11-23 DragonFire laser shoots down high‑speed drones traveling at 400mph, costs 13 per shot — UK Navy to begin deploying system on destroyers (news.google.com)
11-06 Voters on Tuesday rewarded Democrats who addressed economic costs. Hours later, Trump said he delivered an ''economic miracle.'' (www.politico.com)
19:00 In a Sargent Painting, a Vicomtesse Lives On - The great-great-grandmother of Laurent Saint Périer was one of John Singer Sargent’s alluring muses, before she died in a notorious fire. Now Saint Périer visits her portrait in the Musée d’Orsay. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 “Letter in April,” by Marie T. Martin (translated, from the German, by Kathleen Heil) - “Do you still receive letters from the dead?” (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended - Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 One of the Greatest Polar-Bear Hunters Confronts a Vanishing World - In the most remote settlement in Greenland, Hjelmer Hammeken’s life style has gone from something that worked for thousands of years to something that may not outlive him. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 What Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway? - In a new global history, capitalism is an inescapable vibe—responsible for everything, everywhere, all at once. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 Disappeared to a Foreign Prison - The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War? - The President declared a diplomatic triumph. The view from the ground is more complex. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 Kurtis Blow, Still Blowing - After the rapper’s 1979 hit “Christmas Rappin’,” his song “The Breaks” was the first rap single to go gold. Now he’s embracing the good ole days with a “Legends of Hip-Hop” concert. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 What Happens in Kyoto Comes to New York - In 1997, scientists and bureaucrats gathered in Japan to talk about greenhouse-gas emissions. At Lincoln Center, a group of actors rehash all the drama—in front of the original negotiators. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 Weak Female Lead - For some reason, I have been voted to be the leader of the uprising against Society in this dystopian Y.A. action movie, but I really just need to lie down. (www.newyorker.com)
19:00 Where Dante’s Divine Comedy Guides Us - The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy rooted in the imperfectly human. (www.newyorker.com)
11-23 “The Golden Boy,” by Daniyal Mueenuddin - Bayazid had never quite given up the fantasy he nurtured in boyhood, of discovering himself a child of some minister or prince. (www.newyorker.com)
11-23 Restaurant Review: I’m Donut ? - The viral Japanese bakery, now with a location in Times Square, is one of the few imported brands that has broken through to become genuinely hot while maintaining considerable good will. (www.newyorker.com)
11-23 The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein Files - Not only is the department’s behavior not normal; it is also, as is becoming increasingly clear, self-defeating. (www.newyorker.com)