This week in “Huh?”
From CNN International, in an article about a British aid worker with what appears to be remarkable if limited telepathic capability. I think. Or…
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A chorus of truth-telling: On hegemony, Africa and the news
Forget h/t. An out and out handshake to @sonjasugira for a link to The Revolution Will Not Come By PowerPoint, a very unsentimental essay…
Read MoreDoes the Holocaust teach us anything about modern-day genocide? (Oh, and happy new year)
Things are quiet on this blog while we’re preparing for a server transfer and redesign. But here’s a nice graph from a piece in…
Read MoreJustice and rape in Liberia
Glenna Gordon and I have a couple posts up on the Pulitzer Center blog focused on justice and rape in Liberia. The first gives…
Read MoreOne year of corruption in Africa = 704 million years of HIV treatment
At least according to the calculations of the Namibian* activists who made this video, the first in a series called “Lords of Bling.” Take…
Read MoreRead this book now
A week or two ago, I mentioned journalist Andrew Rice’s first book, The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Will Not Forget. I told…
Read MoreWhat makes torture torture?
That’s a question that has obsessed me since America began debating whether torturing people is “warranted” or not. The debate started a few years…
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