New Scientist Magazine – October 11, 2025
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THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – OCTOBER 11, 2025 PREVIEW
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘Day Of Darkness’ – With antisemitism on the rise in Britain, was the Manchester attack inevitable?
Last week was Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. A day of prayer and staying away from news. As people made their way to Heaton Park synagogue in north Manchester, they saw a small car being driven erratically before it crashed into the gates. In seconds, Jihad al-Shamie had jumped from the vehicle and started stabbing those nearby. Within six minutes three people had been killed, including the attacker, who was shot by armed police.
For our cover story, Chris Osuh and Geneva Abdul speak to members of the Jewish community about how they feared such an assault was likely, as well as their hopes for unity in the face of hatred. Our reporting team pieces together what is known about Shamie, and Jonathan Freedland says the terror attack was no surprise amid rising antisemitism, but must be a turning point.
Five essential reads in this week’s edition
Spotlight | A chilling message
David Smith reports on how Donald Trump is stepping up attacks on Democratic donors little more than a year before the midterm elections for Congress
Science | Catching Zs
If you’ve ever found yourself awake in the small hours, mind whirring, you’re not alone. Jillian Pretzel asks experts about what causes maintenance insomnia – inability to stay asleep – and which treatments can help to tackle it
Feature | Broken connection
A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific in 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world. Samanth Subramanian examines how losing the internet catapulted the archipelago back in time
Opinion | Man without a plan?
Latin American governments are fretfully watching a big US military buildup around Venezuela as Donald Trump steps up action against drug cartels. The president’s efforts to act as a neighbourhood policeman, writes Simon Tisdall, are regressive, dangerous and almost certain to backfire
Culture | Boss mode
New biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere captures the musician at a pivotal point in his career. Alexis Petridis speaks to the film’s cast and crew about bringing the musical icon to life
The London Magazine – October/November 2025
THE LONDON MAGAZINE (April 2, 2025): The latest issue features….
Essay | The Aesthetic Life by Zsófia Paulikovics
‘Several broadly millennial acquaintances confess that reading the book made them feel a sort of sickening recognition.’
Essay | No Designated Venue: An Oral History of London’s Music and Poetry Scenes
Yasmina Snyder spoke to writers, poets, musicians and event organisers based in London about the connections between live music and poetry, and the spaces that host them.
Essay | Why Magazines Fail by Tristram Fane Saunders
‘There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines. In the last two years, an alarming number have vanished into that second-hand bookshop in the sky. Each leaves the world a little quieter, a little poorer.’
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 13, 2025 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Brian Stauffer’s “Winds of Change” – A gust of fall.
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the “War from Within”
Peace abroad and war at home? It’s an unusual note to strike in an electoral democracy. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Before Kimmel, the Smothers Brothers Ate It
President Nixon got the brothers’ variety show cancelled after they wouldn’t let up on Vietnam. In the wake of the new late-night wars, Dick Smothers is having flashbacks. By Bruce Handy
The Prime Minister Who Tried to Have a Life Outside the Office
As the thirtysomething leader of Finland, Sanna Marin pursued an ambitious policy agenda. The press focussed on her nights out and how she paid for breakfast. By Jennifer Wilson
The Hague on Trial
The chief prosecutor has obtained warrants against Israeli leaders for war crimes—but faces allegations of sexual misconduct. By David D. Kirkpatrick
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 5, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 10.5.25 Issue features Matthieu Aikins and Victor J. Blue reporting on crimes and impunity in the U.S. Special Forces.
They Celebrated Vigilante Justice on the Battlefield. Then They Brought It Home.
Pete Hegseth’s advocacy for service members accused of war crimes, and Trump’s pardons of them, have helped usher in an era of military aggression and disregard for the rule of law. By Matthieu Aikins and Victor J. Blue
Did a Green Beret Unit Commit One of the Worst U.S. War Crimes in Decades?
In 2012, after a team member was nearly killed, a Special Forces unit went on a rampage that might have been one of the worst war crimes in recent U.S. history. By Matthieu Aikins and Victor J. Blue
How War-Crime Accusations Against Green Berets Were Denied and Buried
As cases of lawless behavior and extrajudicial killings mounted, the Special Forces had to decide how to respond — and whom to protect. By Matthieu Aikins and Victor J. Blue
BARRON’S MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 6, 2025
BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Costco, Sam’s Club, and BJ’s Won Over America’
How Costco, Sam’s Club, and BJ’s Won Over America
Walmart is leveraging its scale and technology to make Sam’s Club even more appealing to its loyal shoppers. Why all three warehouse-club chains stand to win.
Their Funds May Not Beat the Market. Their Stocks Just Might.
The fund industry faces big hurdles, but these three asset managers have been unjustly dismissed.
Fair Isaac Stock Scores Big With Pricing Change. Credit Bureaus, Not So Much.
Fair Isaac, the producer of the FICO Score, changed its pricing model, giving it a greater share of the overall credit-scoring revenue.
Foreign Buyers Are Backing Treasury Bonds. It Comes With Strings Attached.
With hedge funds and other investors becoming more dominant, this haven might not be quite as safe as it used to be.
Jobs Gains May Be Stalling, but Markets Keep Driving Growth
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – OCTOBER 23, 2025
Algorithm Nation
Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That’s because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renée DiResta
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Equality Without Feminism?
The Soviet Union’s ambitious program of gender equality could never be separated from its abuses of power.
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe
The Big Cheese
Shadow Ticket is brisker than Thomas Pynchon’s other work, but it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility, and it addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of control.
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
SCIENCE MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2, 2025
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Slipping through the cracks’ – Plants attract bacteria by leaking glutamine from gaps between cells when root barriers break down.
Wildfire management at a crossroads: Mitigation and prevention or response and recovery?
A computer scientist’s technological gamble
On prosthetics, printed organs, and pig hearts
Hidden networks in the brain
Battery charging goes quantum
Upwelling that lasted millions of years
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 4, 2025 PREVIEW
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Russia tests the West‘
Vladimir Putin is testing the West—and its unity
NATO must resist Russia’s efforts to corrode it from within
The White House’s plan for Gaza deserves praise
America, Israel and perhaps Hamas have changed their positions
Donald Trump’s cure for drug prices is worse than the disease
The problem is not greedy pharma firms
The new SCOTUS term will reshape America’s constitution
If the justices do not check an overmighty president, the country will suffer
Unleash the robotaxi revolution
Across the West, safety rules are standing in the way of progress
APOLLO MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2025 PREVIEW
APOLLO MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Hew Locke and the Empire’s new clothes | Princeton University Art Museum reopens | William Hogarth’s bedside manner | the many faces of Nigerian modernism
Hew Locke and the Empire’s new clothes
On the eve of a major US survey, the artist talks to Apollo about decorating statues and the ornamental side of the British Empire
A compact history of the London mews
By turns picturesque and insalubrious, mews houses have a compellingly chequered past
Art Basel’s smallest fair has big ambitions
Eclectic art and innovative curation are helping Art Basel Paris fly the flag for the French art market
New frontiers for the Chinese art market
Work by late 20th-century and contemporary Chinese artists has been throwing up surprises recently
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