China and Egypt had their second joint air force exercise, “Eagles of Civilization 2026,” running from mid-August into early September. The exercises include air combat tactics, air superiority operations, combat search and rescue, and force employment. This follows their first joint air exercise in 2025, so this is no longer some ceremonial visit between two countries posing for photographs. China is establishing a military relationship with Egypt at the same time that the economic relationship between the two nations is expanding rapidly. This is what Washington never seems to understand. Trade and geopolitical influence go hand in hand. China does…
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When you start a new job there is a lot to learn. There are projects, clients, and processes that are likely to be new to you. You may have been pointed at the employee handbook and maybe even given a mentor. But you probably still have more questions than answers for the first few months. As trite as the phrase “drinking from a firehose” may have become, it is a pretty accurate description of those first eight or 10 weeks. You should take advantage of all of the resources given to you to get up to speed. Read the documents…
It’s time to find out who really is the most competitive player at family game night. Mattel is putting $50,000 up for grabs at its inaugural UNO Championship. The competition will bring top UNO players to Los Angeles on Nov. 11 to battle for the grand prize, with a championship game happening later at a yet-to-be-announced location. To participate, all aspiring contestants need to register through the official championship website and then qualify via the UNO Championship Series Tournament qualifiers, with options available both online and in-person. If you want to play in person, you can catch a game in…
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I always fuss over how best to add visual variety. I do that so you, dear reader, aren’t bored by thick walls of text. (I halved the length of this post for the same reason). Distinct images grab attention. That’s why I’m sharing Whorl and Flux 3, new tools that make it easy to create and customize unique imagery. I’ve never been a designer, though, nor do I have technical skills. I’m a journalist and educator. But I like playing with 3D graphics…
Between late 2016 and August 2026, China connected 27 new nuclear reactors to its grid. In the same period, the United States connected two. As Jacopo Buongiorno—professor of nuclear science and engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—tells me, “China is the world’s leader in nuclear power plant (NPP) construction.” It’s an impressive data point on its own but when you consider the greater picture, it’s even more striking. Those nuclear power plants are only a small fraction of China’s current power throughput, but they are the crux of the country’s electricity…
When Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that “Woke 1.0 was crazy” on ABC News, she introduced a long-used internet term to a much wider audience. Ocasio-Cortez was joking about how Democratic socialist Francesca Hong, then still in the running to become Wisconsin’s Democratic nominee for governor, had walked back some of the far-left stances she’d posted on social media in 2020—in the midst of so-called “Woke 1.0,” or the cultural moment of the early 2020s when Democratic politics were swinging left in a major way (or at least appeared to be). Here’s what to know about the origin and history of…
Below, Lani Watson shares five key insights from her new book, Q: The Hidden Power of Questions in a World That Wants Answers. Watson is a philosopher and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is a world-leading expert in the philosophy of questions, having researched the topic for nearly two decades. Businesses and organizations around the world have sought her help in learning how to ask great questions. What’s the Big Idea? We’re living through uncertain, unsettling times, and every instinct pulls us toward quick, comforting answers. But certainty, chased too hard, makes us rigid and closed. Uncertainty…
Spirit Airlines hasn’t flown since May, when the discount carrier announced an “orderly wind-down of operations” as part of bankruptcy proceedings. But the grounded airline might be set for a multimillion-dollar payout from a newly valuable asset: the sale of its corporate data, including internal wikis, emails, source code, and spreadsheets that can be used to train artificial intelligence. Google successfully bid $10 million for the data trove, according to court documents, though AI training provider Micro1 says it has since submitted a rival $12.5 million offer. It’s unclear whether Micro1’s offer, which came after the formal auction had concluded,…
They arrived in a kaleidoscope of colors, but one won. For decades, the American school bus has maintained such a standard look that “school bus yellow” is national shorthand for its deep, glossy hue. No act of Congress mandated the color, with its slight orange tint. Rather, a 1939 conference of transportation officials from all U.S. states (then 48) chose the shade for its visibility as one of the first safety standards. At their peak in the 1980s, the yellow buses took more than 60% of U.S. students to school. The metal-bodied school bus got its start in rural America.…
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, the fact that you’ve appeared on national TV across Europe and even Russia, but not in the United States, really highlights the depth of censorship here. On RT, you predicted oil would still hit $200 by 2028. Every analyst they brought on repeated the same line—short-term pain for long-term gain. As you pointed out, that’s straight out of the propaganda script. Not even Tucker Carson will interview you which raises question there as well. So, with that in mind: do you think the Iran war will push oil to $200 by 2028? DKK ANSWER: Energy prices rise…