Author: Peter Maass
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 1983, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, I went to Brussels as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. I left the Journal in 1985 to write for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering NATO and the European Union. In 1987 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I wrote primarily for The Washington Post. After three years in Asia I moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Post.
The Ejection of Tucker Carlson Is a Classic “Reverse Ferret” by Rupert Murdoch
The Intercept
April 29, 2023
It’s been a lifetime since Fox News offloaded Tucker Carlson, and when I say a lifetime, I mean six days.
It feels like forever thanks to the exhausting velocity of theories that seek to explain the downfall of cable television’s most famous host and racist. Carlson ...
Dominion Was Never Going to Save Our Democracy From Fox News
The Intercept
April 18, 2023
Will private equity save American democracy?
That question, which has lurked behind the defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed against Fox News, was answered today in an unsurprising fashion: no.
Fox and Dominion reached a $787.5 million settlement just moments ...
In Pentagon Leak, the Problem Is What’s Classified, Not What Gets Out
The Intercept
April 13, 2023
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Americans Don’t Care About the Iraqi Dead. They Don’t Even Care About Their Own.
The Intercept
March 18, 2023
IF YOU WRITE a 4,500-word article about a 20-year war, you might want to mention how many people were killed.
While that seems obvious, Max Boot, an energetic backer of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, has written a lengthy ...
Trump’s Last Defense Secretary Has Regrets, but Not About Jan. 6
The Intercept
March 11, 2023
WHEN BUREAUCRATS GET big promotions, they tend to receive congratulations from their friends, but after Christopher Miller landed the biggest job of his life, his wife and some of his colleagues were horrified.
It was November 9, 2020, the day President Donald Trump fired ...
U.S. Military Vets in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
The Intercept
Jan. 20, 2023
A month after Russia invaded Ukraine last February, a private American organization with an unusual name — the Mozart Group — was created to train Ukrainian soldiers who were scrambling to the front lines with little preparation. Initially composed of a handful of ...
It’s Easy to Write a Memoir About War – but Hard to Write an Anti-War Memoir
The Intercept
Jan. 8, 2023
War is hell, we hear that all the time. If the cliché is true, another one is too: Depictions of war’s brutality can entice people to seek it out.
The 9/11 wars have yielded a bumper crop of books and films about U.S. soldiers that often have the ...
Not a Joke, the Pentagon Wants to Name a Warship the USS Fallujah
The Intercept
Dec. 17, 2022
If you need to unite a hundred bickering historians of the Middle East, you could ask them to identify the Iraqi city that suffered the greatest amount of violence at the hands of the U.S. military. They would all say “Fallujah.”
Fallujah is where, just ...
America’s 9/11 Wars Created the Foot Soldiers of Far-Right Violence at Home
The Intercept
Nov. 6, 2022
Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most aggressive generals of his generation, and after his military service ended in a bitter fashion, he went home to Tennessee and found a new way to fight. A defeated general in the Confederate army, Forrest joined the Ku Klux Klan ...