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Commentary Magazine (April 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7’….

The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7

by Jonathan Foreman

Greenpeace Pays the Piper

by James B. Meigs

In Argentina, a Lighthouse for the Hemisphere

Javier Milei and other regional leaders are set on de-woking and rebuilding Latin America by Robert C. Thornett

The New Criterion ——– May 2025 Preview

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THE NEW CRITERION (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features…

The crime of noticing

On the writings of Renaud Camus. by Douglas Murray

There at “The New Yorker”

On A Century of Fiction in “The New Yorker”: 1925–2025, edited by Deborah Treisman. by Bruce Bawer

By measure he lived

On the great English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. by Harry Adams

The whispers of Joseph Joubert

On Paul Auster’s translation of the French aphorist. by Mark LaFlaur

The New York Times – Thursday, April 17, 2025

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‘Alien Enemies’ or Innocent Men? Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants

The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.

Judge Threatens Contempt Proceedings Over Deportation Flights to El Salvador

The move was a remarkable attempt by a jurist to hold the White House accountable for its apparent willingness to flout court orders.

Inside Trump’s Plan to Halt Hundreds of Regulations

The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.

Will Americans Eat a $100 Tariff on Shein Packages?

The Trump administration’s plan to add steep fees to packages from China will deal a blow to Temu, Shein and some TikTok Shop sellers, worrying American consumers.

The Economist Magazine – April 19, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features How a dollar crisis would unfold…

How a dollar crisis would unfold

If investors keep selling American assets, a grim fate awaits the world economy

In its pursuit of a policy, Donald Trump’s government is content to destroy a man

What’s at stake in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Zuckerberg on trial: why Meta deserves to win

Social media has plenty of problems. Lack of competition isn’t one of them

Brazil’s Supreme Court is on trial

How a superstar judge illuminates an excessive concentration of power

Harper’s Magazine ——– May 2025 Preview

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Harper’s Magazine (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘War In The West Bank” – What choice for the Palestinians….

After Nonviolence

The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich

Radioactive Man

On (maybe) unraveling a government cover-up by Maddy Crowell

The Secret of Who She Was

How my mother learned to be invisible by Geoff Dyer

Times Literary Supplement – April 18, 2025 Preview

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Plays for Today’ – On what makes Shakespeare great; Miracles of Siena; Conversations about Gaza; Cyber insecurity and a Letter from Greenland…

The New York Times – Wednesday, April 16, 2025

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In Showdowns With the Courts, Trump Is Increasingly Combative

Scholars say that the Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end.

Even Without Add-Ons, Trump’s 10% Tariffs Will Have a Sting

The blanket tariffs, once considered extreme, still threaten to harm world trade and make everything more expensive for businesses and consumers.

‘We Don’t Have a Day or Night of Calm’

People in the Ukrainian city struck on Palm Sunday have little hope of a cease-fire.

Trump’s Dilemma: A Trade War That Threatens Every Other Negotiation With China

President Trump is staking everything on winning by imposing tariffs on China. But the fight threatens to choke off negotiations about other issues like Taiwan, fentanyl, TikTok and more.

Scientific American Magazine – May 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (April 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mind Stretching Shapes’ – The loops, knots and structures pushing the boundaries of math…

How Can We Know If an Asteroid Will Hit Earth?

Suddenly Miners Are Tearing Up the Seafloor for Critical Metals

Willem Marx

Mathematicians’ Favorite Shapes Hold the Key to Big Mathematical Mysteries

Rachel Crowell, Violet Frances

A Deadly Parasite Threatens Bees and 130 Crops They Help Grow

Hannah Nordhaus

The New York Times – Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies

Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.

Inside Factories in China, a Struggle to Survive Trump’s Tariffs

Small factories with tiny profit margins have played a central role in China’s international competitiveness. Many could now face disaster.

Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands

Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules.

El Salvador’s Leader Says He Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Maryland Man

An Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador was a blunt example of Mr. Trump’s defiance of the federal courts.

Harvard Magazine – May/June 2025 Preview

May-June 2025

HARVARD MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Falling Behind’ – Boys, men, and the new gender gaps…

The New Gender Gaps

What to do as men and boys fall behind by Nina Pasquini

Ben Franklin’s Project

Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge by Joyce E. Chaplin

Alice Hamilton

Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970 by Daniel Stone

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