Newsweek US
Let Loose
Fuller silhouettes are all the rage, menswear influencer Derek Guy tells Newsweek, after viewing the stylish offerings at the Pitti Immagine Uomo trade fair
1 min |
July 04, 2025
Time
The American Dream, glimpsed through skeptical British eyes
IN THE THIRD SEASON OF HBO’S THE GILDED AGE, A FROTHY costume drama set amid the robber barons and socialites of 1880s New York City, a servant suddenly comes into money. So much of it, in fact, that he’ll never have to work again. But instead of seizing his newfound freedom, the man keeps his windfall a secret and continues toiling below stairs. He simply can’t imagine leaving a household staff that has become his surrogate family.
3 min |
July 07, 2025
Time
U.S.Strikes Iran, Joining War
THE CONFLICT WILL AFFECT GREAT-POWER RIVALRIES, GLOBAL ENERGY MARKETS, AND THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
10+ min |
July 07, 2025
Time
A ZOMBIE MOVIE WITH BRAINS
28 Years Later revives a franchise, and a genre, that's about so much more than the walking dead
6 min |
July 07, 2025
Newsweek US
WHAT CAN AI REALLY DO NOW?
WITH SO MUCH HYPE CIRCULATING ABOUT HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD-BUT NOT A LOT OF CONCRETE SUCCESSES-HERE ARE SIX LESSONS YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE
10+ min |
July 04, 2025
Newsweek US
Fears for Marriage Equality
Ten years after the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, are gay couples' rights at risk?
7 min |
July 04, 2025
Time
Can the Musk-Trump feud ground NASA?
ON JUNE 5, AS THE FEUD BETWEEN ERSTwhile besties President Trump and Elon Musk escalated, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, \"The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!\"
2 min |
July 07, 2025
Time
AI helped a couple get pregnant after 19 years
DOCTORS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FERTILITY CENTER have reported the first pregnancy using a new AI system, in a couple who had tried to conceive for nearly two decades.
2 min |
July 07, 2025
Time
The truth and sanity of American history
I AM A HISTORY PROFESSOR AT ONE OF THE UNIVERSITIES under attack by the Trump Administration. I am also a flagwaving patriot with an abiding love of the U.S. Those two statements might seem surprising, or contradictory, if you do not know what has happened to the teaching and writing of American history in the past 50 years. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It asserts that American historians have rewritten American history and replaced “objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
4 min |
July 07, 2025
Time
BRACE FOR SUMMER
What's at stake as Trump targets experts on climate and heat
3 min |
July 07, 2025
Time
Arms And the Man
FOR NATO CHIEF MARK RUTTE, GETTING EUROPE TO PAY MORE FOR ITS DEFENSE MAY BE THE EASY PART
10+ min |
July 07, 2025
Reason magazine
Visit Your Ancestral Homeland
LAST YEAR I honeymooned in Rome, which was a long day trip from the tiny 2,500-year-old village in the Campania region of Italy that my maternal grandparents left in the 1910s. Of course I had to go—it was surely my only chance to see where that side of my family had come from.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
The Glories of Mexican Dentistry
I CROSSED THE U.S./Mexico border six times in a month in 2018, an economic refugee in my own way.
4 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
A Beautiful Private Bridge
FOR MY 80TH birthday, my wife Lou offered to plan a trip somewhere I'd always wanted to go. I chose the Millau Viaduct—Europe's highest and most wonderful bridge.
1 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
CAPITALISM IN THE CRACKS
A THREE-STORY HOUSE tucked into a mere one-meter gap between tall buildings. A flower shop shaped like a triangle, wedged between a retaining wall and the sidewalk. A standing bar humming with laughter beneath the rumble of passing trains. In most cities, these spaces would be dead zones—awkward, overlooked, written off by zoning and building codes as unusable.
8 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
12:00 THE RISE-AND DEMISE?-OF FREQUENT FLYER MILES
I JOINED MY first frequent flyer program—American AAdvantage—before a trip to Australia in 1991. Sadly, I let those miles expire. Five years later I was out of college, flying regularly for work, and reading all the materials airlines used to send in the mail.
9 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
Tiny Nations in the Crack of the Map
AFTER THE INITIAL thrill of a few stamps on one's passport, the idea of touching down in yet another nation-state may seem jejune. After you've seen one nation-state, how truly different can another one be? Airports and highways with instantly navigable signage, cultures and cuisines flattened to meet the supply and demand of global trade, traditions reduced to photo opportunities—just more of the same.
5 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
Tropical Culture in Canada's Multicultural Arctic Outpost
ON SATURDAY NIGHT, I had Indian food at a mosque potluck. The next day, I went to an African church service full of gospel music. In between, I went to a hockey game and stood on sea ice to watch a dogsled race. That's life in Iqaluit, a Canadian boomtown on the edge of the Arctic.
8 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
11-Day Middle-earth Fantasy in New Zealand
IT’S LITTLE SURPRISE that many libertarians count The Lord of the Rings among their favorite stories.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
The Final Vacation Frontier
LOOKING TO GET really away from it all? How about 250 miles straight up and traveling at 17,500 mph away from it all? This year, why not take a vacation in low earth orbit—specifically, on the International Space Station (ISS)?
2 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
THE NEARLY FREE MARKETS OF GUATEMALA
EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT the McDonald's Happy Meal—a global icon, with its bright box, its golden arches, and a toy that keeps kids entertained long after the fries are gone. What most don't know is this worldwide sensation was born in Guatemala, a small Central American country more often associated with coffee, bananas, and (unfortunately) crime.
4 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
A CITY BUILT BY IMMIGRANTS—AND BEER
FAR BELOW DOWNTOWN Cincinnati, you'll find large stone-and brick-walled caverns with dirt-strewn floors. Their great arched passageways loom over piles of century-old rubble, vast vats that once overflowed with beer, and recently added stairways to assist tourists passing through.
6 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
TRUMP'S CRACKDOWN ON FOREIGNERS IS CRIMPING AMERICANS' TRAVEL PLANS
AS THE TRUMP administration began snatching college students, detaining legal European tourists, denying entry to British crust-punks, rejecting transgender passports, deporting tattooed Salvadorans, insulting the sovereignty of Canadians, and floating plans to ban visitors from 43 countries, the domestic travel and tourism industry braced itself for bad news.
5 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
The Rise of the Digital Nomad
\"IT WAS A grueling three-hour commute to my Colorado office this morning. I left Telluride with a yellow day pack strapped to my back, and climbed north into the mountains through the golden glow of early-October aspens,\" wrote Steven K. Roberts in his 1988 book, Computing Across America.
10 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
IN SEASIDE, LIVING IS A WAY OF LIFE
YOU MIGHT NOT expect there to be much for libertarians to like about a town that boasts a master plan, where design conformity is rigorously enforced across virtually every building and street, and whose admirers wax poetic about a building code that covers “everything from building materials to roof pitch.”
5 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
In Defense of 'Tourist Traps'
IF YOU EVER go to New Orleans, one of your first stops should be the very unhidden gem of Café Du Monde’s French Market location. There you can buy some New Orleans special beignets and, if the weather is hot enough (it almost certainly will be) a frozen coffee to wash them down.
6 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
The Possible Birthplace of Wine and Definite Birthplace of Stalin
THE PEOPLE OF Georgia might well be the first folks who ever got properly wine-drunk.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
Wildlife Thrives on Privately Owned Reserves
SITTING IN THE front seat of an open Land Rover being driven furiously backward for about a half-mile while being chased by a bugling, ear-flapping, and very pissed off elephant matriarch is, well, pretty exciting. Our guide later speculated that she had been spooked earlier by a roving pride of lions.
3 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
TO HIDE FROM THE STATE, OR TO ESCAPE?
IN HIS 1970 classic Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, Albert O. Hirschman explored three ways people can respond to institutional failure: by standing by the institution anyway, by speaking up to agitate for change within the institution, or by leaving the institution in protest. The European wars of religion, and persistent attempts by the victors in those conflicts to hem in the losers, produced manifold examples of all three.
4 min |
August - September 2025
Reason magazine
NOTRE-DAME REBORN FROM THE ASHES
FIRE NEARLY DESTROYED the Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019. Thanks largely to an outpouring of private donations, the cathedral now shines more brilliantly than it has for centuries.
3 min |