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FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2026 PREVIEW

Ravi Agrawal on FP's Summer 2026 Print Issue

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘the End of…The U.S.-Israel alliance…Neo liberalism…Trans-Atlanticism…Climate Politics…The United Nations…Asylum…Political parties…Chinese growth…Morality…The future….

Where Neoliberalism Went Wrong

The U.S.-Israel Alliance Isn’t Special Anymore

Is Trans-Atlanticism Really Done? This article has an audio recording

How China’s Rise Upended Climate Politics This article has an audio recording

Why an Obituary for the U.N. Is Premature This article has an audio recording

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 22, 2026 PREVIEW

The cover of the June 22 2026 issue of The New Yorker which depicts New York City bursting with color and excitement as...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “After the Comeback” – New Yorkers unite in hope.

Why Todd Blanche Should Not Be Attorney General

In a Senate that took its constitutional role seriously, Blanche would not win confirmation a second time. By Ruth Marcus

Ken Griffin’s Billions and Billions

The hedge-fund titan is an unabashed big spender—from pièds-a-terre to politics. By Gary Sernovitz

Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland

“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality. By Ben Taub

When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?

In the nineteen-eighties, an office job promised security and fulfillment. For graduates starting careers today, the prospect is often tinged with dread. By Molly Fischer

NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE – AUGUST 2026 PREVIEW

NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Fights on the Right’….

The Fights on the Right

Where ‘freedom conservatives’ and ‘national conservatives’ can, and can’t, find common ground. By Ramesh Ponnuru

Why Americans Fear the AI Future

Tech titans would be foolish to think they can resolve the public’s unease by PR alone. By Christine Rosen

Club Dread: On the Ground in NATO’s Nervous Eastern Flank

Will Trump really try to withdraw the U.S. from the alliance as Putin menaces the region? By Jim Geraghty

SCIENCE MAGAZINE ———– JUNE 11, 2026 PREVIEW

SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Snap Shut’ – Venus flytrap’s fast cell wall softening allows rapid closure.

Long-term isolation and archaic introgression shape functional genetic variation in Near Oceania

Super-earths and mini-neptunes follow different orbital period–eccentricity relations

Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks

Compound climate events threaten tropical semi-enclosed marine ecosystems

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 13, 2026 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A World Cup paradox’ – The global fragmentation of fun….

The World Cup paradox

How the rules of both entertainment and soft power are being rewritten

Donald Trump’s least bad option in Iran

He must swallow his pride and accept a deal worse than the pre-war status quo

The Federal Reserve must soon give Donald Trump bad news

Kevin Warsh, the unlucky new chairman, has seen his case for lower interest rates disintegrate

For its own sake, China should change its growth model

It is suffering economic costs for its industrial dominance 

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 12, 2026 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Forcing our hand?’ – Edward Chancellor on nudge economics….

Hints of evidence

M. John Harrison’s anti-philosophy of the sublime By Nick Holdstock

Who she loved

Mourning a marriage and a creative partnership By Lily Herd

Right question, wrong answer

Cults and the longing for community By Harrison Hill

Hidden persuaders

When behavioural economics meets politics By Edward Chancellor

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY —- JUNE 12, 2026 PREVIEW

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘How the World Cup beacame an $80bn behemoth’

It’s long been a golden rule of sport that football World Cups get bigger and badder every four years. The latest edition of the tournament, however, may put that universal law to the test after a six-week journey through Trump’s America, which is expected to generate $80bn of global economic output through its full timeline.

As the world’s biggest sporting event meets the world’s biggest market, it’s hard to see how even the World Cup can get much more bloated than this. But if anyone can make it happen it’s Gianni Infantino, the opportunist Fifa overlord who has schmoozed with the planet’s most divisive leaders to extract maximum gains from his travelling global roadshow. As Barney Ronay says in his tournament scenesetter for our cover story this week, welcome to the heart of darkness.

The big story | How the murder of Henry Nowak shook Britain
The aftermath of a tragedy revealed a country grappling with how easily such events can be co‑opted into a far-right rallying cry. Libby Brooks reports

Technology | Can autonomous AI killer drones be taught morality?
While the technology is set to play a growing role in modern warfare, there remains an unresolved ethical challenge. Dan Milmo and Aisha Down size up the terrain

Feature | Hello, goodbye: inside the final Beatles tour
By the mid-1960s, the Beatles were ready to quit touring for good. A new collection of pictures by rock photographer Jim Marshall captures their last gigs. With a foreword by Ian Leslie

Opinion | Trump’s failure to maintain ceasefires is part of the new world disorder
The US president brags about ending wars but look at Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and Lebanon to see what his casual disregard for diplomacy and obsession with instant results have achieved, argues Simon Tisdall

Culture | The ruthlessness and redemption of Rupert Everett
The 67-year-old actor lied to his partners, disrespected his audiences and betrayed his friends. But has this indiscreet, unreliable heartbreaker finally grown up and settled down? Simon Hattenstone went to find out

THE NATION MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2026

THE NATION MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Amy Goodman on press freedom, Bernie Sanders on fighting oligarchy, Elie Mystal on our rights, Zohran Mamdani on patriotism, and more!

On “The Nation” and Empire

Our magazine has refused to accept what contributor Gore Vidal once described as the “cozy unremitting war” that puts this country in a state of conflict, year after year. Katrina vanden Heuvel for The Nation

Tom Paine’s Fight

The pamphleteer’s insistence that America live up to its revolutionary vows still rings true 250 years later. John Nichols

Can America Experience a New Birth of Freedom?

Five progressive leaders offer a powerful reminder of the country’s unfinished journey.

Bernie Sanders’s Revolution

The senator may be remembered as a bridge between the promise of America and the fulfillment of that promise. Jeet Heer

THE YALE REVIEW JOURNAL – SUMMER 2026 PREVIEW

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THE YALE REVIEW (March 11, 2025): The latest issue features a central folio, “What Was AI?,” exploring artificial intelligence through essays from Lauren Oyler, Christopher Sorrentino, and Melanie Mitchell. The issue also includes new memoirs and essays from Annie Ernaux and Namwali Serpell, alongside a visual portfolio by Vera Molnár.

Jagged Intelligence

The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs by Melanie Mitchell

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years by Kathryn Lofton

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn’t new by Audrey Wollen

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren’t celebrating the semiquincentennial by Samuel Moyn

I am back in writing hell. As if each time I start writing, I have to go through the same hell again. Annie Ernaux Unpublished journal entries