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Foreign Policy Magazine – Spring 2025 Preview

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Introducing Foreign Policy's Spring 2025 Print Issue: Billionaire Rule

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE (March 25, 2025): Introducing Foreign Policy’s Spring 2025 Print Issue – Billionaire Rule

Is America a Kleptocracy?

Here’s how life could change for the rich, poor, and everyone in between. by Jodi Vittori

When great changes are afoot, we look for a user manual. There will be new patterns of living and new expectations for the future. The rapidly developing corruption landscape in the United States will be no exception.

Elon Musk’s First Principles

The world’s richest man wants to apply the rules of physics to politics. What could go wrong? by Adam Tooze

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world—one of the richest in history. But Musk’s power is no longer just tied to the financial wealth derived from Tesla, X, or SpaceX. Musk, by virtue of his close relationship with President Donald Trump, has been given a sweeping mandate to influence policy across the entire U.S. government through the newly founded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). His life as an entrepreneur sheds important light on his work as a political actor.

How Modi and Trump Treat Billionaires Differently

Both have harnessed industrialists for political ends.

Did China Get Billionaires Right?

The party does not grant impunity to the ultra-rich.

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The New Yorker Magazine – March 31, 2025 Preview

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An illustration of a parent carrying a stroller with a child seated in it down a flight of stairs into the subway.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE (March 24, 2025): The latest issue features R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Upstairs, Downstairs” – A tale of two schlepps.

Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient

From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics? By Manvir Singh

How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away

When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate by Sean Willi

The E.P.A. vs. the Environment

With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again. By Elizabeth Kolbert

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The New York Review Of Books – April 10, 2025

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (March 20, 2025): The latest issue features Michael Gorra on the majesty of Caspar David Friedrich, Cathleen Schine on Hanif Kureishi, Wendy Doniger on letting slip the horses of war, Adam Thirlwell on Lars von Trier, Christian Caryl on denazification, Miri Rubin on Christian supremacy, Jonathan Mingle on the phosphorous shortfall, Brenda Wineapple on the history of American social movements, Geoffrey O’Brien on Fifties Hollywood, Christopher R. Browning on Trump’s antisemitism, poems by Witold Wirpsza and Laura Kolbe, and much more.

Toffler in China

The work of the eclectic American futurist exerted a profound and unanticipated influence on China’s digital transformation since the 1980s.

Lost in the Landscape

The Met’s Caspar David Friedrich exhibition offers an introduction to an artist whose work—luminous, disturbing, serene—reveals an all-encompassing physical realm.

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature – an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 8–May 11, 2025

Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age – an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, December 15, 2023–April 1, 2024

The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time by Florian Illies, translated from the German by Tony Crawford

The Rise and Fall of Warhorses

You can tell the history of a large part of the world by who had what horses when.

Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires by David Chaffetz

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The New York Times Magazine – March 23, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 20, 2025): The 3.23.25 Issue features Matt Flegenheimer and Dana Rubinstein on Eric Adams’s scandal-ridden mayoralty; Helen Ouyang on how airline pilots are pushed to hide their mental health issues; Parul Sehgal on progressives and solidarity; and more.

How Eric Adams Lost New York

He promised law and order. Instead, his scandal-ridden mayoralty became a symbol — and engine — of the city’s chaos.

Why Airline Pilots Feel Pushed to Hide Their Mental Illness

Is the F.A.A. really ensuring

How Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA Style

Online Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies.safety by disqualifying pilots who receive a diagnosis or treatment?

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The Guardian Weekly – March 21, 2025 Preview

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THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (March 20, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Driven to Fury’ – How Tesla became a target for protest…

 Lauren Gambino examines how growing difficulties for Musk have given heart to Democrats as they see his recognition factor and billionaire status as an easy rallying point to rebuild their own battered political fortunes. 

Spotlight | On the frontline of the tariff wars
Leyland Cecco takes the pulse of Hamilton, Ontario’s steel-making hub, after the Trump administration imposed a 25% levy on imports of Canadian steel and aluminium

Environment | Loess regained
The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action and reversed decades of damage from grazing and farming, finds Helen Davidson

Feature | A Syrian civil war survivor
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad chronicles the life of Mustafa, determined to succeed in the new Syria even with his past as a forced soldier for the Assad regime

Opinion | Trump’s every misstep brings chaos
The honeymoon is over for a president who seems to personify the law of unintended consequences, says Simon Tisdall

Culture | A painter in her own write
Celia Paul tells Charlotte Higgins about her relationship with Lucian Freud and the struggles of being out of step with the art world

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Country Life Magazine – March 19, 2025 Preview

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COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (March 19, 2025): The cover of Country Life’s 19 March 2025 issue, featuring Wollerton Old Hall Garden in Shropshire,

Building on a dream

Nicola Taylor tells Tiffany Daneff how she ‘picked up a spade and carried on’ where her father left off in a Northamptonshire wood

It starts with a seed

Is there anything more satisfying than growing a plant from seed? Find out how with John Hoyland

The ground crew

Christopher Stocks meets the unsung heroes and heroines of horticulture who keep Britain’s best gardens in mint condition

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Shocking pinks

Tilly Ware recommends a trip to Cornwall’s Calamazag nursery to pick up the perfect pinks

United colours of Rolls-Royce

Toby Keel finds the British marque making a bold, banana-yellow statement as he gets behind the wheel of the new Series II Ghost

A uniform approach

Never try to appear fashionable or attempt to look young — Dylan Jones shares his golden rules on how to dress in your sixties

Hare’s to you

Murderous, mad and magnificent: the hare is a fascinating figure in art, discovers Michael Prodger

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Sir James MacMillan’s favourite painting

The composer chooses a bold and moving religious painting

The architect for me

In the first of two articles, Clive Aslet examines the double act of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and client Reginald McKenna

Take it with a pinch of salt

Deborah Nicholls-Lee examines the salt-loving plants coming into their own in a changing climate

A night on the tiles

Harry Pearson finds drunken may-hem in the history of dominoes

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The good stuff

A vase is a Mother’s Day gift that keeps on giving, says Hetty Lintell

Interiors

Amelia Thorpe applauds the updating of a Wiltshire sitting room, as Arabella Youens asks: are you sitting comfortably?

Sour to the people

Fish and chips wouldn’t be fish and chips without a glug of malt vinegar, argues Rob Crossan

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Pho sure

Asian noodle soup tempts Tom Parker Bowles with its thrilling symphony of fragrant flavours

Foraging

Handle with care when picking hogweed and cow parsley for the kitchen, warns John Wright

Arts & antiques

Carlo Passino throws the spotlight on the engaging drawings of literary legend Victor Hugo

Directors take centre stage

Shakespeare and Chekhov are given an imaginative new spin — and Michael Billington approves

And much more

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Times Literary Supplement – March 21, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘An extraordinary woman’ = Gisele Pelicot’s dignity before a watching world; What I learnt from Athol Fugard; Caspar David Friedrich; Stalin’s don and Hitler’s royal allies…

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The New Republic Magazine – April 2025

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THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE (March 17, 2025): The April 2025 issue features ‘Democrats must become the Workers Party Again’

Democrats, This Is the Worst Possible Time for a Civil War

The party’s base is right to be angry at Chuck Schumer, but the country’s fate hinges on the fight against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Michael Tomasky

Is the American Electric Car Already Dead?

Trump is cutting power to the EV industry. It’s unclear if it can recover.

Trump Is Fighting His Court Losses With a Surprising Legal Tactic

Legal skirmishes between the administration and lower court judges have highlighted the way the federal court system itself has become a thorn in the president’s side.

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The New York Times Magazine – March 16, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (March 15, 2025): The 3.16.25 Issue features Extreme Voyages Issue, Evgenia Abrugaeva on the Ice Age bone hunters of Siberia; J Wortham on a 10-day crash course for surviving the Apocalypse; Doug Bock Clark on adventure racing through a hurricane; Sam Anderson on following the path of The Old Leatherman; Sara Benincasa on a trip to the grocery store as an agoraphobe; and more.

Diving With Siberian Bone Hunters

A search for the fossils of long-extinct creatures, hidden in Russia’s frigid waters.

How Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA Style

Online Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies. By Dan Brooks

The Old Idea That Could Give New Life to Progressive Politics

During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be different?By Parul Sehgal

    Art, Arts & Literature, Exhibitions, Museums, Podcasts, Reviews

    Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’

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    THE WEEK IN ART (March 14, 2025): After a challenging year in which international galleries, auction houses and museums have been forced to scale back their operations and make redundancies on an alarming scale, a slower, more considered approach to business seems to be emerging.

    So are we into an era of longer, more in-depth exhibitions and bespoke events concerned more with authentic connection than flashy spectacle? Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Art Newspaper. In the Netherlands, just as in the US, cuts by far-right politicians to international development seem likely to have a huge impact on arts projects. As Tefaf, the major international art fair opens in the Dutch city of Maastricht, we talk to Senay Boztas, our correspondent based in Amsterdam, about fears of a funding crisis. And this episode’s Work of the Week is one of the greatest paintings ever made: The Hunters in the Snow (1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is part of an exhibition called Arcimboldo – Bassano – Bruegel: Nature’s Time, which opened this week at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The museum’s director, Jonathan Fine, tells us more.

    Arcimboldo–Bassano–Bruegel: Nature’s Time, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, until 29 June