'When we were good men'
As a reporter, I have numerous conversations every day with people I don't know that well or at all. Once in a while, those conversations strike a chord. That's what…
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June 29, 2013
Silenced too soon
Michael Hastings died Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles. The news hit me hard. He was 33. He was a great journalist. He was a friend. Most people…
June 19, 2013
WAR & Fashion
Carnage: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. Catwalk: Armani, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent. War is ugly. Fashion is beautiful. War projects the worst of humanity. Fashion displays sartorial splendor in its highest. War…
February 12, 2013
Terezin
On my last full day in Europe back in Novemeber (yes, I meant to write this eons ago), I hopped on a bus in Prague for an hour ride northwest to…
February 2, 2013
A brutal rape, then outrage. What next for women?
When I was home in Kolkata several years ago, I climbed aboard a crowded public bus to go across town. The experience was far from pleasant. It was hot and…
December 24, 2012
A violent world
I visited my friend Archna yesterday. She, like so many others I know, was distraught over the Newtown shootings. What was happening to the world? We embarked on a conversation…
December 18, 2012
Nine years
The United States invaded Iraq nine years ago. On this anniversary, more violence.A string of deadly car bombings rocked Iraq Tuesday. Forty-three people died; 206 others were injured. The dead…
March 20, 2012
Last U.S. soldiers leave Iraq
It was hard writing about the close of the Iraq war from so far away.Deadly Iraq war ends with exit of last U.S. troops http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/17/world/meast/iraq-troops-leave/index.html#cnn
December 18, 2011
A long, divisive war will soon be over
Georgia soldiers patrolled western Baghdad in 2006 President Barack Obama made a stunning announcement Friday. The war in Iraq would be over in December when virtually all of the remaining…
October 22, 2011