Zyzzyva Magazine – WINTER 2025-2026
Tag Archives: December 2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 2025
U.S. Steps Up Campaign Against Maduro in Seizing Tanker Off Venezuela
President Trump has labeled President Nicolás Maduro a drug cartel leader and has suggested that U.S. strikes could expand to Venezuelan soil.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Machado Vows to End Maduro’s Rule in Venezuela
María Corina Machado appeared in Oslo as the Trump administration ramped up its pressure campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.
Trump Doesn’t Want to Talk About Affordability. Democrats See That as a Gift.
As President Trump continues to brush off the issue, Democrats believe one of the biggest strengths in his first term could now become a major vulnerability.
How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed
Barred from leaving Romania, Andrew Tate courted powerful figures on the American right, from Tucker Carlson to Barron Trump. Then an extraordinary order let him go.
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – DECEMBER 12, 2025 PREVIEW
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘Blocked!’ – Why Australia banned kids from social media (and what they think of it)
Millions of teenagers in Australia woke up on Wednesday to find themselves locked out of social media accounts after the government introduced a ban for under-16s – the first of its kind – on the platforms.
Far from being a kneejerk response to a moral panic, it’s a move backed up by detailed investigation into the effects of unfettered online access on children – and one that several other countries are poised to follow. Australian eSafety research found seven in 10 children aged 10 to 15 had encountered content associated with harm online. Three-quarters of those had most recently encountered that – including misogyny, violence, disordered eating and suicide – on a social media platform.
“We are seeking to create some friction [in the] system to protect children where previously there has been close to none … We are treating big tech like the extractive industry it has become,” Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, told an audience earlier this year.
Spotlight | Syria, one year after Assad
While country’s return to global stage has filled many Syrians with pride, domestically old grievances threaten efforts to rebuild the state. William Christou reports from Damascus
Feature | The inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI
In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it. Robert Booth reports
Feature | On the trail of London’s snail farming don
Terry Ball – renowned shoe salesman, friend to former mafiosi – has vowed to spend his remaining years finding ways to cheat authorities he feels have cheated him. His greatest ruse? A tax-dodging snail empire. Jim Waterson caught up with him
Opinion | What words are left to describe Trump’s global rampage?
Deadly US boat strikes in the Caribbean are the latest example of a president corrupting both the law and morality, argues Jonathan Freedland
Culture | The best books of 2025
From fiction to food, people to poetry, science to sport: Guardian critics round up the year’s essential reads
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – DECEMBER 12, 2025
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘A Snail’s Tale – An unpublished story by Sylvia Townsend Warner…
Prince of the printed word
Tactful notes from a literary self-promoter By Nicola Shulman
Object of attention
Marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth By Devoney Looser
Wise fools
Irritating professors for the ages By Peter Thonemann
The Pursuit and the End
An unpublished story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, with a commentary by Peter Swaab By Sylvia Townsend Warner
THE NEW YORK TIMES – WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 2025
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
Officials initially weighed sending survivors of U.S. attacks on boats suspected of drug smuggling to a notorious prison in El Salvador, to avoid American courts.
Democrats Say Hegseth Balked at Call for Full Video of Boat Strike
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefed congressional leaders about the monthslong military campaign targeting people suspected of trafficking drugs at sea.
The Challenges to Europe’s Security Go Beyond Trump’s Lack of Support
Europeans find themselves stranded between hostile powers, Russia and the U.S., with key decisions looming over the future of Ukraine.
Trump Says Americans Are Doing Great, Even as Views on the Economy Sour
President Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania was meant to alleviate concerns about affordability. But he kept going off script and dwelling on issues like immigration.
Stephen Miller’s Stock Sale Raises Questions, Ethics Experts Say
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health
THE PARIS REVIEW ———- WINTER 2025/2026
THE PARIS REVIEW : The latest issue features Art of Criticism, Art of Poetry, Prose, Poetry and Art…
Hélène Cixous on the Art of Criticism: “There’s a feminist discourse that women can’t do it all. This is what many women experience, and it’s very difficult. But I am not like that.”
Alice Oswald on the Art of Poetry: “You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.”
Prose by Eve Babitz, Marlene Morgan, Alec Niedenthal, Gwendoline Riley, and Elias Rodriques.
Poetry by Millicent Borges Accardi, Monzer Masri, Alice Oswald, Jana Prikryl, and Ed Roberson.
Art by Ali Banisadr, Pippa Garner, Joan Jonas, and Mieko Meguro; cover by Adebunmi Gbadebo.
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS – WINTER 2025-2026
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue of LARB features ‘Security’…
A Mole in MAGA’s Midst
Alexandre Lefebvre reads “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field.
The Secessionists of Shasta County
Nevin Kallepalli investigates political resentment in rural California, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47: “Security.”
Is Justice Barrett Listening?
Leah Litman prosecutes Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s new legal memoir, “Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution.”
An Emergency Born of Prosperity
Zoe Adams considers “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” by Brian Goldstone.
THE NEW YORK TIMES – TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2025
Supreme Court Is Asked to Take Another Ax to Campaign Finance Limits
The case centers on efforts by Republican officials to lift limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.
A Key Question for the Supreme Court: What About the Fed?
On Monday, the justices seemed poised to allow President Trump to remove officials but appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve
Trump Insists Tariffs Will Buoy the Economy. For Now, He’s on Damage Control.
President Trump rolled out a bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon.
A Frustrated Congress Pushes the Pentagon to Produce the Boat Strike Orders
In a sign of bipartisan vexation with the Defense Department, the defense policy bill aims to compel the Pentagon to share execute orders and documentation.
In Thailand and Cambodia, Taking Shelter (Again) as Fighting Reignites
Hundreds of thousands of people fled a deadly border conflict, the authorities said, some sheltering at a racetrack in Thailand and some near temples in Cambodia.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 15, 2025
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features ‘Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Christmas Avenue”’ – The celebratory chaos of the season.
The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean
Pete Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the government’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy. By Jonathan Blitzer
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality. By Rachel Aviv
How to Leave the U.S.A.
In the wake of President Trump’s reëlection, the number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out. By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
THE NEW YORK TIMES – MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025
Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums
People who have insurance under the Affordable Care Act are being asked to pay more for plans that will cover less of their care.
China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time
President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.
China’s Weak Currency Is Powering Its Exports, Drawing Criticism
Supreme Court Considers Trump’s Power to Fire Independent Officials
The Supreme Court has generally allowed the firings to take effect through temporary emergency orders. This case is an opportunity for a conclusive ruling.
These Independent Agencies Could Be Affected by a Supreme Court Case
Must the Military Disobey Unlawful Orders? Pam Bondi Has Said Yes.
As a lawyer, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members who followed such orders were committing crimes.
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