THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Taiwan test‘….
China has a new chance to call America’s bluff
The relief they are banking on needs to come fast
It would then have every right to strike back
The North America edition showcases Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, who achieved a remarkable victory in Monday’s federal election. As our reporter in Ottawa Leyland Cecco explains, Carney reversed a huge Liberal party poll deficit after voters backed him over his conservative opponent, Pierre Poilievre, to stand up to the threats of Donald Trump. Can the dour but tough former central banker succeed in fending off the aggressive advances of his US counterpart?
The big story | Kharkiv suffers in the shadow of a peace deal
While US-led negotiations threaten to carve up Ukraine, deadly Russian attacks continue amid deep cynicism about the process. Luke Harding reports from a city under siege
Science | Why f ish farms on the moon aren’t such a wild idea
The Lunar Hatch project is studying whether aquaculture might be able to provide a source of protein for astronauts on space missions. Kim Willsher paid them a visit
Feature | The dirtiest race in Olympic history
How did the 2012 Olympics women’s 1500m get its reputation? Athletes cheated out of medals talk to Esther Addley about what happened – and how the results unravelled
Opinion | Will Pope Francis’s compassionate legacy endure?
Some, especially within the US, see the forthcoming conclave as an opportunity to establish a more conservative leader, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman
Culture | The genius of Barrie Kosky and his Wagner phantasmagoria
He put Carmen in a gorilla suit and had Das Rheingold’s Erda represented by a naked elderly woman. What are the the opera director’s plans for his edge-of-the-seat Die Walküre? Fiona Maddocks finds out
Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
by Quentin Skinner.
The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
by Blake Gopnik.
Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy by Tim Lankester.
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE (April 28, 2025): The latest issue features “I Run The Country and The World” – Donald Trump explains his victory and his plan…
Asked how his second term so far differed from his first, Trump said: “The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys.”
Of a potential 2028 run, Trump told the magazine it “would be a big shattering.”
Reality check: Trump launching a bid for a third term wouldn’t just shatter norms — it would violate the 22nd amendment.
The billionaire class has largely bowed to Trump in his second term. He described the mega-rich taking a friendlier posture as “just a higher level of respect.”
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 28, 2025): The latest issue features Barry Blitt’s “The First Hundred Days” – A beacon extinguished.
Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal. By David Remnick
Each morning, before the day’s decree, I turned to a slim book, hoping for sense, or solace. By Jill Lepore
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. By Andrew Marantz
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 4.27.25 Issue features Jason Zengerle on a college volleyball player catapulted to the heart of the debate over trans athletes in women’s sports; Amanda Hess on how the internet comforted and tormented her after her son was diagnosed with a rare illness; and Mitch Moxley on a particularly strange quarter-of-a-billion dollar crypto heist; and more.
How luxury cars, $500,000 bar tabs and a mysterious kidnapping attempt helped investigators unravel the heist of a lifetime.
My brief tour with Pope Francis, the diplomat of our times. By John Jeremiah Sullivan
Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy. By Jason Zengerle
REASON MAGAZINE (April 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘What If’ – The president doesn’t want to spend money…
Impoundment, line-item vetoes, and the tricky problem of cutting spending through the executive branch
Trump’s new imperialism makes neither economic nor geopolitical sense.
The lessons “America’s Finest News Source” could offer the rest of the press
Biden’s pardons for friends and Trump’s blanket pardons for January 6 participants set terrible precedents.
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (April 24, 2025): The latest issue features Trump’s first 100 days, and beyond….
He has already done lasting harm to America
Jerome Powell wins a reprieve. But expect more showdowns between the White House and the Fed
Migration from Africa is a mega-trend that transcends today’s populist surge
Interpretability techniques are powerful, but must be used with care
TUFTS ‘HEALTH & NUTRITION LETTER’ (April 24, 2025):
HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE (April 24, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Fall of Saigon’ …
The Vietnam War effectively ended on 30 April 1975 with the arrival of the North Vietnamese army in Saigon. Thousands fled the city, but many more were left behind.
When VE Day finally came in May 1945 it was met with relief, exhaustion, and cynicism. Was the Second World War really over?
Teodoro Castro or Iosif Grigulevich? Costa Rica’s ambassador to Yugoslavia was a Soviet spy sent to kill Tito.
Renaissance Florence had a problem: it wanted female sex workers, but it also needed to offer them a way out. The solution was a new brothel district – and a nunnery for former prostitutes
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