Elon Musk’s business relationship with the Pentagon is going strong. SpaceX just scored its first defense contract from the U.S. Space Force, giving Musk more control over on-off switches (see: Ukraine). We’ll get into the potential consequences of having a single private citizen like Musk so entangled in geopolitics. Plus, welcome home, astronaut Frank Rubio, and bye-bye panda cams?
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The power of college endowments
Private equity is coming for pet care
Europe’s new economic engines
No “stag” no “flation”
The rising pressure on poll workers
The trade-offs of the trade deficit
Biden’s regulation rush
College campus protests and the value of a degree
A stock pop and a stock flop
To ban or not to ban
The dollar store dilemma
Big change coming to nursing homes
A revamp for Title IX
What you need to know about tariffs
A new day for labor organizing in the South?
What we often get wrong about teens and screen time
The rise of the (tax) resistance
Why owning a car is getting so expensive
Bonds, Boeing and Beyoncé
The last mile of the inflation fight just got bumpy
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