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What region gets the most coverage of its human rights abuses?

Latin America, according to a statistical analysis

When journalists report on human rights abuses, which region do they report on most? Africa, due to the Rwandan genocide,... More

Tornadoes in America

A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma

Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real

I have no hope for the future

One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue

What hard news misses

50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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