Clips

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.

Organizer brings spirit of Carnival to Florida Haitians
WLRN, February 21, 2012. Sound beds and nat sounds. With Jacob Kushner.

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

In Praise of the Bow Tie
Doublethink, February 8, 2012.

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 magazine, August/September 2011 issue. With Jerry Brito.

Poverty: Is there an app for that?
Aid Watch, May 17, 2011.

Let Haitians Build Their Own Future
RealClearWorld, April 14, 2011.