HARVARD MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Falling Behind’ – Boys, men, and the new gender gaps…
What to do as men and boys fall behind by Nina Pasquini
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge by Joyce E. Chaplin
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970 by Daniel Stone
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features Frank Viva’s “Hot Air” – The chaos on Capitol Hill.
The danger behind the President’s posturing is that, by so emphatically insisting on America’s indispensability, he may be undermining it. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Colleges around the country, in the face of legal and political backlash to their diversity programs, are pivoting to an alternative framework known as pluralism. By Emma Green
The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better? By John Cassidy
Shocked by Trump’s trade war, foreign investors are selling U.S. government bonds, long the world’s safe haven.
The tariff rate on Chinese imports can be as high as 245% or zero, depending on the type of product that is being imported.
Even companies that make clothing in America aren’t feeling great about stiff duties on their overseas competition.
The midmorning strike hit as Ukrainians were celebrating Palm Sunday, officials said. It appeared to be the deadliest attack on civilians this year and came as the Trump administration pushes for a cease-fire.
MONOCLE RADIO (April 13, 2025): Emma Nelson is joined by Alex von Tunzelmann and Vincent McAviney to discuss the week’s key stories. Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, checks in from Lisbon, and our Balkans correspondent, Guy de Launey, reports on the latest from the region.
A long list of electronic products got a reprieve for now from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a toll on tech giants like Apple.
Xi Jinping, who rules with absolute authority, has shown he is willing to let the Chinese people endure hardship. President Trump revealed he has limits.
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
The two sides held preliminary negotiations on Saturday, and an Iranian official said they would resume next week.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (April 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Heartland Revival’ …
Tariffs will threaten the region’s newfound prosperity, but its economic gains may prove surprisingly durable
President Trump’s tariff policy has set off a wave of selling in the stock and bond markets. These savvy investors are buying, too.
Denmark’s economy was reshaped by Novo Nordisk and obesity drugs. That identity now is under attack on multiple fronts, from science to geopolitics.
The immediate market crisis over President Trump’s tariffs may have eased, but problems in the bond market could easily recur.
Consider defensive portfolio moves or even selling a used car as some of Trump’s tariffs remain in place.
Beijing’s retaliation came after the White House ratcheted up its tariff on Chinese goods to 125 percent, on top of an existing 20 percent tax.
Agustín Escobar and Mercè Camprubí Montal, both executives from Spain, died on Thursday in a crash near New York City along with their three children and the pilot.
“I don’t see it,” Jessica Tisch says. It is already a complicated life overhauling the Police Department, working for Eric Adams and keeping the Trump administration at bay.
New York City is facing a shortage of preschool programs. Real estate developers have discovered that providing day care in their buildings can be good for business.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (April 11, 2025): The 4.13.25 Issue features Coralie Kraft on bunkers; Amy X. Wang on D.I.Y. influencers; Conor Dougherty on a case for American suburban sprawl; Jesse Barron on rebuilding the Palisades; Marcela Valdes on troubles with contracting work; and more.
Fortifying the American home has become big business, selling an endless supply of paranoia. By Coralie Kraft
It was an idyllic pocket of Los Angeles where people knew their neighbors — and homes sold for $5 million. The fire ignited competing visions for its future .By Jesse Barro
D.I.Y. influencers indulge our most ambitious housing fantasies — and cash in on them. By Amy X. Wang
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it. By Conor Dougherty
Policymakers and economists say the latest data is only a temporary reprieve as tariffs could stoke higher inflation.
A deepening trade war could further weaken ties between the superpowers. The effects will reverberate everywhere.
The 29-year-old man was wrongly deported and sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador in a move that one federal judge said “shocks the conscience.”
HUMANITIES MAGAZINE (April 10, 2025): The latest issue features Eliot Noyes, pictured here on the television show Omnibus, brought a sculptural grace to his work.
Public art and politics
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