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Carey Writing Fellowship: A Gift for Writers & Readers
By Sarah Federman—How to Finish and Flourish—April 8, 2016— This blog went dormant for over six weeks because I had the great privilege of spending that time at the Carey Institute for Global Good in upstate New York. During the fellowship, I had the chance to see what it is like to write everyday without distraction — (well, […]
Adrenaline – The Calm After The Tear Gas Storm
By Donna Stefano—Litro #151—April 10, 2016— The shortest and quickest way by car from Ramallah to Jerusalem on January 17, 2009, required me to circumnavigate the Qalandia checkpoint, the largest checkpoint for Palestinians travelling between the two cities that hold most import to their daily life: one for business the other for religion. Qalandia ranks […]
Life and Death Among the Gangs of Central America
By Sarah Esther Maslin—New Republic—April 11, 2016 El Niño Hollywood was a scrappy preteen, dirt-poor and wide-eyed, when he met Chepe Furia. The 26-year-old, hardened by the Mara Salvatrucha gang on the streets of Los Angeles, had recently returned to El Salvador to build his child army. It was 1994. Furia flashed his shiny truck […]
Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing
By May Jeong—The Intercept—April 28, 2016— When the Taliban overran Kunduz last September after a monthlong siege, the northern Afghan city became the first to fall to the insurgency since the war began in 2001. A week earlier, many Kunduz residents had left town to observe Eid al-Adha, the sacrificial feast honoring Abraham’s act of […]
The gangs that cost 16% of GDP
By Sarah Esther Maslin—The Economist—May 21, 2016— On the 15th day of each month a bus driver in San Salvador tucks a small package wrapped in a black plastic bag under his seat and sets out on his route. At a predetermined spot between the hillside slum where the route begins and the bustling urban street […]
The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, lies and leaks
An interview with Daniel Ellsberg & Robert J. Rosenthal—Reveal—May 21, 2016— In this episode of Reveal, we’re using the full hour to take a deep look at the leaking and publication of the Pentagon Papers. At the center of the episode are two guys who have a knack for being in the room when history […]
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation With Daniel Ellsberg
WAMC—June 30, 2016— WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, Activist, Lecturer, Author, and Former U.S. Military Analyst who is best known for releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Listen >>
The Justice Department Will End All Federal Private Prisons, Following a ‘Nation’ Investigation
By Seth Freed Wessler—The Nation—August 18, 2016— In an historic rebuke of the private prison industry, the Department of Justice today announced plans to eliminate the use of private prisons to incarcerate federal inmates. The announcement follows the release of a critical inspector general’s report and an investigative series published in The Nation, in partnership with […]
My Drowning City Is a Harbinger of Climate Slums to Come
By Virginia Eubanks—The Nation—August 29, 2016— When we returned to our home in Troy, New York, after being evacuated during Tropical Storm Irene, everything on the first and second floors looked pristine, untouched. But just below us sat four feet of water. Everything we hadn’t moved out of the basement was submerged: tools, Christmas ornaments, […]
George Clooney and the rot in South Sudan
By Zach Vertin—The Washington Post—September 23, 2016— Last week, Hollywood star and activist George Clooney, launched a report exposing financial corruption among South Sudan’s warring elites. The Sentry report is a constructive contribution — documenting state thievery in the troubled nation Washington helped create, and calling for greater action to combat it. But extreme corruption […]
Inside the Painstaking Recovery Process of a Medal of Honor Marine
By Thomas James Brennan—Vanity Fair—November 11, 2016— The thick steel body of the grenade flexed and swelled before exploding and tearing flesh and bone from Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter’s face. The date was November 21, 2010. The place was Marjah, Afghanistan. For seven days, the extent of Carpenter’s wounds remained a mystery to his family. […]
A light in the underworld
By Sarah Esther Maslin—Columbia Journalism Review—November 21, 2016— Óscar Martínez raced to the central jail. He’d just watched six of his sources get arrested. Earlier that day in June 2015, members of the 18th Street gang had shot a policeman in a nearby auto repair shop. The thirtieth officer killed that year in a bloody […]
