Saturday, October 3, 2026
ArchiveU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
Putin floated selling Russian energy assets to Kushner and Witkoff — the same two men negotiating the end of the war. Who stands to profit is now folded into the peace terms.
We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
Solnit's quarrel isn't with the Cornell defendants — it's with everyone satisfied by punishing them. Her case: outrage is cheap, and equality is the only thing that moves the numbers.
Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence
Energy in a turbulent fluid was supposed to flow one way, always. Then physicists watched mail-order sea monkeys swarm through a tank and saw the cascade run backward.
Turkey's $20 Billion Fund Collapse Explained
Redemption requests came in, the money wasn't there, and regulators liquidated 131 funds at once. Turkey's investment industry died in a month and almost nobody outside it noticed.
From Paris to Hangzhou: The $9m Quest to Return China’s Lost Encyclopedia
Four volumes of a 600-year-old Chinese encyclopedia gathered dust in a Paris attic for 140 years. It took one sharp-eyed researcher and $9 million to get them home.