The New Yorker (May 30, 2024): The new issue‘s cover features John Cuneo’s “A Man of Conviction” – The former President is found guilty on all thirty-four counts.
The jury has convicted the former President of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money trial. Now the American people will decide to what extent they care.
When the Verdict Came In, Donald Trump’s Eyes Were Wide Open
In the courtroom with the former President at the moment he became a convicted felon.
The Globalist Podcast (May 31, 2024): Will Biden let US weapons strike Russia? How violence marred the final day of Mexican election campaigns and we take a look at who will be the next premier of the Netherlands.
Andrew Mueller also delivers What We Learned. Plus: the latest news from the world of music and why fries are off the menu at the Paris Olympics.
Until the jury’s decision on Thursday, the four criminal cases that threatened Donald Trump’s freedom were stumbling along, pleasing his advisers.
Under Pressure, Biden Allows Ukraine to Use U.S. Weapons to Strike Inside Russia
White House officials said the president’s major policy shift extended only to what they characterized as acts of self-defense so that Ukraine could protect Kharkiv, its second-largest city.
The Globalist Podcast (May 30, 2024): Have South Africa’s elections marked the end of the ANC’s political dominance?
We head to Prague for an informal Nato summit with foreign ministers, take a look back at the Bratislava Summit 2024 and assess the South Korea-UAE trade deal. Plus: the latest news from the world of aviation and a check-in from the Hay Festival.
In northeastern Ukraine, and in the part of Russia it touches, the war strains the emotions of people with relatives, and family histories, that span both sides.
In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum in Moscow may be accomplishing much the same thing all by himself.
Alito Refuses Calls for Recusal Over Display of Provocative Flags
“My wife is fond of flying flags,” the justice wrote in a letter to members of Congress who had demanded he step down from two cases related to the Jan. 6 attack. “I am not.”
Times Literary Supplement (May 29, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Kafka’s Century’ – Karen Leeder, Becca Rothfeld, Gabriel Josipovici, Michael Hofmann et al…; Colm Toibin returns to Brooklyn; India under Modi; A Jim Crow insane asylum and Literary cricket…
A defense lawyer painted Donald J. Trump as the victim of unscrupulous people, but a prosecutor said Mr. Trump had directed a scheme to conceal a hush-money payment.
At a time when the U.S. government is concerned about its reliance on a mercurial billionaire for access to space, new competitors say Elon Musk’s SpaceX is using tactics intended to squash them.
The end of Roe has turned women who terminated pregnancies for medical reasons into a political force.
Eyeing Trump, but on the Fence: How Tuned-Out Voters Could Decide 2024
Politically disengaged Americans are increasingly Trump-curious, but President Biden has a shot at winning some of them back. Reaching them in a changed media environment will be his challenge.
As Blind Veterans UK pays its own special tribute to survivors of the D-Day operation, Octavia Pollock puts words to Richard Cannon’s poignant photographs
‘Plans are worthless, but planning is everything’
Allan Mallinson examines the key role that country houses played in preparations for D-Day, aided by well-stocked wine cellars and countesses in the canteen
‘Because it’s there’: the Mallory and Irvine mystery
Was the 1924 British Everest Expedition a success or failure? Robin Ashcroft takes a broad perspective as he sifts through a century of speculation
There’s no place like home
In the first of four articles, Annunciata Elwes investigates how flexible working has opened up the North to City commuters
Country Life International
Holly Kirkwood explores the Balearic Islands — the life and sol of the Mediterranean Sea
Growing in stature
Chelsea provides many magic moments for Tiffany Daneff, who finds inspiring gardens on Main Avenue and in the Great Pavilion
Native herbs
John Wright raises a glass to hops, that stalwart ingredient of the ale-brewing industry
The late Sir Andrew Davis’s favourite painting
Before his death last month, the celebrated conductor selected a compelling and inspiring work
Elegant and congruous
In the second of two articles, John Goodall charts the recent history of Hartland Abbey, Devon
The legacy
Kate Green reveals Thomas Darley’s role in the story of the English Thoroughbred horse
Empire protest
A Passage to India reflects the rising tensions of the British Raj. Matthew Dennison revisits the masterpiece 100 years on
‘Nature is nowhere as great as in its smallest creatures’
John Lewis-Stempel marvels at the variety of microscopic wild-life that calls tree bark home
Luxury
Hetty Lintell serves up a new tennis collection, plus Heston Blumenthal’s favourite things
Interiors
A bright, colourful drawing room and Alidad at Wow!house
Spring-fed genius
Charles Quest-Ritson reveals how springs have shaped Selehurst garden in the West Sussex Weald
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson celebrates sweet and juicy strawberries
Achilles healed
The ancient Greeks harnessed its medicinal powers, but yarrow now has a role to play in modern agriculture, discovers Ian Morton
The darling buds of May
May Morris is finally stepping out of the shadow of her famous father, William — and not before time, argues Huon Mallalieu
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