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The New Yorker: Nicholas Schmidle on Virgin Galactic’s lead pilot
The ace pilot risking his life to fulfill Richard Branson's quest to make commercial space travel a reality.
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World Economic Forum: Cynthia Caron on gender parity in Zambia
Projects helping provide Zambian women with better access to land.
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WPR: Robbie Corey-Boulet on Mali’s turbulent presidential election campaign
And other stories making headlines in Africa.
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NYT: Shannon Sims on Zanzibar’s revolutionary female soccer team
Told they couldn't play soccer, the women responded by forming a team.
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The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Iran pushing conflict on the Israeli-Syrian border
Concern growing in Israel as the Syrian civil war reaches its denouement,
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Germans face influx of refugees… in 1958
As an ICWA fellow during the Cold War, NYT correspondent David Binder found a previous migrant wave to be a boon for the West.
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Reuters: Gregory Feifer on European fears over the Trump-Putin summit
Uncertainty about where the Trump administration is ultimately heading is shaking a continent swept up in an anti-immigrant, right-wing populist tide.
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Democracy in Europe group calls on NATO to protect democratic institutions
ICWA director joins foreign policy experts and former officials ahead of the alliance’s summit.
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Rolling Stone: ‘This is not about policy, this is about right and wrong.’
Pramila Jayapal on immigration.