- Opinion: Why I’m handing in my Pentagon press pass, by NPR’s Tom Bowman.
- DC’s lonely streetcar will shut down in March, alas.
- Things worth getting better at, or, 10x vs 10%, by John D. Cook.
There’s a perennial temptation to solve the problem you want to solve rather than the problem you need to solve.
- What Shakespeare’s Capulet is talking about when he shouts at his daughter, “Out you green-sickness carrion! Out you baggage/ You tallow-face!”
- When is a battle a massacre, and vice versa? And what is settler colonialism? Akim Reinhardt explains.
- RE:PUBLIC launches, a journalism project focused on one of the few issues with bipartisan support: public lands. (In the western US, I suspect that the degree to which people support public lands depends on how the question is framed.)
- Recently published research indicates that Blue Dasher dragonflies (Pachydiplax longipennis) can thrive in crummy, polluted urban environments.
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