Meaning and myth through the photographer’s lens
Much ado about pictures lately. Not long after I asked last week whether portraits of Rwandan survivors that got a nod from the NYT…
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Moving On From Juvie
Washington — In their first job out of law school, Whitney Louchheim and Penelope Spain worked, literally, in a closet. With neither windows nor…
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Defending Due Process for Guantanamo Detainees
Defense attorneys for Guantánamo detainees stand up for due process despite hate mail, threats, and Dick Cheney’s daughter. New York — At first, Joshua…
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Creepiest Google searcher ever, and a confidentiality conundrum
Like a lot of bloggers, weird Google search terms will send people my way. I used the word “thighs” in a blog headline once,…
Read MoreFarm aid from space
This is the title of my newest Christian Science Monitor article, which is actually about weather-indexed insurance programs in sub-Saharan Africa. All kinds of…
Read MoreWhy German homeschoolers get asylum and torture survivors don’t
I don’t know, actually. Maybe Uwe Romeike got lucky? Maybe asylum is starting to change? Maybe judges like evangelicals? Or white people better than…
Read More‘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…
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR — Farm Aid From Space
Dusty northern Kenya doesn’t look like a laboratory, but across its dry plains, cattle herders are pioneering a new way to fend off poverty…
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…
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