The Intercept
October 10, 2014
(This article was co-authored with Laura Poitras.)
The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by ...
The Intercept
October 3, 2014
America’s forever war has come to this — the front lawn of the White House may become a kill zone. That’s crazier than whatever prompted Iraq war veteran Omar J. Gonzalez to jump the fence on Pennsylvania Avenue two weeks ago, running for the Oval Office.
The Secret ...
The Intercept
September 10, 2014
Beheading is barbaric. The men of the Islamic State who executed James Foley and Steve Sotloff are monsters. Yet their monstrosity does not fully explain our fury over their beheading videos, or the exhortations we have heard to not share or distribute the harrowing ...
Outside Magazine
August 25, 2014
In the 1970s and 1980s, Texaco extracted more than a billion barrels of oil from the Ecuadorean rainforest but spilled an estimated 400,000. In 1993, locals filed a class action against the company. That case is ongoing—it’s a legal version of the Amazon, serpentine ...
Bronx, NY
I am leading a writing workshop from 10 am-4 pm on June 7 at the Bronx Documentary Center. We will focus on structure and description in literary reportage. Advance registration required; please click here for details.
New York, NY
Discussion with Honor Moore about writing on war and surveillance. In the Klein Conference Room (Room A510), Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, New York. Sponsored by the School of Writing. Free to New School students, faculty, staff and alumni. Everyone else, $5. ...
The Intercept
March 20, 2014
(This article was co-written with Ryan Gallagher.)
Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order – and this has turned them into unwitting targets of the National Security Agency for simply doing ...
New York, NY
Panelist at 8:55 a.m. with Jane Mayer, Mark Mazzetti, Robert Deitz and Bob Woodward, on the perils of reporting on national security in an era of government surveillance and the prosecution of leakers and reporters. At the Times Center, in the lobby of the New York Times building, ...
The Intercept
March 7, 2014
What if the National Security Agency had its own advice columnist? What would the eavesdroppers ask about?
You don’t need to guess. An NSA official, writing under the pen name “Zelda,” has actually served at the agency as a Dear Abby for spies. Her “Ask Zelda!” ...
