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19/ From New York, @luciacholakian spoke with Latin American families staying in the city’s shelters about Donald Trump’s victory. Many “told me they felt paralyzed, caught between elation at having arrived and dread at what might come next.”

RT @EstherMavis: "I Don't Know What They'll Do With Us" — @luciacholakian reports for @thedialmag on how families in migrant shelters in Ne….

We asked 12 writers, each from a different country, to share what conversations about the U.S. election sound like where they live. They describe widely divergent attitudes, from apathy and disillusionment to anxiety, hope and glee. Read the collection:

RT @blauwsteen: What is, or was, American Studies? @thedialmag’s great “America” issue has my pedagogical confessions on teaching American….

4/4 “As long as its defense spending efforts are disjointed, the EU will make itself vulnerable—not only to a more aggressive Russia, but to a potentially more belligerent and less tolerant America,” @joshposaner writes. Read his reporting:

3/ From speakers and audience members at the conference, @joshposaner heard critiques and worries about Europe’s security future, especially if Donald Trump wins next week’s U.S. election.

2/ The long debate over Europe’s willingness and ability to fund its own defense started after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Most EU countries have raised their defense spending, but they still rely on outside manufacturers for their weapons, @joshposaner reports.

1/ Last month, @joshposaner attended the European Defence and Security Conference to understand how the EU, amid an escalating war in Ukraine, plans to become militarily self-sufficient. Read his dispatch:

5/5 Read @suzyhans’s essay, “Hello To All That,” published in our “America” issue:

4/ The U.S. seemed bleak & punishing, especially as COVID-19 spread: “I had come home directly to the American way of death. The Americans were not exceptionalists anymore, only nihilists, something I had started to understand while living out in the world they made,” she writes.

3/ When Hansen returned during Trump’s presidency, she had a hard time digesting the attitudes of those around her. “I could not adjust to seeing the world through the lens of American liberal fury … From afar, he hadn’t seemed that different to me from the rest.”

2/ Hansen moved to Istanbul for a fellowship in 2007, wanting to understand what was happening beyond America’s borders. “Writing about the country I was living in made every day, and every experience and observation, feel vital,” she says.

1/ When @suzyhans returned to New York in September 2019, after living in Istanbul for 12 years, she found the experience “dislocating.” In her essay, “Hello To All That,” she writes about what her time away—and her homecoming—taught her about the U.S.

18/ @joshposaner attended the highly anticipated European Defence and Security Conference, where the hot topic was how the EU’s 27 countries plan to become militarily self-sufficient. Read his dispatch:

RT @EstherMavis: "As long as its defense spending efforts are disjointed, the EU will make itself vulnerable — not only to a more aggressiv….

17/ After living in Istanbul for 12 years, @suzyhans found moving back to New York “dislocating.” In an essay for our latest issue, she writes about what her return taught her about America:

16/ Earlier this month, the last full-sized Kmart located in the contiguous U.S. closed its doors. But on Guam, the big-box retail store is still the place to be, Jasmine Stole Weiss writes:

15/ At the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency, his administration expressed deep concerns that El Salvador’s democracy was crumbling under the leadership of Nayib Bukele. Danielle Mackey reports on why they’ve changed their tune:

14/ @JustinSalhani, who lives in Beirut, speaks with people in Lebanon about their experiences of the Israel-Hezbollah war—and the role the United States is playing in the conflict: