In his victory speech after the presidential election in Ukraine this April, Volodymyr Zelensky said: “As long as I am not officially a president, I can say as a citizen of Ukraine to all countries of the post-Soviet Union: ‘Look at us, everything is possible.’” Even...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi replied with two words when she was asked what changed her position about the impeachment of Donald Trump. “The facts,” she said, during a live interview on stage at the Texas Tribune Festival last week. We are in the middle of the biggest...
How reality has become a subjective affair worldwide. When in 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published his acclaimed book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” Russia was very much of an exotic country, with no rules...
In my first week as a World Press Institute fellow, I found myself at a discussion over the U.S. presidential election and journalism in the age of Trump. The term “fake news” has become widely used especially after Donald Trump’s first press conference as...
Three months ago, William came to the United States after a years-long journey from South Sudan, a country immersed since 2013 in a civil war that has already killed 382,000 people, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. He says he is “a little older...