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08/28/2026

Food courier services are connecting Guatemalan sender villages with mirror communities in the US, giving Guatemalan immigrants in Washington, DC, Indiana, Massachusetts and Delaware a taste of home, Joel Millman writes for Compass: https://compass.icwa.org/p/a-moveable-feast-one-tamale-at-a

08/25/2026

Russia might attack a NATO member country sometime between this fall & 2029, US officials believe. A limited incursion would probably aim to undermine the alliance rather than prevail in a conflict, Peter Dickinson writes: 🔗https://compass.icwa.org/p/putins-biggest-gamble

08/21/2026

From the archive: Carol Rose reports from Pakistan in 1992 about the dilemmas facing Afghan refugees after the collapse of their country’s communist rule: https://compass.icwa.org/p/return

08/19/2026

In her first dispatch from Jordan, Diana Kruzman Diana Kruzman examines the capital’s city planning and growing wealth gap between east and west: 🔗https://www.icwa.org/amman-jordan-city-planning/

08/18/2026

In her new book The Traveler, historian Andrea Wulf Andrea Wulf Alfred A. Knopf makes a spirited bid to restore naturalist, ethnographer, humanist, travel writer, translator, teacher, political journalist & revolutionary George Forster to his since-vanished fame, Anna Gielas writes for Compass: https://compass.icwa.org/p/review-a-man-of-no-nation

08/12/2026

From the Archive: People are waiting for independence to „drop like a ripe fruit from a tree,” ICWA fellow David Hapgood wrote about Portuguese Guinea in 1962 during the last stages of Portugal’s colonial power. It took another decade to be realized. https://compass.icwa.org/p/the-portuguese-colonial-holdouts

08/11/2026

“A voice echoed through the green valley, sounding against barrel-shaped slopes and up toward the cloud-tangled sky.” ICWA fellow Brett Simpson Brett Simpson attends Riddu Riđđu Riddu Riđđu Festivála, a globally renowned Indigenous music and cultural festival organized by Norway’s Sámi people: 🔗https://www.icwa.org/norway-sami-culture-festival/

08/06/2026

Mahli Knutson visits Clifford International School in Guangzhou to research international education & global citizenship in China: 1) Twelfth grade students present their final project 2) Huaqiao New Village, a residential area for overseas Chinese 3) a student fashion exhibit 4) a Clifford teacher.

08/05/2026

On the ten-year anniversary of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‚war on drugs,‘ victims and their advocates gather in Quezon City to demand accountability. Sabrina Ochoa reports from Manila: 🔗https://www.icwa.org/philippines-drugs-war-anniversary/

08/04/2026

AI’s real threat isn’t superhuman or wicked machines but corporate execs harboring old motives: weakening organized labor, inflating valuations & dodging accountability. Anna Gielas reviews Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: MCD x FSG https://compass.icwa.org/p/review-who-serves-whom

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