The weekend is right here! Pour your self a mug of  espresso, seize a seat outdoors, and prepare for our longer-form weekend reads:

• Dave Portnoy Purchased Barstool Again. Can Erika Ayers Badan Hold His Pirate Ship on Course? As Penn pivots from Portnoy’s model of bro-ish extra to family-friendly ESPN, Barstool is free to be itself. (Vainness Truthful)

• Inside the fragile artwork of sustaining America’s growing old nuclear weapons: The U.S. will spend greater than $750 billion over the subsequent 10 years changing nearly each element of its nuclear defenses, together with new stealth bombers, submarines and ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles within the nation’s most bold nuclear weapons effort because the Manhattan Challenge. (AP Information)

• The Patriot: How Common Mark Milley protected the Structure from Donald Trump: Milley was cautious to chorus from commenting publicly on Trump’s cognitive unfitness and ethical derangement. In interviews, he would say that it isn’t the place of the nation’s flag officers to debate the efficiency of the nation’s civilian leaders. However his views emerged in plenty of books revealed after Trump left workplace, written by authors who had spoken with Milley, and plenty of different civilian and army officers, on background. (The Atlantic)

• Addicted to chill: How the dream of air con become the darkish way forward for local weather change. (Washington Put up) however see additionally How you can Cool Down a Metropolis: Singapore is rethinking its sweltering city areas to dampen the results of local weather change. Can or not it’s a mannequin? (New York Occasions)

• Justice for Neanderthals! What the controversy about our long-dead cousins reveals about us They had been lengthy derided as knuckle-draggers, however new discoveries are setting the report straight. As we rethink the character of the Neanderthals, we might additionally be taught one thing about our personal humanity. (The Guardian)

• Quantum poetics: How Borges and Heisenberg converged on the notion that language each allows and interferes with our grasp of actuality. (Aeon)

• The Weird Story Behind Shinzo Abe’s Assassination: The person who allegedly killed the previous prime minister says he was aiming for one thing bigger: the Unification Church—the Moonies—and its political affect in Japan. (The Atlantic)

• The Iceman Runneth: Inside Vivek Ramaswamy’s intense, high-maintenance, and extremely air-conditioned empire: Vivek Ramaswamy received wealthy in finance and pharma earlier than declaring conflict on “wokeness.” Former workers say he may very well be finicky and paranoid, and deal with workers extra like servants than staff. Rooms needed to be set to 64 levels or beneath, with three Military Rangers tasked with retaining him cool. (Enterprise Insider)

• Classic Nirvana: Thirty years after the discharge of ‘In Utero,’ T-shirts commemorating the album can go for 4 figures. Essentially the most iconic band of the Nineteen Nineties—one which overtly rejected the commodification of rock—is now one of many greatest manufacturers within the classic trade. (The Ringer)

• Deion Sanders Is Writing School Soccer’s New Playbook: In his first season on the College of Colorado, “Coach Prime” has harnessed the facility of social media, the NCAA switch portal and his personal movie star to rework a perennial loser into must-see TV. (Businessweek)

Make sure to take a look at our Masters in Enterprise this weekend with Armen Panossian, incoming Co-CEO and Head of Performing Credit score at Oaktree Capital Administration, the place he oversees all performing credit score 2019 at Oaktree. Beforehand, he was at Pequot Capital Administration managing distressed debt technique.

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