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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.
Guatemala
3 November 2005
Swept away
Rebuilding after Hurricane Stan
Central America
tags: The Economist
Hurricane Wilma
27 October 2005
Battered by the storm
A long, expensive clean-up from Mexico to Florida
with additional reporting from Havana and Miami
Face value
13 October 2005
The master builder
How Lorenzo Zambrano built a global leader from modest origins in Mexico
Poverty in Latin America
15 September 2005
New thinking about an old problem
Cash transfers, with strings attached, are a better way of helping the poor than many previous social programmes, as experience in Brazil and Mexico shows
with Brooke Unger
Mexican-American relations
25 August 2005
Cross-border, cross-purposes
Markets for drugs and migrants collide with political grandstanding WITH JOHN ANDREWS
Mexico’s presidential race gets underway
13 August 2005
The underdogs bare their teeth
The front-runners have challengers snapping at their heels
Central America
4 August 2005
Nothing’s free in this world
What to expect from the Central American Free Trade Agreement
Central America
tags: The Economist
The Panama Canal
21 July 2005
Tight squeeze
Expansion plans hit political problems
Central America
tags: The Economist
Nicaragua
14 July 2005
Searching for a new combo
Outsiders challenge a deadlock
Central America
tags: The Economist
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