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NEW INTERNATIONALIST MAGAZINE – NOV/DEC 2026

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NEW INTERNATIONALIST MAGAZINE: The November-December 2026 issue features ‘Who Wins in Sudan’s War?’….

Who wins in Sudan’s War?

With Sudan still in the midst of conflict and the largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world, this magazine shows the complexity of the crisis and the political dynamics behind the headlines. In collaboration with independent Sudanese media platform Ayin Network, the Big Story explores the impact of the war on civilians, from the interruption of education to how displacement is changing the face of the country. We hear from revolutionaries turned fighters, and activists in exile who can’t escape the war, even outside Sudan’s borders. How does the revolutionary dream continue and what does it mean for the goal of civilian rule?

Also in this edition, a report from Syria on attacks against the Alawite minority, a long read exploring how Palestine became a focus of international anti-colonial solidarity, and is the AI apocalypse really on its way?

TAKE BACK THE LAND

The land beneath our feet is what sustains us – from it we can produce food, construct shelter and build livelihoods. But, it’s also a cultural marker and a source of identity. Its control has been a long-favoured tool of colonizers, wealth hoarders and polluters, while its fiercest protectors – often Indigenous peoples – are criminalized, violated and dispossessed. This edition hears from struggles to take back the land in Brazil, Bangladesh, Kenya and North America. We also launch our new series ‘Decolonize how?’ which will explore what people are doing to dismantle the impacts – and current realities – of British-linked colonialism.

THE FIRST DRAFT

Intellicurean Essays, on Intellicurious
Above the publisher’s desk at The New York Times hangs an engraving of Manhattan in 1851 — cobblestones, low buildings, a harbor full of sails, a church spire the tallest thing on the island. Someone stood there and looked. That, it turns out, is the whole question.

Why we’re pointing you there

The Times marked its 175th anniversary this week with an essay on fifteen million “first drafts of history.” The same week, an investigation exposed a company buying real online publications, firing the writers, and filling them with machine-written articles — bylined to experts who were never born, and overseen by an editor whose age dropped from 77 to 75 in the space of three days. Intellicurean sets the two side by side and asks what a first draft is worth when no one was there to draft it.

The answer turns on a name the Times left out: Earl Caldwell, the only reporter at the Lorraine Motel when King was shot, who said afterward that you don’t see everything — you get a sliver of what came past you, and that sliver is the basis for everything. A machine can generate a flawless eyewitness account of any event. It can never have been there. This is the fourth in Intellicurean’s series on what the machine lacks — and the one with the strongest floor beneath it.

Read the full essay at Intellicurean → Essays & Reviews for the Intellectually Curious

Culture: Harper’s Magazine – April 2025

HARPER’S MAGAZINE (March 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Social-Skills Crisis’ – Have we forgotten how to work together?; Undercover with New York’s Guardian Angels and The End of Psychoanalysis As We Know It?…

Going Soft – Future-proofing the American worker

by Lily Scherlis

The Last Detail – On patrol with the Guardian Angels

by Kent Russell

The Social Turn – Psychoanalysis at an inflection point

by Maggie Doherty

Politics: The Progressive Magazine- October 2024

theprogressive Magazine (October 1, 2024): The latest issue features…

How to Make a ‘War Reserve’ Nuclear Bomb

The dark art of crafting nuclear ‘pits’ was almost lost. Now it’s ramped up into a multibillion dollar industry.

Child Care Does Not Need To Be a Crisis

Our system leaves parents with unreliable waitlists and mortgage-size payments, while teachers go overburdened and underpaid. 

Can Democrats Ride Ballot Initiatives to Victory?

The party realizes that progressive issues win voters, even when their candidates don’t. 

Literary Preview: n+1 Magazine – Fall 2024

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@nplusonemag (August 16, 2024): The ‘Inside Job’ issue features Pope Fiction, My AI Could Paint That, Literal Death Drive, Raven Leilani on Grief Writing; Biden – A Retrospective and A Satire by Saidiya Hartman…

Previews: The Progressive Magazine- Aug/Sept 2024

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theprogressive Magazine (August 5, 2024):

Dark Money Uncovered

Corporate news media too often miss the pervasive influence of unaccountable election spending.

‘None of the Above’: Exposing Election Year News Abuse

As framed by corporate news media, presidential elections have become as formulaic as a Hallmark holiday movie. 

Navigating the Digital Democracy

Social media has the power to influence voters.

Literary Preview: n+1 Magazine – Spring 2024

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@nplusonemag (April 23, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Passage’ – Fast fashion nation. Six months of genocide in Gaza. Human_Fallback_2: 2 Human 2 Fallback. Martin Amis, re-reassessed. Border stories by Nicholas Hamburger and Paul Soto.

Who Sees Gaza?

A genocide in images



OCTOBER 7 MARKED the beginning of a new economy of war imagery. At first there was a video of a bulldozer plowing through the border fence between Israel and Gaza—an astonishing image, captured in a familiar way. Then things turned horribly surreal. The events of that day were beamed to the world in real time via body-cam, dashcam, cell phone, drone. A Hamas fighter wearing a GoPro stalked the highway with his automatic rifle jutting up from the bottom of the frame, first-person-shooter style. A dashboard camera showed a car zooming forward as a bullet pierced its windshield and the car began to drift, veering left, until it crashed into the rear end of a parked Toyota; you knew exactly when the person behind the wheel could no longer drive, was probably dead. 

Previews: The Progressive Magazine- Feb/March 2024

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theprogressive Magazine February/March 2024:

Breaking’s Storied Road to the Olympics

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From the South Bronx to the Summer Olympics, this urban dance style finally gets its due. 

By MARCUS REEVES

Forging a New Path as Partners with Latin America

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A group of U.S. lawmakers recently visited South America with a fresh perspective on U.S. foreign policy in the region. 

By JEFF ABBOTT

Middle America: Getting Beyond ‘Us Versus Them’

We’ve become increasingly alienated from one another. It’s time we get back in touch with each other, get out of our heads, and reconnect with our common humanity, writes Ruth Conniff. 

RUTH CONNIFF

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The Economist Magazine – January 27, 2024 Preview

How the border could cost Biden the election

The Economist Magazine (January 25, 2024): The latest issue features How the border could cost Biden the election; Could AI transform the emerging world?; Saving coffee from climate change and Why you shouldn’t retire…

How the border could cost Biden the election

Could AI transform the emerging world?

AI holds tantalising promise for the emerging world

Saving coffee from climate change

A warming planet threatens the world’s favourite drug

Britain’s nuclear plans

The government has yet another plan for a nuclear renaissance

Why you shouldn’t retire

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

The Economist Magazine – January 13, 2024 Preview

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The Economist Magazine (January 12, 2024): The latest issue features ‘China’s EV Onslaught’ – An influx of Chinese cars is terrifying the West; Europe’s Silicon Valley; ‘America Fights Back’ – The new contest for sea power; Why Olaf Scholz is no Angela Merkel – Germany is unable and unwilling to lead Europe; What science says about old leaders…

An influx of Chinese cars is terrifying the West

But it should keep its markets open to cheap, clean vehicles

America fights back

The war against the Houthis is part of an escalating struggle for the seas

Why Olaf Scholz is no Angela Merkel

Germany is unable and unwilling to lead Europe