As her family hastily prepared to flee its home in Abyan, a province in Yemen’s south, Nour Mohamed was thinking about the friends, toys and school books she would have to leave behind.

Warscapes || May 15, 2012

Despite the health risk of bleeding and death, the removal of the clitoris is a central element to the Sande initiation ritual. Ten out of Liberia’s 16 tribes practice female genital cutting.

Front Page Africa || March 8, 2012

Meet Patrick Ball, a statistician who’s spent his life lifting the fog of war.

Foreign Policy || March/April 2012

How a group of teenage believers could reshape the Israeli-Palestinian struggle

Tablet || September 7, 2011

Elected in 2009, leftist Mauricio Funes became the first Salvadoran president to apologize for government death squads. Dara Kerr investigates the massacre and subsequent cover-up, the U.S. role in the killings, and the backdrop for an unprecedented apology.

Guernica || May 2011

A school built by Royal Caribbean for about 200 Haitian pupils has some residents wondering why the company has not done more.

The New York Times || April 8, 2011

Kabbalah teaches that only giving will bring a soul out of the darkness. So Madonna planned a splendid gift for an impoverished African nation. Somebody turn on the light.

New York || May 1, 2011

In a time of momentous change in the world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sets out on her most heartfelt mission: to put women and girls at the forefront of the new world order.

Newsweek || March 6, 2011

As defense giants like Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin increasingly seek to peddle their wares to well-financed (sometimes by the U.S.) international customers, they have a surprising ally: the President.

Fortune || February 11, 2011

An American developer seeks to create the “Florida of the Caucasus.”

The Atlantic || March 2011