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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.
Crime in Mexico
25 January 2007
The tough get going
The new president has sent the army after the drug mobs. More importantly, he has started to reform the police
Cuba’s doctors
25 January 2007
Dr Diplomat
Exporting medicine and influence
The Caribbean
tags: The Economist
Nicaragua
11 January 2007
‘Twixt Washington and Caracas
Daniel Ortega’s balancing act
Central America
tags: The Economist
Cuba and Fidel Castro
4 January 2007
Spellbound
Uncertainties over Fidel Castro’s health continue to cloud the island’s future
The Caribbean
tags: The Economist
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?