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“Why is Haiti Growing Mangoes When It Needs Rice?” Slate Above Port-au-Prince, in the terraced mountains of Kenscoff, 34-year-old Gerard Gilbert is tending his farm, a single acre of land on which he...
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Homicide: The New York World tour How does a plunging New York City murder rate look from a global perspective? We chart the numbers by neighborhood – from Libya to Poland to Vietnam. The New York...
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Subsidizing Starvation How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the farm and starving millions of Haitians. Foreign Policy In the wake of Haiti’s devastating 7.0-magnitude...
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“The History Page: The Cold War Rag” The Daily Jazz icon Louis Armstrong goes to Africa–to fight the Soviets In October 1960, the U.S. State Department dispatched the 59-year-old Louis Armstrong and...
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“Operation Spring Rain” Pacific Standard U.S. soldiers work to undo some of the damage done to Afghanistan’s agricultural communities from decades of war. Samuel Rance speaks with a twang and his...
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“The History Page: Revolutionary fever” The Daily Haitian soldiers aid America – and find fuel for their own uprising Henri Christophe, courtesy of The Daily When the Declaration of Independence...
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“Can Development Win a Counterinsurgency?” Slate KHOST, Afghanistan––When people hear about the U.S. military doing development work in Afghanistan, they think about “winning hearts and minds”...
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“Now showing in Afghanistan: ‘Why We Are Here’” After death of Osama bin Laden, US propaganda films may need a rewrite. Global Post FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan — In the bottom of a dry,...
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“COIN Stars” Counterinsurgency bloggers help set the agenda in Afghanistan Columbia Journalism Review When Erik Smith accepted a one-year posting to Afghanistan as a United States Agency for...
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“We’re Still Going to Be Here” Osama Bin Laden is dead, but for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, the war continues. Slate COMBAT OUTPOST BOWRI TANAH, Afghanistan—The day after news broke that Osama Bin...
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“The U.N. ‘Cluster System’ Is as Bad as It Sounds” Slate “Criticism has plagued the United Nations ever since it sent a peacekeeping force to Haiti in 2004. Past scandals include accusations of child...
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