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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 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
Central America
tags: The Economist
Criminal gangs in the Americas
5 January 2006
Out of the underworld
Numerous, mysterious, and now spreading fast in the United States
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
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