Jonathan M. Katz

A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power—and how its legacies shape our worl…

On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation leas…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - On the last day of Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha's life, it was too cold to run.

When Ban Ki-moon was a child, the United Nations saved his village from a war. Can he save the U.N. from irre…

On Tuesday, Thom Tillis, the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, held off a libertarian c…

Russell Leon works under the cover of darkness as part of a small crew sworn to secrecy. He is a bayakou, a m…

At the far southeastern tip of Haiti, just outside the border town of Anse-à-Pitres, there was a farm. When t…

SALISBURY, N.C. - With hymns and prayers for answers, family and friends gathered at a North Carolina church …

RALEIGH, N.C. - Henry Lee McCollum had barely slept in days, terrified that his dream of 31 years - being rel…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.- On October 30, the day after Superstorm Sandy soaked thousands of homes with a two-story…

On Jan. 12, 2010 Jonathan Katz was the only American reporter working full time in Haiti. One year after the …

It began as a rumor that farmers saw waste from a U.N. peacekeeping base flow into a river. Within days of th…

In Bursey's case, the government contended that on Oct. 24, 2002, the protected zone encompassed an intersect…