Instapaper Weekly – May 18, 2025

The week's most popular stories Top Highlight My Brain Finally Broke newyorker.com As Richard Seymour writes in the book The Twittering Machine, this avoidance of times actual flow, this compulsion toward the chronophage, the time-eater, is a horror story that is likely to happen only in a society that is busily producing horrors. Save SPONSORED From DoiT Master Kubernetes with Cloud Native DevOps! doit.com Learn to build, deploy, and scale apps the DevOps way. Get practical insights from real-world examples. Download your free copy now, compliments of DoiT. Download Now Most Popular Friday May 16, 2025 The Opinion That Ate the Paper nymag.com Kathleen Kingsbury (center) with her team at Times headquarters. Photo: Frankie Alduino for New York Magazine This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it... Save Thursday May 15, 2025 Keep calm (but delete your nudes): the new rules for travelling to and from Trump’s America theguardian.com Kindness doesn’t cost a thing. Putting up a big “no foreigners welcome” sign, threatening to annex your neighbour, and throwing visitors to your country into detention for minor visa infractions, however? Such actions are expensive.... Save Wednesday May 14, 2025 Sufjan Stevens Is Doing Okay vulture.com The tenth-anniversary edition of Carrie & Lowell is out May 30 via Asthmatic Kitty. Photo: Evans Richardson This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get... Save Tuesday May 13, 2025 How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump newyorker.com The Political Scene At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden’s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the... Save Monday May 12, 2025 China Called Trump’s Bluff theatlantic.com Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. When President Donald Trump launched his trade war on the world, he issued a stern warning: “Do not retaliate and you... Save Sunday May 11, 2025 Can King Charles Heal a Royal Family Crisis Before It’s Too Late? nytimes.com King Charles III on the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, on Thursday.Credit...Phil Noble/Reuters news analysis Prince Harry’s desperate plea to reconcile with his father highlighted a rupture that could undermine the monarchy’s attempts to model... Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2025 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 310663 · Brooklyn, NY 11231