Kathryn Bolkovac was a police officer in Lincoln, Nebraska when she signed up to help keep the peace in Bosnia in 1998. DynCorp, the military contractor that hired Bolkovac, was working in Bosnia to do everything from keep airbases in shape to running mess halls. Bolkovac worked with other Americans to train local law enforcement officers, some of whom she had to teach how to drive. But that wasn’t the hardest part of her time abroad. Below, Bolkovac, author with Cari Lynn of The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman’s Fight for Justice, explains how she discovered human trafficking operations, what she did about it, and whether, ten years later, whistleblowers have it any better than she did.
, chats with Zócalo about her early years in Abu Dhabi, the rise of the city, and whether it’ll still be standing in 200 years.
, Philipps tells the story of a how a few returning soldiers who witnessed the worst of war ended up in prison. Below, he chats with Zócalo about what happens when the war comes home.
, chats with Zócalo about where the field has gone, the biological differences between gay and straight men and women, how bisexuality differs among men and women, and what his research means for political and religious beliefs about homosexuality.
