Author: DPstaff

Lying matters. It poisons our discourse, breeds cynicism about government, and makes it difficult to have serious conversations…

Balmurli Natrajan: “Hinduism has many aspects to it that have really nothing to do with Hindutva.”

by Eric Schenck at 3 Quarks Daily: The longer you’re in a new country the more it becomes a relationship. It starts out wonderful…

Now we are on the ferry we flew to drive to,It’s enormous engines vibrating Every…

From The Week Newsletter: Selected editorial cartoons –this week by Joel Pett; Monte Wolverton; Bob…

“I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. I’ve learned that when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”

If you are an artist, that means that you are denuding yourself more and more, that by the time you die you are stark naked and your bowels turned inside out. — Henry Miller

Alexander C. Lees at The Conversation: (T)he biennial Living Planet report from the World Wildlife…

Tom Zoellner in the Los Angeles Review of Books: The stories that a country tells…

The answer is neither small-scale, targeted interventions nor broad generalizations about growth. Instead, we should focus on firms.

Not all of Alghorra’s photos depict despair, plentiful as it is. In one photograph, a Palestinian teacher is seen drawing on a whiteboard in a makeshift classroom built under a tent.

This rhyme is thought to relate to Irish beggars who arrived in England during the British genocide which resulted in millions of deaths.