The Big Money | September 22, 2009
Are petro-execs intrinsically more corrupt than other businessmen?
Foreign Policy | September 8, 2009
It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil — and the people and places that make it — was my obsession.
Slate | July 18, 2008
What “Generation Kill” Gets Right About Iraq
Slate | June 24, 2008
Hint: It’s probably not Robert Mugabe
The New York Times Magazine | December 22, 2007
How the scarcity of oil may be making our antibribery laws obsolete.
Outside | March 2007
Alan Dershowitz, meet Steven Donziger. On behalf of 30,000 inhabitants of Ecuador’s remote Oriente region, this New York lawyer is putting it to Big Oil. But will his multi-billion-dollar lawsuit establish a global precedent—or is he just looking for a scapegoat for one of the nastiest messes on earth?
The New York Times Magazine | October 22, 2006
The risky maneuverings on the Korean peninsula
The New York Times Magazine | December 18, 2005
The New York Times Magazine | August 21, 2005
Saudi Arabia, soaring demand and the theory of peak oil.
The New York Times Magazine | May 1, 2005
The counterinsurgency is increasingly being waged by former elite troops of Saddam Hussein’s army, with guidance from a U.S. adviser who in the 80’s commanded the Special Forces in El Salvador. It’s not a pretty campaign.
The New Republic | January 31, 2005
Dispatch from the Niger Delta
Mother Jones | January 2005
How the pursuit of oil is propping up the West African dictatorship of Teodoro Obiang.
Popular Science | October 2004
An ode to the Thuraya 7101 Satphone.
Los Angeles Times | August 15, 2004
The Stone Fields: An Epitah for the Living. By Courtney Angela Brkic
The New York Times Magazine | August 2, 2004
This is a bad time to be a big-spending Russian oil billionaire. But Vagit Alekperov has figured out how to beat the system — you just play by Putin’s rules.
Gizmodo | May 3, 2004
A War Correspondent’s Digital Gear
The New York Times Magazine | January 11, 2004
Major John Nagl was a leading military scholar on how to fight a resistance. But could he make his ideas work on the ground in Iraq?
War: USA, Afghanistan, Iraq | January 2004
The New Republic | December 22, 2003
On North Korea, the United States needs an alternative to the hawks’ belligerent rhetoric and the doves’ optimistic engagement. Fortunately, one is available.
The New York Times Magazine | December 15, 2002
Ideas of 2002
The New York Times Magazine | December 14, 2003
The New York Times Magazine | December 14, 2003
New tools for an occupation.
The New York Times Magazine | October 19, 2003
Kim Jong Il, the world’s most dangerous dictator, has always been a figure surrounded by mystery and myth. But, from defectors and former aides, a portrait is emerging of family dysfunction, palace intrigue and imperial menace.
Outside | July 2003
This spring, a quarter of a million Americans took a trip. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn’t come back.
The New York Times Magazine | June 8, 2003
Dathar Khashab had what it took to maneuver his way up through the ranks in Saddam Hussein’s oil bureaucracy. When his new managers showed up wearing U.S.-issue fatigues, he didn’t miss a step.
Slate | June 2, 2003
How do I know Baghdad’s famous blogger exists? He worked for me.
The New York Times | May 11, 2003
The New York Times Magazine | May 11, 2003
Moqtadah al-Sadr wants an Iraq run by God’s laws. But first he has to outsmart his rivals, outmaneuver the Americans and get Iraq’s millions of Shiites behind him.
The New Republic | May 3, 2003
Dispatch from Baghdad
The New York Times Magazine | April 20, 2003
To get to Baghdad, the marines of the Third Battalion fought the old-fashioned way—by shooting as many of the enemy as they could. Their victims weren’t all soldiers.
