The New Yorker
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 11:44
“These are the events of war.” This is how Riek Machar, the former Vice-President of South Sudan, described the violence that has claimed thousands of lives in South Sudan in the past month. I reached Machar by satellite phone, at what he described as a secret location “in the forest.” He had escaped Juba, the capital, and gone up-country, into the home territory of his fellow Nuer people.
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 00:00
If handshakes are symbols of reconciliation, then it is historically fitting that Obama and Raul Castro greeted one another Tuesday in Johannesburg's FNB soccer stadium
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 08:19
One night in July, 2010, Shannon Sedgwick Davis, a lawyer and activist from San Antonio, Texas, and the mother of two young boys, found herself seated across from the chief of the Ugandan Army, General Aronda Nyakairima, at his hilltop headquarters, in Kampala. “It was one of those out-of-body experiences,” Davis told me. Davis was on the verge of becoming deeply involved in the campaign to capture Joseph Kony. In the course of a quarter century, Kony abducted tens of thousands of people, mostly children, and conscripted them into the Lord’s Resistance Army (L.R.A.), which was conceived as a Ugandan rebel force but whose primary target has been civilians in several African nations. “I am a full-blown mom, sitting here with this Ugandan general,” Davis said. “And I can’t believe I have an audience with this man, and that he didn’t write me off as crazy.”
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 00:00
The release of Caro Quintero demonstrates that Mexico's institutions of criminal justice, not just its prisons but its judges, are too eroded by corruption to make a credible case for their own autonomy in administering justice for Trevino Morales.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 00:00
"That's where the transatlantic cables come ashore".
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 00:00
I've received a number of questions about my recent writing on Venezuela, which I'd like to address here
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 00:00
Thatcher was a fierce Cold Warrior, and when it came to Chile never mustered quite the appropriate amount of compassion for the people Pinochet killed in the name of anti-Communism
Friday, January 4, 2013 - 00:00
From 2008 to 2011, the photojournalist Jerome Sessini submerged himself in some of the most violent Mexican cities—Culiacan, Tijuana, and Ciudad Juarez—and documented their increasing social decomposition
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 00:00
Welcome to the inherent looniness of the drug war.
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 00:00
For the past ten years, the photographer Stephen Ferry has working on what he calls a "collective photographic record of the Colombian conflict."