Members of the generation currently entering the workforce are typically obsessed with their own mental well-being and achieving “work-life balance”, writes Laura Pappano in Jewish World Review – yet are also so unskilled and socially awkward that they need special college-level courses on how to behave in a professional meeting, write emoji-free e-mails or pursue a job after graduation.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


