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I drove a taxi in New York City from 1971-1975, graduating from hacking as a part-time earning a 42% commission on each fare to becoming a “steady man” who earned 49% of each day’s receipts plus tips. My first hack was a broken-down Dodge Polara with a smoky...

I could not be happier with the critical reception of Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State since its release in early 2018. Reviews in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Intelligence and National Security...

Why did you write Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid? I decided to write Separated because the stories I was told deserved more depth, empathy, and richness than other formats would permit. The lives of the women and...

Philip Nel knows first-hand about refugees and diaspora. His parents emigrated to the United States, and he has relatives living in five countries spread over four continents. But he knows the negatives of this experience - he probably would not have been born...

As a writer, it’s rare to feel that a story is destined for you. I felt that way with my first book, Ginseng, the Divine Root, about forests and a secretive subculture around a medicinal plant from American forests that for over two centuries has been exported...

These are dark days for cosmopolitanism. On both sides of the Atlantic, in the US and Europe, xenophobia, nativism, and aggressive jingoism are in the ascendency. In the US, the President Elect built his platform on a promise to build a wall along the US...