FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The New Tools of Power’
And the End of Rising Powers by Michael Beckley
How to Build an Economic and Security Order That Works for America by Oren Cass
Fortress America Is Not a Safer America by Shannon K. O’Neil
An Old Tool Creating New Dangers Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Fire That Fueled The American Revolution‘
Blaming the British for the destruction helped persuade some wavering colonists to back the fight for independence. But the source of the inferno was not what it seemed
Scientists and community members in Altadena are testing ways that California species can assist efforts to rebuild
The temporary structures will return next month—but in the meantime, visitors will enjoy rare unobstructed views of the ancient hilltop temple in Athens
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Christoph Niemann’s “Market Shift” – How the wealthy sleep at night.
As a long-overdue ceasefire takes hold amid the ruins of Gaza, the President’s visit to Jerusalem is more about transactional politics than transformative peace. By David Remnick
With its standout deals and generous employment practices, the warehouse chain became a feel-good American institution. In a fraught time, it can be hard to remain beloved. By Molly Fischer
Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law. By Andy Kroll
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 10.19.25 Issue features Astead W. Herndon on the mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani; Emily Bazelon on the state of the rule of law in the U.S. under Trump; Andrew Ross Sorkin on 1929 and the rise of crypto investing; Parul Sehgal on Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel; and more.
The conflict over compulsory service for the nation’s ultra-Orthodox has become a stand-in for a larger struggle over the country’s right-wing, religious turn — and could determine its future.
At a moment when other pop stars are flirting with dark spectacle, Gaga’s “Mayhem” tour shows that she has perfected it. By Wesley Morris
A movement born in churches to help vulnerable immigrants has become a constitutional battleground in Chicago and Portland, Ore.
The story of the man most likely to be the next mayor of New York City — and the promise and peril his ascent poses for the Democratic Party.
THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
Great genes by David Dubal
The company is about to become the world’s largest producer of electricity. Joe Dominguez tells us what to expect.
The household-goods sector giant has fallen over the past year, but its moment could be coming.
Earnings from the country’s biggest banks show a booming Wall Street and a solid consumer. But a warning from Jamie Dimon took center stage.
For many young adults priced out of the housing market, long-term rentals have become the new starter home. That’s a challenge and an opportunity for the home-furnishings industry.
THE ECONOMIST SPECIAL REPORT: Governments going broke – In many of the world’s big economies, public finances are heading for a crisis. Henry Curr argues the consequences will be profound
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Advanced Nanoscopy’ – 3D rendering of photochemically sectioned brain tissue.
Museum specimens reveal loss of genetic diversity in marine fishes of the Philippines
“Bold” hypothesis suggests tolerance for lead allowed Homo sapiens to outlive Neanderthals
Spongelike materials called metal-organic frameworks can separate and store gases
Mass layoffs, and subsequent reversals, have added to research spending woes
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The coming debt emergency‘
Governments are living far beyond their means. Sadly, inflation is the most likely escape
They are more inventive and adaptable than ever
A balance of economic terror is no basis for stability
Lessons from a $10bn panic on the prairie
Forget Greenland; worry about Alaska
A critic’s power lies in the testing of deeply held beliefs about the nature of art and art’s place in the world against the experience of specific artworks.
Authority by Andrea Long Chu
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
Those Passions: On Art and Politics by T.J. Clark
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Jonathan Kramnick
No Judgment by Lauren Oyler
The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field
Early modern female writers, who were denied the sort of authority usually needed to write literary criticism, were also freed from its constraints.
Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
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