Category: Blog

This is not a good time to be considered an “enemy combatant.” If you want to know why, click here to read my latest story in The New York Times Magazine.

A few nights ago I saw “Adaptation,” the smartest movie since “Being John Malkovich.” There’s a reason why.

The cost of invading Iraq, according to The Washington Post. No refund from Saudi Arabia this time.

The Bosnian war had its share of unforgettable monsters—Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic come to mind—but the most intriguing (and least notorious) was Nikola Koljevic, a Shakespearean scholar who was an architect of the attempted genocide against Bosnia’s ...  (Read more)

Organizations like United Way can give philanthropy a bad name. This story in The New York Times outlines the deceptive manner in which United Way accounts for the money it receives, and as the Times notes, “Its accounting ...  (Read more)

Bob Woodward’s new book, “Bush at War,” offers more details on the campaign to buy victory in Afghanistan. According to an excerpt in today’s Washington Post, a senior CIA undercover agent, ...  (Read more)

In a story that previews Bob Woodward’s new book, “Bush at War,” The Washington Post reports that the purchase of warlords’ loyalty played a large role in toppling the Taliban from power. ...  (Read more)

It’s not easy competing against John Burns, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes for his overseas reporting. I learned this the hard way, when he was based in Sarajevo for The New York Times in the early 1990s and I was working there for The Washington Post. We nearly got into a fistfight, ...  (Read more)