A lmost a generation ago, Robert Kaplan’s seminal article The Coming Anarchy in Atlantic Monthly was an etching of Haiti. Outside my hotel in Port-au-Prince was a collision of the horsemen galloping through the piece: disease, environmental degradation, local thugs...
I’m coming out and this is probably the best place to do it. The catharsis of confession is so eagerly sought that I must admit it. I can’t wait any longer. I like the robust guys who wear boots, hats and have three-day stubble that looks like it belongs....
Ten hours a day picking bananas. Or chopping weeds from a vegetable garden bigger than most villages. Who decided ten hours was the right length of time to work each day? Why not five? Why not eight? Ten is long enough for muscles to tighten into rock. It’s long...
None of the employees at the eight bus companies spoke English, or French. All the signs and schedules were in Arabic. Outside the offices the most persistent beggars on earth managed to unceasingly penetrate language and cultural barriers. There are not many moments...
Morocco | It smells of fear in the Café de la Porte in Tangier. It’s the same smell you always find on the fringes of power. But there’s also the smell of croissants and boiled eggs, strong tea and buttered toast. The café is large and open with rose coloured posts...
… 18 shot on bus in Pakistan; 32 blown-up in Iraq; 3 reporters kidnapped in Columbia; 16 dead, 202 wounded in Syria; protestors dragged off islands in East China Sea; police shoot 4 miners in South Africa; car bomb kills 12 in Sri Lanka; 22 children seized by...
