Essays
- August 2017
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22nd Aug 2017
Donald Trump isn’t the only leader in the West seemingly incapable of calling out political violence. Less than a week…
- July 2017
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24th Jul 2017
Democrats are exasperated that Republicans don’t share their outrage over the ever-widening scandal surrounding Donald Trump and Russia. The president’s…
- May 2017
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3rd May 2017
Memo to Obama partisans: look at your own legacy before you cast that first stone. At last September’s G-20 summit…
- March 2017
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17th Mar 2017
When Angela Merkel meets with Donald Trump on Friday, she won’t just be representing Germany. She’ll be bringing all the…
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12th Mar 2017
May 9, 2022 — Standing on the viewing platform in Red Square, President Vladimir Putin observed the military parade commemorating the…
- November 2015
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10th Nov 2015
In 2003, I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed freshman at Yale when the Afro-American Cultural Center invited the late Amiri Baraka…
- March 2015
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19th Mar 2015
“True or not, the Holocaust story has been put to many uses, some of them mischievous. It is currently being…
- February 2015
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26th Feb 2015
Muslim > gay, black > female, and everybody > the Jews For all of 15 minutes last weekend, Patricia Arquette was a progressive…
- July 2014
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27th Jul 2014
The Ukrainian crisis bears many similarities to the Cold War. Once again, Russian tanks have rolled across an international border.…
- October 2013
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23rd Oct 2013
On August 18, security officers at London’s Heathrow Airport detained a Brazilian named David Miranda. They did so under the…
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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