THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘When America walks away’…
For decades America has enjoyed hegemony over the Middle East. That is about to end
In a big serving of bad news, there are crumbs of comfort
The looming election will not bring the change the country needs
Millions of operations should be scrapped
From southern Africa to the Amazon, the risks are mounting and the window for action is rapidly closing.
Impacts by space objects have obscured some of the evidence of the planet’s contraction over the past 4.5 billion years.
A strong magnetic field can disrupt a star’s ability to produce the fountains of matter called coronal mass ejections.
The trait could explain why symptoms vary in severity between people with similar brain pathology.
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘A NEW LEAF’ – What does the Canada-EU alliance mean?
The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, last week extended an unprecedented offer to Canada, inviting it to become the EU’s first “associate member”.
For our big story this week, Brussels correspondent Jennifer Rankin explores what the proposed alliance might mean. While there is a lot of common ground for the two parties, she writes, their agreement raises many questions and is clouded in uncertainty.
Meanwhile, senior correspondent Lisa O’Carroll examines the possible implications for the UK – asking whether it offers a blueprint for Britain, or a reminder it is out in the cold.
Then, former White House speechwriter Ted Widmer says Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s remarks before the European parliament set out what a new west might look like, without its most powerful member – the US.
Spotlight | Yemeni families’ flight
Fierce fighting has forced people to abandon their homes, leaving everything behind to seek shelter in refugee camps. Nasser Al-Sakkaf reports from Taiz
Science | ‘A map is never neutral’
The cartographers who took on centuries of western bias with the new Equal Earth projection speak to Oliver Holmes, Ana Lucía González Paz and Pablo Gutiérrez about their alternative to the 16th-century Mercator display
Feature | How to fight end times fascism
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them, say Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
Opinion | This Israeli election could be the country’s last
Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, writes Jonathan Freedland
Culture | Present and correct
Author Jonathan Franzen talks to Sophie McBain about a new TV adaptation of his bestseller The Corrections, the future of reading and why creating new work is “horrible”
The secretary of state is executing the president’s wishes around the world, even when they contradict his past beliefs. What’s his long game?
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.
The American Prospect: The latest issue features ‘ELECTION 2026′
Republicans are going to try to solve their midterm problems with money. Good luck to them.
Strange nerds distributing imaginary stories on the internet is no basis for a system of government.
Trump’s economic and immigration policies have pushed South Texas voters away from the GOP, but that doesn’t mean they’ll vote blue no matter who.
In Chicago, city data shows fewer than 4 percent of the more than 30,000 drivers removed from rideshare platforms were reinstated.
WIRED MAGAZINE: The latest “Women’s” issue features “Who Runs The World?”…
Women hold some of the most consequential jobs in tech, but they’re still not cult figures. WIRED investigates why.
WIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree.
Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED.
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue cover features “Barry Blitt’s “Pulling the Plug” – Is an A.I. kill switch possible?
Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own. By Jill Lepore
Students and faculty across the country were punished for their reactions to the conservative activist’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name. By Benjamin Wofford
STANFORD MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Forget Me Not’ – 125 years ago, Alois Alzheimer met a woman who was losing her memories. So he studied her brain. Here is what he couldn’t see.
Inside the hunt to prevent, delay, and cure Alzheimer’s disease.
One in 10 Americans experiences migraine headaches, which can be incapacitating. But there may be a light on the other side of your blackout curtains. Currently, doctors diagnose migraine based on patient description and treat the headaches based on frequency—episodic or chronic (more than 15 days per month). Treatment decisions are “worse than trial and error,” clinical professor of neurology Robert Cowan told Stanford Medicine. “It’s darts in the dark.” What’s more, guidelines recommend preventative, daily medication only for people with chronic migraine. But including severity may improve treatment options. In the largest study to date to categorize migraine patients, Cowan and data analyst Jaiashre Sridhar used functional MRI data to identify two biological subtypes. One group of patients had more severe headaches—they tended to last longer and caused more bothersome symptoms (nausea, noise sensitivity, etc.).
New releases on our shelves and in our bookbags.
In Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown (Sourcebooks), science journalist Roberta Kwok, ’00, witnesses the “messy middle” of science between researchers’ initial query and possible final discovery. The nine projects she investigates, from sex-role reversal in male guardian frogs to a quest to find an exomoon, depict the slow, frustrating, and focused work of scientists.
For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.By Nikk Ogasa
Reflect Orbital satellites could make the darkest skies look like nighttime in the suburbs. By Lisa Grossman
New methods could help vulnerable people acclimate to higher temperatures. By Katarina Zimmer
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 9.20.26 Issue features David Wallace-Wells on our age of perpetual climate disaster; Eve Fairbanks on a superintendent who rebuilt his devestated schools; Mark Chiusano on the New York City subway system and flooding; and more.
But every crisis is an opportunity.
Members from both parties say the legislative branch has descended into a state of dysfunction in the Trump era. By Robert Draper
A former superintendent in Joplin, Mo., is trying to apply what he learned to other shattered districts — and reckoning with the toll of the disaster on his own life. By Eve Fairbanks
