Notes on a Foreign Country explores what it means to be an American abroad in the 21st century. […]
NYT: Suzy Hansen in 100 Notable Books
New York Magazine: Andrew Rice on Nikki Haley
For the US ambassador to the UN, Trump is just the first half of it. […]
WAMU 88.5: Tyrone Turner on Washington DC’s Chinatown
Much of the original culture has vanished. […]
In Indonesia, one language for all?
Efforts to instill national unity are diminishing regional identities. […]
Can secular classrooms heal France’s social divisions?
The government wants to guarantee neutral spaces for learning, but some say they risk dividing students as much as unifying them. […]
Buzzfeed: Eve Fairbanks on Mark Halperin
“He claimed he knew so much more than we did, and we began to believe it.” […]
New York Magazine: Andrew Rice on Daniel Ellsberg and nuclear war
The whistleblower Nixon and Kissinger once called “the most dangerous man in America” on his new book about America’s close brushes with total destruction. […]
The Nation: Robbie Corey-Boulet on victims of Liberian war crimes
Gruesome new details emerge from a Philadelphia courtroom. […]
Boston Globe: Carol Rose on Anthony Scaramucci
A threat to sue a Tufts graduate student for allegedly defaming him is “plainly mean-spirited.” […]
BBC Radio 4: Jonathan Guyer on Arab Noir
A revolution has been creeping across the Middle East, giving authors and scholars an opportunity to critique imported wars, local autocrats and arrested revolutions. […]