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Moment of desi pride at the Oscars
Lost in the diversity controversy at the Oscars Sunday night was this: The only woman of color who won was Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Who? That’s the problem. Very few people in America know who she is....
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How Jimmy Carter paved the way for Obama in Cuba
President Barack Obama made history on his arrival in Havana on Sunday. “The first U.S. president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge visited in 1928,” said all the news stories. Yes, Obama is the...
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Ed Duffy. Unforgettable.
We all lose people we love, people who are integral to us. We cannot escape loss. I will never know what it must feel like to lose a child but I know the sorrow of a mother or father’s death. Today,...
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When doves cry…
Dearly beloved We are gathered here today 2 get through this thing called life Electric word life It means forever and that’s a mighty long time But I’m here 2 tell u There’s something else The...
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From the darkness of disaster…
I first met Maya Gurung last year, a few days after a massive earthquake struck Nepal. Maya was recovering from the amputation of her left leg at a Kathmandu hospital. I wrote a story about her...
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David Gilkey: remembering an incredible photojournalist
Credit: Michael M. Phillips / The Wall Street Journal I woke up to extremely sad news today. NPR photojournalist David Gilkey was killed in Afghanistan, along with interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna....
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Migration crisis: People keep dying
The team from MOAS gets ready to rescue migrants who set sail from Libya on a rubber dinghy. Almost every day, I receive an email from the International Organization for Migration containing the latest...
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Eye on Mosul
CNN I recently wrote a story about a very brave man living in Mosul, who has been defying ISIS for more than two years with his words. You can read about the Mosul Eye blog on CNN here: Determined to...
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Stop the politics today — and remember
Spc. John Figueroa of the 30th Infantry Regiment patrols Arab Jabour, southeast of Baghdad in 2008. Fig, as he was known, had seen the worst of #war and shared his thoughts with me for “Chaplain...
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Victory in Mosul, but at what cost?
I awoke to news today that Iraqi forces were claiming victory in Mosul. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul to personally deliver the message to the world: ISIS had been driven out of the...
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