National Public Radio’s (NPR) “Planet Money” team just wound up a series about what goes into making a t-shirt, which I caught on my evening commutes. It followed the t-shirt from the fields where the cotton was grown, to where it was spun in Colombia, to the factory in Bangladesh where it was stitched together. […]
America: The Selfish State?
From the pre-blog archives, this op-ed of mine appeared in Australia’s major daily newspaper, “The Australian”, on May 10, 2004. America: the selfish state? A dispassionate examination of the US shows that recent criticisms are unfair, maintains Nicholas Kerr The recent abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and other incidents in the Iraq war have provoked an angry […]
Things about America that the rest of the world SHOULD find bizarre
Earlier this year a friend shared a link to a post entitled 13 Things That Americans Do That The Rest Of The World Just Finds Bizarre. At first glance, it was a list of American stereotypes or cliches that made me chuckle. Growing up outside of America, I’d enjoyed discovering many of them myself when I […]
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