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
Listen in to the journey I took through Afghanistan and Pakistan on The World starting tonight. A special four-part series of radio reports titled "Inside the Taliban" will be aired over the next four days on The World, which is ...Read More
I know that road just outside of Kabul in the Logar Province. I know the kids who walk to school on it every morning. I know their faces were full of hope and glee when I saw them two years ...Read More
Iason Athanasiadis was released, as you can read at the top of GlobalPost. Iason, a freelance journalist who had been writing for GlobalPost in Iran, was detained without charge for nearly three weeks by the Iranian government. He was picked up ...Read More
At GlobalPost, the most celebrated work our journalists do is ground truth. Being there on the ground for the story is what matters. And Iason Athanasiadis, a freelance writer and contributor to GlobalPost who was detained while working in Iran last ...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 . 