Opinion Essay Lessons On The Ground In Afghanistan December 19, 2008 • To see the vast depots of destroyed weaponry only an hour's drive outside Kabul should give pause to the policymakers who believe that U.S. might and determination can prevail where others through history — the Persians, the British, the Russians among others — have consistently failed.
NPR Correspondents' Choice Puerto Vallarta: A Modest Taste of Real Mexico April 21, 2008 • You won't find Marisma, a taqueria in Puerto Vallarta, in any guidebook. But nearly every local Vallarteno knows about the simple, side-street stand that serves up some of the city's best fish tacos.
NPR Correspondents' Choice Berlin: A Dining Room with a View December 7, 2007 • A glass and steel dome designed by Sir Norman Foster is the crowning glory of Berlin's Reichstag, or parliament building. But foreign editor Loren Jenkins says there's another reason to go to the Reichstag's roof: the Dachgarten Restaurant.
NPR Correspondents' Choice Havana: Refined Cuban Fare in Homey Atmosphere August 16, 2007 • Paladars are modest restaurants in Cuba run out of private homes or apartments. Foreign editor Loren Jenkins says no paladar on the island offers food as interesting and good as Havana's La Guarida — if you can find its out-of-the-way location.
NPR Correspondents' Choice Tuscany: Friends, Food and Fine Wine at La Chiusa April 23, 2007 • For more than 30 years, foreign editor Loren Jenkins has returned to La Chiusa in the Tuscan hill town of Montefollonico for conviviality and fine Italian cuisine. Try the tasting menu of small plates — and try to stay the night, he advises.
U.S. Troop Fatalities in Iraq Drive for Security in Baghdad Fails to Bring Peace October 31, 2006 • Four months ago the U.S. decided that securing Baghdad was the key to securing Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a massive effort to bring order and security to the capital. But the push to tame Baghdad hasn't succeeded. Violence continues across the city, with U.S. and Iraqi deaths growing. Drive for Security in Baghdad Fails to Bring Peace Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6410212/6410213" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Analysis Analysis Iraq: A Nation at War with Itself June 6, 2006 • NPR senior foreign editor Loren Jenkins, currently serving at NPR's Baghdad bureau, talks with Alex Chadwick about his impressions of Iraq, the state of the government there and recent insurgent violence. Jenkins first reported from Iraq in 1970, before Saddam Hussein came to power, and says the security situation has grown much worse since the U.S.-led invasion three years ago. Iraq: A Nation at War with Itself Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5454137/5454138" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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The Most Secure Corner of Baghdad June 5, 2006 • NPR Senior Foreign Editor Loren Jenkins, who's currently in Baghdad, sent in this observation today: Your correspondent recently came across one small measure to gauge the state of the war in Iraq. Spending half a day getting a press card in the massively fortified Green Zone where the new Iraqi government and the U.S. military and diplomatic commands are hunkered down, he met a U.S. Marine major from Wisconsin who is one of a seven-man unit that is assigned to the old Hussein palace that houses the U.S. Embassy...
Obituaries A Last Blast for Hunter Thompson August 21, 2005 • Celebrities and common folk celebrated the life of journalist Hunter Thompson Saturday night, then cheered as his ashes were loaded into shells and fired into the skies over his ranch outside Aspen. NPR's Loren Jenkins, a close friend, was in attendance. A Last Blast for Hunter Thompson Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4809021/4809022" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Morning Edition In London, Life Goes on Amid New Attacks July 21, 2005 • In London today, explosions struck three Underground stations and a city bus. Police reported one person was injured in the blasts that came two weeks to the day after four explosions in London killed 56 people and injured hundreds. NPR's Loren Jenkins says Londoners are reacting as they do in any emergency, with their usual stoicis. In London, Life Goes on Amid New Attacks Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4764660/4764661" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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War, Remembrance and Rebuilding in Vietnam Looking Back on the Fall of Saigon April 30, 2005 • Thirty years after flying off the roof of the U.S. Embassy, on one of the last helicopters out, NPR's Loren Jenkins recalls the last day of the Vietnam War from downtown Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. Looking Back on the Fall of Saigon Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4625940/4625941" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Opinion War, Remembrance and Rebuilding in Vietnam A Return to Saigon April 29, 2005 • Thirty years ago, American ended its involvement in Vietnam. NPR's foreign editor, who covered the fall of Saigon, went back to see what has happened since and says much remains the same. A Return to Saigon Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4625308/4625309" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Opinion Essay Saigon, The Last Day April 29, 2005 • NPR Senior Foreign Editor Loren Jenkins was a reporter for Newsweek in Saigon when the city fell to the North Vietnamese in late April 1975. He recounts the chaotic final hours at the U.S. Embassy as the last Americans pulled out of Vietnam.
Obituaries Hunter S. Thompson Found Dead at His Home February 21, 2005 • The counter-culture author Hunter Thompson, who popularized a new form of personalized journalism, has died. He was 67. Thompson wrote the 1972 classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the tale of a drug-abusing journalist and his lawyer visiting a motocross race. Hunter S. Thompson Found Dead at His Home Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4507067/4507068" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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An Inaugural Speech to Ponder January 27, 2005 • President George W. Bush's inaugural speech last Thursday was nothing short of a call to arms to liberate the planet from tyrannies, old and new, says NPR Senior Foreign Editor Loren Jenkins.
Day to Day Rocky Road to Restoring Iraq's Sovereignty January 16, 2004 • NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with NPR Foreign Desk chief Loren Jenkins, currently in Baghdad, about the troubled efforts to restore sovereignty to Iraq. Rocky Road to Restoring Iraq's Sovereignty Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1601153/1601154" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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