Two things are certain about the international media landscape. One is that media is omnipresent. The second is that it is eternally changing and evolving. No matter how hard you try, it seems impossible to keep up with it. So here’s your cheat sheet. Here are ten things to know about the changing world media landscape this week:… Read More Tuesday Ten: The Media

Happy Friday, friends. I hope your week went by as fast as mine did. I’ll be spending the weekend at home packing for my vacation next week and repairing the blinds my cat broke before my apartment complex fines me (see last week’s Sunday Selection post for pictures of cat mid-destruction). Here’s this week’s Friday… Read More Friday Forecast: New York

It’s been 10 days since the Panama Papers were released, so it seems a fitting topic for this week’s Tuesday Ten. Here are 10 things you need to know about the Panama Papers: China’s all over them, but you wouldn’t know that in China. Mossack Fonseca has more offices in China than anywhere else in… Read More Tuesday Ten: The Panama Papers

Happy Sunday, everybody. Hope you have all had a relaxing weekend. Here are some suggestions for what you can read with the rest of your leisurely afternoon. I’ll be reading these and watching my cat destroy what’s left of my blinds. Here’s a shot of her in action for everyone’s amusement:  As scrutiny of British Prime… Read More Sunday Selection: NASA and Fake Front Pages

Happy Friday! I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend ahead of them. I’m planning on doing a little gardening, a medium amount of cooking and a lot of watching baseball and reading on the couch with my husband. Here is what’s going to be hot this weekend: Pope Francis published a new apostolic exhortation Friday… Read More Friday Forecast: Popes, Polls and Panama

United States European Command (EUCOM) quietly announced last week that it was stepping up the U.S. presence in Eastern Europe in the face of an “aggressive Russia.” Starting February 2017, U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR) “will begin receiving continuous troop rotations of U.S.-based armored brigade combat teams.” This might not seem like a big deal. The U.S.… Read More Military Monday: Operation Atlantic Resolve

I’ve been pretty bad about posting this week; I apologize. It’s been hard getting back into the habit of blogging each day. I will try to be much better in the week ahead. Here are the articles you should be reading with your leisure time this weekend: Last week, GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump gave… Read More Sunday Selection: Azerbaijan, The Panama Papers and Doping in the UK

Today’s Tuesday Ten is a collection of the ten strangest things going on in the world right now. There really was an embarrassment of riches to choose from. It’s a strange world we live in: Hijacking of an Egyptian Air Plane overnight: while this might sound like a dastardly act of terrorism, not an oddity,… Read More Tuesday Ten: The Ten Strangest Things

Palmyra, Palmyra, Palmyra. You might have heard over the weekend that Syrian regime forces recaptured the city of Palmyra from the Islamic State group. Palmyra is an ancient city in Homs province with archeological discoveries dating back to the Neolithic period. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, this city has been inhabited for more than three… Read More Miliatary Monday: Palmyra

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you had a relaxing holiday weekend. I apologize for the belated post–I had family in town and did not have a lot of time to write. (I will be posting the articled intended for last Saturday next Saturday.) While it’s now Monday, not Sunday, I still hope you find some… Read More Sunday Selection: Palmyra, UKIP and C.T.E