Tag Archives: Opinion

THE NEW YORK TIMES – FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025

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Israeli Attack Targets Iran’s Nuclear Sites and Its Top Officials

Stunning Series of Strikes Wipe Out Top Military Chain of Command

Mexican Flags Have Become Republican Fodder, but Protesters Keep Waving Them

Images of Los Angeles protesters waving Mexican flags have gone viral in conservative circles this week. Many protesters say they are aware of the political reaction but won’t put their flags away.

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 13, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Who won the war?’ We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies. By Martin Ivens

Friends like these

The wartime alliances that could not survive the peace By Omer Bartov

Symmetry in motion

Capers and wallpaper: a new film from Wes Anderson By Keith Miller

You’re the tops

What Americans understand by greatness By Andrew Stark

Exploring the occult

A practical and literary guide to modern magic By Russell Williams

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 14, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘American disorder’

When a radical performance artist has command of an army

Donald Trump’s troop deployment in LA could yet backfire

The world must escape the manufacturing delusion

Governments’ obsession with factories is built on myths—and will be self-defeating

How to curb organised crime without shredding civil rights

Ecuador is a test case in the fight against global gangs

THE NEW YORK TIMES – THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025

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Democrats Enter Risky Political Terrain as Protests Grip California

Scenes of unrest in Southern California, stoked by President Trump as he tries to deport more immigrants, have left Democratic leaders worried the confrontation elevates a losing issue for the party.

Suggesting More Troops in More Cities, Trump Bends Military’s Role

President Trump has expanded domestic use of the armed forces, testing the limits on involving troops at protests and the border.

Jury Convicts Weinstein in Second New York Sex Crimes Trial

The conviction, on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual act, was handed down in a mixed verdict that acquitted Harvey Weinstein of a second count of the same crime.

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – JUNE 13, 2025 PREVIEW

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘Flollowing The Amazon Defenders’ – A journey to the heart of the rainforest, three years after the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira…

It’s three years since the murders of the journalist Dom Phillips and the Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who were both killed on a visit to the remote Javari valley in the Brazilian Amazon.

Dom was a Guardian contributor based in Brazil, whose reporting often appeared in the Guardian Weekly. Last week his widow, Alessandra Sampaio, came to visit our London offices along with Beto Marubo, an Indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon.

From the other side of the world it’s easy to feel far removed from the activities of criminal gangs that threaten the Amazon’s Indigenous people and plunder its natural resources. But hearing Beto and Alessandra speak so powerfully about the impact of Dom and Bruno’s work reminded me why we need to stay focused on a region that defies easy scrutiny.

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – JULY 2025 POLITICS PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Daron Acemoglu reveals what tech bros won’t say about AI, while Peter Hoskin explains how gaming made the future. Plus, Neil Kinnock on Labour’s “paralytic caution”, Alona Ferber tours settler Jerusalem & Atul Dev on US universities’ capitulation to Trump

AI’s biggest secret: we can shape it

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform the world. Tech bros want it to subjugate us—but it doesn’t have to be that way

When students protested, Columbia capitulated

Atul Dev

The Englishman on a crusade to ban UNRWA

Alona Ferber

The strange death of the Rejoin campaign

THE NEW YORK TIMES – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2025

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Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say

In disputes over protests, deportations and tariffs, the president has invoked statutes that may not provide him with the authority he claims.

In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force

Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.

Clock Ticks as U.S. and China Try to Undo Devastating Trade Curbs

Officials from the world’s largest economies will try to strike a deal Tuesday to relax painful export restrictions that they have imposed on each other.

THE WALRUS MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025

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THE WALRUS MAGAZINE (June 10, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Summer Reading’…

The Taliban Are Turning Boys’ Schools into Jihadist Training Grounds

by Soraya Amiri

Afghans worry their children are doomed under new curriculum enforced at gunpoint

I’ve Visited Guantánamo 28 Times as a Reporter. It Still Defies Belief

by Michelle Shephard

Is Jordan Peterson Just Making It Up as He Goes?

The culture war’s favourite prophet can’t finish a straight thoughtby Luke Savage

THE NEW YORK TIMES – TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2025

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Trump Jumps at the Chance for a Confrontation in California Over Immigration

The situation has all the elements that the president seeks: a showdown with a top political rival in a deep blue state over an issue core to his agenda.

Democrats Hate Trump’s Policy Bill, but Love Some of Its Tax Cuts

There’s an undercurrent of Democratic support for elements of President Trump’s tax agenda, a dynamic that Republicans are trying to exploit as they make the case for enactment of their sprawling domestic legislation.

Nicole Scherzinger, Mia Farrow and Sadie Sink Party After the Tonys

Stars turned out for show tunes and spirited celebrations that included an official after-party at the Museum of Modern Art and a gathering at the Carlyle Hotel.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025 PREVIEW

A cat sits on a table and knocks over a glass of wine.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See” – It’s good to be a cat. By Françoise Mouly Art by Haruka Aoki

The Victims of the Trump Administration’s China-Bashing

A Cold War-era report is a reminder of how long suspicion has trailed people of Chinese descent in the U.S. By Michael Luo

Jacinda Ardern’s Overseas Experience

New Zealand’s ex-Prime Minister, an anti-Trump icon during COVID, revisited her impoverished New York days, when she slept on a couch and loitered at the Strand. By Andrew Marantz

A First Kiss from America’s First Woman in Space

Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s obituary. By Michael Schulman