ORION MAGAZINE (May 30, 2025): The Summer 2025 Issue features ….
Examined Life – How fungi are surviving—and even thriving—in a warming world
Mushrooms made the world what it is by Maria Popova
On poison, pleasure, and trust by Erica Berry
Four writers reflect on the rhizomatic network of self, society, and ecology
Corey Pressman, Merlin Sheldrake, Kaitlin Smith and Jeff Vandermeer
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (May 29, 2025): The latest issue features New, untested and dangerous – A special report on American finance…
Donald Trump is putting an untested system under almighty strain
The Trump administration hobbles a great American export
El Salvador’s president has all the tools of repression he needs to stay in power indefinitely
If its awful air pollution is ever solved the country will get even hotter
A pair of telescopes picking up reflected light achieve a performance 14 times better than a single telescope can manage alone.
Ash spread by violent eruptions in South American sequester carbon in the soil.
The humpback whale has the whale equivalent of nearsightedness, which puts it at risk of being snarled in fishing gear.
Israel allowed a trickle of aid to enter Gaza last week while pinning its hopes of assuaging condemnation of the two-month-long blockade of the territory by this week permitting the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-backed logistics group, to begin rigidly controlled deliveries that are barely a drop in the ocean of what the population needs.
While foreign journalists remain unable to report from Gaza, our correspondents Jason Burke, in Jerusalem, and Malek A Tantesh, who is based in Gaza, have written a powerful report on life in Gaza City for this week’s cover story. Even as attacks continue, more and more civilians move into the city, pushed out from northern Gaza as Israel’s new offensive intensifies. Life has been reduced to the very basics with, as the head of the Gaza NGOs Network, Amjad Shawa, put it, people “living in rubbish dumps, cesspits. There are flies, mosquitoes. We have no water to deliver, no food, no tents or blankets or tarpaulins, nothing. People are very, very hungry but there is nothing to give them.”
Spotlight |‘I knew I would die in jail’
Daniel Boffey reports on how the right-hand man of Georgia’s de facto ruler ended up on the run and what effect that had on the country’s relationships with Russia and the west
Science | Weight-loss drugs have additional gains
The benefits of Ozempic and similar medications go beyond treating obesity, as science correspondents Hannah Devlin and Nicola Davis discover from talking to researchers
Feature | A deadly Amazon quest
An extract from the book Dom Phillips was working on when he and the Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were killed
Opinion | Why Trump’s jaw-jaw isn’t working
Because, argues Simon Tisdall, both Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu have calculated that a forever war is better for them personally than the reckoning peace would bring
Culture | The soul queen of New Orleans
At 84, Irma Thomas has a new album and a new generation of fans, but as she tells Garth Cartwright, her musical journey has not been easy
By Martin Ivens
Can the world’s dominant currency survive Donald Trump?
What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the
The Bumble CEO has returned to run the struggling company she founded, and says she has a plan for getting Gen Z back By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
His friend and fellow cop killed himself. Then he nearly became a statistic as well. Why do more police officers die by suicide than in the line of duty? By Jamie ThompsonCreditDanny Wilcox Frazier for The New York Times
Parents try everything to influence their children. But new research suggests brothers and sisters have their own profound impact. By Susan Dominus
In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision —
Traditional contractors L3Harris and Northrop look like winners. Upstarts like AeroVironment, Karman, and Kratos are worth watching, too.
Sphere is part of the Dolan empire, and its shares look cheap relative to the company’s assets.
Small, privately held businesses often lack the resources and financial strength to survive high tariffs against their trade partners. How some are coping.
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 8, 2025): The latest issue features…
What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.
Motherland: The Disintegration of a Family in a Collapsed Venezuela by Paula Ramón, with translations by Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela by William Neuman
The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis’ looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.
The Art Front: The Defense of French Collections, 1939–1945 by Rose Valland, translated from the French by Ophélie Jouan, with a foreword by Robert M. Edsel
An electoral coalition of the conspiracy cultures of both the Christian right and the countercultural left helped bring Donald Trump back to power, and now pseudoscience and paranoia are in the ascendant.
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker
Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists and the New Order in Wellness by Stewart Home
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (May 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘All grown up: Saudi Arabia’s surprising transformation‘…
Muhammad bin Salman is going from troublemaker to peacemaker
Many Europeans are complacent about the threat Russia poses—and misunderstand how to deter its president
Sooner or later, the luck will run out
America should press Binyamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire, then press Hamas to disarm
Time to get realistic
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