking everything on winning by imposing tariffs on China. But the fight threatens to choke off negotiations about other issues like Taiwan, fentanyl, TikTok and more.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (April 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mind Stretching Shapes’ – The loops, knots and structures pushing the boundaries of math…
Rachel Crowell, Violet Frances
Hannah Nordhaus
Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
Small factories with tiny profit margins have played a central role in China’s international competitiveness. Many could now face disaster.
Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules.
An Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador was a blunt example of Mr. Trump’s defiance of the federal courts.
HARVARD MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Falling Behind’ – Boys, men, and the new gender gaps…
What to do as men and boys fall behind by Nina Pasquini
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge by Joyce E. Chaplin
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970 by Daniel Stone
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features Frank Viva’s “Hot Air” – The chaos on Capitol Hill.
The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Colleges around the country, in the face of legal and political backlash to their diversity programs, are pivoting to an alternative framework known as pluralism. By Emma Green
The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better? By John Cassidy
Shocked by Trump’s trade war, foreign investors are selling U.S. government bonds, long the world’s safe haven.
The tariff rate on Chinese imports can be as high as 245% or zero, depending on the type of product that is being imported.
Even companies that make clothing in America aren’t feeling great about stiff duties on their overseas competition.
The midmorning strike hit as Ukrainians were celebrating Palm Sunday, officials said. It appeared to be the deadliest attack on civilians this year and came as the Trump administration pushes for a cease-fire.
MONOCLE RADIO (April 13, 2025): Emma Nelson is joined by Alex von Tunzelmann and Vincent McAviney to discuss the week’s key stories. Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, checks in from Lisbon, and our Balkans correspondent, Guy de Launey, reports on the latest from the region.
A long list of electronic products got a reprieve for now from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a toll on tech giants like Apple.
Xi Jinping, who rules with absolute authority, has shown he is willing to let the Chinese people endure hardship. President Trump revealed he has limits.
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
The two sides held preliminary negotiations on Saturday, and an Iranian official said they would resume next week.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (April 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Heartland Revival’ …
Tariffs will threaten the region’s newfound prosperity, but its economic gains may prove surprisingly durable
President Trump’s tariff policy has set off a wave of selling in the stock and bond markets. These savvy investors are buying, too.
Denmark’s economy was reshaped by Novo Nordisk and obesity drugs. That identity now is under attack on multiple fronts, from science to geopolitics.
The immediate market crisis over President Trump’s tariffs may have eased, but problems in the bond market could easily recur.
Consider defensive portfolio moves or even selling a used car as some of Trump’s tariffs remain in place.
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