I’ve got a new website! Here’s how it works
As most of you have probably figured out by now, I’ve got a new website, designed by the one-man-genius-shop that is Cleave Design. Adam…
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An open apology to Liberia
UPDATE: Inexplicably, Vice has taken its apology letter down. Weird. But you can still find a cached version here. (Thanks, Google, the sometimes-benevolent big…
Read MoreI need to be working, but I can’t stop reading this
blog. This one, here. Sean’s in Liberia, and due to the malarial incident that has me riveted to the Internet and not to my…
Read MoreOne more casualty of the news biz
McClatchy pulls its reporter from Africa. Shashank Bengali has been doing some really fascinating work there, but the mother ship called him home. Or…
Read MoreA young reporter in Haiti
I was incredibly moved by Huascar Robles’ account of reporting in Haiti. Huascar is a young Puerto Rican reporter who had been researching an…
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In Africa, Inheriting a Field or a Feud?
Saniquellie, Liberia — A trip to a rice farm near here is like visiting a West African version of the Secret Garden. There’s a…
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The African Divide: Land Disputes
Zuluyee, Liberia; and Kailahun, Sierra Leone — The specialists know the warning signs. Analysts and scientists and field officers and academics spend years writing…
Read MoreHow to count your war dead
I stumbled into a controversy last week when I wrote an article about the new Human Security Report. I wasn’t the only one; lots…
Read MoreWhy this weird category
Some of my most popular blog posts are teeny little stories snatched from the course of the day. This Vignettes category is designed to…
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New Study Argues War Deaths Are Overestimated
A new study, the Human Security Report, argues that politics and fund-raising priorities often lead to overestimates of war deaths, touching off a controversy…
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