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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 20, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 18, 2025): In this week’s TLS, Mary Beard and Margaret Drabble are not quite getting away from it all this summer. For our summer books selection, they have picked a brace of biographies of Labour prime ministers past and present. Along with Daniel Mendelsohn’s recent translation of the Odyssey, our Classics editor chooses Alan Johnson’s biography of Harold Wilson, her mother’s favourite politician. By Martin Ivens

Summer books 2025

Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading

Young and damned

Three teen-centric novels arrive at a time of national soul-searching

Culture, Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – JULY 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE (June 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Witness’ – Elizabeth Bruenig’s “Witness,” on Sin and Redemption in America’s Death Chambers

Inside America’s Death Chambers

What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption by Elizabeth Bruenig

Inside the Exclusive, Obsessive, Surprisingly Litigious World of Luxury Fitness

How Tracy Anderson built an exercise empire by Xochitl Gonzalez

The Talented Mr. Vance

J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power. by George Packer

Culture, Education, Magazines, Opinion, Politics

HARVARD MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025

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HARVARD MAGAZINE (June 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘It’s On’…

The Standoff: Harvard’s Future in the Balance

“The stakes are so high that we have no choice but to fight,” says Garber.

Harvard’s Standoff: The Fight’s Key Players

The people shaping the battle over federal funding, international students, and DEI

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard’s Standoff: The Financial Stakes

Putting Harvard’s $53 billion endowment into perspective

by Jonathan Shaw

Meet the Lawyers Behind the Harvard v. Trump Lawsuit

A roster of lawyers on both sides

by Max J. Krupnick

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Magazines, Research, Science, Technology

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – JULY/AUG 2025

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Contributors to Scientific American's July/August 2025 Issue | Scientific American

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (June 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Is Greenland Collapsing?’ – How the Northern Hemisphere’s largest ice sheet could disappear..

What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals about Its Fragile Future

Jeffery DelViscio

Fun Ways to Ditch Fast Fashion for a Sustainable Wardrobe

Jessica Hullinger

How to Be a Smarter Fashion Consumer in a World of Overstated Sustainability

Laila Petrie, Jen Christiansen, Amanda Hobbs

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Yvette Cendes

What Most Men Don’t Know about the Risks of Testosterone Therapy

Stephanie Pappas

What If We Could Treat Psychopathy in Childhood?

Maia Szalavitz

Culture, Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics

MOMENT MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 ISSUE

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MOMENT MAGAZINE (June 16, 2025): The Summer Double Issue 2025 features ‘What’s Changed Since 1975?’; Time traveling with Moment and 50 years of art & food….

Anniversary Essay | Time Traveling with Moment

What has happened during the last 50 years that would have surprised most American Jews in 1975? What challenges lie ahead?

Opinion | Tranquility Will Have to Wait

Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Science, Technology

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.