THE HEDGEHOG REVIEW (February 28, 2025): The latest issue features ‘After Neoliberalism?’ – The old order may be dying, but the shape of a new one is still unclear.
The Hedgehog Review – Spring 2025 Preview
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The New York Times Magazine – March 2, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 3.2.25 Issue features Amanda Hess on the actress Parker Posey; David Leonhardt on Denmark’s brand of progressive politics that features strict immigration measures; Daniel Bergner on the Israeli screenwriter Yehonatan Indursky; and more.Read this issue
How an Anguished Mother Became Netanyahu’s Fiercest Foe
Einav Zangauker, whose son is captive in Gaza, has made herself an enemy of the Israeli government by advocating relentlessly for a hostage deal.
Timothée Chalamet Should Win an Oscar for His Oscar Campaign
Lobbying the public to attract the votes of the academy is an odd practice — but you can’t say Chalamet hasn’t excelled at it.
In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark’s Liberals Winning?
Around the world, progressive parties have come to see tight immigration restrictions as unnecessary, even cruel. What if they’re actually the only way for progressivism to flourish?
The Economist Magazine – March 1, 2025 Preview
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Don’s New World Order’…
Donald Trump has begun a mafia-like struggle for global power
But the new rules do not suit America
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society
Germany’s election victor must ditch its debt rules—immediately
Friedrich Merz has weeks to shore up his country’s defences
The Guardian Weekly – February 28, 2025 Preview
Can Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting fend off the far right? Plus: Bong Joon-ho interviewed
Diverting our eyes away from Trumpworld for a moment this week, attention shifted to Germany where Friedrich Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance came out on top in the country’s federal elections.
For many though, the story of the night belonged to the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, which received more than a fifth of the vote and came top in virtually the entire eastern side of the country. Merz’s alliance did not win an outright majority so, having previously vowed not to work with the AfD, the chancellor-in-waiting must now try to form a grand coalition with other mainstream parties, which is likely to include Olaf Scholz’s heavily defeated SPD.
Amid surging support for the far right, Ashifa Kassam and Deborah Cole report from Berlin, where many people from immigrant backgrounds feel real fear for the future. Kate Connolly looks at Merz’s bulging in-tray as likely new leader of the EU’s largest economy, while in an opinion piece Musa Okwonga writes powerfully about the extent of anti-migrant feeling and xenophobia in Germany’s “time of the cowards”.
MIT Technology Review – March/April 2025 Preview
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (February 26, 2025): The ‘Relationships Issue’ features AI, Automation, and Surveillance will improve productivity. Or else.
This issue explores the many ways technology is transforming our relationships, from the AI chatbot revolution that’s changing how we connect with one another to the increasing power imbalance in the workplace that’s happening as monitoring increases and protections fall far behind. Plus animating ancient animals, lab-grown spandex, and adventures in the genetic time machine.
The AI relationship revolution is already here
Chatbots are rapidly changing how we connect to each other—and ourselves. We’re never going back.
Adventures in the genetic time machine
Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?
Your boss is watching
Monitoring technology is increasing the power imbalance between companies and workers. Protections lag far behind.
Times Literary Supplement – February 28, 2025 Preview
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (February 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Journalist, Assassin’ – The many lives of Joan Didion…
Foreign Affairs Magazine – March/April 2025 Issue
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE (February 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Center Will Not Hold’ – How an Order Ends…
The World Trump Wants – American Power in the New Age of Nationalism
The Renegade Order – How Trump Wields American Power
The Fatal Flaw of the New Middle East – Gaza, Syria, and the Region’s Next Crisis
The New York Review Of Books – March 13, 2025
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features:
From Comedy to Brutality
With his designs on Greenland and Gaza, Trump has signaled that his first term’s outlandish gestures are the second term’s savage demands.
Caravaggio Lost and Found
As two paintings by Caravaggio return to public view, it is possible to hope that his best-known lost work will reappear after almost half a century.
Caravaggio: The Ecce Homo Unveiled – an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, May 28, 2024–February 23, 2025
Caravaggio: The Portrait Unveiled – an exhibition at the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, November 23, 2024–February 23, 2025
Caravaggio, la Natività di Palermo: Nascita e scomparsa di un capolavoro [Caravaggio, the Palermo Nativity: Birth and Disappearance of a Masterpiece] by Michele Cuppone
Eden on Fire
The terrible fires in January were another reminder that urban planning in Los Angeles has long failed to protect the city from the natural disasters that repeatedly threaten the region.
The New Yorker Magazine – March 3, 2025 Preview
The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan
The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning. By Jonathan Blitzer
Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep. By Julian Lucas
The Population Implosion
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
The New York Times Magazine – Feb 23, 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 2.23.25 Issue features Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg on the Murdochs’ succession drama; David Yaffe-Bellany on the cryptocurrency scam that turned a small community on itself; Ismail Muhammad on the comedian Roy Wood Jr….
Six Takeaways About the Murdoch Succession Fight
Here are the main revelations about the battle for control from a secret Nevada trial.
The Comedian Looking for Something All of America Can Laugh At
Roy Wood Jr. performs in small clubs from Georgia to Wyoming, finding humor in the moments that leave us humbled and confused.
The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself
How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away?
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