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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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Going Viral

by Priscilla Long

Nearly a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s hard to remember that at one time most of our virus-related worries were limited to such seasonal maladies as the common cold. In this essay from 2012, Priscilla Long ponders the invasive nature of viruses—which, whether or not they are considered to be alive, “are a part of life.”

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