Archive for the ‘Elsewhere’ Category
Sharing the mission
This week, I start blogging at Change.org’s Global Poverty site. I hope you’ll come over, check out the site, and join in the dynamic conversation. You can also find some great work by my fellow Ochberg Fellow Husacar Robles from Haiti.
Good reads
While I’m distracted from writing by mundane daily life things, check out this stuff, which comes from the “Things I’m currently reading” list… Guernica Magazine, an online assemblage of in-depth reporting, beautiful writing, and good Q&A-style conversation. The Good Soldiers, David Finkel’s ridiculously good book about a battalion in Iraq. I’m going to have a [...]
On Haiti
Just a quick note to encourage those of you interested in what Haiti looks like to follow my friend Huascar Robles’ reporting. He is, among other projects, blogging about it over at the Dart Society. Here’s a sample: I later visited Parc St. Therese, also in Petionville, and saw a crowd of people dancing and [...]
Why lawyers for accused terrorists aren’t, er, terrorists
A piece I worked on during my last two months in the States just appeared on the CSM’s website. It’s about lawyers who defend prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. It started out being a story about how it affects their personal and professional lives, but it ended up, thanks in large part to Liz Cheney, being [...]
Well, that’s one way to deal with a rapist…
From the today’s reporting, at the Open Society Institute’s event “Accountability for Sexual Violence: Innovative Strategies at Work in Africa.” Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, cofounder and executive director, African Women’s Development Fund: “….She found a man standing over her daughter, in the process of raping her…She had a machete in her hand. So she did what she had [...]
‘How we know waterboarding works,’ by the CIA
Remember that guy who went on ABC and said, “Waterboarding works. One douse, and this al Qaeda guy totally opened up.” (Okay, maybe it went more like this: “From that day [we waterboarded him] on, he answered every question. The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”) His name [...]
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