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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.
Ecuador and the United States
19 December 2006
Your base or mine?
A looming fight over the drug war
South America
tags: The Economist
Correspondent’s Diary: Havana
15 December 2006
Now we make politics
Our correspondent enjoys the twilight of Castro’s Cuba Web only
The Caribbean
tags: The Economist
Felipe Calderón takes office
7 December 2006
Amid the tumult, a voice of authority
A solid if unspectacular start for the president of a divided country
Mexican banking
23 November 2006
Underwear and overdrafts
Retailers, including Wal-Mart, aim to offer bank accounts to Mexico’s poor
Guatemala and crime
16 November 2006
Impunity rules
The gruesome cost of a failure to reform
Central America
tags: The Economist
Nicaragua’s elections
9 November 2006
Fasten your seat belts
The test of Daniel Ortega’s claim that he is a reformed character will be whether he can mix Venezuelan aid with American investment
Central America
tags: The Economist
Nicaragua’s elections
8 November 2006
The old leader returns
Daniel Ortega will be Nicaragua’s president again Web only
Central America
tags: The Economist
Nicaragua’s elections
2 November 2006
Who’s afraid of Daniel Ortega?
An election with much historical baggage and a familiar front runner attracts more outside meddling than it deserves
Central America
tags: The Economist
The Panama Canal
19 October 2006
The voters and the ships
Easing a bottleneck of world trade depends on persuading Panamanians that the arithmetic of an ambitious canal expansion adds up
Central America
tags: The Economist
Mexico’s long Presidential election draws to a close
12 October 2006
Chemical reaction
The end of the line for Andrés Manuel López Obrador?
Mexico’s presidential election nears resolution
21 September 2006
The left cannot hold
Mr López Obrador’s campaign of “civil resistance” starts to fizzle
Mexico’s presidential election: result
7 September 2006
Game, set and matches
Felipe Calderón is proclaimed president-elect, but will the loser give in?
Mexico’s presidential election: in limbo
31 August 2006
The court v the street
Felipe Calderón moves a step closer to the presidency but his opponent threatens to make Mexico ungovernable
Demonstrations in Mexico
27 July 2006
Learning by not doing
A teachers’ strike in a poor state has wider implications
Mexico’s presidential election: Tie?
20 July 2006
Uncivilly resistant
The loser looks unlikely ever to concede defeat
Mexico’s elections
13 July 2006
A nation awaits
With court challenges under way, a clear winner looks unlikely before September
Mexico’s presidential election: down to the wire
6 July 2006
The closest of victories
Felipe Calderón, a business-friendly conservative, seems likely to be the next president. Try convincing the loser of that
Mexico’s election: What is at stake
29 June 2006
Six years of refried beans, and little confidence of better to come
Mexico’s next president must improve on Vicente Fox’s mixed record
Mexico’s presidential election: coming soon!
8 June 2006
A tie not broken
A fight to the finish on the economy