The Lost Archive
WorldWorld
The Micro-Fusion Towns That Barely Noticed the Heat Dome
Where home-scale reactors spread, the summer ceiling was somebody else's problem.
By Priya Anand
Quantum Frontier
The Consciousness Question Reaches a Fourth Parliament
Another legislature takes up synthetic personhood; the scientists repeat the same first line.
Life & Culture
The Return of the Afternoon: A City Relearns the Daylight Hours
With the dome gone, Phoenix ventures back into the sun it spent a month avoiding.
Waterline
Reservoirs Slip as the Concordat's Water Session Enters Its Second Week
With ministers gathered in emergency session, the numbers behind the talks keep falling.
Capitals & Commons
City Councils Improvise as the Heat-Dome Emergency Powers Lapse
With the ceiling broken, mayors must decide which crisis measures to keep.
Orbit & Mars
From Valles Marineris, a Twelve-Minute Answer About the Heat
Mars watched Earth's heat dome the only way it can — twelve minutes late, and helpless to help.
Markets & Means
Cooling Demand Ebbs and Power Futures Slide Off Their July Peak
As the dome breaks, the price of electricity in the Southwest falls back toward ordinary.
The Enhanced
Augmented Workers Carried the Cooling Crews — and the Old Questions
Heat-hardened labor kept the dome's repair crews running, as the safety review grinds on.
Opinion
The Dome Broke. The Habit of Rationing Shouldn't.
A month of discipline showed us what restraint can do; the temptation now is to forget it.
The Long View
How We Learned to Fear the Afternoon
The heat dome felt unprecedented. The retreat indoors has a longer, quieter history.
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