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Prakash Iyer - A good sign of mastery is the ability to make complex things simple. And a sure sign of half-baked knowledge is the tendency to use big words and jargon, and make things look complicated, , Illusions

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Why are so many privileged, high-achieving students giving up? Rather than being motivated by having so many choices, they become...

TPR's David Martin Davies looks at how a new ruling by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatens election security. Grifters are cashing in on false claims of election fraud. And the big impact of little inconveniences on voters.

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Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

Guest op-ed by Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour an adjunct professor at Georgetown and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Iran and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East) @NYTimes.com, Aug. 12 Even as negotiations restart over the nuclear deal, American officials still don’t understand the country or its leader.

Even as negotiations restart over the nuclear deal, American officials still don’t understand the country or its leader.

How and when do you divest yourself from an artist? What does it mean that we were all born under a different moon? This week, we revisit Lauren Korn’s conversation with poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib.

The author discusses “The Muddle,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.

“Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.” The man who ...