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There is no diplomacy like candor.
~E.V. Lucas

A therapist is more than a friend for hire

Mathematicians don’t read math books

Life as a CIA agent bored William F. Buckley, Jr.

Diplomats in an embassy pool triggered Maine Senate candidate

How to use Quickbooks to steal from the State Department

Perhaps Josef K. was guilty after all

Peter Matthiessen’s work for the CIA ‘sits uneasily within his biography’

Better-paid employees = more profit

‘I am a traitor’

You are my secret informant love!

Europe is suffering from Stockholm syndrome

Welcome to ICE

White House official accused of sexual harassment

Sylvia Plath’s desire for ‘salable stories’ hindered her progress as a writer

U.S. diplomat fired for dating a Chinese woman

Corruption is opportunity for the poor

Henry James on how to write a novel

Cynthia Ozick on dipping Norman Mailer’s balls in ink

The good life can be urban

Netanyahu’s apology

Tom Lehrer was a spy agency prankster

Home schooling’s ‘inescapable sameness’ leads teenager to solve 40-year-old math mystery

Medals expose Russian center for cyber espionage

How African are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon?

Is selling unclassified information about the U.S. embassy in Oslo a crime?

Iranian technology launched Russian drone industry

AI slows coders

Kill your second brain

Anti-money laundering laws don’t work

Spies can’t hide

AI legal hallucinations database