Iraq’s parliament may have finally elected a Kurdish president, but that vote was never the real story. The real fight — the one that will determine Iraq’s political trajectory for years — is over whether the Iran-aligned Coordination Framework will push former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki back into the prime minister’s office. Al-Maliki, who governed […]

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When a government building becomes a military target, something fundamental has shifted about how wars are fought. The Israeli air strike on a State Security facility in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon — which killed government personnel and reportedly civilians — was not simply another escalation in a long-running border conflict. It was a crossing of a […]

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People who never argue in relationships aren't keeping the peace — they're keeping a record. The psychological research on chronic conflict avoidance reveals a pattern of self-erasure that looks like harmony but functions as slow withdrawal.

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Comet C/2025 R3 (Pan-STARRS) is racing toward the sun, and the window to see it from the Northern Hemisphere is closing fast. A recent discovery by the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii, this long-period visitor returns to the inner solar system only once every 170,000 years. For anyone alive today, this is the only chance they […]

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Compulsive project-starting often masks anxiety avoidance rather than ambition. Isolation research reveals what surfaces when highly capable people run out of tasks — and why the silence they've been avoiding contains the growth they need most.

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Spacety, a Chinese satellite manufacturer sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2023 for its alleged ties to Russia’s Wagner Group, has reportedly raised approximately $190 million in equity financing from state-linked funds and domestic venture capital. The funding round is one of the largest recent capital raises in China’s commercial space sector — and it […]

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The loudest laugh in the room often belongs to the person running the most demanding emotional operation — constantly reading micro-signals, managing group tension, and performing ease at real cognitive cost.

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The Soviet Buran shuttle flew once, landed itself autonomously in a crosswind, and was abandoned — not because the engineering failed, but because no one could answer the question of what it was for. Its story reveals how empires collapse when they optimize for matching competitors instead of serving their own needs.

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