Today’s Paper
Saturday, August 29, 2026
10 stories across 5 sections
World
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The ships can reroute. The people aboard them cannot
Risk moves through shipping in layers. It stops at the last one.
By Alexander Reed
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The Internet's Repair Fleet Is Small, Old, and Nobody Is Ordering More
The faults are routine. The capacity to answer them is not.
By Priya Natarajan
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Relief Moves by Military Airlift Because the Cheaper Options Were Never Built
The supplies for a Colombian earthquake were flown from a warehouse in Miami.
By Alexander Reed
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Europe Funded the Battery Plants and Forgot the Grid Connection
The factory took three years. The connection takes seven.
By Priya Natarajan
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Japan Spent Thirty Years Not Importing Workers, and Is Quietly Reversing
The programme is still called training. Almost nobody is being trained.
By Thomas Gutierrez
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The Twenty-Year Gas Contract Is Being Renegotiated at Year Ten
The volume was the whole security. Now it is the whole argument.
By Alexander Reed
Business
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The Drydock Is the Constraint, and It Is Booked Years Out
The repair takes months. Getting into the dock takes years.
By Margaret Holloway
Technology
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Firmware Is the Part of the Supply Chain Nobody Audits
The software bill of materials stops at the operating system.
By Priya Natarajan
Health
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The Drug Shortage Is a Manufacturing Problem Wearing a Pharmacy Uniform
Nobody builds a second factory to make a drug that earns cents a vial.
By Thomas Gutierrez
Markets
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The Catastrophe Bond Market Prices What Insurers Will Not Write
The spread is the forecast, and it reprices faster than the policy does.
By Daniel Okafor