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Jonathan Myerson Katz is a freelance journalist. He is the author of 'The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster,' winner of the Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Book Award, finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, and a Kirkus, Slate, Christian Science Monitor and Amazon.com Book of the Year. He is a regular New York Times contributor whose coverage has included U.S. police violence and the 2015 murders of Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C. Other work has appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Politico, and New Yorker website, with grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
A former Associated Press foreign correspondent, Katz won the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his coverage of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake and his investigation that revealed United Nations peacekeepers had caus
By: Mark Leon Goldberg on July 08, 2021
In the early morning hours of July 7th, unknown assailants assassinated the President of Haiti Jovenal Moise.
Haiti was already facing an uncertain political future. And now, the line of succession is not at all clear.
Journalist Jonathan Myerson Katz explains the tumultuous political context in which this audacious assassination occurred and what the assassination of the president means for the future of Haiti.
If you have 20 minutes and want to better understand the significance of the shocking assassination of Haitian president Jovenal Moise, have a listen.
Yeah, it’s all bullsh t, but here’s some background on the latest nontroversy. TL, DR: The GOP Death Cult got so much sweet mileage out of HRC’s messages (or, actually, the HRC messages they made up in their fevered little minds), they figured it would be
almost as easy to repeat the process with Dr. Fauci.
Can’t blame the
Washington Post for using the FOIA as it was intended note how this tweet was worded:
NEW: We obtained nearly 900 pages of Fauci s emails from March and April 2020, opening a window into Fauci s world during the chaotic early days of the crisis. All is well despite some crazy people in this world, he wrote in one note. w/ @damianpalettahttps://t.co/iUKRYZEIaC