Waiting for the invasion: Kyiv and Seattle, Feb. 24, 2022Following is an excerpt from Light in the Fields, a memoir of growing up in post-Soviet Ukraine and immigrating to the USA by Yuliya Shirokova, to be published by Blue Ear Books. A second excerpt will be published on Friday, March 3. I came home from work completely exhausted…
China and the US: A fraught relationshipOn February 1, a very large balloon spotted over the U.S. state of Montana was determined to have originated in China. Why exactly China would resort to flying a balloon over U.S. airspace remains a mystery. The U.S. allowed the balloon to fly across the country, then shot it…
Musharraf: Pakistan's Man of CrisisPervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan, died Sunday, February 5, 2023, in exile in Dubai at age 79. The following is excerpted from the book Alive and Well in Pakistan by Blue Ear Books publisher Ethan Casey, who taught journalism for a semester at Beaconhouse National…
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