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Drones and Aerial Observation
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
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Remittances to Mexico
11 December 2008
The end of the American dream
The recession up north bites in rural Mexico
The last days of the scribe
20 November 2008
The scribes’ lament
A dying profession in the heart of the city
Nicaragua–midterm elections
13 November 2008
How to steal an election
Daniel Ortega sets an ugly precedent
Honduras and Venezuela
30 October 2008
Zelaya plays the Chávez card
Why Honduras wanted 4m light bulbs
Central America
tags: The Economist
Mexico’s war with the cartels
30 October 2008
Spot the drug trafficker
The arrest of senior officials shows the government’s resolve in fighting drug traffickers-and that the rot in law enforcement reaches the top
Locked in the grid: how we fail each other
1 October 2008
An essay about how the breakdown of civil society in Mexico leads to inefficiency.
Mexico’s lame duck president
4 September 2008
Oh rose, thou art sick
The president faces a long goodbye
The Caribbean and the Olympics
28 August 2008
Champs and chumps
Why Jamaica outpointed Cuba
The Caribbean
tags: The Economist
Nicaragua
14 August 2008
Tearing up the rules
Daniel Ortega bans his foes
Central America
tags: The Economist
Refrigerator factory diary
8 August 2008
Birth of the cool
Notes from The Little Tramp’s stamping ground
Energy reform in Mexico
24 July 2008
Crude and oily
A controversial referendum and the future of the state oil company
Telecoms in Mexico
10 July 2008
Slim’s pickings
More competition should help to drive down exorbitant phone charges
Cuba and the European Union
26 June 2008
Anyone for cocktails?
Outsiders bet that bigger changes are on their way (with Michael Reid in London)
The Caribbean
tags: The Economist
Mexico and the United States
19 June 2008
A wary friendship
Amid bad temper and wounded pride, Mexico and the United States inch towards compromise on a plan to boost the fight against drug crime
Drug violence in Mexico
15 May 2008
Can the army out-gun the drug lords?
Four top police officers, and more than a hundred people, are killed over the course of a single week in drug-related shootings
The Dominican Republic: elections
8 May 2008
Two cheers for Fernández
The president heads for a third term
The Caribbean
tags: The Economist
Mexican banks
1 May 2008
Riding high
Mexico’s fast-growing banks appear unusually unaffected by the financial crisis north of the border