The prince, his protectors and the questions that must be answered By Gordon Brown
Less than a year ago, campaigners for the bill were optimistic it would pass – what went wrong? By Hannah Barnes
How Britain failed a generation of Neets By Anoosh Chakelian
The scale of Britain’s involvement is still not fully understood By Tom McTague
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘A View of Her Own’….
Tracey Emin’s self-fashioning By Sophie Oliver
Women landscape painters reconsidered By Jenny Uglow
Mankind has escaped nuclear war, for now By P. D. Smith
Mexico’s challenge to received historical ideas By Benjamin T. Smith
The bittersweet contentment of old age By Rory Waterman
From the 16th century onwards, as European powers feverishly colonised the world, the possibility of a Northern Sea Route connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Scandinavia to the Bering Strait, tantalised the Dutch and the British as an alternative to the southern routes to Asia and the Americas, which were dominated by Portugal and Spain. But the route only became a reality in the Soviet era, after investments in scientific, economic, industrial and military infrastructure in Siberia.
This is what distinguishes hyperpolitics from the mass democracy of the mid-20th century. Symbolic political gestures are now commonplace, but paid membership of organisations and parties has plummeted. The left has failed to find a replacement for trade unions as a basis for collective action in civil society. Political movements are easy to join, and just as easy to leave.
De Kooning’s Suburb in Havana is a counter-revolutionary painting. Well, of course. It is counter-revolutionary because it is counter everything, versus everything, lost in suburbia. It wants to show us how hard it had to work to get precisely nowhere. Why nowhere was where it wished to get to is a question it leaves to the viewer.
Can there be poetic justice in politics? Perhaps once in a lifetime. In 1989, a young Viktor Orbán bravely told the crowds in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square that it was time for the Russians to go home, just as protesters had demanded in 1956; almost four decades later, he was heckled on the campaign trail with the same words.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features ‘Tomer Hanuka’s “Spring Salutations” – Central Park flow.
The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change. By Elizabeth Kolbert
From tariffs to the war with Iran, the President is blowing up the global economy.
With Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘I Don’t Know If We Can Come Back From This’ – The view from inside Trump’s D.H.S….
From the Kremlin to Silicon Valley, some of the most powerful people in the world now want something more: eternal life.
The actor and comedian is keenly aware of humanity’s limitations, but he’s not giving up. By David Marchese
Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.
REASON MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A Pointless War’…
President Donald Trump and his predecessors spent decades putting the U.S. on a path toward war against Iran. Matthew Petti
“Now they are hitting everything. Nowhere is safe. But don’t worry, we are okay,” one Iranian woman texted her American relative. Matthew Petti
From trade to migration to personal freedom, the conservatives of the global New Right hold a philosophy incompatible with individualism. Stephen Davies
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features America’s best free bread, the cartel Olympics, a billionaire’s private retreat, and why reactionaries are taking over the world. Plus the U.S. gerontocracy, masterpieces of the New Deal, John Mark Comer, Black comedy, the eighth deadly sin, and more.
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf. Caity Weaver
A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually playing a different game? McKay Coppins
The heartbreak of hoping for a democratic Iran Laura Secor
Why reactionaries are taking over the world David Brooks
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘America prepares for the midterms‘….
Too many no longer believe elections are fair
Will it work for his successor?
America’s new defence-tech industry should be a model for Europe
Binyamin Netanyahu is quick to start conflicts, but shows no ability to end them
In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality. By Fintan O’Toole
The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.
On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser
Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.
The Poems of Seamus Heaney edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue, with Matthew Hollis
An important exhibition showcases a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of the two artists’ work and, by extension, modern art itself.
Manet and Morisot – an exhibition at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, October 11, 2025–March 1, 2026, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, March 29–July 5, 2026
HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How The General Strike Changed Britain’….
The General Strike of May 1926 was quickly defeated, but it would rupture and recast the landscape of British politics. For some, the strikers’ failure was an opportunity.
The Slavery Abolition Act was passed by Parliament in 1833. What was really behind Britain’s moment of moral enlightenment?
The Exclusion Crisis of the late 17th century posed a question of national importance: should the Catholic duke of York be allowed to succeed to the throne? And should he be subject to the same law as everyone else?
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated republic, and the Reich that replaced it.
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