Helaine Schweitzer

Helaine Schweitzer is Senior Editor of Watching America. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is an attorney and former newspaper reporter. More recently, she has raised money for higher education and nonprofit agencies, and has been a copyeditor for publications produced by 826 Valencia, an exceptional literacy organization co-founded in 2002 by author Dave Eggers and educator Ninive Calegari. Helaine speaks Spanish, German and Hebrew. She began editing for Watching America in 2014, and considers it a privilege to work with such a talented, thoughtful and engaged team of editors and translators. Helaine holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and earned her law degree from the University of San Francisco.

U.K.: Trump Had Dinner with 2 Avowed Antisemites. Let’s Call This What It Is

Helaine Schweitzer - December 4, 2022. Published in The Guardian

: The Translator-Editor Collaboration: From ‘Parliament’ to ‘Congress’ and Beyond

Helaine Schweitzer - October 31, 2019. Published in ACESeditors.org

[W]e suffer from not knowing what we don’t know about global events that are changing our lives.

NB: Hi all, this link should be moved off the articles list (as I am very clearly an American...

Sweden: What Deterrence Looks Like

Helaine Schweitzer - July 6, 2019. Published in Pandaemonium

A little boy lying dead on a beach, a father and daughter face down in a river – that is what deterrence looks like.

China: The US Cannot Withstand a War against Iran

Helaine Schweitzer - August 19, 2018. Published in Huanqiu

The U.S. has neither a strategic plan nor the will to launch a war against Iran, nor could it possibly have ... signed a so-called “real deal” in such a short span of time.

Singapore: The End of American Exceptionalism

Helaine Schweitzer - April 25, 2017. Published in Lianhe Zaobao

The ability of white people to compete socially has fallen.