Author: DPstaff

10 Things You Should Know About Iran’s New President

by Team Zeteo: As tensions continue increase across the Middle East, and with Iran-U.S. relations…

Conversation About The Debate and its Aftermath

Damon Linker at Notes From the Middleground: The two-part conversation with Jonah Goldberg that I…

Saturday Poem: To Make Living Itself the Highest Art

Rising out the world, you and I,a finite flame among the infinite darknessof two nebulous…

Pentagon Ran Secret Anti-vax Campaign to Undermine China During Pandemic

Chris Bing and Joel Schectman at Reuters: At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the…

BE4C4 Report: The Debt Lies We Tell Ourselves

Shoestring Jane at Mouthy Money: Here are some common lies we tell ourselves about debt….

Mind-reading AI Recreates What You’re Looking at With Amazing Accuracy

Michael Le Page in New Scientist: Artificial intelligence systems can now create remarkably accurate reconstructions of…

Can You Pass a U.S. Citizenship Test? Take Our Civics Quiz

Emma Uber in The Washington Post: While the Fourth of July conjures up images of…

Friday Poem: At a Party On Ellis Island Watching Fireworks

The man next to me sings God Bless America even thoughhe knows the Statue of…

What Can Seventeenth-century Sources Teach us About Living With Climate Change?

By Timothy Grieve-Carlson at OUP: At the beginning of another summer that will likely prove…

Random Thought: ‘1984’ by Irshad Salim

Irshad Salim, Karachi: One day I asked Professor Kahn why do we keep hearing all…

Orwellian State: Leaked Phone Calls, ‘Lawful Intercept Management System’

From Dawn: IT seems that the goings-on in judges’ homes is not the only thing…

Thursday Poem: “This Too Shall Pass” by Rohan Buettel

The flame that burns so bright, this too shall passHowever strong the light, this too…