Observation Deck
List of Observation Deck articles
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bamford_illo Hello, Death Star: Russia Had a Secret Cold War Space Station Equipped with Cannons
The clandestine celestial war between superpowers isn't over. It's just getting more high-tech.
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kirsch Farewell to the Writer-in-Chief
As a man of letters gives way to one barely literate, does politics have any place for literature anymore?
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tett The Weird New Normal of Negative Interest Rates
The United States, Germany, and other economic powerhouses haven't learned the dire lessons of Japan's lost decades.
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rothkopf How Not to Be a Civilization
Mother Nature is using her words. Are we smart enough to heed them?
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Kirsch The Bard of His Own Backyard
Shakespeare may never have left England, but he became the most global writer who ever lived.
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02 Final Flat_cropped Building on Sand
Out of cash and out of options, America's cities need a new plan—and they might need Washington to design it.
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03 Final Flat It’s Time for Obama to Send Home This Mass-Murdering Cuban Terrorist-in-Exile to Face His Punishment
He’s been sunning himself in Miami for far too long.
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Foreign Policy_DEF Dredging Up the Demons
Is collective memory of national nightmares always a good thing?
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Steam Final Flat 02 A Head of STEAM
The case for teaching arts in the Digital Age.
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Bamford Drone Final Flat Terrorists Have Drones Now. Thanks, Obama.
86 countries have drones, 19 of them armed. Now ISIS wants them too. Is it too late to stop the unmanned arms race?
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Culture_Rwanda_DEF_SW_V1_2 The False Idols of Rwanda’s Genocide
Is Paul Kagame’s government using museums to commemorate the past—or cement its grip on power?
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Disruption Final Flat 03 The “C” Word
Forget disruption—convergence is what really has corporations fearing for their lives.
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Citizen, An American Lyric_DEF_SW_V1 Lines of Resistance
Will America see a rebirth of political verse?
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Love and Power Final Final The Secret Ingredient for Peace
Is it money, power, sex, or love?
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Bamford Final Flat Watch Thy Neighbor
To prevent whistleblowing, U.S. intelligence agencies are instructing staff to spy on their colleagues.
