Chris HedgesChris Hedges has been a foreign correspondent for fifteen years. He joined the staff of ""The New York Times"" in 1990 and previously worked for ""The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, "" and National Public Radio. He holds a B.A. i English literature from Colgate University and a master of divinity from Harvard University. He is lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Hedges was a member of ""The New York Times"" team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He is the author of ""War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, "" which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in New York City. Read More Read Less