Author: David King

2012 WPI Fellow

Australia


Posts by David King:

On Oasis for Democrats

Published at The Australian online, September 6BOOKER welcomes me to the Oasis and wanders barefoot through the space. She points out the restaurant, the lounge, the meditation centre and the yoga studio. We stop for a while at the “lyfe kitchen” and check...

Farmers suffer in extreme drought

Keith Martz surveys the corn at his farm in bluegrass Iowa, where drought has hurt this year’s crop.PUBLISHED IN THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER, SEPTEMBER 3KEITH Martz is the fourth generation of his family to toil in the fields of Bluegrass, Iowa, and the drought...

The antidote to Miami’s vice

A LOT of things are available in Miami. I took a short walk from the hotel and every kind of vice was on offer. Strip joints, video rooms, bong shops, hookah, bars, restaurants, clothes, jewellery. Whatever your pleasure. It’s here. And more often than not...

In Boston looking for the real Romney

Martin Baron has been the top editor of The Boston Globe for 11 years and during that time has become a close observer of Mitt Romney.Romney was governor of Massachusetts for four of those years (2003–2007) and also ran an unsuccessful senate race in that...