This story is second in a two-part series on Louisiana’s rapidly disappearing coastline. Read part one, The Drowning of the ‘Amazon of North America’ By Bob Marshall, The Lens, Al Shaw and Brian Jacobs, ProPublica December, 2014 As Brig. Gen Duke DeLuca
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JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs January 9, 2015 It’s been a long time coming, but the looming crisis in Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy is finally in clear sight. What has brought matters into focus was the dispatch to hospital in Riyadh this week of
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSJanuary, 2015 The movie was called The Fourth War. It took its title from Albert Einstein, who said he didn’t know how a third World War would be fought, or with what. “I can, however, predict that the fourth World
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs Dec. 17, 2014 When the International Criminal Court came to life in 2002 it was touted as a place where tyrants and their underlings would be brought to account for genocide and crimes against humanity. But the ICC,
JONATHAN MANTHORPEDecember 12, 2014 Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London who unashamedly lusts to be Tory Prime Minister of Britain, clearly relishes his role as a source of public entertainment. In his nearly two decades in the public eye, Johnson has made
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS December, 2014 After 25 years of writing novels, Brian Moore was trying his hand at playwriting when I met him in Edmonton in 1981. He had adapted his novella Catholics for television in 1973 and now was preparing it for its
This story is second in a two-part series on Louisiana’s rapidly disappearing coastline. Read part one, The Drowning of the ‘Amazon of North America’ By Bob Marshall, The Lens, Al Shaw and Brian Jacobs, ProPublica December, 2014 As Brig. Gen Duke DeLuca wrapped up
By MICHAEL SASGESNovember, 2014 This is a “begat” story, its subjects a winter hymn and its creator, a man who passed his adult years in that figurative winter that is the lot of the chronically ill and perpetually defiant. The
By Ben Holt and Knud Andreas Jønsson, Imperial College LondonNovember 15, 2014 A cat is, of course, a cat. Lions are cats too, as are leopards, lynxes and so on – the “Felidae” family contains 41 species in total. But what about
On Monday, a handful of New York media workers passed their first day in their new workplace, the tower that rose from the World Trade Center killing ground. The Conde Nast employees are the first men and women to occupy one of