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Trump's Iran attack was ferocious. But has it actually worked? - The Economist (No paywall)
 “OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER”, as America called its strike on Iran, was a vast raid involving more than 125 military aircraft. It was the largest-ever strike by B-2 stealth bombers, and the first use in battle of the GBU-57, America’s largest bunker-buster bomb. Seven bombers flew east over the Atlantic from Whiteman air-force base in Missouri on the 37-hour mission to Iran and back, helped by in-flight refuelling tankers and fighter jets to sweep the skies ahead of them. Decoy planes flew west over the Pacific to confuse anyone watching their movement. Dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles were also fired at Iran from submarines. Iranian forces did not respond. The scope and scale of the operation would “take the breath away” of most observers, boasted Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary.
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WorkOman plans to impose personal income tax, a first among Gulf states Oman has announced plans to issue a personal income tax as part of a broader push to move the sultanate's economy away from reliance on hydrocarbons. The move, issued by royal decree on Monday, is a first among the six-member oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council. However, the 5% tax won't be imposed until 2028. Only those who make upward of $109,000 annually -- the top 1% of earners in Oman -- will be required to pay it. It's unclear whether this will inspire other nations in the area to follow suit. WorkWorkWorkIran Fires Missiles at U.S. Base in Qatar Iran retaliated against the U.S. on Monday, launching missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar, according to a U.S. defense official and a statement from the Qatar foreign ministry. The missiles targeted Al Udeid Air Base outside Doha and were intercepted by air defenses before they could strike the base, the Qatari government said. "At this time, there are no reports of U.S. casualties" from the barrage of short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles fired by Iran, the U.S. defense official said.
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WorkMAHA eyes tolerance as alcohol-related harms emerge O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her story debunking a bogus theory about transgender kids was nominated for a 2024 GLAAD Media Award. You can reach Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. WorkWorkYour Employees Hate These Tasks at Work. They Say AI Can Help - Inc (No paywall) New research commissioned by AI writing tool Grammarly and conducted by Talker Research found nearly half of the workers who responded hate the repetitive office tasks that make up the daily grind. The 44 percent total is no surprise, and you've probably had similar thoughts when you have to fill in a travel budget request form for Steve in Accounts - yet again. But it's the AI era, and workers are increasingly aware that there are tools that can help wipe out this recurring drudgery - and 62 percent of the survey respondents said there are plenty of tasks they'd like to speed up with AI. Work
WorkWorkWorkWorkThe West has stopped losing its religion - The Economist (No paywall) FOR DECADES America's fastest-growing religious affiliation was no religion at all. In 1990 just 5% of Americans said they were atheists, agnostics or believed in nothing in particular. By 2019 some 30% ticked those boxes. Those who left the pews became more socially liberal, married later and had fewer children. Churches, where once half of Americans mingled every Sunday, faded in civic life. Yet for the first time in half a century, the march of secularism has stopped (see chart 1).
WorkWorkWorkIran war: Did Trump take out Iran's nuclear facilities in US strike? Over the weekend, the United States bombed three nuclear facilities in Iran. Iran has been considered a political risk to America since the 1979 revolution, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that it cannot be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. The strikes mark yet another attempt in a long-running US strategy to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions. WorkThe Business of Betting on Catastrophe World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They're part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital. WorkWorkThe Perils of Middle East Triumphalism - Foreign Affairs (No paywall) To many outside the Middle East, the American and Israeli war with Iran reads like a linear narrative: the two allies' formidable militaries and intelligence agencies arrayed against their adversary, poised to prevail, on the cusp of indisputable, decisive triumph. The fight and its expected outcome are viewed through the prism of familiar antecedents: Hitler's Germany overwhelmed, defeated, willing to acquiesce to the victor's demands; Japan following suit. When proponents of this war speak of one side's surrender and of the other being on the right side of history, it is on such clear-cut notions of progress and finality that they rely. History, to them, advances in a straight line, swiftly heading to safe shores, and one had better choose the correct side or be left adrift. WorkHeir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A. - The New Yorker (No paywall) American sports come with implied narratives. The story of baseball is fundamentally nostalgic, connecting us to childhood and to the country's pastoral beginnings. Football tells a story of manly grit, with echoes of the battlefield. Basketball is the city game, as the sportswriter Pete Axthelm called it half a century ago, and its chief narrative, for decades, was about escaping the ghetto. Religious metaphors run hotter in basketball than in other sports: when Spike Lee set out to make an ode to New York City hoops, he named his protagonist Jesus Shuttlesworth, for the N.B.A. Hall of Famer Earl (Jesus) Monroe; LeBron James appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated at the age of seventeen as The Chosen One. Every tall and prodigiously skilled teen-ager feels like an act of God. And no sport, perhaps other than soccer, with its pibes and craquesthe impoverished dribbling and juggling machines who hope to become the next Maradona or Pelso deeply mythologizes the search for talent. The savior of your N.B.A. franchise might be getting left off his high-school team in Wilmington, North Carolina, or he might be selling sunglasses on the streets of Athens, Greece, to help his Nigerian immigrant parents make ends meet, or he might be living with his mother in a one-bedroom apartment in Akron, Ohio. You just have to find him. Work 
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WorkI See Your Smartphone-Addicted Life - The Atlantic (No paywall) Unlike nearly 98 percent of Americans under the age of 50, I don't have a smartphone. Actually, I've never had a smartphone. I've never called an Uber, never dropped a pin, never used Venmo or Spotify or a dating app, never been in a group chat, never been jealous of someone on Instagram (because I've never been on Instagram). I used to feel ashamed of this, or rather, I was made to feel ashamed. For a long time, people either didn't believe me when I told them that I didn't have a smartphone, or reacted with a sort of embarrassed disdain, like they'd just realized I was the source of an unpleasant odor they'd been ignoring. But over the past two years, the reaction has changed. As the costs of being always online have become more apparent, the offline, air-gapped, inaccessible person has become an object of fascination, even envy. I have to confess that Ive become a little smug about being a Never-Phonera holdout who somehow went from being left behind to ahead of the curve. WorkWorkWork
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