Abby Seiff

Abby Seiff is a writer with a decade of experience reporting and editing in Southeast Asia for publications like Time, the Mekong Review, Al Jazeera and more. From 2009 to 2013, she reported for the Cambodia Daily and Phnom Penh Post, covering the Khmer Rouge tribunal, among other topics. You can find her on Twitter @instupor or online at http://abbyseiff.com.

Khmer Rouge guerilla accepts a gift of cigarettes from a waiting French official, May, 1975.

Politics & History

How the Vietnam War Shaped US Immigration Policy

The makings of our modern resettlement system can be traced back to the fallout of the Vietnam War, a cascade of international crises stoked by the U.S.

Editors' Picks

James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni in Conversation

In 1971, two legends of Black letters discussed Black manhood, white racism, the role of the writer, and the responsibility to teach.

Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Science & Technology

The Anatomists of Ancient Alexandria

Cultural forces under the Ptolemaic dynasty briefly allowed scholars like Herophilus to practice dissection—and possibly vivisection—on human subjects.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Politics & History

Wilhelm Reich: Twice Burned

A psychoanalyst and physician, Reich fled the Nazis only to be detained by the US as an “enemy alien” during World War II. And then came the sexual revolution.