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I edited and wrote part of a short book published by New America in July 2015 and freely available online, about how drones are being used in new ways around the world. It's meant to be useful to people who want to fly drones.The Pioneer Detectives
I published a short book with The Millions.
It's the story of the Pioneer Anomaly, a long-standing mystery. The book is short and fun—the length of a novella—but also, in the words of Amazon's reviewer, "powerful and sad". If you've got any curiosity about how NASA works behind the scenes or why scientists believe what they do, I think you'll enjoy the book.
It is available on Amazon as a Kindle Single and also on Apple's iBooks.Drone Wars
I wrote a chapter on the long history of drone technology going back to the early 20th century in this edited Cambridge University Press volume.
Mexico’s presidential race gets underway
13 August 2005
The underdogs bare their teeth
The front-runners have challengers snapping at their heels
The rise of Enrique Pena Nieto
7 July 2005
Money, the machine and the man
A key state election shows how Mexico’s formerly ruling party could seize back the presidency next year
Bankruptcy
7 July 2005
Round and round
A cross-border battle over a bankrupt Mexican satellite provider
Drugs and violence in Mexico
30 June 2005
The war on the border streets
Americans’ demand for illegal drugs has created powerful crime syndicates in Mexico. The country’s police, only partly reformed, struggle to keep up
Mexico, the US, and Drugs
16 June 2005
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Drug violence on the Mexican border
The triumphs and travails of Ricardo Salinas Pliego
2 June 2005
Going South
A Mexican tycoon quits New York
Marta Fox
12 May 2005
Accursed Chronicles
When a libel suit by the president’s wife signals more press freedom, not less
Mexico’s elections: AMLO is in
5 May 2005
The race is on
Voters will now have to judge Mr López Obrador as a candidate, not a martyr