Tag Archives: September 2026

THE NEW YORK TIMES – TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2026

China and the U.S. Offer Competing Showcases of Global Power

As Xi Jinping gathered with the leaders of Russia and Iran, Europe challenged the Trump administration at the G20, a split-screen view of a changing world.

Global Bond Sell-Off Puts Investors on Edge

Government borrowing costs are hitting multi-decade highs around the world, reflecting anxiety about debt levels, deficits and inflation.

Punishment and Silence: China Pulls Out the Disaster Playbook in Tibet

While journalists can report freely on grief and anger in Nepal, China’s official media have presented a sanitized disaster aftermath in Tibet.

How the Pentagon Is Getting Into the Venezuelan Oil Business Under Trump

A Defense Department office, created by the Biden administration to bolster the U.S defense industry, is helping lead President Trump’s oil deal.

Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail

A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 7, 2026

A tribute to Dolly Parton.

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features Nicole Rifkin’s “Pure Gold” – We will always love you.

Dolly Parton, Honky-Tonk Angel

Dolly Parton belonged to a beloved category: the outlaw Christian, who loved Jesus and refused to hate anyone else.

Cinema Lessons from a Trash-Movie Auteur

Why do we love trash and hate slop? Neil Breen’s so-bad-they’re-great movies elucidate the difference.

The Floods Nepal Didn’t Cause

Flash floods, triggered by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, have killed at least five hundred people in a nation that has contributed little to climate change but is disproportionately affected by it. By Ishaan Tharoor

How the Meta Settlement Could Change the Internet

Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children. By Nathaniel Lubin

New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State

The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER MAGAZINE – SEPT. 2-9, 2026

September 2, 2026

WASHINGTON EXAMINER MAGAZINE: ‘25 Years After 9/11′ – Lessons not learned about Islamic terrorism…

American amnesia: What we’ve forgotten in the 25 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks

Islamist propagandists have bombarded Americans for two and a half decades, taking advantage of our tolerance, and have persuaded much of the decent public that criticizing, opposing, and pushing back against Islam is racist. By Hugo Gurdon

The damage 9/11 did to our country

By David Harsanyi

Brexit isn’t what’s dragging Britain down

In countless American minds, Brexit and President Donald Trump are linked, and not in a good way.

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2026

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Kids issue features… What does growing up in an age of chatbots and agents mean for kids’ future? From the role AI plays in their day-to-day lives to how they cope with the existential dread that comes with climate change, young people are asserting their smarts to define their relationship with technology and the world around them. Plus!…

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.

Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

Today’s world is a mess of troubling trends. Some groups are trying to help kids navigate their anxieties about it all.

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds.

HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026 PREVIEW

History Today 2026
HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Visiting Mao’s China’…

Visiting Mao’s China

For the thousands of foreign visitors who travelled behind the ‘bamboo curtain’ to visit Mao’s China, hospitality workers – guides, drivers, waiters, chambermaids – were unofficial ambassadors for the new socialist state, and the state knew it.

What is an Information Age?

From the printing press to the internet, the spread of information has changed the world. How do we recognise an age defined by it?

The Bengal Famine in Indian Letters

In 1943 letters reporting starvation and death in Bengal began to reach Indian soldiers serving the British overseas. Despite colonial censorship, their testimonies revealed the devastating reality of famine.

What the Victorians Read

The Victorian reading public had access to a vast array of classical literature from Asia in multiple translations by experts and amateurs. What did they read, and why?

The Medieval Forgery at the Heart of the Church

An audacious forgery in the ninth century helped transform the papacy and the medieval Church. Its influence persists today.

HARPER’S MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE: Erin Somers charts the rise and fall of cultivated meat, Barrett Swanson reports on the Ugly People Festival in Italy, Kyle Berlin on the French bestseller whose controversy divided the country, a pseudonymous memoir of a government official in Beijing, Finn Brunton on prediction markets and crypto-anarchism, Thomas Frank on the Obama Center, Kasia Boddy reviews William Kennedy’s Albany Trilogy, five stories from Diane Williams, and more.

Where’s The Beef?

The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t by Erin Somers

Regarding the Pain of Uggos

A weekend at the Ugly People Festival by Barrett Swanson

The Chaos Machine

Prediction markets and the triumph of crypto-anarchy  by Finn Brunton

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026

Scientific American Volume 335, Issue 2 | Scientific American

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: The latest issue features ‘Collision Course’ – Companies want to put millions of satellites into space. Are we headed for an orbital catastrophe?

The battle for the night sky

SpaceX and other companies want to put millions of satellites into space. Could orbit run out of room?

What really happened on Easter Island?

For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse. New evidence tells a different tale

How NASA turned a spy satellite into its new dark energy telescope

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon launch to unravel the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter

Why your brain turns life into stories

Neuroscience is revealing how our brains are wired for narrative

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026

September 2026 – Commentary Magazine

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How We Won The War On Terror’ – 25 Years after 9/11

How We Won the War on Terror

by Tod Lindberg

On September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush gave a major speech to Congress and the country in which he outlined the coming U.S. response to al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. He said, “Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.” Thus began what would soon be known as the “Global War on Terror,” or GWOT, in its unlovely acronym

Toxic Smaxxulinity

by Christine Rosen

It’s a confusing time to be a man. For decades, the cultural left has insisted that “toxic masculinity” is roaming the land, threatening women’s safety and rights. 

The Saudi Choice That Will Reshape the Middle East

by Jonathan Schanzer

Two possible paths, one pro-American, one not. Where will the Kingdom go?

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2026

September–October 2026

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘How AI is Reshaping Strategy’: Smart firms are using it to streamline
decision-making.

AI Is Revolutionizing Strategic Decision-Making

New tools can improve human judgment by tirelessly generating, evaluating, and synthesizing insights.

How AI Agents Orchestrate Work Across Silos

A new generation of tools can connect functions and reduce the friction that slows companies down.

The HBR Interview with Verizon CEO Dan Schulma

His mindset: “Losing doesn’t work for me.”

Life’s Work: An Interview with Dionne Warwick

The legendary singer on her six-decade career.

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026 PREVIEW

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features “Confessions of a Token Black Professor”…

Why I Quit the Tenure Track

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia By Tyler Austin Harper

Hindsight Is 2024

Some institutions jumped onto the MAGA bandwagon after the 2024 election, but it hasn’t taken long for those decisions to look shortsighted. By David A. Graham

How the ‘Body Positivity’ Movement Died

A few years ago, there was a push for acceptance of different body types. Now? Not so much. By Julie Beck and Natalie Brennan