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THE NEW ATLANTIS — SUMMER 2025 ISSUE

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THE NEW ATLANTIS MAGAZINE (June 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Lonely Neighborhood’…

How the Government Built the American Dream House

U.S. housing policy claims to promote homeownership. Instead, it encourages high prices, sprawl, and NIMBYism.

Does Marriage Have a Future?

From the Industrial Revolution to the pill to AI girlfriends, technology is unbundling what used to be marriage’s package deal.

Look at what technologists do, not what they say

A new alliance between tech and the family?

Arts & Literature, Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 23, 2025 PREVIEW

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The illustrated cover of the June 23 2025 issue of The New Yorker in which Donald Trump who is wearing a white party hat...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features David Plunkert’s “On Parade” – Toying with democracy.

President Trump’s Military Games

Trump, always attracted to playing the role of the strongman, is even more inclined than he was in his first term to misuse the military for his own political gratification. By Ruth Marcus

New York to ICE: “G.T.F.O.”

As protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread nationwide, a crowd gathered in lower Manhattan—complete with bullhorns, balloons, and a toy doughnut to bait the cops. By Adam Iscoe

What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE?

Even before Musk fell out with Donald Trump, the agency’s projected savings had plummeted. But he nevertheless managed to inflict lasting damage to the federal government. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025 PREVIEW

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Mother Jones Magazine Cover : July + August 2025

MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE (June 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Technofascist Takeover’ – The plan to control Americans and delete democracy.

Control, Delete

Technofascists are moving fast to break democracy.

Cyber Secessionists

Silicon Valley moguls are creating regulation-free, crypto-based “network states.” And hoping to gobble up land near you.

Parent Trap

Tech bros and “trads” are pushing women to have more babies. Just as long as they’re the right kind of women.

Aspies Über Alles

Elon Musk believes autism makes him superhuman. Just don’t call it that.

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics

JACOBIN MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW

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JACOBIN MAGAZINE (June 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Speculation’ – The house always wins…

“In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.”

— Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867)

“Along with a lot of worthless nonsense, the bubbles of the 1920s gave us some durable housing, highways, and a radio broadcasting infrastructure.”

We Have Always Lived in the Casino

John Maynard Keynes warned that when real investment becomes the by-product of speculation, the result is often disaster. But it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Money for Nothing

Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.

The House Always Wins

The gaming industry is turning every smartphone into a casino — and it’s destroying more lives than ever.

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.15.25 Issue features Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV; Nicholas Casey on how the MAGA right became obsessed with the Romanian presidential election; Irina Aleksander on how Jon Bernthal became Hollywood’s most dependable tough guy; David Marchese interviews Misty Copeland about her retirement; and more.

We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.

Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. By Parul Sehgal

Why the MAGA Right Became Obsessed With the Romanian Election

Misty Copeland Changed Ballet. Now She’s Ready to Move On.

Finance, Investing, Magazines, Retirement

BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025 – INVESTMENT VIEWS

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Internet Interrupted’ – The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.-

Google Search Is Fading. The Whole Internet Could Go With It.

The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.

X’s New Show Was Postponed After a Barron’s Investigation

“Going Public,” a show hosted by X, allows viewers to invest in start-ups. Two of the featured entrepreneurs have a checkered past, Barron’s found.

These Are the Hottest Bond ETFs This Year—and for Good Reason

Treasury-bill ETFs are rapidly gaining in popularity and challenging money-market funds and bank deposits as a place for retail investors to park cash.

This Vanguard Economist Won’t Rule Out 9% Bond Yields

Joe Davis, the firm’s global chief economist, says rates could shoot up if the benefits of AI don’t outweigh the costs of the deficit in coming years.

Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

NATIONAL REVIEW – AUGUST 2025 OPINION PREVIEW

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NATIONAL REVIEW (June 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘In Search of Normalcy’ – What the two parties aren’t giving Americans…

In Search of Normalcy: What the Two Parties Aren’t Giving America

People just want things to work. Charles C. W. Cooke

Trump’s Apology Tour

By Noah Rothman

DOGE Takes a Nibble Out of Big Government

By Jim Geraghty

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 13, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Who won the war?’ We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies. By Martin Ivens

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JUNE 13, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features the last male northern white rhino socializes with a southern white rhino. Since his death in 2018, the northern subspecies is functionally extinct after decades of illegal killing for their horns. A study from the Greater Kruger region of South Africa offers some hope for remaining rhino species, proving that dehorning operations can achieve poaching reductions under certain circumstances and in conjunction with other interventions.