Yusaf Khalil interviews Syrian scholar Yasser Munif about the roots of the Syrian civil war and how the West is trying (and failing) to help.

via “Discourse Is a Battleground” — Longreads

The transportation industry is a 7.4 trillion dollar a year (according to Wikipedia in 2014, a reliable source if I’ve ever found one) industry with trains, planes, automobiles and duck bus getting us from point A to point B and across maps, and locations safely all day and all night 24 hours a day, 7 […]

via Bitter Rivalry of the Week: Kangaroo pouch vs. Pant Pockets — Ben’s Bitter Blog