One year ago to the day, we launched GlobalPost and it has been a helluva good year. We've built an amazing team of correspondents, columnists and editors and a growing community of visitors to the site. I'd like to thank ...Read More
GlobalPost invites you to listen to "This Year with Global Post," a special radio report in partnership with WGBH-Boston on how our correspondents have covered the big stories of 2009. I am hosting the radio show and will be talking ...Read More
As the plot thickens in the case of the thwarted Christmas bombing by a Nigerian man purportedly trained by Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, the US is reportedly stepping up its counter-terrorism efforts to open a largely covert front in ...Read More
When President Obama announced Tuesday night that he will “finish the job” in Afghanistan and the White House began its hard sell to the media on the idea of a troop increase of approximately 30,000, there is one looming question ...Read More
So here we are one month on from when we expected a decision on whether there would be a troop increase in Afghanistan. And we are still waiting for President Obama to decide. It is fair to ask whether those of ...Read More
It is the most fateful decision of Barack Obama’s presidency, and the most consequential foreign policy question America faces. Whether President Obama should escalate the US troop presence in Afghanistan is coming to a head this week on the eight-year anniversary ...Read More
PITTSBURGH - A fog is just lifting over the city of three rivers as world leaders begin to arrive here for the Group of 20 summit. Led by GlobalPost managing editor Tom Mucha, GlobalPost has provided an outstanding body of work ...Read More
In case you haven’t noticed, the US is working with governments from Indonesia to the Horn of Africa in an aggressive and coordinated effort to attack Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-inspired movements. Consider the events GlobalPost correspondents reported just this week: In ...Read More
NEW YORK - On September 11th, I visited Ground Zero and stood there in a driving rain while the names of the 3,000 innocent victims were read by the bereaved families and cops and firemen. Eight years. And, as I wrote ...Read More
BOSTON - GlobalPost got action today. The federal government announced an investigation and congress declared it would hold public hearings this fall on our Kabul correspondent Jean MacKenzie's investigative piece about how American tax payers' money is ending up ...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 . 