Tag Archives: Foreign Affairs

Commentary Magazine – May 2025 Preview

May 2025 – Commentary Magazine

Commentary Magazine (April 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7’….

The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7

by Jonathan Foreman

Greenpeace Pays the Piper

by James B. Meigs

In Argentina, a Lighthouse for the Hemisphere

Javier Milei and other regional leaders are set on de-woking and rebuilding Latin America by Robert C. Thornett

The Economist Magazine – April 19, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features How a dollar crisis would unfold…

How a dollar crisis would unfold

If investors keep selling American assets, a grim fate awaits the world economy

In its pursuit of a policy, Donald Trump’s government is content to destroy a man

What’s at stake in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Zuckerberg on trial: why Meta deserves to win

Social media has plenty of problems. Lack of competition isn’t one of them

Brazil’s Supreme Court is on trial

How a superstar judge illuminates an excessive concentration of power

The Economist Magazine – April 5, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (April 3, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Ruination day: How to limit global damage‘….

President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc

But the rest of the world can limit the damage

How America could end up making China great again

A big beautiful opportunity

Lift sanctions to give Syria a chance of rebuilding

Our poll shows Syrians trust their new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. So should the West

Why the IMF should bail out a serial deadbeat

Under President Javier Milei, Argenti

Prospect Magazine —— May 2025 Preview

PROSPECT MAGAZINE (April 2, 202): The latest issue features Should Europe break free from the US? Nathalie Tocci and John Bolton present their arguments. Peter Geoghegan reveals Reform’s backers and Emma Haslett reports on Maga’s IVF obsession. Plus, our critics cover Spotify, Andrea Dworkin & Lennon and McCartney

Europe’s wake-up call on defence

For too long, Europeans ignored Russia’s growing threat and the United States’ waning interest in their security

Europe could blow the west apart

John Bolton

Who funds Reform?

Peter Geoghegan

Elon Musk’s IVF obsession

Emma Haslett

Eminent Trumpians: meet the president’s cultural outriders

Matthew d’Ancona

If you care about music, delete Spotify

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Ben Okri: Timothée Chalamet brought me to tears

Prospect Team

The Guardian Weekly – March 28, 2025 Preview

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (March 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Ties That Bind’ – Can the West break free from the US?

Spotlight | How the world forgot about Sudan
As territory is won and lost by opposing military forces, people grasp at scraps of normality. But the country is undergoing the world’s most severe humanitarian catastrophe, reports Mark Townsend from Khartoum

Science | The moral question of prolonging a pet’s life
Many cat or dog owners would happily pay for medicines that help their four-legged friends to live longer, and the biotech industry is cashing in. But is it the right thing to do? Joel Snape investigates

Interview | Amanda Knox: ‘This is my story’
Ten years ago, the American was f inally cleared of the brutal murder of her housemate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. But is Amanda Knox really free? She talks to Simon Hattenstone

Opinion | The broken bond between Canada and the US
With the US president now warmer to Moscow than to Ottawa, it’s little surprise the Canadians Andy Beckett met on a recent visit rolled their eyes at the decline of the special relationship

Culture | Reappraising the reputation of Paul Gauguin
The French artist has been tarred as a colonialist who gave syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But author Sue Prideaux has made discoveries that challenge this picture

Moment Magazine —– Spring 2025 Preview

MOMENT MAGAZINE (March 27, 2025): The Spring Issue 2025 features ‘How Our Ideas About What Is Pro-Israel Have Changed’…What Does it Mean to be Pro Israel in 2025?

What Does it Mean to be Pro Israel in 2025?

How Do Young American Jews Define Being Pro Israel?

Jews Who Supported Hitler

BY DAN FREEDMAN

Is Turkey Israel’s Next Big Problem?

BY ILAN BERMAN

The Economist Magazine – March 22, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (March 20, 2025): The latest issue features Rise of the superhuman….

How to enhance humans

Finding ways to live much longer—and better—shouldn’t be left to the cranks

The trap Vladimir Putin has set for Donald Trump

The Russian president wants to suggest that Ukraine is just a detail in a wider relationship

The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground

The rule of law is at stake

Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science fiction

But the “enhancement” industry is still hobbled by out-of-date regulation

Commentary Magazine – April 2025 Preview

April 2025 – Commentary Magazine

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE (March 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘In Praise Of Big Pharma’; How American Aid has subsidized Terror and The Coalition of the Sentimental & Homicidal for Palestine…

In Praise of Big Pharma

 “If we allow the hatred of the industry to continue, we are going to lose investment and people are going to die.” by Tevi Troy

The Putin Trap

Washington Commentary by Matthew Continetti

The Evil of Rationalism

Social Commentary by Christine Rosen

The Economist Magazine – March 15, 2025 Preview

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (March 13, 2025): The latest issue features America’s new foreign policy

America’s bullied allies need to toughen up

To avoid being crushed, they need a better plan than flattery and concessions

The new economics of immigration

A fresh critique of migration is gaining ground. Liberals must take it seriously

Trump’s erratic policy is harming the reputation of American assets

Like the stockmarket, the dollar is also suffering from falling confidence and rising confusion

The Guardian Weekly – March 14, 2025 Preview

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THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (March 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Call to Arms’ – The remilitarization of Europe…

With unaccustomed speed, Paris, Berlin and London, along with the European Commission, are stepping up with a new “whatever it takes” mentality to create a framework for their own defence. Our coverage, led by Toby Helm and with contributions from our correspondents in Kyiv, Brussels and Berlin, examines how fiscal shibboleths are being shed to allow for increased military spending, and from Berlin a growing enthusiasm for Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to consider sheltering under France’s independent nuclear umbrella.

Spotlight | ‘Here you will die’
Mark Townsend reports from Sudan on how the retreat of rebel RSF forces has led to the discovery of a torture centre, evidence of what could be one of the worst atrocities of the civil war

Technology | Roboshop
Can an AI agent prove itself smart enough to help Victoria Turk with her shopping? And, if it can order groceries and a takeaway, what else might it soon be able to do?

Feature | All the young Reform dudes
What is it about Nigel Farage’s Reform party that is attracting young men fed up with establishment politics? Gaby Hinsliff finds out

Opinion | The Sicilian ways of Donald Trump
The US president’s way of doing business is uncomfortably close to the fictional Corleone method, but without the mafia’s sense of honour, says Jonathan Freedland

Culture | Arthouse animation moves on up
Hot on the Academy Awards’ success of Flow, Xan Brooks looks at how independent animators are taking on the big-budget Hollywood studios and finding audiences are falling back in love with stop-go techniques