This American Life: Give It To Them
Ira Glass travels through Israel with Adam Davidson, who speaks Hebrew and has countless Israeli cousins and other family members. They find that the entire country has moved to the right in reaction...
View ArticleThis American Life: Suckers
There’s a whole nation where the idea of suckerdom permeates almost every aspect of culture and politics. Adam Davidson reports on the Israeli word “freier,” which literally translates as sucker, but...
View ArticleThis American Life: Why We Fight
For an Iraqi perspective on the war, we hear from Iraqis who’ve just crossed over the border into Jordan. It’s the only open border with Iraq and 150,000 Iraqis live in Amman. Reporter Adam Davidson...
View ArticleNY Times Magazine: A Would-Be Jihadi in Jordan
Fadi is a 23-year-old unemployed computer programmer who lives in his parents’ apartment in a nice, middle-class neighborhood in Amman, Jordan. Down one street is the big Amman McDonald’s , down...
View ArticleThis American Life: I’m In Charge Now
Adam Davidson reports from Baghdad on the charismatic, ambitious young Americans who want to bring freedom and hope to Iraq, if only the Iraqis would listen to them. There is a ominous information gap...
View ArticleThis American Life: My Brilliant Plan
Adam Davidson went to Iraq to report on the war. He decided that rather than living in some journalist compound in the Green Zone or in a big hotel—places insurgents were more likely to attack—he’d fly...
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