Sitting Down With Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected Liberia’s president in 2005, she inherited a country wrecked by civil war and began to transform it. Today,…
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"I swear, that is SO legal," or, why the man in charge of fixing Liberia's justice sector "owns" all the laws
A piece of investigative reporting that took Glenna Gordon and I the better part of our month together in Monrovia, and lots of her…
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He’s Got the Law (Literally) In His Hands
Six years after a civil war that killed 250,000 and displaced hundreds of thousands more, justice is at the top of Liberia’s list of…
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Charles Taylor Trial Gets Mixed Reviews in Liberia
During four months of testimony, Charles Taylor, the former leader of Liberia, denied committing war crimes. He said he was the victim of a…
Read More"…Okay, now tell me where he put his hands"
This is, unhappily, the sequel to my earlier taken-down on major media coverage of rape in conflict. Turns out I have a little bit…
Read MoreHow journalism got it way more wrong than you'd ever imagine in Darfur
Stop right there, and click this link. Amanda Taub, one amazing half of the awesome duo Wronging Rights, spent some serious time trying to…
Read MoreOf time, tweets and other relative journalism matters
Yes, it’s come to this. I am about to reference something I read on Twitter. Er, a tweet. I am going, in fact, to…
Read MoreFitting the UN for MTV
Thanks to Melinda Forever!, I discovered the most hilarious parody of the UN I’ve seen…maybe ever. The best part is, this pretty much totally…
Read MoreKicking off the Pulitzer Center project
I’ve landed in Monrovia, resisting the temptation to become even the cutest kid’s mom, and I’m about to dive into an overpacked month of…
Read MoreOnce more, on torture
My article “Reading the Wounds,” about two New York City doctors who started a clinic to treat torture survivors, is in this year’s Best…
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