How to: Be a junta!
Foreign Policy mag has an amazing slideshow up right now. Say what you will about its Gettleman piece, but “The Ultimate Idiot’s Guide to…
Read MoreOne article you SHOULD read on Congo
If you live in America, go to your nearest newsstand and buy the March issue of Mother Jones. You’ll probably like most of what’s…
Read MoreWhat does Africa have tons of that no one knows how to handle?
(Okay, that’s a little bit off, but these blog titles get tweeted now, so they have to be short and perky.) Land, of course!…
Read MoreIs anyone on the Internet under 30?
I gave a talk yesterday in the stellar Rosemary Armao’s upper-class undergraduate journalism class at SUNY-Albany. As an aside, Rosemary Armao is a woman…
Read MoreDoes charity work like carbon offsets?
First, let me just say that it sounds like carbon offsets are a guilt salve more than anything else. If you saw the piece…
Read MoreHaitian voodoo is devil’s work, says Robertson. But Liberian gold? Bring it on.
The most interesting tidbit in Colum Lynch’s recent article, about Liberian warlord Charles Taylor’s American contacts, is “Blood Diamond”-mining Taylor apparently got Pat “Haiti-deserved-it”…
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And in weather news, this is why Appalachia thinks there’s no such thing as climate change
I’m literally under the weather here, between West Virginia and Washington, DC. New stuff in a few days. Meanwhile, please enjoy how much nicer…
Read MoreActually, Nick Kristof, this is a damn good point.
One more thing on this “Nick Kristof named a 9-year-old rape victim!” controversy. In my, “Thanks for your time in the middle of Congo,…
Read MoreFriday morning humor
This video makes it clear that, one, Newsweek is not so lame a place to work as those old white male columnists might make…
Read MoreWhen can you name rape victims? Nick Kristof replies
This is the first of a two posts about this. Mostly because I wrote this, went to bed at 2 am, then I got…
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