All Over the Place: Just Because a Leader Is Mad Does Not Mean You Must Follow Him

By Michael H. Brownstein

Putin tries to poke holes into the body’s work of a nation

but the body’s work of the nation cannot be poked through—

 

gut-shot punctuation, terrorist renderings, vocabulary of madness

and Russia bleeds fire, cruelty, vocabulary of an insane man's mind.

As the World Turns: A stranger in my own land, Part 1

What becoming an expat can be like

By Wally Tucker

[Editor’s Note: Wally’s account accompanies Ed Rogers’s piece yesterday in his As the World Turns column, “Going native.”]

I repatriated back to the USA in September 2000, leaving our apartment exactly six years to the day after my wife and our two young sons had arrived in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Six years and weeks earlier, we had packed 27 boxes and eight rolling duffels with everything we thought we needed and wanted for our new adventure abroad. Naively, we left behind a fully furnished home for rent. Don’t ever do that!