Author: DPstaff
‘The Use of Political Power to Achieve Economic Gains’
by Umair Javed at Dawn: The Chinese state is remarkable in that it has struck…
A Top U.S. Diplomat on What America Gets Wrong
By Nahal Toosi at Politico: Victoria Nuland has long been known as a relentless, even…
Democracy Has Run Out of Future
Ivan Krastev & Leonard Benardo in Foreign Policy: We live today amid the dregs of…
Monday Poem: Mother’s Day Unsonnet
To think that I was once a germ of lightin the belly of another being,and…
New World Order?
Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay in Phenomenal World: We live in a dysfunctional system in…
Behind the Ivy Intifada
“We can clearly recognize elite institutions’ deep commitment to sterile forms of activism.” Musa al-Gharbi…
She Wrote ‘The History of White People.’ She Has a Lot More to Say.
Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times: As the historian Nell Irvin Painter has learned over…
Imagineering: Teamwork. Backhoe Kid.
“Interest in the work matters”. “No problem can be solved from the same level of…
Sunday Poem: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want moreof everything ready-made. Be afraidto…
Astronomers Discover 27,500 New Asteroids Lurking in Archival Images
By Jason Dorrier at Singularity Hub: In tandem with Google Cloud, the Asteroid Institute recently…
How One Man Brought Down the Leading Members of the British Establishment
John Arlidge at the Air Mail: Britain does a good line in scandal. The Profumo…
India’s Despotic Election
The playing field is tilted decisively in favor of the ruling party. The chances of…