THE ECONOMIST SPECIAL REPORT: Governments going broke – In many of the world’s big economies, public finances are heading for a crisis. Henry Curr argues the consequences will be profound
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The coming debt emergency‘
Governments are living far beyond their means. Sadly, inflation is the most likely escape
They are more inventive and adaptable than ever
A balance of economic terror is no basis for stability
Lessons from a $10bn panic on the prairie
Forget Greenland; worry about Alaska
A critic’s power lies in the testing of deeply held beliefs about the nature of art and art’s place in the world against the experience of specific artworks.
Authority by Andrea Long Chu
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
Those Passions: On Art and Politics by T.J. Clark
Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies by Jonathan Kramnick
No Judgment by Lauren Oyler
The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right by Laura K. Field
Early modern female writers, who were denied the sort of authority usually needed to write literary criticism, were also freed from its constraints.
Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How I Became A Populist’ – My time at the Federal Trade Commission – before Donald Trump fired me – totally changed the way I see our political divide.
All things being equal, sure, Democrats ought to lean toward younger candidates. But there are many times when all things aren’t equal.
Beijing’s latest effort to weaponize global supply chains is modeled on the American technology controls that it has long criticized.
Chinese state media is rallying the public and posting old propaganda footage, but officials are also careful to leave room for talks with President Trump.
Unwilling to fight for their institutions’ independence, officials watched as President Trump continued his pursuit of control over law enforcement.
The development comes as the U.S. military is planning its own possible escalation, and drawing up options for President Trump.
Signs grew on Wednesday that President Trump was using the fiscal stalemate to enact sweeping changes.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features ‘Mrs. Dalloway’s Demons
The Inner Life of ‘Mrs Dalloway’
by Edward Mendelson.
Columbia, 137 pp., £20, September, 978 0 231 22171 9
‘Mrs Dalloway’: Biography of a Novel
by Mark Hussey.
Manchester, 222 pp., £18.99, May, 978 1 5261 7681 3
Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf, edited by Edward Mendelson.
NYRB, 208 pp., £15.99, September, 978 1 68137 998 2
Mrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf, edited by Trudi Tate.
Oxford, 224 pp., £7.99, May, 978 0 19 285985 3
Gustave Flaubert et Michel Lévy: Un couple explosif
by Yvan Leclerc and Jean-Yves Mollier.
Le Livre de Poche, 224 pp., €8.40, November 2024, 978 2 253 94112 5
Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World
by Corey Ross.
Princeton, 447 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 0 691 21144 2
In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
by James C. Scott.
Yale, 220 pp., £20, February, 978 0 300 27849 1
Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see immigration agents nearby.
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The Times.
A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since U.S. and Israeli airstrikes in June. Residents said they felt rattled, and worried about what might come next.
Hamas has handed over the bodies of eight people, but says it is struggling to find the remains of others in Gaza after two years of war.
Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court. by Lincoln Caplan
David Liu has pioneered breakthroughs in gene editing, creating new therapies that may lead to cures. by Veronique Greenwood
Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.
Hamas released hostages and agreed to abide by a cease-fire, but persuading it to lay down its arms is another matter.
The return of the remains of four former captives has spurred anger that more were not retrieved. The devastation in Gaza is likely to make the task harder.
The justices have shown a willingness to chip away at the landmark civil rights legislation. A Louisiana case could unravel much of its remaining power.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Harry Bliss’s “Cannonball” – The delights of fall.
Congress wrote statutes with the apparent assumption that whoever held the office of the Presidency would use the powers they granted in good faith. By Jeannie Suk Gersen
Smoking a cig takes twenty minutes off your life. But thinking about Rudy Giuliani’s downfall might add some time back. By Greg Clarke
How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love federal power. By Emma Green
The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor? By Eric Lach
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