Sunny side up
Published in The Observer (February 23rd 2014) The Upside of Down by Charles Kenny (Basic Books) During the last United... Read Full Article
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World hunger has fallen. Now what do we do about the planet’s expanding waistline?
Published in The Independent (January 11th, 2014) In the year of my birth China was engulfed in the worst famine... Read Full Article
The tide is turning against homophobia
Published in The Guardian (December 27th, 2013) In Uganda, two people who have sex could end up serving life sentences... Read Full Article
Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice
Published in The Guardian (November 21st, 2011) Hang ’em high Texas is not the first place you might look for... Read Full Article
The day that shook the world
Published in The Observer (September 11th, 2011) The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Doubleday); The 9/11 Wars... Read Full Article
The other Barack: Bigamist, drunk and wife-beater
Published in the Daily Mail (August 12th, 2011) The Other Barack by Sally H. Jacobs (Public Affairs) Shortly after being... Read Full Article
The troubling aftermath of Bin Laden’s killing
Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 8th, 2011) It was a scene familiar from coffee bars around the world.... Read Full Article
Mississippi yearning: driving down America’s Great River Road
Published in The Guardian (December 4th, 2010) As we nudged the Mustang on to the vast metal bridge spanning the... Read Full Article
This award is premature – and potentially very foolish
Published in The Independent (October 10th, 2009) When Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the American... Read Full Article
Lessons from the flood
Published in The Sunday Telegraph (September 12, 2010) Five years ago, America was struggling to come to terms with the... Read Full Article