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
"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
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 . 