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January 19, 2009
A Reporter at Large
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The Enforcer [ABSTRACT]
- A REPORTER AT LARGE about Gary Haugen and the International Justice Mission. Writer describes the case of Duncan Mutungi, a security guard in Kenya accused of stealing a car from the gated community he was paid to protect. Ronald Rogo, a Kenyan lawyer employed by the International Justuce Mission took…
January 09, 2009
AUDIO
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The Transition Podcast: January 9, 2009
- Dorothy Wickenden talks to Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan Lizza, Jane Mayer, and John Cassidy about Obama’s economic plan and his strategy to counter domestic terrorism.
January 8, 2009
Blog: Think Tank
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A Most Dangerous Place
- The Center for Strategic and International Studies has published a new report, “FATA—A Most Dangerous Place,” about the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Its principal author is Shuja Nawaz, the author of a richly...
January 12, 2009
Comment
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Homelands
- Comment about Barack Obama becoming President and the renewal of violence between Israel and the Palestinians. Twelve American Presidents owned slaves, eight of them while in office. After emancipation, a handful of black men won seats in Congress, but as the spirit of Jim Crow overwhelmed the promise of Reconstruction…
January 05, 2009
A Reporter at Large
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Lives of the Saints
- A REPORTER AT LARGE about the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (U.N.H.C.R.) and other organizations at work in Chad aiding refugees from Darfur, Sudan. Along the border between Chad and Sudan, U.N.H.C.R. oversees the operation of twelve refugee camps with a population of nearly two hundred and fifty thousand…
Slide Show
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Photos from Refugee Camps in Chad
- A portfolio of images from refugee camps in Chad, by Christoph Bangert.
Slide Show
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2008: Most Popular
- The most popular pages on newyorker.com in 2008, month by month.
December 15, 2008
Profiles
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Marching Through Georgia [ABSTRACT]
- PROFILE of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. During and after Georgia’s five-day war with Russia this August over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Saakashvili spent long days receiving Western dignitaries and he spent his nights rallying foreign journalists to Georgia’s side. Saakashvili had staked his country’s security on its…
November 10, 2008
Profiles
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The Bright Side [ABSTRACT]
- PROFILE of Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Thomas Friedman, the foreign affairs columnist of the Times, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and a best-selling author, finished his column for the August 3rd edition sitting in a hut built on the ice sheet in northern Greenland…
September 15, 2008
Letter from Beijing
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The Home Team
- LETTER FROM BEIJING about the way ordinary Chinese citizens experienced the Beijing Olympics. Writer tells about a group of thirty citizens in the small town of Sancha who were charged with preventing visitors from gaining access to a section of the Great Wall near the town. For China, 2008 had…
