Technofascists are moving fast to break democracy.
Silicon Valley moguls are creating regulation-free, crypto-based “network states.” And hoping to gobble up land near you.
Tech bros and “trads” are pushing women to have more babies. Just as long as they’re the right kind of women.
Elon Musk believes autism makes him superhuman. Just don’t call it that.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.15.25 Issue features Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV; Nicholas Casey on how the MAGA right became obsessed with the Romanian presidential election; Irina Aleksander on how Jon Bernthal became Hollywood’s most dependable tough guy; David Marchese interviews Misty Copeland about her retirement; and more.
Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. By Parul Sehgal
People just want things to work. Charles C. W. Cooke
By Noah Rothman
By Jim Geraghty
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Who won the war?’ We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies. By Martin Ivens
The wartime alliances that could not survive the peace By Omer Bartov
Capers and wallpaper: a new film from Wes Anderson By Keith Miller
What Americans understand by greatness By Andrew Stark
A practical and literary guide to modern magic By Russell Williams
THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘What He Can’t Say’ – On the road with Kier Starmer…
One family’s experience of life and death in the war zone. By Sondos Sabra
The civil wars within Maga and Reform UK only show how dangerous they are. By Andrew Marr
The Prime Minister believes he will heal Britain – but can he find the words ? By Tom McTague
Tracey Emin, Jeremy Corbyn, Piers Morgan and others on what the Prime Minister should do next.
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘American disorder’
Donald Trump’s troop deployment in LA could yet backfire
Governments’ obsession with factories is built on myths—and will be self-defeating
Ecuador is a test case in the fight against global gangs
An intimate look at a puffy exoplanet and its nearest star has revealed its tragic destiny.
Some birds master the fine art of manoeuvring beak, feet and body weight to turn on a tap.
Mutation in an enzyme leads to resistance to chronic and acute pain, according to research in mice.
Discrepancy between models and measurements is resolved by peering into plumes emitted from power plants and other industrial facilities.
It’s three years since the murders of the journalist Dom Phillips and the Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who were both killed on a visit to the remote Javari valley in the Brazilian Amazon.
Dom was a Guardian contributor based in Brazil, whose reporting often appeared in the Guardian Weekly. Last week his widow, Alessandra Sampaio, came to visit our London offices along with Beto Marubo, an Indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon.
From the other side of the world it’s easy to feel far removed from the activities of criminal gangs that threaten the Amazon’s Indigenous people and plunder its natural resources. But hearing Beto and Alessandra speak so powerfully about the impact of Dom and Bruno’s work reminded me why we need to stay focused on a region that defies easy scrutiny.
Fintech may be generating unintended consequences for consumers and the industry.
Regulating new financial products and platforms requires understanding their risks and vulnerabilities.
Researchers gave AI a way to evaluate and calibrate its own uncertainty.
Labor’s share of national income has fallen, and competition for workers may have something to do with it.
THE WALRUS MAGAZINE (June 10, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Summer Reading’…
by Soraya Amiri
Afghans worry their children are doomed under new curriculum enforced at gunpoint
The culture war’s favourite prophet can’t finish a straight thoughtby Luke Savage
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