Middling.Industries

Four Non-Americans’ Views of America

March 24, 2019March 24, 2019

University of Wisconsin-Madison's Bascom Hall. You can study here and get smart, but you can't stay. (Credit: Richard Hurd/Flickr) Listening to non-American friends living overseas, the United States seems like...

American Politics

Can America Be A Welcoming Country Again?

March 17, 2019March 25, 2019

The Statue of Liberty and downtown Manhattan. (Credit: EAS ART/Flickr) A successful man in his early 40’s, working in an industry he loves, Faisal Siddiqui is the first to tell...

Foreign Report

Four Reports From Abroad

March 11, 2019March 17, 2019

The American consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. (From NBC News) For Americans living overseas, the rest of the world’s reality is difficult to escape, since they’re swimming in it daily. I...

Personal

The Death of Adventure

March 3, 2019March 3, 2019

Above, the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, where I've got to get to at some point. Lately my idle moments have been spent surfing Orbitz, Hotels.com and every manner of travel...

American Politics

I Have No Idea What Happens Next

February 21, 2019February 22, 2019

I”m pretty sure here will be runoff elections on April 2 for mayor, but it’s almost impossible to tell who’s going to make it to round two.

Personal

How Do We Decide You’re Enough?

January 26, 2019January 26, 2019

Aren’t you enough? I don’t really mean you, per se. I mean the plural you. All of you reading this.

Personal

This is the place.

January 18, 2019

Our house, before and after we got new siding in 2011. I live on the top floor of a two-flat on a leafy street, just a few doors from Western...

Personal

‘I wasn’t really an activist – I just learned a lot.’

January 12, 2019January 26, 2019

Embed from Getty Images Far, far in the back, there's Lou Fourcher. Last month my father, Lou Fourcher, passed away after a fourteen-year struggle with Alzheimer’s. Since then, our family...