THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How I Became A Populist’ – My time at the Federal Trade Commission – before Donald Trump fired me – totally changed the way I see our political divide.
Not All Old Candidates Are Joe Biden, and Not All Young Ones Are Great
All things being equal, sure, Democrats ought to lean toward younger candidates. But there are many times when all things aren’t equal.
How the Trump Oligarchy Works: The Case of Stephen Schwarzman
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, edited by Trudi Tate. Oxford, 224 pp., £7.99, May, 978 0 19 285985 3
Ouvriers de luxe
Gustave Flaubert et Michel Lévy: Un couple explosif by Yvan Leclerc and Jean-Yves Mollier. Le Livre de Poche, 224 pp., €8.40, November 2024, 978 2 253 94112 5
Fish in the Wrong Place
Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World by Corey Ross. Princeton, 447 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 0 691 21144 2
In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings by James C. Scott. Yale, 220 pp., £20, February, 978 0 300 27849 1
Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once
The Slippery Slope of Ethical Collapse—And How Courage Can Reverse It
Your brain gets used to wrongdoing. It can also get used to doing good
Which Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Actually Work?
Experts say the strongest scientific studies identify three compounds that fight disease and inflammation
The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China
How a space rock vanished from Africa and showed up for sale across an ocean
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Harry Bliss’s “Cannonball” – The delights of fall.
The Real Problem Is How Trump Can Legally Use the Military
Congress wrote statutes with the apparent assumption that whoever held the office of the Presidency would use the powers they granted in good faith. By Jeannie Suk Gersen
How Long Will You Live?
Smoking a cig takes twenty minutes off your life. But thinking about Rudy Giuliani’s downfall might add some time back. By Greg Clarke
Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on Higher Education
How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love federal power. By Emma Green
What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power
The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor? By Eric Lach
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 10.12.25 Issue features Amy X. Wang on “buy now, pay later”; Giles Harvey on the filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer; Bruce Schoenfeld on the L.A. Dodgers and its Latino fan base; and more.
Oracle has roared into the AI gold rush, but it’s taking on huge amounts of debt to do so. Last month’s $18 billion bond offering could be just the beginning.
Breakthrough paved the way to many of today’s budding quantum computers
Steadying the output of fiber lasers
High-power fiber lasers are used in a range of scientific fields in addition to their standard use for technology. However, increases in laser output power are limited by nonlinear effects that can damage the optical components and reduce the beam quality. Rothe et al. used a spatial wavefront-shaping technique for multimode fiber lasers that mitigates their detrimental processes, thus enabling output power to be increased appreciably while maintaining beam quality.
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