Cindy Kane is an extraordinary artist who is drawn to war. Like many foreign correspondents who can't quite explain what it is that pulls them in the direction of conflict, she set out to tell the story of the wars ...Read More
We needed this one. As a country that has too often found itself confronting the futility of its force in the post 9-11 world, the patient, well-executed US Navy mission that freed Captain Richard Phillips came as a welcome ending ...Read More
Teddy Roosevelt would have known what to do with these pirates. In his day he went after them with everything he had. In 1907, there was a famous naval standoff in which Barbary pirates held an American for ransom. It was a ...Read More
From our headquarters here at GlobalPost, the boom of the cannon from the USS Constitution just sounded. The ceremonial firing of the cannon happens every night at exactly sunset and it echoes across Boston harbor to Lewis Wharf where we ...Read More
Check out our ace on the global economy, Thomas Mucha, on NPR's Talk of the Nation which aired today. Tom, who is our Managing Editor for Correspondents, has been leading our outstanding coverage of the global economy and today he ...Read More
Our correspondent in Kabul, Jean MacKenzie, provided us tonight with some serious GroundTruth. Her exclusive interview with two former officials from the deposed Taliban government offers the kind of insight on the Obama administration's rethinking of Afghanistan and opening the ...Read More
CAMBRIDGE — The hair and the beard are more peppered with gray, the voice sounded a bit hoarse, the tone less strident. And in the 15 years since the last time Gerry Adams came to the hallowed halls of Harvard ...Read More
This week marks two months since the launch of GlobalPost. The outstanding work by our 65 correspondents in 45 countries has helped us surpass our original goals for traffic in the first sixty days and get off to a great ...Read More
Posted by Charles M. Sennott HDS Greenway knows GroundTruth. He's lived it through five decades of reporting and editing. If you have not yet read Greenway's 5-part series for GlobalPost on The War Hotels please link now. The series tells of Greenway's ...Read More
We are in "A World of Trouble." The global economic crisis is the story. And it will be the story for years to come. By every estimate, we are only seeing the beginning of an historic downturn in the global ...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 . 