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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 29, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.29.25 Issue features C.J. Chivers on the hundreds of cheap, long-range drones Russia is launching at Ukranian civilians at night; Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Trump administration’s dismantling of civil rights protections within the federal government; Parul Sehgal on the state of the modern biography; David Marchese interviews Andrew Schulz; and more.

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination.

The Weapon That Terrorizes Ukrainians by Night

How Russia’s terrifying long-range drone program has brought about a deadly new phase in the war. By C.J. Chivers and Finbarr O’Reilly

Trump Got the Fight He Wanted. Did It Turn Out the Way He Expected?

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History, Magazines, Photography, Reviews, Travel

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025

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SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE (June 27, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Hemingway in Pamplona’….

A Search for the World’s Best Durian, the Divisive Fruit That’s Prized—and Reviled

Devotees of the crop journey to a Malaysian island to find the most fragrant and tasty specimens

Tom Downey Photographs by Annice Lyn

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of ‘Jaws’ With 15 Shark Snapshots

Archaeologists Say They’ve Pieced Together the Ancient Fragments of the ‘World’s Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle’

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science

SCIENCE MAGAZINE – JUNE 27, 2025 RESEARCH PREVIEW

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SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Sky Surveyor’ – The Rubin Observatory watches a fast-changing cosmos..

All-seeing eye

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe

Microbe with tiny genome may evolve into a virus

With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses

Congress shows signs of resisting proposed science cuts

Lawmakers reject some cuts, question others

Radio bursts reveal universe’s ‘missing matter’

Mystery signals used to locate gases in the spaces between galaxies

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THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW

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Book Review: Creative Destruction: An Introduction, John T. Dalton and Andrew J. Logan

THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW (June 26, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Corporate America’s Ideological Tilt’….

Corporate America’s Ideological Tilt: An Introduction

Rosolino A. Candela, Caleb S. Fuller

Beyond Interest: What May Motivate DEI

Douglas J. Den Uyl

Philosophy, Law and Culture of Liberal Democracy and the Authoritarian Challenge

By Suri Ratnapala

Reviewed by Paul Dragos Aligica

Martin Van Buren: America’s First Politician

By James M. Bradley

Reviewed by Garion Frankel

Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word

By Michael Sonenscher

Reviewed by Richard M. Salsman

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science

NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 26, 2025 – RESEARCH PREVIEW

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NATURE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Cyborg Tadpoles’ – Soft electrode implant maps neural activity in the developing brain…

This tiny robot moves mini-droplets with ease

Magnetially controlled device can combine or split microlitre-sized droplets.

Sensors pinpoint the exact time of a Yellowstone explosion

Data could help to reveal the warning signs of potentially dangerous eruptions caused by liquid groundwater abruptly turning into gas.

One dose of gene therapy gives years of relief from blood disorder

The average number of bleeding episodes for men with haemophilia B dropped almost tenfold after treatment.

Why pangolins are poached: they’re the tastiest animal around

Trafficking of scales for traditional medicine plays a relatively small part in the hunting of pangolins in Nigeria.

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 27, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 25, 2025): In this week’s TLS , If all Russian writers are supposed to have come out of Gogol’s Overcoat, then “all American literature”, according to Ernest Hemingway, “comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”. James Marcus reviews Ron Chernow’s 1,200-page biography of Twain – the Great American Novel seems fated to be twinned with the Great American Door-Stopper.

Inventing a history

How Stalin shaped the Soviet collective memory By Bryan Karetnyk

‘A dear little genius’

Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution By James Marcus

Triumph at Camp David, disaster in Iran

Jimmy Carter’s abrasive foreign policy adviser and rival to Henry Kissinger By Edward N. Luttwak

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THE PARIS REVIEW – SUMMER 2025 LITERARY PREVIEW

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THE PARIS REVIEW (June 24, 2025):

Fanny Howe on the Art of Poetry: “If I could say I was assigned something at birth, it would be to keep the soul fresh and clean, and to not let anything bring it down.”

Marie NDiaye on the Art of Fiction: “Oh, no! Reading beautiful books can’t be traumatizing. Seeing awful things can be—but reading? I don’t believe in that at all.”

Prose by Anuk Arudpragasam, Tom Crewe, GauZ’, Zans Brady Krohn, and Joy Williams.

Poetry by Will Alexander, John Berryman, Yongyu Chen, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ricardo Reis, and Nell Wright.

Art by Anne Collier, Celia Paul, and Alessandro Teoldi; cover by Tyler Mitchell.

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 30, 2025 PREVIEW

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The cover of the June 30 2025 issue of The New Yorker which features a colorful geometric illustration of the Brooklyn...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (June 23, 2025): The latest issue cover features ‘Christoph Niemann’s “The Bridge”’ – Crossing over the water. By Françoise Mouly Art by Christoph Niemann

Donald Trump and the Iran Crisis

It’s not easy to trust the President to make an optimal decision. For one thing, he is suspicious of nearly every source of information save his own instincts. By David Remnick

The DOGEfather Part II

Joe Gebbia, a RISD grad and an Airbnb billionaire, may soon lead the federal cost-cutting effort known as DOGE. Could there be clues to his methods in his art-school days? By Charles Bethea

How Donald Trump Got NATO to Pay Up

The Administration is strong-arming European nations to do more on behalf of their own defense. Is the strategy working? By Joshua Yaffa

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – JUNE 22, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Which One of These is the Real Sam Alman?

When the New York Avant-Garde Started a Revolution

In “Everything Is Now,” J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the ’60s.

The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere

Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early.

On the Silk Road, Traces of Once Bustling Intercontinental Trade

A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth between Europe and China.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 21, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.22.25 Issue features Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on everyone using A.I.; Susan Dominus on creating A.I. avatars of loved ones; Bill Wasik on how A.I. will change the way history is written; Robert Capps on the jobs for humans A.I. will create; Charley Locke on the patterns A.I. can see in human behavior; Kim Tingley on therapy chatbots; and more.