Institute Staff

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

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• Kendal Price on potential ethics issues for chief justice
  At the Supreme Court, Ethics Questions Over a Spouse’s Business Ties, The New York Times on Kendal Price (South Africa, 1981-1984) raising concerns about Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’s potential conflict of interest, January 31, 2022...

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• DCist: Tyrone Turner on remembering MLK in DC
  The Whole of his Dream Had to Do With Economic Empowerment, by Amanda Michelle Gomez, photos by Tyrone Turner (Brazil, 1998 – 2000), DCist, January 16, 2023...

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• NY Magazine: Andrew Rice on Ashley Biden’s stolen diary
  Will Ashley Biden’s Diary Take Down Project Veritas? by Andrew Rice (Uganda, 2002-2004), New York Magazine, January 16, 2023...

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• WSJ: Joel Millman on Christmas and goats
  It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year—for Goats (No Kidding), by Joel Millman (Central America, 1987-1989), The Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2023...

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• ISEAS webinar: Matt Wheeler on Thailand’s south
  Peace Dialogue in Thailand’s Deep South: Prospects and Pitfalls, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute webinar, January 31, 2023, 10:00 a.m. (SG time), speaker Matt Wheeler (Thailand, 2002-2004).   ...

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• Jori Lewis in CS Monitor’s Best Books 2022
  Wrapping Up the Year in Books: The Best of 2022, in the Christian Science Monitor, includes Jori Lewis’s (Senegal, 2011-2013) new book: Slaves for peanuts: A story of conquest, liberation, and a crop that changed history...

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• LA Times reviews Eve Fairbanks’s ‘The Inheritors’
  Enduring Divides: On Eve Fairbanks’s ’The Inheritors’, by Jean Hey on Eve Fairbanks’s (South Africa, 2009-2011) new book: The Inheritors, An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning, Los Angeles Times Review of Books, January 10, 2023  ...

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• 1843 Magazine: Eve Fairbanks on Zimbabwe’s leading novelist
  Are Great Writers Forged by Repressive Regimes or Crushed by Them? Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe’s leading novelist, has unsparingly examined her country’s flaws in her work. It has left her dishonoured in her own land, by Eve Fairbanks (South Africa, 2009-2011), 1843 Magazine, The Economist, January 3, 2023  ...

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• Financial Times: Neri Zilber on Netanyahu’s big plans
  Benjamin Netanyahu Sworn In for Sixth Term as Israel’s Prime Minister, by Neri Zilber, (Israel, 2011-2013), Financial Times, December 29, 2022...

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• Trends in Organized Crime: Amelia Frank-Vitale on migrant smuggling
  Coyotes, Caravans, and the Central American Migrant Smuggling Continuum, by Amelia Frank-Vitale (Mexico, 2012-2014), Trends in Organized Crime, December 2022  ...

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