HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Seniors Became America’s Ruling Class’…
Confronting America’s gerontocratic crisis by Samuel Moyn
Rehearsing for humanity’s future on Mars by Elena Saavedra Buckley
On love, shit, and parking by Kristin Dombek
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘The many faces of Shakespeare’….
China, America and the danger of war By Philip Zelikow
Discovering exactly what Shakespeare owned By Lucy Munro
Blake Morrison’s guide to life writing By Joyce Carol Oates
Writing about others as a means to write about yourself By Catherine Taylor
From the first day of his Presidency, Trump has posed an emergency to both his country and the world. By David Remnick
High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. By Patrick Radden Keefe
New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.
By Adam Gopnik
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 4.12.26 Issue features Katie Engelhart on people considered in vegetative states; C.J. Chivers on how Russian weaponized the cold in the war with Ukraine; Willy Staley on meme culture; and Coralie Kraft on MAHA teens; and more.
New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.
Inside one Kyiv neighborhood as it braved the harshest conditions since World War II. By C.J. Chivers
Disillusioned with doctors, they went on a search for answers. They found supplements and a lot of red meat. By Coralie Kraft
From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything. By Willy Staley
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Active Matter’ – Mapping the organization of rods in motion.
Fission-powered space flight, a 60-year dream, would supercharge Solar System exploration
Science advocates now waiting to see whether Congress will once again refuse
Air strikes have destroyed or damaged a wide range of academic and commercial research centers
Now the ERROR project is promising an additional incentive: a publication
Disruption of complex intestinal ecosystem could contribute to diabetes and other health issues, scientists say
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Mission Accomplished’…
There is a reason he wants an exit from Iran
Even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens, expect lasting change to energy markets
Dario Amodei’s warnings should not be dismissed
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The rise of the chatter-industrial complex
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THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The Fall’ – How Donald Trump destroyed the American Empire.
The daring rescue of a stranded US airman in Iran has only emboldened the president
By John Gray
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THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘Stress Test’ – Is Hungary on the brink of change?
An irony of Viktor Orbán’s 16-year grip on power in Hungary is that his Fidesz movement was originally founded by pro-democracy, change-seeking young voters, even initially requiring members to be below the age of 35.
Now, in a crossroads election on 12 April, a new generation of Hungarians may be on the cusp of removing the rightwing populist prime minister, much to the dismay of his admirers in Moscow, Washington and Europe’s populist movements.
Orbán may have once described Hungary as “a petri dish for illiberalism” – as reflected by Harry Haysom’s cover art for us this week – but polls suggest his opponent Péter Magyar, a former top member of Fidesz who favours a closer relationship with the EU, could be the new change agent.
Spotlight | Was Trump conned by Netanyahu’s promise of an easy war?
Senior US officials now consider the Israel PM’s pitch to have been overblown, creating potentially far-reaching consequences for both countries, writes Peter Beaumont
Science | The 21st-century moon prospectors
Helium-3 is so rare that a palm-sized amount could be worth millions. As Artemis II flies by the moon and businesses look to the skies, is mining Earth’s satellite ethical? Oliver Holmes investigates
Feature | Can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?
It costs the UK economy £700m ($920m) a year, and criminal gangs are operating with near impunity. Every time a lorry gets robbed, raided or hijacked, it’s Mike Dawber who investigates. By Stuart McGurk
Opinion | Ten years after Brexit, Trump is pushing Britain back towards the EU
It’s the silver lining from this terrible age of Donald Trump, argues Gaby Hinsliff: his disdain and insults are fuelling the belief that the UK should renew ties with Europe
Culture | James McAvoy, from a Glasgow council estate to Hollywood stardom
In his directorial debut, the X-Men actor is challenging stereotypes about his Scottish homeland via the remarkable tale of a real-life hip-hop hoax. Libby Brooks met him
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THE SPECTATOR WORLD: The latest issue features ‘Arming the dragon‘ – How the West is empowering China’s war machine…
As US troops flock to danger, Donald Trump seeks ways to disentangle himself from the war on Iran. “We are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” he said in a 19-minute address at the start of the month. “It’s very important that we keep this conflict in perspective.”
The West’s technology brains and universities are arming China. A few of them are potentially breaking the law to do it, but most of them don’t need to. The front door has been open for years, and nobody in London or Washington has thought to close it.
It was, on the surface, a fairly routine proposal. Officials from the BRICS nations, made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, have decided to discuss, at a summit in New Delhi later this year, how to deepen trade and collaboration. No one was paying very much attention when the decision was made. And yet, according to a report in the well-informed newspaper Berliner Zeitung, a resolution was quietly suggested that might turn the global monetary system upside down. It was the start of what might be termed the “plot against the dollar.” America’s currency is likely to face its most serious challenge of the post-World War Two era.
Archaeology Magazine: The latest issue features ‘Exploring the World of the Odyssey.
Discovering the surprising inspirations behind Homer’s great tales of the Trojan War. By The Editors
Why Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers in the Alps built their villages on stilts
On the shores of a lake in Guatemala, the Itzá people defied the Spanish for nearly 200 years
A surreal style of painting endured for 4,000 years in the canyonlands of West Texas
The Yellow River brought both prosperity and calamity to China’s dazzling medieval capital By Ling Xin
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