Clips

A $300 million development project—and Haiti’s future—depend on America’s open markets
Quartz, May 8, 2013. Also published at TheAtlantic.com

Port-au-Prince Diary: ‘Did You Forget Me, My Man?’
Medium, April 17, 2013.

Getting ‘in Line’ to Come to the U.S.? It’ll Cost You
RealClearPolicy, April 12, 2013.

Remote Relief
Makeshift, Issue 4, Fall 2012. Also published at Mkshft.org

Techies Gather in Port Au Prince for Haiti’s First Hackathon
techPresident, February 11, 2013.

The Relief Disaster: Review of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
Reason.com, January 19, 2013.

Immigration Is an Economic Issue
RealClearPolicy, December 21, 2012.

How Haiti Highlights the Failures of U.S. Immigration Policy: U.S. immigration reform will help Haiti much more than U.S. foreign aid.
Reason.com, December 6, 2012.

A Haitian Does Not Run The New York City Marathon
The Classical, November 8, 2012.

Breaking Through Barriers to a Stable Internet in Haiti
Haiti Rewired, October 31, 2012.

An Inside Look at Port-au-Prince Cyber Cafes
Haiti Rewired, September 15, 2012.

Powering Lights and Progress in Haiti
Haiti Rewired, August 9, 2012.

After the Storm: How Joplin, Missouri, rebuilt following a devastating tornado by circumventing bureaucracy
Reason, August/September 2012 issue.

Build Change Aims to Render Homes Earthquake Resistant in Haiti
Haiti Rewired, June 8, 2012.

What A Box of Sea Cucumbers Teaches Us About Foreign Aid
GOOD, May 28, 2012.

Haiti’s Pepe Trade: How Secondhand American Clothes Became a First-Rate Business
Reason.com, May 23, 2012. With Jon Bougher.

Dealbreaker: She Always Agreed With Me
GOOD, May 17, 2012.

Rebuilding Haiti: Why is it taking so long?
The American Interest, May 10, 2012.

Defusing Africa’s Population Bomb: There’s No Need to Fear Nigerian Babies
GOOD, April 16, 2012.

Fighting Famines with Markets: In Ethiopia, an Exchange Empowers Rural Farmers
GOOD, April 13, 2012.

Kony 2012’s Old-Fashioned War Propaganda: With lots of social-media hoodoo, popular new campaign calls for another U.S. intervention.
Reason.com, March 14, 2012.

Port-au-Prince’s Aid Economy: How foreign aid to Haiti can pressure the local economy, compound inflation problems, and may do more harm than good in the end.
Reason.com, March 12, 2012.

Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake
Wired.com, February 14, 2012. With Jerry Brito.

Cuckoo for Cocoa Processing: Making Chocolate—Not Just Picking It—Helps Madagascar Develop
GOOD, February 7, 2012.

How Oliberté, the Anti-TOMS, Makes Shoes and Jobs in Africa
GOOD, January 17, 2012.

Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy
Harvard National Security Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1. 2011. With Jerry Brito.

From Poverty to Prosperity?: The Millennium Villages Project aims to “end extreme poverty” in Africa. But it’s more likely to repeat past foreign aid mistakes.
Reason.com, November 10, 2011.

The Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex: The feds erect a bureaucracy to combat a questionable threat
Reason, August/September 2011 issue. With Jerry Brito.