TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (May 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Other America’ – The Hispanic Achievement…
Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist
Lower courts had blocked the policy, saying it was not supported by evidence and violated equal protection principles.
Officials and witnesses said that at least two Indian aircraft had crashed after India struck Pakistani targets, escalating the conflict between the nuclear powers.
Antonio Austin is trying to hold his car business together as President Trump’s tariffs drive up costs — and drive his customers deeper into crisis.
THE SPECTATOR WORLD (May 6, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Reviving of the American Mind’…
For too long, academia has stifled intellectual originality
What if your first encounter with Shakespeare or Herman Melville was with an AI avatar in history class?
You can see how wrecked the place is, and how temporarily low the de jure population – but the clean-up and rebuilding are well under way
We may not be in a golden age, but we can see one on the horizon
What if your first encounter with Shakespeare or Herman Melville was with an AI avatar in history class?
Some Democrats who had supported legislation for so-called stablecoins are now demanding tougher language to prevent fraud and money laundering.
The three-month-old operation never expanded to fulfill President Trump’s vision of housing 30,000 at the offshore U.S. base.
Republicans in Congress are clashing over whether to repeal Biden-era clean energy tax credits that are a lifeline for some of their constituents.
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Other cities have better infrastructure, fewer rats, cleaner streets, plentiful public toilets, more elbow room. Yet people continue to flock here.
By Alexandra Schwartz
In a new book, the boundlessly curious “Hangover” star probes history’s greatest blunders—like how the C.I.A. tried to make Castro’s beard fall out—as a way to face the present.
By Henry Alford
As the Trump Administration encroaches on the city, Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams try to salvage their political careers.
By Eric Lach
The effect of Israel’s total siege has become “catastrophic,” doctors say. Food, water and medicine shortages are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths.
More cardinals from more countries than ever will gather in the Sistine Chapel starting Wednesday to choose a new pope at a precarious time for the church.
Sydney Towle’s videos have drawn an enormous audience on TikTok, where her followers praise and support her. On Reddit, an army of skeptics was determined to paint her as a fraud.
LITERARY REVIEW (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mad About Diana’…
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (May 2, 2025): The 5.4.25 Issue features ‘The Happiness Issue’…Susan Dominus on what we’ve learned from nearly a century of research into happiness; Molly Young’s depressing week in “the happiest country on Earth”; Kwame Anthony Appiah on how the idea of happiness got small; Jance Dunn on tips from experts on finding bliss; and more.
For eight years running, Finland has topped the World Happiness Report — but what exactly does it measure?
Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness, but you won’t figure it out alone. By Susan Dominus
Tips from experts, astronauts and Cher on finding bliss. By Jancee Dunn
This is the first significant personnel overhaul of top White House aides, and the kind of shake-up President Trump has sought to avoid in his second term.
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
New details revealed by The Times show that the failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Reagan National Airport were far more complex than previously known.
The ruling, which is limited to the Southern District of Texas, prohibited the administration from using the wartime law because the president’s claims about a Venezuelan gang do not add up to an “invasion.”
THE EUROPEAN REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features …Around the world in strawberry red. Schengen’s pseudo-borderless « Europe ». A day in Minsk & an eternity at the border. A trip through Syria’s now-uninhabited terror apparatus (archivists needed). Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, agricultural-novelists in Switzerland & France, tree-huggers in The Hague…
Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. by George Blaustein
Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border. Paula Domingo Pasarin
Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs. Tania Roettger
A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities. by Karim Kattan
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