Tag Archives: June 2025

THE NEW YORK TIMES – SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2025

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Manhunt for Minnesota Suspect Enters 2nd Day as State Mourns Victims

The police are searching for a 57-year-old man after the killings of a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband, and the separate shooting of a state senator and his wife.

Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine

Threats and violent acts have become part of the political landscape, still shocking but somehow not so surprising.

Israel and Iran Trade Strikes in Increasingly Deadly Attacks

Israel and Iran were assessing the damage from a wave of attacks. Israeli jets bombarded Tehran overnight, while Iran launched ballistic missiles.

JACOBIN MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW

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JACOBIN MAGAZINE (June 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Speculation’ – The house always wins…

“In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.”

— Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867)

“Along with a lot of worthless nonsense, the bubbles of the 1920s gave us some durable housing, highways, and a radio broadcasting infrastructure.”

We Have Always Lived in the Casino

John Maynard Keynes warned that when real investment becomes the by-product of speculation, the result is often disaster. But it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Money for Nothing

Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.

The House Always Wins

The gaming industry is turning every smartphone into a casino — and it’s destroying more lives than ever.

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.15.25 Issue features Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV; Nicholas Casey on how the MAGA right became obsessed with the Romanian presidential election; Irina Aleksander on how Jon Bernthal became Hollywood’s most dependable tough guy; David Marchese interviews Misty Copeland about her retirement; and more.

We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.

Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. By Parul Sehgal

Why the MAGA Right Became Obsessed With the Romanian Election

Misty Copeland Changed Ballet. Now She’s Ready to Move On.

BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025 – INVESTMENT VIEWS

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Internet Interrupted’ – The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.-

Google Search Is Fading. The Whole Internet Could Go With It.

The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.

X’s New Show Was Postponed After a Barron’s Investigation

“Going Public,” a show hosted by X, allows viewers to invest in start-ups. Two of the featured entrepreneurs have a checkered past, Barron’s found.

These Are the Hottest Bond ETFs This Year—and for Good Reason

Treasury-bill ETFs are rapidly gaining in popularity and challenging money-market funds and bank deposits as a place for retail investors to park cash.

This Vanguard Economist Won’t Rule Out 9% Bond Yields

Joe Davis, the firm’s global chief economist, says rates could shoot up if the benefits of AI don’t outweigh the costs of the deficit in coming years.

THE NEW YORK TIMES – SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2025

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Israel and Iran Defy Calls for De-Escalation With 2nd Day of Attacks

More than 70 people have been killed in Iran. Retaliatory strikes by Iran killed at least three people and injured dozens in Israel.

Israel said its campaign would continue for days, if not longer, and Iran said its response was not over.

Iran Retaliates and Israel Vows More Strikes After Devastating Attack

Waves of Israeli airstrikes hit two nuclear enrichment sites, multiple military bases, and military scientists and commanders. Iran replied with a barrage of missiles and drones.

In N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race, Top Democrats Take On Trump and Their Own Party

The primary has taken on national implications, with the top two candidates tapping into Democratic voters’ hunger for a fight.

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 13, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Who won the war?’ We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies. By Martin Ivens

Friends like these

The wartime alliances that could not survive the peace By Omer Bartov

Symmetry in motion

Capers and wallpaper: a new film from Wes Anderson By Keith Miller

You’re the tops

What Americans understand by greatness By Andrew Stark

Exploring the occult

A practical and literary guide to modern magic By Russell Williams

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JUNE 13, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features the last male northern white rhino socializes with a southern white rhino. Since his death in 2018, the northern subspecies is functionally extinct after decades of illegal killing for their horns. A study from the Greater Kruger region of South Africa offers some hope for remaining rhino species, proving that dehorning operations can achieve poaching reductions under certain circumstances and in conjunction with other interventions.

How migrating marine megafauna tracks with conservation

Area-based conservation is not sufficient to protect the ocean’s most highly mobile species

Keeping in contact with lithium

Sodium in the lithium anode promotes fast discharge in a solid-state battery

Nanowires replace lost retinal cells

Tellurium nanowire networks could open up new avenues for artificial vision

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 14, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘American disorder’

When a radical performance artist has command of an army

Donald Trump’s troop deployment in LA could yet backfire

The world must escape the manufacturing delusion

Governments’ obsession with factories is built on myths—and will be self-defeating

How to curb organised crime without shredding civil rights

Ecuador is a test case in the fight against global gangs

THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025

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Democrats Enter Risky Political Terrain as Protests Grip California

Scenes of unrest in Southern California, stoked by President Trump as he tries to deport more immigrants, have left Democratic leaders worried the confrontation elevates a losing issue for the party.

Suggesting More Troops in More Cities, Trump Bends Military’s Role

President Trump has expanded domestic use of the armed forces, testing the limits on involving troops at protests and the border.

Jury Convicts Weinstein in Second New York Sex Crimes Trial

The conviction, on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual act, was handed down in a mixed verdict that acquitted Harvey Weinstein of a second count of the same crime.

NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 12, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

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NATURE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Picture Perfect’ – Oil painting restored using computer generated mask…

Solved: the mystery of the evaporating planet

An intimate look at a puffy exoplanet and its nearest star has revealed its tragic destiny.

Clever cockatoos learn an easy way to quench their thirst

Some birds master the fine art of manoeuvring beak, feet and body weight to turn on a tap.

CRISPR helps to show why a boy felt no pain

Mutation in an enzyme leads to resistance to chronic and acute pain, according to research in mice.

‘Missing’ air pollution is tracked to its ephemeral source

Discrepancy between models and measurements is resolved by peering into plumes emitted from power plants and other industrial facilities.