The Girl Who Killed Her Pimp
At just 16, former honors student Sarah Kruzan committed a crime that sent her to prison indefinitely. This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could outlaw sentencing teens to l...
Can Teen Killers Be Rehabilitated?
Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the New York Daily News.
Only the U.S. and Somalia sentence teenagers to life without parole. Today the Supreme Court must decide: Is it constitutional? Adam Serwer tells the heartbreaking stories of kids who kill their abusers. Inside the heartbreaking stories of kids who kill the adults who abuse them.
The Bomber and the Dissident
Bill Frelick, director of Human Rights Watch's refugee policy program, monitors, investigates, and documents human rights abuses against refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons, and advocates for the rights and humanitarian needs of all categories of forcibly displaced persons around the world. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Frelick directed Amnesty International USA's refugee program and the US Committee for Refugees (USCR), which he served for 18 years.
One got a glorious homecoming. The other was left to rot. Bill Frelick on the paradoxes of justice, Libya-style-and the perils of pretending Gaddafi has changed his stripes.
The revolution will not be televised. But there is a revolution in video on the Web. New forms of storytelling are emerging every day and one of the more creative sites for narrative journalism is MediaStorm, the creation of the multimed...
Charles M. Sennott is the Executive Editor and Vice President of GlobalPost, a web-based international news organization. Sennott is an award winning journalist and author with a distinguished career in international reporting for both print and broadcast news organizations. A longtime foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe, Sennott served as the Globe's Middle East Bureau Chief based in Jerusalem from 1997 to 2001 and as Europe Bureau Chief based in London from 2001 to 2005.
Iraq's Anti-Gay Pogrom
Parvez Sharma is the director and producer of A Jihad for Love. He also writes for The Huffington Post and is a speaker on Islam and sexuality.
Gay men across Iraq are being rounded up, tortured, and killed by the country's militias, including the feared Mahdi Army-while the government stands by. The Daily Beast's Parvez Sharma gets an early look at a report documenting the brutality.
African Taliban Terrorizes Nigeria
Eliza Griswold is a New America fellow and a recipient of the 2010 Rome Prize. Her book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Islam and Christianity, will by published by FSG this spring.
As Hillary Clinton visits Nigeria, the oil-rich country central to Africa's success, she should be wary of a deadly new threat: the African Taliban.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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