Barbara Demick

North Korea: Behind the Veil (VIDEO)

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Barbara Demick, Human Rights, The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Kim Il-Sung, Park Sang-Hak, Communist, Repressive, Kim Jong Il, Dictatorship, Oslo Freedom Forum, Kang Choi-Hwan, North Korea, Nothing to Envy, Totalitarianism, Kim Jong Un, Video, Korea, World News
Thor Halvorssen

Hear from two of the world's most prominent North Korean dissidents and one of the world's most prominent North Korea experts.

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More PR Shame: Associated Press Cooperates With Dictatorial Propaganda Machines

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Mussolini, Barbara Demick, Che Guevara, Hitler, Fidel Castro, Associated Press, Mao, Pinochet, Cuba, Syria, Dictators, North Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Media News
Thor Halvorssen

Is any of the dark, undeniable reality of life under Castro mentioned in a single caption of the thousands of photographs offered by the AP? Not once. Castro, they repeat, is a "revolutionary hero."

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17 Smart Books You Must Read This Summer

Lisa Bloom | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Emma Donoghue, Ann Fessler, Books, Summer Reads, Iris Chang, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, T. Colin Campbell, Summer Reading, Sheryl WuDunn, Isabel Wilkerson, Barbara Demick, Samantha Power, Lisa See, Jonathan Franzen, Lisa Bloom, Nora Ephron, Peggy Orenstein, Slidepollajax, Carrie Fisher, Jeannette Walls, Nicholas D. Kristof, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Lisa Bloom

How do you find great books to read? Here's a reading list of books that will stir you, provoke you, keep you up at night and make you late for work, and get your grey matter sizzling.

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