The New Yorker
March 2025
For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling it.
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The New York Times Magazine
November 2023
Some Ukrainians helped the Russians. Their neighbors sought revenge.
February 2023
The government prosecuted Brian Lemley for threats, not violence. Is that what it takes to fight far right extremism?
September 2022
The defining atrocity of the Ukraine War.
May 2022
The Ukraine War reached Kharkiv as soon as it began. The human toll was immeasurable, but the Russians never took the city.
January 2022
The prospect of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has drawn the world’s attention back to the eight-year-old secessionist rebellion in the Donbas: a deadlocked, time-warped conflict with no end in sight.
December 2020
When the Trump campaign tried to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania, Al Schmidt found himself trapped between his party and his principles.
August 2020
Roberto Primero Luis set out across the U.S.-Mexico border last year as Guatemalan migrants had for generations. But the crossing has changed.
Wired
October 2019
Mechanized combat and photography grew up together. In the Iraqi city of Mosul, they merged.
July 2017
In October, Iraqi forces set out to retake Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities and ISIS’s biggest stronghold in the country. It would take them nine months and cost thousands of lives.
November 2016
With the Kurdish peshmerga on the road to Mosul.
National Geographic
October 2016
As Iraqi and coalition forces invade Mosul, the last ISIS stronghold in Iraq, the grim details of the extremist group’s rule come to light.
June 2016
The International Criminal Court embodied the hope of bringing warlords and demagogues to justice. Then Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo took on the heir to Kenya’s most powerful political dynasty.
April 2016
“Where there are people, there is conflict,” a Burundian saying goes. It has been relevant in this tiny Francophone country for as long as most of its inhabitants can remember.
The Atavist
October 2015
Tom Catena is the only surgeon for thousands of square miles in southern Sudan. His hospital, and his life, are constantly under threat. There is no end to the carnage he must treat, and no sign of it letting up. Why does he refuse to leave?
April 2015
When pirates captured a cargo ship, its crew faced one desperate choice after another.
October 2014
How the world’s youngest nation descended into civil war.
Slate
June 2014
The Central African Republic’s sectarian civil war has divided a once peaceful nation, and pitted brother against brother.
April 2014
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the genocide, Rwandan villagers try to forgive the unforgivable.
March 2014
The UN allowed its troops to attack armed groups in Congo, which led to the defeat of the vicious M23 militia. But the battle for Africa’s heartland is far from over.
February 2014
There were the lovers: Louis, a paratrooper-turned-archaeologist, and Nancy, a travel writer, wife of a CIA division chief. Then there was the place: Kabul, Afghanistan, in the 1960s.
November 2013
A bloody insurgency tears at the heart of Africa’s most populous nation.
October 2013
Nairobi’s Indians showed extraordinary courage during the Westgate mall attack.
Departures
By 30, he was the sound of Dakar, the most listened-to musician in Africa. Now he’s mulling a run for the presidency of Senegal.
September 2013
When I arrived Saturday afternoon in the mall’s parking lot, policemen, AK-47s and pistols drawn, were running around, speaking into walkie-talkies. The crowd of journalists and onlookers was growing.
“Then I heard the sound,” she said. “PAH! There were three shots.”
Foreign Policy
March 2013
What Africa can learn from Austria’s Nazi legacy.
In Kenya’s contested election, the tortured past of family dynasty is alive but not quite well.
February 2013
In Kenya, politics is the continuation of war by other means.
Kenyan candidates are referred to in the British manner, as aspirants, but they study American campaigns, so the country’s first-ever televised presidential debate was a slick production.
January 2013
Will total war in Sudan ever cease?
December 2012
Will Kenya’s invasion of Somalia put an end to al-Shabab?
The tunnels of Gaza are a lifeline of the underground economy but also a death trap. For many Palestinians, they have come to symbolize ingenuity and the dream of mobility.
November 2012
How did 1,000 militiamen in rubber boots conquer a city of 1 million people in a matter of hours?
How Afghanistan’s Che Guevara still haunts the country.
Welcome to the deadliest city in the deadliest country in the world.
How virtual singer Hatsune Miku became a star.
July 2012
In Mexico, it’s taken as fact that the United States is backing the drug cartels.
Nolan’s films are contests with rules and phases, gambits and defenses, many losers and the occasional victor, usually a Pyrrhus type.
Washington Monthly
By giving a reprieve to 800,000 undocumented immigrants, the president put out a fire of his own making. How Obama’s immigration enforcement policies got away from him.
June 2012
In the late 1970s, in primordial downtown Manhattan, Talking Heads sonified longing and regret.
May 2012
Suddenly, self-immolation is everywhere.
Grantland
January 2012
A look at the always-changing prizefighter.
October 2011
A surprising new theory for the continuing crime decline among black Americans.
September 2011
For years, even Israelis have known that Palestine is a state.
August 2011
A deadly gun-running gamble just cost America’s ATF chief his job. But the gun lobby gave him little choice but to try.
July 2011
A Marine who made too much noise, helped save the lives of countless troops in Iraq, and paid with his career.
New York Magazine
May 2011
Seemingly overnight, Saif Qaddafi became a new man: not the deliverer his supporters had hoped but someone indistinguishable from his father.
February 2011
The father was an Oscar-winning songwriter. The son, a college dropout bon vivant. Their alleged crimes: serial sexual assault and a murder in a hotel bathtub.
Boston Globe Ideas
November 2010
Barack Obama isn’t the new Jimmy Carter, but he may be the new (first) Bush
July 2010
Tom Donohue scares millions of dollars out of corporations. Is his U.S. Chamber of Commerce good for business?
June 2010
The unjustly unheralded Michael Winterbottom blurs the line between fiction and documentary.
It takes money, a medical miracle, and a compelling vita to make it as a saint.
Vanity Fair
February 2010
The unlikely life and sudden death of Russia’s angriest newspaper.
The New Republic
June 2009
Meet the Sandinista who runs the U.N. General Assembly.
Fast Company
May 2009
A tech tycoon believes keeping teens off crystal meth is a matter of scary advertising. Could he be right?
Portfolio
June 2008
American demand for drugs provoked the cartel wars in Mexico, and American guns smuggled over the border have made them staggeringly lethal.
December 2007
Knowing your business is big business for Aristotle Inc., whose database of voter records has been an essential campaign tool for every president since Ronald Reagan.
November 2007
The Russian president’s real power comes not from the KGB, but from the oil and gas in his country’s far east.
September 2007
Is Environmental Defense Fund an ecological savior or a corporate stooge?
Men's Vogue
March 2007
Mexican cartels have made marijuana a cash crop worth billions by infiltrating America’s national forests.
June 2006
Arizona’s other maverick.
March 2006
MySpace has become the most popular social-networking site on the Web, a virtual city of sex and youth culture, with its own celebrities, Casanovas, and con artists. Its most unlikely character is its conservative new owner, Rupert Murdoch.
The American Prospect
March 2005
The Port of Los Angeles may be the country’s most attractive target for economic terrorism.
