On a farm in the middle of nowhere in northern Virginia, a group of eight of us are gathered for a two-day refresher course on Hostile Environment and First Aid Training offered by Centurion Risk Assessment Services. We are all ...Read More
Apologies for being out of touch for a while. Things have been crazy busy at GlobalPost and I am preparing for a trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan which has added to a typically insane workload. I will be heading out to ...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
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
Four-star General David Petraeus, the chief of U.S. Central Command, performed the coin toss before kickoff at the Super Bowl. And there couldn't have been a more perfect vignette for the theme of our Sports columnist Mark Starr's excellent piece ...Read More
GlobalPost has launched. We are live! It's the end of the first day and it's grown quiet again here at GlobalPost headquarters here in Boston after a day of hard work and some celebration. There are sticky Champagne stains on the conference ...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 . 