I got an email today from a female photojournalist, a Londoner of South Asian descent, who was recently deported from Burma after getting caught by the regime trying to visit the forbidden jade mines of Hpakant, in Kachin State. She ...Read More
Quick link to Charles Blow's op-ed in the NYT from this weekend as well, relevant to my previous post about the NYPost's cartoon. And another link to Michael Wolff's Newser piece portending New York Post editor Col Allan's firing. Read More
Just wanted to draw attention to Bob Herbert's op-ed in the New York Times this weekend, and link it to the work of an invaluable organization, the Global Justice Center, with whom I've had the privilege to work. Back in 2000, ...Read More
On February 18, the New York Post's editorial board thought it a brilliant idea to publish a cartoon linking the authors of the stimulus bill (President Obama and his administration) and a rampaging chimpanzee recently shot by police in the ...Read More
Last year, in late January/early February, I was on the Thai-Burma border with Pat Cook-Deegan, gathering support for the Burma-Beijing Olympics campaign I ran for 9 months. I arranged to interview three defectors from the Burmese army who had fled ...Read More
I will be unable to make it to two great conferences coming up - one soon, one not so soon - which is a darned shame. Especially so because many of my friends I never get to see outside of ...Read More
Talking with Lea (an amazing canvas director-cum-slopes bomber) from my LSAT prep class, I realized that it may be helpful to some of my compatriots in Politicalia to compile the large number of progressive political job listings I've recently come ...Read More