Trouble for a forgotten people
Who are the Yezedis, the 40,000 people who are hiding in the Sinjar Mountains from the horror of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants? They are not Muslims.…
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August 8, 2014
A Romeo and Juliet love story from Iraq
I met Mike when sectarian strife exploded in Baghdad in 2006. That was not his real name, of course, but it was what he went by in his job as…
June 30, 2014
Remembering Ramadi as Iraq suffers again
I fought off tears as I read Sunday's New York Times. The news from Iraq was horrifying. A vicious civil war seems imminent as fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq…
June 16, 2014
Memorial Day is not National BBQ Day
Occasionally, I pick up my iPhone and am pleasantly surprised to see an incoming call from a soldier I met in Iraq. The other night, it was Mike Brown,…
May 25, 2014
Sad news from Afghanistan
We lost another amazing journalist today. Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an acclaimed photographer for the Associated Press, died instantly after an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car…
April 4, 2014
Iraq's forgotten tragedy
I just read an excerpt from Peter Baker's new book, "Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House. It's being touted as the most comprehensive account of the…
October 21, 2013
Every day is Memorial Day
Thursday evening, I drove out to Loganville, Georgia. I suppose it's not a tremendous distance from downtown Atlanta but during rush hour, it took me more than an hour before…
August 16, 2013
The price of independence
It's too bad "Midnight's Children" was a bust at the box office. I'm thinking that Deepa Mehta was perhaps the wrong director to give us the celluloid depiction of Salman…
August 14, 2013
'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…
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