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The Hidden Globe by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

2 months ago | panmacmillan.com | Sathnam Sanghera |Pankaj Mishra |Daniel Immerwahr |Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

'This book did nothing less than make me re-see the world . . . Original, and very clever' - Sathnam Sanghera, author of EmpirelandBorders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land, and how the wealthy and powerful benefit from it. The map of the globe shows the world we think we know: sovereign nations that grant and restrict their citizens’ rights.
From the archive: ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder - podcast

Jan 15, 2025 | theguardian.com | Daniel Immerwahr |Hattie Moir |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: Despite the rise of headline-grabbing megafires, fewer fires are burning worldwide now than at any time since antiquity. But this isn’t good news – in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictable. By Daniel Immerwahr
The New Combustible Age

Jan 14, 2025 | newyorker.com | Daniel Immerwahr

Chicago, where I live, is a city of striking architectural uniformity. Rows of sturdy two- and three-story flats stand at attention on countless streets. Their fronts come in different colors and have idiosyncratic decorative flourishes. But approach from behind, via the alleys, and you’ll see that they’re usually made of the same stuff: Chicago Common bricks.
How Old Age Was Reborn

Nov 25, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Daniel Immerwahr

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How Old Age Was Reborn

Nov 25, 2024 | newyorker.com | Daniel Immerwahr

It started, like many good things, as a joke. NBC was filming a preview of its 1984 lineup, and Selma Diamond, a comedian in her sixties, had been tasked with introducing “Miami Vice,” a flashy affair of Ferraris, cocaine cartels, and designer sports jackets. She pretended to misunderstand. “ ‘Miami Nice’?” At last, a show about retirees, with their mink coats and cha-cha lessons. She got a laugh. And some execs thought it might not be a terrible idea.
Is It Time to Torch the Constitution? | The New Yorker

Sep 30, 2024 | archive.is | Louis Menand |Paige Williams |Daniel Immerwahr |Jeannie Suk Gersen

Still, Madison could see that the Constitution left the door open for the rise of what he called a “faction,” which he defined as “a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.” In other words, either a movement led by a man on a white horse or a tyranny-of-the-majority regime.
What if Ronald Reagan’s Presidency Never Really Ended?

Sep 14, 2024 | rsn.org | Daniel Immerwahr

Anti-Trump Republicans revere Ronald Reagan as Trump’s opposite—yet in critical ways Reagan may have been his forerunner. For many people, the 2016 election was a catastrophe. For Max Boot, it was a betrayal. He’d been a movement conservative: a loud voice for the Iraq War, an editor of The Weekly Standard, and an adviser to the campaigns of John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Marco Rubio. Boot took heart when Republicans initially closed ranks against Donald Trump’s candidacy.
Yuval Noah Harari’s Apocalyptic Vision

Sep 6, 2024 | msn.com | Daniel Immerwahr

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Yuval Noah Harari’s Apocalyptic Vision

Sep 6, 2024 | msn.com | Daniel Immerwahr

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Were Pirates Foes of the Modern Order-or Its Secret Sharers?

Jul 15, 2024 | newyorker.com | Daniel Immerwahr

The ocean is a lonely, perilous place. It is especially so when you are aboard a leak-prone wooden vessel laden with a rich cargo of sugar, silks, and opium, like the traders sailing the Quedagh Merchant around India’s southern tip in 1698. They surely panicked when they spied a massive warship with thirty-four mounted guns bearing down on them—or would have, had it not been flying French colors. The Quedagh Merchant had a document, written in an elegant hand, guaranteeing safe passage from France.