Institute Staff

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

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Netanyahu in overdrive
  Israel's prime minister is firing on all cylinders to secure the right-wing vote ahead of a tight re-election bid....

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• Oxford-Border Criminologies: Amelia Frank-Vitale on Mexico’s punishing of migrant helpers
  In the absence of state protection, accompaniment has been a crucial strategy for protecting migrants and refugees. ...

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: Ill winds
  A conversation with Larry Diamond. ...

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• Washington Post: Eve Fairbanks on echos of antebellum rhetoric
  The "reasonable right's" word choices exactly mimic the Old South's support of slavery....

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• Bloomberg: Ezra Fieser on Chobani’s hiring of refugees
  The yogurt billionaire Hamdi Ulukaya is asking business leaders to give jobs to migrants....

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• Feifer visits Levinson
  ICWA Executive Director Gregory Feifer and family—Vanessa and Sebastian in the photo—visit Trustee Bob Levinson in Sagaponack, New York in August 2019....

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• NYT reviews Robbie Corey-Boulet’s new book
  Has Western L.G.B.T.Q. activism actually hurt the cause in Africa?...

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• MSNBC: Shannon Sims on the burning of the Amazon
  Environmental groups attribute the record rates of incineration to increased deforestation under Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro....

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• Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Trump’s incendiary influence
  Petty politics, not long-term strategy, directs the White House's relations with Tel Aviv. ...

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• Anthropology News: Amelia Frank-Vitale and Blanca Cordero on migrant accompaniment
  Mexico moves to criminalize aid to migrants. ...

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