The Wall Street Journal has on-the ground coverage of demonstrators in Russia who are pushing back against Putin’s moves to draft people to fight in Ukraine. Marchers are protesting in cities across Iran against what some see as a return to the hard-line policies of the earliest days of the Islamic Revolution. The New Yorker explains what’s going on. Several women who worked at Tesla have filed sexual-harassment lawsuits against the corporation. Rolling Stone is telling their stories. Many American cities have tried gun buybacks as a solution to violence. Fast Company lays out research that shows they don’t seem to work. NASA is about to deliberately crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. NBC News explains how it’s a test for how to save Earth from a theoretical deadly rock from space.

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