BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features…GLP-1s aren’t just for obesity anymore, and sales are exploding. Sizing up the winners.
This blockbuster class of drugs is shattering all sales records. Which stock will do better—Eli Lilly or Novo Nordisk?
Despite Friday’s gains, the index wasn’t able to finish the month higher.
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.
Ukraine’s supply of Patriot missile interceptors is dwindling, and on Friday, President Trump backed away from his promise to let Ukraine make them itself.
Ukraine and its supporters have invested in trying to undo the skepticism of the country’s war effort harbored by President Trump and his MAGA movement.
Facing a long prison sentence or a forced trip to the front line of a war he opposes, Artyom Vovchenko believed it was worth taking a risk.
The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The global currency beef’ – Lessons from 40 years of the Big Mac Index
It highlights economic problems—and helps explain how to solve them
When the quantum breakthrough comes, data being harvested today will be exposed
The allies must work to strengthen themselves, but also to strengthen America’s commitment
They are not a new normal. But worse can nonetheless be expected
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.
As Democratic Socialists rack up primary victories, the moderate wing of the Democratic Party looks increasingly out of touch.
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s inside account of the Trump administration portrays a president with a vast appetite for power but who repeatedly backs down when the costs of his actions become too high.
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
In novels written immediately after World War II, Wolfgang Koeppen mined the conscience of Germany.
Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra
Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann, with an introduction by Joshua Cohen
It is the most powerful political party in the world, controlling China’s future as well as its past, but was the young CCP in control of its imperial destiny?
The potential implications of Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection did not sit well with Victorian gender mores – or with Darwin himself.
Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English by Elisabeth van Houts is a sympathetic biography of the woman who would be king.
As ancient Rome was divided by civil war Cicero found himself torn. Caesar was his old adversary, but he was also powerful, and it was politically and personally expedient to support him.
Would St Augustine have considered the US attack on Iran a just war? The pope and the vice president are split on the matter.
Brazil’s first newspaper was published from London by an exiled Freemason on first-name terms with British royalty. Who was Hipólito da Costa and what was his news?
In August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war. It had seemed a realistic promise.
The Catholic Church’s progressive revival by Jack Hanson
The last of the morticians by John Semley
On misreading Doris Lessing by Cynthia Zarin
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Reading shaped the modern mind. Its decline will reshape it—and transform civilization, Rose Horowitch argues in our August cover story.
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. By Rose Horowitch
Animators are figuring out whether to fight or accept the new technology that’s coming for their jobs. By Shirley Li
Graham Platner’s unfitness for office was clear long ago. By Mike Nelson
MONTHLY REVIEW MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Global Structural Crisis of Capital’…
The notion of a “global structural crisis of capital” defining our times was first introduced by István Mészáros in the third edition of his Marx’s Theory of Alienation in 1971, and in his Isaac Deutscher Memorial Lecture, “The Necessity of Social Control” that same year.2 In 1995 in Beyond Capital, Mészáros distinguished the emerging, epochal structural crisis of capital from the cyclical and conjunctural crises that are “capital’s natural mode of existence.”
Capitalism and Cognition: The Fate of Science in a System in Decline
Tech Billionaires, the AI Threat, and Resistance
Value Chains in the Digital Age: Labor Exploitation and Systemic Ecocide
Imperialism in a Full World: Neomercantilism and the Return of the Zero-Sum Game
Why Can China Resist Financialization?
For a brief period before the First World War, oblique angles and angular planes were all the rage in Prague
Artworks documenting the Wild West are becoming increasingly sought-after – and collectors are paying big bucks to lasso the best ones
Literary Review of Canada The latest issue features…
A collective wake-up call by Kyle Wyatt
On the promise and perils of global soccer by James Brooke-Smith
Remember peanuts and Cracker Jack? by Stacey May Fowles
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