Howard LaFranchi has been the Monitor's diplomacy correspondent in DC since 2001. Previously, he spent 12 years as a reporter in the field; serving five years as the Monitor's Paris bureau chief from 1989 to 1994, and as a Latin America correspondent in Mexico City from 1994 to 2001. LaFranchi has continued to travel as diplomacy correspondent and covered the Iraq War from the Monitor's Baghdad bureau on numerous occasions.Prior to joining the Monitor, LaFranchi worked as the City Hall reporter for the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley Journalism School and has a Masters Degree in Journalism from Boston University.
Stories by Howard LaFranchi
- Ukraine’s Pokrovsk was about to fall to Russia 2 months ago. It’s hanging on.
- Ukraine’s jittery new reality: ‘Work with Trump and hope for the best’
- The Trump-Harris worldview divide: Fly solo, or with allies?
- Cover Story ‘I eat the elite for breakfast!’ Argentina’s Javier Milei wants radical disruption.
- Hamas leader’s death revives hopes for a Gaza peace plan. Is that enough?
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