Author: DPstaff

Susannah’s Grandad Ran Bengal When Famine Killed Millions

Kavita Puri at the BBC: “I feel enormous shame about what happened,” Susannah Herbert tells…

A Conversation With My ‘They’

Dan Piraro at Bizarro: I successfully raised two children to adulthood who, until recently, I…

Is Social Media the New Tobacco?

Andrew Ross Sorkin in The New York Times Newsletter: The U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy,…

Tuesday Poem: Light Can You Hear

Light can you die?We do when our wings touch you.Our ancestors, forefathers diedFathers also die…

Zeteo: The U.S. President is Pulling Out All the Stops to Get a Deal With Saudi Arabia

by Spencer Ackerman at Zeteo: There are unforced errors. There are mistakes we can see…

Why Couples Should Share Their Finances – to a Point

Bryan Keogh at The Conversation: My fiancée and I recently opened our first joint checking…

Market Ideologies

Author Oscar Sanchez-Sibony shares his views with the Phenomenal World: The Soviet Union’s construction of…

Monday Poem: How to Be a Poet

By: Wendell Berry (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down.Sit down. Be…

Gut Bacteria Slip into the Eye

Rachael Gorman in The Scientist: The retina is layered with photoreceptors, a variety of other neurons,…

Death of a Tradition

Habib Khan, Quetta: The renowned Balochi writer Munir Badini, in his book titled “Shal ae…

Making a Living by Writing is as Rare as Being a Billionaire

Eric Hoel at The Intrinsic Perspective: Imagine that in every business school students were told,…

Music Just Changed Forever

James O’Malley at Persuasion: Imagine if after Oppenheimer successfully detonated the first atomic bomb, the…