HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Lessons From An Occupation’….
The story of an occupation by Daniel Brook
Has Russia won the war? by Olivier Kempf
What are conservative environmentalists fighting for? by Gaby Del Valle
On the fiction of siblings by Christine Smallwood
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘My Year as a Degenerate Gambler”…
My year as a degenerate gambler
On a Thursday evening in September, I excused myself from the family dinner table and slipped into my bedroom. I didn’t want my kids to see what I was about to do.
With the door locked behind me, I pulled out my phone and downloaded the DraftKings betting app. I felt a certain thrill as I typed in my debit-card information and deposited $500. The first game of the NFL season was a few minutes away. Anything seemed possible. …By McKay Coppins
The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate? By Jacob Stern
Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences. By Jeffrey Goldberg
The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service. By Ellen Cushing
HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Tech Boys In Toyland’- Fear of Girls, Sperm Racing, and Silicon Valley’s Lust for Global Destruction…
Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking by Sam Kriss
Inside the movement to reindustrialize—and rearm—the country by Maddy Crowell
Caravaggio, La Tour, and the art of attention by Nicole Krauss
by Hari Kunzru
January 6, five years later
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Gaza Broke MAGA’ – Charlie Kirk and the end of the Israel consensus’
How the GOP consensus on Israel cracked by Andrew Cockburn
What’s really behind your soaring utility bills by Nick Bowlin
The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers by Rosa Lyster
THE NEW ATLANTIS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features….
In the 2020s, the weird soul of placeless America is being born on Discord servers. Robert Mariani
The planners dreamed of gleaming cities. Instead they brought three generations of hollowed-out downtowns and flight to the suburbs. Joseph Lawler
Trump’s vaunted missile defense system is a plan for America’s retreat and defeat. Robert Zubrin
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue of LARB features ‘Security’…
Alexandre Lefebvre reads “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field.
Nevin Kallepalli investigates political resentment in rural California, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47: “Security.”
Leah Litman prosecutes Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s new legal memoir, “Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution.”
Zoe Adams considers “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone.
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