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Foreign Affairs: A Race To Lead The Quantum Future

Foreign Affairs Magazine (January 12, 2025): How the Next Computing Revolution Will Transform the Global Economy and Upend National Security

Over the last several years, as rapid advances in artificial intelligence have gained enormous public attention and critical scrutiny, another crucial technology has been evolving largely out of public view. Once confined to the province of abstract theory, quantum computing seeks to use operations based on quantum mechanics to crack computational problems that were previously considered unsolvable. Although the technology is still in its infancy, it is already clear that quantum computing could have profound implications for national security and the global economy in the decades to come.

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Foreign Affairs Magazine: The Best Essays Of 2024

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE (December 22, 2024): The top essays of the year include…

The Self-Doubting Superpower

By Fareed Zakaria

America shouldn’t give up on the world it made.

Why Gaza Matters

By Jean-Pierre Filiu

Since antiquity, the territory has shaped the quest for power in the Middle East.

Israel’s Self-Destruction

By Aluf Benn

Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the price of neglect.

Russia Is Burning Up Its Future

By Andrei Kolesnikov

How Putin’s pursuit of power has hollowed out the country and its people.

The Trouble With “the Global South”

By Comfort Ero

What the West gets wrong about the rest.

Culture/Politics: Harper’s Magazine – January 2025

Harper’s Magazine (December 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Ghost Music’ – Inside Spotify’s Fake-Artist Scheme; Among the Ruins of Lebanon and Cynthia Ozick on the Pleasures of Letter Writing…

The Ghosts in the Machine

Spotify’s plot against musicians by Liz Pelly

The Forever Cure

Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them? by Jordan Michael Smith

Voices from the Dead Letter Office

On the epistolary life by Cynthia Ozick

Los Angeles Review Of Books – Winter 2024-2025

LA Review of Books (December 11, 2024)The latest issue, #43 – Fixation, features:

Conversation

A Precise Excavation of the Soul: A Conversation with Hilton Als by Melissa Seley

Nonfiction

Mean Mommies: Care in Contemporary Queer Literature by Jenny Fran Davis

Our Ambassadors to the Future: Relics of—and for—ourselves by Christina Wood

The Only Girl in the World: On Madonna and ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ by Brontez Purnell

Homespun Tiara: A Profile of Model and Activist Geena Rocero by Enzo Escober

Syria’s Forgotten Island of Opposition: A report from the al-Tanf military compound by Charlie Clewis

Bedrock: On gravesites literal and not by Charley Burlock

American Blondes: Are we having more fun yet? by Arielle Gordon

Fiction

Bright by Grace Byron

Finishing Moves by Evan McGarvey

Witches of Fresno and Pigfoot by Venita Blackburn

The Good Life by Brady Brickner-Wood

The Aforementioned Journal by David Hollander

Poetry

Srdičko Bolí by Claressinka Anderson

Has Your Spirit Dried Up? by emet ezell

I Haven’t Heard My Brother’s Voice in Ten Years by Douglas Manuel

Montauk by Connie Voisine

Straining for the Noise by Jenny Xie

Art

Lida Abdul

The Atlantic Magazine – December 2024 Preview

The Atlantic Magazine – November 20, 2024: The latest issue features ‘How the Ivy League Broke America’ – The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

How the Ivy League Broke America

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new. By David Brooks

How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she reclaim her good name?

The Exhibit That Will Change How You See Impressionism

The National Gallery’s “Paris 1874” explores the movement’s dark origins.

Culture/Politics: Harper’s Magazine – December 2024

HARPER’S MAGAZINE – November 18, 2024: The latest issue features ‘The Painted Protest’ – How politics destroyed contemporary art…

The Painted Protest

How politics destroyed contemporary art by Dean Kissick

In the Rockets’ Red Glare

 The past and future of hot-rodding in America by Rachel Kushner

After the Deluge

A small town faces down climate disaster by Gary Greenberg

Culture/Politics: Harper’s Magazine – November 2024

HARPER’S MAGAZINE – October 15, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Reunion or Revenge’ – The GOP on the Brink…

Revenge Plot

The GOP’s identity crisis by Lauren Oyler

The Seventy Percent

On minor characters and human possibility by Yiyun Li

The Thing Itself

From Mysticism, which was published last month by New York Review Books. by Simon Critchley

The Atlantic Magazine – November 2024 Preview

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The Atlantic Magazine – October 9, 2024: The latest issue features Tom Nichols on How Donald Trump Is the Tyrant George Washington Feared

The Moment of Truth

The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.By Tom Nichols

The Trump Believability Gap

Voters detest the things that Trump wants to do. But they just don’t believe he’ll follow through.By David A. Graham

Why Politicians Lie

And how to get them to stopBy Bill Adair

Israel and Hamas Are Kidding Themselves

Culture/Politics: Harper’s Magazine – October 2024

HARPER’S MAGAZINE – September 16, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Antitrust Revolution’ – Liberal Democracy’s last stand against Big Tech and Election 2024 – The Secret of Republican Political Power…

The Antitrust Revolution  

Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech by Barry C. Lynn

In 1609, James I lectured the English people on his rights and responsibilities as king. It was his duty to “make and unmake” them, he said. Kings have the “power of raising and casting down, of life and of death; judges over all their subjects, and in all causes.”

The Fever Called Living

On the plight of environmental-­illness refugees

The Hindutva Lobby

How Hindu nationalism spreads in America

Arts/Politics: The Atlantic Magazine – October 2024

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The Atlantic Magazine – September 9, 2024: The latest issue features Trump’s antidemocratic actions, and the Republican politicians who bent to his will

Hypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald Trump

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He said Republican politicians would be easy to break. He was right.

Trump Promises a ‘Bloody Story’

His latest comments about mass deportation are a revelation about how he feels—and a troubling reminder of the sources of his appeal.

Finding Philanthropy’s Forgotten Founder

Julius Rosenwald understood that charity is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving necessary.