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Barron’s Magazine – March 3, 2025 Preview

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (March 1, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Great Wall Of Worry’ – Chinese problems to beyond U.S. tariffs, but there are fresh reasons to dip into a once-shunned market. Where to invest now?

Chinese Stocks Are Beating U.S. Stocks. Where to Find the Bargains.

As President Trump widens his tariff threats to other nations and China backstops its economy, investors are dipping back into a market they once shunned.

Trump Assails Zelensky. Ukraine Is Part of a Global Power Shift.

The president’s advisers are planning for a shift in the global balance of power. Their plans would reshape the global economy.

Are Social Security Checks Safe From DOGE’s Cuts?

Congress would have to change benefits, but cost cuts are starting to ripple through the Social Security Administration. What to know.

The Gold Rally Can’t Be Stopped. How to Play It Now.

The precious metal has more than doubled the S&P 500’s return. Is silver next?

The New York Times – Saturday, March 1, 2025

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Trump Berates Zelensky in Fiery Exchange at the White House

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance castigated President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine for not being grateful enough for U.S. aid. “You’re gambling with World War III,” Trump told Zelensky.

Behind the Collision: Trump Jettisons Ukraine on His Way to a Larger Goal

The president’s explosive Oval Office encounter reflected his determination to put aside alliances and commitments to principles in favor of raw great power negotiations.

Trump Team Tightens Control Over Government Lawyers Who Might Say ‘No’

At the Justice Department and the Pentagon, the administration is curtailing the ability of lawyers to raise internal objections to the president’s use of power.

Milei, $Melania and Memecoins: Unraveling Argentina’s Crypto Fiasco

A new cryptocurrency called $Libra bilked investors out of $250 million. It had been promoted by President Javier Milei.

The New York Times Magazine – March 2, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 3.2.25 Issue features Amanda Hess on the actress Parker Posey; David Leonhardt on Denmark’s brand of progressive politics that features strict immigration measures; Daniel Bergner on the Israeli screenwriter Yehonatan Indursky; and more.Read this issue

How an Anguished Mother Became Netanyahu’s Fiercest Foe

Einav Zangauker, whose son is captive in Gaza, has made herself an enemy of the Israeli government by advocating relentlessly for a hostage deal.

Timothée Chalamet Should Win an Oscar for His Oscar Campaign

Lobbying the public to attract the votes of the academy is an odd practice — but you can’t say Chalamet hasn’t excelled at it.

In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark’s Liberals Winning?

Around the world, progressive parties have come to see tight immigration restrictions as unnecessary, even cruel. What if they’re actually the only way for progressivism to flourish?

The Economist Magazine – March 1, 2025 Preview

The Economist's office agony uncle is back

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Don’s New World Order’…

Donald Trump has begun a mafia-like struggle for global power

But the new rules do not suit America

Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working

More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society

Germany’s election victor must ditch its debt rules—immediately

Friedrich Merz has weeks to shore up his country’s defences 

MIT Technology Review – March/April 2025 Preview

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MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (February 26, 2025): The ‘Relationships Issue’ features AI, Automation, and Surveillance will improve productivity. Or else.

This issue explores the many ways technology is transforming our relationships, from the AI chatbot revolution that’s changing how we connect with one another to the increasing power imbalance in the workplace that’s happening as monitoring increases and protections fall far behind. Plus animating ancient animals, lab-grown spandex, and adventures in the genetic time machine.

The AI relationship revolution is already here

Chatbots are rapidly changing how we connect to each other—and ourselves. We’re never going back.

Adventures in the genetic time machine

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Your boss is watching

Monitoring technology is increasing the power imbalance between companies and workers. Protections lag far behind.

Foreign Affairs Magazine – March/April 2025 Issue

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE (February 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Center Will Not Hold’ – How an Order Ends…

The World Trump WantsAmerican Power in the New Age of Nationalism

Michael Kimmage

The Renegade OrderHow Trump Wields American Power

Hal Brands

The Fatal Flaw of the New Middle EastGaza, Syria, and the Region’s Next Crisis

Maha Yahya

The New York Review Of Books – March 13, 2025

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features:

From Comedy to Brutality

With his designs on Greenland and Gaza, Trump has signaled that his first term’s outlandish gestures are the second term’s savage demands.

Caravaggio Lost and Found

As two paintings by Caravaggio return to public view, it is possible to hope that his best-known lost work will reappear after almost half a century.

Caravaggio: The Ecce Homo Unveiled – an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, May 28, 2024–February 23, 2025

Caravaggio: The Portrait Unveiled – an exhibition at the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, November 23, 2024–February 23, 2025

Caravaggio, la Natività di Palermo: Nascita e scomparsa di un capolavoro [Caravaggio, the Palermo Nativity: Birth and Disappearance of a Masterpiece] by Michele Cuppone

Eden on Fire

The terrible fires in January were another reminder that urban planning in Los Angeles has long failed to protect the city from the natural disasters that repeatedly threaten the region.

The New Yorker Magazine – March 3, 2025 Preview

The Founding Fathers are escorted out of their offices.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (February 24, 2025): The latest issue features Barry Blitt’s “You’re Fired!” – The artist puts a historical slant on the current constitutional crisis.

The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan

The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning. By Jonathan Blitzer

Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep. By Julian Lucas

The Population Implosion

Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Harper’s Magazine – March 2025 Preview

Harper’s Magazine (February 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Round Two – Trump’s Futile War Against The Deep State; Listening for the Future of Music; RAchel Cusk on Marin Amis and The Softer Side of American Conspiracy Theories…

Rage Against the Machine

Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracy by Andrew Cockburn

New World Symphonies

Listening for the future of music by Matthew Sherrill