When the ‘World’s Cop’ drops the rulebook
The end of an order and the scramble for what’s next?
BEJING REVIEW MAGAZINE – JANUARY 22, 2026
Category Archives: Magazines
WASHINGTON EXAMINER MAGAZINE – JAN. 21, 2026
Ending Iran’s regime won’t be easy
by Michael Rubin
✪ Iranian protesters expose the leftist-Islamist alliance
by Hugo Gurdon
✪ The problem with populism: Anger feels good but isn’t an effective way to govern
by Jay Caruso
✪ The Trump takeover at 10: The president is a year into his second term but captured the GOP a decade ago
by Peter Tonguette
✪ The officer and the activist: A perfect storm in Minnesota
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – FEBRUARY 12, 2026
A More Pliant Chavista
President Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern.
Whose Hemisphere?
The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
Epic Ambitions
A new life of Gertrude Stein treats her as a philosopher of language to trust, not explain—and gathers force from archival discoveries and intriguing plots of her reception and reputation.
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’?
The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
We the People: A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore
NATURE MAGAZINE – JANUARY 22, 2026
Ancient pottery reveals early evidence of mathematical thinking
Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written numbers.
HPV vaccine could help to protect the unvaccinated against cervical cancer
A drop in precancerous growths in women who hadn’t received the jab suggests the existence of a ‘herd effect’ against the virus.
Climate trends influence transatlantic flight times
Better understanding of multi-year global weather cycles could help airlines to reduce fuel consumption and cost.
Gifted dogs learn new words by overhearing humans
Particularly talented canines have sociolinguistic skills akin to those of young toddlers.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JANUARY 23, 2026 PREVIEW
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The state of British poetry’ by Tristram Fane Saunders…
Anon and on
The forward march of British poetry
First class delivery?
A history of childbirth and a defence of the C-section
By Leah Hazard
Portraits of the ‘Black Venus’
Newly discovered photographs of Baudelaire’s muse
Fathoms deep
The thrill of marine archaeology
By Alan Jenkins
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – JANUARY 23, 2026 PREVIEW
The dystopian nightmare of 2026 continued apace this week with Donald Trump seemingly hell-bent on taking over Greenland, either by purchase or military force if necessary, while potentially collapsing the entire western security alliance in the process.
Updates were delivered by the US president to European leaders in a trademark stream of social media insults and invective. As ever with Trump, it’s hard to tell if it all should be read as maximalist positioning ahead of a negotiation, or a genuine precursor to a military attack. But as Patrick Wintour and Jennifer Rankin write in this week’s Big Story, the damage among fellow Nato members already looks to have been done.
Melting sea ice has much to do with Greenland’s increasing strategic desirability. With the help of some great graphics, visuals editor Ashley Kirk explains what’s changing in the Arctic and who lays claim to what.
Spotlight | The man who trusted Trump – and paid with his life
Many Iranian protesters believed a US president would – for the first time – rescue them, but now people can only despair after mass arrests and brutality. Deepa Parent and William Christou report
Environment | Where have all Thailand’s dugongs gone?
The Andaman coast was one of few places in the world with a viable population of the marine mammals, but then dead ones began washing up. Now half have gone. Gloria Dickie reports from Phuket
Feature | Cuba edges closer to collapse
Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left in recent years. Can the regime, and country, survive? By Andrei Netto in Havana
Opinion | Take a lesson from the past, and light the way forward
As Martin Kettle writes his last regular column for the Guardian, his thoughts turn to the examples and hope we can take from history
Culture | Michael Sheen on launching Welsh National Theatre
As the newly founded national company’s first show comes to the stage, the proudly Welsh actor tells Kate Wyver about his plan to bring big productions back to his homeland
HARPER’S MAGAZINE – FEBRUARY 2026 PREVIEW
On Tilt – America’s new gambling epidemic
The Sanctuarium – The Philippines reckons with its war on drugs
Another London – Excavating the disenchanted city
by Hari Kunzru
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JANUARY 26, 2026
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Adrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation” – Staying warm.
Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis
During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The Lights Are Still On in Venezuela
After the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro, some residents fear that one unelected despot has been swapped for another.
By Armando Ledezma
n+1 Magazine – Winter ’26
n+1 Magazine: The latest issue features the ‘Winter 2026 issue, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS’ – H is for hawks. Trump’s cleavage: a semiotic investigation. Haters, waiters, trash containers. Emily Callaci and Dayna Tortorici on intra-feminist debates. Matthew Porges on new space odysseys.
Sinophobic Sinophilia
In the contemporary Chinese context, the idea that crucial parts of the central government could simply cease to operate for more than a month, as part of a procedural standoff between rival governing factions, would beggar belief. And in turn, to an American observer, the thought that miles of new high-speed rail lines could simply materialize by bureaucratic fiat, unencumbered by years of legislative horse-trading, environmental review, suburban backlash, and budgetary overshoot, is no less astonishing.
City of Meh
Adams will be remembered for his petty corruption, his self-mythologizing, and his ignominious dealmaking with the Trump White House; but he should also be remembered as the mayor who got New Yorkers to stop tossing giant bags of trash onto city sidewalks as if there were no alternative. You can laugh at a New York mayor who walks into a press conference wheeling out a trash can, beaming as if he invented the contraption, while “Empire State of Mind” blares triumphantly in the background. But truly, Adams’s proclaimed “trash revolution” represented a tremendous advance over abysmal past practice.
Mere Domination
“Men make their own history,” Marx wrote, “but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” That may be broadly true, but Dick Cheney got to make history under the exact circumstances he would have chosen.
The New Criterion – FEBRUARY 2026 Preview
THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
More than doctrinaire by Steven McGregor
Loving Malcolm Cowley by Bruce Bawer
Robert A. M. Stern, 1939–2025 by Peter Pennoyer
The Peruvian uncertainty principle by James Como
Boomers Daily 