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The New Yorker Magazine – May 5, 2025 Preview

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The Statue of Liberty sitting in a prison cell with a hundred tallies behind her to count the days.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 28, 2025): The latest issue features Barry Blitt’s “The First Hundred Days” – A beacon extinguished.

A Hundred Days of Ineptitude

Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal. By David Remnick

A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump

Each morning, before the day’s decree, I turned to a slim book, hoping for sense, or solace. By Jill Lepore

Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?

Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. By Andrew Marantz

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The New York Times Magazine – April 28, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 4.27.25 Issue features Jason Zengerle on a college volleyball player catapulted to the heart of the debate over trans athletes in women’s sports; Amanda Hess on how the internet comforted and tormented her after her son was diagnosed with a rare illness; and Mitch Moxley on a particularly strange quarter-of-a-billion dollar crypto heist; and more.

They Stole a Quarter-Billion in Crypto and Got Caught Within a Month

How luxury cars, $500,000 bar tabs and a mysterious kidnapping attempt helped investigators unravel the heist of a lifetime.

What the Pope Told Me About Politics

My brief tour with Pope Francis, the diplomat of our times. By John Jeremiah Sullivan

How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart

Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy. By Jason Zengerle

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The New Yorker Magazine – April 28, 2025 Preview

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An illustration of a scene near the Picnic House at Prospect Park. Various dogs are running around and playing.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 21, 2025): Adrian Tomine’s “Lucky Dogs” – At least some of us are happy.By Françoise MoulyArt by Adrian Tomine

Donald Trump’s Deportation Obsession

Right-wing ideologues have long fantasized about the prospect of mass self-deportation: the Trump Administration is attempting something far more radical. By Jonathan Blitzer

How Trump Worship Took Hold in Washington

The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty. By Antonia Hitchens

The Mexican President Who’s Facing Off with Trump

Can Claudia Sheinbaum manage the demands from D.C.—and her own country’s fragile democracy? By Stephania Taladrid

The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion

Also: Adam Gopnik on where to eat near the Frick; Sondheim and Chekhov, Marisa Tomei and Lucas Hedges onstage; the kinetic Afro-pop of Youssou N’Dour; and more.

By Richard Brody, Michael Schulman, Sheldon Pearce, Helen Shaw, Brian Seibert, K. Leander Williams, Jane Bua, and Adam Gopnik

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The New York Times Magazine – April 20, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (April 18, 2025): The 4.20.25 Issue features Paul Tough on rethinking A.D.H.D.; Rowan Moore Gerety on going to civil court without a lawyer; Jonathan Mahler on the G.O.P.’s recent affinity for Russia; Mark Yarm on the techno-utopians colonizing the sea; and more.

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?

With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

Lawyer Up? Increasingly, Americans Won’t, or Can’t.

It’s dangerous to go to court without legal representation — but more Americans are going it alone.

The Techno-Utopians Who Want to Colonize the Sea

Libertarians have long looked at ocean living as the next frontier. Some wealthy men are testing the waters. By Mark Yarm

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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

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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

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Harvard Magazine – May/June 2025 Preview

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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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The New Yorker Magazine – April 21, 2025 Preview

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Donald Trump plays with a large globe before popping it.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features Frank Viva’s “Hot Air” – The chaos on Capitol Hill.

What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week

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

What Comes After D.E.I.?

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

How to Survive the A.I. Revolution

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better? By John Cassidy

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The New York Times Magazine – April 13, 2025

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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.

Secret Tunnels, Bunkers and Arsenals: The ‘Panic Industry’ Is Booming

Fortifying the American home has become big business, selling an endless supply of paranoia. By Coralie Kraft

How Do You Rebuild a Place Like the Palisades?

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