Last week I was sitting down to lunch with a new friend from Haiti, and it was a bizarre experience. He had arrived in the US the day before. And right…

October 2022

But one thing will get America to help
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July 2022

Another substack invited me to write a piece on Haiti’s history, focusing on its divergence from the Dominican Republic. I tried to write the best, most…

May 2022

The New York Times recently published a series of articles about the history of Haiti. Unfortunately, I'm writing this essay to call them out. They made…
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February 2022

In 2010, Jovenel Moïse was not a political figure. He was a businessman in the North with likely zero political aspirations. 11 years later, he made…

October 2021

Could Alexander Hamilton have prevented the assassination of Jovenel Moïse? I don't mean if Hamilton was alive today. What if in 1804, at the beginning…

September 2021

After the assassination of Haiti’s president and a significant earthquake in Haiti’s southern peninsula, the logical next step seemed to be thousands of…
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The graph is wrong. It’s about a week after the assassination of Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moïse, and a graph is going viral. The virality is…
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When running for president in 2016, Donald Trump infamously said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose…
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