LITERARY REVIEW – JULY 2025
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THE NEW YORK TIMES – TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2025
Republicans Try to Wrangle Votes as Senate Debates Policy Bill for 3rd Day
Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Capitol prepared to cast a tiebreaking vote on the bill, but it was not clear when Republicans would call a final vote.
What’s in the Trump Policy Bill?
California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law
Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and homelessness crisis.
Under a Drone-Swarmed Sky: Surviving in Eastern Ukraine
Towns and troops long accustomed to merciless bombardment are adjusting to an even denser pattern of attacks.
Top Russian General Is Convicted in High-Profile Corruption Case
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE (06.30.25): The latest issue features ‘The Historical Presidency’ – Nine essays on what the global past reveals about our confounding present…
The End of Modernity
A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads. By Christopher Clark
Why Compare the Present to the Past?
Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties. Ivan Krastev, Leonard Benardo
Is This an American Cultural Revolution?
Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong’s. Julia Lovell, Nicholas Guyatt
Russia Has Started Losing the War in Ukraine
The military tide may have turned against Putin. Michael Kimmage
APOLLO MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025
APOLLO MAGAZINE (06.30.25): The latest issue features ‘Queen Sonja pops to the Factory’…
In this issue
The Queen of Norway’s very modern art collection
The Gilded Age – is greed good again?
Emily Kam Kngwarray lights up Tate Modern
An interview with Erin Shirreff
Plus: Cinecittà in focus, Wangechi Mutu at the Galleria Borghese, the light touch of Antoine Watteau, Egypt’s new home for antiquities, how polenta caused a stir in Venice, the Aspen art scene continues to snowball, and the revival of London’s art market; in reviews: Amy Sherald’s portraits, King James VI and I’s cultural legacy, and what is a Jewish country house?
Queen Sonja pops to the Factory
The rocky history of Lismore Castle
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JULY 7 & 14, 2025 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Malika Favre’s “Literary Heights”…
Trump, Congress, and the War Powers Resolution
How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a country that has not attacked the U.S. By Jeannie Suk Gersen
Anne Enright’s Literary Journeys to Australia and New Zealand
The Booker Prize-winning author recommends three works by writers who, thanks to geography, may have never received their due.
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education. By Hua Hsu
THE NEW YORK TIMES – MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2025
Senate to Begin Voting on Policy Bill, as G.O.P. Grasps for Support
The Senate will vote on a sweeping Republican-drafted economic and domestic policy bill, with President Trump’s legislative agenda hanging in the balance.
A List of Nearly Everything in the Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save
Canada Will Scrap Tax That Prompted Trump to Suspend Trade Talks
The government said on Sunday night that it would cancel its tax on American technology companies, handing a victory to President Trump.
Tariffs May Push This American Company to Move Jobs to China
NATURE VIEWS: GLACIER NATIONAL PARK IN MONTANA
CBS Sunday Morning (June 29, 2025): Explore things to see and do in Glacier National Park. Established as a National Park in 1910 it is a land of mountain ranges carved by prehistoric ice rivers. It features alpine meadows, deep forests, waterfalls, about 25 glistening glaciers and 200 sparkling lakes. The vistas seen from Going-To-The-Sun Road are breathtaking, a photographer’s paradise. Relatively few miles of road exist in the park’s 1,600 square miles of picturesque landscape, thus preserving its primitive and unspoiled beauty.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM – TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
World Economic Forum (June 29, 2025): This week’s top stories of the week include:
0:15 Top technologies to watch in 2025 – From digital trust to clean energy, 2025 is seeing breakthrough innovations with wide-ranging impact. Here are five of the most promising technologies this year.
2:50 How to close the gender gap in tech – Ayumi Moore Aoki is CEO of Women in Tech Global, an organization that works to increase gender equality in STEM. She says that amid all the talk of what AI can do, we must also consider what it cannot.
6:09 This robot could change all factories – Meet CyRo, a 3-armed robot designed to handle objects with the dexterity of a human – without the need for pre-programming. Its adaptive vision system mimics the human eye, allowing it to operate under varying lighting and handle tricky materials like glass or reflective surfaces.
7:33 Start-up plans data centres in space – As AI energy demands soar, one pioneering start-up is taking data infrastructure off the planet. Starcloud is building space data centres to tap into the vast, uninterrupted solar energy available in orbit.
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TRAVEL & HISTORY: MARTIN LUTHER IN WITTENBERG
DW TRAVEL (June 29, 2025): Ever heard of Wittenberg? This small, German city is where the theologian Martin Luther sparked a revolution against the Catholic Church in the late Middle Ages.
Video Timeline: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Where is Wittenberg? 00:44 Wittenberg and Martin Luther, meet Pastor Bridget Gautieri from ELCA Wittenberg Center 01:00 Wittenberg Castle Church, Luther’s 95 theses 03:58 Wittenberg360 05:36 The Luther House, meet tour guide Oliver Friedrich van der Linde 07:45 The Bugenhagen House 08:50 The Cranach House 11:26 Martin Luther’s grave in the Castle Church
We’ll take you to the place where Luther is said to have nailed up his famous 95 theses that led to the Reformation movement.
THE NEW YORK TIMES – SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2025
After War With Israel and U.S., Iran Rests on a Knife Edge
The Islamic Republic limps on after the 12-day conflict. Where will the nation go from here?
Israel’s Military Appears Poised to Expand into Gaza City Amid Cease-Fire Calls
Senate Takes Up Trump’s Policy Bill, as G.O.P. Scrounges for Votes to Pass It
Republican leaders barely scaled a key procedural hurdle to bring up the bill. It was unclear whether the G.O.P. had the votes to pass it.
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