Writing

Current Focus (2021)

I am currently doing a writing project here called "Project 500 Years" that I started January 1, 2021. You can see it here. In it, each day I write one post, of greater or shorter length, that summarizes the key, world-changing events of one year of the past half-millennium, starting in 1520. My output in this project can also be viewed here. I may also blog about current events or other topics...

Archive by Month

About

This edition of JWN, launched in 2019, is a resurrection of the historic "Just World News" blog that writer and analyst Helena Cobban maintained from early 2003 through late 2010, and sporadically thereafter. The content of the "vintage", pre-2019 JWN can be found here.

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How to print JWN content

I'm a big believer in print and was happy to find a simple way to convert the JWN blog posts to a good (and customizable) print format. To learn how to do this, click here.

Other “Just World” Projects

Just World Books, LLC →, is the book-publishing company that I founded in 2010 and still head. Not currently accepting any new submissions but keeping our existing 38 titles in print and available!

Just World Educational →, the small but feisty educational nonprofit that some colleagues and I founded in late 2015. Check it out!