1. Long, powerful article on why people race off to Africa to solve problems, ignore the ones (like crim j) at home: https://medium.com/the-development-set/the-reductive-seduction-of-other-people-s-problems-3c07b307732d#.kaykhmdc9 …
@JohnFPfaff Yes indeed–I wrote about a related phenom in 2010: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175316/tomgram%3A_chase_madar,_all-american_gitmo/#.Vp5sOhKe4w8.twitter …pic.twitter.com/AClb3iEM0w