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5 days ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Bernard-Henri Lévy |Alexander Ward |Alexander Gladstone |Adam Entous
Quotes of the Day:"Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well."– Margaret Atwood“What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts?
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3 weeks ago | 
tovima.com | Tripti Lahiri |Alexander Ward
Albania concluded its election campaign last night with major rallies in Tirana, as Prime Minister Edi Rama and opposition leader Sali Berisha made final appeals to voters ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for Sunday. Rama closed his campaign with a rally at Tirana’s Olympic Park, promoting the central slogan “Albania 2030 in the EU” and promising closer European integration.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Tripti Lahiri |Alexander Ward
7 hours agoIndia - May 10, 2025 Pakistan launched a military operation against India, hitting key military assets including missile storage facilities and airfields in Udhampur, Adampur, and Pathankot. Pakistan said it was also conducting a sweeping cyber offensive aimed at crippling India’s government networks, energy infrastructure, telecommunications, and transportation systems.
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1 month ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Alexander Ward |Michael Gordon |Jonathan Cheng |Ellen Nakashima
Quotes of the Day:“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”– B.F. Skinner“They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.”– Gerald Massey“The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration. Get nowhere.
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1 month ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Lolita Baldor |Victor Davis Hanson |Michael Gordon |Alexander Ward
Quotes of the Day:“Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.
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2 months ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Gavin Bade |Alexander Ward |Josh Dawsey |Jeanna Smialek
Quotes of the Day:"Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide."– Viktor FrankelOf course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable."– Kurt Vonnegut“We must admit the vanity of our faults distinctions among men, learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of all.
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2 months ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Alexander Ward |Victor Davis Hanson |Niall Ferguson |John Deni
Quotes of the Day: "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." – George Bernard Shaw "The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant." - Maximilien Robespierre “Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid, meant to say, or write anything against this, or that opinion, are often paths to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.” –...
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Alexander Ward |Michelle Hackman |Vera Bergengruen
1 hour agoLiberals will maintain their narrow majority on the court after Crawford’s victory in the first battleground state election of Trump’s second term. Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, allowing liberals to maintain their narrow majority on the battleground …
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2 months ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Alexander Ward |Gavin Bade |Adva Saldinger |Elissa Miolene
Quotes of the Day:“No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.”– Denis Diderot“Either you think – or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural taste, civilize and sterilize you.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald. “We all have inner demons to fight. We call these demons fear, hatred, and anger.
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2 months ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Timothy Martin |Jane Lytvynenko |Alexander Ward |Chelsey Dulaney
Quotes of the Day:“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.
