"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
By a crackling fire place in the elegant Brattle Street, Cambridge home of the French Consul General, the Ambassador carefully sipped his cafe noir in the cold morning light. Pierre Vimont, French Ambassador to the United States, sat down with GlobalPost ...Read More
With the first stroke of his presidential pen, President Barack Obama began to rewrite the book on how the US will confront terrorism going forward. He signed the executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year ...Read More
Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America, and ascends to what is truly the first global presidency. And in one of the more powerful moments of the speech, he spoke directly to ...Read More
As Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America, he will ascend to what is truly the first global presidency. And so today will mark the first truly global inauguration with an estimated ...Read More
By C.M. Sennott Seven days until we launch GlobalPost! Wildly exciting and incredibly busy at our offices in Boston, but I am going to do my best to keep you updated daily and even hourly about the countdown until the site ...Read More
HANOI - On my journey through Asia looking for talented correspondents who will make up our team at Global News Enterprises and meeting with government officials to establish and register our news bureaus, I took some time out this morning ...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 . 