Captain of the ‘Contradiction’
Max Ozinsky is one of my dearest friends and favorite people on the planet. We worked together in our young activist days, but made some different choices along the line. These days he’s chief whip of...
View ArticleAvian Flu is Bad for You…
Five reasons you should buy Karl Taro Greenfeld’s new book , “The China Syndrome” — besides the fact that it’s a gripping chronicle of China’s handling of the SARS outbreak in 2003 is a timely and...
View ArticleDosunmu’s African Game
My friend Andrew Dosunmu has done an extraordinary book of photographs of African football, capturing the almost subversive joy and exuberance it brings to the global game, and its place in the urban...
View ArticleTelephone Call for Mr. Horrible
Not just any American in Paris, but a vicious, potty-mouthed, epically angry American in Paris… I’m please to share with you Mr. Horrible’s Ugliness Glob, the new blogging effort by my friend Bruce...
View ArticleWest Africa/East Africa
Downtown in Arusha, Marcello’s new home Cronies seem to be showing up all over the Mother Continent. It was when she went off to see the Teranga Lions thrash the hapless national team of Tanzania in...
View ArticleIran, the Inflatable Bogey
I’m delighted and honored to welcome Dr. Trita Parsi as a guest columnist at Rootless Cosmopolitan. Following the escalating tension between Iran and the West over the past two years, I’ve found Trita...
View ArticleBuy This Book!
Former New York Times staffer Sarah Boxer has done a wonderful service in her new book Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, showcasing some truly fine writing from the much-hyped blogosphere....
View ArticleIs Israel-Iran Enmity Irreversible?
Two of my favorite commentators on the Middle East, my friends Trita Parsi and Daniel Levy recently appeared together on a panel discussing Iran-Israel relations, and revealed some of the critically...
View ArticleSound Advice for the Next President
Guest Column: Helena Cobban, whose site Just World News is one of my favorite sources of perspective on the Middle East — check out her excellent coverage of the events of the past week in Lebanon —...
View ArticleEmbedded with the Jihadis
File under Locos We Love: My friend Nir Rosen has made a hair-raising habit of getting himself “behind the lines” to report the real stories of the various insurgencies confronting the U.S. and its...
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