Sam Russek

Dec 14, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Oscar Castillo |Sam Russek

On November 29, Syrian rebels breached the western limits of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city in the north, which had suffered the greatest destruction of any other city in the country’s thirteen-year-long civil war. The offensive triggered the “death spiral” of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, as a mixed coalition of former rebels, local strongmen, and regular people, suddenly emboldened, captured the southern city of Daraa, near the border with Jordan.

Dec 2, 2024 | texasobserver.org | Sam Russek

“Loose dogs” on Houston’s Northside were roving the streets in small bands, sowing chaos. At least, this was the opinion of the mostly white members of a local civic club near Lindale Park, which has a higher proportion of middle-income whites than the rest of the working-class Latino area. It was 2013 and—as recounted in a recent academic book, A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio—the club had invited a veterinarian, also white, to discuss possible solutions.

Nov 12, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Sam Russek

When imagining the platonic ideal of a Democrat running for national office in a red state, the party’s old guard expects certain boxes to be ticked. The first among them is always the same: They have to be “tough,” a trait often signified by military service. Think Amy McGrath, the Kentuckian Marine and self-described “fiscal conservative” who challenged Mitch McConnell for his Senate seat in 2020; or MJ Hegar, an Air Force veteran who took on Texas Senator John Cornyn the same year.

Nov 12, 2024 | yahoo.com | Sam Russek

When imagining the platonic ideal of a Democrat running for national office in a red state, the party’s old guard expects certain boxes to be ticked. The first among them is always the same: They have to be “tough,” a trait often signified by military service. Think Amy McGrath, the Kentuckian Marine and self-described “fiscal conservative” who challenged Mitch McConnell for his Senate seat in 2020; or MJ Hegar, an Air Force veteran who took on Texas Senator John Cornyn the same year.

Oct 11, 2024 | msn.com | Sam Russek

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