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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 campaign: AMLO weakens
20 April 2006
The front-runner under pressure
With his opinion-poll lead wobbling, Andrés Manuel López Obrador has yet to define precisely what sort of change he stands for
Coffee in Central America
30 March 2006
Fair enough
Taking the quality route to survival
Central America
tags: The Economist
Mexico’s presidential campaign: the PRI as kingmaker
23 February 2006
The sinking of a flagship
Could Mexico be heading for a coalition government with the PRI?
Costa Rica
2 February 2006
After the fall
A familiar figure in a troubled country
Central America
tags: The Economist
Mexico and the United States
12 January 2006
Shots across the border
Plans for a border fence spark anger among Mexicans
Criminal gangs in the Americas
5 January 2006
Out of the underworld
Numerous, mysterious, and now spreading fast in the United States
Criminal gangs in the Americas
5 January 2006
Out of the underworld
Numerous, mysterious, and now spreading fast in the United States
Central America
tags: The Economist
Retiring Americans
24 November 2005
Go south, old man
The gringos are moving where the living is easy
Mexico and Venezuela
17 November 2005
War of words
A undiplomatic spat with an electoral sub-text
with additional reporting from Caracas
Mexico’s trade unions
10 November 2005
Unreformed, unrepresentative
Relatively few Mexicans join a union but their bosses still wield great power