Technology & Innovation — June 18, 2009

Quick, Man Your Tweets!

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Are you a C-SPAN addict, an incorrigible policy wonk, a wannabe beltway insider and a religious Twitterer? Then The Atlantic has a list for you.

From the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq to the the members of Bush’s inner circle who still matter, there are 30 Washington Insiders that will make your tweeting experience whole.

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

The Present

The previous experience of every US president since Theodore Roosevelt

What qualifies someone for the top position in American government?

High Culture

10 people who got famous from the grave

Really puts the whole “don’t give up until you’re dead” thing to shame.

Politics & Current Affairs

8 Indisputable Reasons to Support Edward Snowden (And Many Disputable Ones Not To)

Here are all of the arguments against Edward Snowden. This is why they are wrong.

Frontline: al-Qaeda in Yemen

Last night Frontline aired the film al-Qaeda in Yemen, which was reported by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad who writes for the Guardian and who, along with Declan Walsh when he was at […]

Politics & Current Affairs

BLAIR AND GADDAFI: WHEN REALPOLITIK BECOMES BUSINESS AS USUAL

[This article appeared in the Daily Mail] The British people understand what politicians and diplomats euphemistically refer to as ‘realpolitik’. They accept that sometimes their leaders have to sit down […]

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