I’ve Never Liked Foods That Move of Their Own Volition
Tonight your other Intrepid Girl Reporter battled crowds clamoring for Janet Jackson (don’t ask, I have no idea) to attend a panel at the New York City Bar on collaborations between law firms and human...
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You Have GOT to be Kidding Me, Nicholas Kristof
Is there some sort of “Christmas Fools Day” celebration on the New York Times Op-Ed page that I am not aware of? Because Nicholas Kristof appears to be celebrating it. In an Op-Ed published yesterday,...
View ArticleMilitaries, Mamdani, and Magical Thinking
So here’s the thing: I have approximately 8 draft posts, written over the last 9 months or so and saved at various stages of incompletion, that address the following questions: 1. Is it ever...
View ArticleThings That Are Awesome: de Waal, on "Listening"
Alex de Waal has an excellent post on the process and value of listening: I have spent many hours in Darfur observing how outsiders ask questions and listen to the answers they are given. It is easy to...
View ArticleResponse to Chris Blattman’s "Aid Workers: When Will We Ever Learn?"
Man, if there’s one thing I love to do with my free time, it’s information revolutions. That one time when me and Gutenberg invented the printing press was totally awesome. And that other time when I...
View ArticleSteve Bloomfield on Why Abu Sharatis Happen (Apparently, it’s Our Fault!)
[After reading journalist Steve Bloomfield's comments on my posts about Abu Sharati, I invited him to submit a guest post on the structural issues in the journalism business that might lead to these...
View ArticleNow That’s a Good Use of Video Cameras
Lawyers With Cameras = just awesome. Layda Negrete and Roberto Hernández, two Mexican lawyers who are now Berkeley PhD students, used a brilliant combination of lawyering and videro cameras to save an...
View ArticleLet’s Get Ready to Rumble
Our initial reaction when we first saw Samahope was: Man, what brilliant satire. It so perfectly skewers the particular sort of poverty porn-y, competitive victimhood-encouraging NGO that we’re always...
View ArticlePoint/Counterpoint on Samahope: Our Two Cents
As promised, here are our thoughts on Samahope’s use of patient profiles to raise money for fistula repair in Sierra Leone: Although we’re kind of in love with the idea of a Kickstarter for poor...
View ArticlePoint/Counterpoint on Samahope: Leila Janah’s Response
We asked Samahope founder Leila Janah to share her reaction to our criticisms of the organization’s approach, and explain the importance of the work Samahope is doing. We very much appreciate her...
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