The New Republic Online | April 27, 2001
Dennis Tito is the Neil Armstrong of our time.
The Washington Post | March 26, 2001
The New Republic Online | March 7, 2001
Race and free speech at the Daily Californian.
Brill's Content | March 2001
Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic understood the power of propaganda and did his best to control the media. But his failure to silence the U.S.-supported radio station B-92 was emblematic of the war he lost to control the country.
The Atlantic Monthly | February 2001
Writers in post-Milosevic Yugoslavia discover that angst no longer sells.
Details | January 2001
Inside a roiling soccer stadium in Belgrade, old hostilities ignite an afternoon of bloody jubilation, steel-toed kicks, and broken teeth.
The Washington Post | December 24, 2000
This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria. By Karl Maier
Talk | December 2000
Hussein Aideed was counting potholes in Southern California when he was drafted to replace his father as leader of one of Somalia’s most feared militias. As Aideed is learning, life as a tribal chieftain isn’t what it used to be.
The New York Times | October 24, 2000
The New York Times Magazine | October 22, 2000
The former opposition leader and new mayor of Belgrade, Milan Protic, explains one of his postrevolution mandates: clean up the streets already.
The New Yorker | October 16, 2000
Talk of the Town
The New Republic | October 2, 2000
Tennis helps bring Somalia’s dead capital back to life.
Slate | October 2000
Five days in Serbia’s turbulent capital.
San Jose Mercury News | October 1, 2000
Brill's Content | September 2000
As demand for war footage to air on the network news heats up, more journalists are taking chances in dangerous situations — and for two of them, the risks proved fatal.
The Washington Post | August 27, 2000
Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda. By Scott Peterson
Outside | July 2000
They fly into lands of hunger and madness, dispensing food while warlords dispense terror from the barrel of a gun. They trade safety and comfort for the sharp edge of altruism, predictable careers for the daily bread of death and disease. They’re relief workers on the front lines–and once they’re hooked, they can never go home again.
The New Republic | June 12, 2000
North Korea opens up.
Talk | June 2000
At Duke University, researchers are testing a time-honored and potentially explosive premise: that prayer, even from the other side of the world, can actually help heal the sick.
The New Republic | March 13, 2000
An Islamic militia gains ground in Somalia.
George | December 1999
For more than a decade, photographer James Nachtwey has chronicled the war zones of the world—Rwanda, Bosnia and Chechnya among them. Now, a new book, Inferno, brings us his vision of hell on earth.
Talk | December 1999
Tijana Mandic was the therapist of choice for Belgrade’s cultural elite. Then a war-scarred veteran came under her care, and the horror of his battles in the Balkans began to haunt her dreams.
The New York Times Magazine | September 26, 1999
Star Wars missile defense: the sequel.
Talk | September 1999
Isaac Tigrett wants to do good. But can he do well?
Outside | July 1999
There, up there in the Arizona sky! It’s the cream of the once-mighty Soviet machine! Now pulling G’s at an airport near you.
George | June 1999
The war in Yugoslavia is so complicated that it’s sometimes hard to tell the players without a scorecard. Well, here it is—a list of the Balkans’ bad guys.
The New York Times | May 31, 1999
The New York Times | May 3, 1999
George | April 1999
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has New York under his thumb, and he’s become one of the GOP’s rising stars. But as Giuliani ponders his next move, New Yorkers are starting to rebel against his rough-and-tumble tactics.
The Washington Post | February 21, 1999
In the Cellar. By Jan Philipp Reemtsma
