THE WEEK MAGAZINE – MARCH 20, 2026 PREVIEW
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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- MARCH 15, 2026
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 3.15.26 Issue features Yudhijit Bhattacharjee on the quest to save Bili the baby gorilla; Daphne Merkin on the psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz; Elisabeth Zerofsky on the key to Europe’s defense; and more.
The Quest to Save One Baby Gorilla From an Uncertain Fate
Social media is fueling a black market for infant primates like Bili, who was captured in the wild and trafficked. By Yudhijit BhattacharjeeCreditIllustration by Clément Thoby
The Race to Stop Wildlife Trafficking in Africa
In Nigeria, customs officers and conservationists are confronting the grim impacts of the $20 billion trade. By Arlette Bashizi and Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
X’s Chatbot Started Undressing Women. Was This What A.I. Wanted All Along?
Grok Imagine’s “nudify” scandal reveals something about the dream of manhandling photos.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
When a President Gets Addicted to Regime Change
Venezuela gave Trump a taste of success. This isn’t the first time an American president has gotten hooked on overthrowing foreign governments. By Scott Anderson
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – MARCH 14, 2026 PREVIEW
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘An attack on the world economy‘….
An attack on the world economy
Whatever happens in the Strait of Hormuz, energy markets have been changed for ever
China’s hereditary elite is taking shape
The Communist Party is afraid to tax inherited wealth
There are no good options for Iran’s nuclear programme
If America cannot eliminate the threat, what should it do?
How to teach Donald Trump a Latin lesson
By alienating Hispanics, he has given Democrats an open goal
Haiti needs order first, then elections
Voters must be able to turn out without risking death
THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – MARCH 13, 2026 PREVIEW
When news breaks that dominates the agenda to the extent of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, one challenge for the Guardian Weekly team is how to keep the magazine’s covers feeling fresh, week after week, while remaining focused on the same story.
For this week’s edition, in response to Patrick Wintour’s must-read essay on how the US has ignored the lessons of two previous Gulf wars, we asked illustrator Doug Chayka to play with the idea of a Middle East that the US either cannot, or refuses to, see. Doug’s artwork neatly captures the dilemma of a Trump administration that now finds its Iran exit strategy – assuming there was one – cut off by chaos.
Spotlight | War losses mount in rural Russia
Residents of a remote village in Komi Republic say dozens have left to fight in Ukraine, leaving behind grieving families and labour shortages. Pjotr Sauer reports
Science | Is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?
Insect taxonomist Art Borkent fears his field of science is fading, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be discovered, he tells Patrick Greenfield
Feature | The miraculous survival of Nada Itrab
After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nine months later – but that wasn’t the end of her ordeal. Giles Tremlett picks up the story
Opinion | In this war, Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump
As the Iran disaster escalates, Simon Tisdall argues that Starmer should treat the US president as someone whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere
Interview | Corinne Bailey Rae
The English singer and songwriter was riding high with a hit album when her husband died tragically young. She discusses grief, fame and rebuilding her life with Simon Hattenstone
The Spectator World Magazine – March 16, 2026
Trump’s ultimate target in this war is China
The United States and Israel killed Ayatollah Khamenei, and Xi Jinping’s decade-long project to build an alternative to the American-led order died with him. For years, Beijing quietly assembled a network of dictatorships and client states designed to blunt American power. Iran supplied China with cheap oil and kept Washington bogged down in the Middle
The Iran war has exacerbated the failure of European energy policies
The history of the global trading system is a story of narrow and vulnerable waterways: the Suez and Panama Canals, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Straits of Dover and the Skagerrak, which defends the entrance to the Baltic. But none has the power to seize up the global economy as much as the Strait of…..
I spent 25 years fighting neocons. Then Trump became one
Like everyone, I’m glued to the news coming out of Iran. I’m experiencing some depression, as one might, upon realizing that much of what one has worked on for 25 years has suddenly gone up in smoke, destroyed when Donald Trump discovered he was pretty much a neocon after all. Like everyone else, I have…
America’s last war in the Middle East
Win or lose, Donald Trump has begun the last war the United States is ever likely to fight in the Middle East. That might sound wildly optimistic, but what it really means is that war with Iran has been decades in the making. If the mission succeeds, it will mark the end of an era.
Inside MAGA’s meltdown over Iran
When President George W. Bush invaded Mesopotamia in 2003, everybody laughed at Comical Ali, the bespectacled Iraqi information minister who kept insisting that the American “rats” were doomed as Saddam Hussein’s regime collapsed around him. The world moved on. Iran is not Iraq, as President Donald Trump’s supporters are so fond of saying, and Bush-eraOwen Matthews
Will Turkey intervene in Iran?
With the exception so far of a single missile intercepted over Turkish airspace and a strike on an Azeri-controlled territory near the Iranian border, Tehran has so far declined to mess with the Turks, and for good reasons. Turkey is a member of NATO and attacking it would trigger Article 5 mutual defense measures. And
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE – MARCH 16, 2026 PREVIEW
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Barry Blitt’s “War-a-Lago” – No Nobel Peace Prize in sight.
Where Is the Iran War Headed?
President Trump has both called for Iranians to rise up and oust the ruthless theocracy and then said that he’s fully prepared to deal with a new religious leader. By Robin Wright
The Zombie Regulator
As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the Trump Administration is gutting the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin. By E. Tammy Kim
The Unmaking of the American University
For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government. By Nicholas Lemann
Literary Review Of Canada – April 2026 Preview
Literary Review of Canada The latest issue features…
To Review, or Not to Review
Dwindling serendipity in the age of the algorithmKyle Wyatt
They Desire a Better System
Share the burden, perhaps?Aaron Wherry
House of Card
When the saints came marching inMichael Ledger-Lomas
Behind the Wire
The enemies we invented and internedJ.L. Granatstein
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- MARCH 8, 2026
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 3.8.26 Issue features Matthieu Aikins and Wesley Morgan on the former Zero Unit soldiers who are now living in the U.S.; Sophie Haigney on love addiction; Robert Draper on his experience taking ibogaine; and more.
They Fought for the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. In America, They’re Living in Fear.
A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy — and brought attention to a long-hidden dimension of America’s war.
Renters Made Mamdani Mayor. Can He Remake the City for Them?
His call to ‘freeze the rent’ galvanized the 69 percent of New Yorkers who don’t own their homes. But the city’s landlords claim the math doesn’t add up. By Jonathan Mahler
In a World Order Defined by Trump, the Key to Europe’s Defense Is Germany
In the wake of the U.S. bombing of Iran and its dismissal of European allies, an anxious continent’s best chance at security runs through its largest economy. By Elisabeth Zerofsky
Maggie Gyllenhaal on Envy, Rage and Reaching Out to Her Brother
With a big budget and a lot to say, the filmmaker is unleashing her inner monster with “The Bride!” By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
SCIENCE MAGAZINE —- MARCH 5, 2026
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Bottleneck Recovery’ – Population expansion and genetic reshuffling in koalas…
Stem cell therapies ‘come of age’ with two conditional approvals in Japan
Induced pluripotent stem cells could help treat diseased hearts and brains
AI and quantum now drive NSF grantmaking, officials say
Leaders acknowledge White House role in recent controversial moves
U.S. research agency moves to restrict foreign scientists
Proposed rule at National Institute of Standards and Technology would limit lab access to a few years
Why three scientists said no to Epstein
The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – MARCH 7, 2026 PREVIEW
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘A war without a strategy‘….
Donald Trump must stop soon
His ill-considered conflict risks descending into chaos
AI danger gets real
The squabble between America’s government and Anthropic makes an AI disaster more likely
China needs a more ambitious growth target
Otherwise a fourth year of deflation awaits
It’s time to unleash Europe’s pensions
One reform offers both security in old age and dynamism now
Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski: best of frenemies
Britain’s twin populists have a symbiotic relationship
