Institute Staff

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

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• Webinar video:
  Maria Ressa and Steven Butler on press freedom
  An ICWA-Network 20/20 discussion with Maria Ressa and Steve Butler....

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• ICWA virtual gala 2021
  Please join a global celebration marking our 96th year advancing American understanding of world cultures and affairs....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: Who’s afraid of Alexei Navalny?
  A discussion with Olga Shorina, Kiryl Sukhotski and Pavel Butorin....

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• Nicholas Schmidle to publish book on Virgin Galactic space program
  New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle (ICWA fellow in Pakistan, 2006-2008) tells the story of the test pilots, engineers and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic’s campaign to build a space tourism company in his soon-to-be-released book Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut. The Washington Post describes a previously unreported account of a...

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• FROM THE FIELD: Why Germany didn’t get Covid-19 under control
  A conversation with Emily Schultheis....

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• Teen Vogue: Karina Piser on the community college crisis
  Dropping enrollment during the pandemic is effectively closing a critical gateway for disadvantaged students....

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• New York Magazine: Andrew Rice on reopening NJ schools
  Affluent, liberal, suburban parents are demanding their children go back in school, now....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: The future of the transatlantic alliance
  A discussion with Jamie Fly and Jonathan Katz....

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• New York Magazine: Pramila Jayapal on the Capitol assault
  US Representative Jayapal speaks about surviving the siege with Rebecca Traister for The Cut....

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• FROM THE FIELD: Can Biden reverse America’s global decline?
  A conversation with Suzy Hansen....

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