Tag Archives: Magazines

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The New Tools of Power’

The Stagnant Order

And the End of Rising Powers by Michael Beckley

A Grand Strategy of Reciprocity

How to Build an Economic and Security Order That Works for America by Oren Cass

The New Supply Chain Insecurity

Fortress America Is Not a Safer America by Shannon K. O’Neil

The Return of the Energy Weapon

An Old Tool Creating New Dangers Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 2025

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Fire That Fueled The American Revolution

In January 1776, Virginia’s Port City of Norfolk Was Set Ablaze, Galvanizing the Revolution. But Who Really Lit the Match?

Blaming the British for the destruction helped persuade some wavering colonists to back the fight for independence. But the source of the inferno was not what it seemed

After the L.A. Fires, Locals Turn to Native Plants to Help Shield Homes From Flames and Clean Contaminated Soil

Scientists and community members in Altadena are testing ways that California species can assist efforts to rebuild

You Can See the Parthenon Without Scaffolding for the First Time in Decades

The temporary structures will return next month—but in the meantime, visitors will enjoy rare unobstructed views of the ancient hilltop temple in Athens

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 27, 2025 PREVIEW

A wealthy man hogs a dollar bill blanket leaving a common man in the cold.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Christoph Niemann’s “Market Shift” – How the wealthy sleep at night.

A “New Middle East” Is Easier to Declare Than to Achieve

As a long-overdue ceasefire takes hold amid the ruins of Gaza, the President’s visit to Jerusalem is more about transactional politics than transformative peace. By David Remnick

Can the Golden Age of Costco Last?

With its standout deals and generous employment practices, the warehouse chain became a feel-good American institution. In a fraught time, it can be hard to remain beloved. By Molly Fischer

Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball

Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law. By Andy Kroll

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – OCT. 19, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 10.19.25 Issue features Astead W. Herndon on the mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani; Emily Bazelon on the state of the rule of law in the U.S. under Trump; Andrew Ross Sorkin on 1929 and the rise of crypto investing; Parul Sehgal on Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel; and more.

The Battle Inside Israel Over Who Must Fight in Its Wars

The conflict over compulsory service for the nation’s ultra-Orthodox has become a stand-in for a larger struggle over the country’s right-wing, religious turn — and could determine its future.

Lady Gaga Was Always Gothic. Now the World Has Caught Up to Her.

At a moment when other pop stars are flirting with dark spectacle, Gaga’s “Mayhem” tour shows that she has perfected it. By Wesley Morris

What Trump’s War on Sanctuary Cities Is Really About

A movement born in churches to help vulnerable immigrants has become a constitutional battleground in Chicago and Portland, Ore.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

The story of the man most likely to be the next mayor of New York City — and the promise and peril his ascent poses for the Democratic Party.

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 16, 2025

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Advanced Nanoscopy’ – 3D rendering of photochemically sectioned brain tissue.

DNA from rum-soaked fishes chronicles century of change

Museum specimens reveal loss of genetic diversity in marine fishes of the Philippines

Did lead poisoning help drive human evolution?

“Bold” hypothesis suggests tolerance for lead allowed Homo sapiens to outlive Neanderthals

Architects of molecular cages win Chemistry Nobel

Spongelike materials called metal-organic frameworks can separate and store gases

Chaos and confusion as U.S. shutdown drags on

Mass layoffs, and subsequent reversals, have added to research spending woes

The New Republic ———- November 2025 Preview

THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How I Became A Populist’ – My time at the Federal Trade Commission – before Donald Trump fired me – totally changed the way I see our political divide.

Not All Old Candidates Are Joe Biden, and Not All Young Ones Are Great

All things being equal, sure, Democrats ought to lean toward younger candidates. But there are many times when all things aren’t equal.

How the Trump Oligarchy Works: The Case of Stephen Schwarzman

Timothy Noah

Trump’s Big DOJ Scam Accidentally Exposed by MAGA Dimwit Jim Jordan

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

HARVARD MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025

November-December 2025 | Harvard Magazine

HARVARD MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Justice’ – John Roberts legacy might not be the one he intends.

What Trump Means for John Roberts’s Legacy

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court. by Lincoln Caplan

This Harvard Scientist Is Changing the Future of Genetic Diseases

David Liu has pioneered breakthroughs in gene editing, creating new therapies that may lead to cures. by Veronique Greenwood

Why America’s Strategy For Reducing Racial Inequality Failed

Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – NOVEMBER 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Life’s Big Bangs’ – Did complex life emerge more than once?

Mysterious Rocks Could Rewrite Evolution of Complex Life

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

The Slippery Slope of Ethical Collapse—And How Courage Can Reverse It

Your brain gets used to wrongdoing. It can also get used to doing good

Which Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Actually Work?

Experts say the strongest scientific studies identify three compounds that fight disease and inflammation

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China

How a space rock vanished from Africa and showed up for sale across an ocean

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 20, 2025 PREVIEW

The cover of the October 20 2025 issue of The New Yorker in which a dog cannonballs into a pile of leaves.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Harry Bliss’s “Cannonball” – The delights of fall.

The Real Problem Is How Trump Can Legally Use the Military

Congress wrote statutes with the apparent assumption that whoever held the office of the Presidency would use the powers they granted in good faith. By Jeannie Suk Gersen

How Long Will You Live?

Smoking a cig takes twenty minutes off your life. But thinking about Rudy Giuliani’s downfall might add some time back. By Greg Clarke

Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on Higher Education

How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love federal power. By Emma Green

What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor? By Eric Lach