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WHERE WE ARE NOW

Posted on June 10, 2025 by abroadintheusa

Someone asked me a few days ago if the reason I hadn’t posted a blog update in two months was because I was afraid. Well, yes—anyone who speaks up right now has good reason to be a tad shook, especially … Continue reading →

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Trump, tariffs, and the increased risk of recession

Posted on April 4, 2025 by abroadintheusa

Yes, we’ve all had a good laugh at an administration so incompetent that they announced tariffs on a group of Antarctic islands inhabited only by penguins; and on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the US and … Continue reading →

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ABOUT THAT WEATHER FORECAST

Posted on March 31, 2025 by abroadintheusa

Really? With all of everything going on, you’re going to talk about…weather? Absolutely—and not just because Brits love to talk about the weather and we’re expecting a big storm here this evening. (Although “weather” in the States is a whole … Continue reading →

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FLOODING THE ZONE

Posted on March 28, 2025 by abroadintheusa

In the past few days, we’ve been hit with a deluge of news stories any one of which would have been explosive just a few months ago; but now they’re just part of the daily flood of insanity. Except, when … Continue reading →

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THE THREAT TO ACADEMIA

Posted on March 17, 2025 by abroadintheusa

I started today’s post about six times. Between attacks on the federal workforce and various government departments; vote suppression moves; erasing Black, Hispanic and female stories from government websites; threatening Panama, Greenland, and Canada (Canada?!); and decimating support services for … Continue reading →

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Elbows Up!

Posted on March 11, 2025 by abroadintheusa

As the Trumpian assault on this country’s constitution accelerated through the month of February, more and more people on social media were grouching along the lines of, “If this was France they’d be rioting in the streets of Paris already … Continue reading →

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FIRES EVERYWHERE

Posted on March 3, 2025 by abroadintheusa

So, it’s been a minute (OK, nearly 5 years) since I last posted on here; that was in mid-summer 2020 when the Covid crisis was in full swing and Black Lives Matter protests were unfolding in cities across the US. … Continue reading →

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Dear Fellow White People

Posted on June 2, 2020 by abroadintheusa

TL;DR “Fellow white people: sit down, shut up, and open your eyes and ears to what’s happening around you.” I first arrived in the USA in 1985, a naïve grad student who thought years of watching TV shows like Hill … Continue reading →

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Graduation Covid-style

Posted on May 29, 2020 by abroadintheusa

May and June are graduation season in America; everywhere, students mark their high school and university graduations with all-important rites of passage including the senior prom, a walk across a stage wearing a cap and gown, and lots and lots … Continue reading →

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This Lousy Pandemic Script

Posted on May 7, 2020 by abroadintheusa

A few days ago I watched an online talk featuring two of my favorite writers, Neil Gaiman and Nora K. Jemisin (you can find it here  here). At one point they note that this pandemic is not the apocalypse that … Continue reading →

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