
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…

Claudia Sheinbaum must be doing something right. With a consistent approval rating of around 70% since becoming Mexico’s president in 2024, the former climate scientist – and protege of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador – is the world’s most popular leftwing leader. She is also the first female leader of one of Latin America’s most macho countries.
Yet despite her soaring popularity, driven in part by major universal healthcare reforms, there is a curious tension between Sheinbaum’s disciplined, scientific approach to governing and the messy, often violent politics of modern Mexico. Her handling of the country’s ongoing crisis of disappearances, the continuing influence of organised crime and the rising presence of the army in national life are all issues she has faced criticism over.
The big story | Counting the cost of the war on Iran
With a peace deal expected to be signed later this week, Oliver Holmes examines the human, economic and environmental toll of a conflict that appears to have achieved nothing
Science | How the loss of wild bees impacts human health
Crops and flowers rely on them for survival, but wild bees are declining – and crucial nutrients will go missing from our diets as a result. Gloria Dickie reports
Feature | How personal taste fell out of fashion
Our favourite music, clothes and books used to be markers of individuality – but algorithms have made us all sheep. Rachel Aroesti meets the style rebels fighting back
Opinion | If Kyiv has really got Putin on the run, he won’t accept peace meekly
Don’t expect the Russian president to pursue peace, says Simon Tisdall – instead, he could continue to expand the war beyond Ukraine’s borders, with dire risks for us all
Culture | The revolutionary art of David Hockney
Guardian critic Jonathan Jones pays tribute to the artist whose work was a feast of visual pleasures

THE PARIS REVIEW : The latest features Interviews, Prose, Poetry and Art….
Harryette Mullen on the Art of Poetry: “I knew I would exhaust myself as subject matter, but I could take something and turn it upside down, inside out, add a few doodads, and that way it would become inexhaustible.”
Yan Lianke on the Art of Fiction: “I personally didn’t think there was anything anti-war in writing about how an individual might be terrified of battle. I was really writing about my own fear.”
Prose by Lucy Ellmann, Chad Fore, Daisy Hildyard, Chigozie Obioma, Daniel Saldaña París, and Shuang Xuetao.
Poetry by Zain Baweja, Jean Day, Hannah Piette, Frederick Seidel, Shamsher Bahadur Singh, Katana Smith, and Tran Hang My.
Art by Hadi Falapishi, Andrew Kuo, and Hannah Tishkoff; cover by Alex Da Corte.

President Trump said the United States would resume bombing Iran if he did not like the preliminary agreement, hours after leaders from the Group of 7 nations called the deal a “breakthrough.”
President Trump said that he would seek to delay the confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton, as he renewed pressure on Congress to pass a voting restrictions bill.
Amid the war with Iran, Bahrain has stripped 69 people of their citizenship, including children, accusing them of disloyalty and rendering them stateless.
Scores of targeted attacks against supply routes, part of what Kyiv calls a “logistics lockdown,” has caused gasoline shortages.

Despite a framework deal setting the stage for an end to hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, the war has set in motion changes that will be hard to reverse.
Iran’s foreign minister said that negotiations would start immediately after the country’s preliminary deal with the U.S. is signed.
Interceptors show Ukraine’s embrace of autonomous technologies trained on immense troves of wartime data.

The United States and Iran reached a preliminary deal that was expected to open the Strait of Hormuz. But it defers the toughest issues to further talks.
Secret memos show that the White House debated, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.
Even though negotiations will begin for Ukraine to join the bloc, the path ahead is a long one.
Ukraine is running out of American-made Patriot air-defense interceptors, and is pleading for more.

Russia and the U.S. projected their own views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said. As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a confrontation.
Israel’s military said it attacked the southern outskirts of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, after accusing Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group, of violating a cease-fire.
Britain’s defense ministry said it was the first time that British forces had acted alone to stop a ship in the fleet, a collection of vessels that Russia uses to move fuel and evade sanctions.
Group of 7 meetings once embodied the effort to sustain the global diplomatic order. This year’s gathering, starting on Monday, symbolizes its fragmentation.
BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Nestle Stock Is Ready To Rally’ – After a long slump, the food giant is finding its sweet spot. An alternative to tech?
Philipp Navratil aims to restart growth in the 160-year-old food giant by focusing on core brands like KitKat, Fancy Feast, and Nespresso.
Brian Barbetta, co-head of technology investing at Wellington Management, is betting on Nvidia, ASML, and Samsara.
In the end, the space company’s debut was relatively mundane.
Regulators, lawmakers, and consumer groups are fighting over what it means to be a community bank. The debate has implications for lenders and borrowers everywhere.

As Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, workers are facing higher prices and fears of A.I.-driven job losses.
Elon Musk said he had initially given SpaceX less than a 10 percent chance of succeeding. His rocket company has come a long way.
The prime minister of Pakistan, a key intermediary between the U.S. and Iran, said a deal was “likely expected.” Officials on each side have also expressed optimism, but it still could be derailed.
The arts institution followed a judge’s order to take down President Trump’s name after seeking a 12-hour extension, attributing the delay to thunderstorms.
Ukraine is running out of American-made Patriot air-defense interceptors, and is pleading for more.

Since announcing a nominal cease-fire two months ago, Iran, Israel and the U.S. have remained locked in low-intensity violence that has become a new normal.
The amount of oil and fuel stored by businesses and governments has fallen sharply since the start of the war.
The previous record was set over six years ago. SpaceX is expected to raise tens of billions of dollars more when its stock begins trading today.
In his first extensive interview since his defeat by a challenger backed by President Trump, John Cornyn said the Senate was in for a “bumpy ride.”
The plan, outlined in a written document, provides rare clarity about the extent to which the Trump administration intends to reduce its commitment to NATO.