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.
World Economic Forum: Cynthia Caron on gender parity in Zambia
Projects helping provide Zambian women with better access to land.
WPR: Robbie Corey-Boulet on Mali’s turbulent presidential election campaign
And other stories making headlines in Africa.
NYT: Shannon Sims on Zanzibar’s revolutionary female soccer team
Told they couldn't play soccer, the women responded by forming a team.
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,
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.
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.
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.
Rolling Stone: ‘This is not about policy, this is about right and wrong.’
Pramila Jayapal on immigration.