I think it would be a better idea to build a nuclear waste dump in a field, mountain range or some kind of wilderness - not a town. It would be dangerous to have all that nuclear waste in a town.

These people sound genuinely horrific, if they really exist. This is the NYT, so maybe it is just talking about the entitled, upper-class creeps that go to work for that organisation.

"There are still some good-paying jobs available to men without college credentials. There are relatively few for such women." I would like to have seen an elaboration on which jobs specifically, in 2021, do not admit women to work in them. And isn't that illegal?

It's pretty clearly a rockets and rockets comparison. SpaceX built it's rockets from scratch. When did NASA ever land and re-use a booster? Orion is just re-used tech from Apollo and SLS that hasn't properly flown once yet. They launched a dummy capsule from a different rocket just to test the heatshield, and have since redesigned the heatshield. There aren't that many direct & clear cut comparisons between the efficiency of the public and private sector, but this one is pretty horrific, and you are on a hiding to nothing trying to argue that the comparison is invalid.