Dispatches
- May 2019
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18th May 2019
There are many places where a gay Jewish couple wearing yarmulkes wouldn’t feel comfortable walking down the street. I didn’t…
- October 2018
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11th Oct 2018
Tbilisi, Georgia To really understand the impact John McCain had on the world, visit a country like Georgia. Continue reading…
- June 2015
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23rd Jun 2015
“I don’t have a problem with it, but do they really need an entire parade?” I overhear an elderly American…
- May 2015
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18th May 2015
Havana — I’ve visited more than my fair share of dictatorships, but Cuba is the only one where travelers at…
- January 2015
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20th Jan 2015
The insidious, and mistaken, media meme around the irresistible story of Israelis choosing to live in Germany Israelis in Berlin:…
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20th Jan 2015
Kim Jong Un has total control over information-sharing in North Korea, so one group of exiles flies in leaflets and…
- November 2014
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24th Nov 2014
Berlin On August 17, 1962—exactly one year after barbed-wire barricades began to be reinforced with the concrete that would become…
- May 2014
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17th May 2014
ODESSA, Ukraine — When a large government building here housing a group of pro-Russian activists caught fire earlier this month,…
- April 2014
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12th Apr 2014
Ihor Miroshnychenko, a parliamentarian from Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party, is an ‘emotional’ man. That is the word that he…
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4th Apr 2014
According to Vladimir Putin, the revolution that dislodged former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukoyvch this winter was not a popular movement…
About James
James Kirchick is a journalist and foreign correspondent currently based in Washington. He has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, across the European continent, and the Caucasus. He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for The Daily Beast and is a columnist for Tablet. His first book, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age is forthcoming from Yale University Press.
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