Harper’s Magazine (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘War In The West Bank” – What choice for the Palestinians….
The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich
On (maybe) unraveling a government cover-up by Maddy Crowell
How my mother learned to be invisible by Geoff Dyer
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Plays for Today’ – On what makes Shakespeare great; Miracles of Siena; Conversations about Gaza; Cyber insecurity and a Letter from Greenland…
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (April 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mind Stretching Shapes’ – The loops, knots and structures pushing the boundaries of math…
Rachel Crowell, Violet Frances
Hannah Nordhaus
HARVARD MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Falling Behind’ – Boys, men, and the new gender gaps…
What to do as men and boys fall behind by Nina Pasquini
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge by Joyce E. Chaplin
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970 by Daniel Stone
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features Frank Viva’s “Hot Air” – The chaos on Capitol Hill.
The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Colleges around the country, in the face of legal and political backlash to their diversity programs, are pivoting to an alternative framework known as pluralism. By Emma Green
The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better? By John Cassidy
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (April 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Heartland Revival’ …
Tariffs will threaten the region’s newfound prosperity, but its economic gains may prove surprisingly durable
President Trump’s tariff policy has set off a wave of selling in the stock and bond markets. These savvy investors are buying, too.
Denmark’s economy was reshaped by Novo Nordisk and obesity drugs. That identity now is under attack on multiple fronts, from science to geopolitics.
The immediate market crisis over President Trump’s tariffs may have eased, but problems in the bond market could easily recur.
Consider defensive portfolio moves or even selling a used car as some of Trump’s tariffs remain in place.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (April 11, 2025): The 4.13.25 Issue features Coralie Kraft on bunkers; Amy X. Wang on D.I.Y. influencers; Conor Dougherty on a case for American suburban sprawl; Jesse Barron on rebuilding the Palisades; Marcela Valdes on troubles with contracting work; and more.
Fortifying the American home has become big business, selling an endless supply of paranoia. By Coralie Kraft
It was an idyllic pocket of Los Angeles where people knew their neighbors — and homes sold for $5 million. The fire ignited competing visions for its future .By Jesse Barro
D.I.Y. influencers indulge our most ambitious housing fantasies — and cash in on them. By Amy X. Wang
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it. By Conor Dougherty
HUMANITIES MAGAZINE (April 10, 2025): The latest issue features Eliot Noyes, pictured here on the television show Omnibus, brought a sculptural grace to his work.
Public art and politics
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (April 10, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Crash Course – Trump’s Tariff War on the World; Reach for the stars – Are reviews changing our brains?,,,
The US president’s tariff war on the world. Plus: The unsellable art of Jeremy Deller
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Donald Trump’s “liberation day” US tariffs on imported goods from a long list of international territories – including some inhabited only by penguins – sparked market turmoil and fears of a global recession.
As the chaos continued into this week, the question loomed of how the world, from China to Europe, would respond. An increasingly dark-looking spiral with China of tariff threats and counter-threats this week led Beijing to vow to “fight to the end”, while vice-president JD Vance again showed his lack of class by referring to “Chinese peasants” in an interview.
Spotlight | Families’ shock at IDF’s killing of paramedics in Gaza
Relatives who waited an agonising week before the bodies were found speak of the passion that drove Red Crescent workers. Malak A Tantesh, Julian Borger and Bethan McKernan report
Science | Is ratings culture changing our brains?
We live under mutual surveillance, asked to leave public ratings for every purchase, meal, taxi ride or hair appointment. What is it doing to us, asks Chloë Hamilton
Feature | The huge, unsellable public art of Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller can’t really draw or paint. Instead of making things, he makes things happen. Charlotte Higgins spends time with one of Britain’s best-known but unlikely artists
Opinion | Donald Trump won’t stop me visiting the US – a country I love
For John Harris, the United States means music, progress, hope. Whatever their president does, he argues, plenty of Americans continue to believe in those too
Culture | How Tracy Chapman captured a moment and inspired a generation
Zadie Smith was 12 years old when she saw Tracy Chapman captivate a massive crowd at 1988’s Free Nelson Mandela concert. Her astonishing debut album has mesmerised the novelist ever since
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 9, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Burning Spitit’ – On capturing Dante; Dickens’s feverish imagination…
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