Author: DPstaff
The Incredible Story of the Fake Allied Military Unit that Fooled Hitler Ahead of the D-day Invasion of Normandy
By Taylor Downing at Air Mail: General Hans Cramer was a German officer of the…
South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, 30 years after apartheid’s…
Saturday Poem: What Kind of Times Are These
There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphilland the old…
Presidential Debates Have Outlived Their Usefulness
John McWhorter writes in Persuasion: Donald Trump is incapable of meaningful participation in such an…
Points to Ponder
Talking Points from an editorial in Dawn: –Pakistan is in a debt trap.–It must borrow…
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Veronique Greenwood in Harvard Magazine: IN THE LATE 2000s, Rachel Carmody was spending a lot of time…
Thirty Years of Talking About Pablo Escobar
Juan Gabriel Vásquez in El Pais: Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug trafficker in history,…
The Average American Is a Millionaire
Jeremy Horpedahl in The City Journal: The Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances contains several revelations about…
Rivers in Alaska are Turning Orange. The Reason Surprised Even Scientists.
By Fabiana Chaparro, CNN: The finding surprised researchers from the National Park Service, the University…
Friday Poem: ‘Enigmas’ by Pablo Neruda
You asked me what the lobster is weaving there with his…. golden feet?I reply, the…
The Institute of Illegal Images
Erik Davis at The Paris Review: The Institute of Illegal Images (III) is housed in…