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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – SEPT. 1 & 8, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features ‘Cindy Sherman’s and Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley – A special nod to celebrate a centenary of cultural coverage.

The Trump Administration’s Efforts to Reshape America’s Past

Ahead of next year’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the White House has issued a directive to the Smithsonian. By Jill Lepore

A.I. Is Coming for Culture

We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what’s left for the human imagination? By Joshua Rothman

How a Billionaire Owner Brought Turmoil and Trouble to Sotheby’s

Patrick Drahi made a fortune through debt-fuelled telecommunications companies. Now he’s bringing his methods to the art market. By Sam Knight

Culture, Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

HARPER’S MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2025 PREVIEW

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The End of Public School as We Know It’

The Homemade Scholar

A new frontier in American education By Chandler Fritz

Ecological Warfare

A swamp-rat slaughter on the bayou By Nathaniel Rich

The Decisive Moment

Why Congress must impeach Trump By Chris Lehmann

Analysis, Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2025 PREVIEW

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Weaponized World Economy’

The Weaponized World Economy

Surviving the New Age of Economic Coercion by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman

The New Economic Geography

Who Profits in a Post-American World? Adam S. Posen

The Real China Model

Beijing’s Enduring Formula for Wealth and Power by Dan Wang and Arthur Kroeber

After the Trade War

Remaking Rules From the Ruins of the Rules-Based System by Michael B. G. Froman

Magazines, Research, Science, Technology

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2025

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Scientific American Volume 333, Issue 2 | Scientific American

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The End of Food Allergies?’ – Life-changing therapies for peanut reactions are already here.

How Your Brain’s Nightly Cleanse Keeps It Healthy

Washing waste from the brain is an essential function of sleep—and it could help ward off dementia BY Lydia Denworth

Can Peanut Allergies Be Cured?

Maryn McKenna

What Happens When an Entire Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind

Charles C. Mann

How Scientists Finally Learned That Nerves Regrow

Diana Kwon

Plastics Started as a Sustainability Solution. What Went Wrong?

Jen Schwartz

The Universe Is Static. No, Expanding! Wait, Slowing? Oh, Accelerating

Richard Panek

How RNA Unseated DNA as the Most Important Molecule in Your Body

Philip Ball

History, Magazines, Politics, Reviews

History Today Magazine – September 2025 Preview

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HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Greek World At War’….

The Ancient Greek World at War

For the ancient Greeks, the Peloponnesian War was a conflict involving the entire world. For Thucydides, it was a lesson in the realities of human nature. Robin Waterfield

Afghanistan 1919: Facing the Wasps’ Nest

Against the odds, the Third Anglo-Afghan War led to Afghanistan’s independence from the British Empire. Heather Campbell

‘The Invention of the Eastern Question’ by Ozan Ozavcı review

The Invention of the Eastern Question: Sir Robert Liston and Ottoman Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions by Ozan Ozavcı offers the ‘sick man of Europe’ a second opinion.

Arts & Literature, Books, Culture, Magazines, Reviews

The New Criterion – September 2025 Preview

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THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features ‘Josephus’s Journey; Enthusiastic “Euterpides; Walter Scott’s Lot; Looking for Malaparte….

Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

The Nation Magazine – SEPTEMBER 2025 Preview

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THE NATION MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Zohran Mamdani’s New York’ – “To fight for working people must also mean fighting for their quality of life”

Mamdani’s Victory Over Fear

New York’s political establishment threw the whole post-9/11 playbook against the Democratic nominee for mayor, and came up empty. By Spencer Ackerman

Why We Must Release the Epstein Files

We need justice for the survivors of his predations, and we need to restore public trust in our institutions. By Rep. Ro Khanna

On the Power of Small Acts of Noncompliance

At a moment when large-scale resistance can feel futile, there are other ways to oppose, engage, and fight back. By Elie Mystal

Washington’s Dangerous China Consensus

Fantasies of national unity drive the bipartisan push for a new cold war. By Jeet Heer

Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2025 PREVIEW

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Commentary Magazine – A Jewish magazine of politics, high culture, cultural and literary criticism, American and Israeli campaigns and elections, and world affairs.

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Board Games’ – The Supreme Court has outlawed counting by race in college admissions. Here’s how universities might try to defy the ruling and keep affirmative action without admitting it.

How Israel Can Defend Itself in the Future

Can it take lessons from a policy that failed even as it succeeded? by Jonathan Schanzer

College Board Games

The Supreme Court has outlawed counting by race in college admissions. Here’s how universities might try to defy the ruling and keep affirmative action without admitting it. by Naomi Schaefer Riley