Who made our minds?

Stories of return in multiple directions.

democracy and dictatorship, Russia and Ukraine, America and Europe, local and global, past and present

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Tina Brown's observations, rants, news obsessions, and human exchanges.

Writer, songwriter, story teller, I write poems and songs and essays. I post them here and hope they find who they are supposed to find.

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

A woman with ideas

Author Carlyn Beccia: Honest conversations about science, anatomy, feminism, love, psychology, history, & politics.

The Politics Happens newsletter examines political events and ideas with independent, balanced analysis that lets you make up your own mind.

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.