Institute Staff

The Institute of Current World Affairs shares past fellows’ work from the around the web.

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• Jeff Race hides Pentagon Papers
  This week in 1971, The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, a classified Defense Department history of US political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. It revealed that the government had been lying to the American people about the war for years. The publication also established that the government cannot engage...

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• The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on fragmentation in Europe
  From Germany, EU politics in the wake of European Parliament elections....

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• Christopher Ball receives Friend of Hungary Award
  Recognized as an honorary ambassador to Hungary. ...

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• ICWA launches El Salvador fellowship
  Push factors leading to emigration and asylum seeking....

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• Hoover Institution: Paul Rahe on the Trump-Israel-Palestine standoff
  US policy in the region stirs controversy. ...

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• The American Interest: Paul Rahe on the new face of tyranny
  If there's one thing humans can't resist, it's the temptation to busy themselves with the lives of others....

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• Longreads: Malia Politzer on African LGBTI asylum seekers
  "I want my life to begin."...

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• The Atlantic: Karina Piser on perceptions of race in France
  Spectators boycott a performance in blackface....

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• The Nation: Karina Piser on the European Left’s anti-immigrant turn
  In Denmark, the center left returned to power by moving to the right on immigration....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: Poland and the press
  A discussion with with Harlan Mandel and Irena Lasota....

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