Together But Apart
Tim Hirschel-BurnsA newsletter on how our lives connect with people on the other side of the world.
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25 times the US has been a force for good in the world
A year ago today, a one-year-old child named Nyagoa died in a remote village in South Sudan. She had fallen ill with cholera on July 3rd, 2025. In normal circumstances, the International Rescue Committee would have visited the village that...
Sando tastes a cashew for the first time—after 30 years of farming them
Something new today: it’s my first video post! And it’s one that is—in my humble opinion—fun, human, and has a lot to say about how our world works and how we could make it fairer.
This video has been in the works for a while: when I went...
The World Cup is the best kind of nationalism
If I try to trace back how I went from growing up in suburban Michigan to working on the international issues I do today, it would be easy to center the story around academic pursuits and carefully calculated ethical choices. But realistica...
We could not have been more warned
Every so often it occurs to me how deeply the pandemic has been memory-holed. You know, that thing that made you sit in your house for months, that made you wear masks all the time, that killed millions of people? Remember, it turned two ye...
You're ignoring most of the world
Of all the resources in the world, there’s a case to be made that attention is the most valuable. No one buys from a business they don’t know exists. No one protests their government about a cause they’ve never heard of. Attention is the pr...
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Writing on the relationship between the Global North and South. Now a development policy think tanker, past lives at Yale Law and in rural Benin.
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