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- May 2018
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5th May 2018
Novelist Alan Hollinghurst is the literary bard of modern British gay life. His 1987 debut, The Swimming Pool Library, tells…
- October 2017
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22nd Oct 2017
Thankfully, Harvey Weinstein’s political allies aren’t falling for his shtick of promising to repent and to “channel [his] anger” toward…
- May 2017
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7th May 2017
Dear Britain: Please stop sending us your failed media celebrities. Louise Mensch is a former chick-lit novelist, politician, and founding…
- April 2017
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5th Apr 2017
When Barack Obama was president, conservatives criticized him endlessly for alienating allies and coddling adversaries. A mere week after swearing…
- August 2015
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2nd Aug 2015
The word “pundit” has its origins in an ancient Sanskrit term meaning “knowledge owner.” Today used to describe the denizens…
- July 2015
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27th Jul 2015
Last June, three months after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula and just weeks before Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine shot…
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6th Jul 2015
Currently under federal investigation for his use (and abuse) of taxpayer money, former Congressman Aaron Schock has been hard to…
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1st Jul 2015
After spending more than five years in a Cuban jail, former USAID contractor Alan Gross is probably in possession of…
- June 2015
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26th Jun 2015
It’s a shame that Hillary Clinton wasn’t able to convince the Obama White House to let Sidney Blumenthal serve under…
- May 2015
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11th May 2015
Former Congressman Robert Wexler has found the cure to what ails American democracy, and he’s discovered it in the most…
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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