My post for the Wilson Center‘s New Security Beat explores how rare earths–natural ingredients in our smartphones and other electronics–are now a matter of U.S.… Read More »Rare Earths: When a Natural Resource Becomes a National Security Issue
I’m the last person you’d want for grassroots action. I’m not organized and I don’t really like meeting new people. Truth is, I don’t have… Read More »The Unlikely Canvasser: A Story from Three Elections
As featured in the Washington Post, my trip to Portugal tracked some delicious adventures in Lisbon, as well as up the coast in Porto and… Read More »Portugal Holds Delicacies and a Surprising Story of Cork
A few months ago Smithsonian published my article about the experience of Italian-Americans in the early 1940s, when public fears motivated a policy of forcing… Read More »In World War II, the Government Saw Italian-Americans as a Security Threat
Last weekend marked the anniversary of one of the first encounters in the War of 1812, the battle between the U.S.S. United States and H.M.S.… Read More »Aboard the Doomed Macedonian Again
