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.

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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?

Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

Since the 1930s, the idea of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” has been used in American politics, but some Jews have always taken issue with the entire concept.

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

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?

Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.