Category: Reporter’s Notebook
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On the Road: Detangling ISIS (Updated)
An important review, by an unidentified author, in this week’s New York Review of Books, argues that ISIS’s resurgence cannot be explained by much more than the availability, suddenly, of “a territory available to attract and house” it’s motivated members. That ISIS exists because it can exist is a tautology the author admits, but their…
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Three, Six, Seven point Eight
Three days, six stories: a single earthquake in Nepal. This story isn’t over, but I’ll be passing the ink along to the next. Thanks to all who send their kind thoughts and best wishes. I carry those home.
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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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On the Road: Updates on West Africa
While I’m traveling at the moment, I wanted to send a quick update on one of 2015’s steadily developing stories. As Boko Haram gobbles up more airtime and political talking points, interested readers should keep their eyes in the upcoming AU Summit in Addis Ababa. Defense One has a helpful overview here. For context on…
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The Good Fight
As the world reacts to last week’s mass murder in the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine based in Paris, questions of “what next?” abound.
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Endangered privilege?
[I]nternational media no longer shapes global opinion and … the domestic media no longer sets the national political agenda in much of the world. – Joel Simon in The Guardian
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New violence, unknown future: This is Hong Kong
As Hong Kong’s #OccupyCentral protests crept into a second week, activists in Mong Kok were confronted with violence from unknown anti-occupy activists.
Adam McCauley 