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As a young reporter in North Carolina and Kentucky in the last century, I wrote a few stories about tobacco farming. I haven’t paid much attention to tobacco farming since then so I was …

A professor said this about teaching students to read: Reading is like exercise. You have to go a little bit beyond what you’re comfortable with, a little bit more than you can really do, in order to …

Adam Grant, a Wharton management professor and organizational psychologist, quoted in the WSJ: Pre-AI, what was rewarded and valued and promoted was how much information you had in your head; …

A friend shared this flier he received at his home last week. It links to a website, StopDSAUSA.com, offering similar deep thinking about politics today. For whatever reason, the author isn’t …

I didn’t expect my mother’s death to immediately follow my retirement, but it did. I am the executor of her estate, so her death will delay my plans to jump into writing again.

Today is my last day with the U.S. State Department. I turned 65 this month. That’s the mandatory retirement age for foreign service officers. I haven’t written much publicly since 2014, …