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The Seven-Headed Hydra at the End of Finance
SpaceX had its initial public offering last week. Now Elon Musk is a trillionaire on paper. But what is SpaceX? On one level, of course, SpaceX is a company that builds rockets and spacecraft and launches them into space. (Occasionally the rockets explode.) It is also the company that birthed Starlink, a satellite-internet business that…
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Sitcom mastermind James Burrows made TV feel like family
Unlike the movies, where directors get the glory, TV directors sit lower in the hierarchy, below creators, producers and actors. In most series, which might employ several over a season, they are interchangeable — which isn’t to say they aren’t valuable, transforming words on a page into a four-dimensional living thing. But a director hired…
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Haircare legend John Paul DeJoria had a hard-scrabble childhood — but always felt rich on the American dream
Through July 4, The Post, in conjunction with the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, is featuring US citizens explaining what the American dream means to them in 2026 — includingJohn Paul DeJoria, co-founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair products and the Patrón Spirits Company. My mother came over on a boat…
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Trump’s Second Gamble on Iran
Donald Trump’s war against Iran began with one gamble and ended with another. Initially, the president bet that he could stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions by bombing Iran’s revolutionary regime out of existence. So he spent tens of billions of dollars, and upended the global economy, only to sign a memorandum of understanding undoubtedly weaker than…
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A fake mountain and real magic transform Paris’ oldest bridge
Paris — There’s a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: “Where are the snows of yesteryear?” They’re right here, in high summer, on Paris’ oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, where an enormous art installation, a trompe l’oeil inflatable snow-clad mountain range, has arisen…
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Fuelling Anxiety: What Gas Prices Tell Us About America and the World
There is no other price like it. Gasoline is at the same time both the most visible and also the most political price in America. It is the only price that Americans confront every day in large numbers on elevated signage along streets across the country. It is also the one that receives the most…
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Iran Got a Great Deal That It Could Still Squander
The memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran appears to have ended the war on terms favorable to the Islamic Republic. It releases frozen Iranian assets, relaxes restrictions on Iranian oil sales, and lifts the American blockade of the Strait of Hormuz—in exchange for Iran ending its closure of the waterway. In other…
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Home Batteries: How They’re Installed and How Much They Cost
With electricity costs soaring, home batteries have never looked so attractive. Whether you want to store the excess generated by your solar panels or simply buy electricity at the cheapest possible rate to use later when power is most expensive, a home battery can help. It’s never been easier to get a home battery installed,…
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Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only known satellite in the solar system to feature an atmosphere, which is almost 50 percent bigger than the Earth’s. And while NASA’s Dragonfly mission is still many years from launch, the space agency’s scientists are already wondering how the moon could fit into our distant future efforts to…
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The hottest new rock star is the Vampire Lestat — with help from Bowie, Iggy and Freddie
In early June, hundreds of fans dressed to the nines were in attendance at a rock star’s sold-out show at New York’s Beacon Theatre. There was lace everywhere and leather too. Chains dangled from belt loops and wrists. Some attendees arrived with dyed crimson hair, others with orange or pink. Sheer black outfits that looked…