PBS and Saima Mohsin's Heart-Wrenching Story on Young Victims of the Flood
September 7, 2010 1 min. read

Per usual, the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer has provided, far and away, the best reportage on the flood in Pakistan.  Working with Saima Mohsin of the English-language channel Dawn News, the Newshour has aired some of the most arresting stories on Pakistan’s crisis.  The piece you will find below is no different. Mohsin lays […]

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Thoughts on Haiti
January 14, 2010 3 min. read

Two days ago, just before the earthquake hit, Tyler Cowen blogged encouraging news about Haiti. In an odd twist of irony, he wrote that the small Caribbean country was experiencing a “renassaince” where economic growth was expected rise by 2.4 percent in the short term.  Earlier in 2009, Haiti’s Central Bank Governor Charles Castel said […]

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