The Taliban chopped off the index fingers of two women who braved threats of violence and cast a ballot in Afghanistan's presidential and provincial elections Thursday. That was the word…
I heard a report on NPR this afternoon about the difficulties of getting a job. The story focused on young people who apply for jobs and never hear back from…
Seven people died for no reason today in Kabul. In the scope of Afghanistan's bloody history, seven lives are inconsequential. But the effect of today's suicide bombing is significant. It…
How to solve India's population problem: Supply every village with electricity so that every villager will watch more television late at night and have less sex.Huh?This is the brainchild of…
Finally. Someone in my beloved hometown came up with a brilliant idea: a bus tour of Kolkata.That may seem like a given to us here in America. We've all been…
This morning, I interviewed a Kenyan man who is offering 40 goats and 20 cows in dowry for Chelsea Clinton's hand in marriage. She would be wife no. 2 --…
Once again, thousands of Indians have been affected by flooding in the monsoon season. It's become a regular sight to us, and we saw it here in America in the…
The British are fully withdrawing from Iraq today, leaving a legacy, for the second time in a century.They were occupiers of Iraq once before, after World War I; their dead…
After the military ceremony, after the body comes home quietly, unseen by most of the world, after the remains forever join the earth -- that's when the suffering surfaces in…
It’s been four years since AJC photo journalist Bita Honarvar and I took a C-130 military transport from the safety of Kuwait into the horrors of Iraq.We were just starting…
