Archive for July, 2010

How Nukes Got Loose

Posted By Zócalo On July 19, 2010

Peddling Peril, by David Albright

Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies
by David Albright

After the major powers acquired nuclear weapons in the early years of the Cold War, the expected proliferation around the world didn’t happen. One big reason is that building nuclear weapons from scratch isn’t easy.

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So Galactic

Posted By Zócalo On July 19, 2010

pink hair

by Aaron Belz

My new band name
the Macronauts really
captures the largeness
of what it’s like
to be in Los Angeles

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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

Posted By Zócalo On July 19, 2010

Spc. Rufino Persaud, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., watches over the Afghan country side while fellow members of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, speak with members of the Afghan border police, at an Afghan border patrol outpost, June 30. The 10th Mountain Division Soldiers work closely with their ABP counterparts in order to help stop illegal activity along the border with Pakistan.

Imtiaz Gul, author of The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier, has been a reporter for 25 years, covering the eponymous region on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. “We had a sort of romance with these areas,” Gul said. “They excited me, not as barren, rugged terrain, but because of the people there.” Below, Gul chats with Zócalo about the history of the tribal areas, how militants infiltrated the region and the rest of Pakistan, and what the U.S. can do to help assuage a problem that, Gul says, is ultimately Pakistan’s to address.

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Duke Helfand

Posted By Zócalo On July 16, 2010

Duke Helfand in the green room

Duke Helfand has worked as a reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times for 17 years. He currently covers the financial side of health care, including the effect of the nation’s new health care law on insurers, hospitals, doctors and consumers. Before moderating a panel on health reform’s implications for California, he took our Green Room Q&A.

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Marian Mulkey

Posted By Zócalo On July 16, 2010

Marian Mulkey in the green room

Marian Mulkey is director of the California HealthCare Foundation’s Health Reform and Public Programs Initiative, which is working to support the implementation of national health reform in California and advance the effectiveness of public coverage programs. Before chatting about health reform’s implications for California, she took our Green Room Q&A.

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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