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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 21, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘How will this end?‘….

Where will the Iran-Israel war end?

In a worse place if Donald Trump rushes in

To keep Russia out and America in, NATO must spend more

European members need a hard date to boost their defence budgets

Japan’s government bonds: this time it won’t end well

Even as interest costs mount, politicians promise hando

Why MAGA’s pro-natalist plans are ill-conceived

Efforts to deliver a baby boom either fail or cost a fortune

Magazines, Research, Reviews, Science

NATURE MAGAZINE – JUNE 19, 2025 – RESEARCH PREVIEW

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NATURE MAGAZINE (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Food Forecast’ – How climate change and adaptation could affect global agriculture…

Minuscule worms form living towers to hunt for food

Scientists observe the nematode’s behaviour in the wild for the first time.

Hungry caterpillars can brew exotic molecules in their guts

Researchers fed moth larvae the chemical building blocks, and the insects’ enzymes did the rest.

A cancer-causing mutation meets its match

In mice, engineered immune cells shrink pancreatic and other tumours bearing a mutant version of the KRAS protein.

A long-predicted cosmic collision might not happen after all

The pull of a third galaxy could yank the Milky Way out of the path of Andromeda.

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS – JUNE 26, 2025 PREVIEW

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LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features Joan Didion on the couch; Ocean Vuong’s Failure; The Best-Paid Woman in NYC and Olga Turner Tokarczuk and the mycological turn….

The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss

The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the Other 99 per Cent by Conor Niland

The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay by Christopher Clarey

The Roger Federer Effect: Rivals, Friends, Fans and How the Maestro Changed Their Lives by Simon Cambers and Simon Graf

Searching for Novak: The Man behind the Enigma by Mark Hodgkinson

Culture, Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

Harper’s Magazine ——- July 2025 Preview

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HARPER’S MAGAZINE (June 18, 2025): The July issue includes Andrew Kay’s report on how OCD came to haunt American life, Lewis Hyde’s essay on deep time and climate change, Pete McKenzie’s investigation into how a band of island nations in the South Pacific became Israel’s staunchest defenders, Alex Reisner’s annotation of the system prompt for Elon Musk’s AI Grok, Lydia Davis’s essay on the art of observation, Charlie Lee’s review of Harry Crews’s oeuvre, fiction from C. Mallon, and more.

Shadow of a Doubt

How OCD came to haunt American life by Andrew Kay

Lost Tribes of the South Pacific

How a band of island nations became Israel’s staunchest defenders by Pete McKenzie

The Geological Sublime

Butterflies, deep time, and climate change by Lewis Hyde

Arts & Literature, Books, Magazines, Opinion, Reviews

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT – JUNE 20, 2025 PREVIEW

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (June 18, 2025): In this week’s TLS, Mary Beard and Margaret Drabble are not quite getting away from it all this summer. For our summer books selection, they have picked a brace of biographies of Labour prime ministers past and present. Along with Daniel Mendelsohn’s recent translation of the Odyssey, our Classics editor chooses Alan Johnson’s biography of Harold Wilson, her mother’s favourite politician. By Martin Ivens

Summer books 2025

Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading

Young and damned

Three teen-centric novels arrive at a time of national soul-searching

Culture, Essays, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE – JULY 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE (June 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Witness’ – Elizabeth Bruenig’s “Witness,” on Sin and Redemption in America’s Death Chambers

Inside America’s Death Chambers

What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption by Elizabeth Bruenig

Inside the Exclusive, Obsessive, Surprisingly Litigious World of Luxury Fitness

How Tracy Anderson built an exercise empire by Xochitl Gonzalez

The Talented Mr. Vance

J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power. by George Packer

Arts & Literature, Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – JUNE 23, 2025 PREVIEW

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The illustrated cover of the June 23 2025 issue of The New Yorker in which Donald Trump who is wearing a white party hat...

THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features David Plunkert’s “On Parade” – Toying with democracy.

President Trump’s Military Games

Trump, always attracted to playing the role of the strongman, is even more inclined than he was in his first term to misuse the military for his own political gratification. By Ruth Marcus

New York to ICE: “G.T.F.O.”

As protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread nationwide, a crowd gathered in lower Manhattan—complete with bullhorns, balloons, and a toy doughnut to bait the cops. By Adam Iscoe

What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE?

Even before Musk fell out with Donald Trump, the agency’s projected savings had plummeted. But he nevertheless managed to inflict lasting damage to the federal government. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025 PREVIEW

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Mother Jones Magazine Cover : July + August 2025

MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE (June 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Technofascist Takeover’ – The plan to control Americans and delete democracy.

Control, Delete

Technofascists are moving fast to break democracy.

Cyber Secessionists

Silicon Valley moguls are creating regulation-free, crypto-based “network states.” And hoping to gobble up land near you.

Parent Trap

Tech bros and “trads” are pushing women to have more babies. Just as long as they’re the right kind of women.

Aspies Über Alles

Elon Musk believes autism makes him superhuman. Just don’t call it that.

Culture, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.15.25 Issue features Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV; Nicholas Casey on how the MAGA right became obsessed with the Romanian presidential election; Irina Aleksander on how Jon Bernthal became Hollywood’s most dependable tough guy; David Marchese interviews Misty Copeland about her retirement; and more.