Associated Press reporter Laurie Kellman is photographed in Washington, Friday, Dec, 4, 2014. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

LAURIE KELLMAN

Global Trends+Culture writer

Kellman has covered U.S. politics and foreign affairs for the Associated Press, including 23 years reporting from Washington and three from Jerusalem. She is based in London.

Greg Swenson of Republicans Overseas UK, poses for a photograph in London, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

You’re an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0

Jeff Bezos speaks at the Amazon re:MARS convention in Las Vegas, June 6, 2019. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos says opinion pages will defend free market and ‘personal liberties’

President Donald Trump gestures to a poster reading "Gulf of America" as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., watches in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (Pool via AP)

The White House says it ‘will determine’ which news outlets cover Trump, rotating traditional ones

President Donald Trump speaks as Tulsi Gabbard is sworn in as the Director of National Intelligence in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

The relationship between the White House and its press corps is time-tested — and can be contentious

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, left, speaks with Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk as they arrive for an EU summit at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Trump has unleashed chaos by distraction upon the international community. That’s no accident

Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants secure the area as Red Cross representatives wait for the handover of Thai and Israeli hostages in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025.(AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

The Gaza war is paused, but Israel and Hamas keep up a fierce battle of optics over hostage releases

Peter Bellerby, the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, holds a globe at a studio in London, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Gulf of Whatnow? Trump’s geographic renaming plans leave mapmakers pondering what to do next

Two employees huddle in the Voice of America's radio control room in New York, Feb. 27, 1953, through which all voice broadcasts. (AP Photo/John Rooney, File)

Voice of America is required by law to report the news accurately. Could Donald Trump change that?

Michal Harel and her husband Avital Epstein show the website they set up to help Israelis navigate a move to Canada in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Rob Gillies)

For thousands of Jews, Israel still doesn’t feel safe after the Oct. 7 attacks. So they’re leaving

FILE - Members of main opposition Democratic Party stage a rally against South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

South Korea’s democracy held after a 6-hour power play. What does it say for democracies elsewhere?

FILE - This May 23, 2017, file photo shows a variety of Campbell's soups in a grocery cart at a store in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Overhauls of ‘heritage brands’ raise the question: How important are our products to our identities?

This combination of photos taken Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, shows Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaking during a town hall in Malvern, Pa., left, and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump delivering remarks on Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, N.C.. (AP Photo)

What is fascism? And why does Harris say Trump is a fascist?

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks as an image of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump appears on screen during a campaign rally at Erie Insurance Arena, in Erie, Pa., Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris and Trump court the male vote with different definitions of masculinity

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and Melania Trump during the final day of the Republican National Convention Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Melania Trump is telling her own story — and again breaking norms for American first ladies

FILE - Three women hold the pager 'Quix' as they present it at CeBIT '97 in Hannover, Germany, Tuesday March 18, 1997. The beep-beep-beep of a small black box on your belt or in your pocket was something of a status symbol decades before the smartphone wiped it from popular culture. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)

Doctors and first responders are among those who still use pagers

Tourists visit the old center of Sintra, Portugal, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)

Too many people, not enough management: A look at the chaos of overtourism in the summer of 2024

Iranian protesters wave Iranian, Palestinian and Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group flags in a demonstration to condemn killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, at Felestin (Palestine) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

What to know about the escalating conflict and Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks after 2 assassinations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

A look at Netanyahu’s claims about Israel, Hamas and Iran during his speech to Congress

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends the first day of the Republican National Convention, Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The jokes stopped after the Trump attack. Now late-night hosts are wondering how long to wait

FILE - President Ronald Reagan, left, and his Democratic challenger Walter Mondale, shake hands before debating in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 22, 1984. The age question for presidential candidates is more than four decades old. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

The questions about Biden’s age and fitness are reminiscent of another campaign: Reagan’s in 1984

People walk alone the street in Dartford, London, Wednesday, June 12, 2024.Distrust saturates the campaign trails in the United States and Great Britain like the dense summer heat as each country, rooted in the Magna Carta, revolution and a "special relationship," hurtle toward democratic elections. Brits go to the polls July 4 -- as Americans celebrate their independence with barbeques and fireworks ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November. In both places, voters articulated a striking lack of optimism that the winners will represent their wishes. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

American and British voters share deep roots. In 2024, they distrust their own leaders, too

A 11-year-old boy plays with his father's phone outside school in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 17, 2024. Parents across Europe are rallying to make it normal for young kids to live smartphone-free. From Spain to Ireland and the UK, groups are ballooning on chat groups like WhatsApp and agreeing to link arms and refuse to buy children younger than 12 smartphones. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Smartphones for young kids? These parents in Europe said no and changed what’s ‘normal’

Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) top candidate for the European Parliament elections Maximilian Krah leaves a polling station on an e-scooter after casting his vote in the European and local elections in Dresden, Germany, Sunday, June 9, 2024. (Robert Michael/dpa via AP)

These candidates who won seats in the European Parliament this week aren’t who you might expect

A woman is carried away by police officers during a pro-Palestinians demonstration by the group "Student Coalition Berlin" in the theater courtyard of the 'Freie Universität Berlin' university in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Colleges and universities have long been protected places for free expression without pressure or punishment. But protests over Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza in its hunt for Hamas after the Oct. 7 massacre has tested that ideal around the world. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

FILE - Clothing representing the human cost of UK knife crimes is placed in Parliament Square in London on Jan. 8, 2024, as a protesters call on the government to take immediate action. Knife crimes are on the rise in England and Wales, and a string of deadly attacks in recent years has stoked public anxiety and led to calls for the government to do more. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Rise in UK knife attacks leads to a crackdown and stokes public anxiety

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, center, and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, center left, hold a meeting with universities leaders and representatives from the Union of Jewish Students in Downing Street, London, England, Thursday May 9, 2024. Pro-Palestinian protesters have begun building encampments at universities around the U.K. over the past two weeks as students and academics call on the institutions to cut ties with Israel over its offensive in the Gaza Strip. (Carl Court/Pool via AP)

As pro-Palestinian encampments spread to European campuses, UK government seeks to head off unrest

Peter Bellerby, the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, covers a globe at his studio in London, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Globes in the age of Google Earth capture the imagination and serve as snapshots of how the owners see the world and their place in it. Peter Bellerby made his first globe for his father, after he could not find one accurate or attractive enough. In 2008, he founded Bellerby & Co. Globemakers in London. His team of dozens of artists and cartographers has made thousands of bespoke globes up to 50 inches in diameter. The most ornate can cost six figures. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Even in the age of Google Earth, people still buy globes. Here’s why they remain so alluring

A newspaper with the front page of French President Emanuel Macron is seen at a supermarket in London, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

France’s president pounds a punching bag on camera, and Europe notices

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Haley’s exit from the GOP race pushes off — again — the day Americans could elect a woman president

FILE - Britain's King Charles III speaks during the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. The palace’s disclosure that King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer shattered centuries of British history and tradition in which the secrecy of the monarch’s health has reigned. Following close behind the shock and well wishes for the 75-year-old monarch came widespread surprise that the palace had announced anything at all. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)

By disclosing his cancer, Charles breaks centuries of royal tradition. But he shares only so much

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