Washington Post • 12th January 2021 Do ‘elder Goths’ hold the secret to aging successfully? In a culture that already treats older women as frightful, why not own that, and become the most fabulous grand dame of darkness the world has ever seen?
Washington Post • 14th September 2020 A New Gold Standard For Green Design “We’re not going to make it on climate change." As floods, fires and temperatures worsen, these architects design homes to withstand extreme weather. Rather than building more "gadget" houses, what Duany and Plater-Zyber want to see is a tougher, more urgent green architecture - buildings that can stand up to the next century of climatic assaults.
Washington Post • 30th January 2019 ‘Money is Never Just Money’ The Trump tax cuts inspired hundreds of companies to give their employees one-time bonuses. How do we measure their impact?
Washington Post • 25th February 2018 Will a new generation save fox hunting? It’s fox hunting — not baseball, football or basketball — that provides the longest historical through-line between sport and power in American life.
Washington Post • 16th November 2017 Can D.C.’s longest-serving ambassador get the U.S. to stop snubbing his tiny nation? “No,” he said, “but I know Trump doesn’t have time to play four hours of golf.” He paused for a moment and then amended his statement. “Not with an ambassador from Palau, anyway.”
The New York Times • 30th October 2015 As Polo Sheds Its Elitist Image, Teams Crop Up on Campus In an age when formerly obscure sports like lacrosse have grown in popularity on American campuses, the United States Polo Association is counting on newly formed college teams like Alfred State’s to expand the sport beyond its traditional moneyed enclaves.
The Wall Street Journal • 31st January 2014 Tiny Tuvalu Gets the Eco-Art Treatment Year on year, the impacts of climate change are hard to see: air temperatures warming by a few tenths of a degree here, sea levels rising by a few millimeters there. This poses a challenge to the artists who tackle climate change – a challenge that Taiwan’s Vincent J.F. Huang addresses by steamrolling right over it.
The Wall Street Journal • 30th September 2013 China's Rising Tide in the Caribbean Beijing's study of Soviet Union strategy in the islands is paying dividends.
The Wall Street Journal • 15th August 2013 Hong Kong: Hollywood's Chinese Punching Bag As action directors chase the mainland movie boom, wary Beijing censors tell them to keep the mayhem offshore.
The Wall Street Journal • 25th July 2013 Thai Broken Rice Ask farmers in the village of Ban Laitung what they think of the Thai government's rice subsidy scheme, and they tell you that actually, please, they'd prefer it if Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra stopped buying up rice harvests at prices 50% above market levels.
The Wall Street Journal • 4th April 2013 Great Moments in Walletology The "lost wallet scenario" is one of the core moral dilemmas of our time. Accordingly, researchers have zeroed in on lost wallets as a cross-cultural indicator of social trust—a regard for and faith in others that economists say can boost countries' growth.
The Wall Street Journal • 21st March 2013 The Great Pacific Tuna Cartel With China's support, eight remote island states have imposed fishing limits and closed international waters.
The Wall Street Journal • 7th March 2013 The Case of The Missing Uighur A former Guantánamo detainee goes missing on a small Pacific Island. How did a stateless man with no passport escape the geographical equivalent of a locked room?
The Wall Street Journal • 28th February 2013 Sequestration in Paradise Palau worries it will be collateral damage in Washington's budget fight.
The New York Times • 27th May 2010 Dorm Rooms With Bragging Rights As college-bound seniors look forward to the schools they will call home next fall, it is a good bet that many have no idea just how steeped in history their future homes are.
The New York Times • 14th May 2010 Dinky or Bus? A Town Is Torn The run of the train known as the Princeton Dinky is both impressively long and unusually short. For 145 years, this rail link in a college town has ferried students and commuters over the briefest of distances.