FREE AT LAST. Reporter Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped in Baghdad on Jan. 7, was freed, apparently unharmed, by her captors today. The A.P. has the details. Her parents and friends are, needless to say, elated. “I don’t know whether to cry or skip down my street,” Jackie Spinner told ABC’s Good Morning America, according to the A.P. And Carroll is going to have one heck of a story to write.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.