Institute Staff

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

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• New Yorker: Nicholas Schmidle on the billionaire space war
  Richard Branson has surprised both Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk by beating them to the launch pad....

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• New York Magazine: Andrew Rice on Merrick Garland’s DOJ
  Those who hoped the new attorney general would prosecute January 6 with gusto have been bitterly disappointed....

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• Financial Times: Neri Zilber on Israel’s return to Covid restrictions
  Case numbers are rising in a country that has been world leader in vaccinations....

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• Politico: Emily Schultheis on Austria’s ‘Ibiza Affair’
  Two years after Austria's vice chancellor lost his job following the exposé, Heinz-Christian Strache stands before a judge in Vienna....

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• ICWA announces new 2021 fellows
  Bryce Bray, James Courtright and Steven Tagle will be going to the Russian Arctic, West Africa and Greece....

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• FROM THE FIELD: Inside Lebanon’s brain drain
  A conversation with David Kenner....

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• Cheng Li examines Shanghai’s middle class in new book
  Li’s book argues that American policymakers must not lose sight of the expansive dynamism and diversity in present-day China....

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• Tyrone Turner and Jonathan Guyer win Dateline awards
  Two former ICWA fellows have both won awards from the Washington DC chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists....

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• In These Times: Amelia Frank-Vitale on migration’s root causes
  If the Biden administration hopes to succeed in stemming migration from Central America, it must learn from the mistakes of previous US interventions....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: The future of the transatlantic alliance
  Discussions with Constanze Stelzenmüller and Erik Brattberg....

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