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Last night we joined Daniel Ellsberg, the producers of his wonderful documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America, and others at the home of his distributor. It was a beautiful brownstone on the Upper West Side with a remarkable cast of characters gathered — actor Woody Harrelson and the producer of his haunting movie about [...]
Attached is a breakthrough piece by academics Scott Poynting and Victoria Mason and well worth reading all the way through, reposting and discussing. These scholars have proven very systematically that there was not only a domestic but an international set of parallel steps that diverse governments took not only to curtail civil liberties in certain [...]
Originally published at times.co.uk – Who is Sarah Palin and why is she making everyone so crazy? Here in Manhattan, with the carefully orchestrated release of Palin’s memoir Going Rogue: An American Life hitting bookstores this week, we are in the midst of what a colleague has called “Palinmania”. Some quarters are [...]
When caricature takes the place of dialogue, everyone suffers – especially when it comes to understanding issues affecting women, who struggle worldwide against being silenced. Some right-wing American bloggers recently twisted an article that I wrote in a way that did just that.
I wrote that many women activists in Muslim countries tend to emphasize issues [...]
Today I am posting a moving account by Brianne Kraus, a friend and mother of three beautiful children who has been active with a grassroots organization, Still Parents NY, that is pressuring Albany to assign stillborn babies birth certificates to honor them as babies rather than treating the stillbirth as a non-event. Right now [...]
I spent four magical days in the avant-garde heart of the new Croatia — speaking about the “Ten Steps” to a closed society, and about what a citizens’ democracy movement can do to reopen such a society, in the perfect test case for this thesis — Zagreb, the magical, medieval-hearted, yet avant-garde capital of Croatia. [...]
Over the weekend, a piece I wrote some months ago for my global syndicate, Project Syndicate — a terrific organization that makes sure that op-eds from all points of view get disseminated to outlets in the developing world, in order to reinforce habits of democracy and debate — got picked up and twisted in what [...]
NEW YORK – Mohammed al-Hanashi was a 31-year-old Yemeni citizen who was held at Guantánamo Bay without charge for seven years. On June 3, while I was visiting Guantánamo with other journalists, the press office there issued a terse announcement that al-Hanashi had had been found dead in his cell – an “apparent suicide.”
Because my [...]
I just got back from almost a week in Martha’s Vineyard, where I have been hanging out with my sweetheart and my son for several days on a funky but charming forty-year-old sailboat.
That boat is really changing my life in unexpected ways. The more time I spend on that thing the more I like it, [...]
