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It’s Never “Just a Mallard”

What birding can teach us about winning the war in Ukraine

4 min readJul 22, 2022

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Grebes and Gender Politics: How Birds Can Help Us See Humans Differently

Behold the great crested grebe! They are quite extraordinary looking birds, with striking black, white and orange faces and the sloped…

5 min readAug 20, 2022

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Grebes and Gender Politics: How Birds Can Help Us See Humans Differently

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What Coot Chicks Can Teach Us

Reflections on Babies, Birthdays, and the Beatles

5 min readJul 31, 2022

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What Coot Chicks Can Teach Us

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Was It a Cuckoo?

Birding, the quest for certainty, and national polarization

7 min readJun 24, 2022

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Remembering Our Dead on Memorial Day

I planned to write this time about bird lessons — the many life lessons that birding teaches me. May is peak migration month, when tiny…

4 min readMay 30, 2022

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Lawyers as Healers?

It’s graduation season, which means listening to graduation speakers. Those of us who are occasionally on the speaking side of that podium…

6 min readMay 21, 2022

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What’s in an Emoji?

Once upon a time, emojis were yellow. Those of us who used them raised yellow hands, smiled or laughed or cried with yellow faces, gave…

6 min readApr 30, 2022

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On Sparrows and the War in Ukraine

The song sparrows are back. They fall into the category that birders call “little brown jobs”: small birds that are mostly brown and…

5 min readApr 3, 2022

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When The Truth is Messy and Hard

As the leader at New America for nearly four years, my staff, our work and our mission are my priorities. I am completely committed to the…

7 min readSep 1, 2017

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Findings of Shift: The Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology

What do a hundred American leaders find when they compare different possibilities for the effect of technology on work’s future?

3 min readMay 16, 2017

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Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter

18.8K Followers

I write about birds, life, and politics twice a month. I’m CEO of a wonderful organization called @NewAmerica and a former professor of law and foreign policy.

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