Newsweek US
Biden's European Headache
The right-wing surge in the EU elections could hamper the president's ambitions in Ukraine and play into the hands of his election rival, Donald Trump
6 min |
July 05, 2024
Newsweek US
Lupita Nyong'o
THE TRAILER FOR A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (JUNE 28) SHOWS STAR LUPITA Nyong'o carrying a cat around moments before New York City is overtaken by aliens.
2 min |
July 05, 2024
The Atlantic
A Novel Without Characters
Rachel Cusk's lonely experiment: Parade. Her new book, a novel of elusive vignettes, it can be seen as an allegory about both fiction and the gendered shapes of selfhood.
10 min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
Kafka's Not Supposed to Make Sense - Kafka died a century ago this year at the age of 40, and since then a mighty industry has arisen to deliver all of the messages that Kafka said would never be delivered.
It would be foolish to claim that Kafka learned his metaphysical wordplay from Jewish texts alone. He read widely: Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He admired the understated prose of Anton Chekhov and Heinrich von Kleist. He read literary magazines that published cutting-edge work, too. Still, his regular reading of the Bible—nightly, during some periods of his life—contributed a laconic quality to his classical prose that doesn’t make him anachronistic; it makes him original.
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
THE GLACIER RESCUE PROJECT
Can the mighty Thwaites be stopped from tumbling into the sea?
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
Too Cute to Fail
Koalas are threatened by climate change, cars, and chlamydia. Can Australia find a way to protect its most beloved animal?
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
The Industry That Ate America
The long and lurid history of lobbying
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
Tornado Watch
How Lee Isaac Chung reimagined Twister, one of the biggest climate-disaster thrillers of all time
8 min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
THE VALLEY
Searching for the future in the most American city
10+ min |
July - August 2024
The Atlantic
THE FIRST THREE MONTHS
What I saw inside the government’s response to COVID-19
10+ min |
July - August 2024
Mother Jones
THE FAST AND THE SPURIOUS
Ohio GOP Senate hopeful Bernie Moreno built an empire selling cars-and stiffing workers.
6 min |
July/August 2024
Mother Jones
WHAT WE ARE OWED
Technology and genealogy have made the case for reparations specific-and undeniable.
9 min |
July/August 2024
Mother Jones
SAVED
Finding self-love after Christian conversion therapy
3 min |
July/August 2024
Mother Jones
PARADISE STOLEN
Black families were cheated out of their land on Skidaway Island. Now it's a wealthy white enclave
7 min |
July/August 2024
Mother Jones
RAGING BULL DONALD TRUMP'S PUGILISTIC SPOKESMAN HAS TAKEN CAMPAIGNING TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF LOW.
IN late February, after Donald Trump had nearly vanquished the entirety of the Republican primary field, his spokesman, Steven Cheung, took aim at the one opponent still standing. \"Birdbrain, are you a liar or just plain stupid?\" he posted on X.
10+ min |
July/August 2024
Time
'I don't have faith in doctors anymore!'
How women get pressured into long-term birth control
10+ min |
June 24, 2024
Time
Strait Talk
TAIWAN'S NEW PRESIDENT LAI CHING-TE IS TAKING A HARD LINE ON CHINA. BEIJING IS NOT AMUSED
10+ min |
June 24, 2024
Time
The way to a truly restful vacation
TRAVEL CAN DO WONDERS FOR YOUR well-being: expanding your mind, bonding you to loved ones, and connecting you with nature.
1 min |
June 24, 2024
Time
DO LESS. IT'S GOOD FOR YOU
Unproductive moments can boost health and happiness
4 min |
June 24, 2024
Time
Afghan women defying the Taliban
WHEN KABUL FELL TO THE TALIBAN, RETURNING Afghanistan to the fundamentalist group's control, women who did not flee faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire to their degrees.
5 min |
June 24, 2024
Newsweek US
Failure to Deliver
Multinational companies embraced Chinese factories to lower costs. Their excessive reliance ended up being a central cause of the COVID supply chain meltdown
5 min |
June 21 - 28, 2024 (Double Issue)
Newsweek US
The TikTok Election
With both Donald Trump and Joe Biden now on the app, could it help determine the next U.S. president in November?
4 min |
June 21 - 28, 2024 (Double Issue)
Newsweek US
Major League Error
Why baseball fans have long thought Ty Cobb to be a racist when he wasn't
5 min |
June 21 - 28, 2024 (Double Issue)
Time
How Trump prepared his allies for a guilty verdict
The Trump campaign was prepared. Minutes after a Manhattan jury convicted the former President, fundraising pitches inundated inboxes, right-wing influencers stormed social media, and Donald Trump emerged from the courtroom to delegitimize the verdict.
2 min |
June 24, 2024
Newsweek US
The Fight to Ban Child Marriage
Under-18s can legally wed in most U.S. states but young spouses are often left physically, emotionally and economically vulnerable, campaigners say
10 min |
June 21 - 28, 2024 (Double Issue)
Time
As employers embrace Al, workers fret-and seek input
THE SWEDISH BUY-NOW-PAY-LATER COMPANY KLARNA has become something of a poster child for the potential benefits of generative artificial intelligence.
2 min |
June 24, 2024
Time
How U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is navigating America's AI future
UNTIL MID-2023, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE was something of a niche topic in Washington, largely confined to small circles of tech-policy wonks.
7 min |
June 24, 2024
Newsweek US
SURGEONS MAGIC TOUCH
Americans turn down syringes but go UNDER SCALPELS. What do these doctors know that the rest of medicine doesn't?
10 min |
June 21 - 28, 2024 (Double Issue)
Time
SHARING GRIEF AMID WAR
Spring and early summer are difficult times for both Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli Jews move from Passover, the holiday of freedom, to Holocaust Memorial Day, to Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror, to the triumphant celebrations of Independence Day. The days pass with rituals intended to give us a shared meaning as a society and to inculcate and frame Israel's official narrative.
3 min |
June 24, 2024
Time
WESTWARD HO, AGAIN
Kevin Costner's risky western epic, Horizon, celebrates the height of the genre without quite getting there itself
6 min |