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The Economist Magazine – October 6, 2024 Preview

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The Economist Magazine (October 3, 2024): The latest issue features

The year that shattered the Middle East

Kill or be killed is the region’s new logic. Deterrence and diplomacy would be better

House prices: just getting going

Why property prices could keep rising for years

Will China’s stimulus work?

It will take more than a spectacular stockmarket rally to revive the economy

Britain’s Nigerian moment

A story of modern migration has had extraordinary results

Mapping a fruit fly’s brain

The first “connectome” of the brain of a complex adult animal has just been completed

Culture, Journalism, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Politics: The Progressive Magazine- October 2024

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theprogressive Magazine (October 1, 2024): The latest issue features…

How to Make a ‘War Reserve’ Nuclear Bomb

The dark art of crafting nuclear ‘pits’ was almost lost. Now it’s ramped up into a multibillion dollar industry.

Child Care Does Not Need To Be a Crisis

Our system leaves parents with unreliable waitlists and mortgage-size payments, while teachers go overburdened and underpaid.

Can Democrats Ride Ballot Initiatives to Victory?

The party realizes that progressive issues win voters, even when their candidates don’t.

Arts & Literature, Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – October 7, 2024

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The New Yorker (September 30, 2024): The latest issue features Malika Favre’s “The Candidate” – Onward and upward with the nation.

Kamala Harris for President

The Vice-President has displayed the basic values and political skills that would enable her to help end, once and for all, a poisonous era defined by Donald Trump. By The Editors

Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?

Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers. By Andrew Solomon

Is a Chat with a Bot a Conversation?

An artificial voice has long been a dream of tinkerers and technologists. Now that A.I. can talk, though, we may forget who we’re talking to.

By Jill Lepore

Economics, Financial, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Previews, Reviews

The Economist Magazine – September 28, 2024 Preview

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The Economist Magazine (September 19, 2024): The latest issue features Crunch time for Ukraine…

The war is going badly. Ukraine and its allies must change course

Time for credible war aims—and NATO membership

An Israel-Hizbullah war would be a disaster for both

Both must find a way to step back

War fever in Lebanon

Hizbullah seems to have miscalculated in its fight with Israel

What Donald Trump taught J.D. Vance

The vice-presidential candidate is devising his own tactics for bending the truth

Is the big state failing its citizens?

Why voters across the rich world are miserable

Youtube v Hollywood

Legions of self-taught film-makers are coming for the television industry

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Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – November 2024

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Prospect Magazine - Britain's leading monthly current affairs magazine

Prospect Magazine (September 25, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘A Year Of Darkness’ – Horror and trauma in the Middle East…

The humiliation of trying to survive

Looking back at 7th October and the start of the Gaza war, a Palestinian writer reflects on a year of horror and trauma

Gender and race won’t hold Kamala Harris back

Fragments: when reality falls apart

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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept. 30, 2024

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A child walks toward an adult who is seated on a bench in a park.

The New Yorker (September 23, 2024): The latest issue features Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Shadow Story” – The artist attempts to preserve the most perfect time of year.

How Trump Hopes to Exploit the Myth of Voter Fraud in November

For years, the former President has claimed that undocumented immigrants vote illegally. That fiction is now the explicit position of the Party establishment. By Jonathan Blitzer

The Priest Who Helps Women in the Mob Escape

Don Luigi Ciotti leads an anti-Mafia organization, and for decades he has run a secret operation that liberates women from the criminal underworld. By D. T. Max

Which Party Has Cornered the Tattoo Vote?

Lauren Boebert has a “tribal” design on her midriff, but there’s competition from John Fetterman and the tattoo caucus—and don’t forget John F. Kennedy or Theodore Roosevelt. By Charles Bethea

Analysis, Health, Internet, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews, Technology

Technology Quarterly: ‘Chipmaking & AI’ (Fall 2024)

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The Economist (September 19, 2024): The latest issue of TECHNOLOGY QUARTERLY is focused on:

Silicon returns to Silicon Valley

AI has returned chipmaking to the heart of computer technology, says Shailesh Chitnis

The semiconductor industry faces its biggest technical challenge yet

Node names do not reflect actual transistor sizes

How to build more powerful chips without frying the data centre

AI has propelled chip architecture towards a tighter bond with software

Researchers are looking beyond digital computing

The end of Moore’s law will not slow the pace of change

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The Economist Magazine – September 21, 2024 Preview

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The Economist Magazine (September 19, 2024): The latest issue features The breakthrough AI needs…

The breakthrough AI needs

A race is on to push artificial intelligence beyond today’s limits

Let Ukraine hit military targets in Russia with American missiles

Hitting back at the forces blasting Ukrainian cities is legal and proportionate

Saving Britain’s universities

Domestic students have been paying less in real terms every year

How the world’s poor stopped catching up

Progress stalled around 2015. To restart it, liberalise

Who’s winning in Pennsylvania?

A flood of money, advertising and consultants have left the race for the state a virtual tie

Peak woke: the numbers

Our statistical analysis finds that woke opinions and practices are on the decline

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Culture/Politics: Harper’s Magazine – October 2024

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE – September 16, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Antitrust Revolution’ – Liberal Democracy’s last stand against Big Tech and Election 2024 – The Secret of Republican Political Power…

The Antitrust Revolution

Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech by Barry C. Lynn

In 1609, James I lectured the English people on his rights and responsibilities as king. It was his duty to “make and unmake” them, he said. Kings have the “power of raising and casting down, of life and of death; judges over all their subjects, and in all causes.”

The Fever Called Living

On the plight of environmental-illness refugees

The Hindutva Lobby

How Hindu nationalism spreads in America

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Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Sept. 23, 2024

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The New Yorker (September 16, 2024): The latest issue features Christoph Niemann’s “Smoke and Mirrors” – The latest trends are often derived from unexpected places…

The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia

Part of the intrigue has been which movement would run out of steam first: Trump’s MAGA, through its failures, or Obama’s liberalism, through its successes. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

The Art of Taking It Slow

Contemporary cycling is all about spandex and personal bests. The bicycle designer Grant Petersen has amassed an ardent following by urging people to get comfortable bikes, and go easy. By Anna Wiener