SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Evoloving Immunity’…
Hybridization 9 million years ago gave potatoes the genetic knack to develop tubers, a new study finds
Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers
One-fifth of computer science papers may include AI-written sentences
Images of starving Palestinians have appeared with increasing insistency across the world’s media over the past few weeks. Deciding whose child and which picture best illustrates the territory’s slide into famine is a grim task. Five-year-old Lana Salih Juha, on this week’s cover, weighed just 8kg when this photograph was taken in Gaza City on 28 July.
As Malak A Tantesh reports from Gaza for this week’s big story, Lana’s parents are among many inside the territory forced to watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer. It was, as Malak reports, a week when two milestones were reached: a Palestinian official record of 60,000 deaths and the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a group of UN and aid organisations, stating that the whole population of 2.2 people were now living in a state of famine.
Spotlight | Transatlantic barbs traded over social media safety
The UK’s new law restricting under-18s’ internet access has only just come into force but already US tech giants and rightwing commentators are bolstering Nigel Farage’s efforts to turn restriction into a free speech issue, reports Dan Milmo
Environment | The best job in the world
Matthew Jeffery explains to Donna Ferguson how he became Cambridge University’s first expedition botanist since Darwin and how he prepared for his new post
Feature | Has nature writing strayed off the path of success?
In the footsteps of the controversy over The Salt Path, Alex Clark explores how, despite public appetite, memoirs of redemption through the natural world may have reached journey’s end
Opinion | A good jigsaw is simply champion
Why did the Lionesses bring Lego, sourdough starters and a puzzle or two to the Women’s Euro 2025? Because they are perfect ways to build mental resilience, explains Amy Izycky
Culture | AI rescues Woody Guthrie’s basement tapes
The legendary folk singer’s daughter and granddaughter tell Dave Simpson how they became custodians of his vast archive, including tracks that have now been released
PHILOSOPHY NOW MAGAZINE (August 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Sources of Knowledge Issue’
Maya Koka journeys through the desert to seek knowledge about knowledge.
Peter Keeble spotlights and critiques a common philosophical technique.
Brian King follows Popper’s idea of the evolution of knowledge, life and society.
Sina Mirzaye Shirkoohi observes science to get the facts straight about it.
Michael D. McGranahan takes us to the edge of language, mathematics and science.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features ‘Amy Sherald’s “Trans Forming Liberty” – The art and politics of representation.
As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump made his world view plain: there was “us” and there was “them.” Once he was in the White House, the fear factor would prevail. By David Remnick
It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews. but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes. By Leslie Jamison
As plans are laid for a new casino, one can trace, through four figures, a history of rivalry and excess, rife with collisions of character and crime. By Adam Gopnik
LITERARY REVIEW (August 2, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Mark Twain’s American Odyssey’…
As this week’s issue of the Guardian Weekly went to press, a UN-backed monitor said famine was now unfolding in Gaza. That statement came less than 24 hours after Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time that there was “real starvation” and told Israel to allow “every ounce of food” into Gaza. This week’s big story, led by on-the-ground reporting by Gaza-based journalist Malak A Tantash, focuses on the limited pause in fighting by Israel to allow aid deliveries.
Spotlight | Russia’s kamikaze attacks
Luke Harding reports from the frontline in Dnipropetrovsk as once-safe Ukrainian villages are abandoned and the last inhabitants leave their animals and vegetable gardens behind
Environment | Nature fakes
Photographer and author of The Anthropocene Illusion, Zed Nelson reflects on the how humans seek to recreate versions of the environments and creatures they have destroyed to satisfy their cravings to be in nature
Science | Life of plastics
The journey of a single thread is traced by Phoebe Weston and Tess McClure, from garment to field and onwards, to illustrate how ubiquitous microplastic pollution has become
Opinion | Queens of England
As we celebrate the Lionesses’ historic win, isn’t it time English football fans stopped chasing glory through their men’s teams when the women are the ones delivering, asks Ava Vidal
Culture | In the cradle of country music
As the Grand Ole Opry turns 100, Jewly Hight visits the Nashville institution to find out how it has kept reinventing itself while honouring tradition over the decades
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest cover features Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Chiaroscuro at the Met” – The art of shade.
The blows have been coming weekly, as Trump tries to ransack the Constitution. Yet recent Court history shows that what feels like the end can be a beginning. By Amy Davidson Sorkin
Trump’s “populist” policy is backed by the National Restaurant Association—probably because it won’t stop establishments from paying servers below the minimum wage. By Eyal Press
Amid national euphoria over the bombing of Iran—and the largely ignored devastation in Gaza—a question lurks: What is the country becoming? By David Remnick
NATIONAL REVIEW (July 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A New Arsenal of Democracy’ – Defense Industry Special Issue
He can’t stop talking about the Jews
The minstrelsy of late-night-TV activism. Armond White
A perusal of recent U.S. arms sales to Ukraine, approved by the Pentagon office that keeps track of American weapons and supply stockpiles. Jim Geraghty
The President has tried to blame the Democrats, and, more unexpectedly, he has called those in his base who have asked for a fuller accounting “weaklings” and “stupid.” By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
A Washington, D.C., improv theatre invited recently laid-off civil servants to a free workshop. The goals: stay adaptable, and maybe even laugh. By Sadie Dingfelder
How Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, plans to transform government into a money-making enterprise. By Antonia Hitchens
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 7.20.25 Issue features Jeneen Interlandi on how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dismantling the F.D.A.; Anna Peele profiles Ari Aster, the director behind some of the 21st century’s most unsettling films; Devin Gordon on Mazi VS, a sports betting influencer who may not be what he seems; David Marchese interviews Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody; and more.
Mazi VS has become a major influencer by flaunting his expensive lifestyle and his big-winning wagers. Other gamblers say he can’t be what he seems. By Devin Gordon
When my Instagram account was compromised, I didn’t know what to do. Luckily, others did. By Just Lunning
As the genre has boomed on cable, the incarcerated have found themselves watching more and more of it. By John J. Lennon
