Josh is a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, The Wilson Quarterly, Jane's Defence Weekly, Time, Monocle, The New Republic and The Nation. He has a blog, New World Order, at True/Slant.
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Since I ended my last long trip in 2007, I haven't been blogging. But I'm back in the saddle and blogging at a new startup, True/Slant. It's just started up, and kinks are still being worked out, but you can get in on the ground floor now.
My blog is called New World Order, and once I start traveling again it will become a travel blog somewhat like what I had here before. But for now it is my thoughts on international affairs, geopolitics and America's future in the world, focused somewhat on a project I'm working on involving Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela. Check it out, and send feedback.
This site, however, will still be the place to look for new stories I'm publishing.
And finally, check out the inspiration for the name of the new blog, Ministry's classic 1993 song, New World Order (crappy ad in the beginning):
I have a Q&A with the foreign minister of Greenland in the Ideas section of the Boston Globe today:
Read the rest here.
The third installment in the Slate Ukraine series is out:
But the Tatars, improbably, have revived themselves and are once again political players in Crimea. They are no longer the rulers, but as a politically active minority, they could act as the wild card in an eventual conflict over Crimea.
The whole thing is here.