Rudolph Lohmeyer

What Iranians Actually Want for Their Future | Abbas Milani on Today's B... youtube.com/shorts/JZ1Nbk_… via @YouTube

Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases via @FT ft.com/content/1fddd2…

Destroying the missile program was one of Caine's outlined operational objectives for Epic Fury: "Iran still has thousands of ballistic missiles in its arsenal that it could use by retrieving launchers from underground storage areas, according to American officials familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments. "The assessments come as the U.S. is working to cement a cease-fire that would fully open the Strait of Hormuz and also insulate Iran, American troops and states in the region from further attacks."' WSJ also notes that Israel assess IRI still has over 1,000 medium-range missiles out of the 2,500 it had at the outset. wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

The computer program Lean might revolutionize mathematics. It has verified more than a quarter of a million theorems and led to new insights. But might it also erode conceptual and ideological diversity? quantamagazine.org/in-math-rigor-…

I think @JonHaidt has had more positive impact than any other writer on public policy in the 21st century, and perhaps much longer than that.

Russia sending drones to Iran, western intelligence says via @FT ft.com/content/d5d729…

Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity.

نبارك لقيادة الإمارات وشعبها حلول عيد الفطر المبارك سائلين المولى عزوجل أن يتقبل طاعاتكم وأن يعمّ الأمن والأمان على بلادنا الإمارات والعالم أجمع، وأن تكون هذه الأيام المباركة جسراً للترابط والخير والعطاء، وكلّ عامٍ وأنتم بخير.

Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Cuba, EMSC says reut.rs/4dp4gFt reut.rs/4dp4gFt

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology. Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

Events in the Middle East and the Gulf region are unfolding extremely rapidly. Unfortunately, Ukraine knows all too well what this is about. Although Ukrainians never threatened Iran, the Iranian regime chose to become Putin’s accomplice and supplied him with “shahed” drones, and not only the drones themselves, but also the technologies to produce them. Iran also provided other weapons to Russia. Over the course of this full-scale war, Russia has used more than 57,000 shahed-type attack drones against the Ukrainian people, cities, and energy infrastructure. Other nations have also suffered from Iranian-backed terror. Therefore, it is fair to give the Iranian people a chance to rid themselves of a terrorist regime and to guarantee security for all nations that have suffered from terror originating in Iran. Our position is well known, and Ukraine has stated it repeatedly, including recently. It is important to preserve as many lives as possible. It is important to prevent the war from expanding. It is important that the United States is acting decisively. Whenever there is American resolve, global criminals weaken. This understanding must also come to the Russians. People cannot know the day or the hour, yet every act of evil, terror, and aggression against neighbors ultimately meets a just response. We expect that, in the end, the Middle East region will become safer and more stable. Much has already changed toward that goal. Ukraine is ready to help every nation so that security and justice increase, and terrorist regimes decrease.

Nipah Virus: Airport screening won’t stop the next pandemic via @FT ft.com/content/43d6bb…

Very much looking forward to this year’s World Governments Summit with an exceptionally strong @kearney delegation.

This year marks 100 years of Kearney. I'm very proud of that anticipating change is woven into what we do, not only to help clients prepare for disruption, but to shape emerging opportunity. And I’m grateful to the colleagues and clients who make this work truly transformative.

WATCH: I asked Commerce Secretary @howardlutnick why Trump should get credit for the jobs coming to CNY when he opposed the CHIPS Act. @SenSchumer interjected: “We’re not looking for one side or the other.” Lutnick: “We took a good start, and made it great working together.”

Protests in Iran: Dec. 29, 2025 - Jan. 4, 2026

Not only is this designed to test Japanese, American and Taiwanese response capabilities over the Christmas period, it will be assessing just how distracted the Trump administration and America is by Ukraine, Venezuela and Nigeria activities.