If Trump’s coup against Constitutional rule horrifies you, you write a letter to Congress and call. I know from professional experience that members of Congress pay attention to their constituents. It doesn’t mean they always act accordingly, but if enough…
Austin L. Ray came up to me the other day and said, “Hello, Andisheh Nouraee, how you would you fix Atlanta?” “Hello, Austin L. Ray, publisher of the How I’d Fix Atlanta essay series, thank you for asking me that…
I remember the country turning against the war, but did the country ever really support the war? Democrats won control of Congress in 2006, in part because the catastrophic War On Terror™ turned voters against Bush and Republicans. At least…
Like New Yorker cartoons, Twitter jokes are a genre that only make sense because of the medium. I’ll miss that and feel petty for hating the owner more for ruining my phone than I do for his naked fascism.
Taylor Swift tickets are the most in-demand concert tickets in my social circle since 2001 when Radiohead played at Stone Mountain. I’m not comparing their commercial stature – I’m saying my social circle has changed. In 2001 it seemed like…
I thought the Iraq war would be a catastrophe before it started (and wrote that at the time). Instead of feeling correct though, I mostly feel terribly. First, because there’s no pleasure in witnessing catastrophe. I’m a patriotic citizen of…
Get yourself a friend who loves what you do you as much as Zane Lowe loves everything every person he interviews does.
12 years ago I visited Kenya for CARE to learn about how its community savings programs were going digital. The groups save money together and make loans to members of the group to buy things like seeds, tools, or to…
ChatGPT might take my job, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to my hobby anytime soon.
An essay I wrote about Atlanta last year: How I’d Fix Atlanta: More AtlantaAndisheh Nouraee Twelve years ago, Atlanta Magazine asked me to write some pithy advice to then-incoming ATL Mayor Kasim Reed. If I’d known then what I know…
