SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: The latest issue features ‘ The Quantum Revolution’ – Can the next big thing in computing live up to the hype?
Nadia Drake
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Kadir Nelson’s “Plein Air” – Impressions of spring.
Their electoral prospects are finally improving, but opportunities can quickly give way to divisions. Does the Party have a plan? By Amy Davidson Sorkin
A young girl was brought from Guinea to a wealthy suburb near Dallas. She spent the next sixteen years of her life in forced servitude. By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
An unprecedented gerrymandering effort led by Donald Trump—and internal divisions among Democrats—has made the Minority Leader’s path to victory harder than ever. By Jason Zengerle
History knows the First Lady as a hysterical widow and a lavish spender. Her most recent biographer chooses to highlight her mental fortitude and political prowess. By Thomas Mallon
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 5.17.26 Issue features Chris Pomorski on the famed freediver Francisco Ferreras; Reginald Dwayne Betts on learning to shoot a gun; Roger Cohen on the leader of Argentina as a MAGA celebrity; and more.
An unlikely alliance between HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and “critical psychiatry” activists is challenging decades of medical orthodoxy by targeting the widespread, and often harmful, reliance on psychotropic medications. This movement argues that mainstream psychiatry pathologizes normal human suffering, prompting some medical professionals to preemptively develop deprescribing guidelines to safely taper patients off medication.
How Wi-Fi-connecting, app-based tech led to a backlash in the name of simplicity. By Nitsuh Abebe
From the Trump administration to online influencers, the hormone is increasingly seen as the key to achieving a new male ideal. By Azeen Ghorayshi
THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features ‘Political philosophy? by Harvey Mansfield; A dream of reason by Bartle Bull; The elephant in the room by Anthony Daniels; Kierkegaard & the age by Jacob Howland; New poems by Morri Creech, Kaily Dorfman, Matthew Stewart & John Poch….
GUERNICA MAGAZINE: The latest issue features striking original artwork courtesy of creators Jérémie Guiguen, Mike Blackman, Deepak, Taelor Worthington, and Cliff Warner.
Fiction & Nonfiction: You can explore the Fiction – Guernica section for recently published narrative stories and ongoing literary additions.
Special Issues: Guernica frequently publishes thematic special issues ranging from “Climate Fiction” to “Race in America,” all of which can be browsed via the Guernica Magazine Explore page. [1]
How do photographs carry the afterlives of violence? Threading together personal and collective histories, photographer Showkat Nanda reflects on documenting Kashmir not merely as a site of conflict, but as a lived world shaped by endurance and the struggle against forgetting.
What I dream of, then, when I think about what Jürgen Habermas called “the postsecular society,” is a foggy middle path. I’m not willing to fall for the false choice between religion and democracy simply because either feels like more solid footing than walking the tightrope between them.
NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Cost of Fraud’ – And what to do about it.
American taxpayers deserve better. Robert VerBruggen
He is a committed ideologue and a partisan brawler who’s worked out how to hide those traits from the general public. Charles C. W. Cooke
What we learned from the riots of 2020. Noah Rothman
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Amanda Hess on experiments in extending the life of dogs; Susan Dominus on the quest to master cellular rejuvenation; Devin Gordon on how athletes are extending their careers; Mark O’Connell on the rich and powerful craving eternal life; and more.
The guilt of my teenage conviction haunted me for decades. Learning to shoot helped me forgive myself as an adult.
Silicon Valley oligarchs worried about the risks their technology posed to the world. They forgot about people. By David Wallace-Wells
Trump has taken an active role in the arts in his second term, which may be evident in the work on display at the Venice Biennale — depending on how you look at it. By M.H. Miller
The business of pet longevity is booming — driven, in part, by experimental treatments that might also have implications for us. By Amanda Hess
The casa grande could be an ancient chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. A steeply gabled roof to slough off the winter snow, dandelion-yellow paintwork, and inside a treasure trove of all an outdoorsman loves. Antlers jostle for space on every wall. There is a tack room thick with the leathery tang of saddles, a bathroom
hen I was 20 and tentatively trying to write, every single person I knew read Ian McEwan’s First Love, Last Rites (1975). It not only gave the short story a good name, but it also gave writing a good name. It was like a punk moment converted into fiction. People used the word “macabre,” but there was a sort of excitement about the characters, the strangeness of the stories, the shortness of some of the stories and just how much contemporary urban life was in them.
“You can just do things.”
It’s a popular phrase on X, usually in response to someone accomplishing something remarkable, taken to mean that there’s nothing stopping you from doing something out of the ordinary. SpaceX might post video of a rocket landing – “you can just do things.” Victor Vescovo might be the living embodiment of the phrase.
My first introduction to Vescovo was an email from him, extending an invitation to be a guest at his table for the Explorers Club Annual Dinner. The name was vaguely familiar to me but didn’t immediately register. Who was this mysterious correspondent?
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘The Trump Whisperer’ – A king charming in America….
It’s fair to say that the Guardian Weekly does not cover many royal visits, but King Charles III’s US state visit was the most consequential of his reign so far. The king’s ostensible purpose was to celebrate America’s 250 years of independence but last week’s trip was freighted with other agendas, most important of which was to flatter his host, Donald Trump. Washington bureau chief David Smith’s cover story shows how “like a rapier wrapped in ermine, Charles managed to tame Trump while rebuking Trumpism”.
Both David and our veteran foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall unpick the skill with which Charles spoke truth to this capricious and egotistical president and gave both sides of the heavily divided Congress much to praise. It was a performance of high diplomacy at a time of huge tension in the transatlantic relationship and beyond.
But the charm didn’t wash in New York where, as Adam Gabbatt’s sketch shows, the shadow of Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Charles’s disgraced brother, lurked while the mayor, Zohran Mamdani, brought up the spectre of colonialism in the shape of the Koh-i-noor diamond, snatched under disputed circumstances.
Spotlight | A small town in Germany
Landstuhl, the heart of the largest American military community outside the US, considers its future after Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops, reports Deborah Cole
Environment | A gift of wings
Patrick Barkham takes off for a flight of wonder with The Lost Words duo, who have reunited for a new book on endangered birds
Feature | A balm for tiger mother myths
Rebecca Liu explores why a certain image of the tiger mum – strict, cold and demanding – is ubiquitous in popular culture
Opinion | Antiracists need to stand up for us all
Another attack on the UK’s Jewish population demands a clear show of solidarity from those who march to protect minorities, argues Jonathan Freedland
Culture | Moose magic on the loose
How do cameras capture Sweden’s seasonal TV hit, the Great Moose Migration? Malcolm Jack travels to an uninhabited island in the Ångerman river to ask the show’s makers
It is far from proven that social media platforms cause teenagers harm Ethan Zuckerman
The pro-European forces of liberal democratic virtue not only won when Viktor Orbán was defeated, but smashed it Andrew Adonis
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