Ideologies? Or Just Friends?

I grew up in the Cold War. I know it looks like ancient politics now. But it was real for us. We knew the world could be destroyed by nuclear weapons. That undercurrent ran beneath daily life. Two countries with tons of nukes hated each other. I lived in one of them. It’s not that …

Letter Home from Russia (April 17, 1998)

It's early on a chilly spring morning in Moscow, and I'm being carried across the tarmac at Domodedovo Airport by our country director and a fellow visiting lecturer. We've just returned from the Civic Education Project (CEP) Russia student conference in Tyumen. A mishap on the last night of the conference caused a ligament injury …