[2] He was a founder, along with Trin Ostrander, of the Public Interest Clearing House at Hastings College of Law, which is today One Justice, the state-wide organization providing legal services to the rural poor.
When the Post and Times simultaneously broke the story on January 27, 1982, the US government and its allies at the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal dismissed its central claims as exaggerations.
[6] As a result of the controversy, escalated by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times removed Bonner from covering El Salvador and assigned him to the financial desk, and he eventually resigned.
Also as a result of the controversy, according to journalists like Anthony Lewis and Michael Massing writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, "other newspapers worried about looking soft on Communism and toned down their reporting from El Salvador.
..As Massacre Survivors Seek Justice, El Salvador Grapples With 1,000 Ghosts, by Retro Report https://www.retroreport.org/video/as-massacre-survivors-seek-justice-el-salvador-grapples-with-1-000-ghosts Starting years later, Bonner has written on contract for the New York Times, covering the Rwanda genocide, the Bosnian War, and the two terrorist bombings in Bali, Indonesia.
He has also been a regular contributor to ProPublica and the atlantic.com In 2018, Bonner purchased a Bookoccino, a bookstore in Avalon Beach, Australia, about an hour north of Sydney, which was on the verge of closing.
[10] Bonner is the co-founder of OneJustice (formerly Public Interest Clearinghouse), an organization that expands the availability of legal services for Californians in need through innovative partnerships with nonprofits, law schools, and the private sector.