Monday, September 14, 2026
ArchiveU.S. acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed a space weapon in orbit
The U.S. Air Force Secretary just confirmed what everyone suspected and no one had said: there is an American weapon in orbit. First public acknowledgment ever. The arms-control implications are immediate.
In “Situated,” Angela Duckworth, the Author of “Grit,” Does an About-Face
The woman who told millions to cultivate grit now says the situation matters more than the person. The parade of self-binding strategies people use to compensate — a shaved head, a destroyed Ethernet port, a pledge to donate to the KKK — is the best part.
Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin
ProPublica traced the money: a Russian oligarch close to Putin quietly covered the tab for Don Jr.'s Bahamas wedding. The documented financial flows are the reporting here, not the headline.
Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’
JWST keeps spotting mysterious 'little red dots' everywhere. One camp says black holes. A bolder camp says they're suns larger than our entire solar system — a class of object nobody predicted.
Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored – podcast
Jill Lepore traces how tech visionaries in the mid-20th century actually predicted the dystopian digital future we're living in—and explores why their warnings got completely drowned out by utopian hype.