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ICE and ISIS: A Tale of Two Recruiting Drives
The ICE recruiting ad is clearly not an Islamic jihadi worldview, at first glance. The powder-blue leatherette in the 1981 Ford van ad gives Burt…
Feb 4
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The Opposite of Scrolling
Bobbing in the warm sea of scrolling, bloated on content, I was buoyed by the floaties of rage and fear.
Jan 21
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Carla Power
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For Courage in the Coming Year, A Bouquet of Brave, Strange, and Witty Resistance Tactics
Fear leads you to curl up, getting you little more than a close-up of your own navel. Courage, even simply witnessed, can get you to straighten up and…
Jan 7
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Carla Power
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On Judy Garland’s Voice, Holiday Rituals and Populist Pipe Dreams: Why Looking Back Needs to Hurt a Little Bit
Nostalgia is the opposite of sexy, the quilted housecoat of emotions. It’s also a holiday tradition.
Dec 24, 2025
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Carla Power
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The King, the Beatles, and I: On Becoming British
Geniuses and Migrants Help a Culture See Itself Anew
Dec 10, 2025
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Carla Power
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National Security Threat or National Treasure? Often, It’s All About Timing.
To the many risks of being alive in 2025—pandemics, floods, wildfires, and wars, both nuclear and “conventional,” in that creepily sanitized word—we…
Nov 26, 2025
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Carla Power
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No Primal Thrill—at Least, None Allowed in Public—Beats Crossing a Border
As kids, on road trips from St. Louis across the Mississippi River to visit grandparents in Illinois, my brother Nick and I had a ritual.
Nov 12, 2025
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Crossing Borders with Carla Power
Conversations Across Faiths and Cultures.
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