Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi

“Dimitri Simes defected to the U.S. in the seventies and was a proud American for five decades, until he was criminally charged with a Soviet-style offense: being a journalist.” (03/10/26)

https://www.racket.news/p/interview-with-americas-exiled-speech

Source: The Hill
by Gleb Tsipursky

“Many business leaders think that a stricter return-to-office policy will cause a surge in productivity. But in reality, the data tell a different story. Across practitioner reports and peer-reviewed research, including a new report from the Institute for Corporate Productivity, organizations that commit to highly flexible models, including remote-first, report strong output, healthier engagement, and faster growth than mandate-driven peers. The newest practitioner evidence should give leaders confidence. In the institute’s Remote-First Organizations report, most leaders in remote-first firms say productivity remains high. A sizable share report that it is very high, even though the majority of these companies avoid invasive monitoring of employees. The research frames remote-first as a deliberate operating model anchored in trust, clarity and well-designed touchpoints, not a stopgap. Independent national data aligns with these practitioner insights.” (03/10/26)

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5775420-remote-first-productivity-growth/

Source: The Nation
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

“The Nation opposes Trump’s latest war, as do most Americans. But we are concerned that the response of many commentators to the Trump catastrophe is to hope for a return to a failed old order — a system of ‘rules’ and strategies so unpopular that voters have already rejected them. That naïve longing ignores the need for this country to take a new look at its place in the world.” (03/10/26)

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/alternative-foreign-policy-trump-wars/

Source: Quillette
by Jorge Iniesta Cases

“We live in a paradoxical informational landscape. Never before have citizens had access to such an abundance of data, expert commentary, real-time analysis, and historical context. The digital age promised a ‘Great Clarification,’ where the democratisation of information would serve as a universal solvent for ignorance. But despite this unprecedented availability, it has rarely been so difficult to form a coherent understanding of what is actually happening in the world. The problem is not ignorance in the classical sense. The contemporary public is not uninformed; on the contrary, it is hyper-informed.” (03/10/26)

https://quillette.com/2026/03/10/the-soft-disinformation-contagion-psychology-social-media-politics/

Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher

“Bombing Iran may be the easy part. What hawks refuse to reckon with is everything that comes next.” (03/10/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/10/iran-hawks-forget-history/