"For almost every man in prison, there is a woman on the outside working double or triple shifts, pawning her earrings, or selling her car. Dozens of people—whether international investors, justice system officials, or prison custodians—make money from their suffering."

Many thanks to the Overseas Press Club for all their support of my international reporting, my book, and now, my students! Overseas Press Club Overseas Press Club Foundation overseaspressclubfoundation.org/opc-blog/kushn… Columbia Journalism M.A. Columbia Journ

"The moral of this story is that you must keep silent, you have to support the dictatorship, then you can go to the Olympics." “Today, athletes in Belarus are either propagandists or extremists." Valerie Hopkins reports from Paris nytimes.com/2024/08/09/wor…

"Seizing on misinformation about the suspect’s identity, far-right rioters (in the UK) embarked on a harrowing rampage, setting fire to cars, harassing Muslims, looting stores and attacking mosques as well as hotels housing asylum seekers." The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/08/12/opi…

Mom Thinks He Doth Protest Too Much - An intimate portrait of a Kenyan protestor and his mom, by kimu for This American Life Listen: Act III thisamericanlife.org/837/swim-towar…

"I’ve been a journalist for the past decade, seeking out untold true stories about remarkable women, and I come from a musical family. Why have I never heard about this?" My friend Harriet Constable on her new book, The Instrumentalist: theguardian.com/music/article/…

Flying Kenya’s Flag Can Be a Crime. Protesters Now Wave It Proudly. Another beautiful story on Kenya's ongoing anti-government protests, by Abdi Latif Dahir for The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/08/16/wor…

Ahh, LinkedIn--you know me too well.

"We’ve never seen anything like this, where the students have suffered sanctions before a finding of their responsibility for violations of the rules.” -Katherine Franke, Columbia University Law School. theintercept.com/2024/08/29/col… The Intercept

"When his grad-school cohort are off somewhere destroying the world for McKinsey, Wu is lecturing two bored female patrol officers about pollution and asthma rates and the public’s right to clean air." Among the Idlers, by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi for New York Magazine curbed.com/article/nyc-id….

Many thanks to The Baffler for reviewing my book! Alternatives for Germany: Neo-Nazis and memory culture on trial: thebaffler.com/salvos/alterna… Grand Central Pub

"Jacob Kushner’s (book is) the first full account in English of the murders and the trial, is less a piece of foreign journalism than an entry into today’s debate...on the nature of the contemporary far right." thebaffler.com/salvos/alterna… Thanks The Baffler Grand Central Pub

"A foreign correspondent for The Atlantic, Harper’s, the New York Times...Kushner admirably sifts through years of trial transcripts and news reports, working them together with extensive interviews with the victims’ families, who were largely sidelined by Germany’s press."

"The result is a comprehensive synthesis of a decade’s worth of media coverage ... on the defining media event of the decade in Germany." The Baffler's review of my book, Look Away The Baffler thebaffler.com/salvos/alterna…

"Aa Kushner repeatedly reminds the reader with references to Anders Breivik, Christchurch, and recent massacres in America—(Germany's NSU) is one of the most brutal and sustained acts of right-wing terrorism in the wider West." The Baffler thebaffler.com/salvos/alterna…

"Kafka Meets Fanon." In the Twilight Zone: Temporary protections fail migrants, Pooja Bhatia for The Baffler thebaffler.com/outbursts/in-t… "On matters of immigration, the United States has come to resemble the misgoverned countries they have fled."

"We should be wary of dichotomies: “refugee” versus “migrant,” “political” versus “economic,” “legal” versus “illegal.” These elide the mortal danger that many migrants have for now escaped, and gloss over the role U.S. policies have played...in ruining their countries." -Bhatia

"Jena depends on being able to attract and retain a highly skilled workforce, much of it from outside Germany. The rise of the AfD is making that more difficult." Kirsten Grieshaber for The Associated Press with Pulitzer Center pulitzercenter.org/stories/far-ri…