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
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
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
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
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
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 . 