Your Pension Is At War
(And Nobody Told You) Editor’s Note I want to start somewhere unusual for this newsletter…...
Observations
The Light Behind the Mountains
There is a sense of silence that arrives with a setting sun. Not the silence...
The Argument Nobody Wants to Have
We often encounter a certain type of silence that falls over a room when someone...
The Most Important Man in the Village
Nobody voted for him. Nobody gave him a lanyard or a certificate or even a...
Five Stories That Are Simmering While Everyone Watches the Same Three Headlines
The world isn’t just breaking news. It’s also the stuff that’s quietly catching fire in...
Nominees for the Least-Interesting Tragedy
Act fast! These humanitarian catastrophes are back on the shelves for another season of complete...
We’re All Russians Now
A woman is sitting in a Moscow café right now, doing something that would have...
The Global Tinderbox
Mapping the New Boundaries of Modern Warfare If you’ve been paying any attention to the...
The Man Who Bought the Sky
There’s a version of this story that gets told in breathless, wide-eyed tones. A visionary....
Selling Sand to the Arabs
There’s an old expression in British business culture. When someone pulls off an almost comically...
