Category: Published
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It’s a paradox: Dominic Tierney’s political platitudes
One can almost picture Tierney offering platitudes to undergraduates at Swarthmore as he scribbles dates and quotes on the whiteboard, asking “Can America return to victory?” But by whose measure, and for what cause, should the United States return to victory?
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We Get What We Want: Nepal Coverage in Context
Most of us left because the economics of empathy —at least as expressed in the world of journalism— made it impossible to remain any longer.
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Half Century
For the last two weeks, I’ve been in Vietnam reporting on the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War. The product of this trip will be apparent in the days and weeks to come, but I wanted to mark an important anniversary today. On March 8, 1965, the US 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade landed on Red Beach, a…
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The irreplaceable David Carr, dead at 58
In a terrible week for journalism, The New York Times has confirmed David Carr, the newspaper’s media critic, has died
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The pain we will not see
War, especially today, is murky enough. But how we come to see it —to experience it— ought to be informed by actual events, made public and debated.
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The Trouble with Titles: On Perspective and Opinion
My op-ed was not intended —in a meager 800 words— to clearly render the entire landscape of UN peacekeeping. The goal was to illustrate how responsibility —and the empty rhetoric that follows its invocation— demands accounting.
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Prisoners of Peace
Today, peacekeepers are more apt to serve in regions where there is “no peace to keep”; where the potential belligerents are non-state actors (rebels, extremist groups, etc…) to whom the rules of international law —and the logic of deterrence— matter little; and where Western (or “developed”) countries are loathe to donate their own troops.
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Soldiers From Developing Countries Have Become the World’s Peacekeepers
In the fight to preserve stability, who shoulders the burden? My latest @TIME
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Bedrooms of the Fallen: Honoring the Casualties of War
Time LightBox review of Ashley Gilbertson’s new book, Bedrooms of the Fallen.
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