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NASA’s SR-1 Freedom bets on recycled lunar tech to beat China to Mars — and decades of its own broken…
The craft had a name already, Space Reactor-1 Freedom, or SR-1.
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Disney cut 1,000 jobs with compassion and respect — and that made the grief harder to…
The company that taught the world to wish upon a star just told a thousand employees to start wishing for a new job.
Politics
A Biden NSC spokesperson just validated Trump’s naval blockade — and no Democrat…
The former Biden National Security Council spokesperson suggested the blockade could aid nuclear negotiations with Iran.
Psychology
The quiet violence of being told you’re ‘too sensitive’ until you…
The accusation came from somewhere older, deeper, and more practiced than the present moment.
News
Lebanon has no cards at the Israel negotiating table — and everyone, including its…
Lebanon sits at a negotiating table with Israel this month carrying, by most honest assessments, nothing.
Analysis
170 civilians killed in military boat strikes and the budget lever keeping oversight…
The fishermen were ordered to stop.
Digital
Why a patent attorney and a middle school teacher have completely rational but opposite…
The emerging fault line in AI isn't between optimists and skeptics, or between experts and the public.
Culture
Movie theaters are selling ads to an empty room — and Sony’s CEO just said it out…
According to reports, Rothman urged theater owners to reduce advertising and shorten pre-show content.
Psychology
The particular exhaustion of being the friend everyone confides in but no one ever…
Reliability is the trait most often praised in a friend and least often repaid.
Psychology
The exhausting performance of being low-maintenance — and how it becomes the very thing…
For years, the conviction held firm: the best thing a person could be was easy.
Politics
The House kept expulsion unthinkable for 237 years — that psychological barrier just…
The procedural weapon nobody used is suddenly part of the active vocabulary.
News
Britain’s EU rules debate is about identity, not food labels — here’s why
The political framing writes itself.
Digital
The first wide-ratio foldable phone is here — and it’s not from Apple or Samsung
The device is real enough that competitors appear to be adjusting their own timelines in response.
Culture
Why the public exhale over Britney Spears’ rehab protects everyone except Britney…
The collective exhale that followed, the #WeLoveYouBritney hashtags and the prayer-hands emojis, suggested relief.
Politics
The rate fell but the prices stayed: why America’s inflation problem outlasted…
A gallon of milk cost around $3.50 in January 2020.
News
Why Nigeria keeps bombing its own civilians: the intelligence failures and impunity…
The Nigerian military confirmed that an airstrike targeting a Boko Haram stronghold near Jilli struck the wrong target.