Briefing Room 06.12.25

Welcome back to The Briefing Room, our weekly subscriber-only show focused on stories that are not merely flying under the radar, but are actively tunneling through the cold, dark earth beneath us, like Morlocks made of news.

In this week's edition, we're checking in on China, where a defense contractor recently claimed to have built a missile that is both hypersonic and also really, really cheap. After that, we're dipping our toes into Syria, where a plot may be underway again to assassinate the nation's new leadership.

But first, we're gliding like a 747. Those can glide? I mean, I guess so.