Articles Written by:    JOSHUA KURLANTZICK     

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No, The Chinese People Are Not All Proud Of The Olympics. In Fact, The Games Are Hurting A Lot Of Them.

The Western press has been awash in coverage of all the negative aspects of China's Games. There's horrendous pollution in Beijing, which has forced entire teams to train off-shore in South Korea or Japan and wear masks for much of their stay. China's ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, The New Republic,  18 Aug 2008

Explaining The Surprising Staying Power Of The Burmese Junta

Burma's ruling junta, holed up in a bunker capital built in the remote center of the country and led by the thuggish, unworldly, and slow-speaking Than Shwe, gets little respect from the outside world. In private conversations, Western diplomats have ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, The New Republic,  9 Jul 2008

Journeys | The Great Plains: Back to Nature and Ready for Guests in the Great Plains

OVER the past decade, as human populations on the Great Plains have thinned, many conservationists have seen an opportunity unparalleled since the frontier days of the 19th century brought towns to the region. Jean Legge, center, leads birders on a ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, The New York Times,  6 Jun 2008

The Survivalists: How Burma's Junta Hangs On

As the death toll from the cyclone that hit Burma earlier this month spirals past 100,000, the country's ruling junta continues its intransigence. Holed up in its new bunker capital in the middle of the country, the regime has gone from initially ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, The New Republic,  29 May 2008

Heads Up | Mass Transit in Europe: Where the Bargains Keep Rolling Along

LOOKING for a bargain in Europe this summer? Forget hotels, restaurants and most forms of entertainment the costs of which are rising into the stratosphere with the dollar near its lows against the euro and still weak versus the pound. The Métro is an ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, The New York Times,  23 May 2008

Bush Has Made Human Rights A Centerpiece Of His Presidency. Ask The Chinese People How That's Working Out.

As a candidate in 2000, George W. Bush didn't offer too many opinions on foreign policy. He could not name the leader of Pakistan, and his entire global experience consisted of a few trips south of the border and to Europe and Israel. But Bush did make ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, The New Republic,  12 May 2008

The worrisome rise of pro-China youth

tends to explode over sparks like the Tibet unrest. It burst into violent anti-American protests after NATO's accidental bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1999. (Most young Chinese I've met don't believe that the bombing was an ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, The San Jose Mercury News,  11 May 2008

Cyclone of Violence

Recently, horrific natural disasters have been followed by moves towards political reconciliation. In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami that devastated Aceh, a province in Indonesia, the Indonesian government and separatist rebels moved toward a peace ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, The New Republic,  5 May 2008

36 hours in Chiang Mai, Thailand

"Hilltribe" children on the staircase leading to Doi Suthep. (Lonnie Schlein/The New York Times) Blessed with a cooler climate than Bangkok and buffered by lush mountains, Chiang Mai has long served as a backpacker's gateway to Thailand's northern ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, International Herald Tribune,  14 Apr 2008

A Red Carpet for Gay Weddings

LAST summer, when Kimberly McHugh and Laura Pazarena, a couple in Washington, decided to celebrate their union, they quickly ran into the same problems that any couple faces. “There were so many vendors, flowers, the D.J.s, and it was getting bigger ...

From JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, The New York Times,  11 Apr 2008

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