THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘When America walks away’…
For decades America has enjoyed hegemony over the Middle East. That is about to end
In a big serving of bad news, there are crumbs of comfort
The looming election will not bring the change the country needs
Millions of operations should be scrapped
The Prime Minister on life, fate and his plan to make Britain believe again By Tom McTague
The former cabinet minister on the dirty deals behind the No 10 takeover, and what Labour should do next By Ailbhe Rea
To undo Thatcher’s legacy, Burnham must reckon with our country’s social conservatism By David Kynaston
As the Today programme loses presenters, the corporation is suffering a crisis of confidenceBy Andrew Marr
From southern Africa to the Amazon, the risks are mounting and the window for action is rapidly closing.
Impacts by space objects have obscured some of the evidence of the planet’s contraction over the past 4.5 billion years.
A strong magnetic field can disrupt a star’s ability to produce the fountains of matter called coronal mass ejections.
The trait could explain why symptoms vary in severity between people with similar brain pathology.
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘A NEW LEAF’ – What does the Canada-EU alliance mean?
The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, last week extended an unprecedented offer to Canada, inviting it to become the EU’s first “associate member”.
For our big story this week, Brussels correspondent Jennifer Rankin explores what the proposed alliance might mean. While there is a lot of common ground for the two parties, she writes, their agreement raises many questions and is clouded in uncertainty.
Meanwhile, senior correspondent Lisa O’Carroll examines the possible implications for the UK – asking whether it offers a blueprint for Britain, or a reminder it is out in the cold.
Then, former White House speechwriter Ted Widmer says Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s remarks before the European parliament set out what a new west might look like, without its most powerful member – the US.
Spotlight | Yemeni families’ flight
Fierce fighting has forced people to abandon their homes, leaving everything behind to seek shelter in refugee camps. Nasser Al-Sakkaf reports from Taiz
Science | ‘A map is never neutral’
The cartographers who took on centuries of western bias with the new Equal Earth projection speak to Oliver Holmes, Ana Lucía González Paz and Pablo Gutiérrez about their alternative to the 16th-century Mercator display
Feature | How to fight end times fascism
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them, say Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
Opinion | This Israeli election could be the country’s last
Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, writes Jonathan Freedland
Culture | Present and correct
Author Jonathan Franzen talks to Sophie McBain about a new TV adaptation of his bestseller The Corrections, the future of reading and why creating new work is “horrible”
The secretary of state is executing the president’s wishes around the world, even when they contradict his past beliefs. What’s his long game?
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.
The American Prospect: The latest issue features ‘ELECTION 2026′
Republicans are going to try to solve their midterm problems with money. Good luck to them.
Strange nerds distributing imaginary stories on the internet is no basis for a system of government.
Trump’s economic and immigration policies have pushed South Texas voters away from the GOP, but that doesn’t mean they’ll vote blue no matter who.
In Chicago, city data shows fewer than 4 percent of the more than 30,000 drivers removed from rideshare platforms were reinstated.
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Where To Live In The West Country’….
Hide and squeak
Miniature Mouse Town has been captivating audiences for half a century, but the rodent realm has reached the end of the road, as Harry Pearson reports
Flour power
Ancient and heritage grains are enjoying a revival. Makers and growers tell Tom Howells why they are going back to the future
Property market
Penny Churchill surveys a West Country scene sparking into life with the launch onto the market of a spectacular coastal estate
Properties of the week
West is best, says Julie Harding, as she showcases characterful and comfortable cottages for sale
To boldly go on
James Alexander-Sinclair finds out what the future holds for the innovative Eden Project as the Cornwall garden turns 25
Chorus of approval
Henrietta Bredin hails opera’s unsung chorus lines in a look at life beyond the solo spotlight
Iain MacGregor’s favourite painting
The historian picks a work that reveals beauty in ordinary things
Country-house treasure
A tribute to ‘justice, honour and humanity’ catches John Goodall’s eye at Grey Abbey in Co Down
Ruling the waves
Admiralty House and the Ripley Building in London represent 400 years of our naval history, as Billy Hurley Reading discovers
The legacy
Kate Green celebrates the ever-popular 19th-century Savoy operas of that peerless creative double act Gilbert & Sullivan
Get ready for rush hour
Rush is not only a haven for all manner of wildlife, but also a precious resource for artisan makers, declares Laura Parker
Deep thinking
Next stop, Aldwych… Emma Hughes goes underground to tour the forgotten platforms of London’s lost Tube stations
Luxury
Amie Elizabeth White chooses classic check prints making an impression this autumn
Interiors
Arabella Youens warms to a fossil-stone fireplace in an Exmoor retreat and Amelia Thorpe shares some bright ideas on wall lights
Countryside mystery
The wonder of choke fungus takes John Wright’s breath away
Travel
Sophia Money-Coutts stays on the secluded Flete Estate, a favourite south Devon destination
Arts & antiques
Carla Passino visits a new British Museum exhibition exploring how Korea mastered foreign art forms and made them its own
On the hoof
Satyrs, centaurs and fauns have been strident symbols in art from Ancient Greece to the present day. Charles Harris investigates
WIRED MAGAZINE: The latest “Women’s” issue features “Who Runs The World?”…
Women hold some of the most consequential jobs in tech, but they’re still not cult figures. WIRED investigates why.
WIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree.
Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED.
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Barry Blitt’s “Pulling the Plug” – Is an A.I. kill switch possible?
Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own. By Jill Lepore
Students and faculty across the country were punished for their reactions to the conservative activist’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name. By Benjamin Wofford
STANFORD MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Forget Me Not’ – 125 years ago, Alois Alzheimer met a woman who was losing her memories. So he studied her brain. Here is what he couldn’t see.
Inside the hunt to prevent, delay, and cure Alzheimer’s disease.
One in 10 Americans experiences migraine headaches, which can be incapacitating. But there may be a light on the other side of your blackout curtains. Currently, doctors diagnose migraine based on patient description and treat the headaches based on frequency—episodic or chronic (more than 15 days per month). Treatment decisions are “worse than trial and error,” clinical professor of neurology Robert Cowan told Stanford Medicine. “It’s darts in the dark.” What’s more, guidelines recommend preventative, daily medication only for people with chronic migraine. But including severity may improve treatment options. In the largest study to date to categorize migraine patients, Cowan and data analyst Jaiashre Sridhar used functional MRI data to identify two biological subtypes. One group of patients had more severe headaches—they tended to last longer and caused more bothersome symptoms (nausea, noise sensitivity, etc.).
New releases on our shelves and in our bookbags.
In Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown (Sourcebooks), science journalist Roberta Kwok, ’00, witnesses the “messy middle” of science between researchers’ initial query and possible final discovery. The nine projects she investigates, from sex-role reversal in male guardian frogs to a quest to find an exomoon, depict the slow, frustrating, and focused work of scientists.
