Constantine Alexander
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And though the flowers of love be few; Yet let them be divine.
They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests. (You have free access to 20 Guardian articles monthly.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests
In the Peloponnese mountains, the usually hardy trees are turning brown even where fires haven’t reached. Experts are raising the alarm on a complex crisis
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December 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests. (You have free access to 20 Guardian articles monthly.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How Warren Buffett Did It. The most successful investor of all time is retiring. Here’s what made him an American role model. By Seth A. Klarman. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
How Warren Buffett Did It
The most successful investor of all time is retiring. Here’s what made him an American role model.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
How Warren Buffett Did It. The most successful investor of all time is retiring. Here’s what made him an American role model. By Seth A. Klarman. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
U.S. Is Seeking Exemption From a European Climate Law, Officials Say. Diplomats told E.U. officials that the bloc’s law on methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would hurt American oil and gas companies. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/c...
U.S. Is Seeking Exemption From a European Climate Law, Officials Say
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December 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
U.S. Is Seeking Exemption From a European Climate Law, Officials Say. Diplomats told E.U. officials that the bloc’s law on methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would hurt American oil and gas companies. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/c...
How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak. For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...
How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak
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December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak. For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...
Henry James’s Venice Is Still Here. By Anne Applebaum. Photographs by Matteo de Mayda. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
Henry James’s Venice Is Still Here
Henry James’s Venice was a “city of intense beauty and deep secrets” that he transformed into novels, letters, stories, and essays during his visits in the late 19th century. @anneapplebaum set out to...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Henry James’s Venice Is Still Here. By Anne Applebaum. Photographs by Matteo de Mayda. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like. Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House. By Tom Nichols. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like. Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House. By Tom Nichols. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Nonprofit seeks to facilitate cold case investigations. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.montereyherald.com/2025/12/16/n...
Nonprofit seeks to facilitate cold case investigations
“The partnership with the Cold Case Project Monterey County has allowed us to do something incredibly important: remove financial barriers that stand between investigation and the truth,” Nieto sai…
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December 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Nonprofit seeks to facilitate cold case investigations. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.montereyherald.com/2025/12/16/n...
Museum Education Can’t Stop Anti-Semitism After the Bondi Beach attack, the only effective response is the zealous prosecution of anyone who planned or supported it. By Graeme Wood. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Museum Education Can’t Stop Anti-Semitism
After the Bondi Beach attack, the only effective response is the zealous prosecution of anyone who planned or supported it.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Museum Education Can’t Stop Anti-Semitism After the Bondi Beach attack, the only effective response is the zealous prosecution of anyone who planned or supported it. By Graeme Wood. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The New ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’. What does fentanyl’s reclassification mean for the White House’s renewed War on Drugs? By Will Gottsegen. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The New ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
What does fentanyl’s reclassification mean for the White House’s renewed War on Drugs?
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December 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The New ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’. What does fentanyl’s reclassification mean for the White House’s renewed War on Drugs? By Will Gottsegen. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump Still Needs Susie Wiles The president made clear he supports his chief of staff despite her Vanity Fair comments. By Jonathan Lemire and Vivian Salama. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump Still Needs Susie Wiles
The president made clear he supports his chief of staff despite her Vanity Fair comments.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Trump Still Needs Susie Wiles The president made clear he supports his chief of staff despite her Vanity Fair comments. By Jonathan Lemire and Vivian Salama. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History. The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself. By Anne Applebaum. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The Longest Suicide Note in American History. The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself. By Anne Applebaum. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Gov. Newsom unveiled a website tracking Trump’s controversial pardons, including Jan. 6 rioters, drug traffickers and fraudsters, timed with falling California crime statistics. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/t...
Newsom launches website tracking Trump’s top 10 criminal cronies as new data shows California crime continues to drop | Governor of California
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December 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Gov. Newsom unveiled a website tracking Trump’s controversial pardons, including Jan. 6 rioters, drug traffickers and fraudsters, timed with falling California crime statistics. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/t...
The Populist Revolt Against Cognitive Elites. The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions By Joseph Heath. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Populist Revolt Against Cognitive Elites
The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions
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December 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The Populist Revolt Against Cognitive Elites. The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions By Joseph Heath. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Widens the Breach The country mourned a beloved filmmaker. Trump’s first instinct was to desecrate. By John Dickerson. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Widens the Breach
The country mourned a beloved filmmaker. Trump’s first instinct was to desecrate.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Trump Widens the Breach The country mourned a beloved filmmaker. Trump’s first instinct was to desecrate. By John Dickerson. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Is Using a Sacred Power for Depraved Purposes. The president’s pardons encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people. By Liz Oyer. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Is Using a Sacred Power for Depraved Purposes
The president’s pardons encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Trump Is Using a Sacred Power for Depraved Purposes. The president’s pardons encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people. By Liz Oyer. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling. The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins. By David Sims. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling
The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Rob Reiner Was a Quiet Titan of Storytelling. The director and actor, who died yesterday, built a remarkable career that went far beyond his comic origins. By David Sims. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder: This morning’s Truth Social post was nauseating even by the president’s standards. By David A. Graham: Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder
This morning’s Truth Social post was nauseating even by the president’s standards.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder: This morning’s Truth Social post was nauseating even by the president’s standards. By David A. Graham: Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Inside a Flame. A poem by Arthur Sze. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
Inside a Flame
A poem
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December 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Inside a Flame. A poem by Arthur Sze. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
Western monarch butterfly migratory count numbers remain low. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.montereyherald.com/2025/12/13/w...
Western monarch migratory count numbers remain low
The Xerces Society, an international conservation group, will publish a statewide 2025 count in January.
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December 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Western monarch butterfly migratory count numbers remain low. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.montereyherald.com/2025/12/13/w...
Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care. It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away. By Jonathan Chait. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care
It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away.
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December 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care. It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away. By Jonathan Chait. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Genius of Handel’s Messiah. The oratorio is a feat of sustained inspiration arguably unsurpassed in the canon of Western classical music. By Jan Swafford. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Genius of Handel’s 'Messiah'
The oratorio is a feat of sustained inspiration arguably unsurpassed in the canon of Western classical music.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The Genius of Handel’s Messiah. The oratorio is a feat of sustained inspiration arguably unsurpassed in the canon of Western classical music. By Jan Swafford. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Real Reason for the Hong Kong Fire. Don’t blame the bamboo scaffolding. By Timothy McLaughlin. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The Real Reason for the Hong Kong Fire
Don’t blame the bamboo scaffolding.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The Real Reason for the Hong Kong Fire. Don’t blame the bamboo scaffolding. By Timothy McLaughlin. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Cruise-ship stowaway owls set for US return after living it up at Spanish resort. (The Guardian allows free access to 20 of its articles monthly.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cruise-ship stowaway owls set for US return after living it up at Spanish resort
Burrowing owls, who boarded cruise ship in Miami, to be returned to US next month after long spell in quarantine
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December 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cruise-ship stowaway owls set for US return after living it up at Spanish resort. (The Guardian allows free access to 20 of its articles monthly.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Forcing visitors to share five years of social media history is nuts. America’s closest allies are among the 42 countries in the visa waiver program targeted by Trump. Wasington Post Editorial Board Opinion. Free Access (Gift) Article. wapo.st/48CqKQQ
Opinion | Forcing visitors to share five years of social media history is nuts
America’s closest allies are among the 42 countries in the visa waiver program targeted by Trump.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Forcing visitors to share five years of social media history is nuts. America’s closest allies are among the 42 countries in the visa waiver program targeted by Trump. Wasington Post Editorial Board Opinion. Free Access (Gift) Article. wapo.st/48CqKQQ
Hopeful Images of 2025. Photos that recognize some of the abundant joy and kindness present in the world around us By Alan Taylor. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Hopeful Images From 2025
Year after year, rounding up his news photos of the year has proven to be an exercise in sorting through difficult and disturbing imagery. For more than a decade now, senior editor Alan Taylor has mad...
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December 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Hopeful Images of 2025. Photos that recognize some of the abundant joy and kindness present in the world around us By Alan Taylor. Free Access (Gift) Article. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...