by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 6, 2022 | Afghanistan, Iraq, Jane Ferguson
Longtime National Public Radio correspondent Nina Totenberg has a new book, Dinners with Ruth, about her long friendship with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In an interview on CBS Sunday Morning, she was introduced as one of three “founding mothers” of Public Radio. The...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 24, 2021 | Afghanistan, assimilation, Haudenosaunee, Iroquis Legue
I sat down to a long cup of coffee with Leif Christoffersen, a Norwegian-American with long experience in African and Latin American countries and international aid organizations. It was at the time of the American pullout from Afghanistan, and I asked Leif what he...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 21, 2015 | Afghanistan, american immigrants, expulsions, indigenous americans, Iraq, migrations, Ottomans, refugees, Romani, Syria
The pictures and stories of refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Germany and more bring a brilliant image of mass migration into sharp and heart tugging focus. At first look and sound it seems like something new, and the proximate causes—wars...
