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The New Republic ———- May 2025 Preview

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THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE (April 23, 2025): The latest issue features ‘How the Radical Right Captured The Culture’…

Who Were Those Gullible People Who Believed Donald Trump’s Bullsh*t?

His campaign promises, from peace in Ukraine to “beautiful” tariffs, were truly unbelievable. And yet, somehow, many people believed him.

Will Trump Finally Kill the Bretton Woods System?

For better and often for worse, the U.S.-led IMF and World Bank have dominated the post–World War II international economy. Project 2025 and the Trump administration could change that.

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science, Technology

MIT Technology Review – May/June 2025 Preview

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MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (April 23, 2025): The Creativity Issue features Defining creativity in the Age of AI: Meet the artists, musicians, composers, and architects exploring productive ways to collaborate with the now ubiquitous technology. Plus: Debunking the myth of creativity, asteroid-deflecting nukes, bitcoin-powered hot tubs, and a new way to detect bird flu.

How AI can help supercharge creativity

Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the process.

How creativity became the reigning value of our time

In “The Cult of Creativity,” Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.

AI is coming for music, too

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.

Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Foreign Affairs Magazine – May/June 2025 Preview

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE (April 22, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Committee to Run the World?’….

The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition

Trump’s New Spheres of Influence by Stacie E. Goddard

The Return of Great-Power Diplomacy

How Strategic Dealmaking Can Fortify American Power by A. Wess Mitchell

The Russia That Putin Made

Moscow, the West, and Coexistence Without Illusion by Alexander Gabuev

The Once and Future China

How Will Change Come to Beijing? by Rana Mitter

Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Commentary Magazine – May 2025 Preview

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Commentary Magazine (April 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7’….

The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7

by Jonathan Foreman

Greenpeace Pays the Piper

by James B. Meigs

In Argentina, a Lighthouse for the Hemisphere

Javier Milei and other regional leaders are set on de-woking and rebuilding Latin America by Robert C. Thornett

Arts & Literature, Books, Culture, Magazines, Reviews

The New Criterion ——– May 2025 Preview

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THE NEW CRITERION (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features…

The crime of noticing

On the writings of Renaud Camus. by Douglas Murray

There at “The New Yorker”

On A Century of Fiction in “The New Yorker”: 1925–2025, edited by Deborah Treisman. by Bruce Bawer

By measure he lived

On the great English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. by Harry Adams

The whispers of Joseph Joubert

On Paul Auster’s translation of the French aphorist. by Mark LaFlaur

Finance, Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

The Economist Magazine – April 19, 2025 Preview

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features How a dollar crisis would unfold…

How a dollar crisis would unfold

If investors keep selling American assets, a grim fate awaits the world economy

In its pursuit of a policy, Donald Trump’s government is content to destroy a man

What’s at stake in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Zuckerberg on trial: why Meta deserves to win

Social media has plenty of problems. Lack of competition isn’t one of them

Brazil’s Supreme Court is on trial

How a superstar judge illuminates an excessive concentration of power

Culture, Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Harper’s Magazine ——– May 2025 Preview

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Harper’s Magazine (April 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘War In The West Bank” – What choice for the Palestinians….

After Nonviolence

The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich

Radioactive Man

On (maybe) unraveling a government cover-up by Maddy Crowell

The Secret of Who She Was

How my mother learned to be invisible by Geoff Dyer

Magazines, Research, Science

Scientific American Magazine – May 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (April 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mind Stretching Shapes’ – The loops, knots and structures pushing the boundaries of math…

How Can We Know If an Asteroid Will Hit Earth?

Suddenly Miners Are Tearing Up the Seafloor for Critical Metals

Willem Marx

Mathematicians’ Favorite Shapes Hold the Key to Big Mathematical Mysteries

Rachel Crowell, Violet Frances

A Deadly Parasite Threatens Bees and 130 Crops They Help Grow

Hannah Nordhaus

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Science

Harvard Magazine – May/June 2025 Preview

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HARVARD MAGAZINE (April 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Falling Behind’ – Boys, men, and the new gender gaps…

The New Gender Gaps

What to do as men and boys fall behind by Nina Pasquini

Ben Franklin’s Project

Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge by Joyce E. Chaplin

Alice Hamilton

Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970 by Daniel Stone

Culture, History, Magazines, Photography, Travel

Smithsonian Magazine – April/May 2025 Preview

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SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE (April 4, 2025): The April/May 2025 features ‘In The Birthplace of the Buddha’ – What happens when Archaeologists and worshipers converge in the spiritual leader’s legendary Nepali hometown?

In Search of Siddhartha

The legendary birthplace of Siddhartha in Nepal beckons worshipers from around the world—and archaeologists hoping to uncover new evidence about the revered spiritual leader

Can a Forgotten Bean Save the Brew?

In a world that consumes two billion cups of coffee each day, climate change is threatening the most popular species. How one leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new beans that could keep our cups full

An Artist for the Here and Now

Long overlooked, Swedish painter Hilma af Klint made pioneering abstract art. Today she’s a global star—but some scholars insist she should be sharing the spotlight