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Kenneth R. Rosen

Kenneth R. Rosen  is the journalist in residence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a senior editor at Newsweek. His work has appeared in Wired, The New York Times, and Pacific Standard, among other places. He is the author of Bulletproof Vest, which was published this spring.

You Can’t Go Home Again

You Can’t Go Home Again

American volunteers joined western allies in the fight to dismantle the Islamic State in Syria. What happened when they came back?

by Kenneth R. Rosen | Thursday, September 24, 2020

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Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie

by James McWilliams

Cutting back on screen time may be an especially popular resolution this January, as pandemic-forced isolation led many of us to be even more closely glued to our phones and laptops. “We don’t want to be enslaved to a device. We want to regain a measure of control,” writes James McWilliams in this 2016 piece. “Doing so will require something you might not expect—courting exactly the experience that digital life promises to end: stress.”

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