Photojournalist extraordinaire, sometimes-collaborator and dear friend Glenna Gordon shares some of her work, and her trade secrets. Among my favorite surprises: a few new…
Read MoreThere are a lot of ridiculous assumptions Americans hold, wittingly or not, about Africa. That it’s a country. That it’s always at war. That…
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It almost seems like you can’t hold elections without a few grenade explosions in this part of the world. Grenade explosions made international news…
Read MoreIt almost seems like you can’t hold elections without a few grenade explosions in this part of the world. Grenade explosions made international news…
Read MoreThe Rwandan government is set to release a report on sham NGOs operating in the country, according to the New Times. The report paves…
Read MoreOkay, I have no idea. That’s a teaser, one designed especially for Twitter. Sometimes, it takes a bit of cyberwhoring to get a click…
Read MoreI’m up to my ears in UN project reports about peacebuilding activities in various countries, and I continue to see language like this, a…
Read MoreThere aren’t any. To be fair, only one of the three I’m thinking about is even supposed to have happened. But the other two…
Read MoreHere’s a terrific article by Michelle Faul of the Associated Press about the sort of thing that’s often rumored in quiet dinner conversation in…
Read MoreI found a lot of food for thought in Nathan Schneider’s interview of philospher Judith Butler, in this week’s issue of Guernica. Schneider talks…
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