Commentary
- July 2019
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1st Jul 2019
At first glance, it is not immediately apparent that the life of Richard Holbrooke, the longtime Democratic foreign-policy hand, merits…
- August 2018
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- January 2015
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2nd Jan 2015
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia By Peter Pomerantsev PublicAffairs, 254 pages…
- September 2014
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19th Sep 2014
On March 4, Hillary Clinton was asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s moves into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which…
- May 2014
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28th May 2014
Margaret Sullivan, public editor of theNew York Times, believes that the paper’s Book Review made an error in assigning Glenn…
- 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…
- October 2012
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3rd Oct 2012
In the spring of 2008, during the waning months of the Bush years, I was among a group of journalists,…
- March 2012
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- July 2011
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1st Jul 2011
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe By Peter Godwin; Little, Brown; 384 pages. Today, the full title of the…
- June 2011
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1st Jun 2011
Why does Nicholas Kristof continue to defend the charlatan Greg Mortenson? When Greg Mortenson—the Montana nurse who earned worldwide fame with…
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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