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The Shell of a Dying Star. Day 6 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar. By Alan Taylor. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

The Scarlet Ibis. A short story by James Hurst. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

‘We miss having a dog but it’s the price you pay’: the village that banned pets to save wildlife. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Frank Gehry, the Disrupter, Opened Their Imaginations. Architects, artists, clients and partners assess his life and impact over eight decades. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

What If Our Ancestors Didn’t Feel Anything Like We Do? The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow By Gal Beckerman Illustrations by Nicolás Ortega. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Father of Rhythm Guitarists. The late Steve Cropper laid a template for generations of rock-and-roll guitarists. By David A. Graham. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Trump warns of European ‘civilizational erasure’ in realigned national security strategy. Free Access (Gift) Article. wapo.st/445lWAQ

US Institute of Peace renamed for Donald Trump despite legal battle Renaming ‘adds insult to injury’ says lawyer for staff fired from non-profit thinktank by Trump administration. (The Guardian provides free access to 20 articles monthly.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

The Three Voices of Poetry. By T. S. Eliot. Published in April 1954. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

New study: Moss Landing, California, battery fire dumped 55,000 pounds of toxic metals into wildlife-rich marshes. San Jose State University research sheds new light on impacts from disastrous January fire. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.montereyherald.com/2025/12/03/n...

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Having a dog can boost teenagers’ mental health, say scientists

Winners of the 2025 International Landscape Photographer of the Year. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

The Extraordinary Logic of Netanyahu’s Bid for a Pardon. His case for clemency rests on the assumption that he’s irreplaceable. By Gershom Gorenberg. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Condemning Millions for One Man’s Crime. The sanctity of the individual is an essential Western value. By George Packer. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

A sickening moral slum of an administration. Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent. By George F. Will. Free Access (Gift) Article. wapo.st/4rIoXRN

When Donald Trump Fired David Rubenstein. The private-equity billionaire spent decades building influence in the capital. Then his philanthropy collided with the president. By Michael Powell. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The New German War Machine. After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Photographs by Hannes Jung. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

What History’s Fallen Societies Have in Common. A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction. By Linda Kinstler. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout. As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement. Free Access (Gift) Article. wapo.st/4oyWISF

Inside the Bird-Flu Vaccine Trial for Monk Seals. After the virus returned to Hawaii this fall, testing the shots in the endangered seal species became urgent. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/s...

The Eloquence. A poem by Jorie Graham. Free Access. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches

Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process. By Michael Clune. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown

Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks. By Simon Shuster. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Week in wildlife: seal pups, albino turtles and a sleeping tiger

The Biggest Problem With Air Travel: Pajamas? The transportation secretary seems to think that fashion will solve flying’s problems. By Alexandra Petri. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Soaring Red Rocks, Perfect Blue Skies and Half-Empty Tours. Things were looking up last year at pandemic-battered Navajo Nation parks. Then their lifeblood, foreign visitors, slowed to a trickle. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/t...

The Great Mystery of Drumming. It’s about the flow of Time, not just keeping the beat. By James Parker. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

A Photo Appreciation of America’s National Wildlife Refuges. Since 1903, the United States has established more than 580 National Wildlife Refuges, designating a diverse array of lands and waters as protected areas for plants and wildlife. Free Access. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

An Example MUST BE SET’. The pursuit of Mark Kelly in the military-justice system sends a clear message to service members and veterans. By Missy Ryan, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, and Nancy A. Youssef. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Make Culture Weird Again. Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than the boring stuff. By W. David Marx. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

The Culture War Comes to the Kitchen. How the politics of food brought together the crunchy left and the trad right By Sophie Gilbert. Illustrations by Lucas Burtin. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job. He should be secretary of defense. By Tom Nichols. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind. Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity. By George Packer. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

New research reveals urban raccoons across the US show early signs of domestication. Free Access Article. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/24/s...

Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun? The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition. By Alexander C. Kaufman. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse. Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right. By Jonathan Chait. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

What Sam Shepard Couldn’t Outrun. The actor, playwright, and self-made cowboy was also a poet of masculine angst. By Michael O’Donnell. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Climate Is Changing, Cows Are Stressed and Italy’s Cheesemakers Are Worried. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...

Before Berlin’s Cowboys Are Booted Off Their Land, One Final Hoedown. Free Access Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...

Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future. By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees. By Peter Brannen. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War. Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine? By Anne Applebaum. Free Access Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Safeguarding the Songs of Spring: The Outsize Value of the Five Great Forests. youtu.be/yrWMzKBV1wo?...

The Forgotten Forest: The New Guinea rainforest is the third largest in the world, and it's missing from the global conservation conversation. youtu.be/vPb1CQWty60?...