David Morse is a freelance journalist, poet and author of the novel The Iron Bridge. His most recent articles and essays have appeared online in Counterpunch, Moth​er​Jones​.com, Salon and TomDis​patch​.com. Morse can be reached through his website, David​-Morse​.com. He is currently working on a book about Sudan, which he has written widely about with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund.