Thursday, October 29, 2026
ArchiveSee the Trump Administration Stock Portfolio That Spans More Than 40 Companies
Chipmakers, miners, three dozen more — Washington now owns pieces of them all, roughly $30 billion worth. The WSJ went and listed every position.
Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and Professor X on ‘X-Men,’ Dies at 86
A Royal Shakespeare Company lifer, balding at 47, took a part nobody expected to last. He ended up two generations' idea of what a captain — and a professor — sounds like.
DoorDash's $17B Acquisition of Instacart Points to a World Without Employees
Two delivery giants merge into one company where almost nobody is technically an employee. Lee Hepner's case: this deal, not AI, is what a workforce without jobs actually looks like.
How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?
To get one blurry orange ring, Doeleman had to turn the whole planet into a single camera. He explains how — and why the next target is footage, not a photo.
Politicians are afraid to fix taxes. So 100 citizens tried.
Legislators failed at Connecticut's property tax for forty years. So the state drew 100 citizens by lot, Athens-style, and let them try. Planet Money sat in on what happened.