Indira A. R. Lakshmanan
National Geographic
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Indira:
Angelina Jolie embraces bees—and female beekeepers as environmental guardians
The film star and humanitarian talks about training women to care for bees in UNESCO biosphere reserves...and about the bee that got under her dress. → Read More
WWII’s brutality still haunts the children who survived it
75 years later, a writer recalls the horrors her mother suffered—and how she’s faced them. → Read More
Indira Lakshmanan on NPR 1A's Global Friday News Roundup — December 14, 2018
Executive editor Indira Lakshmanan was a guest on NPR 1A with global affairs correspondent for CNN Elise Labott and national security reporter for The Wall Street Journal Nancy Youssef, where they discussed the week's news from Brexit to Time's Person of the Year. → Read More
Trump and Chinese Tariffs: How Not to Make a Deal
Trump’s (mis)understanding of the most rudimentary rules of trade and foreign policy has him wielding a blunt cudgel where a sophisticated tool is needed. → Read More
Indira Lakshmanan on ITV News: Woodward's Book, Trump White House
ITV News interviewed Indira Lakshmanan in a report on Bob Woodward's book Fear: Trump in the White House and its impact on the Trump administration. → Read More
Finally some good news: Trust in news is up, especially for local media
Trust in media is up since last year, and the great majority of Americans trust their local news sources. → Read More
Can journalists counteract hatred toward the press? It starts with explaining what we do.
The murder of five employees of an Annapolis, Maryland newspaper by a reader nursing a years-long grudge over a story on his criminal con → Read More
With the press under assault, the stakes are too high for journalists to fail on basic ethics
Seizing a reporter’s communications is unacceptable. So is the failure of ethical journalism. → Read More
It’s the law, stupid, and other lessons from the EPA press blackout debacle
In the past two days, the Environmental Protection Agency barred some reporters - perhaps illegally - from a summit on toxic chemicals li → Read More
Nixing it won’t fix it: Why scrapping the Iran deal is delusional and dangerous
At the precipice of his Hamlet moment, Donald Trump seems blind to the consequences of leaping into the void. → Read More
With few cards to play, does Kim Jong Un hold the trumps?
Donald Trump may have met his match in the North Korean leader. → Read More
The Washington Post won a Pulitzer for fighting “fake news” with facts
If there were a Pulitzer for journalism ethics, it would go to the Washington Post for radical transparency of its rigorous reporting exp → Read More
John Bolton and Trump National Security 3.0: Does the reboot even matter?
Will President Trump’s new team make a difference to how the president approaches the world? → Read More
Why Sinclair’s promos were a journalism ethics train wreck
If you’re in media or a news junkie, you’ve probably heard more in the past week about Sinclair Broadcast Group than in your entire life → Read More
Why off-the-record is a trap reporters should avoid
Let’s talk about “off-the-record” — what it is, what it isn’t, why it’s a bad convention that’s antithetical to what we do as journalists → Read More
Trump’s North Korea gamble: Crazy, or crazy like a fox?
Trump’s strategy comes with serious risks. → Read More
After ex-Trump aide Nunberg's cable odyssey, some sober assessments
Sam Nunberg, a former aide in the Trump campaign who was fired in 2015, touched off a → Read More
Why did USA Today lend its pages to a conspiracy theorist who just got banned by YouTube?
Jerome Corsi, the Washington bureau chief for the fringe media outlet Infowars, was → Read More
What journalists can learn from the Parkland teens
I graduated from school years ago and so did most of you, but boy, we have a lot to learn from the teenage survivors of the massacre at Marjory Sto → Read More
We’ve been schooled by the Parkland students
The teens haven’t resigned themselves to “business as usual.” They’re taking on the swamp of money in politics. → Read More