When I started Latterly magazine back in October 2014, my goal was to send great stories into the world—the kinds of stories you’d talk about with friends, with great characters and lots of drama. But behind those individual narratives are complex and powerful political mechanisms. With Latterly 2.0, which kicked off last month, we’re now peeling back the layers, identifying causes and effects and how you and I fit into the globalized equation.
Our goal at Latterly.org is to give our community stories and information that help us all become more aware and involved global citizens. Whether it’s an update on slavery in Mauritania or military attacks on schoolchildren, Latterly foregoes what’s “trending” in favor of what’s consequential. We show you how individual actions or inactions in one country can change lives in another. In short, we want to make the world better, and we want to give you the tools to join the cause.
To that end, we’re announcing a new cooperation with Project Syndicate, a nonprofit organization that believes, like we do, that ideas should spread as far as possible and transcend divisions of culture, class and language. Project Syndicate partners with nearly 500 publications in more than 150 countries to distribute commentaries on human rights, economics, politics and more. In the next few days, you’ll start seeing commentaries from people at the forefront of global progress — heads of NGOs, field workers, perhaps even Nobel laureates and heads of state.
As we publish these commentaries, we’ll invite you to join a conversation about them on Facebook and Twitter. And we’d love to know what you think about Project Syndicate and Latterly and whether this collaboration is something you’d like us to continue. Send us an email at hello@latterlymagazine.com.
Things are getting exciting around here. Thanks for staying with me.
—Ben Wolford, editor
