Foreign Correspondent: U.S. Capitol Insurrection as Seen from Abroad


Following last week’s white nationalist mob in Washington, D.C., journalists and activists overseas share what the world is thinking about us.By Reese ErlichForeign Correspondent: Capitol insurrection as seen from abroad | 48 hills In the wake of the white nationalist mob takeover of the U.S. Capitol and Trump’s pending second impeachment, I contacted journalists and … Continue reading

Foreign Correspondent: The Rest of the World Sees Uprisings, Not Riots


The United States is paying the price for denying people what Malcolm X called ‘the right to be a human being.’ https://progressive.org/dispatches/rest-of-world-sees-uprisings-not-riots-200604/ by Reese Erlich June 4, 2020 One of Germany’s largest dailies ran the headline “This killer cop set America ablaze,” with a photo of the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd. Protests … Continue reading

What countries combat the COVID crisis better than the US?


Other Nations Lead the Way How China, South Korea, and Germany developed effective strategies for fighting COVID-19. https://progressive.org/magazine/other-nations-lead-the-way-erlich/ by Reese Erlich May 26, 2020, The Progressive magazine Nathaniel Brown never thought he would be grateful to see traffic jams in Shanghai. The brake-squealing, pollution-spewing jam-ups were the bane of every Chinese big city. But for … Continue reading