Observation Deck
List of Observation Deck articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Not to Be a Civilization
Mother Nature is using her words. Are we smart enough to heed them?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dredging Up the Demons
Is collective memory of national nightmares always a good thing?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Head of STEAM
The case for teaching arts in the Digital Age.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The “C” Word
Forget disruption—convergence is what really has corporations fearing for their lives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lines of Resistance
Will America see a rebirth of political verse?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Secret Ingredient for Peace
Is it money, power, sex, or love?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watch Thy Neighbor
To prevent whistleblowing, U.S. intelligence agencies are instructing staff to spy on their colleagues.
