THE NEW CRITERION: The latest issue features…
The Peruvian uncertainty principle by James Como
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 1.18.26 Issue features Robert Draper on Marjorie Taylor Greene; Ferris Jabr on a science experiment to help make the oceans less acidic; Jonathan Mahler on Christian Zionism and MAGA; and more.
Imagine yourself on an isolated mountain pass. The wind is whipping, the air is thin, there is nothing around you except the sky and the sound of your feet hitting the craggy ground. Many of us have experienced the wonder and exertion that comes with a great hike in a wild landscape. These are places we may love to visit, but for Kílian Jornet, this is where he is most at home.
Under Trump, the F.C.C. has used obscure regulatory powers to crack down on network TV. Some conservatives are pushing back. By Jim Rutenberg
The state embodies a civic ideal that the administration in Washington wants to discredit. By Charles Homans
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Horror in Iran’…
Thousands have died and America has threatened to strike back against the horror there
And Donald Trump’s use of companies as a tool of state will make it no safer
You come at the king (of finance),
Sidelining the democratic opposition and its leader, María Corina Machado, would be a mistake
Lessons from history for the next three years
WASHINGTON EXAMINER MAGAZINE: ‘The Trump Doctrine’ – Why Trump Had To Act In Venezuela….
by Sean Durns
by Scott W. Johnson
by David Harsanyi
by Daniel Ross Goodman
by Salena Zito
Drugs that limit the activity of cells called neutrophils could make heart attacks less severe without compromising the immune system.
Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters.
What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.
A huge data set has confirmed a long-theorized relationship between the size of stock trades and the impact on prices.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS: The latest issue features…
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘The New Age of Empire’
We’re just a couple of weeks into 2026 and already it feels like an eternity has passed.
From Venezuela to Greenland, a blitz of revanchist US foreign policy moves by Donald Trump has thrown the world into turmoil. Domestically, it’s little better: in Minneapolis, the killing last week of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent – who was defended aggressively by Trump – prompted shock and fury across America.
While some argue that recent events simply represent a more honest, open approach towards US policy goals than in the recent past, others believe such brazen expansionism profoundly threatens the world order.
In a terrific essay this week, our senior international correspondent Julian Borger argues that these events signal a shift away from the postwar rules-based order and into a new age of global imperialism where, alongside Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Xi Jinping’s China, powerful nations use overtly brute force to achieve their objectives.
Spotlight | Iran protests: ‘The streets are full of blood’
After several days of protests amid an information blackout and a brutal crackdown, demonstrators recount their experiences on the frontlines to Deepa Parent and William Christou
Technology | Elon Musk’s pervert chatbot
‘Add blood, forced smile’: Amelia Gentleman and Helena Horton investigate how Grok’s AI nudification tool went viral
Feature | Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian
The US president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White House is in his sights. Charlotte Higgins reports
Opinion | As the bombs fell, my family planted hope in a garden in Gaza
Amid constant danger, Taqwa Ahmed al-Wawi’s seed-planting was a tiny act of resistance, offering food – and a sense of achievement among the devastation
Culture | Interview with Park Chan-wook
The South Korean film director talks to Steve Rose about cultural dominance, the capitalist endgame and why we can’t beat AI
After buying his own liberty, the Marylander covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, including Harriet Tubman. But his possession of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” turned him into an abolitionist hero
Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets and, maybe soon, people
January 6, five years later
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead—and why we think they matter right now.
By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.
Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.
Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us.
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