"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." They are the words of the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, and they seem as if they were penned for Senator Edward M. ...Read More
BOSTON — From Berlin, where President John F. Kennedy’s words still echo, to Belfast, where the Kennedy family played a key role in brokering peace, to Cape Town, where Robert F. Kennedy made a historic speech, the Kennedy name is ...Read More
Earlier this week, I sat down with Dave Davies, senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, on NPR's Fresh Air. We spoke about GlobalPost's special report, "Life, Death and the Taliban" and my recent travels to AfPak for the series. You ...Read More
Today GlobalPost begins a special report titled Life, Death and the Taliban. It is a series of stories from the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a multimedia project that includes video, photography, strong reporting and writing and an interactive historical ...Read More
Our Maggie was a truly international dog, a canine diplomat of sorts who had lived all over the world. A big, old yellow Labrador who lived to eat, Maggie begged on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide when I was based ...Read More
GroundTruth is written by Charles Sennott, the Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost. The blog is a way for GlobalPost to let you know what our correspondents all over the world are covering every day. It is a place where Sennott highlights the best work in the field by a stellar team of correspondents . 