Laura Gottesdiener

Laura Gottesdiener is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She is the author of A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home, which is published by Zuccotti Park

Two Iraqi peace activists confront a Trumpian world

As the Trump administration weighs war, Iraqis prepare a carnival for peace

By Laura Gottesdiener

/ 21 Jun 2019

Two Iraqi peace activists confront a Trumpian world

The angel of death

On 3 October, an American AC-130 gunship “mistakenly struck” a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz. Why were we not told?

By Tom Engelhardt and Laura Gottesdiener

/ 19 Nov 2015

Is laughter the best medicine for monopoly capitalism?

When the New York Public Library hosted an event with Mexican business-philanthropist Carlos Slim, the night got a whole lot funnier when 50 people staged a laugh-in. This is the third in our series of articles about the role of money in the transformation of society.

By Laura Gottesdiener

/ 25 Feb 2014