The Washington Post has 17 bureaus around the world and 24 foreign correspondents. The trail seemed to go on and on, my legs were aching, and I couldn't stop thinking about pizza. I worked in the Middle East for a long time, watching countless local journalists navigate the “red lines” of autocratic governments. Those fears were especially pronounced in the British city of Birmingham, which I visited after the Westminster Bridge attack in March, an attack carried out by an extremist who had previously lived in Birmingham. The eventual charred ruin looked like something out of another era, not London in 2017.

Source: Washington Post December 20, 2017 09:56 UTC