Lauren Wolfe

Lauren Wolfe is an award-winning journalist who also teaches at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

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Pedestrians stand next to a New Year's decoration stylized as the "Kremlin Star," bearing a letter "Z," a tactical insignia of Russian troops in Ukraine, in Moscow.
Pedestrians stand next to a New Year's decoration stylized as the "Kremlin Star," bearing a letter "Z," a tactical insignia of Russian troops in Ukraine, in Moscow.

Russia Is Afraid of Western Psychic Attacks

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Lauren Wolfe
The sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 21, 2012 at the United Nations office in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
The sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 21, 2012 at the United Nations office in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)

U.N. Sexual Assault Investigations Die in Darkness

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Lauren Wolfe
Refugees arriving from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios in 2016. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)
Refugees arriving from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios in 2016. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)

The Trump Administration Wants Refugees to Fit In or Stay Out

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Lauren Wolfe
Syrians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following reported air strikes by regime forces in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, on August 30, 2015. More than 240,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011, and half of the country's population has been displaced by the war. AFP PHOTO / ABD DOUMANY / AFP / ABD DOUMANY (Photo credit should read ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images)
Syrians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following reported air strikes by regime forces in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, on August 30, 2015. More than 240,000 people have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011, and half of the country's population has been displaced by the war. AFP PHOTO / ABD DOUMANY / AFP / ABD DOUMANY (Photo credit should read ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images)

There Are No Real ‘Safe Zones’ and There Never Have Been

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Lauren Wolfe
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What It Takes to Get an Alleged Mass Rapist and 67 Militiamen Arrested in Congo

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Lauren Wolfe
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Congo’s Soccer Players Get Cars. Its Rape Victims Get Nothing.

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Lauren Wolfe
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The U.N. Is Not Serious About Its Peacekeeper Rape Problem

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Lauren Wolfe
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When War and Weather Conspire

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Lauren Wolfe
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The Worst of All Horrors

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Lauren Wolfe
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Refugees in Their Own Homeland

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Lauren Wolfe
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A Miserable Mystery in Congo

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Lauren Wolfe
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Not Monsters, but Men

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Lauren Wolfe
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Suffocating Congo’s War

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John Prendergast, Sasha Lezhnev, Lauren Wolfe
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How Dodd-Frank Is Failing Congo

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Lauren Wolfe
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Doctors Without Scruples

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Lauren Wolfe
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