Johanna Berkman
Investigative Journalist at Freelance
Writer at Large @airmail plus stories in @thecut @tabletmag @nytimes @nymag etc.
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1 month ago |
thefp.com | Johanna Berkman
It’s a quarter past one in the afternoon in Dallas when I meet bearded billionaire Ben Lamm, the 43-year-old denim-jacketed CEO of Colossal Biosciences, who claims to have reintroduced dire wolves into the world after more than 10,000 years of extinction. The three animals, it turns out, are currently living, Truman Show–like, in a 2,000-acre enclosure in an undisclosed location, under round-the-clock surveillance.
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2 months ago |
thefp.com | Johanna Berkman
LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxembourg — It’s a bitterly cold day in the Low Country of Luxembourg. So when James Damore opens the door to a seventeenth-century cathedral, offering it up as a kind of refuge, I fall in line behind his gangly footsteps and follow him inside. “I like noncommercial spaces,” he whispers softly, as we shuffle through the soaring Notre-Dame de Luxembourg. The cathedral is dark, lit mostly by stained glass windows and dozens of candles at the altar.
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Feb 3, 2025 |
thefp.com | Johanna Berkman
She Stood Up for the Truth. Then the UN Fired Her. Why was Alice Nderitu, the UN’s former special adviser on the prevention of genocide, ‘bullied and hounded’ out of her job? Johanna Berkman reports.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
airmail.news | Johanna Berkman
Last November, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres declined to renew the contract of U.N. Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu, who did not label Israel’s war against Hamas a genocide, even while other U.N. officials have either done so or released reports which make this claim.
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Aug 9, 2024 |
airmail.news | Johanna Berkman
On September 13, 1993, keffiyeh-clad P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat and silver-haired Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Accords, shaking hands on the White House lawn with President Bill Clinton standing between them. Their agreement, which promised to bring Palestinian self-governance to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, was hailed as a historic step toward peace in the region. But not everyone was rejoicing.
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RT @TheFP: Matt James, @Colossal’s chief animal officer: The de-extincted woolly mammoth is “on pace for a late 2028 first birth.” https://…
RT @TheFP: After a start-up claimed to have de-extincted a species, the internet called BS. But the founders insist it’s real—and the wooll…
RT @TheFP: Is the dire wolf truly back from the dead? @Johanna_Berkman speaks with @BenLamm, the 43-year-old CEO of @Colossal, who claims…