TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An extraordinary woman’ = Gisele Pelicot’s dignity before a watching world; What I learnt from Athol Fugard; Caspar David Friedrich; Stalin’s don and Hitler’s royal allies…
THE NEW ATLANTIS (March 18, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features How the water system works, how virologists lost the gain-of-function debate, living well with AI, a physics that cares, and more…
For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.
From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.
Between SpaceX’s breakthroughs and Trump’s inaugural promise, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity. But it can’t be realized as an eccentric’s project or a pork banquet. Here’s a science-driven program that could get astronauts on the Red Planet by 2031.
GUERNICA MAGAZINE (March 17, 2025): The March Issue features Olivia Cheng’s short story Bathhouse Gossip…
“Indeed, growing up, moving between the United States and Palestine made me feel as if I shed one self and inhabited another, over and over again… But today, instead of observing the gaps in my knowledge and experience in either culture, I focus on my access to other languages and understandings.”By Jenine Abboushi
“They’ve swung in the opposite direction and they’re all done with democracy and liberalism.”By Olivia Cheng
“Trinidad was brewing with a sense of premonition, that time was either running out or coming to a head.”By Eskor David Johnson
THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE (March 17, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘Democrats must become the Workers Party Again’
The party’s base is right to be angry at Chuck Schumer, but the country’s fate hinges on the fight against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Michael Tomasky
Trump is cutting power to the EV industry. It’s unclear if it can recover.
Legal skirmishes between the administration and lower court judges have highlighted the way the federal court system itself has become a thorn in the president’s side.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 17, 2025): Amy Sherald’s “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” – The artist adds some whimsy to her thought-provoking techniques.
Young men have gone MAGA. Can the left win them back? By Andrew Marantz
Ruth Stout didn’t plow, dig, water, or weed—and now her “no-work” method is everywhere. But her secrets went beyond the garden plot. By Jill Lepore
The former Vanity Fair editor recalls a time when the expense accounts were limitless, the photo shoots were lavish, and the stakes seemed high. What else has been lost? By Nathan Heller
THE NEW CRITERION (March 15, 2025): The April issue features
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 15, 2025): The 3.16.25 Issue features Extreme Voyages Issue, Evgenia Abrugaeva on the Ice Age bone hunters of Siberia; J Wortham on a 10-day crash course for surviving the Apocalypse; Doug Bock Clark on adventure racing through a hurricane; Sam Anderson on following the path of The Old Leatherman; Sara Benincasa on a trip to the grocery store as an agoraphobe; and more.
A search for the fossils of long-extinct creatures, hidden in Russia’s frigid waters.
Online Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies. By Dan Brooks
During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be different?By Parul Sehgal
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE (March 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘In Praise Of Big Pharma’; How American Aid has subsidized Terror and The Coalition of the Sentimental & Homicidal for Palestine…
“If we allow the hatred of the industry to continue, we are going to lose investment and people are going to die.” by Tevi Troy
Washington Commentary by Matthew Continetti
Social Commentary by Christine Rosen
Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins
Floods threaten to spread sediments laden with toxicants
In trio of studies, scientists explore life in the mysterious hadal zone
Some termination letters cite “biological realities” to dismiss usefulness of such research
At least 1.1 million years old, a fossil face suggests more than one type of early human inhabited Europe
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (March 13, 2025): The latest issue features America’s new foreign policy…
To avoid being crushed, they need a better plan than flattery and concessions
A fresh critique of migration is gaining ground. Liberals must take it seriously
Like the stockmarket, the dollar is also suffering from falling confidence and rising confusion
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