"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
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
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
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
It didn't surprise me to hear that New York Times reporter David Rohde plotted a careful escape from his Taliban captors by scaling a wall and running to freedom with his translator, Tahir Ludin. And it didn't surprise me that ...Read More
KABUL – Enter the steel gates that lead to the courtyard and well-tended gardens of a faded, but still elegant manse where Nancy Hatch Dupree greets us on the steps. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="320" caption="Photography by: Seamus Murphy"][/caption] For a moment, you ...Read More
Reporters Without Borders is an important international press freedom organization and they have written a letter to President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton. It's an important read for those who care about human rights and the freedom of the ...Read More
There are no polling booths for war. But Israel voiced a nearly unanimous agreement that the punishing military offensive in Gaza was the right thing to do. Now as the real votes are counted in Israel’s national parliamentary election, it’s results ...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 . 