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What Lies Beneath

In the Radiolab episode “Neither Confirm Nor Deny,” we spend a fair amount of time on the remarkable cover story that disguised a CIA…

Dec 21, 2016

What Lies Beneath

Dec 21, 2016

Trapped in a Russian TV farce, one year after 9/11

It started with an invitation from the Foundation for Independent Radio (FNR), the partner organization with which I worked in Russia the…

Dec 14, 2016

Trapped in a Russian TV farce, one year after 9/11

Dec 14, 2016

Kentucky whiskey vs vodka

This blog is a collection of thoughts, stories and moments in the ongoing fascination/hatred dynamic between American and Russian/Soviet…

Dec 14, 2016

Dec 14, 2016

From La Réunion to Reunion Tower

Audio at PRI’s The World

Mar 24, 2016

From La Réunion to Reunion Tower

Mar 24, 2016

Videochatting With Communists

In 1983 President Reagan dubbed the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” but by the end of his first term, he was wondering if ordinary Russians…

Nov 3, 2014

Videochatting With Communists

Nov 3, 2014

A country with a USSR-sized hole in its soul

Note: This piece was published in Salon in December 2011, apparently five years too early. I never liked the headline they put on it, so…

Dec 23, 2011

Dec 23, 2011

Myth City

Twenty years after its official demise, Dallas is the show that won’t die. Turn on a TV in many parts of the world and you can still see…

Jun 1, 2011

Myth City

Jun 1, 2011

Mashina Frenemy

Mashina Frenemy

Машина Френеми. A bad portmanteau in Runglish. Julia Barton’s musings on the the mutually-assured fascination between Russians and Americans.

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