John Aloysius Farrell is foreign policy correspondent for GlobalPost. Farrell is an award-winning reporter who has served as a Washington editor, senior national political correspondent and White House reporter for the Boston Globe, and as Washington bureau chief and columnist for the Denver Post. He is a contributing editor to US News & World Report, and the author of "Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century," and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.