Elizabeth Flock
Foreign Policy
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Turkey Capitalizes on Afghanistan Distraction to Attack Kurdish Forces in Syria
Turkish airstrikes in Syria have escalated over the last month as the world concentrates on a different crisis. → Read More
How driver’s license suspensions in New Mexico drive people deeper into debt
It is common in the U.S. for drivers to lose a license for reckless driving or driving while under the influence. In New Mexico, which has one of the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the country, licenses may also be suspended for a failure to pay a variety of court fines and fees, a failure to appear in court, and other offenses unrelated to driving. New Mexico is one of 37 states with… → Read More
Qandeel Baloch was dubbed Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian. A new book explores her life and murder.
“A Woman Like Her” is both an intimate portrait and a sweeping look at cultural shifts — and the price paid by women. → Read More
What do trees mean to you? Here are 12 ways trees shaped readers’ lives
“In my day-to-day life, I often take the trees around me for granted." → Read More
Stanford assault victim Chanel Miller’s new book indicts her attacker — and the system
Miller’s memoir is a vital look at how we treat victims of sexual assault. → Read More
5 things you might not know about the 19th Amendment
The milestone capped off a decades-long campaign by women who demanded that they, too, be involved in public affairs. → Read More
10 kids’ books that made us fall in love with reading
Have you and your child read "The Borrowers" or "The Outsiders"? What about "Octagon Magic"? → Read More
5 novels about climate change to read now
A new crop of writers have sought to depict what a future world might look like if humans don’t do something. → Read More
How Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ is relevant today
"Classics are classic because all of us are always living the same old stories and dynamics, always enacting the same old characters and themes," writes Daniel Mendelsohn, author of "An Odyssey," which revisits the ancient Greek epic poem. → Read More
The flip phone is back. Have people had enough of constant connection?
Seventy-seven percent of Americans own a smartphone. A growing body of research suggests that comes with costs. → Read More
An annotated page from Meg Wolitzer’s ‘The Wife’
Author Meg Wolitzer explains where she gets her settings and stories, why she set the book in the first person, and how she creates humor on the page. → Read More
After a week of Russian propaganda, I was questioning everything
Beyond bots, what does Russian propaganda look like? How is it made? To find out, I spent a day inside the newsroom of Radio Sputnik, a Russian government-funded media outlet, and a week consuming only Sputnik news. → Read More
James Comey loves Beyonce, says he doesn’t watch ‘The Americans’
The former FBI director also recommended some favorite reads -- history that offers poignant lessons for the current moment. → Read More
The War on Valentine's Day in India
Right-wing Hindu nationalists keep cracking down on sexually liberated women. But sometimes their efforts backfire. → Read More
What is the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club?
Now Read This is a new book club and partnership from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times. → Read More
Listen to Rupi Kaur, one of the most popular poets in the world, read her work
Listen to Rupi Kaur read from "The Sun and Her Flowers," which has sold a million copies since its release in October, and her first book, "Milk and Honey," → Read More
This poet wants us to unlearn the words, ‘Sorry to be a woman’
Watch women read these powerful lines of poetry from McKayla Robbin's collection "we carry the sky." → Read More
Inside Nollywood, the booming film industry that makes 1,500 movies a year
Nollywood is now the world’s second largest film industry in terms of number of films produced. Here's how it happened. → Read More
Why MacArthur ‘genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen says writers should make people uncomfortable
Nguyen was chosen for his writing "challenging popular depictions of the Vietnam War and exploring the myriad ways that war lives on," the foundation said. → Read More
How the irreverent poetry of the ’60s helped spawn punk music
A new book traces how innovators of punk music interacted with New York School poets such as Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman. → Read More